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 |  Subject: ‘The ugly one’ monster mystery  Tue May 25, 2010 8:48 pm | |
| ‘The ugly one’ monster mysteryA snaggle-toothed, furry creature with a bald face and a rat’s tale has mystified natives in northern Ontario, but they have a name and a history for it.
“The elders used to see it a long time ago,” the manager of Sam’s Store in Big Trout Lake told the Star on Friday.
“No one has seen one for 40 years or so. The elders have a word for it: omajinaakoos. In English, it means ‘the ugly one’.”
Two Health Canada nurses training at the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Band reserve south of Hudson’s Bay said their dog Sam hauled out the 30-centimetre creature it found in early May floating face down near the causeway on the reserve, band spokesman Darryl Sainnawap told the Star.
“It looks like a mixed breed of an otter and a beaver,” he said. “We’re just as curious as everyone to find out what it is.”
One band member, 65-year-old John McKay, said he remembered his grandfather talking about such a creature that “feeds on beavers and otters.” Sainnawap’s 80-year-old grandfather had never seen anything like it, though.
Other elders “think it could be a messenger for bad news,” he said. “We’ll see.”
The discoverers threw it back in the water, thinking it was a commonly found northern Ontario beast, Sainnawap said.
The nurses themselves have been posted elsewhere, and staff at the nursing station won’t talk. “We work for the federal government,” said one. “We’re under a gag order.”
Sainnawap rejected speculation that it could be a man-made hybrid created for pictures.
“We don’t play God here.”
Nor would the nurses, he said. “It’s got to have a mother and father out there, so one day we will find out what it is.”The rest of the story and pictures can be seen at the link. | |
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| | Subject: Re: ‘The ugly one’ monster mystery Wed May 26, 2010 12:09 pm | |
| Looks like a regular otter to me, just from the face, but I really couldn't say otherwise without seeing a full body shot. | |
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