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MYSTERY CREATURE in Maine

 
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MYSTERY CREATURE in Maine
Mystery Creature in Maine

August 16, 2006

TURNER, Maine --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.

Wildlife officials and animal control officers declined to go to Turner to examine the remains. By Tuesday, the carcass had been picked clean by vultures and there was not much left of the dead animal.

Loren Coleman, a Portland author and cryptozoologist, said it's unlikely that the animal was anybody's pet.

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.

It was charcoal gray, weighed between 40 and 50 pounds and had a bushy tail, a short snout, short ears and curled fangs hanging over its lips, he said. It looked like "something out of a Stephen King story."

"This is something I've never seen before. It's an evil-looking thing," he said.




picture here..

[link to www.boston.com]
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Re: MYSTERY CREATURE in Maine
..short snout..short ears..eyes set high on head and forward...bear-wolf?
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Re: MYSTERY CREATURE in Maine
northern Maine is the least populated area east of the missipi
I've seen most of this country , wilder than most of Wyoming
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Aren't there reputed to be a lot of Republicans in Maine?
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But WHATS with the human like looking eyes, and why was my last post here stating similar lines reoved?
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[link to www.marklaflamme.com]
another pic
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so it's blue chow chow then??
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..short snout..short ears..eyes set high on head and forward...bear-wolf?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1186


No, you fool... it's man-bear-pig!
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The eyes are very human looking?!

Almost reminds me of that
creature that hides in the grass
in the movie Lady in the Water.
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Actually, don´t laugh when someone calls this thing a bear-wolf. There actually were such things as bear-dogs, they are a prehistoric species also called an amphicyonid.

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]

This Maine beast could have been one of the last survivors of its kind, holding out far into the woods. They became supposedly extinct millions of years ago because wolves were faster than them, and bears were stronger. The time is right for something like this, with the killing capacity of most of a bear and the speed and size of a large dog, to come back into evolutionary play. Imagine if they did that? Wow.


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With climate change we are going to continue to see animals we didn't know existed or thought were extinct.
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This Maine beast could have been one of the last survivors of its kind, holding out far into the woods. They became supposedly extinct millions of years ago because wolves were faster than them, and bears were stronger. blink
 Quoting: Yaxnahchan




Remember the Coelecanth ?

Thought extinct for millions of years by experts,it turned out to have been part of the staple diet of islanders living close to Madagascar.


Experts know shit.



lmao
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I'm super serial!!!!
Why won't anyone listen to me?!

That is man-bear-pig!!!
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I think it is a feral chow.
Those things are mean nasty when they are somebody's pet, if one went feral it would be a force to be reckoned with.

At least its dead

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That things has been roaming aroung for 15 years?

So that means its been reproducing too.

No way that's a wolf-dog hybrid.

AC's right. Looks like it's some kind of deranged porker.

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THAT one is dead...

Ponder the thought that this creature is not a mutant but simply one of a pack that wandered too close to humanity.

Cryptozologists look for creatures like this all the time...

and they find them.

We have no idea what is roaming around the unexplored corners of our planet.
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Who said anything about some fake 'gawd'?
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come on! This is a hybrid.....not something from God. spock
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It's from WalMart.
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Looks like a chow mix to me.
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I keep thinking things like this could be evolution in the process.

Like the chupakabra these could be creatures that have evolved under our noses to survive in the new human environment.

We are killing off species by the shitload, I dont think its too far fetched to think that new species are popping up in the wake of the old, just species that can survive in the harsher environment of human destruction.

This beastie looks hardy enough, mean looking fucker.
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i remember maybe about a year ago there was that other series of similar sightings and discoveries of these dog-like 'chupacabras' that people were reporting.

seemed to be from farther down south and the ones found or shot dead there looked very similar in body structure to that above photo.

difference being that the previous ones displayed more overt signs of mange but they and the above look very much like african hyenas even in stature to my eyes.

that snout and overall profile of the above looks too similar to ignore. maybe the above one is a juvenile one that has yet to turn mangy and hairless.

i also distinctly remember people making observations of that particular rotting odour of the animals too. but then again all large mammals do have very unpleasant odours.

i'm sure people who know bear country can relate.
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from the op's referenced article link:

"The animal has been blamed for attacking and killing a Doberman pinscher and a Rottweiler the past couple of years."


holy crap.

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i remember maybe about a year ago there was that other series of similar sightings and discoveries of these dog-like 'chupacabras' that people were reporting.

seemed to be from farther down south and the ones found or shot dead there looked very similar in body structure to that above photo.

difference being that the previous ones displayed more overt signs of mange but they and the above look very much like african hyenas even in stature to my eyes.

that snout and overall profile of the above looks too similar to ignore. maybe the above one is a juvenile one that has yet to turn mangy and hairless.

i also distinctly remember people making observations of that particular rotting odour of the animals too. but then again all large mammals do have very unpleasant odours.

i'm sure people who know bear country can relate.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 131843

Thats what I thought, this isnt the first time something like this has been reported, even photographed.

I get the impression too that sightings are becoming more common.

I really think this is something new, not a living fossil.
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Go back in history and there have always been sightings of malevolent creatures.

The gargoyle was one of these representations.
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The OP makes this sound like a well-publicised mystery here in Maine. This is the first I've heard of it and I live near the area. The picture looks just like any mangy Chow that you would see in any backyard here in Maine. No mystery to me. They are long-haired mangy-looking dogs anyway. Some can get to be very big. If they are not cared for and washed like most domestic animals are by caring owners, they can be fearsome looking just like the picture of this "dog". It is common to see dogs roaming here in Maine where there is sometimes 50 miles between houses in some areas. Like I said, no mystery here.
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Go back in history and there have always been sightings of malevolent creatures.

The gargoyle was one of these representations.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 132223

Not to mention the Jersey devil, but creatures like that tended to be one off sightings.

Not repeated and growing like the chupacabra and this pig-man-bear thingy.

Who knows, just speculation on my part.
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Any world of warcraft player lvl 55 or above should know what that is!! Its a demon hyena :). They can be banished or enslaved by a warlock.
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It's good speculation too Humanoid.

Yeti, Bigfoot....maybe the veil thins and stuff walks through. Or maybe these things are always around us but we don't always perceive them.

There's so much we don't know and so much our physical senses don't perceive.
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I think this thread deserves a good X-Files quote...

"You know they say three species disappear off the planet every day. You wonder how many new ones are being created?" -- Special Agent Fox Mulder
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maybe they're comin up and out of the inner Earth!

angry monster monster monster

my kitties will fight em. no worries.

me on the other hand ahhh





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