Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1881 — Half Human, Half Alligator. [ARTICLE]

Half Human, Half Alligator.

Meridian (Mias.) Mercury. About fourteen miles from Live Oak, Fla., there lives a woman with a strange family. One day she was walking out and had occasion to cross a creek on a log, and while thus crossing a huge alligator attacked and pursued her for some distance frightening her very much. Subsequently she gave birth to twins, both males. They were perfect-children down to their waists, and there the human ended, and thev are complete alligators on downward, tail and all. They have short, webbed feet and legs at the lower portion of the abdomen like alligators. They crawl with their hands, dragging themselves about just as au alligator does. They make a squealing, inarticulate noise. The mother has bad a large trough or tank filled with v ater, in which she keeps them, and theyuve pretty nearly all the time in it. They feed and eat regularly, and seem to be doing well, and are seeminely happy. They are now about 14 or 15 years old. Comparatively few outside of the immediate neighborhood know of it. The mother has refused large oners of monev for their exhibition.