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'Hybrid Mutant' Found Dead in Maine {REAL MONSTER Alert!]
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/16/06 | AP

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: artbell; caerbannog; callingartbell; chupacabra; cryptozoology; fortean; howbigwasthefoot; maine; monster; scuzzlebutt; thekillerrabbit; weirdness; wernotaloooonnne
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To: mware

It sort of looks like Lon Cheney....you know the werewolf.


21 posted on 08/16/2006 5:42:02 PM PDT by Dog
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To: TFFKAMM; Flyer; technochick99; sinkspur; 88keys; DugwayDuke; sissyjane; Severa; RMDupree; ecurbh; ..
Interesting ping:

Ping!


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So this dead monster in Maine is being reported out of San Francisco?

hhhhmmmm. Can we have a little more local source? Maybe some video that at present is at least a little harder to fake than a photo? :~)

22 posted on 08/16/2006 5:42:58 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Head On. Apply directly to the forehead!)
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To: TFFKAMM

It's a dog. But it's face looks eerily human.


23 posted on 08/16/2006 5:43:06 PM PDT by Battleofbritain (")
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To: Battleofbritain

It isn't from my species..


24 posted on 08/16/2006 5:43:43 PM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog
After reviewing photos of the carcass, Coleman said he was bothered by the animal's ears and snout. It reminded him of a case years ago in northern Maine in which an animal shot by a hunter could not be identified. In the end, wildlife officials got a DNA analysis that showed the animal was a rare wolf-dog hybrid, he said.

Mike O'Donnell, who is married to Michelle O'Donnell, said the animal looked "half-rodent, half-dog" to him.

25 posted on 08/16/2006 5:43:43 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: TFFKAMM

26 posted on 08/16/2006 5:43:48 PM PDT by Dallas59 (I HAVE A TRACFONE!!!)
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To: TFFKAMM

Reminds me of the Indian Devil of Danforth in the 1940's. Aye-yuh.


27 posted on 08/16/2006 5:44:05 PM PDT by ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire.)
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To: TFFKAMM

It's a dog and a lot of dumb people.


28 posted on 08/16/2006 5:44:24 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: TFFKAMM

A Tasmanian Devil would explain the "chilling monstrous cries", but a photo comparison now makes me think it's some sort of dog. The dead "monster" looks more canine, and the Tasmanian Devil looks more ratlike. My first reaction to seeing the dead "monster" was "Tasmanian Devil", but after looking at a real one, I think the "monster" in question is some sort of dog.

29 posted on 08/16/2006 5:44:45 PM PDT by wimpycat (Hyperbole is the opiate of the activist wacko.)
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To: ketelone

bump


30 posted on 08/16/2006 5:45:07 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: TFFKAMM

"Mr. King, Mr. Stephen King, please call your agent."


31 posted on 08/16/2006 5:45:09 PM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody was going to say it...why not me?)
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To: pissant
It siad it was between 40 and 50 pounds. A Rottweiler would eat it alive, as would my 20 lb tom cat.

Ah, where is a good 60 - 70 lb Pit when ya need one?

32 posted on 08/16/2006 5:45:36 PM PDT by LasVegasMac (Islam........not fit for human consumption.)
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To: mware

That was my first thought- what kind of teeth are they? Very unusual for a dog.


33 posted on 08/16/2006 5:46:08 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-pray for Israel))
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To: RichInOC

LOL


34 posted on 08/16/2006 5:46:13 PM PDT by right-wingin_It
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To: TFFKAMM

Sure it ain't Teddy Kenneddy??


35 posted on 08/16/2006 5:46:31 PM PDT by KenmcG414
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To: LasVegasMac

All OVER my neighborhood...they are the new status symbol for young men around here.


36 posted on 08/16/2006 5:47:30 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-pray for Israel))
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37 posted on 08/16/2006 5:47:38 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Dog
Perhaps it is a killer shrew.

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38 posted on 08/16/2006 5:47:57 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: cmsgop
Yep. Looks like a chow, dark gums and all. Too bad the tongue isn't showing.

These people apparently don't get out much.

Doesn't look "half a generation old" though.

39 posted on 08/16/2006 5:48:27 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: mware

That's him..


40 posted on 08/16/2006 5:48:30 PM PDT by Dog
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