By: Olivia Ho

Around midnight on July 20th, two men came running into a police station located in the outskirts of Berlin with a recording of a what was believed to be lion hunting a wild boar. The police quickly gathered their troops to search for the animals.

The police were determined to find where the lion was from, but no animal hospital, zoo, or circus had a missing animal. Their first call was to the local circus at 2 am.

“They asked if we are missing a lion,” said Dinara Rogall, who helps run Circus Rogall in Teltow.

The next day, police alerted local citizens to stay home and avoid going outside. People started to exercise their dogs in their backyards, and those who did venture outside looked worried.

“The atmosphere was quite tense,” commented Uda Bastians, a resident of Kleinman. “There weren’t many people in the street, and the people you met, everyone was a bit afraid.”

As the search continued, some residents reported hearing loud roars from the nearby forest. It turns out that the source of these sounds was a group of teenagers playing loud animal sounds from a speaker.

A resident called the police saying that they had saw the “lion”, so the police sent a drone to search for the lion. What they found, however, was a family of boars. They ended up calling off the search because of this finding.

“A wild boar doesn’t really look like a lion, and we have a lot of wild boars,” Ms. Bastians said. “Everyone has seen wild boars, and we all know lions from boars.”

Mr. Grubert, the Kleinmachnow mayor, informed the reporters about not taking the report seriously and the things that could have happened if they did not like saying that the creature was a lion.