Mogollon Monster

Its body is said to be covered with long black or reddish brown hair, with the exclusion of the chest, face, hands and feet.

[4] It is generally reported to: walk with wide, inhuman strides; leave behind footprints measuring 560 millimetres (22 in);[5] mimic birds, coyotes and other wildlife; emit unusual whistle sounds; explore campsites after dark; build nests out of pine needles, twigs, and leaves; and hurl stones from locations that are hidden from view.

[4] Accounts of the creature describe an "eerie silence prior to the encounter, an appreciable stillness in the woods that commonly surrounds predatory animals".

He later stated that after he discovered the creature drinking the blood of two cougars, it threatened him with a club, and "screamed the wildest, most unearthly screech".

[5] Cryptozoologist Don Davis reported that during the mid-1940s he was on a Boy Scout trip near Payson, Arizona, and gave the following account, "The creature was huge.

Other stories explain the origins of the Mogollon Monster implicating a tormented Native American bent on revenge, or a chief transforming to scare away his former clan.

Still another story describes the creature as the "phantom of a white man who, as punishment for murdering a Native American woman, was hung from a tree by his hands, stretched to a height of eight feet, then skinned alive and left to die.