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The Altamaha-ha, often called Altie, is Georgia’s most famous river monster: a regional cryptid whose legend blends Indigenous memory, coastal marsh folklore, lake-monster comparisons, and modern sightings in one of the South’s richest river systems.
The Beast of Busco, often called Oscar, is one of the great giant-turtle legends of American folklore: a supposedly enormous snapping turtle whose pursuit at Fulk Lake transformed Churubusco into Turtle Town and turned a regional mystery into a lasting civic myth.
The Lake Labynkyr Monster, often called the Labynkyr Devil, is one of Russia’s most enduring freshwater cryptids: a dark, aggressive, cold-water beast said to haunt a late-freezing Siberian lake where geology, isolation, and folklore combine to make the unknown feel permanently plausible.
The Lariosauro is Lake Como’s own lake monster: a reptilian or eel-like beast born from a postwar sighting wave, shaped by the memory of a real prehistoric reptile discovered by the lake, and preserved in local culture as both mystery and regional emblem.