Pennsylvania’s ugliest creature is a depressed fictional pig called the Squonk who will take center stage Saturday at ...

The Squonk, a cryptid that resembles a wrinkled pig, or maybe a black bear with mange, is rumored to roam the dark hemlock ...

Oddities of all sorts filled the outside and inside of Bottle Works Arts on 3rd Avenue Saturday as cryptid fans from around ...

Pennsylvania’s ugliest creature — a depressed fictional pig named the Squonk — will take center stage Saturday at Squonkapalooza, a festival drawing in people across the country to celebrate ...

The squonk is not only said to be "Of distinctly low mentality" but also so ugly it's given to constant crying over its appearance. ( Image from "Fearsome Critters" by Henry H. Tryon as ...

The squonk - reportedly the homeliest of all living things in Pennsylvania - obviously is a creature of myth and legend. We included it in our Monsters of Pennsylvania series simply because it is ...

FEELING A BIT SQUONKY lately? Well, no wonder. Pittsburgh-based weirdos Squonk Opera — the same folks who made a musical of “Night of the Living Dead”— have been busily immortalizing our ...

“Squonk shows are radically inclusive and accessible, inviting everyone to create joy together,” says Jackie Dempsey, Co-Artistic Director of Squonk.

Squonk performed “Hand to Hand” in about 20 North American cities, from Fort Worth to Calgary. They saw how much audiences enjoyed joining in, so the new show ups the ante.

The origin of the Squonk — said to reside in the Keystone State’s Hemlock Forest — dates back to 1910, with a book called “Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods” — and Pennsylvanians ...