[jonascord]

In Orlando, FL, back in the '70s, there are dozens of water filled sink holes in neighborhoods. A snowbird retiree took to feeding a gator in one of them, throwing it a chicken every week or so.
She died, naturally.
Cats and small dogs started vanishing in the area... Lake Placid, writ small. You have to wonder if the idea for the script came from this.

[Oatka]

A snowbird retiree took to feeding a gator in one of them, throwing it a chicken every week or so.
She died, naturally.
Cats and small dogs started vanishing in the area... Lake Placid, writ small.

Twenty years ago I live in the Elgin, FL Panhandle area - lots of swampy areas with housing tracts sprinkled in between. Some state agent, I think, killed a gator and opened him up. Found a half dozen dog tags.