Anomalous Bouncing Beasts: Killer Kangaroos and Phantom Marsupials
Occasionally amidst reports of mystery beasts and strange critters seen the world over, Australia’s loveable leaper, the kangaroo, appears in various distant locales under the rather Fortean label of “out-of-place-animals.”
Kangaroos have, from time to time, been kept as pets in parts of America and the UK, and escapees do sometimes result in what might be classified as “anomalous” sightings of the creatures.
Journalist Chris Cunnyrigham notes that “These animals have a propensity for showing up in areas outside their native Australia,” citing colonies that have appeared in Europe, for example under various circumstances. “These… were engendered by human agency (escaped pets and menageries of animal enthusiasts) and still don’t account for the phenomenon known as Phantom Kangaroos.” Indeed, there are many reports of kangaroos turning up in what are simply the oddest places imaginable–with no apparent human intervention of any kind–begging the question “how did the ever manage to get there?”
