Within Pennsylvania Cryptids
Why Is the Squonk So Sad?
The Squonk turns northern Pennsylvania's hemlock woods into a funny, sad legend rooted in old lumber-camp storytelling.
On this page
- Fearsome critter origins
- The hemlock forest setting
- From joke beast to local mascot
Page outline Jump by section
Introduction
The Squonk is Pennsylvania’s most famously miserable monster: a small, ugly, loose-skinned beast said to haunt the hemlock forests of the north of the state, weeping because it cannot bear its own appearance. Its classic trick is wonderfully ridiculous. If a hunter manages to trap it, the creature simply dissolves into a puddle of tears. That is why the Squonk belongs less to zoology than to lumber-camp humour: it is a “fearsome critter”, one of the impossible animals jokingly traded in North American logging folklore, then preserved in print in William T. Cox’s 1910 Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods. Cox’s account places the creature firmly in Pennsylvania’s hemlock woods, giving the state a home-grown legend that feels sad, comic and oddly affectionate all at once.[lib.lumberwoods.org]lib.lumberwoods.orgSquonk | Fearsome Creatures of the LumberwoodsFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts Written by Wil…
The Squonk matters because it shows a different side of Pennsylvania monster lore. Bigfoot reports and phantom-cat stories often ask whether witnesses misidentified a real animal. The Squonk asks a funnier question: why did a joke beast become so memorable that people still celebrate it more than a century later? The answer lies in the mix of harsh logging history, campfire exaggeration, mock-scientific writing and modern local pride.
Fearsome critter origins
The Squonk’s best-known early source is Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts, published in 1910 by William T. Cox, illustrated by Coert Du Bois and presented like a comic field guide to impossible North American wildlife. The Internet Archive catalogue identifies the book’s publication date as 1910 and its publisher as the Press of Judd & Detweiler; the digitised text also shows Cox dedicating the book to the “fellowship of the woods”, which signals that the intended joke was aimed at people familiar with lumber-camp culture rather than at zoologists.[Internet Archive]archive.orgInternet ArchiveFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few…30 Mar 2008 — Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few De…
Cox’s Squonk entry is short, but it contains nearly everything later retellings need. The creature’s range is “very limited”, with few people outside Pennsylvania knowing it, and it is said to be common in the state’s hemlock forests. It travels at twilight, has misfitting skin covered with warts and moles, and is so ashamed of itself that it spends much of its life crying. The punchline is the capture story: a man follows its tears, catches it in a sack, then finds the sack suddenly light because the Squonk has dissolved into liquid grief.[lib.lumberwoods.org]lib.lumberwoods.orgSquonk | Fearsome Creatures of the LumberwoodsFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts Written by Wil…
That structure is pure lumber-camp comedy. The Squonk is described with the seriousness of a natural-history specimen, but the details keep undercutting any claim to realism. It has a mock-Latin name, Lacrimacorpus dissolvens, which roughly signals a tearful body that dissolves. Its “evidence” is not a carcass, trackway or reliable witness chain, but a story engineered to end in a vanishing act. In other words, the legend protects itself from proof by making failed proof the joke.
The Squonk also belongs to a wider family of “fearsome critters”, tall-tale beasts associated with logging camps and rough outdoor work. These animals often explain strange noises, hazardous terrain, missing supplies or the nervous imagination of newcomers. Modern summaries of fearsome critters describe them as joking tall-tale animals of logging-camp folklore, used for entertainment and sometimes for teasing the inexperienced.[Encyclopedia Pub]encyclopedia.pubFearsome Critters | Encyclopedia MDPINovember 1, 2022 — 1 Nov 2022 — Fearsome critters were tall tale animals jokingly said to inhabit th… The Squonk is distinctive within that family because it is not mainly dangerous. It is not a tree-smashing monster, a man-eater or a giant predator. Its power is embarrassment.
That makes it one of the oddest creatures in Pennsylvania folklore: a monster whose defining act is not attack, pursuit or terror, but self-erasure. Its sadness is funny because it is so exaggerated, yet it also gives the story a strange emotional afterlife. Many fearsome critters feel like one-note gags. The Squonk feels like a character.
