It has been reported that a man driving home through a city park in New Orleans saw a sort of troll thing. It had yellow eyes and big sharp claws on the ends of its hands, and a tongue that was too large for its mouth, yet contained within that mouth by terrible fangs.
In addition to this, the monster was claimed to have either gills or matted hair along the sides of its head. This is where the story falls apart for me. How would gills and matted hair look at all alike, unless the driver couldn’t actually get a close look at whatever he saw, which might well have been a person in costume, given that a parade had taken place close by earlier in the day? How could a driver see that a creature’s tongue is too big for its mouth, but not distinguish gills from matted hair?
Mardi Gras produces these sightings (the guy was REALLY effed up or he saw something fleetingly and it registered as this in his mind). Yesterday, looking out my window in the early morning what looked like a giant snowplow a few properties up the street from my house became, as the light became better, a trampoline in front of a swing set, both covered in mounds of snow.