I’m going to blog
about a Southern legendary monster, the devil monkey. No, it's not some bad little monkey you might aee at the zoo, or with the organ grinder, tippingits hat for you to deposit coins in. Devil monkeys are
described as baboon-like creatures able to leap like kangaroos. They have dark,
“mean” eyes, pointed ears, short to shaggy fur that varies from red to gray to
black, and large flat feet. Ranging in height from three to eight feet, it is
said that they won’t back down, even from dogs, and although thought to be
vegetarians, there are stories told of them killing livestock and small game.
They exhibit a range of primate hoots, calls, screeches, whistles, and
unearthly screams, and have an odor so bad, they have been also called Skunk
Apes. It has been seen in the area of the Appalachian Mountains to even in British Columbia .
A cryptozoologist,Chad
Arment, investigated the sightings of these creatures that one Virginia family and
their friends had experiences with. This occurred from 1959-1990s, in the
mountains that surround Saltville.
Paranormal investigators Pauline and James Boyd’s parents were attacked in 1959 by a creature that left three scratch marks on their car. Not long after, a couple of nurses were driving home when an unknown animal attacked their vehicle, ripping the convertible’s top off. Badly shaken, they escaped otherwise unharmed.
Friends of Pauline saw one of these creatures trotting across the road in front of their car. It leaped over a ditch, glided over a fence, and bounded through weeds along the road.
Other sightings have occurred as recently as 2001, when a giant black monkey was seen nine different times over the course of two weeks in ruralNew Hampshire . It has
even been told that a search party was formed to track one of these they
thought was a devil monkey, but that the dogs refused to follow the trail.
Another beast, the "Belt
Road Booger” was encountered by several people in Georgia in the
1970s. It was thought this might have been a devil monkey. The Nalusa Flaya of
Choctaw legend bears a strong physical resemblance to the devil monkey, though
the devil monkey does not appear to have any of the supernatural abilites
attributed to this legendary monster.
What are these devil monkeys? Some people think devil monkeys are feral monkeys released into the wild or escaped from research facilities, such as the ones that broke free inFlorida
due to Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Cryptozoologists think that
are a surviving species once thought to be extinct, like a fruit-eating spider
monkey originating from Brazil ,
or a large baboon that lived 650,000 years ago in East
Africa . Maybe they could even be a sort of
Sasquatch? Or could these beasties be nothing more than an illusion? Whatever
devil monkeys are, they are a fascinating tale to tell on Halloween around the
hearth fire or around a campfire.
In 1996, a woman named Barbara Mullins was driving down a stretch of road inLouisiana
known as Highway 12 when she noticed something odd on the side of the road. At
first Mullins through the carcass she had found was that of a dog, that was
until she saw it’s baboon like features. Mullins snapped several pictures of
the carcass with her camera; the resulting images have been the topic of much
debate in the cryptozoology world. The creature was described as being about
the size of a large adult Saint Bernard and covered with a think coat of dark
wooly hair. It's most notable attribute was its decidedly simian features,
extended feet, and small, presumably pointed ears. I went to the website with
the pictures and concluded myself it was nothing more than some dog, maybe gone
feral. To me, there was nothing ape-like or monkey-like in the dead animal's
appearance.
Was that a screech you heard in the night? Beware, it just might be the. . .devil monkey!
A cryptozoologist,
Paranormal investigators Pauline and James Boyd’s parents were attacked in 1959 by a creature that left three scratch marks on their car. Not long after, a couple of nurses were driving home when an unknown animal attacked their vehicle, ripping the convertible’s top off. Badly shaken, they escaped otherwise unharmed.
Friends of Pauline saw one of these creatures trotting across the road in front of their car. It leaped over a ditch, glided over a fence, and bounded through weeds along the road.
Other sightings have occurred as recently as 2001, when a giant black monkey was seen nine different times over the course of two weeks in rural
Another beast, the "
What are these devil monkeys? Some people think devil monkeys are feral monkeys released into the wild or escaped from research facilities, such as the ones that broke free in
In 1996, a woman named Barbara Mullins was driving down a stretch of road in
Was that a screech you heard in the night? Beware, it just might be the. . .devil monkey!
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