When Bigfoot visited Vici, Oklahoma

Or maybe it was a case of mistaken identity.

OKLAHOMA TOWNSPEOPLE
WONDER IF CREATURE IS A BIG FOOT?
© (AP) The Houston (Texas) Post; Thursday, April 15, 1982

Vici, Oklahoma (AP) - What has reddish-brown hair, stands a stocky 4 feet to 5 feet high and smells like a sewer? That's what some folks around here would like to know.

Billy Parry, a 15-year-old high school freshman, says he saw such a creature while scouting for coyote tracks along Trail Creek near his home south of Vici. His family says it prowled on their property and near their house for more than a month this winter.

Hair samples found by Parry's house were sent to Hayden Hewes, director of Sasquatch Investigations of Mid-America. Was it from a "Big Foot"?

"The hair sample looked very interesting. At this point, we cannot confirm what kind of animal it came from," Hewes said, adding a sample was being forwarded to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation forensic lab in hopes of analysis. "I feel it's just a matter of time before a Big Foot is captured alive," Hewes said.

Dewey County Sheriff Larry Pike, on the other hand, says he has heard only rumors about the strange animal, but nothing official. Sightings also have been reported in nearby Roger Mills County. In 1977, search parties were formed after similar sightings of an unidentified creature were reported in eastern Oklahoma near Bristow and Stilwell. Nothing was found.

© The Houston (Texas) Post; Thursday, April 15, 1982

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Several years ago reality TV Bigfoot hunters went looking for the elusive creature in the Kiamichi Mountains in Southeastern Oklahoma. To ensure proper appreciation of the land (and no doubt add a little reality to their reality), hunters hired three Choctaw as guides. As they are wont to do around White Men Who Will Believe Anything, the Choctaw talked about tales of Bigfoot from their fathers and grandfathers and even further back.

The Choctaw and the hunters had separate camp fires. My guess is, the Choctaw spent some time hooraying about the white hunters.

The hunters, of course, heard things in the night. (Anybody who spends a night in the Kiamichi will hear something.) The sounds might have been a Bigfoot, could have been a Bigfoot, fit the description of Bigfoot sounds the hunters had heard before. But, as with all Bigfoot shows, the hunters had another location to check out and could spend no more time in the Kiamichi.

The Choctaw, probably quite a few dollars richer, went home.