The Monster of Partridge Creek (Strand Magazine, 1908)

This is probably the most unlikely story ever to appear in The Strand. Originally published in a French magazine called 'Je Sais Tout' (I Know All) in April 1908, it was picked up around the world. The shaggy dinosaur, sadly, was never reported again. However, a thought occurs to me. One of the Strand's most popular contributors was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose tales of Sherlock Holmes and Brigadier Gerard were mainstays of the magazine. Could this yarn of a dinosaur surviving in a remote corner of the world have served as the inspiration for  Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World' which was published four years later?