Posted on 08/16/2006 5:35:23 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
(08-16) 13:55 PDT Turner, Maine (AP) --
Residents are wondering if an animal found dead over the weekend may be the mysterious creature that has mauled dogs, frightened residents and been the subject of local legend for half a generation.
The animal was found near power lines along Route 4 on Saturday, apparently struck by a car while chasing a cat. The carcass was photographed and inspected by several people who live in the area, but nobody is sure exactly what it is.
Michelle O'Donnell of Turner spotted the animal near her yard about a week before it was killed. She called it a "hybrid mutant of something."
"It was evil, evil looking. And it had a horrible stench I will never forget," she told the Sun Journal of Lewiston. "We locked eyes for a few seconds and then it took off. I've lived in Maine my whole life and I've never seen anything like it."
For the past 15 years, residents across Androscoggin County have reported seeing and hearing a mysterious animal with chilling monstrous cries and eyes that glow in the night. The animal has been blamed for attacking and killing a Doberman pinscher and a Rottweiler the past couple of years.
People from Litchfield, Sabattus, Greene, Turner, Lewiston and Auburn have come forward to speak of a mystery monster that roams the woods. Nobody knows for sure what it is, and theories have ranged from a hyena or dingo to a fisher or coydog, an offspring of a coyote and a wild dog.
Now, people are asking if the mystery beast and the animal killed over the weekend are one and the same...
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There are a few of them in Wyoming. They prey on Jackalopes. Actually saw a chupacabra (sp?) when my son and I went to Wyoming for a Jackalope hunt.
The only thing that looks odd to me are the eyes.
They're not sunk in the socket like a dog's but actually pertrude from the socket.
Gore does have teeth. They are at home in a glass of water.
Helen Thomas is dead?
Can I vote hoax? You certainly may, and I second the motion.
True, but this appears to be the offspring of a gray marriage.
Aha! Osama Bin Laden without his disguise. No wonder he is so comfortable living in rat holes.
"It's a dog and a lot of dumb people"
We have a winner!!
"weird how the eyes bulge out like that"
If you got hit by a car, I bet your eyes would bug out too.
Looks like the werewolf in the Stephen King movie "Silver Bullet"
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Please keep your weird sexual attractions to yourself.
I wonder if there is an empty grave in the Pet Sematary....
"If you got hit by a car, I bet your eyes would bug out too."
My eyes would bug out too. And I wouldn't have on clean underwear anymore either.
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Androscoggin County
With a name like that, the county's bound to have some strange critters in it...And don't forget, it didn't drop out of the sky...It's got to have a mommy and daddy there somewhere...
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