Posted on 02/02/2015 11:35:42 AM PST by BenLurkin
A recent story in Cryptozoology News caught my eye because it referred to a creature I had never heard of before. A woman in Mississippi claimed that in 2013 she saw a large creature with wings that scared her dogs and reminded her of the stories her grandparents told of a Mothman-like creature they called a Swift Peter.
Marie (no last name) says she saw the creature near Arkabutla Lake in Tate County at around 11 pm on a night when a storm knocked out the electricity. Hearing dogs barking everywhere, she investigated and saw a shadow of something that was large and could fly. She and her mother found a set of 7-toed footprints the next morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at mysteriousuniverse.org ...
Looked that up. Interesting!
Smiling .... we have a *thang* ‘round here....blaming the *Rougarou* for any strange happening.
It was by Sanderson.
It was not cryptozoology, but a legitimate book on mammals He was apparently an actual zoologist or naturalist of some sort.
I don't know I'd he just went nutty or the lonnytune books just sold better. Maybe a combination of both.
From what I understand, he started out as a serious scientist, but toward his later years he gained a lot of fame from this kind of thing. It always seemed he believed what he was writing.
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