{"id":11819,"date":"2015-05-28T09:43:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T03:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=11819"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:24:10","slug":"copenhagen-devil-new-york-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2015\/05\/copenhagen-devil-new-york-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"COPENHAGEN DEVIL (NEW YORK, USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lovers-lane\"<\/a>\"Demon_Mike_McCarthy\"In the early days of the 20th Century no less than three people had a harrowing run-in with an hulking albino beast, which seemed to have emerged from the bowels of hell itself.<\/p>\n

On Friday, May 25, 1900, the Watertown Daily Times published a bizarre account of a potentially dangerous, horned, white beast, which had terrified a trio of intrepid monster just three days earlier.<\/p>\n

On the evening of May 22, 1900, two men, Homer Ward and J. D. Dryden, were making the 6-mile journey to Copenhagen from Deer River, which is nestled deep in upstate New York. The men were returning from the \"Copenhagen_NY\"farmhouse of their friend Charles Boui in a horse and buggy, which was being driven by Ward. The short trip had been uneventful, when Dryden suddenly noticed what he described as a \u201clarge white object\u201d<\/em> in a fenced in lot a little ways from the roadside.<\/p>\n

Dryden silently stared at the amorphous object when it abruptly occurred to him that it resembled \u201ca gigantic animal at rest.\u201d<\/em> Dryden pointed out the immobile form to his riding companion. Ward spied the thing, but was also unable to identify it.<\/p>\n

Ward — whose curiosity had clearly usurped his better judgment — halted the horses and dismounted the buggy. He climbed the fence that separated the road from the lot cautiously approached what he now took to be a slumbering beast.<\/p>\n

\"sheep_squatch\"Ward — no doubt to his companion\u2019s consternation — picked up a small stone and proceed to throw it at the motionless monstrosity. Without warning, the creature lunged up from its prone position and \u201cmoved away for some distance like a streak of lightning\u201d<\/em> before stopping.<\/p>\n

Ward would later claim that at that moment he experienced a \u201cfeeling similar to an electric shock\u201d<\/em> passing over him. Needless to say the now terrified Ward sprinted back to his buggy and (with what one must assume was Dryden\u2019s approval) drove his horses as fast as he could the rest of the way home.<\/p>\n

After arriving at Ward\u2019s farm the pair encountered one Miss Nancy Kline, who also lived at Ward\u2019s home, though the nature of their relationship was not elucidated. Kline — either through youthful exuberance, feminine wiles, intellectual prodding or a simple challenge to their manhood — managed to convinced the perturbed men to travel the short distance back to the lot to investigate the nature of the unusual white fiend.<\/p>\n

\"sheepsquatch_morphy_small_rgb\"The intrepid trio, armed only with a lantern and their pluck, set out down the dark and lonely stretch of road, but before they arrived Kline heard an eerie \u201csnort.\u201d<\/em> The group aimed the lantern\u2019s beam forward and spied the albino beast perched on its haunches in the middle of the road.<\/p>\n

For the first time they could make out all off this odd creature\u2019s unique characteristics. Dryden, Ward and Kline testified that the thing bore a pair horns and had a long tail as thick around as the body of a man. It\u2019s worth noting that these descriptions bear more than a passing resemblance to West Virginia\u2019s notorious SHEEPSQUATCH<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apparently uncomfortable under the lantern\u2019s harsh gaze, the possibly demonic entity charged over a nearby fence and disappeared into the darkness beyond\u2026 never to be seen again\u2026 at least by anyone who lived to tell the tale.<\/p>\n

\"rob_morphy\"<\/a>\u00a9 Copyright Rob Morphy 2002 — 2015<\/p>\n

Rob Morphy is an artist \/ journalist \/ filmmaker \/ designer \/ crypto historian \/ podcaster \/ co-founder of American Monsters and Cryptopia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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