Meet the Monsters That Thrill, Chill, and Fascinate!! From the creeping undead thirsting for blood to the giant serpent-like creatures inhabiting lakes, rivers, and seas, Monsters: Myths, Legends and Real Encounters dives into the unexplained tales and frightening folklore of beasts that inhabit the land, sea, and air. You’ll encounter winged humanoids with glowing red eyes, dragons and devils, werewolves and water-horses, chupacabras, tommyknockers, and many, many more. With master storyteller and seasoned paranormal investigator Richard Estep as your guide, you will meet … the Vampire of Alnwick , a medieval bloodsucker - Bigfoot , Sasquatch , and Yowie - Bunyip , an Australian water monster - Chedipe , the tiger-riding naked woman of India who crawls into chimneys to prey on the blood of unsuspecting men - the Grafton Monster , a nocturnal hulk from West Virginia - the Jersey Devil - Kraken , Krampus , and Lilith - Manananggal , the bat-winged vampire women - Morgawr , Mothman , and Nessie - the Werewolf of Cannock Chase - And numerous other prominent and lesser-known monsters of fact, myth, and legend! Whether you’re a monster hunter, a skeptic, or simply looking for a fun read, you will find plenty of strange, fascinating stories and explorations of histories of mysterious creatures that inspire fear and wonder within the pages of Monsters . It’s the (im)perfect bedtime read!! Richard Estep is the author of more than 30 books, including Visible Ink Press’ Dark Spirits: Monsters, Demons and Devils; Ghostly Encounters: Terrifyingly True Hauntings; Serial Killers: The Minds, Methods, and Mayhem of History's Most Notorious Murderers; The Serial Killer Next Door: The Double Lives of Notorious Murderers; and Family, Friends and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal . Additionally, he’s written numerous paranormal nonfiction titles, including  The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer’s Home . He is a regular columnist for  Haunted Magazine  and has also written for the  Journal of Emergency Medical Services . Richard appears regularly on the TV shows Haunted Case Files, Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911 , and Paranormal Night Shift . British by birth, Richard now makes his home a few miles north of Denver, Colorado, where he serves as a paramedic and lives with his wife and a menagerie of adopted animals. Yowie! Move over, Bigfoot; Australia has its own version of the shaggy, brown-haired humanoid, a creature known as the Yowie. Typically described as between seven and eight feet tall, covered in thick, bristly hair, Yowies stand upright and have generally humanoid characteristics. Heavily muscled and possessing a set of powerful jaws, it is said that they are more than capable of killing and eating a human being. A question that is equally pertinent with regard to every creature covered in this book would be this: Why has a Yowie never been captured or killed and subjected to examination? Australia certainly has plenty of space in which humans has rarely set foot, even today; over a million square miles of wilderness remain undeveloped, though most of it has at least been mapped and charted. Some of the more isolated rural areas could conceivably be home to Yowies, and potentially other cryptids, too. Yowie sightings go back for centuries, originating with indigenous aboriginal people, and the accounts share an impressive consistency. Speculation regarding the creature’s origins runs the gamut from it being a flesh-and-blood creature (albeit one which has become exceptionally skilled at avoiding contact with human hunters) to it being some kind of supernatural or trans-dimensional entity, capable of phasing into and out of our material reality at will. In this respect, there are comparisons with the Mothman stories, which are featured elsewhere in this book — and indeed, some of those who have claimed to encounter the Yowie say that it also has glowing red eyes just as Mothman does. There are better parallels between the Yowie, Sasquatch, and Bigfoot than there are with Mothman, however. The hefty, shambling, hairy humanoids seem to look and behave similarly in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Their favored terrain seems to be forests and wooded areas, offering a degree of protection and shelter not only from the elements, but also from intrusive humans. Wherever it may be, the creature appears to have a definite physical presence. Tracks have been found in the vicinity of Yowie sightings; primate-like footprints, larger and heavier than those of a human being. Some of the tracks have only three or four toes. Another relatively common finding is the foul stink Yowies leave in their wake. Sightings continue to be reported in the twenty-first century. The website yowiehunters.com.au maintains a database of such sightings, which is available for anybody to read. It also contains interviews with Aboriginal p