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The Chaffee Spider is one of Colorado’s oddest cryptids: not a killer giant spider, but a supposedly pleasant cave arachnid near Buena Vista whose silk replaced thread, whose skins made gloves, and whose tamed young supposedly caught mice better than cats.
The Ball-Tailed Cat is one of the classic feline monsters of the lumberwoods: a fearsome critter whose club-tailed body turns a mountain lion into a weaponized frontier nightmare.
The Gumberoo is one of the most durable monsters of the lumberwoods: a rubber-skinned, bulletproof forest beast whose impossible toughness turns frontier violence into farce and makes fire the only answer to an otherwise invincible animal.
The Hodag is one of the most important beasts in American cryptid culture: a horned forest monster born from logging-camp folklore, popularized through Eugene Shepard’s Rhinelander hoax, and transformed into one of the most successful local mascots in all of monster history.