Okay top notch scientists and biologists...explain this creature.
What in the heck is it?

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/2006/August/060815/060816_beast_vmed_7p.widec.jpg

August 16, 2006

TURNER, Maine --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 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.

Looks like a dog to me.

With a blue coat? Rationalist expanations. It probably was somekind of demon dog.

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With a blue coat?

That's a lighting effect. Try photographing a black, furry animal in bright sunlight.

Ok, but thats no dog like Ive ever seen.

There are lots of blue colored dogs. Anything you think is "grey" is actually "blue" in a animal. What you are probably seeing is a grey puppy. They always look more blue than the older dogs.

I had a Kerry Blue when I was young.


Ok, but thats no dog like Ive ever seen.Try to get out more. The fresh air will do you good.

Well, it looks like a dog, he says uncertainly.

But if Squeak22 is right and it's a puppy... be very, very frightened.

Would you let that puppy in your house? On your couch?
Would you trust it around your children?

Chow or chow mix, according to the newspapers (Chalk one up for Fark)
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/3039522.shtml

In the end, wildlife officials got a DNA analysis that showed the animal was a rare wolf-dog hybrid
Funnily enough, I was thinking this. God, I hate being right all the time.

Sorry for taking His name in vain, Lawdog.

Another Rationalist cover up:

State wildlife biologists and local animal control officers declined to go to Turner to examine the remains of the animal, which was found Saturday along Route 4. It was apparently hit by a car while chasing a cat.

People are afraid of crossing the comfort zone.
If it were discovered that the beast had crawled up from the hollow earth,
the whole military-industrial-femininazi-neopagan-pseudo-scientifico-idealist-deathtech-antichrist system would be called into question:

That must not happen.



PS. Dont be sorry to me. You know who to be sorry to.

Ok, but thats no dog like Ive ever seen.

I have two dogs and they are unlike anything most people have seen, because I get stopped and asked;

"What breed are they, they are very handsome' all the time, when all they are, is a good cross.

Next I fancy a cross with blue eyes, pref with a shaggy grey and white coat, so probably half shepherd, half sheepdog to get a wolf looking, but domesticated animal. Although blue coat with blue eyes would be nice too.

Dont be sorry to me. You know who to be sorry to.
Ah, but I don't believe in Him. ;)
I was apologising to you because you do.
Damn, I should have just edited out the reference.
Can I have 8 million similar future offences taken into account?

PS How can the results of DNA analysis be dismissed as a rationalisation? I'm assuming that this part of the story is accurate, of course.

Its a cover up. Are you so gulable?

I am really disappointed that the signature option has been disabled.

Signature: military-industrial-femininazi-neopagan-pseudo-scientifico-idealist-deathtech-antichrist

OK, so let me guess: this creature is from the depths of the Hollow Earth aka Hell - a single-headed Cerberus that signifies the imminent arrival of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse?

It would be unscientific for anyone unfamiliar with canine or mammilian taxonomy in general to make any definitive statements about this animal, especially from a single picture.

It's dead?

OK, so let me guess: this creature is from the depths of the Hollow Earth aka Hell - a single-headed Cerberus that signifies the imminent arrival of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse?
excellent proposal.

sure, its a dog.......A DEMON-DOG FROM BENEATH THE EARTH.

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/images/dog2.jpg

Still just looks like a run-of-the-mill dead dog to me.

Looks just like a regular dog to me. Nice coat, too. I like the blue-black/blue-grey of it.

shit, i had a dog that looked JUST like that...it was a rottweiler/husky mix.
hilariously enough, it acted more like a saturday morning cartoon character than a "hellhound".
this particular dog was probably abandoned and turned feral. it isnt uncommon in heavily wooded areas such as Maine for stray dogs to turn feral....ive personally seen 4 feral dogs in my life, in michigan. one was a King Poodle, i shit you not!

Well you can tell that ones just a bit of fun, however on another site (http://puptastic.com/) they actually had a picture of an "Insectodog".

http://puptastic.com/images/deformed_puppy.jpg

Would you let that puppy in your house?
Eh. Sure. Dogs are fun animals. Dopey and stupid, but fun.


On your couch?
No. Dog pee is a hard stain to get out.


Would you trust it around your children?
I don't have kids. For one, I'm too young, and second of all, children are brutal and immature menaces to society.


A DEMON-DOG FROM BENEATH THE EARTH.
Preposterous. Demons don't exist, and it's impossible for a dog to live beneath the earth, at least not for long. Proper amounts of meat to sustain a canine are scarce, if existant at all, under the surface. Probably just a few fish, and some bats if it's lucky.

Proper amounts of meat to sustain a canine are scarce, if existant at all, under the surface. and some bats if it's lucky.
that is ONE ACROBATIC dog!!

even the link says dog.

.bismarcktribune.com/images/dog2.jpg

maybe it's a lawdog...
lol, demon-dog... you've read too much fantasy or sumthin.
but yeah... maybe it's a mutated alien dog.

here's a mutated dogbird for you: http://www.blogzone.in/I_me/photos/bird_dog.jpg

that is ONE ACROBATIC dog!!
Dogs can jump pretty well. Not as good nor as accurately as cats, mind you, but pretty good. It could possibly catch a sleeping bat. But the likeliness of that is low, so low that a dog in a cave would probably starve to death within a week.

Dogs don't see in the dark to well either. Better than humans yes, but not that good.

