After taking Mike to visit Mars and Neptune in Monico, Wisconsin we took him over to introduce him to another one of our local monsters. Check out the pic of him and the rhinelapus after you read the following history: A very large, twisted, and scary-looking tree trunk was found near Monico Creek in the early 1940s. Guy Dailey named it "Rhinelapus" because he thought that it resembled a rhinoceros, elephant, and octopus. He then had it cut down and dragged to his Lake Venus Tavern, where it sat, sheltered by a shed roof, for over 60 years. At some point it was painted yellow, then green, to preserve the wood, and renamed "The Green Monster." An eye and a horn were highlighted for the less imaginative. Guy Dailey died in 2002, and in 2005 the Rhinelapus -- by now a much-beloved civic symbol -- was moved to an open-air shelter in Monico Community Park. The Rhinelapus is also a bit of nose-thumbing by Monico at its neighboring city of Rhinelander, whose citizens loudly promote their "Hodag" monster. [Roadsideamerica.com Team, 10/31/2005]