A Belize City resident contacted me about a horrible-looking creature that is said to roam the dark streets at night killing pets and scaring others. Any idea what this is?
I received the following account:
"Hello, sir. I once saw something that terrified me (it was not a crawler). It was in Belize City, Belize and it looked like some kind of horrible hyena-crocodile hybrid. I saw it from a distance, (about 50 yards away) but clearly and for an extended moment, with a park bench for size reference.
Adults had no idea what I was talking about, but the kids enthusiastically confirmed that there was a monster that kept killing street dogs that they played with and that if you had a dog you liked, make sure you brought him off the street at night.
For decades it was a true and honest mystery to me. Chupacabra? I don't know. Then like last week I saw a picture of a hairless, melanistic spectacled bear, and like, that's my monster. It makes no sense that one would be in Belize City (they only live in isolated regions nowhere near Belize, but still in South America). But it makes way more sense than me having seen some kind of extraterrestrial goat vampire.
A very believable scenario to me would be that it was a legitimate zoo or circus animal that had been released it out in the jungle for fear of other animals getting sick, and then it naturally entered a city to find a way to live. Scavenging garbage it encountered dogs, and being a spectacled bear, it defended its garbage, realizing that dogs were a pretty readily available calorie source in the process.
Anyway, my point is, that there's got to be some real thing behind the mystery." P
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