Has anyone else heard of something called the Gravedigger?

I ran across this strange monster while poking around the Kentucky Bigfoot site. Supposedly, it's a large creature, around seven feet tall, looking like something of a cross between a bat, dog, and kangaroo. It's name comes from it's habit of digging up cemeteries. Witness descriptions can be found here.

I have to admit, I'm rather intrigued. Has anyone else heard of such a thing, or of any other stories, from KY or any other state?

This is certainly a new one to me, especially in the bat/dog/kangaroo mixed breed department. Sounds like someone was watching Discovery Channel about the Outback wildlife while smoking crack. After the show, the person decided to take a walk to the local cemetary at 2 A.M while hallucinating. Maybe not?

Could be a bogaroo?

A ghoul?

Makes sense to me!

That's actually the first thing that popped into my mind, a Lovecraft-style ghoul.

Oddly enough, this reminds me of some of the more common descriptions of El Chupacabra I have run across. Other then the size...and the habit of digging graves and no mention of drinking blood, I would have sworn this thread was talking about our friendly livestock vampire.

Who the hell hangs-out in cemeteries long enough to see these "things" anyway? I think you have to consider the source of the info, first.

In many rural places, there are forgotten cemeteries, overgrown and indistinguishable from the rest of the forest. I knew of at least five different places like this around the neighborhood I grew up in. It's very easy to stumble across such a place while out walking in the forest, and never know.

perhaps El Chupacabra has progressed to human corpses, not getting the same kick from cattle anymore....like dope to crack.

With all due respect, the person/persons who pulled this "monster" outta they're arse had no problem calling it a "gravedigger", so obviously, they knew EXACTLY where they were when they witnessed this.....whateverthehell it's supposed to be.(the pic looks like a monkey-faced beaver with fuzzy chicken-legs and the arms of 80 year-old man)

I want to pet it.

Understandable

A closer reading of the account shows that it wasn't the witness who coined the name. The name was relayed to him by his grandmother.

lol i thought you ment the monster truck....

Nope. Sorry. I haven't heard a monster like that. The drawing is pretty cool.

There a Malaysian mythical creature called the berbalang, whcih looks like a human except for slit eyes and wings (there's the bat connection). It supposedly digs up graves to eat the bodies.

Or it could have been a stoned guy watching another stoned guy digging up a graveyard because he thought it was a good idea.

So, the person who witnessed this monster relayed the story to they're grandmother and the grandmother named it.......so grandma pulled it outta her arse....figures.

Dunno about the Bat aspect. Perhaps a substitution of some sort of mole vs. bat would be more acurate, at least according to this particular drawing.

I am going to have to agree with Omega one this one. I can see the bat portion in this creature, but it does resemble a large mole. Perhaps a new spieces?

That looks like an angry spider monkey crossed with an ostrich, and a pair of arms.

Dude, please...not a good visual.

Actually, it looks kind of like something from a Dr. Seuss book that was H.P. Lovecraftified.

a rabid possum?...

It's Richard Upton Pickman.

We have a winner!!!!

Whoever drew the picture spent a lot of time with the surroundings.. but they drew one really ugly ... bogaroo

just needs somethingggg.....




AHA!

That monster got a scary connection to a figure in a child program I saw once. Looks just like it, exept a litle bit angier.

....And around-the-bend we go.

I wonder if we'll find photographs of the gravedigger in the artist's backroom...

kinda reminds me of the Yeti from that Windows 3.1 game Ski-Free...

my sister?

Could be "the model"...

LOL!!!!....OMG!!! YOU TOTALLY NAILED IT BRO!!!!
Toooooo funny!!

It's a "Wolperdinger"

It's got a red mohawk....a RED mohawk....it also looks like it fell outta of the ugly-tree and hit EVERY branch on the way down.

man, I want a red mohawk.

What? You don't have one? I'm afraid we have nothing further to talk about.

Haha! I DO HAVE a red mohawk once...before they had to told me to dress up more in a courtroom. I guess it's just so hard being a lawyer...

Hey, the gravediggaz' sketch looks like armed furball ! I'd laugh myself to die first upon any encounter with it!!

Just don't show a pair of skis or it will eat you.


So... so far we've ascertained that the Gravedigger is Richard Upton Pickman's sister's furball who also eats skiiers and going by its hairdo listens to "Oi!" punk...


Sounds plausable.

This picture was what drove me too visit Kentucky. I hid outside a cemetary for 4 hours in the cold, and I saw one of these things. It is definitly an animal of some sort and it does dig up graves. It scared the sh** out of me. Fear the Gravedigger.

About 30 years ago I lived in Kentucky and my then-husband's grandmother was telling me some tale about a "grave digger". I was at her house after dark and was going out to smoke and she was really upset with me over it. I never saw anything, of course, and the only description i could get out of her made me think that if it existed at all it might have some vague resemblance to a hyena. Of course, being a city girl, I didn't believe her, and still don't, but she was of French Indian descent and VERY old-fashioned and superstitious. One of the reasons she was so upset was because they lived across the road from a small church that had a cemetery, one which ultimately she, her husband, her daughter, and my ex are now buried in. This is the only other time I've ever heard the like.

Most of my family is from Kentucky, and I have heard of this before. At least a creature called the gravedigger. I don't think I ever heard this particular description.
Kentucky has alot of cryptid and ghost legends. My grandfather used to tell us stories when we were growing up that would absolutely make your hair stand on end. Normally, after growing up, I would have dismissed them as just stories that he had made up to spook me and my sisters. However, almost all of the stories he told had someone else that verifed it, and also told it to others. Most of them old legends, but the legends had been around for a long time. Not saying I beleive the stories, just that there are alot of legends from that area that alot of locals there are very familiar with.
I really wish I could remember those stories. I only remember a couple of them now.

Its probably a case of somebody seeing a scavenger and concocting the rest

Isn't this the creature known in almost all lands and almost all cultures - the ghoul?

Looks more ape/birdlike to me.

yeah,ive heard of gravdiggers,my sisters father in law digg's graves for a living.So gravediggers are real !

But the traditional ghoul is supposed to be a sub-human primate of some kind, or possibly a retrograded human, which could both be interpreted as ape-like.

I've not heard of an avian source before, but it's worth considering.