flatwoods

From the Mothman, Wampus Cat, and Raven Mocker to the Grafton and Flatwoods Monsters, the Appalachians are teeming with supernatural creatures.

The endangered list grew to include little-known creatures - from the frosted flatwoods salamander to the tooth cave spider - and nearly 1,000 plants.

A team searching under dense vegetation in the pine flatwoods of the Everglades late last year came upon a slithering sight, the likes of which no one had found before in those parts: 215 pounds of snake.

In another case, the census lists no people living in the Flatwoods Conservation Park outside Tampa, even though it says there is a home occupied by people.

As we ambled across the sanctuary’s 2.5-mile-long boardwalk through pine flatwoods, marshes and into the largest old-growth bald cypress forest in North America, we heard plenty of birds overhead in the wild, soaring cypress trees.