Alligators in the Sewers

As the urban legend goes…

Parents vacationing in Florida used to bring back pet baby alligators to their children in New York. But once the alligators got to be too aggressive, the parents feared for their children’s safety and flushed the animals down the toilet.

What gets flushed down the toilet must come out the other side, however.

As the story goes, these once cute pets grow up into huge, man-eating beasts beneath the streets of New York.

Due to the constant darkness, the alligators are blind and lose all their pigmentation, but they still breed and almost become evolutionary creatures of the sewers.

Now there is a bit of truth to these urban legends. There is documentation that notes a capture of an eight-foot alligator at the bottom of an East Harlem manhole in 1935. But while no one knows how the animal got down there, it’s doubtful the alligator was flushed down a toilet after once being a child’s pet.

This urban legend has proved to be just that – an urban legend.