Shepard's hodag was 7 feet long, 30 inches high, black and hairy. It had 12 horns rising along its spine and short legs ending with long claws, according to a Wisconsin Historical Society essay ...

From the hodag to Pepie the Lake Monster, Wisconsin cryptid legends abound. Keith Uhlig. Green Bay Press-Gazette. It's Halloween season, time for all the ghosts and ghouls to come out and have ...

It was a topnotch sideshow, and some fairgoers left the display thinking that the hodag was real, a monster that Shepard captured in the Northwoods. He encouraged that notion, of course.

Legendary monsters "exist," if only in legend, ... There are also the Sidehill Dodge Hodag, the Cave Hodag, and the Shovel-nose Hodag. See. more pictures. of the Hodag. 5. El Sombrerón.

The Hodag is this terrifying beast that lives in the woods of Rhinelander, Wis. The origin of this [legend] dates back to 1893 — there was a character named Eugene Shepard , and he was a land ...

The legend of the Hodag is more than 100 years old, but it is still very prevalent in Rhinelander. "As soon as you drive into town, you can't pass the chamber of commerce building without seeing a ...

So the Hodag was on Melli’s radar even as he made films from his base in Laguna Beach, ... “I want to make a monster movie,” he said. COPYRIGHT 2024 BY MADISON MAGAZINE.

The fearsome Hodag is a legendary creature that haunts the town of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. It has been said to possess “the head of a frog, the face of an elephant, and the body of a spiky ...

Straight from the North Woods of Wisconsin to the television screen, the Hodag, Rhinelander’s mythical beast of yore, is making a Scooby-Doo debut next month. An episode of “Scooby-Doo!… ...

One of Wisconsin’s best practical jokes was born Oct. 28, 1893, when lumberman Gene Shepard reported in the Rhinelander newspaper that he’d captured a hodag. ODD WISCONSIN: Prank gave birth to ...