You could make arguments that a dog that lives underground would use sonar to get around, but wouldn't that wake up the bats?

i heard cat is the opposite of dog, is it true?

Okay top notch scientists and biologists...explain this creature.
What in the heck is it?


A dead dog

Another Rationalist cover up:


People are afraid of crossing the comfort zone.
If it were discovered that the beast had crawled up from the hollow earth...

You do know that the earth is not hollow (or flat for that matter) right?

It could be two things:

1) It's clearly an hybrid alien-helldog, which escaped from the alien military labs in the hollow earth, the demons chased and killed it but they didn't make in time to hide the corpse. Now it lies under the sunlight for the humans to see and discover the terrible truth about the conspiracy between the aliens, the humans and the devils.

2) Looks like a dog, so it's a dog, or at least some curious mixed breed.

I'm not yet sure which one is the most likely.

Man thats a dog or any other normal animal!! Why going into weird explanations 1st!?! Are there any evidences of the existence of hell dogs? DO you know lots of storys of it and testimonies, like in ufo cases? NO! So, why making crazy judgmenes? Probably the animal is just a bizarre dog. Sometimes i see people with bizarre faces because of their DNA and inborn factors. Its rare to find a person with a bizarre face or body but they exist. Same for dogs....btw, ukraine people with 6 fingers in each hand...are they hellish creatures? No, just some people with a very rare problem.

Give me strong arguments that the animal is not a "normal" one (dog, wolf, etc) but a new race or a new being and i will believe on u.

a mysterious animal with chilling monstrous cries and eyes that glow in the night....

Eye's that glow in the night, eh? Quite extraordinary. Surely no mortal creature can conform to such description.... Canines, Lupines, Cat's, those tiny, tiny arboreal creatures that live in tree's, etc excepted, obviously.

Late to the party I know, but it's dead canine. Somewhat vaguely reminiscent of the hyena about the features, granted, but road kill nevertheless.

Y'know what's weird with this picture? I actually live in a very, very rural, backwater region. Not quite wilderness but you'd never think that if you were actually stuck outside waiting for a bus. There's people lived here generation after generation, farmers all - yet I've never once heard a single story concerning "weird" occurrences - despite the occasional provocation to the contray...

In this tale however, just the sight of "eyes that glow in the night" appears to have people spouting on about daemons and evil.

Dear God. I know the countryside can be a trifle dull, but can't these people just occupy themselves with copious amounts of sex and drink just like regular folk...?

A ;)

Is Lawdog for real?

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6559/lawdogbb9.jpg

Could anything possibly be realier? I think not. >woof!<

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/demondog.jpg



DEMON DOG.
Would you trust this thing with your kids? Let it on your couch? Have you ever seen a dog with teeth like that? It's clearly cerberus' puppy.

PS if it looks like it's made of plastic, it's just cause of it's evil bullet proof adamant studded coat.

Okay top notch scientists and biologists...explain this creature.
What in the heck is it?

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/2006/August/060815/060816_beast_vmed_7p.widec.jpg

August 16, 2006

TURNER, Maine --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 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.

Just a German Shepard with a face lift. Could use a hair cut too. Probably wouldn't place to high in a dog show either. :D

If it were discovered that the beast had crawled up from the hollow earth,
the whole military-industrial-femininazi-neopagan-pseudo-scientifico-idealist-deathtech-antichrist system would be called into question
Is this guy for real? Surely no single person can be this misguided? It usually takes a whole thinktank of them to be like this.

I seriously doubt he's for real. He's probably trying to annoy us with a put on super duper fundamentalist christian attitude. Anyways, I doubt a guy like that would call himself Lawdog. It'd probably Ultimate Judgment or Penance or something like that.

Or he's just a crazy idiot.

that too.

Well... its an interesting looking beast, if nothing else.

I desire to play Red (blue-grey?) Rover with it.

It's not a hell hound. It's a Hound of Baskerville. It was chasing the cat of the originally cursed Baskerville's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grand nephew in law. As for the weird sounds, if they think a hound makes a weird howl, they've never heard a bob cat, it literally sounds like a banshee or a women being murdered. Not the coolest thing to listen to when going to bed. Thankfully my neighbor killed it. This is the benefit to living in Maine.

Oke. Nobody's said it yet so please remember to include the possibility that it's a rare strain of cross breed wolverine and a dog - maybe a Chow. (Ciao?) ((Puppy Ciao?)) (Ciao bits). As for the revolting smell, well, flesh has a way of putrefying when lying around in the sun - it doesn't take very long before they're really aromatically impressive and memorable... Even when the demonically dubbed flesh isn't from hell.

Ok - it was a dog - no mysteries here !!!!!!!

the original article : http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14383883/

And the result of the DNA test :
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2006/09/01/dna_tests_reveal_turner_freature_was_100_percent_d og/

and here : http://www.sunjournal.com/news/city/20060902079.php

Looks like a dog to me!

I can remember a friend in school that had a 50/50 Akbash and Wolf mix. It was the strangest dog I've ever seen!

Ok - it was a dog - no mysteries here !!!!!!!

the original article : http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14383883/

And the result of the DNA test :
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2006/09/01/dna_tests_reveal_turner_freature_was_100_percent_d og/

and here : http://www.sunjournal.com/news/city/20060902079.php
The boston.com link didn't work because "creature" was misspelt "freature". Which, come to think of it is a pretty damn good name for freaky creatures like it!

Anyone who can't tell that's just a dog is obviously a cat person...

Something wrong with being obviously a cat person?