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Washington Post

Organisation 3 stories, 1970 to 1978

A newspaper that kept returning to the strange stories of its own region. October 1970. On Guinea Road in Burke, Virginia, a man in bunny ears ran from the bushes, and the Washington Post followed every turn as more than 50 people reported sightings. A year later, on 30 November 1971, it ran Ivan G. Goldman's piece on the Goatman haunting the woods of Prince George's County. Then came 1978. Wilson Morris wrote about a creature in the lower Potomac, and his headline offered a name that would stick. Chesapeake Chessie.