Rhinelander Wi a sleepy logging town
One day in the late 1800s a logger named Eugene Sheppard stumbled home dead drunk. Have fallen several times he managed to get home. His wife berated him for drinking and Sheppard claimed he had not been drinking but was attacked by a monster called a hodag! In a drunken state he described a dinosaur like being that lept out of the woods!
Sheppard started to tell everyone about the monster in the following week. Sheppard then made a statue of the monster. Getting his pals into the joke Sheppard took a photo of it surrounded by his friends..

The tale grew until Sheppards hodag was the mascot of the city .today the original hodag is in a museum and the hodag is so associated with the city it's called home of the hodag!
