Danville's Devil Monkey

To kick it off I'm writing about a more recent cryptid case that happens in New Hampshire that is the Danville's Devil Monkey. The fall of 2001 the small New Hampshire town of Danville came under the national spotlight because when the town when to the monkeys. On Aug 21 2001Danville Fire chief David Kimball reports seeing what he could only describe as a monkey. The fire chief was driving down Kingston Rd in Danville and saw a  large reddish-brown coated primate type animal jump into the road. chief Kimball was not the only one to see the animal there also would eleven other people witnessed it on Kingston Rd. The creature soon jumps back into the woods and It was the start of two weeks of sightings of the beast and the national  Spotlight start to knock on the small town's door. The chief and other witnesses described the Danville beast as a Possible Humboldt’s wooly monkeys The type of monkeys is indigenous to the Amazon and not New Hampshire.

Soon other residents of Danville report seeing or hearing the creature all around the town of Danville. A married couple in Danville reported both seeing and hearing the monkey type beast in their own backyard. The Husband was first to have an encounter with the creature when he saw the animal in the backyard briefly. His Wife says she heard screaming coming from the woods the wife called the noise a sound that didn’t belong in her woods. Soon an encounter came when a local boy told his mom say a monster stole a cookie from him. The kid’s mother first was thinking her son was just talking about an imaginary playmate but than she heard about the monkey sightings going around in Danville it came to her that her son could be telling the truth. Soon Danville residents started to try to capture the animal before the cold winter and it would kill the animal. With folks thinking the monkey was an escaped pet or it was let go by it owner Because of the state’s laws on ownership of primates.  The residents try different ways in hopes to capture the monkey with the likes of the town animal control officer with the Humane Society uses female monkey's urine in the hope to lure the beast. Ever a local DJ try his hands at getting the monkey by dressing himself up in a gorilla costume. As hard as everyone tries no one had any luck in capturing the unknown animal not ever hunters who looking for the monkeys why armed with dart guns.


Soon National news started to pick up the story of a monkey in Danville and they started to make their way to Danville. NBC News Interview both eyewitnesses and town reysidents for a segment that was going to air on the Today show. The segment for the Today Show was scheduled and set to air but than the darkest day in america happen,The September 11 terrorist attacks. As fiast as the sightings got started they dead out and parents had less fear of letting their kids outside because it look like the beast was long gone. The town of Danville when back to normal with most thinking the monkey was killed by the cold weather and it just when away. As life when on in Danville and the beast started to fade from residents' minds  but it all came back in 2012. When an Haverhill, Massachusetts resident who was visting her parnets' home in Danville and was cooking in the backyard.  As she cooking she heard her dogs started to barking at something the woman look she saw a small white and brown monkey climbing a tree. Her family didn't live Danville in 2001 so she knew nothing on the town's history in 2001 monkeys sightings. The new monkey didn't fit the description of the last sightings back in 2001could a different monkey be on the run?? Unlike the past sightings this was the only sighting of the monkey in 2012 outside of reports of odd sounds coming from the woods.

different theories have been put out there about what the people of Danville NH would seeing and hearing in 2001 and also in 2012. The most common one as says in this post that the monkey was an escaped pet or it was let go by its owner. Also, another idea was that the witnesses mistaken identity nbthe monkey for a known animal like Bears, Fisher cats and Opossums. The theory that more out there is from the world of cryptids and what they had in Danville was a Devil Monkey. The Devil Monkey is a primate type cryptid that lives in North  America, with most sightings reported in the south. Reports have them looking like a  kangaroo mixed with a  baboon and they’re  extremely aggressive and will attack anyone who get too close . Unlike Bigfoot theDevil Monkeys are very rare and don’t get much coverage.

My Take
I  remember hearing this on WMUR-9 when it was happening and was curious about it but didn’t think much of it. Now reading about I remember something that Happens in Concord in 1999/2000 where there was a rush of monkeys sightings in the city. It didn’t make much media coverage unlike the  Danville case outside being mentioned in the local and state part of the Concord Monitor. I know someone that saw an odd creature that week he says look like a  baboon. Also heard at least one odd animal call with the Concord police on my police scanner that week. With the Danville case I could  Believe the escape pet theory but some witnesses had the monkey was Eight feet tall. At the size, it would be hard for anyone to hide a pet that size