The speaker exhibits some megalomania as a result being drunk and/or high, and identifies with a creature from American folklore who is spoken of in tall tales as being extremely dangerous to hunters. He intends to commit a murder, perhaps while the victim is out hunting, so heinous and inexplicable that it could be attributed to a creature of legend, and the date will go down in local mythology.
The speaker exhibits some megalomania as a result being drunk and/or high, and identifies with a creature from American folklore who is spoken of in tall tales as being extremely dangerous to hunters. He intends to commit a murder, perhaps while the victim is out hunting, so heinous and inexplicable that it could be attributed to a creature of legend, and the date will go down in local mythology.