101 Cryptids, Local Monsters & Urban Legends: Mysterious Beasts, Backroad Folklore, Unexplained Sightings & Stories That Still Haunt Us: 7 (The Dark Travel Anthology) - Couverture souple

Melland, Sarah

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ISBN 10 : 1969137371 ISBN 13 : 9781969137372

Editeur : Ripe Melland Media, 2026

Synopsis

Every monster has a hometown. Follow the legends back to where the fear began. Travel into Bigfoot country. Watch the dark waters of Loch Ness. Follow Mothman into the abandoned wartime landscape outside Point Pleasant. Across the world, strange encounters have left their mark on forests, lakes, lonely roads, and entire communities. This is your invitation to discover their stories.

In 101 Cryptids, Local Monsters & Urban Legends, Sarah Melland explores 101 real destinations where mysterious creatures, unsettling sightings, and local legends have become part of the landscape. The seventh book in The Dark Travel Anthology brings together atmospheric storytelling, historical research, reported encounters, and destination details in an illustrated journey through the world's uncanny places.

Across eight themed sections, discover:

• Monster towns and cryptid capitals: Mothman, the Flatwoods Monster, the Hodag, and communities that celebrate their strangest residents through museums, statues, and festivals.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and wild-men country: Forest encounters, famous footprints, the Patterson-Gimlin film site, Florida's Skunk Ape, and the Himalayan traditions of the Yeti.
• Lake monsters and creatures of the deep: The Loch Ness Monster, Champ, Ogopogo, sea serpents, and the waters that keep drawing witnesses and searchers back.
• Swamp beasts and regional terrors: The Jersey Devil, Chupacabra, Mongolian Death Worm, and other creatures rooted in distinctive landscapes and local traditions.
• American urban legends and local boogeymen: The Bunny Man, Melon Heads, Black-Eyed Children, and Fresno Nightcrawler.
• Phantom roads and vanishing travelers: Haunted bridges, eerie tunnels, roadside apparitions, and passengers who vanish before the journey ends.
• Global legends and uncanny encounters: Japan's Kisaragi Station, La Llorona, the Green Children of Woolpit, and the unsettling legend of Hamelin's Pied Piper.
• Black dogs, hellhounds, banshees, and death omens: Black Shuck, the Moddey Dhoo, Irish castle legends, and the unnerving presence of Ben Macdui's Big Grey Man.

The entries connect each story to its setting through reported encounters, local history, changing traditions, and what travelers can find today. Photographs and illustrations bring the places into view, while museums, monuments, festivals, and surviving landmarks offer starting points for further exploration.

Discover how a fleeting encounter becomes a town's identity, how a warning survives for generations, and why certain stretches of road still carry stories long after the witnesses are gone.

For cryptozoology enthusiasts and lovers of ghost stories, these pages offer an absorbing journey into the world's strange corners. Travelers drawn to dark tourism will find inspiration among monster towns, haunted roads, and landscapes still shaped by the stories told about them. Explore from home, or let a local legend lead you toward your next adventure.

Open the book. Follow the footprints. Discover the places the legends never left.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Melland is an author, screenwriter, traveler, and the founder of Visit Small Cities. Her work grows from a fascination with the places people pass by and the histories they rarely hear. Small towns, centuries-old streets, abandoned villages, and local legends provide the starting points for books that invite readers to look more closely at the world around them. She is the creator of The Dark Travel Anthology, a series exploring real destinations through dark history and folklore. Across books about witch trials, haunted houses, forgotten settlements, and enduring supernatural beliefs, Sarah brings an eye for atmosphere to subjects that demand curiosity and care. Her writing keeps the human stories at the center, distinguishing documented events from the legends that have gathered around them. In her exploration of witch-trial history, that means remembering the people whose lives became entangled in accusation, fear, and persecution. Her work in screenwriting informs her approach to setting and storytelling, while her love of travel keeps those stories connected to the places readers can encounter for themselves. Through Visit Small Cities and her growing collection of travel books, Sarah encourages a slower, more attentive kind of exploration-one that leaves room for an unfamiliar town and a history worth understanding.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ripe Melland Media
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1969137371
• ISBN 13: 9781969137372
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 398
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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