We do seem to be developing our own folk tradition of things like the Moth Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman), Bigfoot, and the Chupacabra. And then there are alien abductions... But by and large these aren't personal entities.
I think we also have gremlins, in a way -- I've read a few ghost stories about hairy bipedal creatures who inhabit cellars. A friend apparently has one of these living in her family's old farmhouse (they also have the requisite grumpy elderly male human ghost). The thing is bipedal, about 3 feet tall, covered with hair, apparently malignant, and (unfortunately) doesn't confine itself to the cellar. I would consider this kind of entity more creepy than a ghost, since they're not human (or formerly human) and one doesn't know what rules it would be governed by.
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Date: 18 Nov 2008 07:30 pm (UTC)I think we also have gremlins, in a way -- I've read a few ghost stories about hairy bipedal creatures who inhabit cellars. A friend apparently has one of these living in her family's old farmhouse (they also have the requisite grumpy elderly male human ghost). The thing is bipedal, about 3 feet tall, covered with hair, apparently malignant, and (unfortunately) doesn't confine itself to the cellar. I would consider this kind of entity more creepy than a ghost, since they're not human (or formerly human) and one doesn't know what rules it would be governed by.