Amazing Nebraska Cryptid Photo
A remarkable photographic image has been snapped on the morning of
June 13, 2006, in a woman’s backyard in the Midwestern state of
Nebraska. KETV-7 in Omaha broadcast the picture on June 14, and it
appears to be an animal unlike any most people have seen
locally.
In the short dispatch, the Nebraska news staff report that:
Mary Ann Carta lives near 138th and Hamilton streets, and she took
some pictures of the animal that she saw. She said it could be a
bobcat, but it has her scared about taking her morning walk or
allowing her grandchildren to play outside.
"I was not afraid at the moment. I was in the house, but I was just
thinking about yesterday with the grandkids it was like, what would
I have done," Carta said.
An expert at the Henry Doorly Zoo is examining the pictures. He
thinks it could be a feral cat.
What are we to make of the hint of striping on the back? The long
canid-like legs? And long thin tail?
A werewolf, perhaps? I’m mildly joking, but that moniker has been
used in reports before, as we know from the work of Linda Godfrey,
northeast of Nebraska, in Wisconsin.
Or how about something else from the upper Mountain States? The
image does have an cryptid canid or hynea-like appearance,
reminding me of the Shunka Warak’in mystery taxidermy mount from
the 1880s, seen and recorded from the Yellowstone area, as pictured
below, and discussed in Cryptozoology A to Z.
