Hi there. Thanks for stopping by.
I’m Jacob “Jake” Rice, and Puget Sound Monster Club is my attempt to do something a little different with cryptids and monsters.
Most monster content falls into two camps: true believers who accept every sighting as proof, and debunkers who dismiss the whole thing as nonsense. I’m neither. I’m something closer to a monster naturalist, someone who looks at a creature, real or legendary, and asks the same questions a field naturalist would ask.
What does it eat? Where does it den? What ecological niche does it fill? What would its fossil ancestors look like? And if it doesn’t exist — what would it need to be possible?
That “what if it’s real?” question is the engine of everything here.
What You’ll Find
PSMC is built around creature case files, regional legends, and speculative natural history grounded in real ecology, biology, and paleontology. Every post tries to hold two things at once: honest skepticism about the evidence, and genuine curiosity about the possibility.
You’ll find habitat maps, evidence ladders, speculative anatomy, field investigation guides, and deep dives into the folklore that started it all. I try to be clear about what’s sourced, what’s speculation, and what’s just fun to think about.
The focus is the Pacific Northwest and Cascadia — this region has a genuinely extraordinary monster ecosystem — but the trail sometimes leads to British Columbia, the Oregon coast, the Columbia Gorge, and beyond.
Who I Am
I’m a trained economist who runs websites for a big tech company by day. I’m not a biologist or a zoologist. What I am is someone who has been obsessed with natural history, ecology, and the edges of what science knows … and who found that cryptozoology is the perfect place to apply that curiosity without taking it too seriously.
The naturalist tradition has always had room for careful amateurs. I’m in good company.
I also run GhostlyActivities.com, where I document hauntings and ghost hunts across the Pacific Northwest: a different kind of mystery, same appetite for investigation.
“Monster Hunting For The Rest Of Us”
That tagline is still the point. I’ve got a day job, dogs, and a finite amount of time. I can’t disappear into the Cascades for a month. But I can follow the evidence, dig into archives, build a case file, and ask the questions worth asking.
That’s what this is. Come find some monsters.
— Jacob Rice, Puget Sound Monster Club