In October 2019, my friend @charmwasjess and I saw something unexpained while driving a dirt road on a decrepit farm in east Appalachia. I’m still not sure what it was; we call it the wrist monster.
@charmwasjess@izzydotpng My husband loves cryptology so I showed him this post! He thinks your monster could have been a Fucked Up Bear (a bear with mange)
except more fucked up than that.
It definitely sent us down a cryptid rabbithole anyway!
Ooh, thank you!!! I think y’all are onto something, Sarah!
I moonlight in some reddit bone identifying communities and skeletal bear paws are notorious for looking almost indistinguishable from human hand and finger bones. Hairless/emaciated paws could have accounted for the “wrist” portion of the wrist monster. I know we have had a bad mange epidemic in the region as well!
happy to be of cryptid help! :) now I’ve learned a bit more about bears with mange. This one for example is kinda cute but would be probably be HORRIFYING if you didn’t know what it was, from this picture its limbs look human:
