Have You Heard Of All Of These Mythical Monsters?

Mankind has told tales of legendary and mythical monsters since the dawn of time. We're familiar with the ones that pop culture has made famous over the years such as bigfoot, the loch ness monster, and chupcabra, but have you heard of these other, lesser known monsters of myth?

1) Amarok (from Inuit mythology) –

A fantastical giant wolf from the barren lands of the Arctic, the Amarok is said to hunt alone in contrast to the pack tendencies of its much smaller brethren. Many believe the legend of this lone wolf actually comes from real-time ecological periods when the untraveled deep woods were indeed populated by larger varieties of wolves (like the better known dire wolves). Some also draw parallels of this beast with the Waheela giant wolves that supposedly inhabited the northern parts of Canada.

Interestingly, according to famous Danish geologist Dr. Hinrich Johannes Rink, the term Amarok pertains to only a ‘fabulous’ monster for the Greenlanders, while other Arctic inhabitants believed the Amarok to be a monstrous wolf greater in size than a human being.

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