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Step into the pages of the Codex of the Southern Moon, a continuing illustrated record of Southern folklore, cryptids, and half-remembered things best left unnamed. Each entry documents a creature through ink, observation, and narration, as if pulled from a forgotten field journal.

This entry: The Grunch – Louisiana Goatman Cryptid

The Grunch is a small, goatman-like creature rooted in Louisiana folklore, long associated with the swamps and wooded outskirts of New Orleans. Described as hunched, horned, and sharp-toothed, it walks upright and leaves cloven tracks in soft earth. Early accounts blame it for stolen livestock, missing belongings, and an uneasy sense of being watched from the treeline.

Local tradition places the Grunch closest to human spaces during Mardi Gras, when masks erase faces, music drowns out warning, and the boundary between man and monster grows thin. In the chaos of parades and torchlight, the Grunch is said to pass unnoticed, another costumed figure slipping into the crowd before retreating to the bayou by morning.

In this video, I sketch the Grunch in ink while narrating the process as a formal codex entry. Lines are smeared, corrected, and reworked as anatomical notes take shape, treating the creature not as myth alone, but as something documented…if not fully understood.

If you’re drawn to cryptids, Louisiana folklore, goatman legends, Mardi Gras myths, southern gothic art, ink illustration, and creepy drawing, this entry belongs in your collection.

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Music: Cicada Killer - Coyote Hearing