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TERRIFIED locals in a South American town are running scared after a strange creature they describe as “Gollum” crawled out of a lake and charged schoolkids. <\/strong><\/p>\n The beast \u2014 which has “sparked fear and confusion” in the small town of Cerro Azul, Panama \u2014 was spotted on Saturday when four 14 to 16-year-olds were playing by the waterfront.<\/p>\n According to their account, reported by Panamanian news service Telemetro, the youngsters “screamed” when the five-foot creature emerged from a cave and started clambouring over rocks towards them “as if to attack them”.<\/p>\n In a “desperate bid to defend themselves” the four terrified boys said they hurled rocks at the strange creature to kill it, before throwing its corpse in the water and running away.<\/p>\n Their disbelieving parents returned to the lake the following day \u2014 and were stunned to discovered the beast’s body washed up on the shore.<\/p>\n Experts have yet to examine the images \u2014 or make any statements regarding their discovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n But locals told Panama news channels, who ran the story, that the water-monster was “Gollum from Lord of the Rings”.<\/p>\n One said: “I have only seen that creature once before – and it was in the Tolkien film.”<\/p>\n The fictional Gollum \u2014 originally known as Smeagol \u2014 was a hobbit whose later name was derived from the “disgusting gurgling, choking cough he made”.<\/p>\n JRR Tolkien \u2014 who wrote the Middle Earth adventures \u2014 said of the character: “He had become deformed and twisted in both body and mind by the corruption of the Ring.<\/p>\n “His only desire was to possess the Ring which had enslaved him, and he pursued it for many years after he lost it.”<\/p>\n Taken from www.thesun.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n