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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Is that Lon Chaney?
Is that another photo? If so, I concur. That is some sort of canine, wolf, hybrid, coyote, dog, something.
susie
Killer shrew my butt, that's a werewolf. Must have been hit by a Silverado.
Hmmmm....maybe Lupin was behind the wheel of that car. ;-)
A wolf and a chimp? The eyes look like they're in the wrong position for a wolf or dog. The teeth look simian, from the picture. Where is dr. Moreau?
It doesn't look Bluish..
It looks like the infamous el chupacabra
Chow & Akita Mix
http://daypainter.com/images/2006/2006_0407_laying-200.jpg
"Yes, my Skeleton.. they have killed the Hybrid Mutant!"
"Maine?? I've always hated Maine! You're all fired!"
Who wants to bet someone will claim it's werewolf?? They'll do a whole T.V. special on it too.
A generation is 25 years, so you do the math. 12 - 13 is getting up there for a dog that size, so he was probably into his declining years and slowing down, which would explain why he got hit.
Personally I think it looks more like a chow-coyote mix than a wolf mix.
LMAO.
no, its face is not very canine.
that looks like it.
I sthat the lost skeleton of Cadavra?
My little cocker spaniel weighs 42 lbs, so 40-50 lbs isn't that big at all.
I saw a hybrid thing a few months ago near my home in South Carolina, still not sure what I saw exactly. As I rounded a curve and down a hill there was an animal just to the left of the yellow line. It was sitting on its haunches like you'd expect a squirrel to sit. As I came down the hill, in broad daylight with a cloudless sky, I thought "that's a squirrel, nope a cat, nope a squirrel." It's hard to describe the animal I saw. It wasn't a squirrel, rat, cat or racoon. I grew up here when this was still country, and this particular animal I'd never seen or heard of before.
We're always discovering the yet undiscovered plant/animal life. It's not unlikely that some of these new discoveries are right under our noses and we don't recognize them.
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