Is that the secret creepy triplet from those Beatrix Potter books?
Viergacht
9 years ago
Cover aside, as a former Murrliner I object to this book on the grounds that a. Maryland has exactly one mountain (we’re very proud of it) and b. our local monsters are the snallygaster, Bunnnyman, and Goat Man, never heard of this Cropsy sucker.
Snallygaster, Bunny Man and Goatman (Maryland) are well documented Maryland legends with their own sourced Wikipedia articles.
“Cropsy” appears to be a referenece to the upstate New York modern folk tale about Cropsy or Cropsey featured in horror films (The Burning, 1981, and Madman, 1982) and a 2009 documentary Cropsey that examines both the legend and a real life child killer.
It’s possible all the bad publicity in New York forced Cropsy to immigrate to Maryland. (This has happened before: after bad press in Sep 1952, the Flatwoods monster moved to Point Pleasant and changed his name to Mothman. That didn’t help because he kept spooking couples at night with his red glowing eyes. But, Cropsy is not native to Maryland and no one should hold it against Murrliners.
Invader
9 years ago
Here I thought this book was about a serial killer scarecrow.
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I guess the hills really DO have eyes
Cropsy dropsy. That’s all I can think of.
Plopsy – the sound of um, something the dog did hitting the sidewalk…
The house just won’t stop staring at me.
Is that the secret creepy triplet from those Beatrix Potter books?
Cover aside, as a former Murrliner I object to this book on the grounds that a. Maryland has exactly one mountain (we’re very proud of it) and b. our local monsters are the snallygaster, Bunnnyman, and Goat Man, never heard of this Cropsy sucker.
Snallygaster, Bunny Man and Goatman (Maryland) are well documented Maryland legends with their own sourced Wikipedia articles.
“Cropsy” appears to be a referenece to the upstate New York modern folk tale about Cropsy or Cropsey featured in horror films (The Burning, 1981, and Madman, 1982) and a 2009 documentary Cropsey that examines both the legend and a real life child killer.
It’s possible all the bad publicity in New York forced Cropsy to immigrate to Maryland. (This has happened before: after bad press in Sep 1952, the Flatwoods monster moved to Point Pleasant and changed his name to Mothman. That didn’t help because he kept spooking couples at night with his red glowing eyes. But, Cropsy is not native to Maryland and no one should hold it against Murrliners.
Here I thought this book was about a serial killer scarecrow.