Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mythical beast? Wisconsin's quirkiest high school mascot? A completely real creature that was blown up with dynamite in the ...

Do you know the legend of the Rhinelander Hodag? This month’s issue of Milwaukee Magazine explores the lore of the hideous green beast and how it’s become a symbol of pride for the northern Wisconsin ...

What Wisconsin's favorite cryptid can teach us about folklore. Horns of an ox, the face of a frog, and a sensation that was entirely made up. This is the story of how the Hodag went from folklore to ...

He has a screenplay, a booth at this month’s Hodag Heritage Festival in Rhinelander, and a dream that a mythical creature of the Wisconsin Northwoods can make people forget Bigfoot, the Loch Ness ...

Lit Wisconsin is a sporadic series of stories in which we highlight the work of writers of Wisconsin or those who have ties to the state. Today Lit Wisconsin looks at the work of three collaborators ‒ ...

Straight from the North Woods of Wisconsin to the television screen, the Hodag, Rhinelander’s mythical beast of yore, is making a Scooby-Doo debut next month. An episode of “Scooby-Doo! Mystery ...

A mythical beast? Wisconsin's quirkiest high school mascot? A completely real creature that was blown up with dynamite in the Northwoods 130 years ago? The hodag is all of the above, depending on who ...