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Monsters of the east coast
Between 1973 and 1976, the region of the state of Maryland between the urban concentrations of Baltimore and Washington DC experienced a streak of sightings of "big furry monsters" that in spite of their huge size had nothing to do with the famous Bigfoot or Sasquatch of the Pacific coast.
These violent creatures roamed the suburban surroundings of White Marsh (where there is now an important commercial center), frightening neighbors and defying the law enforcement officers who not only saw them, but devoted a large part of their free time to chasing them.
For these municipal and state policemen, the creatures with phosphorescent green eyes and deafening cries were not the result of any evolutionary chance, but of the hand of man. In an already legendary incident,
Sergeant George Brooks of the Essex County barracks recalled a 1976 case in which a neighbor of Harewood Park contacted the authorities after having seen a simian entity of 2 meters tall running through the courtyard of his house.
Sergeant Brooks was stunned to arrive at the scene to discover that the lady's German shepherd dog - a ninety pound animal - had been torn in half by "something" of enormous strength. The policeman claimed to have found footprints and heard a deafening scream coming from the nearby grove.
"When we arrived at the place we found the tracks and we found hair fibers when that thing went through a barbed wire fence. We heard his screams, we could smell his stench of sulfur, we saw his tracks, but we could never see it. We think he could have swum from Arsenal Edgewood (the old name of the Aberdeen polygon) and that it could have been some kind of genetic mutation. The military were very interested in the case, but we never get along with them, if you understand what I want to say. "
In June 1976, Clive Miller, another neighbor of Harewood, said that dozens of soldiers from the Aberdeen polygon had gone into one of the surrounding swamps to come out with some kind of huge dead animal stuffed in a duffel bag. The apparent capture of the entity did not end the manifestations of other creatures, which lasted for several years after.
Artist Interpretation
Both elements of the police and researchers of the paranormal began to receive testimonies from fishermen and sailors who frequented the waters of the Chesapeake Gulf near the sea exit of the Aberdeen range. The testimonies made mention of extremely strange experiments that were taking place on Poole Island, a research center attached to the polygon.
Tom Sobotka, the most visible of these fishermen, made the following statement to the prestigious Washington Post: "There are many things that are happening in Edgewood that we do not know: experiments and mutations. They keep everything secret, but they found a dead orangutan near the railway two months ago. A guard told me that in the section they have there are incredible things, like experiments with humans ... "
The fisherman added that it was easy to find mutations in the waters around Poole Island, like "a fish with deer legs" (as unlikely as it sounds). But there was a proven fact, and that is that the island had been closed to the civilian population.
The investigation could establish the existence of considerable quantities of teratogenic agents such as perchlorethylene, tri-iso-propyl phosphate and others in the region, accidentally or purposely released at the perimeter of the shooting range. The possibility of experiments with hybrids of apes and humans was not dismissed by the researchers, whose files mention at least one case of simian / human crossing that was stopped at the last moment.
The case history of that distant year suggests that something had indeed escaped the old Aberdeen polygon. In the month of May, a neighbor claimed to have witnessed a two-meter-tall being running from one side of her backyard to the other - a creature that may have been responsible for the death by exsanguination of her German shepherd dog.
The researchers found 45-centimeter prints and an unbearable stench, also hearing the screams of being in the surrounding wooded area. A few days later, the machinists of an AMTRAK train saw a hairy creature crossing the tracks in Harewood.
Between 1973 and 1976, the region of the state of Maryland between the urban concentrations of Baltimore and Washington DC experienced a streak of sightings of "big furry monsters" that in spite of their huge size had nothing to do with the famous Bigfoot or Sasquatch of the Pacific coast.
These violent creatures roamed the suburban surroundings of White Marsh (where there is now an important commercial center), frightening neighbors and defying the law enforcement officers who not only saw them, but devoted a large part of their free time to chasing them.
For these municipal and state policemen, the creatures with phosphorescent green eyes and deafening cries were not the result of any evolutionary chance, but of the hand of man. In an already legendary incident,
Sergeant George Brooks of the Essex County barracks recalled a 1976 case in which a neighbor of Harewood Park contacted the authorities after having seen a simian entity of 2 meters tall running through the courtyard of his house.
Sergeant Brooks was stunned to arrive at the scene to discover that the lady's German shepherd dog - a ninety pound animal - had been torn in half by "something" of enormous strength. The policeman claimed to have found footprints and heard a deafening scream coming from the nearby grove.
"When we arrived at the place we found the tracks and we found hair fibers when that thing went through a barbed wire fence. We heard his screams, we could smell his stench of sulfur, we saw his tracks, but we could never see it. We think he could have swum from Arsenal Edgewood (the old name of the Aberdeen polygon) and that it could have been some kind of genetic mutation. The military were very interested in the case, but we never get along with them, if you understand what I want to say. "
In June 1976, Clive Miller, another neighbor of Harewood, said that dozens of soldiers from the Aberdeen polygon had gone into one of the surrounding swamps to come out with some kind of huge dead animal stuffed in a duffel bag. The apparent capture of the entity did not end the manifestations of other creatures, which lasted for several years after.
Artist Interpretation
Both elements of the police and researchers of the paranormal began to receive testimonies from fishermen and sailors who frequented the waters of the Chesapeake Gulf near the sea exit of the Aberdeen range. The testimonies made mention of extremely strange experiments that were taking place on Poole Island, a research center attached to the polygon.
Tom Sobotka, the most visible of these fishermen, made the following statement to the prestigious Washington Post: "There are many things that are happening in Edgewood that we do not know: experiments and mutations. They keep everything secret, but they found a dead orangutan near the railway two months ago. A guard told me that in the section they have there are incredible things, like experiments with humans ... "
The fisherman added that it was easy to find mutations in the waters around Poole Island, like "a fish with deer legs" (as unlikely as it sounds). But there was a proven fact, and that is that the island had been closed to the civilian population.
The investigation could establish the existence of considerable quantities of teratogenic agents such as perchlorethylene, tri-iso-propyl phosphate and others in the region, accidentally or purposely released at the perimeter of the shooting range. The possibility of experiments with hybrids of apes and humans was not dismissed by the researchers, whose files mention at least one case of simian / human crossing that was stopped at the last moment.
The case history of that distant year suggests that something had indeed escaped the old Aberdeen polygon. In the month of May, a neighbor claimed to have witnessed a two-meter-tall being running from one side of her backyard to the other - a creature that may have been responsible for the death by exsanguination of her German shepherd dog.
The researchers found 45-centimeter prints and an unbearable stench, also hearing the screams of being in the surrounding wooded area. A few days later, the machinists of an AMTRAK train saw a hairy creature crossing the tracks in Harewood.
