Everyone has heard tales of Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, famed for her grainy three hump appearances in the waves of Loch Ness in Scotland. Much less known in cryptozoological circles was Mossy, a creature much smaller than Nessie and land-based. Still, when people would roam the forests of Ireland, they would hear the rustle of leaves and glance to the tall grasses to see him, his long moss covered neck sticking out of the weeds, followed by two mossy humps, and then in the blink of an eye, he'd be gone again. Even when intrepid nature hikers were able to snap off a shot before the creature vanished into the undergrowth, skeptics laughed them aside, calling it a photo of “some mossy roots and stumps and rocks, nothing more.”
Still, though not as prolific as Nessie believers, Mossy's fans were no less dedicated to bringing to light the plight of their lonely, leafy friend to light.
Originally mailed to M. Wilkes in Jackson, Mississippi
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