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Time: 11:30pm
Last night, my sister was sitting on the steps, that are right in front of the front door going into my house, and all of a sudden, she saw a shape of a creature in the neighbor's yard across the street. The creature was left of a big tree in my neighbor's yard, crossed behind that (my sister saw it's shadow), and crossed the street, though it wanted to keep distance, and stay close to my sister, and her cat, O'Malley, who, being scared of the creature, came to her, somewhat. When it came behind the bushes that separated the driveway from the sideyard, she ran inside with O'Malley on her arm. Here's my sister's description of the beast:

• angular face, though not starved-looking
• 2.5-3 feet long, easily doubled O'Malley's size
• short fur
• had a tail, with fur on the tail
• dark colors, that had a blended look to them
• ****had a 10" hump on it's back, just after it's neck ended*****
• couldn't tell it had a hump from head on
• cat-like appreance from head on
• no glowy eyes (you know how cat's have glowy eyes when it's dark? this didn't, suggesting it's not normally noctornal)

the thing that caught my sister's eye the most was it's hump, that's very big, at least 10" and she could barely keep her eyes off it.

Here are some pictures, some that I took of a piece of paper where my sister drew a map, and the creature's movements, some other ones are of the places in which my sister described, in real life.
You can find the picture of the map as an attachment, to see the other ones your going to have to email me for them, at aceofethel@gmail.com

Thanks,
Vicky

Sounds like a large opossum.

It's not, I looked on the Internet for pictures of Opossums and foxs, and none looked like what my sister saw. But thanks for the post!

That's not really enough information for me, but if I were you I'd keep doing some research just to be on the safe side. Could be some wild animal on the loose for all you know

where do you live?

what country? or state?

sounds weird, maybe a animal, putting it's back up?

Did your sister say anything about its walking posture? Because if it looked like it was walking really fast, then it would have been a fox. If it was hoping, a rabbit. If it was wobbling from side to side an opossum. If the walking posture was unusually strange, then I don't know what it is.

My sister said that it was walking just like a cat would, it was like a cat, except double it's size, and had that hump.

I live in Masachusetts, in the United States of America

Sounds interesting sorry have not a clue to what it is though!

And what is this 'hump' you speak of? If it was walked the way of a cat, it would mean that it was a young bear.

The hump? She compared to that of Quasi Modo's, in The Hunchback of Notre Dome. Its a round thing, protruding from where the neck ends

a raccoon, perhaps?

or what if it was a kind of animal carrying a baby on its back? that's a possibility, i suppose.

or maybe a dog?

I would have to go with the theory that it is a deformed young bear.

It is hard to tell what this could be.

Maybe possibly a raccoon or opposum.. and the "hump" on it may have been "it's" baby clinging onto the neck area?

Could be a young black bear, a feral dog, etc.

Sounds like a possom with its baby on its back(the hump)

Well, opossums don't get any bigger than a chiwawa.

Raccoons are 2-3x as big as cats, forage at night, inhabit suburban and rural areas, and walk with a hunched appearance.

I'm with boorite on this one. Sounds like a raccoon.

Or opossum, except the OP said hairy tail. Opossums can get quite a bit larger than a chihuahua. We've a resident opossum that it about 2 feet long.

A raccoon has easily spotted nightshine and everybody knows what a raccoon looks like.

Can you have your sister look at some images of a muskrat or nutria? Either of them sound similiar to what your sister saw. Nutrias, in particuliar, look pretty strange. Kind of like a beaver but without the big flat tail.

Ditto. I agree as well.

What was its color? if it was brownish or reddish im gonna put my money on a hyena, i know it sounds strange but hyenas have the angular face and hump that were first described, and hyenas also have the bushy tail thing going. and what with their being a cousin of the cat family, its catlike movements might also be described as a hyena. im specifically speaking of a spotted hyena.

if you doubt me then consider the case of The beast of Gevudaun (did i spell that right?) in which hundreds of people were killed by a canine-like creature in 16th century france. the beast is now widley considered to be a spotted or stripped hyena.

so considering the presence of a supposed killer hyena in france, i wouldnt be suprised to see one in the states (you do live in the states right I Beleive 12?)

but im not saying that the creature in question had the intention to kill like the beast of Gevudaun did. but its behaviour does sound like it was stalking your sister, in a circular formation around your sister, getting closer and closer, trying to stay out of sight behind trees and bushes, i might say that it had vicious intentions, but hey, i wasnt there so what can i realy say and expect anyone to take my theory seriously?

I think I've solved this mystery! Sound to me like it was A BAT!
Possibly a fruit bat!
STOP, THINK LISTEN.

Porcupine maybe?

A 3-foot-long fruit bat? Christ on a bike! Do you live next to Chernobyl?

What would a bat be doing crawling around on the ground? and what possible interest would it have in I beleive's sister?

