Boogeymen Monsters Among Us

In Lake Champlain, compelling evidence and eyewitness accounts tell the story of Champ, America's oldest monster.

In Point Pleasant, West Virginia, there lurks a winged man, with eyes that glow a fierce red, known as the Mothman. The sheer number of sightings has even awed the skeptics.

The small town of Adams, Tennessee is home to the Bell Witch, who cursed the Bell family with a poltergeist.

The town of Rhinelander, Wisconsin is united by the local legend of a fierce creature with scales, horns and sharp claws known as a Hodag.

A legend in Europe, the Tatzelwurm has two powerful front claws but no hind legs and the body of a serpent.

Whether he's known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti or the Abominable Snowman, the ape-like monster covered in fur has captivated imaginations the world over but northern California's Bigfoot Scenic Byway is the epicenter of Bigfoot sightings.

Over the past 150 years, sightings, photos and even videos of Ogopogo, a dark green snake of enormous length, has drawn tourists, zoologists and thrill seekers to the the shores of Okanagan Lake in British Columbia.

A flurry of recent sightings of Bownessie, a strange, serpent-like creature, in England's Lake Windermere has prompted new investigations.

Reports of a monstrous Iclandic lake worm known as the Lagarfjlot are investigated.

Northern Sweden is hiding a secret that for centuries was known only to locals: in the frozen waters of Lake Storsjo¨n, a strange creature lurks. Storsie is a lake monster described as having the body of a serpent and a cat-like head.

In North Carolina's Lake Norman lies Normie, a lake monster reported to look like an overgrown alligator. Investigators theorize that Normie might be the result of a mutation caused by the nearby nuclear power plant.    

Minnesota's Lake Pepin is home to Pepie, a large, serpentine creature. An investigation is underway with a $50,000 reward offered for any conclusive evidence of Pepie's existence.  

Strange sightings in Patagonia, Argentina, of a creature with the face of a serpent and the neck of a swan. Is it real?