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The explanation did not sit well with the townspeople who had been terrorized by the thing for weeks and claimed they had actually seen it on the wing. Our scholarly conclusion is that three or more large black cats with ”growths of thick, matted fur” and vampire-bat-type fangs visited Ontario in 1966. One of these days some of their relatives may come back.
FIVE THE INCOMPREHENSIBLES A knot of students and teachers gathered on the snow-covered lawns of the campus of Cornell University in New York State early one winter morning about eight decades ago. Spread out before them in the freshly fallen snow was a long line of large, deep animal tracks. ”My God!” the professors cried in unison. ”It's a rhinoceros!” They cautiously followed the huge imprints across the campus to the edge of Beebee Lake, the local reservoir, which was frozen over at the time. The tracks continued on across the ice until they ended in a gaping hole. The professors stared at each other in amazement. Obviously a renegade rhinoceros had blundered onto the quiet campus during the night and had blindly charged across the ice, meeting its doom in the college reservoir! Everyone stopped drinking the tap water while hooks were lowered into the lake to probe for the luckless rhino. Years later, humorist H. Allen Smith finally let the rhino out of the bag in his book The Compleat Practical Joker. A young man named Hugh Troy had taken a wastepaper basket fashioned out of a rhino's foot (similar to the old elephant foot umbrella stands), filled it with scrap metal to weigh it down, and tied two long ropes to it. Then he and friends had stayed up all night, manipulating the foot from a distance with the ropes, raising and lowering it into the fresh snow. They carefully planted rhino footprints at proper intervals all over the campus, their own footprints falling some distance away. The hole in the ice was a final stroke of genius, you must admit. Those of us who chase Unbelievables are always haunted by the realization that Hugh Troy is still out there somewhere. But very few of our monsters can be explained as the work of industrious practical jokers. Since such wits derive most of their pleasure from the reactions of their victims and the resultant publicity, it is highly unlikely that they would bother to plant their prankish footprints in remote, seldom-visited areas where they are not apt to be discovered. Nor would any sensible joker risk repeating his gag night after night, week after week in the same area. Was a practical joker on the loose in Australia back in 1890? A huge animal thirty feet long instituted a brief reign of terror around the village of Euroe that year. It left behind gigantic footprints to confirm its awesome size. Forty men turned out with nets and guns and made repeated attempts to trap the animal. But, like Alice's Cheshire cat, our Incomprehensibles seem to melt away leaving only a whimsical smile. A Mr. Hoad of Adelaide, Australia, however, reportedly did find the body of one of our Incomprehensibles in September 1883. It was described as having a headless, pig-like body, with an appendage that looked like a lobster's tail. A few months earlier another unknown caused great excitement in Masterton, New Zealand. People who saw it said that it was very large, with a broad muzzle, short legs and curly hair. It killed dogs. Australia has long been haunted by a giant cat-like creature which has killed many sheep and frightened hundreds of people. Even though it is reportedly the size of a leopard and leaves behind big footprints, no one has been able to catch it or shoot it – with one exception. A man named George Sumner said that he shot one near Katanning back in 1905. It had gray and black stripes and a cat-like head. ”I feel sure it was not a domestic cat gone wild,” he reported. ”Like a fool, I did not remove the skin and send it to a museum.” Another Australian, R. F. Brown, claimed that he caught one of the cats in a net but after a five minute battle the fifty-to-sixty pound beast got away. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Simms were camping in Queensland, Australia, on June 5, 1957, when one of these big cats terrified their dog. ”It looked rather like a leopard,” Mrs. Simms said. ”It was too big for a domestic or wild cat, more the size of a dog. Only it had short legs, pricked, pointed ears, and a long tail. My husband estimated its length to be approximately five feet from its nose to the tip of its tail.”
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logical. Logic has, alas, played a
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The witness, identified only as Mr.
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TABLE 11.1 UFO Occupant Description
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occasion; creatures with six arms,
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astonished fisherman a small metal
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not to talk about the incident. Whe
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shiny, like metal, in the reflectio
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ut, since he was not wearing his gl
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attacked by something before the ob
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Even though strange lights and myst
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evening and found a man dressed in
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FOURTEEN THE GRINNING MAN A blazing
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UFOlogists. It is certainly startli
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of silver hair. He was over six fee
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FIFTEEN CHERUBS, ANGELS AND GREYS T
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slandering him. By 1991 Mr. Striebe
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SIXTEEN THE BEDROOM INVADERS The ma
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(electromagnetic phenomena?), they
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SEVENTEEN WINGED WEIRDOS There are
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fire-spitting dragon of modern chil
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EIGHTEEN THE MAN-BIRDS Ask yourself
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Mrs. Viola Johnson and Mr. James Pi
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police officer on the night of Satu
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them repeat their story a hundred t
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West Virginia-Ohio region. We carri
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about sixty miles southeast of Midd
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Pleasant. The local citizens were s
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Abominable Swamp Slobs in the neigh
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Dec. 11, 1966 1 adult male, 1 boy T
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well-documented articles on these m
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devices. We have spent millions to
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TWENTY-ONE SCOLIOPHIS ATLANTICUS A
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United States, just south of New Yo
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a short time before. The head was f
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inches around and its back was much
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was taken from the lake and stored
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were amazed to see a huge black som
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in Cornwall, England, in 1949 (outl
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What did they find? You guessed it.
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conditions prevail in ”window”
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Voodoo, Spiritualism, and Black Mag
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generating life. Simple logic. Mayb
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