I Beleive 12 said that O'Mally was discomforted by the creature, i dont think that a possum or racoon would do nothing but arouse the cats interests, but from waht i can tell from the descripsion, O'Mally saounded rather scared of the thing, which would suggest a larger predatory animal, such as the hyena that i previously suggested

Raccoons kill cats all the time. Cats that fail to be "discomforted" by raccoons are in short supply, as they tend not to live long enough to pass on their non-raccoon-fearing genes.

Or maybe you and vandyke are both right, and it's a hyena-bat.

My vote's on a pterodactyl.

This sound like uninformed nonsense! Is this petty fogging?
NO doubt you will CLAIM the evidence as unimportant terminological inexactitudes.

The animal described was clearly a FRUIT BAT!

I will tolerate insubordination of Science!

Could have been your average, run-of-the-mill LYNX. Imagine that thing when it's feeling threatened...the fir on its back standing straight up on end would look like a large hump.

RUBBISH!! Does a Lynx have BAT-LIKE WINGS!!?!!

Uuuhhhh... when were wings ever mentioned? dude, your making up facts again like in that werewolf post (I will expect to see you there Vandyke so we may butt heads some more, no more will be said about our argument there, what is discussed there stays there)

but ok, im willing to drop my hyena theory for the obvious reason of this happening in Mass. U.S.A. i just thought it might have been a possibility, considering the Gevudaun incident. it might have been a racoon, but F.Y.I. my cat kills racoons all the time, and its just half their size, i must have one psycho cat

and hey people, i wouldnt take Vandyke seriously, he takes the first halfbaked theory that comes into his head and pronounces it, calling anyone who disagrees an idiot/moron, acts like some college know it all prof. and tries to closemindedly crush your theory with every pathetic ounce of twisted reasoning he has. along with making up smart-sounding-but-meaning-nothing words all the way.

he says "I might as well kill myself seeing as the science i beleive in is apparently dead" on another post. he uses "science" alot

In suburban Massachusetts, Lynx are about as "run of the mill" as hyenas.

It's a raccoon!

And vandyke is some hitherto unknown species of Canadian Colonel Sanders.

Hey, i dropped the hyena theory, lay off, i just saw it as a very slight possibilty, stranger things have shown up in the states, wild kangaroos for instance.

It could've been a cat. A weird one, like one that had been beaten or something. Idk...

Why such resistance against the raccoon hypothesis? The report is consistent with it in every way.

I'd say if it wasn't a lynx it was a racoon.

Ah yes, I can see where the error lies concerning the BAT-LIKE WINGS.
Look's like we're both RIGHT!

I still say this creature was nothing more than a fruit bat. What do you think it is?
A JUVENILE WEREWOLF?

Claptrap AND monkey drivile!

YES!

I'll tell you why sir! Because your raccoon hypothesis is claptrap!
Hypothesis indeed! How dare you mock science!
Yours is only a guess and not very good one at that!

Feral kangaroos, technically, I think.

Aside: vandyke has huge batlike wings.

I adopted a cat that had become a member of a raccoon family, the cat wouldn't approach me unless the raccoons were there too. I finally captured the cat, as he would NEVER be a raccoon, though he wanted to be one, and he became the love of my life (sad I know, but we can't always choose the love of our life). So not all raccoons eat cats. (I was initially afraid for him when I saw the family and the cat together, but things worked out okay between them, except for some abuse from the oldest male raccoon child )

And vandyke makes me laugh. He's so outrageous! How can anyone take him seriously? I think he's trying to get a reaction, and boy, has he succeeded!

This is my 300th post!!!!

Yeah, I'd never suggest that all raccoons are cat killers. And this kitty "imprinted" on the raccoons apparently at an extremely young age. Otherwise, it would probably be afraid of raccoons... then again, I've had cats that would try to make friends with anything.

vandyke is obviously a nocturnal marsupial with lemur-like morphological traits.

My cat would try to take down a freaking dear if it could, it hasnt lost aginst a coon yet, it doesnt kill them but hes still alive isnt he? i dont advocate my cats violent tendencies, he just escapes into our back woods and comes back i the morning looking like he got attacked by a mower, ive heard him fighting coons and opposums before, you dont mess with my cat dude, hes a hardass.

Weirdo anybody notice he said he will tolerate it




Heh heh



your wrong it was you


your fruitbat hypothesys is ***ptrap

duh

i think it was a wild cat becuse them things get big trust me....or it was a cat like mine which hates every other animal even cats except humans .. the little devil

i'm thinking it was the new 'bat-a-cabra' that just escaped from the KBR lab last week !?

I seriously doubt it would be an opossum. An opossum is the only marsupial native to the USA and carries it's babies in its pouch like a kangaroo.
It is possible it was a bob cat, as there are bob cats in Massachusetts and the hair on it's neck was standing up from it being anxious or startled by something. Housecats fur puffs up like that when they are scared or startled. Otherwise I don't have any other ideas what it could be.

Camelmaybe it was a camel

I'm thinking it was a cougar. Maybe deformed, maybe not. But that best fits the description.

I think it could have been just about any animal... but that something was probably wrong with it. Like it could have had a large tumor.