The hemlock forest setting
The Squonk’s Pennsylvania identity depends on one very specific habitat: the hemlock forest. That detail is not decorative. It ties the creature to the northern Pennsylvania lumber world in which tall tales could plausibly travel between camps, cook shanties and logging crews.
Pennsylvania’s old forest economy gives the Squonk its natural stage. The state was once a major timber producer, and official state forestry history notes that large white pine and hemlock forests helped make Pennsylvania a timber-production leader; in 1860, during the Williamsport boom era, Pennsylvania led the nation in lumber production.[elibrary.dcnr.pa.gov]elibrary.dcnr.pa.govThe Legacy of Penn's WoodsThe Legacy of Penn's Woods The Lumber Heritage Region describes central Pennsylvania’s nineteenth-century lumber industry as a crucial supplier of building material to East Coast cities, supported by logging camps, log slides, splash dams, log drives and sawmills along waterways.[lumberheritage.org]lumberheritage.orgCentral Pennsylvania's Lumber Industry in the 19th CenturyCentral Pennsylvania's Lumber Industry in the 19th Century
Hemlock had a further industrial role beyond boards. The Lumber Heritage Region notes that eastern hemlock bark was important to nineteenth-century leather making because its tannin content was valuable for hide tanning, and that Pennsylvania was deeply involved in both lumber and leather production.[lumberheritage.org]lumberheritage.orgEastern Hemlock: A Keystone of Pennsylvania's ForestsEastern Hemlock: A Keystone of Pennsylvania's Forests That matters for the Squonk because Cox’s creature is not placed in a vague “dark wood”. It is placed in exactly the kind of forest that had economic, sensory and social meaning for Pennsylvania lumber workers: hemlock stands cut, barked, hauled, floated, burnt over and remembered.
Northern Pennsylvania’s timber history also adds a melancholy undertone to the joke. Later heritage accounts of the Pennsylvania Wilds describe the boom-and-bust lumber era as leaving stripped hillsides, fires, erosion and abandoned camps by the early twentieth century. One PA Wilds history article quotes a bleak period description of “miles of slashings” and notes that by 1900 northern Pennsylvania had suffered severe forest destruction before conservation and Civilian Conservation Corps work helped restore woodland landscapes.[Pennsylvania Wilds]pawilds.comPennsylvania Wilds'Boom to Bust': How the PA Wilds SurvivedPennsylvania Wilds'Boom to Bust': How the PA Wilds Survived
The Squonk’s ugliness can be read simply as a gag, but its habitat makes the gag sharper. A crying, deformed animal wandering among hemlocks is funny in the way a tall tale is funny, yet it also fits a landscape being physically transformed. The creature’s sagging skin, warts and tears turn environmental damage, camp hardship and homesick boredom into a comic body. That does not mean the Squonk was invented as an ecological allegory. It means the story survived partly because the setting gave the joke texture.
The hemlock detail also keeps the Squonk from becoming just another generic American monster. Many cryptid stories migrate easily: hairy giants, lake serpents and mystery cats can be moved from state to state with only the place names changed. The Squonk is harder to detach from Pennsylvania because its classic printed form says the creature’s range is limited and that few outside Pennsylvania have heard of it.[lib.lumberwoods.org]lib.lumberwoods.orgSquonk | Fearsome Creatures of the LumberwoodsFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts Written by Wil… Its smallness is part of its charm. It is not a national menace. It is a regional embarrassment hiding in the trees.
Why the joke worked
The Squonk works because it reverses the usual monster formula. Instead of asking the listener to fear the creature, the story asks the listener to pity it, then laughs at the absurd excess of that pity. The hunter does not defeat the Squonk through bravery. He loses it because the creature’s sadness is stronger than his trap.
Several comic mechanisms are packed into the tale:
Mock expertise. Cox presents the Squonk in the format of a field guide, giving it a range, habits, appearance and pseudo-scientific name. This makes the nonsense funnier because it borrows the posture of serious natural history.[DigitalCommons]digitalcommons.unl.eduOpen source on unl.edu.
Impossible evidence. The creature can never be displayed because capture causes it to liquefy. This neatly parodies the problem that haunts many monster legends: the story explains in advance why no specimen exists.
Emotional exaggeration. The Squonk is not merely shy or unattractive. It is catastrophically self-conscious. That makes it both ridiculous and memorable.
