Case file · Cryptid
A live hodag at the Oneida County fair
In 1896 Eugene Shepard said he had captured a second hodag alive, using chloroform on a long pole, and showed it in a dim tent at the first Oneida County fair.
1896 CE · 45.64, -89.41 · status: hoax
The account
Thousands paid to see it. The creature was a wooden carving covered in ox hide and moved with wires.
The sceptical view
Part of the same hoax as the 1893 'kill', which Shepard owned up to.