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--- The following news article appeared in the March 25, 1979 issue of the
"There's an eerie city lying beneath
the streets of Metro, a city none of us knows much about.
“Ernest has been a visitor to that silent
world of sewers, drainage pipes and the ruins under old houses, and the memory
of what he saw there will haunt him for the rest of his life.
"’I wish you'd never come here,’ he
says as he sits in his small, neat Cabbagetown (an old nickname for the
lower-east end of the city of Toronto, Canada) apartment with Barbara, his wife
of 19 years. ‘If I tell you what I saw, people will think I was drunk or crazy,
they'll never believe me.'
“On a summer day last August, Ernest, 51,
firmly believes he saw Some kind of "creature" while crawling into a
small cave near his
"It was pitch black in there... I saw
it with my flashlight. The eyes were orange and red, slanted... it was long and
thin, almost like a monkey... three feet long, large teeth, weighing maybe 30
pounds with slate-grey fur."
“Ernest speaks reluctantly of what happened
next...
“He is convinced the thing spoke to him.
“‘I'll never forget it,’ he said. ‘It said
“Go away, go away,” in a hissing voice. Then it took off down a
