This 300-Year-Old Irish Grave Has a Monster on It
Cryptids are creatures people report but science has never confirmed. In each episode Poss Jonah tells where the legend comes from, what people say they saw, and what a sensible explanation might be, then lets you decide.
The story
Meet the Dobhar-chú, The water hound. He's half a dog. He's half an otter. He's 10 to 15 feet long with white fur, black ear tips, and a black cross on his back. The legend goes, in 1722, Grace Connolly went down to Glenade Lough to wash clothes. And never came home. Her husband, Terrence, found the beast asleep beside her and killed it with a dagger.
As it died, it let out a whistling cry, and its mate rose from the lake and chased him, but he killed that one too. That was a bad old boy, wasn't it? Her headstone, they say, shows a dog-like beast with a tufted tail. In 2003, an artist claimed he saw a big dark one off of Omey Island and it had orange flipper feet.
I'm wondering if that fella wasn't trying some of Ireland's best, yeah, you know what I mean? But here's the catch. Dobhar-chú is one of the regular Irish words for otter, so a monster or the biggest otter story ever told. Well, you decide. Hi, I'm Poss Jonah. Well, That's Weird.