The U.S. Postal Service’s 2027 stamps include Mothman, Bigfoot and the Jackalope in a five-stamp Mythical Creatures set, plus a Halloween set with a vampire, a witch, a mummy and Frankenstein’s monster. USPS named both sets on Nov. 9 in a partial list of its 2027 stamps and hasn’t announced when either one goes on sale.
The Mythical Creatures Stamps
Mythical Creatures is a set of five stamps of creatures from American folklore, each drawn with icons of the place its legend comes from. Artist Nat Power drew them digitally “in bold black linework and vivid colors reminiscent of her tattoo-design work,” USPS said, and Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed the stamps.
The five creatures, from USPS’s notes on each:
- Mothman (West Virginia): a flying, red-eyed, human-size being first reported in 1966. At festivals in West Virginia, people often dress as Mothman in “spooky-cute” costumes. The stamp shows it with spread wings under a crescent moon.
- Jackalope (the American West): an antlered rabbit that taxidermist brothers in Wyoming created in the 1930s. The stamp puts it beside a sun and a cactus.
- Squonk (Pennsylvania): a self-conscious creature from old Pennsylvania lumbermen’s lore that wept constantly, and today “a beloved symbol of anxiety,” according to USPS. The stamp shows it crying in a puddle.
- Sasquatch (the Pacific Northwest): also known as Bigfoot, shown walking among pine trees.
- Champ (Lake Champlain): a lake monster of centuries-old legend that is now the mascot for the Lake Champlain region of New York and Vermont, shown as a serpent in the water.
The Halloween Stamps
The Halloween set has four stamps by illustrator Erick Martinez, each with a jack-o’-lantern in the scene and a bat at the top:
- A vampire, biting a jack-o’-lantern
- A witch, stirring a cauldron under a crescent moon
- A mummy, waving from a coffin
- Frankenstein’s monster, holding a jack-o’-lantern
The stamps “bring us back to the delightful frights of a childhood Halloween,” USPS said. Antonio Alcalá designed this set as well.
USPS’s Earlier Halloween Stamps
USPS’s first stamps dedicated to Halloween were the Jack-o’-Lanterns, issued on Sept. 29, 2016, with photographs of four carved pumpkins “showing cheerfully creepy faces on a black background.” The Spooky Silhouettes followed on Oct. 11, 2019, when USPS dedicated them at the Milford Pumpkin Festival in Milford, New Hampshire. Artist Tyler Lang and art director Greg Breeding made those four stamps, which show a cat and a raven, two ghosts, a spider and its web, and three bats as black silhouettes in “eerily backlit windows.”
Mothman, Bigfoot and Other Cryptids at Haunts
Netherworld in Stone Mountain, Georgia, built its 2026 second attraction, Beyond Oblivion: Legacy of Evil, partly around cryptids, with scenes called The Slaughterhouse of the Cryptids and Hunted by Bigfoot. At Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota, ValleyScare’s 2026 lineup included Cryptidland, a maze set in a roadside attraction “where ancient secrets awaken cryptids and beasts.”
HalloweenCostumes.com showed an 11.5-foot Mothman animatronic with moving wings and arms, glowing eyes and built-in sound effects at TransWorld’s Halloween & Attractions Show in 2026, in my TransWorld vendor roundup. Ghoulish Productions’ $300 Sasquatch Costume, a full-body Bigfoot built by hand in Mexico, is a finalist in the Halloween & Costume Association’s 2026 Spooky Awards, which I cover in the best new Halloween costumes of 2026.
Issue Dates and Where to Buy
USPS hasn’t announced issue dates, prices or first-day-of-issue ceremonies for either set, and it says the 2027 designs are preliminary and may change. Both sets are Forever stamps, which are always worth the current First-Class Mail one-ounce price. I’ll add the dates here when USPS announces them.
USPS sells stamps at post offices, through The Postal Store online, by phone at 844-737-7826 and by mail through USA Philatelic.
