MonsterQuest: Origins

In the shadowed bayous of Louisiana's Tickfaw State Park, the legend of the Rougarou blurs the line between folklore and fear, as ancient curses, Cajun identity, and the wilderness itself converge.

In the frozen expanse of Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park, the legend of the Wendigo emerges from the snowy silence not as a horned beast of horror films, but as a spiritual warning rooted in Algonquian tradition.

In the wilds of New Jersey's Pine Barrens, the legend of the Jersey Devil takes flight-not as a simple monster myth, but as a folkloric echo of colonial fear, social exile, and moral panic-asking how a cursed birth became an enduring creature.