“A bunch of kids fixed them up a dummy of this big bird and hung it in a tree and then called police.

Back around the time of the original newscast, Arnold received a call from some kids that the bird was sighted. Melvin Arnold with the Robstown police invited a photographer to come see the big bird roosting inside the police department since the fall. Others claimed it was a heron or even a whooping crane, and it supposedly attacked some men.īut Robstown police got the last laugh. It sounded like an Andean condor, a South American bird that can have a 10-foot wingspan, though how it got to South Texas is anyone’s guess. Don Farst with Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville had a more mundane explanation. Melvin Arnold describes the dummy picked up from some kids who fooled people into thinking a big bird was flying around Robstown in 1975.ĭr. 22, 1976 Corpus Christi Times, Robstown police detective Capt. Woman in Lagos, Nigeria killed by a mob who accused her of being a witch and turning herself into an owl. “That animal is not from this world,” he told the reporter, “I was scared.” When he went out to check, he was confronted by an about 4-foot tall bird, with a long beak and eyes as big as silver dollars, its face more like a bat than a bird. A radio station offered a $1,000 reward for the live capture of the “big bird.” Alverico Guajardo in Brownsville told of hearing a noise outside his trailer home. Two San Benito policeman spotted a bird with a 10- to 12-foot wingspan flying over a lagoon. By January 1976, residents in the Valley were reporting sightings of a large bird. A few more sightings popped up in Banquete, then Alice. Must be shy, the Robstown police told the media. The sightings concentrated around a wooded area west of town near Bosquez Street and Rabb Road.īut then a television station ran a segment on the rumors, and the sightings stopped. But all agreed on one point: it had the body of a bird and was flying around Robstown. A few said the creature had human feet, others animal feet - and none of the callers reported the same kind of animal. When a human face was mentioned, some callers said it was a man’s face, others a woman’s face. A few accounts of the Robstown beast described it as two feet tall, some six feet. But the articles don’t mention La Lechuza, just a monster bird. In October 1975 several stories about a creature half owl half woman reached the Robstown police and local newspaper. Newpaper artikel in the Corpus Christi Times of Jan.

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