Mystery Animal killed in Maine
August 16, 2006
It wasn’t that long ago we had a mystery animal of our own here in North Carolina. ( Original Post   Follow Up ) The Black Bear Blog has the story of the creature that looks like could of come out of a Stephen King novel.
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The local paper Sun Journal Story on the CreatureÂ
The world leading crypto zoologist, Loren Coleman has a lot of the information on his blog Cryptomundo and well worth reviewing if you have an intrest in this creature. He has been following this story for some time here is a link to stories about this creature from back in 2005.
Whatever it is it is certainly a weird looking creature. I suspect it’s some type of Coyote-Wolf-Dog hybrid. I’m some what surprised that Maine Wildlife showed no interest in figuring out what it is. Be interesting to see if they come up with an identification.Â
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Totally scary!!!!!!
The Sun Journal has taken their story down it seems so here is the Bagor Daily story:
Mysterious beast found dead along power lines
Thursday, August 17, 2006 – Bangor Daily News
An animal found dead along the power lines in the western Maine town of Turner over the weekend may be the mystery creature that has roamed the area for years, mauling dogs and frightening residents.
Or it could be a dog that has been running wild in the woods.
It depends on who you ask.
The animal was found along Route 4 on Saturday after neighbors say it was struck by a car while chasing a cat across the street. The carcass was photographed and inspected by several people who live in the area, but nobody seems to know what it might be.
“This is something I’ve never seen before,” said Mike O’Donnell, who lives near the area where the creature was found. “It’s an evil looking thing. It looks like half-rodent, half-dog.”
The animal was described as charcoal gray and weighing between 40 and 50 pounds. It had a bushy tail, an extremely short snout and short ears. There were also curled fangs hanging over the lips.
Wildlife officials and animal control officers told about the find 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.
But Loren Coleman, considered by some to be the leading cryptozoologist in the world, said one thing is clear: the creature found in Turner is not likely somebody’s pet. Cryptozoologists study animals that science does not recognize as existing.
“It may be a hybrid between a dog and a wolf,” Coleman said after reviewing photos of the animal.
Since 1991, residents across Androscoggin County have reported seeing and hearing a beast that defies classical description. Theories have ranged from a fisher, a coy dog, a hyena or a dingo to more fanciful ideas: some believe the local creature is Maine’s own Chupacabra, a legendary predator in the American southwest and Mexico.
In 2004, the enigmatic animal in Maine was blamed for attacking and killing a 16-year-old Doberman pinscher in Wales. Last year, it was a suspect when a Rottweiler was mauled in Greene. Others have reported seeing it or hearing the creature’s screams in the night.
Witnesses have said that the animal had eyes that glowed in the night. Others reported a high scream that chilled them. One woman considered moving out of her Litchfield home after hearing the animal’s monstrous cry one night in 1991.
Whether the creature found dead in Turner this weekend is the same one that spurred those legends could not be verified, though the descriptions of the animal were consistent with past accounts.
Michelle O’Donnell said she spotted the animal near her yard roughly a week before the carcass was discovered.
“It was evil, evil looking. And it had a horrible stench I will never forget,” she said. “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.”
Down the road, Kenny Buck said his cat was chased by the creature. The cat was found dead near Route 4 a day before the bigger, meaner beast was discovered.
“That’s no dog,” he said of the dead animal found near his property.
Dana Johnson, a professional trapper known as “The Creature Catcher,” examined the photographs Tuesday night. His guess: a black coyote with abnormal features.
The neighbors who found the animal called a Maine game warden who told them he could not drive from Poland to Turner to inspect the remains. The warden told them it was probably a coyote and told them to research it online. They were advised to call Central Maine Power Co. to haul the carcass away, since it was found near the power lines.
Michelle O’Donnell said she researched the Internet extensively and could not identify the animal that way. She and her husband said they were more interested in finding out what it is than having it hauled away in haste.
“We’ve been hearing stories about this thing for years – about this thing that’s been attacking, shredding and eating other animals,” said Mike O’Donnell. “This is something that’s not supposed to be out there.”
Coleman, the cryptozoologist who has been studying wildlife for 46 years and who has written 27 books on the subject, said he was bothered by the ears and the snout of the creature found in Turner. It reminded him of a case years ago in northern Maine in which an animal shot by a hunter could not be identified.
So perplexing was that case, wildlife officials sent away for DNA analysis. In the end, it was declared a rare wolf-dog hybrid.
Since the attack that killed the Doberman in 2004 in Wales, several people from Litchfield, Sabattus, Greene, Turner, Lewiston and Auburn have come forward to speak of a mystery monster that roams the woods. Skeptics have insisted the creature is probably a coy dog, a fisher or a wolf. Those who have seen it insist that it is none of the above.
“It looked,” said Mike O’Donnell, “like something out of a Stephen King story.”
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=138881
It is probably a mix between a chow and a pitbull. Which would make it a anusorus…
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This is a vey interesting looking animal. And i was wondering if anyone knew if it had a gender? Because if it was in fact of the female gender than what is there to say that it hasn’t mated with something else and had babies who look just like it? But then again if it was a male that it too could have mated with an animal and made other things like this. And did anyone think to check in the area for infants/babies? If not this may not be the end. But to me it looks like the wolf man…..a mans face on a cats body……but thats just my imagineation.
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are you freaking retarded!? it’s a mixed breed dog! you shot a harmless dog! get better eye sight..
Hi Emily,
Thanks for stopping by the blog. It appears you missed the part of the story that says that this dog creature was hit by a car I’m not sure why you think someone shot it.
-Moose-
i don’t know why people hurt animals
i don’t know why people hurt animals
omg its actually a wolf or a dog with rabies probobly. its pretty cute!
It’s a chow or a mixed breed with chow in it. Even if it was terrorizing the local area, it is not unknown for dogs to become wild…especially abandon. I can’t understand for the life of me why anyone would question what type of animal it is. For that matter, I believe that the people of Androscoggin County, Maine need to get a life and stop examining the local roadkill.
I research myths and I have never heard or seen an animal like this, it amazes me. The animal’s eyes seem to show the creepiest to me. But it could just be I’ve never seen a dead animal but those eyes aren’t normal. For a dog or a coyotte. It could be a mutation of a two mixed breeds making shorter snout and ears the rest of the body seems preety normal.Dogs have a litter of pups so it could be one of a litter.
Its a chow mix shepherd dog.
Poor little guy..
My dog looks like that only brown
I saw these photos on a cryptid documentary and interviews with certain people researching it’s origins. DNA testing showed it to be just a regular old dog.