Dead Dogs in Bayville
Bayville, NJ – 1979
Found in the Asbury Park Press archives; August 12, 1979.
Big Foot or Lions Are Feared With Death of Dogs
Cosmo F. Zaccaro Jr., who owned an Auto Recycling Center on Double Trouble Road in Bayville told the Asbury Park Press that five of his seven dogs were brutally killed by an unknown creature about six weeks earlier.
Although Cosmo believed the culprit was an escaped tiger from Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, the parks director said that no animals had escaped the park since 1974.
A little curiously, the article does not actually mention the dogs were possibly killed by a Big Foot, though the local Humane Society said that the brutality of the killings, and the fact that the dogs were not eaten, implies a wild or escaped animal was not the perpetrator.
Back in the 1970s, the area was even less populated than it is today. There have been a number of Big Foot type incidents and encounters around Double Trouble State Park over the decades, so we think a Big Foot dog massacre is as good as an answer as any other.