UPDATED December 2, 2000

Since I received the update by e-mail, I am copying and pasting its comments
here, except people's name's are withheld to protect their identity at this time.

My sister did indeed visit during Thanksgiving. She came with a daughter and a son in law. The daughter and son-in-law , were sick and they left early. I did spend some time with my sister at a dinner in Kentucky thanksgiving eve.
She filled me in on the details of the CREATURE.
I will also supply you her E-MAIL address where you can write her for any details I may have left out. She is a school teacher in the XXXXXXXXXX area of XX Tennessee @ XXXXXXX or XXXXXXXXX.

(Personal writing left off right here)

MARY..............MY SIS ( XXXXX  XXXXXXX ) told me I was a little off on my recollections as I could have only been a year or so OLD when this happened. She thinks Ive heard it so much that I thought I was right in the middle of it..lol..
The TRUE story goes like this.. My Grandfather calls my dad to come quick. A neighbor has killed a creature that was devouring his chickens. When my father and my sister got up there , The neighbor had killed the creature and had threw it on the back of the log truck bed. He was driving house to house with the dead creature on the back of the truck , asking neighbors to help him identify the man-creature he had shot. No one knew what it was. They called my dad, a young teacher right out of college and they thought he would know what it was, he didnt. My sister says dad was very sad to see the creature dead and had no idea what it was. It was covered in hair BUT was only about 5 feet 8" or so , wasnt real tall.  My sister says she can still see those feet hanging off the bed of the truck. No one ever Identified it as best she could remember and Im sure it was buried in  the neighborhood and the most chilly thing of all was , for the next 3 or 4 nights ...a cry or shriel  could be heard in the woods at night ...my sister said Dad said it was its mate looking for it.  My sister was around 6 years old and I was about 1 1/2 years old...Mary ...you are welcome to e-mail my sister XXXXX @ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX   I may have left off something but I always thought My grandfather found it dead in a nearby field but it seems a neighbor killed it and drove it around trying to find out what in the world it was. I know My Grandpa died a year or two later and my dad never spoke of it again but may have spoke to my sister about it a little. There is no way to know what happened to the remains. This was at least 45 years ago...All concerned are all deceased and even most of the old farm houses are gone now. Any cousins around would have been to young to remember as my sis was the eldest grandchild in the area.
It a real sad situation that we may never get anymore details than you have been told here but one thing is for sure MARY....It DID happen...A man Creature was Killed..Its body was trucked around the countryside to find anyone who could Identify it. I will try to  do some research IF I can find ANYONE still around to talk to...Its almost like a hurricane has come thru this area and killed everyone and blew all the houses away BECAUSE thats how much the community has changed. Everyone s gone or died and sub-divisions have popped up and its not the same area anymore. I hope I didn't get your hopes up to much MARY..All I truly know is that it did happen and a Man Creature Did die in my community 45 years ago...

UPDATE ON JANUARY 11, 2001

This was related to Mary Green by e-mail from the above witnesses' Sister.
All personal information that might reveal these persons' identities has
been removed.  They have requested that they be kept confidential in this for right now while the GCBRO investigates this case further.
 

Hello Mary,
   I meant to e-mail you back, but I really wanted to
think about what I could remember so long ago.  I
didn't think that I could give you an accurate account
of what I saw for your book.  Even though I wanted to
tell you.  Also  about six weeks later, I fell and
sprained my foot. I was off a week from work, but
completely forgot about sending you info.

   I can't really remember how old I was when the
neighbor came by with the animal, that he had killed.
It seems that I might have been maybe 10-12 years old.
I thought I was a few years younger, but if xxxxxx(my brother)
(who is 6 years younger than me, I was born in
'47)remembers some of this  I had to be around that
age, I guess.  My Pa and Dad were out in the front
yard of my grandparents house. The neighbor man, I
didn't know his name(But I believe he was a next door
neighbor of xxxxx xxxxxxx(our cousin), and they lived
just around the curve from my grandparents' house. I
was nosy, and wanted to know what was going on.

