Cryptids are very prominent. Everyone understands the big ones: Bigfoot, the Loch Ness beast, the Yeti. Those are the ones folks can name. But additionally to the people, there are plenty of different more compact, more regional cryptids that people aren’t familiar with.
There’s the Giwoggle of Clinton district, a kind of wolf-bird-horse hybrid that’s said to lurk for the Elk nation surroundings.