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Says Monster No Hoax He's Seen It Two TimesENFIELD, 111. (UPI) -Henry McDaniel said he’* »eenit twice: a gray, hairy, three-legged monster standing talllike a human being with pink reflecting eyes bulging from a huge head.The second time wai Sundaymorning after his originalreport on the monster hadbrought newsmen, police, an-thr opoiogu ts, experts on unidentified flying objects and the juat plain curious to the Wabash River Valley to Investigate.McDaniel, a disabled war veteran, said they found foot prints covering the woodlandareas around hU home. The tracks were three to five inches across with six toes and little hoof marks, he said.Ed Phillips, a pet shop owner from Kokomo, Ind., csme outto look around and verified McDaniels’ description of thetracks.“It couldn’t be a hoax,’ Phillips skid. Tha tracks were hidden under dense bush aswell as in t he open, he said. Plaster casts were made.McDaniel said the first time he saw the moniter was about 9.30 p.m. on the night of April 25. His family heard a scratching noise at the back door and he went to investigate.“When I first saw It, Ithought tt was an animal. I went back (Inside the house) and got a gun and a flashlight,” he said It was right about three feet from me. 1 wasn’tscared.Then I saw those ptnk eyes shine at me like a reflector on a car. It had pink eyes, a largehead and was a kind of dirtyish gray color ... hairy ... about four or five feet tall. Standing right in front of the door on three legs just like a human being.McDaniel said he shot at the monster four times.I knew I hit it once, hesaid The monster, he said, hissed, leaped 75 feet in threeSee MONSTER page I
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South Haven Daily Tribune
South Haven, Michigan, US
Mon, May 07, 1973
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