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Yeah, I'm just barely getting back to work on my list today, and I realized my mistake about the Wikkawak when I was reviewing. It's definitely of Pathfinder origin with Inuit themes. Fortunately, I do have a much more thorough list now! Presented here for your viewing pleasure:

UNITED STATES
Delgeth (Navajo “alien god”)
Digmaul (American folklore “fearsome critter”)
Baykok (Ojibway)
Devil Monkey (cryptid)
Fastachee (Seminole)
Melfesh Monster/Moss Monster aka Flatwoods Monster (cryptid)
Gowrow (Ozarks folklore)
Gray (UFO folklore)
Headless Horseman (American folklore)
Hodag (American folklore “fearsome critter”)
Gremlin, Hobkin aka Hopkinsville Goblin (UFO folklore)
Sandpoint Devil/Devil Steed aka Jersey Devil (American folklore/cryptid)
Manitou (various Algonquian tribes)
Mothman (American folklore/cryptid)
Pukwudgie (Lenape and Wampanoag)
Sasquatch (American & Canadian folklore/Pacific Northwest Salish tribes)
Snallygaster (American folklore “fearsome critter”)
Thunderbird (various Native American tribes/crypid)
Water Orm aka Various Lake Monsters: Champ, Altie, etc (various Native American tribes/cryptids)
Wakandagi (Omaha and Mohawk)
Wendigo (various Algonquian tribes)

CARIBBEAN
Chickcharney (Andros Island, Bahamas folklore/cryptid
Duppy (Caribbean folklore of Bantu origin)
Lusca (Caribbean folklore/cryptid)
Juju Zombie (Haitian)

CANADA
Amarok (Inuit)
Akhlut (Inuit)
Adlet (Greenland, Hudson Bay, and Labrador Inuit)
Ijiraq (Inuit)
Qallupilluk aka Qalupalik (Inuit)
Saumen Kar (Northern Greenland Inuit)
Tizheruk (Key Island Inuit)
Tupilaq (Greenland Inuit)
Rougarou (Cajun and French-Canadian folklore)

MESOAMERICA
Ahuizotl (Aztec)
Chaneque (Aztec/Mexican folklore)
Chupacabra (ubiquitous American folklore of Puerto Rican origin)
Cipactli (Aztec)
Couatl (Aztec)
Psychopomp, Catrina (Mexican folklore)
Sayona (Venezuelan folklore)
Tzitzimitl (Aztec)
Xtabay (Mayan)


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Wannabe Demon Lord wrote:

In the Bestiaries, I've only found 25 New World Monsters:

1. Adlet
2. Ahuizotl
3. Akhlut
4. Baykok
5. Carbuncle
6. Guecubu
7. Hodag
8. Huecuve
9. Pukwudgie
10. Sasquatch
11. Tupilaq
12. Tzitzimitl
13. Chaneque
14. Ijiraq
15. Isitoq
16. Manitou
17. Qallupallik
18. Sayona
19. Snallygaster
20. Chupacabra
21. Mothman
22. Thunderbird
23. Wendigo
24. Xtabay
25. Juju Zombie
ayellowbirds wrote:

Ooh, you missed a few! One that may surprise you is the Cecaelia, which originated (at least as far as the NAME for such a thing as an octo-mermaid) in the US-published Vampirella magazine. The Chickcharney is another, coming to us from the Bahamas, and the Chon Chon is from Mapuche lore... there's also the Duppy (Caribbean), Lusca (Bahamas), Saumen Kar (Greenland Inuit), Blood Hag (Caribbean), arguably the Catrina psychopomps (Mexican folk-art), and Tunche (Peruvian).

We should also probably count the Couatl in this batch, and I'm personally inclined to include any Lovecraftian monster (in spite of his Anglophilia, he was very consciously a New Englander, and many of his stories were very emphatically set in the US), as well those made by other writers who get included under his eerie umbrella.

To add a few more Bestiary monsters on top of those mentioned by ayellowbirds:

Amarok
Cipactli
Delgeth
Devil Monkey
Digmaul
Fastachee
Headless Horseman
Hobkin Gremlin (Hopkinsville Goblin)
Melfesh Monster/Moss Monster (Golarion version of Flatwoods Monster)
Rougarou
Sandpoint Devil/Devil Steed (Golarion version of Jersey Devil)
Tizheruk
Wakandagi
Water Orm (specifically created to represent cryptid lake monsters)
Wikkawak