- El Diario de la Republica April 11, 2004
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- "**Strange character who frightened boy, young women
has not been found***
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- SAN LUIS -- It all began a few weeks ago when some young
women left school around 23:00 hours and came across someone described
as "dressed in black, masked, with long nails" who climbed deftly
up the main flagpole in Pringles Plaza, causing terror among the students.
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- Almost simultaneously it was said that a person involved
with the Community Watch program saw the strange entity in an open field
between the Pringles Club soccer field and the Libertario Ferrari neighborhood,
while other ladies claimed having seen it climbing up trees in the Juan
Esteban Pedernera square of the Barrio 331 Viviendas neighborhood.
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- Remarks began to spread despite the fact that no formal
complaint had been made, according to authorities of the local sheriff's
office. Some locals said that the authorities had indeed been apprised
of the strange phenomenon, accepting that the stories indeed existed.
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- Up to this moment, the descriptions of the persons who
claimed having been startled in the dark involved a somewhat tall person
wearing a mask and who appeared to have horns; subsequent acounts changed
its size, although descriptions of its agility of movement remained the
same in all accounts.>
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- Little by little, the intrigue increased along with the
collective psychosis, and manifestations of "El Uñudo"
(The Clawed One) took place in a variety of neighborhoods, times and with
other circumstances and appearances.
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- Reliable official sources said that on the evening of
April 5th there were joint operations involving police and community watch
personnel to the south of the Ilusión and Libertario Ferrari neighborhoods,
where some claimed having seen the sinister character near a soccer field.
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- "It jumped over the barbed wire fences with remarkable
agility and moved with such long strides that it appeared to be floating
on air, and was impossible to reach," said some witnesses to the enigmatic
apparition, while adding that the chase and tracking were fruitless.
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- That same night, others claimed having seen the now "small"
character in the Jardin Ferroviario neighborhood to the south fo the city
and in 62 Viviendas to the southeast of the urban radius.
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- Tuesday night was restful, since no one reported encoutners
with "El Uñudo" the next day, but Wednesday the 7th caused
the most comment and terrified many people, unleashing mass hysteria: an
11 year-old boy from Barrio Norte went into shock after the sinister creature
of the night tapped him on the shoulder and showed his terrifying face
to him.
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- The boy was was treated and released from the "Ernesto
Pompeo Borsani" hospital. But it was precisely in this medical center
that became the source of the rumors, since it is said that a nurse, a
doctor and an ambulance driver, along with security personnel on site,
caught a fleeting glimpse of the night creature, causing panic in some
of the witnesses.
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- The authorities were informed immediately and a patrol
car reached the site, but nothing could be gleaned except for the considerable
fright experienced by some witnesses, particularly the nurse. Another guard
did not deny this event occured; on the contrary, he said that the Police
had been phoned and that nothing was found. Further details were unavailable
since "everyone here was really scared."
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- A truck driver living close to the Pringles Club's stadium
also claimed having seen the character appear over the wall of this building
and although this has not been ascertained, he fired some shots against
"El Uñudo", who seemed immune. A subsequent inspection
of the site with a flashlight showed no signs of the apparition.
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- "It has an ape-like appearance, standing no more
thatn 1.20 meters, and leaves footprints similar to those of a goat."
This is what some who claime having seen the creature are saying after
having witnessed it climbing the flagpole at Plaza Pringles, the Pringles
soccer field and the cereal silos in the vicinity of Barrio Norte.
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- This apparition is linked to a young woman who was riding
her bicycle back to her home in barrio Libertario Ferrari around 3 o'clock
in the morning on Friday, April 8th. She saw a strange character jumping
from rooftop to rooftop in the 331 Viviendas neighborhood.
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- Frightened, the young woman pedalled back to the bus
station, some 10 blocks distant, to take the bus and return home in tears,
as was seen by the very same employees of the bus stop who attended to
the young lady.
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- Large and with a mask and horns; small and apelike, black
or brown, with a nude upper torso and covered with tattoos; walking upright
or on four legs; leaving goat-shaped hoofprints; climbing trees, pipelines
or metal silos; jumping over wire fences and large lagoons, swift and elusive
-- these are the descriptions that have been given of the sadly notorious
Uñudo who has captured the public's attention and caused fear in
most.
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- Translation (c) 2004. Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology (IHU). Special thanks to Mario Luis Bracamonte and Carlos Iurchuk.
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