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Here's an excerpt from "RIVERWALKER", Ch. #14: Der Flussverfolger

"...Suddenly, Adler laughed out loud, very loud.  “Those old ghost stories,?” he smiled stiffly.  “I can’t believe you’re actually asking about something so silly, ancient legends concocted by the local Tejanos and Mexicanos.  Truth be known, they’re probably based on an old legend told by the people near here, in old Germantown, The King William District.  My father used to say it was a fairy tale often told in Germany.  According to him, after World War One, a legend arose in Germany about a young soldier with war wounds, a terribly shattered leg and face.  He had been a handsome man, but became so enraged at his disfigurement that he vented his anger on his family, his wife and son; abused them, terribly.  After his death his ghost supposedly prowled the Rhine River, howling, limping in pain, killing, and mutilating women and children.  The name of the story was “DER FLUSSVERFOLGER.”  The River Stalker. 

“My father, Heinrich, told me of the legend, but said it had no basis in fact.  He assured me nothing like that had ever happened in Germany.  And any connection between that stupid story and the murders here in San Antonio after World War Two is just a by-product of the local Tejano imagination. The Tejanos around here just borrowed the German legend and added their own twist.  Called it La Bestia del Rio."

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