Phantom kangaroo

Phantom kangaroo

Periodically, reports of kangaroos, wallabies, or their accompanying footprints have been made in places where one would not expect them -- specifically, areas where there is no native population. cite book
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] Some explanations put forth are escaped zoo or circus animals, or publicity stunts by local businesses using photographs from Australia. Others suggest outbreaks of such sightings are a form of mass hysteria.

United Kingdom

There is at least one verifiable example of a population of wild wallabies outside Australia. Documented colonies of red-necked wallabies exist in the United Kingdom. In Derbyshire, a breeding colony has established itself after breaking loose from a private zoo in Leek, Staffordshire in the 1930s [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A786477 Derbyshire's Wallabies] ] . Their population peaked in the 1970s, reaching numbers between 60 and 70. There have been no confirmed sightings of the wallabies since 2000, however, with some locals believing they must have died out. Even so, other Wallaby colonies exist in the UK, including reliable reports from the Fen-land on the Norfolk/Lincolnshire border; Scotland has some at Lady Arran, on one of Loch Lomonds' islands, and there are a few in Ashdown Forest, Sussex.

France

There is a verifiable population of kangaroos living in the wild in the township of Émancé, about an hour outside of Paris [ [http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/roos-are-driving-french-hopping-mad/2006/02/11/1139542445052.html Roos are driving French hopping mad] ] . The kangaroos are descended from a breeding population which escaped during a botched burglary attempt at an animal park in the 1970s.

Germany

In the years before World War I, there was a colony of wallabies in Prussia, raised by a hunter living there. When he died, shortly before WWI, they became easy prey to local deer hunters.

United States

Many of these sightings are very similar to reports of the Jersey Devil.

Tennessee, 1934: During mid-January 1934, an atypical kangaroo was reported to have killed and partially devoured several animals, including German shepherd dogs. One witness, Reverend W. J. Hancock, described the animal as looking like a large kangaroo, running and leaping across a field. Another witness, Frank Cobb, soon found more evidence of the kangaroo’s activities: a dismembered alsatian. A search party followed the kangaroo's prints to a cave, where the trail ran out. The kangaroo was never found.

There have been recent attempts to label the story as a hoax by the late Horace N. Minnis, of the "Chattanooga Times". However, Minnis was not a newspaper correspondent for the area at that time.

Chicago, 1974: In the early morning hours of October 18, 1974, Officer Michael Byrne and Leonard Ciagi of the Chicago police were called to investigate a report that a kangaroo was standing in someone's porch. After a brief search, the officers located the animal in an alleyway, but were unable to capture it.

After the Chicago incident, kangaroo sightings were reported in Illinois and Wisconsin. The kangaroo was seen the next day by a paperboy, and again on the 23rd in Schiller Woods. Another police officer saw it on November 1 in Plano, just outside the city. He reported it jumping eight feet from a field into the road. Half an hour later it (or another one), was seen back in Chicago. It was then seen on the following three days in the surrounding countryside, and finally on the sixth, near Lansing. A few days later, there was a rash of sightings in Indiana.

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, 1978: two men photographed a large kangaroo beside the highway. (picture supplied) Loren Coleman compares the pictures to a Bennett's wallaby.

ee also

* Vagrancy (biology)
* Forteana
* Jersey Devil

References

External links

* [http://www.prairieghosts.com/gators.html Mysterious Creatures of Illinois: Vanishing Gators, Lions and Phantom Kangaroos]
* [http://www.newanimal.org/kanga.htm The Cryptid Zoo: Kangaroos in Cryptozoology]
* [http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/cryptozoology/phantomkangas.html X-Project: Phantom Kangaroos]
* [http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/killerroo/ 1934Tennessee sightings]


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