My mom
wanted me to stay in the house, I don't know if she
knew what was going on or not. I just knew something
was going on, but I don't know what I had heard to
make me so curious. My  two other brothers who were
two and three years younger than me ,respectively, did
not come out of the house, for some reason they might
have been playing in another part of the house.

I went to the edge of the yard. My dad seemed displeased
to see me  but didn't make me go into the house. The
neighbor man wanted to know if my Pa or my Dad could
recognize what kind of animal this was. At night, he
could hear his chickens very disturbed and excited. I
think a few nights went by with some missing chickens
each night, I think. He thought it was a fox or some
other local animal.

One day, he went looking for
tracks finding these strange ones. He waited one night
with a shotgun, and when he had shot out in the dark,
he came upon this strange animal which he had never
seen before. He said the next night, he heard strange
howling like someone crying . He figured it was the
mate or companion of this animal. He was kind of
scared, but didn't go out looking for it of course,
and it didn't bother his chickens.

The animal he had
killed was probably dead for a couple of days, I
guess. The  next night after killing the animal, he
heard the strange howling. Seems like it was like this
for a few nights, and then nothing else was heard.
Neither my Pa or my Dad(who was a XX XXXX graduate, a
teacher) had no idea what it was. I only stared at the
legs that stuck out from the truck. I couldn't really
see the face. It seems to be really huge to me. I had
always thought it might have been a kangaroo(something
about it-maybe the stubby legs and big swollen
belly(maybe because it had been dead for a few days?

Quite a few years later, while talking to my Dad about
it, he said it wasn't a kangaroo, and that it was very
short, (about four feet tall?) and not tall like I
thought it was. To me it did seem to have a big belly
and stomach. I thought it was gray, but my Dad said it
was brown. I can't really remember the toes, but they
must not have been five toes like us, or I might have
remembered it. I have always regretted not having a
picture of it and/or not looking at its face(I was so
afraid).

All these years is a puzzlement that my dad
didn't know what it was , and I guess I thought he
should have had some idea, but he had no idea. Seems
like the legs might have been much bigger than ours
and I'm sorry I can't remember if they were hairy or
not. It didn't have a tail, and I don't think they
could tell if it was a male or female or if it was
full grown or not. This was certainly not a local
animal to this region or possibly of this country.

They commented that the strange animals  must have
been intelligent for its mate or companion to have
mourned the next few nights for the dead one.  Seems
like the neighbor had found tracks up in the mountains
behind his house and it looked like only one set.
Those mountains go back up into xxxxx, Tn a small
community near xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. My
grandmother might have made us stay away from the
base of the mountains behind the house. I can't really
positively remember right now at this time. I just
remembered them thinking out loud, was it  an animal
that comes out only at night? (a nocturnal animal)

I think the neighbor was going to bury it on his
property. It would be something if we could find where
he buried it. If I remember anything else no matter
how small, I'll let you know. One thought- the weather
was pretty. Maybe in early summer or late summer. I
didn't need a sweater or coat. However, I don't
remember my grandmothers flowers that were always
there on the bank spring and early summer. It might
have been late summer or early fall, but I almost know
that it wasn't winter time.

I hope this helps in some
small way, Mary. It certainly is a mystery. Again, I
can't remember if there were mashed flowers or not.
Maybe  some memory might come back  to me later. Feel
free to e-mail me anytime. I know that there seems to
be  mysteries in this world that God has made, and
maybe they have been hid from man and may be revealed
at some time. I know that much prophecy( mysteries
until now) has been fulfilled from the Bible, and that
Jesus is coming soon. It is an exciting time to live
in this world. And finding mysteries revealed to us in
the end-times. I pray that you know Jesus as savior
and are awaiting his return! In Christian love, XXXXX.
 

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