In a previously published article about the search for a large baboon-like beast in Illinois in the 1940s, we mentioned a moment when something, most likely the same beast, brutally killed a farmer's dog. In fact, there are many such cases when the yeti mutilated or killed dogs.
It seems that these Bigfoots, Sasquats and other Bigfoots, for some unknown reason, are extremely hated by dogs.
“Dog killing is a well-known characteristic of the Sasquatch. To do this, they can chase the dog and track it down for a long time. Most often, when dogs smell them, they run away or set their tails between their legs in fear, but that dog that is not afraid and engages in a fight with a sasquatch can be severely crippled or killed. Some of these dogs were found torn to pieces and all traces indicated that this was done by a sasquatch, - these words belong to a member of the American Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO).
Sometimes yeti kill dogs to escape their pursuers, and sometimes to eat them. Some might say that wolves could have attacked dogs, but Bigfoot researchers are sure that it was the elusive humanoid cryptids who did it.
The police dog was scared to enter the barn
Let's move on to the cases themselves. In 1973, in the same Illinois, where in the early 40s they saw a baboon-like beast, a large Bigfoot covered with long white hair was observed near the same Big Muddy River. Perhaps old and gray. All sightings were made by residents of Murphysboro and were recorded by the police. Later, cryptozoologist Lauren Coleman managed to obtain copies of these records.
One of the reports described how the dog handler Jerry Nellis arrived at the site of observation of the Bigfoot with a dog. There was a lot of trampled vegetation, as if something large really walked here. The dog quickly picked up someone's trail and led the dog handler and the police down the hill.
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From time to time on the way of the dog and people came across a strange dark mucus lying on the grass. When one of the cops rubbed some mucus with his fingers, his fingers turned dark. And every time this mucus came across on the way, the dog began to behave very restlessly.
The report indicated that the dog led people down the hill and then to the pond, walked around the pond and headed towards the forest. In one place the dog began to pull the dog handler very strongly, but it was impossible to go down there, the embankment was too steep. In this area, policemen with flashlights were left to check, and the dog handler and the dog moved to another area to the south, where the creature was also seen.
There the dog also took the trail and he led her to the old barn. But as soon as the dog ran into the barn, it immediately jumped out, as if very frightened of something. Officer Nash and dog handler Nellis searched the barn, but found nothing and did not understand why the dog was scared.
According to Nellis, the dog was trained to search for targets by scent and not retreat, and has never previously refused to look in buildings. In that area, the police never found any further traces of the Bigfoot's presence.
Momo is a monster from Missouri
In July 2012, NewsOk magazine published an article describing the events that took place in Louisiana, Missouri in 1972. These events were called "The Epic of Momo". For a short time, the entire state was seized with panic, and later the story spread throughout America. Momo is the nickname of a large, scary and very smelly Bigfoot, whom the children saw loudly growling and killing their dog.
It all started on July 11, 1972. Two boys, 8-year-old Terry Harrison and his brother, 5-year-old Wally Harrison, walked through the woods with their dog on a beautiful hot day. The Harrisons' house stood at the edge of the forest, and their older sister, 15-year-old Doris Harrison, was at home that day. Suddenly, the girl heard a loud cry of boys outside and when she jumped to the window and looked out, she saw a terrible picture.
There was a dark, tall, humanoid creature, no less than 7 feet (2.1 meters) in height and so thickly covered with long hair that not even facial features were visible. With one of its paws, it held the bloody body of a dog, and torn pieces of dog hair lay next to it. And the smell from this creature was incredibly disgusting!
"It was not a man and it was also not a bear," Doris, who turned 55 in 2012, said later, "It was something incomprehensible."
“Something you've never seen before?” The journalist asked her.
"Yes exactly".
When the animal left, the boys and Doris told their father about everything that had happened, and a little later a local farmer said that his dog had also disappeared. Soon, several more reports were received from other local residents about the strange creature and the eerie smell that it leaves behind. Then the monster was given the nickname Momo.
“A few days after that incident, we heard a terrible roar in the distance,” says a woman named Bliss, “I know how lynxes and other local animals roar and roar, it was like nothing else. My father at that moment shouted "We all better get out of here, it is coming here!"
Eyewitness observations piled up like a snowball. One man claimed that a beast with red eyes was chasing him, a group of schoolchildren claimed that they saw the monster right from the classroom window, and two women who went to a picnic on the bank of a stream told how the creature chased them until they sat down into your car and did not leave quickly.
They described him as large and humanoid, yet intelligent. It managed to grab the car door handle and tried to open the door.
Another eyewitness, Ellis Minor, was sitting late in the evening on the porch of her house with a dog and suddenly her dog, for no reason at all, began to growl loudly at someone. When Ellis went to look with a flashlight, she saw "a large, dark creature by the road, which ran away." In addition, there were several other reports of strange aggressive behavior of local dogs.
Momo soon became a real national phenomenon in Louisiana. Bigfoot hunters began to come to the city on purpose, and the locals found large strange prints.
"He is not human at all, he has a very large heel and only three toes," said Christina Wildmiller.
In the photo below, Christina is holding in her hands a plaster photograph of one of the tracks, which her father managed to make in those years.
Despite the imprint and testimony of witnesses, many are now convinced that Momo was not real, and all this was originally just an invention of the Harrisons. For example, 76-year-old Priscilla Gilter, who worked as a school teacher in those years, is sure of this. She also suggests that the same Harrisons may have used a gorilla fur suit to frighten the locals.
Now there are almost no witnesses from those events. The Harrisons' house was long abandoned and destroyed, and Momo is remembered only by such centenarians as Gilter or holders of prints like Christina.
Whether Momo was a fiction or a real monster, at the end of the article, we remind you that if you want to look for the Yeti, then it is best to leave your dog at home.
