Winged creature attacks in the Bronx: 1904

From reports published in the New York Times on June 22, 1904, we learn of a problem faced by policemen working a lonely post in the Bronx.  According to numerous officers, a giant winged creature was causing so much turmoil that the location earned the nickname “the hoodoo post.”

For many days, it was believed that a winged demon had deigned to hover over Post 16, and the policemen who were assigned to duty there came into the old station in the Lorillard Mansion night after night with wonderful tales of what had happened on the hoodoo post.
   
Policeman Patrick J. Hickey said it was the most horrid thing he had ever encountered. 

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