The Beast of Bladenboro

Suspected to be a large, catlike creature, it was notorious in the 50’s and 60’s for dragging cattle and small mammals away from farms and leaving them exsanguinated. Plenty of locals and hunters tried to find the monster, to no avail. The town, tired of all the vampire beast hoopla, shot a mountain lion and dressed it up for display and called the hunt off. To this day, however, locals still insist that the beast roams the land, and each year they have a festival to celebrate the legend.