Cahokia Dragon

 


What follows is the least modern of the modern dragon sightings I’ve researched, although it’s far from the medieval era where dragons belong.


On October 5th of 1877 a farm boy named Johnny Smith witnessed an epic battle between one of his bulls, and reportedly, a real dragon. All of this happened outside Saint Louis, about seven miles away from the ruins of the ancient city of Cahokia.


In the farming community surrounding Saint Louis the Smith family was well known for being honest. Lead by their father Jabez, he was a pillar of truthfulness and practicality, never giving into any form of exaggeration or flights of fancy, to the point where he was known as truthful Jabez. Under his strict discipline his sons followed suit. So when his son Johnny reported seeing a monster fight their bull, and came home with a badly injured bull, people believed him, no matter how fanciful the events sounded.


Around 4pm that day Johnny Smith had been sent out to collect one of the family’s bulls. It was housed in a pasture sounded by forest about half a mile from the farm house. The bull was ornery and troublesome, so Johnny approached the field with caution. He stood at the far end of the field, well away from the bull. Before he could slip under the fence he heard a loud guttural roar coming from the forest. Johnny hid behind some near by bushes. The bull looked off in the direction of the roar, ears up and hair bristling. It had obviously heard the sound too.


A reptilian head on a long neck emerged from the edge of the forest, the body still hidden. The head was wolf shaped, but with the snout ending in a beak. There was a row of spikes down the snout as well. A main or red fur went down the length of the twenty foot neck. The rest was reptilian looking and covered in blue scales the size of dinner plates. The creature yawned, showing off rows of long predatory teeth, and let out a loud hiss.


The beast swayed its head back and forth in a reptilian fashion. It locked eyes on the bull. The bull stayed steadfast in its place, pawing at the ground in an aggressive gesture. The giant reptilian beast roared again and snapped its jaws, making the sound of a gunshot. It crawled forth on short lizard like legs. Its body was shorter than its neck, bust still flexible and lizard like. There were bat like wings on its back. It had a long lizard like tail, that ended in a bright red scorpion like stinger. The whole of the creature was covered in scales. It moved in an almost slithering side to side motion as it walked, scaling over the fence with ease.


Once inside the pasture the dragon circled around the bull. The bull stood its ground, nodding its head to show off its horns. Then the dragon reared back, opened its mouth and struck at the bull. The bull charged at the dragon. Horned locked against jaws and the two beasts pushed against each other in a battle of strength. The dragon clawed at the bull, but the bull remained indomitable. The dragon then swung its long barbed tail towards the bull, but missed and wedged the scorpion stinger into a near by stump. The bull took the opportunity to ram the dragon’s side, over and over with its horns. In the process dislodging scales from the creature.


The dragon, weakened and pushed back by the bull, unfurled its bat like wings and few off over the tree tops while roaring again in pain. Johnny could hear the wing-beats over head. It flew towards the near by Mississippi river and Johnny even heard a loud splash, which he assumed was the monster entering the water.



The bull wasn’t without injury. It had been badly bitten and clawed in the battle and was now missing one of its horn and an ear, along with miscellaneous scratches and blood all over its body. But still had fight in him. After the battle scales, footprints and claw marks had all been left behind in the pasture. Johnny brought the bull home and reported what had happened to his father, who in turn told the Saint Louis Report, who then printed the story.


Soon after a professor from the Cahokia Archaeological Society showed up to examine the pasture. They measured the footprints and claw marks, and examined the scales. In the most mind boggling explanation ever the professor said it was not a dragon, but a hybrid of pterosaur and plesiosaur that had attacked the Smith’s bull. Granted, this was the 1870’s and people still believed that hybrids between distantly related species were possible, but this still stretches the limits of reason. It’s unknown what happened to the scales which were collected. None remain today.




Source


https://cryptonautpodcast.com/podcast-episodes/117-the-cahokia-dragon-vs-the-brindle-bull-all-out-maximum-mississippi-brawl/



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