Mystery Creature Lurks In Baltimore County

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Mystery Creature Lurks In Baltimore County

POSTED: 5:19 am EDT July 19, 2004
UPDATED: 6:42 am EDT July 19, 2004
GLYNDON, Md. -- A mystery animal is on the loose in Baltimore County and not even the experts can pin down what it is.

A Glyndon man found a way to secretly record the beast while it grazed in his yard. For a while it was just lurking in the woods watching the Wroe family until the Wroes started watching it.

Video (http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3545312/detail.html#)

What Is The Creature?

Jay Wroe: "My truck was parked here, started getting in my truck. I kind of saw it there where the sunlight is and said what in the world is that?"

Jacob Wroe: "It looked so weird to me. I didn't know what it was."

Wanting to get a better look at the beast stalking his family, Jay Wroe put technology to work for him.

Jay Wroe: "The next day, I hooked up just portable motion detectors, and put them down back in the woods there."

The trap worked.

Jay Wroe: "Very bizarre. I went and got my father and cousin and they came and looked at it and their reactions were pretty much the same -- what in the world are we looking at?"

Pictures Of The Unusual Creature In Baltimore Co. (http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3545312/detail.html#)

More than a month after the first sighting, the creature has become a neighborhood regular and showing up often.

Kim Carlsen: "It comes to our house. It's been up in the woods for a while and it comes up through the bottom of our yard and eats our cat food."

Despite the fact it's lurking in these woods and no one knows when or where it will come out, no one here seems afraid of it.

Jacob Wroe: "I don't know, it doesn't look like it's going to harm anybody."

Even the other neighborhood animals like Bullwinkle the dog next door seem okay with the beast.

Kim Carlsen: "It's not afraid of the cats and the cats seem to get along with it fine."

The beast is not shy, and visits most often under bright sun. While no one here knows what it is, they do have a name for it -- the hyote, a combination of a hyena and a coyote.link (http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3545312/detail.html)

[faustus]

Ok some kids were having to much fun with crazy glue again

[abbadon]

Almost looks like a diseased fox.....odd...

[DRD2001]

Bonnie?

Seriously, it does look like a hyena of sorts.

[LT Garrix]

It's not too hyena-ish. Here's a link (http://www.tourethio.com/travel/east/) This critter has a long tail.

It's not very African wild doggish either, it does look familiar to me, but not being a zoologist, I'm having a total brain fart as to what critter it does remind me of. Obviosly something from the canid family that has a long tail. I'll come up with it at some point.

Kinda creepy having something like that lurking around.

[DRD2001]

Well there are some pretty unusual and exotic dogs out there. But if it was a pet of some sort, don't you think the owner would be looking for it with wanted posters that day "Lost, Ugly ugly dog."

[Weetabix]

It could be a lycaon in very bad shape, but yet it looks much more a hyena to me, in very bad shape too.
The head, the posture...all are those of a hyena.
Maybe someone has played Mad Scientist with a dog and a hyena ?

[DRD2001]

It could be a lycaon in very bad shape, but yet it looks much more a hyena to me, in very bad shape too.
The head, the posture...all are those of a hyena.
Maybe someone has played Mad Scientist with a dog and a hyena ?
I'm not up on my animal genetics. But I did work at a zoo that had a lion/tiger mix.

[Darth Buddha]

Whatever it is, as somebody who accompanied his father trapping now and again, I can say this:

It has mange: any of several chronic skin diseases of mammals caused by parasitic mites and characterized by skin lesions, itching, and loss of hair.

[DRD2001]

Geez, I kind of feel sorry for the poor creature. I hope they can catch it and get it to a vet.

[scrape_medic]

Hyena...definately...possibly young and sick, but it moves like one, has a mange like one, has a mussle like one......may be a hyena cross.

[JadedLegend3]

This was on CNN earlier today, but I missed the story...only saw the creature running about.

[Kurt_eh]

Well, it's definately not a jackalope ( http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm )

[Kurt_eh]

Or perhaps an Ossrow? (http://community.spacecast.com//ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=002747#000008)

[Clarsax]

If it weren't for the tail, it would look exactly like a hyena. Maybe someone's exotic pet?

[BrowderChick]

Did anyone think to maybe trap it and take it to a vet? I think it really needs one. What ever it is, it does look hyena-mix. It definately has a skin disease. BUt I think a vet or a zoologist needs to trap it and take a better look at it. It needs to be taken away from other animals so as to not spread what ever it has. It may be friendly but it needs help. That poor thing needs a vet. :(

[Clarsax]

Yeah, it looks pretty sick, poor thing.

[eta_carinae]

I'm not up on my animal genetics. But I did work at a zoo that had a lion/tiger mix.

:stripe: A liger! "It's pretty much my favorite animal..." he he he.

[AgentSun]

anyone just really disturbed?

[Weetabix]

And what about this one ?
It has been taken in North Carolina
http://www.news-record.com/graphics/june/creature060304.jpg

[Weetabix]

:stripe: A liger! "It's pretty much my favorite animal..." he he he.
Here's for you :)
http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/ligersize.jpg

[grinner]

I wonder if they are related to... Jushin "Thunder" Liger

[generic_screenname]

Hmm...this reminds me...

I saw this thing prowling around my back yard a few nights ago. Scared the ever-loving crap outta me.

[DRD2001]

:spew: :lol

[BrowderChick]

Here's for you :)
http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/ligersize.jpg
My God that animal is huge!

[Saajak]

Yeah, looks like an hyena (or hyena cross if that's biologically possible) with mange. I don't think hyenas are closely related to either the dog or cat family, so it's difficult to say. I wish I was still in contact with my Mammology professor.

Although this does remind me of the "Theory of the Arctic Hyena". In college there were two girls whose laugh sounded exactly like a hyena. One day at lunch they were laughing more than usual and someone made a comment about the mating call of the Arctic Hyena (I went to college in N. WI). Being the science-geeks that we were, we put together a whole species profile of the Arctic Hyena (hyenadae arctis) and made it look like a published article. Yeah, we needed a life. Badly. ;)

[Third EYe]

I think it's a 4th party candidate

[AnnieBW]

Call Skiffy! It's their next bad movie of the week! I can see it now... "It Came From Baltimore". :D

[AgentSun]

does the liger drink lager?

[Saajak]

After watching too much SciFi we were getting slightly worried while tubing down the river last weekend. We thought we were being stalked by a killer bald eagle out for revenge. Turns out there are just five different eagles that live on that stretch of the river.

[Mike0812]

I think it's a 4th party candidate

:dunno: Isn't that Ralph's new campaign manager?

[eta_carinae]

Here's for you :)
http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/ligersize.jpg

wow.... that doesn't look anything like the creature Napoleon Dynamite drew.... it's huge!

[Scarran Raptor]

you know what it might be? I read somewhere that the feline and canine families had a common ancestor, the Hyena was an offshoot of that ancestor, that creature could be that ancestor, I mean they managed to clone an ancient ungulate that was either exctinct or thought to be, either that or it's a hyena mutation, like the Pepper moths of England, they thought the black moth was a new species but it was really just an evolution of the white peppered moth that had adapted to the soot-filled skies at the time and as the air was cleaned the moth went back to its original color, see where I'm going with this?

[Weetabix]

wow.... that doesn't look anything like the creature Napoleon Dynamite drew.... it's huge!
Ligers are the biggest felines on earth so far...

http://www.tigers-animal-actors.com/about/liger/ligerkrf.JPG