Ozark Mystery What-Is-It?

A man was out squirrel hunting in the Ozarks; he killed a squirrel and out of the woods rushed an animal trying to grab the squirrel. So the hunter shot that thing too. Hard to believe? Here are the photographs of the thing, which some people feel has some banding on the body.

As you can see from the dates on the images, the photographs are from October 2006. The location is Ozark, Arkansas, west of Russellville about 45 miles. A similar animal was spotted around Hector. Hector is a tiny hamlet in the Ozark Mountains just about 20 miles north and slightly east of Russellville.

By strange coincidence, the person who forwarded the photographs to our informant is the niece of local fiction writer Charles Gramlich, who wrote a 2002 novel, Cold in the Light, about some bizarre creatures set in the Ozark Mountains. The book is partially based on some of the real background of the area, of course.

The local game warden, known only by the name Ben, went out to check on this animal, and he thought it was a coy-dog, a cross between a dog and a coyote. He said it had dog feet and a coyote mouth. It was "completely eat up with the mange."

The warden added the detail that this thing is the same color of the supposedly "Ozark monster." Nothing else was mentioned about "what" Ozark monster. But see the drawing at the end of this posting, following the photos.

What is this Ozark Mystery? Is it nothing but another diseased-canid-as-cryptid incident?

Meanwhile, if that wasn’t intriguing enough, how about the following drawing of another creature seen but not identified in middle America?

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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