"THE WEREWOLF OF CENTRAL PARK"
In the winter of 1937 an alarming news broke through in the headlines of New York newspapers: in Central Park there were wolves. At least the testimonies were unequivocal: the neighbors of the buildings that adjoined the park said they heard wolf howls at night. A cold shiver ran down the spine of the New Yorkers, who stopped frequenting the park. The New York Hunting Club organized a night-time drive against the wolves. At nightfall, a half hundred armed men were distributed throughout the park. Towards midnight there was a long howl followed by the sound of gunshots, and the next morning the lifeless body of one of the members of the drive was found. A grimace of horror blemished his face while a mustache with curls upward at both ends embellished him. The coroner ruled that he had died either as a result of a fright or as a result of an unfunny joke that some unscrupulous guy had told him. In addition, it was discovered that the mustache was not his and that some unscrupulous g...