An unknown creature appeared in the Lviv region, which outwardly resembles a gigantic dog. It exterminates rabbits en masse … Frightened peasants form self-defense units
Recently, people in Pidgortsy have been careful not to leave their homes after sunset. People believe that every night a creature that looks like a gigantic dog roams the village, looking for victims.
So far, the monster only hunts rabbits. Since Easter, it has visited a dozen yards and killed over a hundred animals. Anna was the only victim who dared to leave the house when she heard noise in the yard.
Anna Panas, injured: “Where the cage is, I saw a dog - it was quite big, so red. Without hair and even, in my opinion, he had no tail, something like a bulldog."
The picture is always the same. Dogs do not bark at night, and in the morning the owners find all their rabbits dead. And this is without a drop of blood! One or more animals usually disappear. The cells are broken.
Nadezhda Boyko, victim: “Early my husband went out to feed the rabbits, he looks, and there, as at the front, everything is battered. Both small and large."
To do all this - the monster must have extraordinary physical strength, jump high, and still be able to quietly open the gate and "professionally" kill. Thus, the "Podgoretsky monster" vaguely resembles a Latin American creature - the chupacabras.
These are semi-mythical, but described in scientific and popular literature, animals that suck blood from livestock. Scientists have been trying to figure out whether they are mutants or aliens for several decades. And do they even exist.
Roman Karashkevich, victim: “Before that I saw on TV that something escaped in Zhytomyr or Ternopil. Someone experimented, some animals or something … Some kind of red with short hair. The front legs are short, the hind legs are long. And what he jumps, and how he jumps, God knows."
When emotions subside and fear recedes, the peasants try to take a sober look at the crimes. And they find a human trace.
Anna Panas, victim: “You understand, it was so open. Now, it's hard for me to open, see? How could a dog open?
It is not an animal that attacks rabbits, the veterinarian is convinced. At least it is unknown to science.
Konstantin Voronchuk, head of the Brodov district veterinary hospital: “Whatever the animal, trained or not, it cannot open the cages, break the metal rod of the cage. It is hard to believe in this, to take some animals, and to put others on the yard”…
Whatever it was, but the creature shows extraordinary ingenuity. For example, among the victims there are elderly people, often lonely. And also - the attacks began after the election of the village chairman.
Nadezhda Mikhaylishin, Podgoretsky village chairman: “And I am very worried that right now, when that month that I started working, such different problems arise with people”.