[silvi]

The Lewiston Maine Sun Journal's website was crashed Friday under the strain of too many people trying to read about the "Monster". "The beast created interest well beyond a typical news story, and the newspaper's web server strained and cracked under the pressure. The servers continued to crash Friday as people around the world tried to read about Turner's version of Bigfoot". Fox News A new type of Eco-terrorism? 1. Take pictures of a deformed, disease-ridden animal. 2. Claim it's a monster that has been eating pets and terrorising the neighborhood 3. Send pictures to the local news people. 4. Sit back and watch the destruction.

[Sore Feet]

Looks like the Gmork from The Neverending Story.

[silvi]

Hey, you're right! Could be a juvenile G'mork!

[silvi]

My first thought was an Affenpinscher cross, with mange and staph infection, but now I think definitely a G'mork! Certainly rates right up there with the Mothman, Owlman, Chupacabra and of course, The Jersey Devil! Brrrrrrrrrrrrr! gives me big goose bumps just thinking about it. Where, oh where, did they get wolf-hybrid?

[Makintrax]

On the East Coast we have some weird stuff. Of course you all have Sasquatch, which I've tried to entice each time I've been out, to no avail My cousin who hiked the whole AT in the late 70's witnessed some dwarfy elf kinda thing with bear like features down in the Smokies. Freaky thing is, he said that others had also made note of it in the log book at the next shelter. Either they were eating the same shrooms or somthing was up Of course, it was "Devliverance" territory! The "dog thing' in ME was in our local apper yesterday. If anything it is intriguing, but we have so many ferral cats and dogs around, who knows if it bred with a wolf or a coyote in ME. Wolves have been spotted not too long ago in ME (I'm still waiting MY turn!)

[silvi]

Makintrax, the difference is Sasquatch is Real The dog thing was, well, just a dog thing. I read a book of Indian legends that had the Carolina dwarf/elf thingy in it. Supposed to be not-nice folks, from what I read.

[Makintrax]

Well hell, I've always been a believer!!! I remember in college I had to do a "persuasive speech" in my public speaking class, and I did on the reality of Sasquatch! Videos and all!!! Yeah, I dunno if I'd want to hike in the Smokies because I think they all play banjos in them parts!

[Dustin07]

I have no idea what on earth you guys are talking about! do you have a pic or link I could see? however.... One time when driving home at 3am from the airport I ran over a monkey in the road.

[Makintrax]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,209073,00.html check it out!

[silvi]

I'm far more comfortable with the thought of Sasquatch, and other "monsters" than with people like John Karr, Kevin Underwood, (the cannibal who was just recently arrested) and William Morva who "liked to talk about going deer hunting so he could one with nature" and shot and killed Montgomery Co. Sheriff's Cpl. Eric Sutphin when he got close to him on a hiking and biking trail near the Virginia Tech Campus. You see, there's monsters, and then there's MONSTERS!.

[silvi]

Dustin, how BIG was this monkey?

[Dustin07]

[silvi]

Well, Dustin, fact IS stranger than fiction! I've never run over a monkey, but I've seen some things I couldn't explain. Yeah, I have no problem with the monkey at all.

[Blue Dome]

An MSNBC story later said a DNA sample showed it was a wolf-dog hybrid. That's good for another thread: should one keep their devil-wolf-dog hybrid on a leash while on the trail?

[Dustin07]

yikes... I don't even want to get started on people who don't use leashes...especially on high-use trails