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http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=23217&messageid=1094044450The "Abominable Chicken Man"
by Craig
The following text is from the September 1971 issue of Fate Magazine.
The "Abominable Chicken Man," although never seen, left convincing evidence of his presence at a farm near El Reno, 30 miles west of Oklahoma City.
One morning in December, 1970, according to an Associated Press story datelined February 27, a farmer found the door to his chicken coop ripped off and lying on the ground. On the surface of the door and inside the coop itself were strange hand prints about seven inches long and five inches wide. When he saw that several of his chickens had disappeared with out a trace, he called the local state game ranger.
The door was shipped to zoologist Lawrence Curtis, director of the Oklahoma City Zoo. After a study that included comparisons with the hand and paw prints of human beings, apes, monkeys, bears and other animals, Curtis confessed his bafflement. "I don't know what this is," he said. "It resembles a gorilla but it's more like a man." According to Curtis the creature's thumb crooks inward as if deformed or injured.
"It appears that whatever made the prints was walking on all fours," he said, judging from the footprints on the ground outside the coop. Unfortunately these were not preserved.
"We've shown it to mammalogists and wildlife experts in Oklahoma and some passing through," Curtis went on. "All agree it is (the print of) a primate. These were made by some sort of man." The man, if such he was, was barefooted.
Curtis added that he heard from a man in Stillwater and a woman in McAlester who had discovered similar prints.
In its February 28 issue The Oklahoma Journal announced in a front page story: "Hen House Terror Just Monkey Stuff." Staff writer Jane Berryman wrote that Howard Dreeson, who operated a sawmill in Calumet 13 miles west of El Reno, had seen a chimpanzee in the woods several times and tried unsuccessfully to catch it. The reporter quotes zoo director Curtis' suggestion that a chimp may have escaped from a psychology laboratory at the University of Oklahoma at Norman. (Curtis told FATE in early April that "these prints are definitely not from a chimp.")
A check with the laboratory in question (run by Dr. Bill Lemon of the university's psychology department) elicited amused assurance that no chimps were missing.
Dreeson himself believes the animal escaped from a circus train wreck or derailment near Mulhall some years ago. (Mulhall is about 50 miles northeast of Calumet in central Oklahoma.) FATE was able to determine, however, that the "wreck" was a minor one and no animals got away.
How does Dreeson know it is a chimp?
"I've seen 'em on television." he says. "You ought to see this fella - actually I think it's a female. It's about, oh, 30, 31 inches tall and it's got a face that looks like a prune. Cute little fella. Sure would like to catch it."
Dreeson regularly leaves food for the animal, which he has seen three times, always at dusk.
"I always leave out oranges and bananas," he says. "They're gone in a couple of days and I never find the skins."
He keeps a heavy net in his pickup truck hoping one day to snare the animal. "I have a good idea where it might be spending the night now and if I can't catch it," he observes, "maybe at least I can get a picture of it. I keep a camera with me at all time these days."
The supposed chimpanzee is not the only out-of-place animal Howard Dreeson has seen. One evening in early 1969 he was driving nine miles north of Calumet on the Ocharche Road when a panther-like animal crossed in front of his car and disappeared into the timber.
"It looked at me," he says, "and its eyes shone. It was black as jet and had a real long tail. Its body must've been three feet long, maybe longer."
"Folks around here are always seeing funny things but they never like to talk about 'em. Everybody takes a sort of 'so what?' attitude. Just the other day this fella said to me, 'I seen something mighty strange out by the timber.' I asked him, 'Well, what was it?' and he said, 'Dad gummed if I know.' That kinda killed the conversation right there."
