But that’s a blip in the shunka warak’in’s reign of terror. Perhaps that’s because wolves were extinct in the state for about half of the 20th century. But it’s also been called the Beast and the Rocky Mountain hyena-in fact, any name but wolf, although the creature could easily be called a wolf. It has been given many names over the years, below most of which burn angry red squiggly lines when typed into Microsoft Word: Shunka warak’in. Something has been preying on domesticated animals across the plains of Montana for centuries. Excerpted with permission from The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters, by J. Ocker introduces us to some of these ancient terrors. Cryptids of all kinds have long moved in the shadows across what’s now the United States, their legends preserved in Native American traditions that stretch from the Southwest to the Great Lakes and beyond.
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