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Alligator found in Kansas - again: "Loren Coleman, in his classic work Mysterious America, details many occurrences of alligators showing up in the most unlikely places, including the 1970 appearance of a gator in the basement drain of a house in Newton, Kansas, and what can only be described as an invasion of alligators in Wichita in 1978. He also mentions appearances in Olathe and Stillwell."