Lumberwoods

Lumberwoods, Unnatural History Museum is a virtual museum on North American folklore started as a creative project in 2006. Lumberwoods encompasses eBooks, historical articles and other folkloric materials, with a special focus on fearsome critters.
History
Lumberwoods began in April 2006 as the first electronic copy of Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by William T. Cox. It was originally hosted as a free website on Tripod and later Angelfire before moving to its own domain the following year. As others books were added, such as Fearsome Critters by Henry H. Tryon and The Hodag and Other Tales of the Logging Camps by Lakeshore Kearney, the project took on the name "Lumberwoods" expanding into a collection drawn from texts related to fearsome critters. In 2009, Lumberwoods began cataloging fearsome critters, a catalog which exist today as the "Fearsome Critter Database." In time Lumberwoods would grow to encompasses a range of subjects relating to folklore and the strange. Lumberwoods has been linked by , , Mental Floss, , “Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus”, The Awl and 150+ sites.
Collection
According to the museum's website, the collection comprises 800+ pages of folkloric materials.<ref name="lumberwoods" /> Lumberwoods is divided into five main subdomains "Museum Library," "Surreal Collections," "Weird Gallery," "Eerie Archives" and "Uncanny Exhibitions" each with three to four sub-levels. The library contains a core hypertext of about seven books with individual pages in one text link to another by subject matter, thus allowing for instant cross-reference. Surreal Collections encompasses articles on tall tales, fearsome critters and fish stories, whereas Weird Gallery features mermaids, monsters and curio. Eerie Archives contains campfire stories, superstitions, vampires and urban legends, while Uncanny Exhibitions lists weird west, steampunk and extraordinary claims.<ref name"lumberwoods" /> Likewise, the museum heads cataloging fearsome critters as part of its "Fearsome Critter Database."<ref name"fcd" />

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