Belt Road Booger Is Seen Again

(From the Newnan Times-Herald, Thursday, Aug. 16, 1979, pg. 1)

At least one sighting of the "Belt Road Booger" has been reported since last week.
Mrs. Nancy Jackson, who lives in Meadowview subdivision near Arnco, said that when she was arriving home from work Tuesday morning at about 7:00 a.m. she saw "the ugliest looking thing I've ever seen."
She said that the booger was on her patio when she drove in the driveway. "I was just thinking, 'This couldn't be happening to me," she said.
She described the animal as standing between four and five feet tall and it was covered with black hair and a tail "like a beaver's, but it's bushy," Mrs. Jackson said.
It had "a face like a dog," she said.
The creature "dug in my flowers and tried to kill my flowers (calladiums)," according to Mrs. Jackson. "Nobody can tell me I didn't see that thing," she said.
One person, who requested to remain anonymous, reported that the creature has been seen for around nine years in the Belt Road - Smokey Road area.
The booger has been heard "bellowing" in the area, the person said.
Two dogs found mangled in the woods and some chickens killed when they were bitten in the back have been attributed to the booger by the source, but there are no reports of the animal harming humans.
Dogs reportedly cower on the porch in the area when the animal is around.
"I'm afraid to let my children go out in those woods now," the source said.
A brother of the person, who also requested that his name be witheld, recalls an incident seven or eight years ago involving the booger.
He and his brother were riding in the Wallace Gray - Ishman Ballard Road area in the early morning. As they rounded a curve, they saw a large animal the size of a cow standing on its hind legs.
"At first I thought it was a cow standing on its hind legs," he said.
As they approached it, the animal got down on all fours, crossed the road, and was last seen "going through a field, a sort of marshy looking place," he added.
Coweta County Sheriff Aaron Massey confirmed rumors that traps will be placed in the area where the "monster" has been sighted.
Local game warden Walt Taylor will be putting out traps, but will capture the entire body of the animal, Massey said.
Massey, Taylor, and members of both the sheriff's department and the Newnan City Police Department have walked through the area and seen nothing, according to the sheriff.
The only tracks seen were dog tracks, according to Taylor.