Tuttle Bottoms Monster
Ringkasan
Tuttle Bottoms Monster adalah makhluk legendaris yang konon mendiami kawasan berawa di utara Harrisburg, Illinois. Biasanya ia digambarkan seperti kera berbulu dengan moncong panjang mirip trenggiling.
The Tuttle Bottoms Monster is a legendary creature said to haunt a swampy area north of Harrisburg, Illinois. It is usually pictured as a hairy, ape-like animal with a long, anteater-like snout.
Kisah dan tradisi
Tuttle Bottoms Monster adalah makhluk legendaris yang konon mendiami kawasan berawa di utara Harrisburg, Illinois, di daerah aliran Sungai Saline. Biasanya ia digambarkan seperti kera dan berbulu, dengan moncong panjang mirip trenggiling. Legendanya dikenal oleh beberapa generasi warga Saline County. Menurut mantan kepala polisi Harrisburg Gary Crabtree, kantornya menerima sekitar 50 laporan selama 28 tahun tentang hewan tak dikenal di kawasan itu, sebagian menyebut dua kaki dan sebagian empat kaki. The Harrisburg Daily Register memuat apa yang tampaknya laporan pertama pada 6 Agustus 1963, dan laporan paling awal berasal dari tahun 1960-an. Beberapa laporan menyebut ukurannya delapan kaki, sedangkan remaja setempat dikatakan pernah berburu monster itu dengan senapan pada malam hari. Tentang jati dirinya ada beberapa pendapat. Seorang warga mengatakan makhluk itu bukan monster dari mitos, melainkan hewan sungguhan yang dilepaskan pemerintah federal dan sudah lama mati, sedangkan versi lain menyebut ia dilepas oleh pemilik kebun binatang pedesaan.
Local legend places this creature in a swampy stretch of the Saline River watershed north of Harrisburg, Illinois, and usually pictures it as ape-like and hairy, with a long, anteater-like snout. Generations of Saline County residents know the legend. Former Harrisburg Police Chief Gary Crabtree said his department logged roughly 50 reports across 28 years about an unknown beast in the area, some describing two legs and some four. The Harrisburg Daily Register published what seemed to be the first report on 6 August 1963, and the earliest reports date to the 1960s. Some reports give its size as eight feet, and local teens were said to have gone hunting the monster with rifles at night. There are several views of what it was. One resident said it was never a mythical monster but a real animal that the federal government let loose and that died long ago, while another version says a rural zoo owner set it free.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Amerika Serikat
- Kawasan / Region
- Amerika Utara Pribumi
- Negara / Country
- United States
- Era
- reported since the 1960s, with the first newspaper report on 6 August 1963
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Cryptid
- Habitat
- Water