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Regional Hominid Names


ALABAMA - 3

Booger
Dallas County Monster (Southwestern)
White Thang (White Thing)

ALASKA - 2

Bush Man
Bush Devils

ARKANSAS - 5

Abominable Swamp Slob, A.S.S. (Miller Co.)
Booger
Fouke Monster
Great Monkey
Ole Bighead

CALIFORNIA - 7

Big Ben (Sycamore Flats Campground)
Cement Monster
Crow Canyon Gorillas
Proctor Valley Monster
Shadow Walker (Maidu Indians)
Terror of Tuolumne (Pinecrest)
Zoobie (San Diego)

CANADA - 14

Bookwus, Bukwas or Boqs (Canadian coastal tribes)
Crippled Old Man (translation of, Attikamek tribes)
Gugwes (New Brunswick)
Le Bonhomme Sept Heures (translates as The Seven O'Clock Man, Quebec)
Old Yellow Top
The Pitt Lake Giant
The Smithville Monster or The Smithville Creature (Ontario)
Weetekow (Manitoba Cree)
Wendego (Manitoba Saulteaux)
Wendigo
Wetiko (Cree nations of Saskatchewan)
Windago (translated as Wicked Cannibal, Eastern Athabascan Indian)
Windigo (Cree nation, Quebec)
Witiko (Algonkian)

CONNECTICUT - 1

Winsted Wildman

DOWN SOUTH - 5

Devil Monkeys
Side Hill Gouger
Splinter Cat
Stick-Man
Wildman

FLORIDA - 12

Bardin Booger
Billy Holler Bugger
Booger Bay Boogers
Fairvilla Gorilla (Orlando)
Ol' Orange Eyes (Tates Hell, south of Apalachicola forest, Northwest)
Skunk Ape
Skunk Man
Skunk Monkeys
Stinkape
Swampape
Swamp Man
Swamp Monster

GEORGIA - 2

Georgia Pig Man
Swamp Ape

ILLINOIS - 3

Big MO
Big Muddy Monster
Cohomo or Cole Hollow Road Monster (Cole Hollow Road, East Peoria)

INDIANA - 3

Henschen Hill Monster
The Hooter (Morgan Co.)
The Prowler (Morgan Co.)

IOWA - 1

Lockridge Monster

KANSAS - 2

Old Sheff (Crawford Co.)
Satan

KENTUCKY - 7

Bear Boogers (Eastern)
Boogers
Critter (Logan Co.)
Mt. Vernon Monster
Satan (Boone Co.)
Screaming Jacks
Spookums

LOUISIANA - 2

Honey Island Swamp Monster (Wookie or The Thing)
Plum Creek Creature

MAINE - 1

Apotamkin (Algonquian)

MARYLAND - 30

Bugger Man
Cabbage Head Man
Cambridge Swamp (Man or Monster)
Cat-Man
Chalk Point Monster
Cow-Man
Crisfield Monster
Duayo
Dwayo
Eelpoot
The Egg People (from sighting of Bigfoot at Perdue egg dump foraging for food)
Goatman
Jersey Devil
The Laughing Poparina
Long Leggety Beastie
Monkey Man
Mothman
Naked Ape
Naked Inhabitants
Okee (monstrous spirit in Maryland Indian legends)
The Scaggsville Monster
Sidewise Gyascutus
Slush-Slush
Snallygaster
Snarly-Yow (said to haunt the Turner's Gap area of Frederick Co.)
Wago
Were-wolf (said to haunt the Turner's Gap area of Frederick Co.)
Wilde People
Wildman of Andrews
Witch Rabbit

MICHIGAN - 2

Easter Bunny (Traverse City)
The Michigan Monster

MINNESOTA - 1

Minnesota Iceman

MISCELLANEOUS - 5

Gorilla
Wildman
Apeman
Hairy Man
Monkey Devil

MISSISSIPPI - 1

Mississippi Swamp Ape

MISSOURI - 5

Brush Ape
Great Monkey
Mo-Mo or Momo (Missouri Monster)
The Monster of Marzolf Hill
That Panthercat (Gasconade Co., Mt. Sterling)

NATIVE AMERICAN - 3

The Booger Man
Che-ha-lum-che (Native American Lore)
UTE (pronounced oot, Cowlitz tribe)

NEW HAMPSHIRE - 2

The Marlborough Man
The Marlborough Monster

NEW JERSEY - 2

Big Red Eye (Sussex Co.)
The Jersey Devil (Pine Barrens)

NEW YORK - 3

Adirondack Wild Man
Kinderhook Creature
Stonish Giants (Ot-ne-yar-hed)

NORTH CAROLINA - 2

Knobby (Cleveland Co., Smokey Mountains)
Yahoo (Bald Mountains, Madison County)

