from: Saga Magazine, December 1973
Take the report of Patrick C. Flournoy, of Jessamine County, Kentucky, in 1831:
"Whilst descending the cliff on the north side of the Kentucky River I encountered a being whose visage was most horrible. He was lying upon the ground, his tail tied to the limb of a tree. The tramping of my horse frightened him and he bounded up a tree, climbing by his tail. Nearing the tree I surveyed his appearance. His hair was long and flowing, and he had but one eye, in the center of his forehead, which was white and near the size of a silver dollar..."
Either Flournoy had literary gifts of extraordinary scope, or he was potted--or he actually saw some bizarre creature and merely embellished slightly as any good~ Kentucky frontiersman would.
I'm doing a little research into some of the unexplained, weird things you find in Kentucky, and that sure counts.
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