gschwartzman
09-29-2004, 23:53
Anyone seen this thing described below? My buddy swears up and down that he saw some really strange animal run from the shelter as we approached one day this summer. Later we found this from The Monk's "A Thousand and One Appalachian Tales". I don't know if this is fiction but...
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"He reached Manassas Gap Shelter a little after 2 pm and stopped for lunch. It was quiet as he ate peanut butter sandwiches and read the Register. Then, suddenly, he heard a rustling in the bushes several feet away.
He sat frozen as the sound drew closer and approached a nearby log. One furry paw with sharp black claws and opposable thumbs, then another, grabbed the log and pulled up a strange looking creature he had never seen before.
It sat peering at him with dark beady eyes from behind the log. He instantly thought it looked like a Koala Bear. It had a long black nose, cute rounded ears, a full set of sharp white teeth and black sinister pools for eyes. For a long instant they stared at each other. It looked at The Monk as if sizing him up. It bared it's large pointy teeth as if to say it didn't think he sized up much. He got the clear impression that it thought it could take him but for whatever reason decided not to.
Then, in a blur, it fled away. Whatever it was, it left him speechless. Later, telling others about his encounter, they suggested the creature was either a Sloth or a Lemur. However, neither the Koala nor the Sloth were indigenous to the area so that left a Lemur as the prime suspect. "
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"He reached Manassas Gap Shelter a little after 2 pm and stopped for lunch. It was quiet as he ate peanut butter sandwiches and read the Register. Then, suddenly, he heard a rustling in the bushes several feet away.
He sat frozen as the sound drew closer and approached a nearby log. One furry paw with sharp black claws and opposable thumbs, then another, grabbed the log and pulled up a strange looking creature he had never seen before.
It sat peering at him with dark beady eyes from behind the log. He instantly thought it looked like a Koala Bear. It had a long black nose, cute rounded ears, a full set of sharp white teeth and black sinister pools for eyes. For a long instant they stared at each other. It looked at The Monk as if sizing him up. It bared it's large pointy teeth as if to say it didn't think he sized up much. He got the clear impression that it thought it could take him but for whatever reason decided not to.
Then, in a blur, it fled away. Whatever it was, it left him speechless. Later, telling others about his encounter, they suggested the creature was either a Sloth or a Lemur. However, neither the Koala nor the Sloth were indigenous to the area so that left a Lemur as the prime suspect. "