Momo
Momo Its name derived from the appellation “the Missouri monster,” Momo is described as a hair-covered, roughly 6-foot-tall (1.8m) bipedal, half-human–half-ape, that has been sighted in and around the town of Louisiana, Missouri, since at least the 1940s. Most of the reports simply are of sightings, but on one occasion, in 1965, the beast supposedly attacked a woman in a car; on another, in 1972, it reportedly killed a dog. The 1972 incident was the first of several sightings within a two-week period in a neighbourhood where several dogs had disappeared. Skeptics dismiss Momo sightings as the result of hysteria or the misidentification of ordinary animals.
SEE ALSO:
- beasts, mysterious
- man-beasts
SOURCE:
The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Paranormal Phenomena – written by Patricia D. Netzley © 2006 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
