‘New Mexico Monsters’: In Search of Wonderfully Bizarre Beasts

John LeMay presents a fun line-up of unlikely creatures from the state’s folklore traditions.

"New Mexico Monsters" by John LeMay takes a fun look at New Mexico's cryptid creatures. The History Press/Cultz Paranormal Studio

The state nickname for New Mexico is “The Land of Enchantment.” But historian John LeMay’s book “New Mexico Monsters” gives the impression that the moniker should be changed to “The Land of Monsters.”

LeMay takes an extreme left turn at Albuquerque into a landscape where cryptids, supersized beasts, extraterrestrials, and dinosaurs have allegedly been encountered for centuries.