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Aug. 12 – On this day in Montana history in 1970 the Flathead Courier reported that a “new monster”  had been seen on Flathead Lake in Polson Bay. Maynard Nixon (not to be confused with artist Maynard Dixon) showed up with a drawing of the new monster to add to the “strange denizens of the Flathead deeps.” He said it “was a cross between the original monster and the buffalo.” Noting there might have been “a bit of hanky-panky goin’ on,” the paper said it would be referred to “as the Great Flathead Fubbalo.”