164. Bigfoot: The Fouke Monster 1

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On May 3rd, 1971 the Texarkana
Gazette published the first

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report of a large, hairy,
bipedal ape like creature which

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seemed to be roaming the area
around Boggy Creek in Falk,

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Arkansas.
Soon witnesses would report a

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Bigfoot like critter that was
slim, fast and gave off an

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incredibly horrible smell.
But that wasn't all that was

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terrifying about this beast of
Boggy Creek.

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The thing had a habit of letting
out a deep and guttural yell or

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scream that sent shivers down
your spine after hearing it come

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from the deepest and thickest
parts of the nearby woods.

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The specific account that The
Gazette reported on came

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directly from the Ford family,
who claimed to have witnessed

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this enormous beast reached its
hand in through one of their

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open windows and attempt to
enter the house by use of their

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home's back door.
This claim was corroborated by a

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total of five adults from both
the Ford and Taylor families who

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all swore on its authenticity.
From there the stories flooded

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in from the area of run
insurance with the beasts both

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before and after the incident at
the Fords as mentioned in Lyle

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Blackburn's book The Beast of
Boggy Creek, The True Story of

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the Falk Monster.
One man even reported that he

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took a few shots at it with his
old service rifle from his time

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back in the army.
In fact, Blackburn was able to

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find evidence of a Bigfoot like
creature in the area as far back

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as 1851, where on May 9th an
article was published in the

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Memphis Enquirer about a set of
hunters who reported a large ape

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like creature trying to capture
a calf in the herd of cattle.

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He also made mention of an
article from 1856 that

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highlighted a group of men on
horseback that were out

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attempting to capture a quote UN
quote Wildman.

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This encounter is unique as it
does not end peacefully as is

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the norm in Bigfoot reports from
around the country, but rather

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it ended with the creature
attacking one of the men and its

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horse as they approached it,
leaving the man missing an eye

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and a gnarly bite wound on his
shoulder.

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This particular report is more
on par with some of the more

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infamous reports of the modern
times and is completely in line

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with the Falk monster that has
been thrust into a limelight of

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cryptozoology and pop cultural
like The Beast is mean and

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unlike its famous and other
friendly cousin in the northwest

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portion of the country, this
version is said to stalk the

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woods and swamps of southern
Miller County and only to turn

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and threaten all those it comes
in contact with.

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Sometimes it's all talk and
sometimes a man ends up throwing

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off his horse and gets his eye
ripped out.

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Well, today we dive into the
story of the famed Falk monster.

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Welcome back to Infinite Rabbit
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Prior to this point in time,
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Else, welcome back to the
infinite rabbit hole.

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I'm your host Jeremy, and today
we're diving into the Falk

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Monster, AKA the Beast of Boggy
Creek, AKA the Jonesville

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Monster.
Now I want to explain something

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real quick.
This is actually going to be a

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two-part series and you're going
to get a bonus episode next

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week.
This episode that you're going

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to listen to today is the
background story behind the Falk

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monster, how it came to be, some
of the more famous things that

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have happened in relation to
said monster and some of the

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bigger sightings.
So the the ones that are very

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story critical, we'll talk about
today, now, next week.

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I have a whole episode dedicated
to nothing but sightings and

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encounters of the Falk monster.
And let me tell you, some of

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these are incredible.
I love them.

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They're phenomenal.
Bigfoot is my thing.

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Everyone knows that the Falcon
monster is a local Bigfoot

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creature.
Some people will call these

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Bigfoot Urban legends, or
Bigfoot legends for short, and

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that's exactly what this is.
This is our first coverage on a

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location base Bigfoot, but it
will by far not be the last.

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Trust me, there is.
Oh man, there's a lot.

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There's at least at least a
dozen that I can think of just

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off the top of my head.
But before we jump into the Falc

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monster and the story behind it,
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Telling everybody that this is a

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It really does.

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So or keep your ears open, keep
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So without further ado,
everybody, here is my report on

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the Falcon monster.
I'll see you on the other side a

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crazy few weeks.
The 1st events of the famed

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story of incidents that occurred
at the Ford's property began

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with a footprint found in the
area near the property that the

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men were going to fish.
And just a few days after the

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two families moved into their
new home.

