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Oscar's memory lives on in Churubusco's Turtle Days festival held each June. [10] It includes a parade, carnival and turtle races. [11] A turtle shell labeled "Beast of Busco" hangs in the Two Brothers Restaurant in Decatur, Indiana. A small concrete statue of a turtle sits on the sidewalk at the main intersection in the center of Churubusco.
Churubusco (/ ˌ tʃ ɛr ə ˈ b ʌ s k oʊ / or / ˌ tʃ ɛr i ˈ b ʌ s k oʊ /); often shortened to Busco (/ ˈ b ʌ s k oʊ /), is a town located near the headwaters of the Eel River in the extreme northeast corner of Whitley County, Indiana, United States, in Smith Township, about 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Fort Wayne. [2]
Little Turtle was born in what became present-day Whitley County, Indiana, at either a small Miami village along Devil's Lake or a larger nearby village known as Turtletown (present-day Churubusco, Indiana). [9] [10] Little Turtle lived at Turtletown, along the Eel River, until 1780. [7] Little Turtle has been described as nearly six feet tall ...
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Since 1950, Churubusco, Indiana, has celebrated Turtle Days, based on a story, part real and part invented, about the hunt for the Beast of Busco, a 500-pound (230 kg) snapping turtle said to be living in a nearby lake. [50] Common to these tales, Gutowski says, is the recurring motif of the quest for the mythical animal, often a monster.
An internet hoax about a man-eating turtle in Lake Monroe has been debunked. Here's how to know it was false and why it was posted in the first place. No, there is no human-eating snapping turtle ...
5 Claim of Little Turtle connection to Churubusco as supposed birthplace has no facts to back it up.
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