Great story and how legends are made. I remember when I was in high school Pete the python escaped from the Ft Worth zoo. Somebody started the rumor he was headed this way eating chickens as he came. In those days everybody had yard birds. Every time a coon or possum would take a chicken out of somebody's yard flock it was the python than done it. Every harmless chicken snake seen turned into that python.
At this late date I don't remeber if the actual python was ever found or not but it took months for people to quit seeing pythons crawling around.