Pennsylvania specificity. The hemlock setting gives the tale a local address. A listener can imagine a damp, dark northern forest and the sound of sobbing somewhere off the trail.
There is also a social joke here. Fearsome critter tales often worked as camp entertainment for people living in difficult conditions. A story could frighten a newcomer, fill a long evening, mock over-serious outdoorsmen, or turn ordinary noises into shared amusement. The Squonk’s sobbing is a perfect campfire sound effect: someone hears crying in the woods, someone else explains it with a straight face, and the tale grows from there.
Unlike more aggressive fearsome critters, the Squonk does not flatter the teller with danger. Nobody becomes heroic by meeting it. Instead, the tale’s pleasure comes from comic disappointment. The hunter thinks he has bagged a rare beast; he ends with a wet sack. That anticlimax is the story’s engine.
This is also why the Squonk sits awkwardly inside modern “cryptid” culture. It is often grouped with cryptids today, but it was not originally a strong claim about an undiscovered animal. Its first enduring form is literary folklore shaped by comic performance. Calling it a cryptid can be useful for modern readers looking for Pennsylvania monsters, but the better category is “folkloric joke beast”. It belongs beside tall tales before it belongs beside field reports.
From joke beast to local mascot
The Squonk’s modern life shows how a lumber-camp joke can become a community emblem. Johnstown, in Cambria County, now hosts Squonkapalooza, an all-ages festival devoted to the Squonk and other Appalachian and American folklore creatures. The official festival site describes the 2026 event as the fourth annual Squonkapalooza, scheduled for 1 August 2026 at Bottle Works in Johnstown, and calls the Squonk Pennsylvania’s most famous folkloric creature.[Squonkapalooza]squonkapalooza.comOpen source on squonkapalooza.com.
That festival framing changes the creature without betraying it. Cox’s Squonk dissolved because it could not bear being seen. Modern celebrants do the opposite: they put the Squonk on posters, merchandise, costumes and compliment contests. Atlas Obscura reported that the first Squonkapalooza took place in August 2023, with vendor booths, games, music, lectures, a Squonk quest and a compliment contest designed around cheering up the miserable beast.[Atlas Obscura]atlasobscura.comAtlas Obscura Appalachia's Ugliest Cryptid Drowns In Its Own TearsAtlas Obscura Appalachia's Ugliest Cryptid Drowns In Its Own Tears
Local tourism listings reinforce that the Squonk has become a playful public-facing creature rather than a frightening claim. Visit Johnstown described the 2025 Squonkapalooza as a free, family-friendly cryptid carnival celebrating “Pennsylvania’s very own cryptid…the Squonk”, while its 2024 listing presented the event as suitable for cryptid fans and sceptics alike, with food, entertainment and vendors.[Visit Johnstown]visitjohnstownpa.comOpen source on visitjohnstownpa.com.
This is a revealing shift. Many monster festivals lean into fear, mystery or alleged eyewitness evidence. Squonkapalooza leans into affection. The creature is not being promoted as a beast to hunt, avoid or prove. It is being adopted as a mascot for people who enjoy folklore, oddity and outsider charm. Recent local coverage by WPSU also framed the Squonk as “most famously Pennsylvanian” among disputed or unproven creatures, while noting that the Johnstown festival celebrates both the Squonk and wider Appalachian and American folklore.[WPSU]radio.wpsu.orgJohnstown to hold third annual Squonkapalooza festivalJohnstown to hold third annual Squonkapalooza festival
The Squonk therefore has two Pennsylvania homes. Its old home is the northern hemlock forest of the lumber tale. Its new home is the festival space, where sadness becomes a reason for communal play. The joke has softened. In Cox, the Squonk’s misery makes it vanish. In Johnstown, its misery makes people gather.
What counts as evidence for the Squonk?
For the Squonk, “evidence” has to be understood in folkloric rather than zoological terms. There is no strong mainstream evidence that a Squonk exists as an undiscovered animal. The best evidence is evidence of tradition: the 1910 printed account, its placement in fearsome-critter literature, its Pennsylvania habitat, and its later revival in local culture.
That distinction matters because readers often arrive at cryptid pages expecting a familiar pattern: sightings, tracks, photographs, hoaxes, sceptical explanations and maybe a plausible animal behind the legend. The Squonk does not fit that pattern very well. Its classic form is not an eyewitness case file. It is a comic tale designed around the impossibility of producing a body.
