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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 November 1947Vol. XVIII, No. 4

"Monster" Seen In

p. 13 · Read in the full issue

N. Caledonian Bush

NEW Caledonia has a Loch Ness mon ster!

A young native recently went hunting in the La Coulee district and came face to face with an animal whose barks he had heard. He describes it as a very long beast of extraordinary shape with four feet and “a head like a shark.”

Although he had a gun the animal so frightened him that he ran away. Some Javanese employed nearby also swear that they have seen the mysterious animal The reports have split Noumea into two camps: The believers, some of whom think it may be an alligator left behind by the Americans; and the unbelievers, who think the animal to have been an hallucination. The believers say, “what a chance for some of these intrepid hunters of ours!”

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