'TURNER, Maine (Aug. 17) - 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 mysterious dead animal was found on Saturday. It was apparently struck by a car while chasing a cat.




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. source

Stephen King indeed

I get that ALL THE TIME......and as far as I know, there have been NO stories written about me....unless you count that police blotter, but I can explain that.....oh, never mind.

The description sounds an awful lot like shaven wolf. But I dunno. Weird.

What a fuss over nothing, that animal is a poor old chow dog, probably abandoned and turned feral. Nothing alien, otherworldly, or odd about it, just rather sad.

Wasn't this posted before. I remember saying that it looked a dog and I still think so. Just a stray dog.

I have to admit, it does just look like a dog to me...

Nope, can't be...it's a beast....it MUST be.....it has EYEWITNESSES!!!!!!!

congrats! this is the 4th thread on this Ive found!

This is where I first saw it. My reply is the same as what I posted here.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...showtopic=76477

http://feeds.bostonnews.net/?rid=837384a9f...055112e&f=1

This article has a picture of the Beast.

Midgetcorrupter Out

Yeah, I think that people saw the "article" and just ran-with-it.....it will all probably get merged.

This is about that black chow looking thing again? Good grief. This must be huge news in Maine....

Looks like a feral dog to e...

LOL! Yeah well... we have to have something to amuse ourselves with.

it's looks like a dog, so perhaps IT IS A DOG!!!!