Hidebehind

Region: Forests of North America

Lead Investigator: Agent 32

Last Updated: 3 June 2014

• Ursus dissimulans
• Thought to only inhabit forested areas.

Identification:

• About six feet tall, walks upright. Slender body allows it to hide behind trees
• Long black pelt, claws
• Moves quickly and quietly
• Terrifying howl that can kill prey before it attacks
• Its main food source is intestines from any creature
• Said to be able to go seven years without food
• Nocturnal
• Has an "intense aversion" to the smell of alcohol, any whiff of it is a sure deterrent

Images

Illustration by Margaret Ramsay Tryon from 'Fearsome Critters' by Henry H. Tryon (1939)

Other Resources

'Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts' by William Thomas Cox (1910) pages

Hidebehind Wikipedia

Dipper's Guide To The Unexplained: Anomaly #132 The Hidebehind

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