The Ogua River Monster

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  Hello. My name is Zachary Hall.

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  An idea, Ma myth, Legend or story on the Agua

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  River Monster where it was located.

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  It was located in modern day Marion County, West Virginia.

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  And the monster would live around and end the Montagna,

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  the river, and also up in the Appalachian Mountains.

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  The monster has also been sparred at Fort Harmer in

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  present day, Marietta, Ohio.

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  What happened?

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  What happened to make it so notable was that on

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  October 22nd, 17 46 a 12 year old boy was

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  dragged into the Monte River by what is described to

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  be a turtle larger than a bear in size.

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  Which means the the Agua Monster, the Agua River monster.

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  At a later date, Uh, the daughter of the family

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  heard a sound cabin which made them want to move

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  away because it was like a really loud sound.

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  And it was like a really big animal.

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  So they got scared.

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  And they want to move away.

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  Especially since their son had gotten dragged into the river.

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  Is it believed or fake?

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  Uh, the Agua is just a mythical beast that was

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  used to try and scare away people.

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  Uh, I mean, There's been many stories created about it

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  and for it.

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  But most of those nowadays there just for entertainment back

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  whenever it was created.

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  It was used to scare off the Europeans because the

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  Indians wanted to keep their land for themselves and not

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  let the Europeans gain access to it.

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  So they made up this story so the Europeans would

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  hopefully leave because they would be scared and frightened of

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  what a beast the Agua monster would be who was

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  involved. The people that were involved with the Indians who

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  lived on the land already before the Europeans had traveled

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  there, and then the Europeans who traveled there to the

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  Mon Gary over at a later date.

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  Uh, the people that live around the Manga River are

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  still involved in the great myth of the Agua nowadays

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  because they still carry on the story of it all.

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  And they still carry on all the remembrances and stuff

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  of what the Aqua Monster Waas Are there any books,

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  movies or shows the books and show where movies and

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  shows was pretty hard to find?

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  I couldn't find any, even though how hard I would

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  try to find some all I could find was a

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  little book that had many short stories in it that

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  had one story like or a few more about the

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  Ogle monster.

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  It's called Monsters and Ghosts of West Virginia, which tells

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  stories of many other monsters and ghosts of West Virginia.

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  If you want to find AH, show or movie, I'm

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  not sure if there are any, but if you really

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  want to, you probably need to go and search deep

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  for him because you'll be pretty hard to find Sands

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  E couldn't find any just by doing a little Google

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  search of it.

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  I look really hard for it all, but I couldn't

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  find any.

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  And here's my sources.