Remember the creepy Maine Mystery Beast that terrorizes the town of Turner and, in August, was mistaken for a dead dog on the side of the road? (Background here, here, and here.) Well, Bar Harbor sideshow banner artist Paul Szauter painted this magnificent work to honor our dear Mystery Beast during this Sunday's Mount Desert Island Marathon along the Maine coastline. The acrylic-on-cloth work is 52" x 28" in all its glory. Szauter and other area artists created a series of mile marker banners for a silent auction benefiting the Union 98 Artist-in-Residence Fund.
My cryptozoologist pal Loren Coleman, who helped determine that the dead dog was, happily, not the Maine Mystery Beast, has more details over at Cryptomundo. In his blog post, Loren jokingly asks if a runner in the marathon might nab him the banner. In all seriousness though, it would be incredibly cool if some cryptid-friendly kind soul in the Bar Harbor area placed the final winning bid on the banner at 1pm at the finish line and donated it to Loren's International Cryptozoology Museum for the public to someday enjoy.
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