Bestiary
Field profiles of the seven recognized gool species. Habitat, diet, demeanor, danger rating (low).
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You have arrived at The Goolz Society — a quiet, voluntary society for the documentation and ethical observation of goolz: the small green creatures (not ghouls; please) of forest, basement, footnote, and pantry.
A gool is roughly the size of a russet potato. It is shy. It is allegedly real. It tends to move only when you are not looking, which makes it very hard to research and very easy to underestimate.
This site catalogs everything we know — and a great many things we suspect — about the goolz.
Field profiles of the seven recognized gool species. Habitat, diet, demeanor, danger rating (low).
→ open bestiaryPublic reports filed by Society members. Mostly mundane. Occasionally moving.
→ read recent sightingsThe Society does not endorse capturing goolz. We do publish a vetted protocol for ethical close observation.
→ catch-and-release protocolOrigin myths, regional names, and the long-running argument over whether goolz dream.
→ enter the lore stackA periodic refresh of new sightings and notes, drawn from member correspondence. Updated as the post arrives.
→ latest entries appear belowA Mossback Gool (Goolus muscus) was observed sleeping inside a hollow log for forty minutes. It made a sound described by the observer as “a polite kettle.” It then left.
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A Pantry Gool was seen rotating the homeowner's spice jars into strict alphabetical order over the course of three minutes. It finished, regarded its work, then nudged the cinnamon one notch to the left and left.
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A Bog Gool (Goolus paludis) sat on a rotting plank for ninety minutes. When approached, it said, “tuesday is going to surprise you,” and slipped beneath the surface. Tuesday was, in fact, surprising.
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A Telephone Gool was photographed (poorly) inside the receiver of a long-defunct payphone. The picture is mostly hum. The hum, under spectral analysis, contains a single recognizable word: "hello".
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A Library Gool returned a book that the patron had not yet checked out. The book was on a topic the patron had been thinking about, but had not mentioned aloud, written down, or searched for. The librarian shrugged.
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A Footnote Gool (Goolus marginalia) was reportedly living between paragraphs of a 2009 academic monograph. It added a small superscript "²" to the third footnote on page 412. By the bibliography it was gone. The "²" remains.
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A Static Gool manifested in the dead-channel snow of a 1994 Sony Trinitron during a thunderstorm. It said the homeowner's middle name. The homeowner has not told anyone their middle name since 2011. The set has since been unplugged. It still hums.
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Important: goolz are not ghouls. Ghouls are a separate matter and outside the scope of this society.