The most reliable claims are therefore modest:
The Squonk is a documented folkloric creature. Cox’s 1910 book provides a clear early printed account, including the Pennsylvania hemlock setting, appearance, behaviour and dissolving motif.[Internet Archive]archive.orgInternet ArchiveFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few…30 Mar 2008 — Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few De…
It belongs to lumber-camp tall-tale culture. Its format and humour match the fearsome-critter tradition of impossible beasts associated with logging communities and woodsmen’s storytelling.[Encyclopedia Pub]encyclopedia.pubFearsome Critters | Encyclopedia MDPINovember 1, 2022 — 1 Nov 2022 — Fearsome critters were tall tale animals jokingly said to inhabit th…
Its Pennsylvania association is unusually strong. Cox explicitly limits its range and says few outside Pennsylvania know the beast, making it more state-specific than many travelling monster types.[lib.lumberwoods.org]lib.lumberwoods.orgSquonk | Fearsome Creatures of the LumberwoodsFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts Written by Wil…
Its modern afterlife is real and visible. Squonkapalooza, tourism listings and recent media coverage show that the Squonk has become a recognised Pennsylvania folklore mascot.[squonkapalooza.com]squonkapalooza.comOpen source on squonkapalooza.com.
What the evidence does not support is treating the Squonk as a plausible mystery animal. The dissolving-in-tears motif is not a biological clue waiting for a species identification. It is the punchline. A sceptical explanation does not need to identify a bear, pig, diseased deer or bobcat behind the story, because the story is not built like a mistaken wildlife report. It is built like a joke told by someone who knows exactly how impossible it is.
How the legend changed over time
The Squonk has changed mainly in audience and emotional tone. In the early printed version, the creature is a specimen in a parody bestiary: comic, pathetic and doomed to vanish at the moment of capture. The implied audience is a world of woodsmen, foresters and readers amused by the tall-tale logic of lumber camps.[Internet Archive]archive.orgWilliam T. Cox • • ' Illustrated by Coert DuBois Washington, D. C. Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc. 1910 ^ 1 CoPYRKiHT, 1910 By WII.I.IAM…
Later, as “cryptid” became a broader popular category, the Squonk was pulled into the same loose field as Bigfoot, lake monsters and regional mystery beasts. That did not make it more evidentially serious, but it did make it easier for new audiences to find. A creature that once lived in a slim 1910 humour book now appears in cryptid guides, festival promotions and Pennsylvania folklore round-ups. Axios Pittsburgh, for example, grouped the Squonk with western Pennsylvania cryptids while still summarising the classic details: northern hemlock forests, warts, sagging skin, sobbing and dissolving into tears.[Axios]axios.com👣 Monsters among usThe newsletter also previews the 2025 NFL Draft, noting that the Pittsburgh Steelers—who haven't won a playoff game since 2016—hold the 2…
The biggest change is that modern retellings often treat the Squonk with kindness. The old joke depends on its ugliness and shame. The new mascot version often tries to comfort it. Festival activities such as compliment contests turn the creature’s sadness into an invitation to be gentle, silly and inclusive. Atlas Obscura’s account of the festival’s games, quests and compliments shows how the modern Squonk is less a beast to be fooled than a character to be cheered.[Atlas Obscura]atlasobscura.comAtlas Obscura Appalachia's Ugliest Cryptid Drowns In Its Own TearsAtlas Obscura Appalachia's Ugliest Cryptid Drowns In Its Own Tears
That is why the Squonk has lasted better than many fearsome critters. Its central image is simple enough for a child to understand and strange enough for adults to remember: a sad little Pennsylvania creature crying in the hemlocks, too ashamed to be caught. It is comic, but not empty. It lets Pennsylvanians laugh at gloom, bad weather, rough history and self-consciousness without needing to turn the creature into a threat.
Why the Squonk still belongs to Pennsylvania
The Squonk remains one of Pennsylvania’s most distinctive monster legends because it is local, funny and evidence-aware by design. It does not require a serious search party or a strained biological theory. Its value lies in how neatly it binds together northern forests, lumber heritage, tall-tale performance and modern folklore tourism.
