Posted on 01/22/2021 2:34:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
A mythical, ape-like creature that has captured the imagination of adventurers for decades has now become the target of a state lawmaker in Oklahoma.
A Republican House member has introduced a bill that would create a Bigfoot hunting season. Rep. Justin Humphrey's district includes the heavily forested Ouachita Mountains in southeast Oklahoma, where a Bigfoot festival is held each year. He says issuing a state hunting license and tag could help boost tourism.
"Establishing an actual hunting season and issuing licenses for people who want to hunt Bigfoot will just draw more people to our already beautiful part of the state," Humphrey said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at kob.com ...
Witnessed comet Hale Bopp over the Ouachitas once, but no bigfoot.
Abominable Snowmen, by Ivan T. Sanderson, [1961] years ago wrote that there is a yeti in the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma.
All sorts of whangdoodles are ‘reported’ to be out there. Who knows which ones you may accidentally look like?
You gotta mount one of those. Just don’t tell the wife. Can you spell “C R O C K. O F S H I T ?”
True story! told by one of our working men.
Years ago there was an electric company survey crew, men and women, examining the area around the Boggy creek area of East Texas. One asked about the Boggy Creek monster. The answer given by a local was...he believed it.
“We was out hunting coon one night when we heard the loudest scream and the hunting dogs got really scared! Didn’t see what it twas though.”
One of the women surveyors looked perplexed and asked a question...”You-you mean you all still hunt black people down in this area?”
Other Supervisor:....R-A-A-coon, Debbie, R-A-A-Coon!”
Southeast Oklahoma is God’s Country.
Teddy Roosevelt never saw one either; but he was impressed enough with anecdotal evidence of it to publish a story he had heard in a book:
http://exemplore.com/cryptids/Teddy-Roosevelt-Bigfoot
Does that include Stacey Abrams and her sister? Asking for a friend.
Memo to self: Stop wearing fuzzy brown sweater outside...
...Or white mittens in Maine during Whitetail Deer season...
Oregon Wilson Snipe season is November to February 26 2021. Daily Bag limit is 8.
Not a lot of meat but very tasty. They are really hard to hit.
There’s actually lotsa truth in your rant.
I have a friend, a devout Christian, who swears she has seen Bigfoot. I don’t know what to do with that info when she tells me. I can’t call her a liar, so I just usually respond with, “REALLY?. Oh, my!”.
Eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas, beautiful rugged country.
I’d shoot one . sounds like fun. In the meantime, all the fast beef deermeat you can eat.
There really is such a bird as a snipe. They run along beaches like sandpipers.
Bigfoot knows how to social distance.
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