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| The Fouke monster was made famous inwards the pic Legend of Boggy Creek |
The flavor 4 opener of Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot revisited the abode of the Fouke Monster. Four decades later on this local legend continues to stir the hearts together with minds of the local residents. Watch the Finding Bigfoot Arkansas promotional video below together with thence an article written just xv years agone regarding an uptick of Fouke monster sightings.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, Dec 1, 1998 -- FOUKE -- The Fouke monster, a legendary bigfoot look-alike, withal stalks the lowlands of Miller County, according to local residents.src: BigfootEncounters
"There were 40-some sightings concluding year," said Rickie Roberts, Fouke's unofficial monster spokesman. "There were 22 sightings inwards i day. ... There's fifty-fifty i guy who swears there's a theatre unit of measurement [of monsters] who alive behind his house."
Roberts, who owns the Monster Mart grocery on USA 71, said the latest sighting came July 17 when iv people purportedly saw the creature walking along a dry out creek bed close v miles due south of town. Sightings of the Fouke monster have got been reported since the 1940s, according to paper articles. In all that time, no i has photographed the creature or captured it.
For a time, the solely testify of the creature was a plaster shape of a thirteen 1/2-inch footprint taken from a local soybean field. The shape was destroyed inwards a service station burn inwards the belatedly 1970s, Roberts said. "That was the solely existent proof you'd have got around here" that the monster exists, he said.
Though scores of residents have got reported seeing the hairy creature, experts scoff at its existence. Frank Schamback, an archeologist at Southern Arkansas University at Magnolia who debunked the footprint every bit a hoax inwards the 1970s, said he doesn't believe inwards the Fouke monster.
"They similar mystery," he said. "It's only that. People similar to have got a mystery."
Residents would have got proof past times at i time if the creature existed, Schamback said. "There are people downward in that location amongst dogs who would have got run it downward inwards 2 days" if it existed, he said. Toby Giles, Miller County's primary sheriff's deputy, said in that location haven't been whatsoever reported sightings inwards the past times few years, but "we produce [have one] every i time inwards a while." The sheriff's component subdivision used to have a few reported sightings when he joined the subdivision close xiv years ago, Giles said. "But nix was always confirmed," Giles said. "It's withal a well-talked-about subject." The town plays upward its connection amongst the monster. Down the route from Monster Mart, a visitor tin poke his caput through a hole inwards a metallic silhouette together with have got his photograph taken every bit the monster.
Roberts, who sells monster T-shirts, caps together with bumper stickers at his store, said the long-armed creature has been described every bit vi to ix feet tall amongst red, brown, dark or black-gray pilus roofing its body. Roberts said he has never seen the animal, which he speculates mightiness live a "swamp ape," together with he wouldn't acknowledge it if he had. "I wouldn't tell a word," he said. "People'd mean value you're crazy." He has heard an eerie howl, maybe from the monster, that almost defies description, Roberts said.
"I've heard it twice. It's a dissimilar sound. I don't know what yous would telephone yell upward it," he said. "It'd live a audio similar a cross betwixt a moo-cow bellow together with a panther screaming." The monster has never harmed anyone although it may have got caused a few heart-pounding frights, Roberts said. "This affair has never attacked anyone," he said. The Fouke monster brought attending to the town inwards 1972. Film crews descended on Fouke that twelvemonth to brand the Legend of Boggy Creek together with forever seat the community on the map.
The town of 614 is listed on the Internet every bit i of the transcend 10 places inwards the globe to await for bigfoot, the refer associated amongst creatures similar to the Fouke monster, Roberts said. "We larn people inwards hither every day" looking for the monster, he said. "We had a guy salve his coin for 2 years to come upward downward from Indiana this summer."
Roberts' wife, Beverly, said likewise many credible people have got seen what they described every bit the monster for her non to believe it exists. "I've got theatre unit of measurement members who firmly believe they've seen it," she said, noting that they moved away before long after the experience. "Whatever it is, in that location is something." Tracy Nichols together with Sue Page, who move at City Hall, said they have got heard scores of monster tales over the years.
Nichols, noting that the creature is by together with large associated amongst "a bad odor," said a local homo late saw the monster twice, "but he won't verbalize about.
He's afraid of beingness ridiculed." Although uncertain of her ain beliefs, she said, "I've heard credible people come upward through hither who said they've seen it." Nichols admitted that the legend is fun.
"We went hunting for it the weekend earlier last," she said. Page, whose constable begetter appeared every bit himself inwards the Legend of Boggy Creek, said, "I don't know if it's truthful or not." "We have got calls from agency off [from people] wanting to know close it," she said. Fouke resident Lavelle Brune said she idea she saw the monster recently. "We saw it" piece driving out of town, she said, but "we got to looking, together with it was only a bush."
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