The hemlock setting roots it in a real Pennsylvania landscape shaped by nineteenth-century logging and tanning. The fearsome-critter tradition explains its absurd mechanics. Cox’s 1910 account gives it a durable printed form. Johnstown’s Squonkapalooza shows how a joke from the lumberwoods can become a modern emblem of regional weirdness and affection.[lumberheritage.org]lumberheritage.orgEastern Hemlock: A Keystone of Pennsylvania's ForestsEastern Hemlock: A Keystone of Pennsylvania's Forests
The Squonk is not persuasive as an animal, but it is excellent as folklore. It turns the failure to capture a monster into the whole point of the monster. It makes Pennsylvania’s hemlock woods feel haunted not by menace, but by embarrassment. And in a cryptid culture often crowded with huge footprints, glowing eyes and dramatic encounters, there is something refreshing about a creature whose most famous trace is only a puddle.
Amazon book picks
Further Reading
Books and field guides related to Why Is the Squonk So Sad?. Use these as the next step if you want deeper reading beyond the article.
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
Introduced and popularized the Squonk in lumber-camp folklore.
The United States of Cryptids
Features regional monster lore including unusual local creatures.
American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales
Places the Squonk within larger American legendary traditions.
Mysterious America
Provides wider context for American monster and folklore traditions.
eBay marketplace picks
Marketplace Samples
Live-tested eBay searches with available results related to this page.
Endnotes
1.
Source: lib.lumberwoods.org
Link:https://www.lib.lumberwoods.org/fclw/squonk.html
Source snippet
Squonk | Fearsome Creatures of the LumberwoodsFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts Written by Wil...
2.
Source: archive.org
Link:https://archive.org/details/fearsomecreatur00coxgoog
Source snippet
Internet ArchiveFearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few...30 Mar 2008 — Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few De...
3.
Source: archive.org
Link:https://archive.org/stream/fearsomecreatur00coxgoog/fearsomecreatur00coxgoog_djvu.txt
Source snippet
William T. Cox • • ' Illustrated by Coert DuBois Washington, D. C. Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc. 1910 ^ 1 CoPYRKiHT, 1910 By WII.I.IAM...
4.
Source: encyclopedia.pub
Link:https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/32212
Source snippet
Fearsome Critters | Encyclopedia MDPINovember 1, 2022 — 1 Nov 2022 — Fearsome critters were tall tale animals jokingly said to inhabit th...
Published: November 1, 2022
5.
Source: elibrary.dcnr.pa.gov
Title: The Legacy of Penn’s Woods
Link:https://elibrary.dcnr.pa.gov/PDFProvider.ashx?action=PDFStream&chksum=&docID=1742802&docName=sf-The+Legacy+of+Penn&revision=0
6.
Source: lumberheritage.org
Title: Central Pennsylvania’s Lumber Industry in the 19th Century
Link:https://lumberheritage.org/heritage/our-roots/building-america-central-pennsylvanias-lumber-industry-in-the-19th-century/
7.
Source: lumberheritage.org
Title: Eastern Hemlock: A Keystone of Pennsylvania’s Forests
Link:https://lumberheritage.org/news-updates/eastern-hemlock-a-keystone-of-pennsylvanias-forests/
8.
Source: squonkapalooza.com
Link:https://squonkapalooza.com/
9.
Source: radio.wpsu.org
Title: Johnstown to hold third annual Squonkapalooza festival
Link:https://radio.wpsu.org/2025-07-31/johnstown-squonkapalooza-festival-cheer-up-squonk-pennsylvania-cryptid-cambria-county
10.
Source: axios.com
Title: 👣 Monsters among us
Link:https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pittsburgh-df156350-1fc3-11f0-bfa3-51b0115cd3f3
Source snippet
The newsletter also previews the 2025 NFL Draft, noting that the Pittsburgh Steelers—who haven't won a playoff game since 2016—hold the 2...
11.
Source: archive.org
Title: fearsome creatures 2111 librivox
Link:https://archive.org/details/fearsome_creatures_2111_librivox
12.
Source: lumberheritage.org
Link:https://lumberheritage.org/heritage/warren-county-lumber-history/
13.
Source: lumberwoods.com
Link:https://www.lumberwoods.com/home.htm
14.
