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A swift predator that seemed to carry its progeny atop its back at all times. Supposedly it was hunted for the warmth of its pelt.

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A statuesque bestial dragon that serves the Buddha. Interestingly, among the nine sons of the dragon, Suanni is one who has more than one distinct favorite activity.

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A spirit well known for his amicable cowherding. Reliable, given his payment is properly maintained.

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An American omen of a feline nature. Ultimately harmless itself, despite the frightful nature of its play.

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A matutinal monster resembling an adder. Its voracious appetite was cut short as it choked on the smoke and fire of John de Somerville's lance.

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With summer ahead, Japan's season of scary stories approaches, and with it, perhaps, the Aoandon. The grand finale of a Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, the supernatural manifestation of the fear fostered by 100 scary stories.

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Miniature monsters that harm one's ability to hear. Because its size makes it difficult to observe, depictions are speculative.

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A venomous frog or toad, or perhaps a serpent with a frog-like head.

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A pocong dyed in the red hue of rage. Despite being physically bound, its nature as a vengeful spirit marks it as a being to avoid.

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Sailors' doom upon Lake Erie. In the depths of stormy times upon the lake, perhaps the wicked yellow glow of her eyes can be seen when she breaches the surface.

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A strange bogey, perhaps distorted over time from his original form and function to a child-scaring tool.

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Unabashed thieves whose routine pickpocketing triggered their transformation into something inhuman. Approximately one hundred bird eyes pepper their long arms.

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A meat-devouring beast upon the mountain. Tulou are just one of several legendary beasts described to live upon one of the legendary mountains of Chinese myth and legend.

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The road-accompanying Martebo light, one of the world's many atmospheric ghost lights. This one in particular alighting just above roads in Gotland's Martebo myr.

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Described in Frank Hulme Melland's "In Witch-Bound Africa". The Kongamato is freshwater monster whose primary domain is the Jiwundu Swamp. It destroys boats and drowns humans by causing sudden flooding in rivers.

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Hardworking and precise critters, the engineer-rats expertly recreate recently rattled rocky regions of mountainscapes.

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Relatively popular as far as modern legends go. The Cocollona's tale shows us a woman of faith's transfiguration, her pious spirit having found freedom after her eventual death. Taken up, out from that basement grave and into the city's Onyar.