Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
Deep in the Ozarks of southern Missouri and Arkansas, the story goes, prowls the Ozark Howler, a bear-sized black cat with glowing eyes, shaggy hair and horns, whose cry is a mix of a wolf’s howl and an elk’s bugle. It is a modern piece of hill-country folklore with a whiff of hoax about it (some say cryptozoologists were baited with it), but it fits a long tradition of “devil cat” tales across the South. The Ozarks it haunts are real, deep, dark forest. Told as the folklore it is.
The Ozark Mountains (southern Missouri / Arkansas). Source: Modern Ozark hill-country folklore, part legend part hoax. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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