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Ozark Howler
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The Ozark Howler, also known as the Ozark Black Howler, is a legendary creature that is purported to live in remote areas in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.
The Ozark Howler is typically described as being bear sized, with thick body, stocky legs, black shaggy hair, and as having prominent horns. Its cry is often described as being a combination of a wolf's howl and an elk's bugle.
Cryptozoologists have speculated that the creature might be a misidentified or unrecognized big cat. Anthropologists have speculated that the creature might be a branching off of the dark dogs of death found in British folklore.
 
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The Mongolian Death Worm is a creature purported to exist in the Gobi Desert. It is described as a bright red worm with a wide body that is 2 to 5 feet long.The worm is the subject of a number of extraordinary claims by Mongolian locals - such as the ability of the worm to spew forth acid that, on contact, will turn anything it touches yellow and corroded (and which would kill a human), as well as its purported ability to kill at a distance by means of electric discharge.

Though natives of the Gobi have long told tales of the worm, the creature first came to Western attention as a result of Professor Roy Chapman Andrews's 1926 book On the Trail of Ancient Man. The US paleontologist was not convinced by the tales of the monster that he heard at a gathering of Mongolian officials: "None of those present ever had seen the creature, but they all firmly believed in its existence and described it minutely."
 
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Ask and ye shall recieve
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The Wampus cat is a creature in American folklore, variously described as some kind of fearsome variation on a cougar. The wampus cat is often compared to the Ewah of Cherokee mythology that was a woman who disguised herself in the skin of a cougar to spy on the men of the tribe as they sat around the campfire and told sacred stories on a hunting trip. When the woman was discovered, the tribe's medicine man punished her by transforming her into a half-woman, half-cat, who supposedly still haunts the forests of eastern Tennessee.In folklore, it can be seen as one of a number of fearsome critters.One variety of Wampus Cat, kept alive by experts in North Carolina folklore, has been described as "a big black cat with a red behind." Not to be overlooked is the fact there have been more sightings of bootleggers in the region than of said Wampus Cat :birgits_giggle:
 
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Elaborate my friend, pap said there was one over in the knobs above englewood tn.....I think he just spent too much time @ great grandpappys still lol
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They (whoever they are lol) claim one of my dads hunting buddies had a motion activated wildlife camera set up somewhere in tellico and it caught a panther dragging a small deer off
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farmersdaughter said:
They (whoever they are lol) claim one of my dads hunting buddies had a motion activated wildlife camera set up somewhere in tellico and it caught a panther dragging a small deer off
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lulz nice. When I saw it it was in the woods behind the house we used to live in. I remember it scared the dogs something terrible. I wouldn't want to get close to it, that's for sure.
 
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There's a lot of legends around here, but I can't think of any off top of my head
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Every place has there own little legends and myths, keeps things interesting :lol:. I know around here they say if you go down to the city lake at night you can hear what sounds like screams of women and babies.
 
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The Ahool is a giant batlike creature said to live in the region of Java in Indonesia. It is named for it's famed cry of ahOOOooool. It is said to live in the deepest rainforests of Java. It is described as having a monkey/apelike head with large dark eyes, large claws on its forearms (approximately the size of an infant), and a body covered in gray fur. Possibly the most intriguing and astounding feature is that it is said to have a wingspan of 10 ft. This is almost twice as long as the largest (known) bat in the world, the common flying fox.
 
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One of my favourites, the Thylacine was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger (because of its striped back), the Tasmanian wolf, and colloquially the Tassie tiger or simply the tiger.Native to continental Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, it is thought to have become extinct in the 20th century. It was the last extant member of its genus, Thylacinus, although several related species have been found in the fossil record dating back to the early Miocene period.
The thylacine had become extremely rare or extinct on the Australian mainland before European settlement of the continent, but it survived on the island of Tasmania along with several other species such as the Tasmanian devil. Intensive hunting encouraged by bounties is generally blamed for its extinction, but other contributing factors may have been disease, the introduction of dogs, and human encroachment into its habitat. Despite its official classification as extinct, sightings are still reported, though none proven.
Like the tigers and wolves of the Northern Hemisphere, from which it obtained two of its common names, the thylacine was an apex predator. As a marsupial, it was not closely related to these placental mammals, but because of convergent evolution it displayed the same general form and adaptations. Its closest living relative is thought to be either the Tasmanian devil or numbat.
The thylacine was one of only two marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes (the other being the water opossum). The male thylacine had a pouch that acted as a protective sheath, covering the male's external reproductive organs while he ran through thick brush.
 
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