With an
an endearingly bad video posted on YouTube,
VisitMo -- our state's tourism bureau -- is
suggesting that "
Momo,"
the Missouri monster, actually exists.
There's no question that a
monster sighting
did capture the
imagination of Mississippi River towns from here clear up to Hannibal back
in the early 1970s. That part, at least,
did happen.
According to
legend, Momo was
first spotted in
July 1972 by two young boys playing outside in the town of Louisana.
The boys claimed they were approached by a six- or
seven-foot-tall beast that had no neck, a hirsute body and emitted a foul odor.
It was clutching a dead dog, flecked with blood.
Soon, other sightings
were reported nearby. UFO enthusiasts came to investigate. Someone even wrote a
country song about it that played on the radio. (For more background, see
here and
here).
forward
Andrew
Stephens who says he encountered the beast in July 1997. As he tells his
story....well, watch this!
Read on...
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that - whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot, or lake monsters - it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean Zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
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