Ben's Monster Mansion

Hidebehind? Fearsome Critters? What? Being a lumberjack/logger can be a lonely job. Their logging camps lie right in the middle of the wilderness, isolated miles away from any kind of hospital should things go wrong—and oftentimes, they do  go very wrong. Logging is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, oftentimes even more so than fishing. Falling trees and limbs, machinery mishaps and malfunctions, dangerous terrain, inclement weather, and even wildlife are significant threats to the lives of loggers. With the sheer number of ways to be injured or die on the job, paired with the loneliness (apart from working with their fellow loggers), perhaps it makes sense that stories of fantastical creatures began popping up in camp conversations.  These "fearsome critters", as they came to be known in the twentieth century, were part of an oral tradition among loggers told in camp to new arrivals and other groups of loggers passing through. While a lot of the stories and crea