Cascadia Crime & Cryptids

Sep 24, 2024

This episode starts with an alert for the Eugene, OR area - contact information for these cases is listed below - thank you to a listener who sent this to us:

• Detective Anne McIntyre at (541)-953-9323
• The Eugene PD non emergency line at 541.682.5111
• (541)-682-5786 or email at Thart@eugene-or.gov.

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Jul 1, 2024

Straight from the pages of Caro's prized Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, this is the lore of Amhuluk, from the mythologies of the Kalapuya people in Oregon.  

Sources

• https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Amhuluk
• https://godzilla.fandom.com/wiki/Amhuluk
• https://legendary-monsterverse.fandom.com/wiki/Amhuluk

Jun 4, 2024

This is the weird kind-of origin story of Marsh's Free Museum's crown jewel - a taxidermied creature named Jake the Alligator Man.  

Sources

• https://www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/monster-of-the-month-w-colin-dickey-jake-the-alligator-man
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_the_Alligator_Man

Jun 2, 2024

Did you know there's an urban legend about a giant shrimp that spooked a Bremerton resident once upon a time?  Yeah, us neither - please enjoy the extremely weird tale of the Giant Shrimp in the Laundry Room.

Sources

Mar 1, 2024

Cryptid, prehistoric creature, myth - you decide.  This is the Legend of the Thunderbird.

Sources

• https://www.cuyamungueinstitute.com/articles-and-news/thunderbird-a-symbol-of-power-strength-and-nobility/
• https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/myth-thunderbird