They had no idea it was down there.

There had been rumors, of course, but they were the sorts of stories that were too difficult

to believe.

In the spring of 1984, one distraught phone call kicked off an amazing discovery.

A local team of firefighters was dispatched to the Ponte-Nufridge in Paris to verify

claims of something monstrous and otherworldly in the water.

I can't blame them, really.

The collar had claimed the creature was over three feet long, with vicious looking fangs

and a tail that whipped about, hearing about something like that in the middle of Paris,

must have been frightening.

Commander Goddard and his crew, however, found nothing in the river Sen.

They even inspected the area around the bridge, but still nothing.

That's when they decided to look someplace else.

Some place most people tend to forget about.

The sewers.

And when they did, they walked straight into the monster's lair.

But this monster turned out to be something less than supernatural.

Was it unexpected?

Absolutely.

But it was a creature that just about everyone in the world has seen before.

A crocodile.

Thankfully, they were able to capture it without anyone getting hurt, and it was later taken

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