Fearsome critters! - History Forum ~ All Empires

The old-time trappers and mountain men used to tell each other tall tales about the creatures they encountered in the wildnerness. This is a furry trout, which supposedly grew a mink-like coat to keep it warm in Alaska's freezing rivers

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Hoop Snake. It would hold it's tail in it's mouth and roll downhill toward you.

Originally posted by Centrix Vigilis

Jackalope.

Centrix, i saw a stuffed jackalope similar to this one when i visited Denver

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My grandmother swore that she had been chased by a Hoop Snake when she was 12-13. There, of course, is no such animal.

Legendary! Sounds like a small anaconda.

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Originally posted by red clay

Giant snakes. There have long been stories, originating with the first trappers into the Appalchians, told of giant snakes existing in the mountainous regions of Penns. and West Virginia. The site at the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, called "Devil's Den" was so named because of a black snake some 15 ft long. It was called Ol Devil by the locals in the early 1800's, thus, Devil's Den. Wiki has the story starting ca. 1855, but the origination is much earlier.

There is a story from my Grandmother's family in WVa. in which her brother was out hunting with 2 friends, they picked out a log on which to sit and have lunch. The log moved when one of them went to sit down. The log was a snake, in excess of 15 ft with a girth of approx 15-20 in. Roy was an experienced outdoorsman and mountain folk. Not prone to flights of fancy. According to the story, he had a shot at it, but didn't shoot, as it was not what they were hunting for.

This is one of those rare instances where the legendary animal just might be real.

Sir Percy Fawcett apparently shot a giant anaconda in the Amazon, but was ridiculed for failing to bring a piece back as proof

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Lot a eating.

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

S. T. Friedman

Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'

Originally posted by Centrix Vigilis

The snipe.

I thought a snipe was a real bird native to India? These were very small and fast, requiring the skills of an expert marksman

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coast to coast am does a lot of shows on fearsome or strange critters such as big foot, the swamp man, or others.

The Chuba Kabra is suppose to be one fearsome critter

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Having looked it up, "Snipe Hunt" is another name for the "fool's errand" or "wild goose chase." Red, bring me a left-handed wrench and a replacement sparkplug for my diesel engine LOL

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