The Squonk, a cryptid that resembles a wrinkled pig, or maybe a black bear with mange, is rumored to roam the dark hemlock ...

Pennsylvania's ugliest creature is a depressed fictional pig called the Squonk who will take center stage at a festival ...

Oddities of all sorts filled the outside and inside of Bottle Works Arts on 3rd Avenue Saturday as cryptid fans from around ...

Save the Squonk: Pennsylvania’s ugliest, saddest creature to be celebrated at weekend festival By Angela Barbuti Published Aug. 2, 2025, 9:18 a.m. ET ...

The squonk is not only said to be "Of distinctly low mentality" but also so ugly it's given to constant crying over its appearance. ( Image from "Fearsome Critters" by Henry H. Tryon as ...

The squonk - reportedly the homeliest of all living things in Pennsylvania - obviously is a creature of myth and legend. We included it in our Monsters of Pennsylvania series simply because it is ...

FEELING A BIT SQUONKY lately? Well, no wonder. Pittsburgh-based weirdos Squonk Opera — the same folks who made a musical of “Night of the Living Dead”— have been busily immortalizing our ...

The origin of the Squonk — said to reside in the Keystone State’s Hemlock Forest — dates back to 1910, with a book called “Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods” — and Pennsylvanians ...

Oddities of all sorts filled the outside and inside of Bottle Works Arts on 3rd Avenue Saturday as cryptid fans from around ...

Pennsylvania’s ugliest creature — a depressed fictional pig named the Squonk — will take center stage Saturday at Squonkapalooza, a festival drawing in people across the country to celebrate ...