Paranormal Investigator Magazine
He described it as such: “It looked like someone
wearing a Halloween mask who had wrapped
themselves in a blanket.”
After several weeks had passed, with no further
monster sightings, Mill Race Park was, once
again, open to the public.
Now, I’m not a conspirator. However, I am a
veteran government employee and I can recognize when I’m being told that one and two
equals five.
Thirty-nine years later, it seems that the monster sightings have long been forgotten. Many
people who can recall the event will refer to it as
“the hoax.” I, on many occasions, have heard
people state, “It was some nut dressed in a costume trying to scare people.”
Though I was just a child when the sightings
took place in my hometown, my notion seems to
differ from the majority (a common occurrence
in being a paranormal investigator.)
I often consider the reports given by the eyewitness’. These people took the time to rush to
the police department in order to report a monster. Now, think about that. They did not rush
into the police department to report a person in
a costume scaring people…they were reporting
a monster.
The first four women, who had seen it in broad
daylight, stated, “We swear it is true.” The next
group of women stated, “This did not look like
someone in a costume.” The alleged creature
leaped onto the hood of their car and tried to
attack them through the windshield. Within less
of two to three feet of distance, would they not
have been able to differentiate if this was someone wearing a 1970’s Halloween mask? Not to
mention…the scratch marks that was embedded on the hood of their car.
Article from the Republic Newspaper, 1974,
Let’s not be so quick to jump on the “most logical explanation” bandwagon. After analyzing
the sightings, maybe there is a good reason
that the Mill Race Monster is now a long-forgotten event. Was it a hoax, or was it something
else?
Now, I’m not asking you, the reader, to believe
in monsters….as a government employee, for
me to suggest such a thing would be just…silly.
Then, two young men spot the creature, not
once, but twice. They watch the outlandish being through binoculars and then are forced to
recede. Mobs of people form one of the largest
monster hunts in history. Shortly after, the park
is closed to the public.
Then, a government employee of the city states
that he had seen the creature…at night…from a
distance and it looked like someone in a Halloween mask with a blanket wrapped around him.
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