Animals, Death, and Symbols
This cuddly domestic animal is a psychopomp in Greece, Mexico, and Western Europe.
What is a dog?
The autumn holiday of Samhain originates from this country.
What is Scotland?
A local to us, this creature is known for its hunched, dog-like, bald appearance, and for its thirst for blood.
What is the chupacabra?
While American citizens are issued social security numbers, resident and non resident aliens with income are issued one of these in order to file with the IRS.
What is an individual taxpayer identification number?
This 1990s low budget found-footage horror film, often considered the most important member of its genre, was shot in Maryland and partly inspired by The Crucible.
What is the Blair Witch Project?
This clever flying animal, often considered a bad omen in Europe, perched on a number of mythological shoulders, including Odin and Cu Chulainn.
What is a crow?
The lunar mid-autumn harvest festival celebrated in this country is three days long, often commemorating both deceased family members and the blessings of that year. Gifts, food (especially sweets and alcohol), and traditional sports are frequent ways people celebrate.
What is Korea/What is Chuseok?
This primate-like smaller cousin of Bigfoot is known for lurking around swamps like the Everglades, and for his pungent odor.
What is the skunk-ape?
The IRS was founded during this American domestic conflict as a way to support the war effort.
What is the Civil War?
This cute, stylized autumnal horror cartoon is actually a retelling of Dante's Inferno, and uses the voice talents of some big names, including Frank N. Furter and Frodo Baggins.
What is Over The Garden Wall?
Ancient Egyptians were known for mummifying not only people, but also companion animals, including cats, dogs, snakes, river birds, and this large reptile.
What is a crocodile?
People in this country celebrate a foiled bombing plot of one of their legislative houses of government, with all-night fireworks and effigies of the offending plotter-- on a holiday named after the guilty party.
What is England (or what is Guy Fawkes day?)
This more modern cryptid, first captured on security cameras, allegedly looks like a walking, white pair of pants, with no upper half.
What is the Fresno Nightcrawler?
This contentious portion of the federal income tax has a cap at which income is taxable, applying to a certain percent of up to $182,000 of income as a maximum.
What is the social security tax?
Based on a 19th century novel, this story of a titular monster and his creation has been adapted on film internationally over a thousand times.
What is Frankenstein?
This variety of lepidoptera, which produces a chirping sound to repel predatory bats, has a distinct skull-like shape on its wings.
What is a death's head moth?
On this late autumn lunar calendar holiday and festival, small baskets or floating rafts are floated down a river with offerings like sweets or plants. It's a recently invented tradition that has been traced back to the upper class of people in this country!
This bipedal Ohio native has been the subject of multiple police reports, alarming others with its amphibious appearance.
What is the Loveland Frogman?
Don't forget to count your net income-- this sort of aquatic agriculturalist, when filing their itemized 1040, have to use a 2210-F!
What is a fisherman?
Formerly most famous for his role as a comedian, this producer of "Get Out," "Us," and "Nope" has been nominated for four academy awards for horror movies.
Who is Jordan Peele?
The world's largest bony fish, known in parts of Japan as the "doomsday fish", is often believed to surface or beach itself before oceanic disaster strikes.
What is an oarfish?
People in this country celebrate a days long ritual expressing gratitude for yams, a staple crop, then distributing the year's harvests and eating the first new yams of that year. Often, art and dance festivals and community cookouts are integrated into the celebration.
What is Nigeria?
This group of California cryptids, with pre-Columbian history reported even by early Spaniards, is said to be tall, shadowy figures, observing people from afar at dawn and dusk, and disappearing when others come close.
What are dark watchers?
Won a horse in a game of poker? Hopefully you got it properly valuated! If that horse has a net value of over $2000, you will have to complete one of these forms with your 1040.
What is a W2G?
This cult-classic second installment in a video game series from 2001 was strongly inspired by David Lynch and Junji Ito. The game opens with a player character receiving letters from his deceased wife-- leading him into a fog laden world of monsters.
What is Silent Hill 2?