Wapaloosie

Region: Pacific Northwest

Lead Investigator: Agent 32

Last Updated: 16 May 2024

• Geometrigradus cilioretractus
• Plural: Wapaloosim
• Exclusive to forested areas
• One was reportedly made into mittens by lumberjack after he shot it near the Humptulips River in Washington. However, they did not allow him to keep hold of anything and they wriggled away when he left them on the road.

Identification:

• Size of a small dog with a velvety coat
• Feet of a woodpecker and a spiked tail
• Adept climbers, crawls similar to in inchworm
• Lives on shelf mushrooms

Images

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

Other Resources

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

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