On This Day in Weird, December 27...
1981: Four young boys walking their dogs on the Hackney
Marshes—an area of grassland on the
western bank of the River Lea in the London Borough of Hackney—discover a trail
of three-clawed footprints in the snow. One youth claims the tracks are bear
footprints, though all bears known to science share five claws on
each foot. Moments later, the boys meet an elderly couple that warns them to
leave, since a "bear" has been prowling the area. Pressing on
regardless, they soon meet "a giant great growling bear-like creature"
and finally flee the vicinity. Police search the 5,000-acre wasteland on December
28, employing a helicopter and tracking dogs, finding no creature but discovering
"several convincing sets of tracks" that end abruptly in the snow.
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