Gumberoo

Region: Pacific Coast (from Grays Harbor to Humboldt Bay)

Lead Investigator: Agent 71

Last Updated: 13 May 2024

• Other names: Megalogaster repercussus, Formax rotor
• Exclusive to forested areas

Identification

• Larger than a bear
• "Resembles a walking football"
• Hairless, tough, shiny, black hide
• Prominent eyebrows and bristly hairs on its chin

• Always hungry, reported to eat a horse in one sitting.
• Makes dens in the bases of burned out cedar trees.

• Its hide is invulnerable to attacks from arrows, axes, and bullets.
• The only means by which to kill a gumberoo was to set it on fire and wait until it exploded.
• Film negatives of the creature would explode as well.

History

• Reported by lumberjacks in the19th and early 20th century.

Proposed Explanations

• Wild hog
• Escaped exotic hog
• Pig dipped in tar
• Tattoo practice pig
• Pet pig escaped
• Boar/bear experiement gone wrong
• Completely fabricated to explain human-caused forest fires

Images

2008. An Dungeons and Dragons artistic rendition of what gumberoo may have looked like.

Illustration by Coert DuBois from 'Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts' by William Thomas Cox (1910)

1939. An artistic rendition of what gumberoo may have looked like.

Map of where Gumberoo is believed to live.

Other Resources

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods pg 10-11

Fearsome Critters pg 20-21

Gumberoo from "Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods" by William T. Cox

Gumberoo Cryptid Wiki

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