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Bibliography
Every cited source across every entry. We did the homework — and we want you to be able to redo it.
Why This Page Exists
Every entry in this guide ends with a Sources & References block. Each one is a list of where the claims in that entry came from — court records, academic papers, newspapers, encyclopedias, primary documents — so that you can verify what we wrote without taking our word for it.
This page combines every one of those references into a single bibliography. The sources for each entry stay grouped together; we are not pretending the corpus has a unified theme it doesn't have. But you can scan the lot of them in one place.
By Entry
The Wendigo 7 sources
- Mysteries of Canada — “Wendigo Encounters in Canada: Swift Runner” (2023) : mysteriesofcanada.com
- Executed Today — “1879: Swift Runner, wendigo” : executedtoday.com
- Britannica — “Wendigo” : britannica.com
- Nathan D. Carlson — Ethnohistory Journal (2009), Duke University Press : dukeupress.edu (PDF)
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography — “Zhauwuno-geezhigo-gaubow” : biographi.ca
- The Hypocrite Reader — “The Power to Punish” : hypocritereader.com
- Legends of America — “Wendigo – Flesheater of the Forests” : legendsofamerica.com
Slenderman 8 sources
- BBC News — “Slender Man stabbing: What happened to the girls involved?” : bbc.com
- The Guardian — “Slender Man stabbing: Wisconsin girl sentenced” : theguardian.com
- NBC News — “Morgan Geyser cuts off ankle monitor” (Nov 2025) : nbcnews.com
- HBO Documentary — Beware the Slenderman (2016) : hbo.com
- Slenderman Files Archive — original mythos entry : slendermanfiles.org
- Slender Man Wiki — “Original Mythos: Documented Accounts” : slenderman.wiki
- Know Your Meme — “Slender Man” origin and lore : knowyourmeme.com
- Britannica — “Slender Man” : britannica.com
Black-Eyed Children 6 sources
- Historic Mysteries — “Brian Bethel and the Black Eyed Kids” : historicmysteries.com
- Atlas Obscura — “Death as a Child: The Modern Legend of the Black-Eyed Children” : atlasobscura.com
- Lair of Mythics — “The 1996 Encounter That Sparked a Legend” : lairofmythics.com
- Beyond Haunted — “The Black-Eyed Children: A Modern Urban Legend with Ancient Roots” : beyondhaunted.com
- David Weatherly — The Black Eyed Children (2012), Leprechaun Press
- Atlas Obscura — “Death as a Child” : atlasobscura.com
The Mothman 7 sources
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife — “An Ode to a Hometown Creature” : folklife.si.edu
- All That’s Interesting — “The Legend of the Mothman” : allthatsinteresting.com
- John A. Keel — The Mothman Prophecies (1975), Saturday Review Press
- Historic Mysteries — “The Mothman Mystery” : historicmysteries.net
- West Virginia Tourism — “Who Is the Mysterious Mothman?” : wvtourism.com
- The Mothman Museum, Point Pleasant WV : mothmanmuseum.com
- NTSB — Silver Bridge Collapse Investigation Report (1968) : ntsb.gov
The Beast of Bray Road 8 sources
- Linda S. Godfrey — The Beast of Bray Road (2003), Trails Books
- Walworth County Week — “The Beast of Bray Road” (Original Reporting, 1991–92)
- Atlas Obscura — “Bray Road” : atlasobscura.com
- Linda Godfrey — Strange Wisconsin (Personal Archive) : lindagodfrey.com
- Linda S. Godfrey — Hunting the American Werewolf (2006), Trails Books
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — “The Beast of Bray Road, 30 Years On” (Archive)
- The Lineup — “The Real Story of the Beast of Bray Road” : the-line-up.com
- Travel Wisconsin — “Bray Road” : travelwisconsin.com
The Jersey Devil 8 sources
- Smithsonian Magazine — “The Real Story of the Jersey Devil” : smithsonianmag.com
- James F. McCloy & Ray Miller Jr. — The Jersey Devil (1976), Middle Atlantic Press
- Philadelphia Public Ledger — Daily Coverage, January 17–23, 1909 (Free Library of Philadelphia archive)
- Atlas Obscura — “The Pine Barrens” : atlasobscura.com
- New Jersey State Library — “The Jersey Devil” : njstatelib.org
- Weird NJ Magazine — “The Jersey Devil at Point Breeze” (Vol. 14)
- Bordentown Historical Society — Point Breeze Estate Records
- McCloy & Miller — Phantom of the Pines (1998), Middle Atlantic Press
The Skinwalker 8 sources
- Clyde Kluckhohn — Navaho Witchcraft (1944, reissued Beacon Press 1967): foundational ethnographic study of Diné witchcraft tradition
- Margaret K. Brady — Some Kind of Power: Navajo Children’s Skinwalker Narratives (1984), University of Utah Press
- Tony Hillerman — extensive incorporation of the tradition into the Leaphorn / Chee mystery series, written in close consultation with Diné cultural advisors
- Navajo Nation Office of the President & Vice President — public statements requesting respectful media handling : navajo-nsn.gov
- Colm A. Kelleher & George Knapp — Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005), Pocket Books
- Las Vegas Review-Journal — original Knapp reporting on the Sherman family (1996 archive)
- Smithsonian Magazine — “Skinwalker Ranch” : smithsonianmag.com
- The History Channel — “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” (Programme Archive)
The Rake 9 sources
- Know Your Meme — “The Rake” : knowyourmeme.com
- Creepypasta Wiki — “The Rake” entry archive : creepypasta.fandom.com
- Vox — “How the internet invented modern folklore” : vox.com
- Folklore Studies — “Digital Legend Tripping in the Internet Age” (Journal of American Folklore, 2014)
- Trevor J. Blank — Folklore and the Internet (2009), Utah State University Press
- Brian A. Sharpless & Karl Doghramji — Sleep Paralysis: Historical, Psychological, and Medical Perspectives (2015), Oxford University Press
- National Institutes of Health — Sleep Paralysis Overview : nhlbi.nih.gov
- Reddit — r/SleepParalysis (community archive) : reddit.com/r/SleepParalysis
- The Atlantic — “The Internet Made Folklore” : theatlantic.com