Case file · Cryptid
The squonk
A warty, weeping creature of the hemlock forests of northern Pennsylvania that dissolves into tears when cornered, described in William T. Cox's Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods (1910).
1910 CE · 41.75, -77.90 · status: legend
The account
It belongs to the 'fearsome critters' that loggers invented to tease newcomers.
The sceptical view
A lumber-camp joke, never meant literally.