Its said that the creature is so ugly that looking at it can kill you. In fact, it's said that people specifically went looking for the squonk to try and cheer it up only to die from its appearance. It must be the loneliest cryptic there is.
There's a lot of fun cryptids in that region. Apart from the Pennsylvania White Bigfoot, there's the snallygaster and the dewayo. I think the former is because there's a lot of herons in the area, and the latter is your standard "omg a weird bear" cryptid.