Source: youtube.com
Title: Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NeoSV5Zt6c
Source snippet
The Saddest Creature in Folklore: The Squonk...
15.
Source: pawilds.com
Title: Pennsylvania Wilds’Boom to Bust’: How the PA Wilds Survived
Link:https://pawilds.com/boom-to-bust-how-the-pa-wilds-survived/
16.
Source: digitalcommons.unl.edu
Link:https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=nebraskianapubs
17.
Source: atlasobscura.com
Title: Atlas Obscura Appalachia’s Ugliest Cryptid Drowns In Its Own Tears
Link:https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/squonk-festival-pennsylvania
18.
Source: visitjohnstownpa.com
Link:https://www.visitjohnstownpa.com/event/squonkapalooza
19.
Source: visitjohnstownpa.com
Title: Visit Johnstown Squonkapalooza
Link:https://www.visitjohnstownpa.com/event/squonkapalooza-cryptid-festival
20.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/squonkapalooza/?locale=en_GB
21.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/squonkapalooza/posts/749683451345360/
22.
Source: Wikipedia
Link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squonk
23.
Source: Wikipedia
Title: Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts
Link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearsome_Creatures_of_the_Lumberwoods%2C_With_a_Few_Desert_and_Mountain_Beasts
24.
Source: Wikipedia
Link:https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squonk
25.
Source: instagram.com
Link:https://www.instagram.com/squonkapalooza/?hl=en
26.
Source: cryptidz.fandom.com
Link:https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Squonk
27.
Source: monster.fandom.com
Link:https://monster.fandom.com/wiki/Squonk
28.
Source: itsmth.fandom.com
Link:https://itsmth.fandom.com/wiki/Squonk
29.
Source: mitologia.fandom.com
Link:https://mitologia.fandom.com/es/wiki/Squonk
30.
Source: onestrangething.substack.com
Title: the squonk
Link:https://onestrangething.substack.com/p/the-squonk
31.
Source: books.google.com
Title: Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
Link:https://books.google.com/books/about/Fearsome_Creatures_of_the_Lumberwoods.html?id=3NSE0QEACAAJ
32.
Source: books.google.com
Title: Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
Link:https://books.google.com/books/about/Fearsome_Creatures_of_the_Lumberwoods.html?id=yCYI0QEACAAJ
33.
Source: pafoodways.omeka.net
Title: lumber camps
Link:https://pafoodways.omeka.net/exhibits/show/table/articles-2/lumber-camps
34.
Source: woodcentral.com
Title: The Squonk
Link:https://www.woodcentral.com/forums/topic/76003847/the-squonk
Additional References
35.
Source: youtube.com
Title: Some Fearsome Critters | Lumberwoods Tales for your Travels
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayctLOiA-x4
Source snippet
The Fearsome Critters of American Mythology...
36.
Source: youtube.com
Title: The Saddest Creature in Folklore: The Squonk
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLm4WHzKI2Q
Source snippet
Some Fearsome Critters | Lumberwoods Tales for your Travels...
37.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/LHVIronPigs/posts/a-mythical-creature-that-legend-holds-lives-in-the-hemlock-forests-of-northern-p/1793524475416066/
38.
Source: wired.com
Link:https://www.wired.com/2014/08/fantastically-wrong-ridiculous-mythical-critters-dreamed-up-by-19th-century-lumberjacks
39.
Source: amazon.nl
Link:https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/William-T-Cox/dp/1430464453?tag=searcht-20
40.
Source: northernwoodlands.org
Link:https://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/hemlock-and-hide-the-tanbark-industry-in-old-new-york
41.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/squonkapalooza/posts/hot-squonk-squishies-incoming-for-squonkapalooza/472643632382678/
42.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/MeanwhileinYork/posts/imagine-moving-to-pennsylvania-and-learning-that-a-genesis-song-youve-heard-for-/1277221951110523/
43.
Source: facebook.com
Link:https://www.facebook.com/groups/182691189830986/posts/630422845057816/
44.
Source: lumbermuseum.org
Link:https://lumbermuseum.org/the-pennsylvania-lumber-museum-is-open-to-the-public-year-round-wednesday-through-sunday-from-900-am-to-500-pm/pennsylvania-lumber-history/
Topic Tree