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
http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/oklahoma.htm
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.
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Bigfoot doesn’t keep people from moving to Fouke
Fouke, Ark., has been growing the last few years, with the largest ever population – 859 – in the 2010 census. The first census in Fouke was in 1910, when 246 people lived in the Southwest Arkansas town. The only drop in population occurred between 1940 and 1950, with the latter census count of 336 a whopping 32 people less than the former enumeration. The town quickly picked up, though, registering an increase of 58 by the 1960 census.
Fouke is 11 miles southeast of Texarkana and 17 miles north of Louisiana. Interstate 49 now runs across the western part of town.
Fouke is best known as home of the Fouke Monster, presumably a Southern Sasquatch. The monster lived in the Boggy Creek area near Fouke and terrorized a few residents in the early 1970s. After those sightings came several “Oh, yeah. That thing” statements, locals wondering why media people were only then aware of the furry creature.
“In 1851, the Memphis Enquirer reported a creature spotted by hunters in Greene County:
“’He was of gigantic stature, the body being covered with hair and the head with long locks that fairly enveloped his neck and shoulders.’”
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4404
Greene County is way up in Northeast Arkansas, in a less boggy area, but still within the forested terrain so favored by Sasquatch. And, Greene County is located on Crowley’s Ridge, a long rocky wooded line that runs from Missouri to near Helena, Ark. The Ridge is good habitat for big furry creatures.
The 1851 report was not the only story of an Arkansas Sasquatch.
“Five years later in 1856, the Caddo Gazette reported the following beast in the Upper Red River region:
“’...A stout, athletic man, about six feet four inches in height, completely covered with hair of a brownish cast about four to six inches long. He was well muscled, and ran up the bank with the fleetness of a deer.
“’...In an instant [he] dragged the hunter to the ground and tore him in a most dreadful manner, scratching out one of his eyes and injuring the other so much that his comrades despair of the recovery of his sight, and biting large pieces out of his shoulder and various parts of his body.’
“The ‘wild man’ then stole the hapless victim's horse and rode away on it.”
(Same link.)
As with other legends and myths and possibly accurate stories, people who live in such an area learn to, well, live with the recounting. And with the subject.
Fouke is 11 miles southeast of Texarkana and 17 miles north of Louisiana. Interstate 49 now runs across the western part of town.
Fouke is best known as home of the Fouke Monster, presumably a Southern Sasquatch. The monster lived in the Boggy Creek area near Fouke and terrorized a few residents in the early 1970s. After those sightings came several “Oh, yeah. That thing” statements, locals wondering why media people were only then aware of the furry creature.
“In 1851, the Memphis Enquirer reported a creature spotted by hunters in Greene County:
“’He was of gigantic stature, the body being covered with hair and the head with long locks that fairly enveloped his neck and shoulders.’”
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4404
Greene County is way up in Northeast Arkansas, in a less boggy area, but still within the forested terrain so favored by Sasquatch. And, Greene County is located on Crowley’s Ridge, a long rocky wooded line that runs from Missouri to near Helena, Ark. The Ridge is good habitat for big furry creatures.
The 1851 report was not the only story of an Arkansas Sasquatch.
“Five years later in 1856, the Caddo Gazette reported the following beast in the Upper Red River region:
“’...A stout, athletic man, about six feet four inches in height, completely covered with hair of a brownish cast about four to six inches long. He was well muscled, and ran up the bank with the fleetness of a deer.
“’...In an instant [he] dragged the hunter to the ground and tore him in a most dreadful manner, scratching out one of his eyes and injuring the other so much that his comrades despair of the recovery of his sight, and biting large pieces out of his shoulder and various parts of his body.’
“The ‘wild man’ then stole the hapless victim's horse and rode away on it.”
(Same link.)
As with other legends and myths and possibly accurate stories, people who live in such an area learn to, well, live with the recounting. And with the subject.
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