I don’t know if you’ve been reading the new Pottermore articles

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They talk about the magic school in North America, and also about magical creatures in the continent.

There is a creature called Hidebehind, because (and I quote JK Rowling): “As the name suggests, it can contort itself to hide behind almost any
object, concealing itself perfectly from hunters and victims alike.”

It did sound familiar. And so I researched and

This is from one of the Gravity Falls Shorts.

Gravity Falls is now officially in the Harry Potter Canon.

According to wikipedia, they’re from logger legends via the Pecos Bill stories.  Basically a pre-internet creepypasta.  Although the fact that they were supposedly repelled by large amounts of alcohol kind of takes the edge off it.

No, that makes it even better.