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Article: Hannibal the catfish; A five-foot monster gobbles up everything in the lake.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2001
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Byline: DAILY MAIL REPORTER
HE struck without warning, bringing terror and death in the dark.
No one knows how many victims he claimed but when he was caught he regurgitated 57 bodies.
Meet Hannibal the Cannibal, discovered lurking in an English lake just as horror fans were thrilling to the reappearance of the real thing on cinema screens.
The monster catfish, which was five feet long, was hauled from the deep by astounded Environment Agency staff as they carried out a routine survey of fish stocks at Shillinglee in West Sussex.
An agency official who witnessed its capture said: 'It was very nasty looking, with a huge, ...