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Related: About this forumEssex police call off search for unicorn after concluding photo was of a goat
Police in Essex investigating reports of a unicorn being spotted in a field have called off the search and admitted that the photo they had received was almost certainly a goat.
The animal was seen near Earl Hall Drive in St Osyth, near Clacton-on-Sea, by a four year old girl on holiday with her parents. Lucy Jones saw a white animal with four legs in the distance, and a unicorn was the first thing that came to mind.
Essex Police said about 25 officers were called to where the animal was seen, including some specially trained in mythology and a slightly strange old man who swears he used to ride unicorns through the forest when he was a boy.
Officers decided to call off the search on Monday after no trace of a mythological, horse-like creature was found.
Read more: http://newsthump.com/2012/08/29/essex-police-call-off-search-for-unicorn-after-concluding-photo-was-of-a-goat/#ixzz251nz0wrZ
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)used a goat with a fake horn and tried to pass it as a unicorn?
Probably back in the 70's or 80's.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)T_i_B
(14,737 posts)It's a lovely village on the Tendring peninsular. It would have been a very interesting place for an escaped lion as there's a deer park round there!
Part of me wonders about having an escaped lion on the loose in nearby (and notoriously snobby) Frinton-On-Sea.