| Giant Vampire Caterpillar | |
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| Type | Cryptid |
| Continent | Europe |
| Country | Scotland |
| One-Time? | Yes |
| Theories | · Cryptid · Zooform Entity · Misidentification or hoax |
The Giant Vampire Caterpillar is a creature sighted once by 23 year old Geoffrey Anderson, in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1904.[http://]
Sighting[]
Anderson claimed that:
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On 23 November, I was about to cross from the corner of Princes Street into Hanover Street. At the other corner, opposite a large shop, stood a horse and carriage. The horse was turned towards me and about twenty yards away. Suddenly from the gutter, where it falls into the drain, rose a vague black shape about four feet long and two and a half feet high, but without any visible legs. It was shaped like an hour-glass and moved like a huge caterpillar towards the horse, about fifteen feet off. The movement was very rapid. It sprang to the throat of the animal, clung there like a limpet for an instant and disappeared. The horse, in evident terror, reared violently straight up, throwing out his hoofs as if to strike something. A passer-by went to its head and I succeeded in quieting the terrified creature. The streets were brilliantly lit with electric light and the shop windows rendered the illumination greater. I cannot account for the appearance. My mind was occupied with simple everyday objects of no great moment. |
Lore[]
The creature is similar in appearance, if not in coventional behaviour, to a similar Scottish nursery bogey, the Awd Goggie .
Possible Explanations[]
There are several explanations as to what the creature could be. Theories include:
- An undiscovered species (a Cryptid)
- A nature spirit
- A "bogey story" meant to scare children
- A bio-phantasmal manifestation
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