Dec 17, 2017
In 1810, a mysterious creature began killing sheep in northern England. It was killing eight sheep a night and eluding all traps until finally the creature was shot near the Ehen River. It had taken over 300 sheep. The carcass of the predator was 112 lbs. It was stuffed and set up in a museum in Keswick, then then it was lost. They named it the Girt Dog of Ennerdale. It was described as a tawny dog with tiger stripes. It may have been a now extinct thylacine, native of Tasmania, escaped from a traveling menagerie, but we’ll never know.