snopes fact-checks mysterious creature terrorizing argentina

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A photograph shows a mysterious 7-foot creature that has been terrorizing a village in Argentina.
The pictured creature is not terrorizing a neighborhood in Argentina, nor did it slaughter any pet dogs. Why? Because this demon is fictional, existing only within the fantasy universe of the Harry Potter series of books.

This image was created by manipulating a piece of concept art for Remus Lupin, a professor afflicted by Lycanthropy, as depicted in the work Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The image is available via the Pottermore web site, which also offers more backstory about the werewolf professor:

spoilsports

anyone ever hear of this?



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Let’s follow the trail of an elusive Dogman… photo. I noticed this story from the Mirror, whose headline read “Huge 7ft beast described as ‘half human, half animal’ leaves residents TERRIFIED after ‘savaging two dogs’.” The story in the article mentions this that two dogs have been butchered (a German Shepard and a Pitbull), and that the photo was snapped by a terrified resident of Sante Fe, Argentina. It also describes the creature as being 7 feet (tall? long?). Incidentally, an Irish Wolfhound can get pretty big, but the thing in the photo is not an Irish Wolfhound.

originally posted by: ElGoobero
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A photograph shows a mysterious 7-foot creature that has been terrorizing a village in Argentina.
The pictured creature is not terrorizing a neighborhood in Argentina, nor did it slaughter any pet dogs. Why? Because this demon is fictional, existing only within the fantasy universe of the Harry Potter series of books.

This image was created by manipulating a piece of concept art for Remus Lupin, a professor afflicted by Lycanthropy, as depicted in the work Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The image is available via the Pottermore web site, which also offers more backstory about the werewolf professor:

spoilsports

anyone ever hear of this?

Well...as shown it is exactly the image from the Potter art. What is there to discuss?

originally posted by: Vasa Croe
Well...as shown it is exactly the image from the Potter art. What is there to discuss?

wondering if anyone had heard of.

bad when the disproof is the first you hear of something.

a reply to: ElGoobero

Snopes? A waste of time...

a reply to: nwtrucker

So you believe Snopes is wrong and that this is a genuine animal in the photo?

a reply to: Blueracer

I think the real answer here is that Harry Potter was a documentary, and the next series will chronicle the struggles of the South American school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Le Macumbras.

If no one ever really sees this animal and there is only one grainy picture of it, is it really terrorizing them?

originally posted by: nwtrucker
a reply to: ElGoobero

Snopes? A waste of time...

i always enjoy it when someone kneejerks so hard they kick themselves in the face...

originally posted by: Blueracer
a reply to: nwtrucker

So you believe Snopes is wrong and that this is a genuine animal in the photo?

I neither believe nor disbelieve Snopes. I ignore it.

originally posted by: fiverx313

originally posted by: nwtrucker
a reply to: ElGoobero

Snopes? A waste of time...

i always enjoy it when someone kneejerks so hard they kick themselves in the face...

Seek therapy.

originally posted by: nwtrucker
Seek therapy.

there there

a reply to: ElGoobero

You guys want to live in a fantasy land. No wonder muricans are F***ED.

Why that shows it's ugly self in Texas we gonna have BBQ....it'll happen quick I tell ya....

by Las Colinas in Irving the cowboys in the 60's with their pistols shot the tails off cottontails...I'd find em alot.....met em once...got a reprimand by two truckloads of em.....they was friendly....it was the first overstep made sure there wasn't a second

originally posted by: fiverx313

originally posted by: nwtrucker
a reply to: ElGoobero

Snopes? A waste of time...

i always enjoy it when someone kneejerks so hard they kick themselves in the face...

Really? Seems kind of petty, to me... *shrugs*

originally posted by: Blueracer
a reply to: nwtrucker

So you believe Snopes is wrong and that this is a genuine animal in the photo?

So you believe SNOPES is correct 100% of the time?

That's you. That's how you sound.

originally posted by: Mark08
If no one ever really sees this animal and there is only one grainy picture of it, is it really terrorizing them?

It terrorised their hopes, and dreams...

originally posted by: mekhanics
a reply to: ElGoobero

You guys want to live in a fantasy land. No wonder muricans are F***ED.

What the...?

I THINK you may have meant to post that reply to a different thread? Or perhaps you misunderstood the OP?

Cause it makes No sense whatsoever. No offense.

originally posted by: ElGoobero

originally posted by: Vasa Croe
Well...as shown it is exactly the image from the Potter art. What is there to discuss?

wondering if anyone had heard of.

bad when the disproof is the first you hear of something.

Good point, I can see why that would strike you as odd.

However, a Google search on the picture itself shows that within the last week at least C2C/iHeartRadio, LadBible, altereddimensions.net, and UFOgeeks.com have run the story. And likely others too then.

UFO Geeks
Altered Dimensions
LadBible
Coast-to-Coast (iHeartRadio)

a reply to: ElGoobero

This was on the Drudge page. Last week I believe or the week before for sure.

originally posted by: mekhanics
a reply to: ElGoobero

You guys want to live in a fantasy land. No wonder muricans are F***ED.

Not all of us, but there's enough that those of us who do not, have now got permanent facepalm going on.