BEAMAN MONSTER

Have you ever heard of the legendary Beaman Monster, supposedly found in Pettis County (Missouri)?  It is supposed to be the offspring of a gorilla which escaped from a circus train in 1904.  If the gorilla was one parent, we are not told what the other was.  According to one version it looked like a wolf or coyote.  Footprints have been cited as evidence for its existence.  A fake model Beaman Monster, erected about 1957, may have added to the legend.

Gorilla