The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Croix du Nord, Lille, Pas-de-Calais, France, page 5, October 27, 1954.
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All Lewarde's moms said to their kids yesterday:
- You will no longer go to the woods!
It is not the big bad wolf that they fear, but the wood, today, knows very curious frequentations.
Let us judge.
A good miner, Casimir Stawski, 33, from the Cité du Niveau, went there Monday afternoon to stock up on mushrooms.
Why did he get scared and run away at the speed of a running champion?
We will soon find out by listening to his story, but let's say straight away that he jumped at the secretary of the town hall, who alerted the gendarmes, gendarmes who went to Lewarde wood, a night that would have been much more beneficial to them, head on a soft pillow.
But let's listen to Mr. Stawski:
- "I was in the woods, I saw two shiny tubes, I first thought that they were the barrels of the rifle of the gamekeeper.
"But I soon realized that these tubes were in the hands, and in the hands of which individual?
"He was a creature of a little over a meter. His build was strong. His head, with slender, globular eyes protruding from the orbits, was surmounted by a sort of fawn-colored mane which descended on his shoulders. The body to the feet, was entirely covered with hair. It wore a bead above the eyebrows. The hands were shiny and closed, without fingers."
After this description we understand why the mothers of Lewarde prohibited their children from going to the woods.
Mr. Stawski will not go there either and the gendarmes wish to return there as little as possible.
