Guatemala
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Chorti
The Chorti are mythical creatures from Mexico and Guatemala. They resemble hairy humanoids standing seven feet tall or larger, with arms and shoulders heavily packed with muscles. They have bowed legs and long ape-like arms with large claws at the end of their fingers for tearing bark off trees, cracking stones, and decapitating humans. Sometimes they’re described with backward facing feet by the Yaqui native americans. On occasion, they are viewed as nature spirits that guard forests, and other times just violent predatory creatures that kill humans to feed on their flesh and blood. They are known to leave footprints and claw marks on trees that have been seen and…