Case file · Cryptid
Bulgasari, the iron-eating beast of Songdo
A creature that grew by eating iron, and could not be killed, is said to have rampaged through the Goryeo capital in its last days.
1392 CE · 37.97, 126.55 · status: legend
The account
In Joseon folk tales it is shaped from rice grains by a hermit; its name is read as 'cannot be killed'. The beast inspired North Korea's 1985 monster film Pulgasari.