MYSTERY BEASTS IN WASHINGTON

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Photo taken by Dale Parker of field near the Fort Totten Metro station platform on Wednesday, September 19, 2012

 

WASHINGTON - Along the lines of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster comes a new animal mystery. This one is here in the nation's capital. The question this time: Were those two large, dark animals spotted in a field near the Fort Totten Metro Station Wednesday afternoon black bears? Fort Totten is the transfer point for the Green and Red Line trains where thousands of commuters spend part of their workdays. And they see all kinds of things.

"I know there are some wild critters," says Metro rider Victor Akosile. "But a black bear? That's something out of a story you hear." This story comes to us from Dale Parker. He was on the platform Wednesday when he and other commuters saw something unusual out in a field next to the station. He snapped a photo. He put it on Twitter. We saw it and gave Parker a call. "They looked like bears," Parker tells us from his home in Silver Spring. "There were two of them. And they were starting to walk toward each other. But they can't be cats. They were too big."

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