Local rumor talked about strange horned humanoids that periodically appeared at night in this area south of Odessa near an ancient fortress and at times stealing food. A local bakery truck driver transporting bread to a local grocery store was waiting to reload his truck full of bread products and was sitting in his cab and decided to go outside to smoke a cigarette. Suddenly the stunned man felt strong muscular hands grab him from behind. He remembered seeing quite well a tall, 2 meter or taller, muscular humanoid that gave off a strange musty smell. The last thing he remember seeing was several horned shadowy figures, visible due to the bright moonlight walking on the asphalt road. Immediately after that he lost consciousness and when he later woke up he found that all the bread in his truck had disappeared. The driver wasn't beaten or traumatized and did not noticed any smell of chloroform so he couldn't understand why he lost consciousness. The strange horned "bandits" were never found by the local militia. Another witness, a metalworker at a local sewage plant reported that while he was working on a local well he heard voices coming from somewhere below underground, he couldn't understand what the voices were saying since they were speaking in an unknown language. There are persistent rumors of underground passageways located in the immediate vicinity and directly under the ancient fortress.

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