This teary eyed creature emerged from the Lumberwoods. What and where exactly are the Lumberwoods you might be asking? I found a passage by author William T. Cox which summarizes itperfectly, “The Lumberwood regions are contracting. Stretches of forest that once seemed boundless are all but gone, and many a stream is quiet that once ran full of logs and echoed to the song of the river driver.” I just loved that passage, so poetic. Basically, the lumberjacks of old would camp in the woods where they worked, and often they would tell strange tales around the campfires at night about creatures they had seen while working in the forest. William T. Cox's book from 1910 called Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods was a wonderful resource for this episode because it is full of weird, wonderful creatures and mountain beasts, like the Snoligoster, the tote-road Shagamaw (which resembles a large hooved faun), & my personal favorite the Squonk. Tom, I'd be willing to bet my entir...
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