Sewer alligator - Wikipedia
The sewer alligator is an urban legend centered around alligators that live in sewers outside alligators' native range. Some cities that sewer alligators have supposedly been found are New York City and Paris. Accounts of fully grown sewer alligators are unproven, but small alligators are sometimes rescued from sewers. [1]
The Truth About Alligators in the Sewers of New York
2020年2月26日 · They are the alligators that supposedly infest New York City’s sewer system, slithering through the bowels just under the street level, feeding on rats and rubbish and terrorizing sewer workers...
Do Alligators Really Live in New York City Sewers?
2011年6月3日 · Sewers are dark, dangerous, and scary places. There's lots of nasty stuff down there, from rats to garbage and, well, sewage. But what about the infamous colonies of alligators?
Alligators in the sewer myth is true: Watch city workers find out
2023年5月11日 · New York might not have those infamous “alligators in the sewer” — but Florida has the real thing. A work crew in Oviedo, Florida proved the NYC urban legend was a Sunshine State reality after...
Sewer Alligator - Fairy Tales and Myths
2023年12月7日 · Sewer alligator folklore centers around claims about a population of alligators living in the city sewers. Accounts often add fanciful details such as alligators growing to monstrous proportions due to feeding on rodents or supposedly nutritious sewage garbage. Some accounts claim that blind albino alligators live in the sewers.
Have they really found alligators in New York? - CityMonitor
2023年2月21日 · According to the New York Times’ archives, the first sighting of a suspected sewer alligator was in 1932, when one was found lounging on the banks of the Bronx River. The next, and most famous, came three years later when two teenagers shovelling snow in East Harlem came across one nosing its way out of a manhole.
NYC's Sewer Alligator Legend, Fact or Fiction?
On February 10, 1935, The New York Times reported on a 7-foot, 125 pound alligator turning up in the sewers near 123rd Street in Harlem. According to reports, some neighborhood boys were shoveling...
The Book Behind the Sewer-Alligator Legend - The New York Times
2009年11月23日 · And in 1966, an 11-year-old Frank Indiviglio descended into the Bronx sewer system with a rope and a hook baited with lunch meat, looking for alligators. “I spent a summer down there searching...
Can Alligators Live in Sewers? - Snopes.com
断言: A thriving colony of large alligators lives deep within the bowels of the New York City sewer system.
· 已被 snopes.com 证实Sewer Gator - TV Tropes
In it, a crocodile somehow winds up in the NYC sewers and has been living there for years. Two sewer workers are down in there investigating a blockage, and the croc chomps one of them. The other guy (Peter Boggs) escapes, and is later talked …