Now there comes to us in confirmation of the prospector's yarn, a tale so weird and strange, and, withal, so well vouched, that we must accord it a degree of credence seemingly impossible. We rather made a game of it, in fact, thinking the narrator had been a little the worse for bug-juice, perhaps, and so had let his too freely stimulated imagination run riot. Last Saturday evening the Free Press published a strange story told by a prospector from the vicinity of Elizabeth lake, and, of course, this paper gave no credence to the tale. It was a good story, but of course the Free Press couldn't swallow it but now comes evidence which knocks out the skeptics in the first round. A terrific monster - beside which all the chimeras, gorgons, minotaurs and other bugaboos of antiquity were harmless insects - had been found to inhabit the depths of Elizabeth Lake. The Ventura Free Press, a fortnight ago, had an able sensation. Los Angeles Times | Sunday, August 1, 1886. The Hideous "Thing" with Dinner-Plate Scales, Headlight Eyes and a Harpoon Tail Now Paralyzing the Natives.
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