Comments on: Giant Sloth in Ohio River Valley?

By: theo

theo — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:11:13 +0000

Looking this case up in my files I note that the Hammond Times published an article on August 16 on the Boonville monster, two days before the above reprinted article.

There we read that “They’re looking for a hairy ape near here today after a monster has terrorized the community…Ralph Duff, a fisherman, first reported the animal about a year ago after his police dog was torn to shreds in an encounter with the beast…Mrs Duff… saw a tower monster larger than a bear. When she screamed, the beast ran away. Duff believes that the animal is a huge ape, which lives in one of the caves along the river, and has set a number of bear traps.”

Source: ‘Sounds Like a Bear Yarn’, Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana, 16 August 1937.

Best regards,

Theo

By: Jerry D. Coleman

Jerry D. Coleman — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:53:12 +0000

Boonville, Indiana interesting! The village of Boonville was the stage of another mysterious encounter which occurred in the late 1800′s. An alleged ape man was spotted, shot at and reported on the outskirts of town. As the article of the 1937 incident reads, a near identical report speaks of the earlier event, including: Posses, searching the river bottoms, and tracking the beast to its lair. A 1983 “FATE” magazine article (found at the International Cryptozoology Museum) states the wild man or ape man was cornered in an old abandoned mine shaft and smoked out. Disoriented, the beast was captured and bound, however soon as the creature regained it’s bearings it tore the ropes away and at great speed ran off into the woods.

Again, interesting that such a small town (2000 census 6800) and with the only claim to fame being Abraham Lincoln studied law there would also be the setting for not one but two creature sightings and chased by posses within a 50 year time period.

By: Christopher Stine via Facebook

Christopher Stine via Facebook — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:33:52 +0000

Highly doubtful.

By: John Thompson via Facebook

John Thompson via Facebook — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:05:27 +0000

Amazon rainforest mebbe but near civilisation no way

By: Cryptoraptor

Cryptoraptor — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:37:48 +0000

It’s intriguing but I find it hard to believe that giant sloths were alive in Mexico or the US in 1937.

However, it would be great if a few did survive and I have wondered if some bigfoot sightings may have actually been giant sloth sightings. As remote as surviving sloths in North America may be the odds of bigfoot existing are much wilder.

Although some form of giant sloth in the Amazon may be within the realm of possibilities, the only cryptid I’d personally invest any time or money investigating is Orang Pendek.