Giant, Man-Eating Beavers in the Monongahela River

It's as big as a human and as angry as the hulk! It will fight anything and bite with two large teeth! It will screech and roar like a train! It's.... a giant beaver? An unlikely fearsome critter, the Mon's Man-Eating Beaver, or "Fangmalia", is a strange, kind of funny cryptid from West Virginia and Pennsylvania that is probably a hoax. In this adventure, our cryptid guide, Ballyraven, will take us to the Monongahela River, through some research files, and back in time to examine the Pleistocene's extinct giant beavers, Castoroides, as well as its presence in one of Ohio's caves. This episode is sponsored by the ⁠⁠Ballyraven Patreon⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Constellation Dive Group⁠⁠. Learn more about Fangmalia, see sources, and transcripts by visiting the ⁠⁠Ballyraven online encyclopedia⁠⁠. Support the show, buy a ⁠⁠Fangmalia print⁠⁠. Want to listen ad-free? Become a Patreon member.