Today is your last chance to share your Bat Boy sighting story on our Facebook page. All week, GalleyCat readers have told us how they spotted the fictional monster for a chance to win a free copy of Going Mutant: The Bat Boy Exposed.
Scribner will give three lucky GalleyCat readers a copy of that new book from the editors of Weekly World News; a collection about the exploits of Bat Boy (pictured, click to enlarge) since 1992. Simply post about the time you met Bat Boy at this Facebook link. We will randomly select the winners from among the Facebook submissions.
The contest ends tonight at 11 p.m., and the complete guidelines are listed here. Below, we’ve reprinted two readers’ encounters with Bat Boy.
Michael Dudding: “No longer a boy at all, the fabled ‘Bat Boy’ is actually Marvin Chiroptera a thirty-three-year-old manager at Best Buy in Toledo, Ohio. His ‘Bat Boy’ stardom, although short-lived, burned bright—Marvin admits to spending most of the late 90s and early aughts haunting celebrity hotspots like The Viper Room and battling severe alcohol and methamphetamine addiction. Nice guy, if you can get past the teeth.”
Keely ‘Galloway’ Done: “Keely Done, a resident of Dayton Ohio, had just stepped outside for an early morning breath of fresh air on November 1, 2010 when she heard a high pitched keening sound coming from the alley behind her modest home. Hurrying through the backyard to investigate, she came up short when she saw a large animal caught on the chain link fence. “It was so strange, it looked like a giant bat had caught it’s wing tip on the fence,” Keely told the Dayton Daily News. “I’ve always been concerned about the well being of animals, so I hurriedly grabbed a broom from the garage and carefully approached the bat…”
Follow this link to finish reading the story.