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Newspaper Article August 20, 1926

8/29/2012

The following article was published in The Evening Leader, Corning, N.Y. on Friday, August 20, 1926

MYSTERIOUS ANIMAL NOT YET CAUGHT

HORNELL, Aug. 20—Although the mysterious animal which infests Klipnocky, Allegany county, 10 miles from here, continue to kill small live stock on farms in that locality, searchers have been unable to get close enough to make shooting effective. Robert Hall of 12 Willow Place, was one of the men from here who was searching. He caught sight of the animal in the brush, but it moved so quickly that he was unable to get more than a fleeting glance at it, and but a random shot. So far, the animal has not attacked anything any larger than a dog. Efforts of huntsmen to track the animal down with the aid of dogs, was futile at the start. Dogs, after taking the trail for a few minutes, come back whining. Last night a pair of bloodhounds was ordered from Atlanta, Ga., and will arrive here sometime Saturday.

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Newspaper Article August 27, 1926

8/29/2012

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The following is the actual article taken from The Patriot and Free Press, Cuba, NY. Published August 27, 1926

Farming Community Frightened by
Attacks of Wild Beast

The people of Klipnocky, near Canaseraga, have lately become much alarmed over the depredations of a mysterious wild animal which nightly attacks and kills sheep. Some who have seen it at a distance say it looks like a bear and others, an ape. Some believe it to be a wolf or possibly a large dog, though it is said that it attacks sheep in a different way from that of a dog. As the escape of an ape and a leopard from captivity has been reported in New Jersey recently residents fear it may be one of these animals.

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Newspaper Article from August 18, 1926

8/29/2012

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The following article is taken from The Evening Leader, Corning, N.Y. Printed Wednesday, August 18, 1926. This is the actual article.

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Scores of Armed Men Search For Huge Mysterious Animal Leaving Trail of Dead Game
HORNELL, Aug. 18.—Scores of armed men, including a posse of 15 crack shots and hunters from Canaseraga were driven from the dense, tangled woods at Klipnocky by heavy rains, after they had unsuccessfully searched for hours for a huge, unknown, mysterious animal, said to resemble a baboon.
Among the armed men seanhing were Game Protector Frank Maloney and Patrolman George W. Vanness of this city. They said that the animal moved faster than any earthly thing they had ever seen. Huge tracks denote nothing to Game Protector Maloney. "I have never seen nor heard of tracks such as this animal makes," he said. For miles around Klipnocky the ground is littered with dead chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and wild game birds and animals.
The latter is what interested Officer Maloney. No pretense is made by the animal to eat the carcasses of the animals he kills. They are found torn limb from limb, indicating that the animal tortures his prey and kills it in the most merciless fashion. Examination of the carcasses brings out that the animal sucks their blood.
The search centered on the farm of Mott Dye and run by his son-in-law, G. Warren. Here every animal on the place has been killed. He first appealed to Canaseraga people for relief. The searchers were joined by a Rochester party but too late in the day to assist, owing to the rain. One hundred and fifty chickens on the Edward Twilliger farm have been killed.

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The Legend of Klipnocky

8/29/2012

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The following is a writing about the legend of the Hairy Women of Klipnocky.
Submitted by Ruth Bancroft

Around 75 years ago, a young couple lived up in Klipnocky with their 3 daughters. They were simple people. No simple minded, mind you. They just lived a very simple life on their little farm with none of the amenities that we all take for granted these days, so they did not have a telephone. One day, the parents decided to go to Arkport. They felt their daughters were old enough to stay home on their own for the day. Before they left, they gave the girls instructions on what to do in case someone came to rob the place or something bad happened. They told the girls they were to run right out the back door and stay hidden in the woods in a certain place they all knew until either their Mom or Dad came to get them.

When the parents were about half way to Arkport, there was a terrible accident and they were both killed. At the same time, a chimney fire had set their home ablaze. The 3 girls did just as they had been told-they ran out the back door and hid in the woods. The house had burned right down by the time anyone showed up and everyone thought the girls had died in the fire.

It wasn't too much time after that all happened when farmers would leave their lunch in a cool, shady spot on the edge of the woods while they were doing hay and when they went to eat it at noon, it would be gone. Then clothing started disappearing from clothes lines.

There is still an old timer in Canaseraga who can tell you how, when he was a kid, he had ridden along with his dad when he had to drive up through Klipnocky to check the roads in late Spring to see what would need to be repaired after the winter snow and spring rains. They ate lunch in the truck. He says he never liked the crust on a sandwich and if he had been at home with his mother, she would have made him eat it, but his dad said "What Mother doesn't know won't bother her." He threw the crust out the window. He said that no sooner had that crust hit the ground than some crazy looking girl with long, tangled hair that had leaves and burrs all knotted up in it came out of the woods, snatched up the crust and was gone, all in the blink of an eye.

Are those 3 poor girls still waiting in the woods for their parents to come for them? I don't know. But I have been hiking and camping in Klipnocky and I have heard other people talk about the woods up in Klipnocky. It's enough to make you wonder...

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