Sunday, August 20, 2006
Boston Globe: 'Hybrid mutant' found dead in Maine
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...
Looked like Christiane Amanpour to me.
Looks like an really ugly dog to me. It is possible that it is a wolf-dog or coyote-dog hybrid also, but could simply be a plain old dog.
I've seen even uglier.
I have two posts up about the story. This one has a link to a thread at the Bigfoot Forums on the subject. Last I checked the consensus was that the animal is either a chow, or has chow in him. Note the dark blue lips, characteristic of the breed.
Here is Loren Coleman's version of the story (which corrects a few "errors" in the published version), along with comments on his post.
Thanks for those links. I'm going with El Chupacabra.
Hopefully there's enough material left for someone to get a DNA sample and confirm.
Not dissimilar to Howard Dean, not entirely, though Dean's fangs are less visible, while more pronounced.
Oh stop that! Howard Dean is a good man, and was a good governor.
Oh, ok, I suppose you're right, it was strictly an attempt at some dark, quirky humor, no more than that.
I happen to know the thing screamed "YAAAARRRRGGGGG!" just before it died.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Yep, solid forensic evidence. At least as solid as any al-Reuter's photograph.
Another one of Marielle's dreams.