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And then in 1987, so 100 years later, a Michigan radio personality decided to invent a creature for an April Fool's Day prank, and he had no idea what he was about to unleash.

On April 1, 1987, a radio DJ named Steve Cook, working at WTCM-FM in Traverse City, Michigan, introduced listeners to a song called The Legend.

So this is Another song.

Cook had written it as an April Fool's Day joke.

That creature, upright and dog-headed, well, he came from somewhere else.

On April 1st, 1987, at 7 o'clock in the morning, WTCM-FM in Traverse City, Michigan, played a new song.

The station's production director, Steve Cook, had written a poem.

He set it to music on a Casio keyboard that cost him roughly $99 and credited the song to a made-up, Bob Farley.

Keep that in your back pocket, because we're about to watch a comedy bit accidentally become gospel.

March 1987, Steve Cook is a DJ at WTCM FM in Traverse City, and he's got a reputation for The guy who does the unhinged April Fool's bits, so he and his crew are brainstorming, and Cook says he had this idea of rattling around, building a homegrown monster for northern Michigan, something that could stand shoulder to shoulder with Bigfoot and the Jersey Devil, but theirs, local, regional pride, but make it cryptid.

He sits down with that 99 Casio, taps out a rhythm, and starts speaking a poem over it.

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