One evening in 1951, Mrs. Lawrence Laub of Calumet, OK, went out to check on her cattle. As she passed over the summit of a hill she saw a strange creature:
"I know how this sounds and I know this is impossible," she said later, "but it looked like a cross between a wolf and a deer."
Jerome Clark writes:
The animal, standing on on four thin deer-like legs but with huge pads for feet, had long hair slightly lighter in color than a German shepherd dog's. It was larger than a dog or a wolf and had small pointed ears and a bushy tail. [1]
Mrs. Laub threw a stick at the thing. It merely looked at her for a long moment, completely unafraid. The woman returned to her house, "all the while glancing over her shoulder at the animal which continued to study her."
Her husband told her that he had seen a similar creature two years previously, and neighbors reported strange tracks on their lands.
This short tale, anomalous even among stories of Bigfoot and Phantom Panthers, has often been repeated by Fortean authors. Perhaps this gangly creature was Hvcko capko, or Long Ears, as described in the book Oklahoma Seminoles:
It resembles a horse, with a horse's tail, but has a head more like that of a wolf, and enormous long ears. It is extremely ugly, and like Tall Man [a Sasquatch-like being] it smells like stagnant muddy water. Willie commented that the creatures frequent rocky areas, where they are often observed watching people as they pass. One man, he said, recently saw two of them near New Tulsa. [2]
The long-legged creatures sound similar, even to their pastime of watching people, but the Calumet thing had pointed ears, not long, floppy ones. Perhaps someone cropped them, in the manner of a Doberman Pinscher. . .
1. Clark, Jerome, "'Manimals' Make Tracks in Oklahoma," in Fate Vol. 24 No. 9 (September 1971), p. 65.
2. Howard, James H., and Willie Lena. Oklahoma Seminoles: Medicine, Magic, and Religion. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), pp. 212-213.