“I saw in in the sea! It had a whale in its jaws! A whole orca! In its jaws like it was nothing! It swam all the way out and around the island and was so big it remained completely visible! I promise you, it was there!!”
Another day, another round of interviews with people who claimed to have come in contact with the giant dog we have nicknamed Herman.
For several months now, my team and I have been investigating reports about this giant dog. We are cryptozoologists , or people who study and search for legendary animals in order to evaluate the possibility of their existence. It’s not necessarily an easy field to work in. You travel a lot, to remote locations where there isn’t a lot to do. You deal with people who may or may not speak English. You spend days and nights staking out something that has a significant likelihood of being nonexistent. Still, it’s interesting. I will give it that. The things I have seen in my years in this line of work have been enough to keep me in it.
As I said, we’ve been on the Herman trail for about 10 months. We came to the Inuit village after receiving several requests to look into this giant dog that locals reported seeing. This dog is not only huge…it’s huge and dangerous and extremely intelligent. Apparently, it’s even abducted and possibly eaten some of the people from the inland. And if it’s here, and if it’s as big as we predict it to be…it’s extremely good at hiding and keeping itself a secret.
So far, we’ve found some prints that could possibly belong to this dog. They were pretty big, but not as big as we were led to believe Herman’s prints would be. If you ask me, I think they might be from a large bear. We’re only funded for a year, so we’re all hoping something new happens soon. We’ve spent this much time here and we don’t have a lot to show for it so far, so with any luck, the next two months will bring us some tangible evidence.
The people here are so convinced. Person after person comes through our doors and each of them has a different incident to tell us about. The village elders, young children, and everybody in between has something to say about it. The strange thing about this case is the lack of skeptics. In fact, all of the villagers here seem to be afraid of dogs in general because of the association with this dog beast.
I’m not convinced, but I haven’t given up hope either. Tonight, we’ll monitor the area where the dog was said to have caught a whale and maybe that’ll turn something up. Deep down, I hope we do see it. A dog large enough to consume a whale would be quite the sight.
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(Mythological dog beast, Wikipedia)
Bibliography:
Book: Eskimo Folk-Tales
Author: Knud Rasmussen
Year Published: 1921
Web Source: Eskimo Folk-Tales
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Melanie,
ReplyDeleteI found your story to be quite exciting to read. I thought you narrated it well, it definitely kept the audience interested. I like how in your notes you related the large dog to bigfoot. I thought that connection was clever. However, I think the readers would have benefited for some more background on the original story. I never read the Eskimo Folk-tales unit so it would have been helpful to know what you altered from the original story. Otherwise I really enjoyed your storytelling!
Wow your story was very interesting and really kept the reader interested throughout the whole thing! I think that it is such an interesting topic to talk about creatures that people believe exist, but there is no proof at this time! I think you did a great job of providing just the right amount of detail and explaining things very well! Great job!
ReplyDeleteYour story was very different compared to most I have read. I really like that it seemed like a real story. Like you mentioned in your author's note it sounds a lot like a big foot story. I have to admit that when you mentioned a giant dog I immediately thought of Clifford the Big Red Dog. Though from your picture, that is definitely not what the giant dog was.
ReplyDeleteHi Melanie! I love the way that you chose to adapt your story for the week. The method of having the narrator speak as if taking notes to themselves, or recounting the event, makes it really interesting. I have not read the original story, but it seems as if it must have been fun. You did a good job at catching my interest and keeping it for the story. Keep up the good work!
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