Book of Imaginary Beings

The story kept going after the woods were gone.

The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges put Cox's entry into his Book of Imaginary Beings.

The band Steely Dan worked the squonk's tears into a song in 1974, and two years later, Genesis recorded a whole song called Squonk that tells the wentling story from start to finish.

The city of Johnstown now holds a festival every August called Squonkapalooza.