Posted on 10/22/2023 12:38:10 PM PDT by lowbridge
Arkansas may be the Razorback state, but Miller County residents live under the hairy shadow of a different beast.
For decades, locals in the small town of Fouke and its surrounding area have said that something inhuman stalks the deep, dark swamps in their region...the Fouke Monster.
Reba Killian was a little girl when she says she first saw the creature on a late-night drive.
"Seven and a half to eight feet tall. And we just started screaming, we were banging on the truck trying to get our parents to stop because we were kids, nobody was going to believe us. And we used to run those woods all the time in between my house and her house. And after that, I said no more, I'm not going back in those woods. It could have snapped us like a twig if it wanted to," Killian said.
Reports of the creature go back over a century ago, but the most famous rash of sightings occurred in the early '70s when a family claimed to have been attacked in their house at night.
The incident generated so much media attention that the monster became national news, putting Fouke on the map and bringing monster hunters from around the country, much to locals' dismay.
"You get people coming in, bringing their guns and dogs and different things, tromping through and tearing down fences," said Denny Roberts, owner of the Monster Mart in Fouke.
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It wasn't long before a movie was made about the attack and other encounters—folk horror as much as a documentary, the wildly successful 1972 film—entitled "The Legend of Boggy Creek"—forever cemented the Fouke or "Boggy Creek" monster in the town's identity.
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damn liburls...
LOL! This again? Back in the 1970s our power company was planning on running a power line in that area. Some of the big wigs and their secretaries went out to examine the site and the Boggy Creek Monster was brought up in conversation.
The guide told them a whopper about “Once we was hunting coon in that area and we heard the loudest growling and the stench was terrible!”
One of the Secretaries then asked....”Do, do you all still hunt colored people in this area?”
One of the management then said...”RA-coon, Debbie, RA-COON!”
Funny.
Back in the Bottoms lives Travis Crabtree:
Hey Travis Crabtree
Wait a minute for me
Let’s go back to the bottoms
Back where the fish are biting
Where all the world’s inviting
And nobody sees
The flowers bloom but me
Hey Travis Crabtree
Do you see what I see
On the gentle winds of morning
A million birds are singing
Like the bells of heaven ringing
And nobody sees
The flowers bloom but me
Yeah, I grew up in the 1970s, watching this movie whenever it popped up on tv. Back then the subject of Bigfoot was all over the place in popular media, movies, tv shows, documentaries, books, magazines, etc. And how I loved it.
The Legend of Boggy Creek was once thought to be in the public domain and could be found anywhere on the internet and on video. But as it turned out, the copyright was still active. The family of the movie director exercised their copyrights, got the movie removed from the various websites and stopped the fly by night video companies from producing their own copies. Now they released the movie on blu Ray and 4k. Much, much better viewing quality.
https://www.legendofboggycreek.com/
Thanks
WOW Debbie was a genius.
Just in time for Halloween! Sent to my brother in Arkansas.
I was sitting on a bench in the pilot house and the captain told me to get up whereupon he pulled out a very large pistol, caliber unknown. It was the very wee hours of the night. "The little bast..s are going to get what they deserve this time." Baffled, I watched. Shortly, there was a car with kids on the bridge over the waterway and the captain stepped out of the wheel house and commanded me to shine a spotlight on the kids and the car. He didn't wait and started blazing away at them with the pistol to stop them from dropping large rocks on the boat. The muzzle flash and the boom of the gun shattered the night and sent the kids running for their lives as the bullets bounced off the steel of the bridge.
That summer my 18 year-old self got a very rough education that aided to convince me I very much wanted to further my education, go back to school and be a part of a hopefully more civilized life; and so I got an engineering degree and went to the oilfield.
Today, while mulling over how the pace of life goes faster at the end just like water in a basin or through a funnel goes ever faster, I was thinking of Calculus and Differential Equations. Used both little in more than 40 years of work but did put them to some use. More than anything Differential Equations taught me how to study.
bkmk river life and the tow
Scarred me for life.
The scene where it breaks through the picture window and grabs the people on the sofa looked EXACTLY like our living room.
Gah!!!
Worse yet if it gets yer mother.
Either you worked on the same crew or that made-up story has held up well over the years, even to the point of her first name being Debbie.
I swear that’s what the instructor said. But, maybe he made it up. I just passed it on. Too good not to share.
Not sure who I’m replying to; were you in that class?
No - the other freeper that I sent it too had the same/similar story (see post 22). Perhaps not the same class, but the same instructor.
When I was 15 I was in the Wyoming mountains with some kids from Texas my same age. It started to snow. They all were amazed - they thought it came up out of the ground! Although it didn’t seem like they were joking at the time, perhaps they were just fooling me.
I was 19 before I knew what black-eyed peas and okra were though, so...
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