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Thanks for all the replies. There are a number of your suggestions that Im trying to work in to my itinerary.

Theres one more thing Id like to ask but I have to tell a story first.

Many years ago, before we had even gotten married, the now Mrs Maw and I had had a conversation about vacations (I think National Lampoons Vacation movie instigated that). We both agreed that the standard "drive to the grand canyon" type vacations were just too mundane. We came up with the idea that we would be a "Scooby Doo/X Files" family. When we went on vacations we would stop by all of the things people normally do on vacation "by accident", might as well since we are already there, but we would tell the kids that the purpose of the vacation was really to hunt monsters of some sort. For example, one year we spent the summer in Northern Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and Dah Yoopee of Michigan "looking for bigfoot" and along the way we accidentally visited beaches, toured parks/waterfalls/mines, hiked forests, chartered a fishing boat, spent a week in a ufo (PodUpNorth.com/)and a number of other things which I assure you were entirely incidental. This way when our children are adults they don't tell the story about the year they "went to the grand canyon" they will instead tell stories of the year we hunted some paranormal thingie.

This then is the question: What paranormal creature do you know something about? Im not asking what creature do you believe in, Im just looking for more precise information than what Im finding on the web as the premise for our vacation. Ive heard of White Whistlers, Yowies, Dwayyos, Snollygasters and a couple of other things but Im having a hard time finding information on where these things are claimed to have been. For example, if you once worked with a guy who knew a guy who had a cousin that claimed to have seen the Yowie then was he more specific? I know that that was likely "somewhere in the Smokies" but if it was in "Moonshine Pass" "on the Robinson farm" "near Finnes Creek" or "on Crabtree Bald"? If so then that's where we are going to "look".

Bell witch? Old news but all the other hauntings, monsters, and other weirdness would be a great addition to the trip.

Please? Im not asking you to believe, I just want to know about your local bogeyman.

Thanks you again.