OHIO - 10

Bighead/Orange Eyes (Richland Co.)
Grassman
Hairy Harry (Black River)
Miflin Monster (Miflin)
The Minerva Hominids or The Minerva Monster (Minerva)
MOW MOW (Grand River, Mosquito Creek, Mahoning River, Northeast)
Ol Red Eyes (Rome)
Orange Eyes (Mansfield, also Black River)
Stick Indians (Coshocton Co.)
Wood Devil

OKLAHOMA - 32

Big Ed (Southeastern)
Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Wildman
Boggy Depot Monster/Boggy Bottom Monster (Boggy Depot River, Atoka)
Booger/Wooly Booger/Woolley Booger
Bridge Creek Werewolf
Burstchi Beast
Cache Nature Man
Criner Creature
Devil Monkey
Dibble Demon
Dougherty Werewolf
Geatby
Green Hill Monster (Southeastern)
Hair Hulk
Hill Monkey(s)
Kiamachi Bigfoot
Manimal
McCurtain County Manbeast
Millsap Monster
Monkey Man
Mud Creek Monster
Noxie Monster/Nowata Monster
The Oklahoma Chicken Man/Abominable Chicken Man (El Reno Chicken Man)
Panther Men
Skunk Ape
Stands Back
Twin Lakes Red Eyes
Walaruckus
Wheatian
Winganon Swamp Monster
Wood Apes
Wooly Booger (Woolly, Wooley, Woolybooger)

OREGON - 3

Mountain Devil
Wild Man of Winberry Creek
The Yankton Giant

OVERSEAS - 3

Doudo (pronounced dough-do, Cameroon)
Gugus (Sumatra)
Wudewasa (European Wild Men)

PENNSYLVANIA - 5

Albatwitch (little person)
Moo Moo
The Pennsylvania Creature
Westmorland Wildman
Wood Devil

TENNESSEE - 7

Booger (Va-Buren and Grundy Counties, middle)
Goatman (Walterhill and Rutherford Counties, middle)
Flintville Monster (Appalachian Mountains, Tennessee foothills)
Monkey Woman/Monkey Man (Rutherford and Cannon Counties, middle)
Moon Man (Warren and Dekalb Counties, middle)
Screaming Jacks (Warren Co., middle)
Swamp Monkey

TEXAS - 20

Big Cypress Bayou Monster (Marion & Harrison Counties)
Caddo Critter (Stephens County)
Chambers Creek Monster (all along Chambers Creek from Italy, TX to Richland Chambers Reservoir)
Dayton Monkey Man (Liberty County)
Donkey Lady (SA)
Ft. Worth Texas Maned Mystery Beast
Goatman
Great White Bear (Sulpher River, Northeast)
The Grey One/Legend (Leon Co.)
Haskell Rascal (Haskell County)
Hawley Him (Jones County)
Khaki Man (Northeast)
Lake Worth Monster (Fort Worth)
Marion County Monster (Marion County)
Monkey Bumper Legend (Ratcliff Lake Area)
Night Ape (Sulpher River, Northeast)
Night Screamer (Sulpher River, Northeast)
Sherman Gorilla (Blue Creek community, Grayson County)
Stump Buster (Nacogdouches/Angelina County Areas)
Turkey Creek Monster (Northeast)

UNKNOWN - 4

Bear Men
Foothill Monster
Leaf Monkeys
Otterman

VERMONT - 1

Slippery Skin

VIRGINIA - 1

Mount Vernon Monster

WASHINGTON - 2

Mt. St. Helens Ape
Stickmen or Stick-Indians

WEST VIRGINIA - 2

Braxton Monster
Haints (Appalachian Mountains)

WISCONSON - 1

Brey Road Beast (Southeastern)

Compiled by Craig Mullins from information provided by Forrest Halford, Mark Bylsma, Don Keating, Rusty Pyles, Frances Cooper, Paul Isaacs, Joe Gagné, Erik Knatterud, Marc DeWerth, Robert Wheeler, Ron Schaffner, Guillermo and Stephanie, R.J. La Monica, Scott Norman, Rand Trusty, Monte and Kent Ballard, Bobbie Short, Loren Coleman, Blake Mathys, Chad Arment, Marc Belisle, John Green, Randy Fisher, John Lewis, Ben Blake, Mister Ghost, Ray Crowe, Penatuka, Andrew Ozkenel, Richard Diaz, Blaine Gamble, Lyle Blackburn, Jim Whitehead, Blake Hall, Mark Green, Isrtusa Florida, Kimber Cornell, Shane Church, sasquatchcanada.com, Craig Woolheater, David A. Farris and Bill (Sasquatch Chronicles interviewee).

The Regional Hominid Names list (in whole or in part) appeared in the pages of Ray Crowe's The Track Record (issue number unknown), and online via the Very Hairy Dictionary website (now defunct).

Remember that this is by no means a complete or accurate list, but it is an interesting representation of regional names given to these as of yet unverified animals by the people who have seen them.

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