8.20.2009

Welcome to Hodag Country...

The town of Rhinelander, WI is known as the home of the hodag. What's a hodag, you ask?

In 1893 newspapers reported the discovery of a Hodag in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. It had "the head of a frog, the grinning face of a giant elephant, thick short legs set off by huge claws, the back of a dinosaur, and a long tail with spears at the end".

It was "the fiercest, strangest, most frightening monster ever to set razor sharp claws on the earth. It became extinct after its main food source, all white bulldogs became scarce in the area."
Eventually it was determined that the Hodag was a hoax.
(All according to Wikipedia...)

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