Are You Afraid of Monsters?

There's something inside us that loves a good monster. Those from ancient European and Chinese cultures bear striking resemblances.

Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

Forty years later, 'The Exorcist,' a grisly tale about the possession of a girl by a malevolent demon, has been revised and polished by author William Peter Blatty.

A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis is the story of a man who transformed into a giant beetle-like insect.

It is fitting that the creator of one of the most hellish and iconic movie monsters of all time should have once been plagued by nightmares.

In the Atlantic Ocean, locating a right whale the size of a school bus can be like finding a needle in a haystack. But a new generation of sharp-eared underwater robots can pinpoint the leviathans' locations in real time.

Many cultures relate legends of hairy, humanoid creatures that lurk in the wilds, rarely seen. But material claimed to be from such creatures have never been subjected to modern scientific techniques... until now.

Considered a mythical monster of the sea, it is only in the last hundred years that any convincing evidence of its existence has been offered. Sea monsters do exist!

The story of a big hairy monster of the Himalayas stomped into popular culture in 1951, when British mountaineer Eric Shipton returned from a Mount Everest expedition with photographs of giant footprints in the snow.