Piasa Bird — Alton IL. I've stood under where the original was.

Marquette, the Jesuit, 1673, paddling down the Mississippi past what's now Alton. He writes in his journal about two monsters painted high on the limestone bluffs that scared his men more than anything else on the trip. Size of a calf, deer horns, red eyes, a beard like a tiger's, scaled body, a tai……