Ancient Monsters of Myth
Modern Terror
Cryptid Creatures
Real Life Monsters
Miscellaneous Hauntings
200
This Irish female spirit was known to be the harbinger of death for those who heard her piercing scream
Banshee
200
Jordan Peele made his directorial debut with this 2017 psychological thriller about a man going to meet his girlfriend's parents for the first time at their home
Get Out
200
This US state reports more Bigfoot sightings than any other
Washington
200
This jawless fish uses its razor sharp teeth to latch on to and bore into the flesh of other fish and sea mammals
Lamprey
200
Wednesday Addams is assisted by this body-free sidekick in Netflix's recent reboot
Thing
400
Algonquian folklore told of this malevolent spirit that possesses people and causes them to feel insatiable hunger for human flesh
Wendigo
400
Cillian Murphy got his first big break in this 2002 survival horror, starring as a man who suffered a rude awakening from a coma
28 Days Later
400
Bat wings, horse head, and goat horns are just some of the characteristics of this demonic creature reported to fly over the Mid-Atlantic forests
Jersey Devil
400
This deep-sea creature has the largest eyes relative to their body of any animal and can emit a bioluminescent mucus that glows for up to 10 minutes
Vampire squid
400
Rick Grimes works to survive walkers and other threats in The Walking Dead, a comic book written by this author
Robert Kirkman
600
In Norse mythology, this giant wolf was foretold to set the world aflame and kill Odin
Fenrir
600
This tongue-in-cheek horror comedy featured facility workers betting on which monsters would kill the next kidnapped victims
The Cabin in the Woods
600
Said to appear before tragedy, this Appalachian cryptid has signature red glowing eyes
Mothman
600
This 20 inch long scavenger preys on carcasses on the sea floor
Giant isopod
600
A series of 1990 murders by a knife-wielding killer in Gainesville, FL inspired this popular horror movie series
Scream
800
Kitsune are Japanese spirits that can shapeshift but take this primary form
Fox
800
Anya Taylor-Joy's character is blamed for the disappearance of her younger brother in this 2015 horror folktale set in New England in 1630
The Witch
800
This Gobi Desert dweller is said to be able to kill at a distance, either by spraying venom or by electric discharge
Mongolian Death Worm
800
These cave-dwelling creeps have evolved long, spiked first legs that can be six times longer than their body length
Whip spider/tailless whip scorpion
800
The Upside Down is home to Lord Vecna, a humanoid creature in Stranger Things who was originally born with this name
Henry Creel
1000
This biggest of all Greek monsters had the upper body of a man, giant wings, and hundreds of snakes forming his lower body
Typhon
1000
12-year-old Oskar befriends a reclusive "girl" named Eli who kills his bullies in this understated Swedish romantic horror
Let the Right One In
1000
Allegedly descended from the same species as the Loch Ness Monster, this serpent-like creature dwells at the bottom of a lake in British Columbia
Ogopogo
1000
This mind-controlling fungus that inspired The Last of Us infects ants and other insects and instructs them to climb high toward sunlight before bursting out of bodies and killing the host
Cordyceps
1000
Only once in America's history was a man officially sanctioned to be executed by being pressed to death under large stones, and it happened during this event
Salem Witch Trials