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Earth Ancients

Destiny: Jason Offutt, Chasing North American Monsters

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Discover more than 250 Humanoids, Howlers, and Scaly Swimmers from Across North AmericaHere in North America, there be monsters! Jason Offutt takes you on a thrilling adventure across all twenty-three countries—as well as every state and territory of the US, Canada, and Mexico—to meet one or more monsters in each location. Featuring illustrations throughout, this book travels to Alaska, the Caribbean, Greenland, and beyond.

• Find the horned boa known as Madre de Aguas in Cuba.

• Head to Honduras to spot el Comelenguas, the tongue-eating giant bird.

• Catch a glimpse of the Grafton Monster along West Virginia's roads.

• Escape from the Ikusik, the human-devouring corpse of Greenland.

• Track the Were-Jaguar (half-man, half-cat) across Tabasco, Mexico.

From Arizona's Lizard Man to Canada's Wendigo, this book opens your eyes to the monstrous wonders of North America. Are you up for the chase?

Jason Offutt (Maryville, Missouri) teaches journalism at Northwest Missouri State University. He's the author of four previous books on paranormal topics, including Haunted Missouriand Paranormal Missouri (Schiffer), in addition to several novels. He has been interviewed on Whitley Strieber's Dreamland, Destination America, Binnall of America, Darkness Radio, The Paracast, and other prominent paranormal podcasts. Visit him at JasonOffutt.com.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning.

0:19.4

Hey, how are you? Hope you're doing well today. This is Cliff, your host of Destiny.

0:24.5

And today it's all about unusual creatures, hominins, and something that I've been interested in

0:31.3

for Jesus, decades, which is the classification of hominins that are not regularly, are not registered by the

0:42.2

archaeological community, but are prominent.

0:47.1

And I'm talking about the strange people of Paracas, Peru, the various hominens,

0:53.5

the various human-like people that lived among the Maya,

0:57.8

but are obviously not human in the sense that we understand. No, I should say that, I should

1:05.1

repeat that. They were human, but they were of a branch that is not with us any longer. Either they died out because of environmental conditions or they were killed off.

1:17.4

There was a form of genocide that was committed.

1:20.1

And we've heard about over the centuries different people who were eradicated.

1:27.1

And we just never knew who they were because there was,

1:29.8

there's no one to talk about.

1:32.4

There's no one to go to and ask about their background.

1:37.9

Today, it's more about creatures, types of hominins,

1:43.9

human-like beings, who have lived on the earth and who still may be

1:50.5

with us.

1:51.7

The book we're talking about today is called North American Monsters, and it has to do with

1:57.7

cryptozoology, it has to do with identifying unusual humans like the

2:06.4

like the Yeti, the Bigfoot, Lockness Monster, creatures that have been seen by local villagers or have been recorded down through history

2:22.2

and at one time he may have thought of them as a myth, but they have been verified in a number of

2:31.3

different settings and chronicled and actually chronicled.

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