Ohio Ape: 1930
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 25th, 2012
Logansport Press, Logansport, Indiana
Sunday, June 8, 1930
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An ape breaking into a henhouse and killing chickens is a strange detail. You know, this made me think of all the shorts and movies made in the 1930s that had big, violent gorillas in them. I think the Three Stooges came up against one, and there was of course King Kong and his even more intriguing little brother, Mighty Joe Young. This subject would make an interesting paper, or even book, all by itself.
An ape breaking into a henhouse and killing chickens, or into a pigpen and killing pigs, or into a corral and killing goats, horses, cattle, keep going…is nothing unusual to anyone who’s read a lot of sasquatch reports.
If this animal is real, it’s taking a lot of meat. If one is looking for an ecological analogue, “bear” seems closest.