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The brusino
Monster: how it started
Rumors have it a monster is living in Brusino Arsizio.
Over the past centuries there have been discoveries
of dinosaur fossils on the San Georgio which were,
as it was assumed, of an extinct species. Recent
events have led to the conclusion that this assumption
might have been incorrect.
Strange events tike fish suddenly disapparing from
Lake Lugano, a power failure putting the old city
of Brusnio in the dark for more than a weekend,
and those noices from the drain. Is there something
fishy going on?
Brusino Arsizio has one main road. Also three or
four side roads and even a 'down town' road, but
to notice these you must take the time to stop.
Most people are just passing through, and do not.
If you follow the main road in Western direction
it will bring you to the Italian city of Porto
Ceresio (excellent ice cream and Pizza). In
opposite direction, it will eventually bring you
at the highway going to Lugano or Milano.
Somewhere in the middle there is a drain that every
now and then produces a spalshing sound. Nothing
out of the ordinary, one could say, the wind creating
waves that smash against the inside of the drain.
Agreed, this is Ticino; there often is some sort
of breeze around lake Lugano. But can it be that
simple? Could there be something more to it? Maybe
not something 'fishy', but something 'fishing'?
There you have it. A set of strange events and
a plausible yet unrealistic explanaition. Add to
that the ambition to 'start a rumor' and the idea
for the 'Brusino monster'
was born.
Eventually, the idea made it into a cartoon that
was printed as a small booklet and distributed
amongst the children of the local school. |
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