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Mystery Creature Lurks In Baltimore County
POSTED: 5:19 am EDT July 19, 2004
UPDATED: 6:54 pm EDT July 27, 2004
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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.
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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?"
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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.
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