Portland, Maine’s television station WCSH-TV, Channel 6, did a balanced, upbeat report on the media frenzy. They ended their report by showing footage of their reporter scrolling through the online “Maine Beast” blogs at Cryptomundo.
Bizarre Animal Carcass Draws International Media Attention to Turner
Web Editor: Chris Facchini, Reporter
Created: 8/17/2006 5:11:52 PM
Updated: 8/17/2006 5:15:39 PM
Media from Maine to Germany to Madagascar have reported on the dead animal carcass that one expert says is likely nothing more than a feral dog.
The Town of Turner is right in the middle of a media feeding frenzy. It’s all thanks to a strange looking animal that many newspapers, tv stations, cable networks, and websites have dubbed “the Maine Mutant”, “Mystery Beast, or the killer hybrid mutant creature.”
Michelle O’Donnell and her neighbors found the bizarre looking animal carcass and took pictures of it last week. “it’s been phenomenal, the phone calls, the emails, radio stations. I’ve given so many phone interviews all over the country, Seattle Washington, Santa Barbara California, Chicago, Boston, Vermont, Maryland, DC. It’s been crazy.”
A Turner restaurant even decided to capitalize on the publicity by offering creature burgers.
But the hype may not last much longer. Nationally renown Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman says the mystery creature is most likely a feral dog. Coleman took DNA samples from the animal carcass for testing, but says he is confident the tests will show the creature is a dog and not some weird hybrid species.
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Photograph by Michelle O’Donnell. Used by permission.
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