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The truth can not be hidden, even in legend. It is my position that Crazy George is as real as a Skunk Ape, and the Legend of Crazy George recounts the true story of Crazy George – even if that truth is by necessity hidden. The Herald-Citizen in 1967 reported a Skunkape attack in Cookeville Tennessee. There are some people – at the Putnam Pitt – who might argue that the Herald-Citizen is not a reputable paper, but I must point out that the Herald-Citizen is the paper of record for the Courts, Note:
Cookeville's 'ghost house' causes a stir
Wes Swietek
Herald-Citizen Staff Published October 29, 2005 4:09 PM CDT
http://www.herald-citizen.com
COOKEVILLE -- Have you heard the tales of Booger Swamp or the Buckner Witch? How about the ghostly wagon trains that are heard (and sometimes seen) passing through to a destination unknown. Or what about the strange events at Crazy George's Bridge? …
The story begins in the spring of 1967.
"The footsteps begin in the front upstairs bedroom and move slowly through the hallway," begins the Putnam County Herald's account of the unusual happenings at a Cookeville house. The article recounts the claims by a local family that they were being terrorized by "a hairy creature with a head covered with warts."
The warty creature is the most noteworthy manifestation of the strange doings they reported. The family also claimed to hear unusual noises and to have been physically attacked by the creature.
A bullet hole in the home's windowsill was produced, resident Mike Clayborn claimed, after he said he saw "a hairy arm reaching toward his young wife's back in a downstairs bedroom."
Clayborn said he shot at the retreating creature, which had a tendency to dissapear in a fog.
The police and the newspapers were called.
"Chief Deputy Charles Matthews, a couple of auxiliary
policemen and two reporters, convinced …
So what happened to the "shadowy ghost house," as it
was dubbed in the newspapers? It burned to the ground
in a fire on Halloween night in 1971.
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