...
Lawton, Oklahoma, that is. On
February 27, 1971,
police in Lawton received several
reports of some sort of
creature running down the
street, dodging cars, and hiding behind bushes. A
rash of calls followed in the next few days.
One man saw the
thing sitting on a
railing outside his second-floor
apartment; when it saw him, it jumped to the
ground 17 feet below and ran away. The man said it ran on all
fours, that it had a horribly
distorted face, and that it had
hair all over its
face,
body and
legs. He also said it wore only a
pair of pants that looked like they'd been
shrunk. Other
eyewitnesses also described the creature's
pants as being far
too small, suggesting either that it had
outgrown its pants or that it was --
ahem --
anxious for love.
Other
witnesses included a group of
soldiers from
Fort Sill and a man who had a
heart attack after he saw it trying to
drink out of a
fish pond in his
front yard. But just two days after the initial
sightings, the
monster disappeared and was never seen again.