wow, i'd only heard of two of those before. crazy thing to me is that up until just a couple hundred years ago (and less), things like this were all taken pretty seriously... people just didn't know which were real and which were just stories.
A Vermont variation of the sidehill gouger is known as the Wampahoofus. It was reported that farmers crossbreed them with their cows so they could graze easily on mountain sides.
wow, i'd only heard of two of those before. crazy thing to me is that up until just a couple hundred years ago (and less), things like this were all taken pretty seriously... people just didn't know which were real and which were just stories.