What is a 'Devil Monkey?' Every once in a while, I see the term pop up on social media and in eyewitness reports. It seems to be a vague moniker used to describe a variety of cryptids.
On January 12, 2006, the witness walked into his home to find a devil-like creature confronting his 6-year-old labrador dog. This creature seemed to be an unusual combination of a monkey, a dog, and the devil. Suddenly, it sprang to its hind legs and ran, nearly pushing us over to get to the open door I had just come through. This creature had long fangs, a monkey-like tail, and extremely bright glowing eyes.
In another report, An Ohio woman driving through Roanoke, Virginia at about 2:30 a.m. reported a similar encounter in the late 1990s while driving on a dark road at night and forced to take a detour due to road construction. She had driven past a road sign that read, "Red Wolf Crossing" close to Elizabeth City when a creature, which was not a wolf, leaped in front of her car.
The creature was all black with very short sleek fur, pointy ears, and a long thin tail. She described it as catlike, and yet not like any cat she had ever seen. The snout was flatter than a dog's and more like a cat's. The creature was very tall because she saw it when it was standing on its hind legs and was easily 6 feet tall. She indicated its torso looked very much like that of a very thin man and its head resembled a large monkey but with a pointy beard. However, the creature's hind legs were like a wild cat or dog. It was very muscular and thin.
Later, the woman checked with the US Game and Wildlife Department who told her there were no black wolves in the area but suggested she had seen a feral dog (feral meaning "wild") or a wolf-dog hybrid. But the woman was emphatic it was not a wolf or dog.
The woman explained the creature may have been on all fours just before leaping. The creature leaped with such force and height that it only took one bound to make it across both lanes of the highway. This indicates the creature leaped more than 18 feet or 6 meters to get across the road. Dogs and wolves do not leap this far in one jump. Even larger animals such as deer usually take several bounds to leap across a road.
According to Cryptid Wiki:
Sightings of mysterious primate-like creatures have been reported across the United States since the 1930s fully-haired. “Devil Monkeys” are described as similar to baboons, but larger, faster, and meaner.
They are described as three to eight feet tall, walking on all fours or upright, with large feet, fully-haired bodies, and a monkey or dog-like face. Cryptozoologists have confirmed that the Devil Monkey is indeed a distinct creature, different than its mythical cousins, the Chupacabra and Bigfoot.
NOTE: The information was forwarded to me a few years ago by a friend who has been collecting reports of what he describes as a 'Devil Monkey'. These descriptions were somewhat different than most other primate cryptids. In at least one instance, this creature killed and fed on dogs and cats but did not bother livestock.
Most of the sightings occur in the remote parts of the Appalachian Mountains, in particular, Virginia & Pennsylvania. Lon
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