Crocodriles in the sewers

Following the reports of sewer alligators in the 1930s, the story has built up over the

decades and become more of a contemporary legend

The original story was that wealthy families would return from vacation in Florida and ignore the laws in

New York City, bringing multiple alligators with them as pets for their children. The time frame of this tale is rather

vague, but it most likely originated in the late 1930s. When the alligators grew too large for comfort, the family

would proceed to flush the reptiles down the toilet.

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What happens next varies. The most common story is that the alligators survive and reside within the sewer

and reproduce, surviving by feeding on rats and rubbish, growing to huge sizes and striking fear into sewer workers.[1] In Robert Daley's book, The World

Beneath the City (1959), he comments that one night a sewer worker in New York City was shocked to find a

large albino alligator swimming toward him. Weeks of hunting followed.

The albino.

• Some versions go further to suggest that, after the alligator was disposed of at such a young age, it would live the majority of its life in an environment not exposed to sunlight, and thus it would apparently in time lose its eyesight and the pigment in its hide and that the reptile would grow to be completely albino.

The Mutant albino crocodile

• There was a team of the crocodiles hunters.• They kill and hunted the crocodiles in the

sewers.

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