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Dateline: Leeds, Maine - February-March 2010
A weird creature is the talk of a tiny town in Maine.In the midst of the boggy lands that are the Turner Triangle, in Androscoggin County, Maine, containing the little towns of Turner, Turner Center, Greene, Leeds, and farther south, Durham, there exists a hodgepodge of reports of cryptids, creatures, and critters. Some appear to be black panthers, others are of hyena-like animals, and a few tell of mountain lion/cougars. This is the county that has given us the "Durham Gorilla" of 1973, the "Maine Mutant" 0f 2006, and the backwood's "Turner Beast" or "Greene Monster" of the last dozen years. The same area also hosts historical and new accounts of Bigfoot and Bigfoot-type creatures. Leeds, a name more associated with the Jersey Devil, in New Jersey, than monsters in Maine, nevertheless, appears to have its very own Windigo, of sorts.
I shall overview the results of the recent investigations of myself, Loren Coleman, director, and Jeff Meuse, chief docent coordinator of the International Cryptozoology Museum. I shall attempt to make some sense of all of what I am calling the accounts of the Leeds Loki.