The creature was big, reptilian, with a black head, long tail and a big red tongue. It could hiss and cause men and women to run off, screaming. It came close to shore, terrifying the environs so that parties of men went out with guns and spears to kill it. And it all happened along the Noroton River, the stream that separates Darien from Stamford, starting 123 years ago, on Aug. 10, 1889.
At least, that's the story that readers of the Boston Daily Globe read on Aug. 18 of that year. The five-paragraph article can still be found in the archives of what today is the Boston Globe. (A copy is attached to this Web page.) But it appears to have been a hoax.
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