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The continual issues with an
unknown creature stalking the

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property and the families that
were targeted, meaning the Fords

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and the tailors are famous for
being the proverbial straw on

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the camel's back that sent the
small town of Falca, Arkansas

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into the limelight of the entire
country.

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Everyone had their eyes on
Falcon, a small property just a

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few miles away from the infamous
Creek where the creature would

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eventually be known to roam.
The first encounter with the

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actual beast that is detailed is
from the point of view of

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Elizabeth Taylor and Patricia
Ford, where one night they heard

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it walking on the porch but
never actually saw the creature.

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The very next night, the women
claimed that they witnessed a

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large hand come through the
curtains as Elizabeth sat in the

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front room.
The encounter is described by

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Elizabeth Taylor in the May 1st,
1971 edition of the Texarkana

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Gazette quote.
At first I thought it was a

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bear's paw, but it didn't look
like that.

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It had heavy hair all over it,
and it had claws.

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I could see its eyes.
They look like coals of fire.

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Brothers Don and Bobby Ford
responded to the scream that

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ensued with guns in hand as they
ran around the back of the

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house, where they captured the
beast and the beam of their

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flashlights before they fired
several shots which both men

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claimed to have hit the creature
a few times.

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Immediately after the animal ran
off, they gave a call to the

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local constable, Ernest
Walraven, who promptly arrived

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at the Ford's residence with
another shotgun in hand.

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The three men, Bobby Ford, Don
Ford and Charles Taylor, SAT and

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discussed the incident on the
very porch that the woman said

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was visited by someone unknown
the night prior.

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As the men were talking, one of
the men noticed the beast was

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back in the tree line and once
again they all opened fire.

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This time they claimed to have
seen the creature fall as a

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result of the volley of bullets
being fired at it.

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As the men were walking out to
the area where they thought they

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saw it fall, the women began to
screaming from the inside of the

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house.
Bobby Ford turned back in a

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hurry to help the women but was
attacked by the creature as he

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was climbing the ladder to the
porch.

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Bobby was thrown to the ground,
the scuffle and quickly rose to

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his feet before running as fast
as he could to the front of the

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house and falling through the
front door.

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After this incident, the men no
longer could find the creature

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and quickly recalled the
constable.

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This time they found a singular
3 toed footprint in a nearby

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freshly plowed field.
There was plenty of damage done

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to the house itself as a window
was broken and metal shavings

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were found around the base of
the building.

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A follow up Article 3 days later
would report that there were

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multiple footprints found in the
immediate area of the property

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and that Bobby Ford was also
being treated at a nearby

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hospital for shock and some
pretty nasty scratches.

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Two weeks later on Tuesday, June
15th, another article would be

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published which described the
set of tracks that were

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discovered by yauthor Kennedy
two days earlier in the freshly

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plowed soybean field near the
southern fork of Boggy Creek

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that he was leasing.
These prints brought a new

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person critical to the story by
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Willie owned the property that
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soybeans on and lived in the
area all his life.

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He claimed to have seen the same
Prince many times before.

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He even went as far as to say
that his sister claimed to have

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seen the creature for the first
time almost 40 years earlier, in

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1908, with his first sighting
coming in 1955, in which he shot

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at the creature 15 times before
the creature returned a few days

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later, throwing things at his
dog.

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Willie would be the first person
to make the connection that

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whatever it was, it used the
Creeks that encircled Falk and

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touched many other smaller towns
in the area as pathways or even

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as places to live.
Then on June 16th, another

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incident showed up in local
papers that described the

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sighting of the creature by an
AL Williams and AL Tipton just a

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quarter mile away from the
Prince found in the soybean

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field.
The men described the creature

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as only about 3 1/2 to 4 feet
tall and was best described as a

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small ape or a large monkey.
Side note, this small stature

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would later be proven to be
something odd, as the creature

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would typically be described as
several feet taller in most

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encounters, but this could be
evidence that there was a

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breeding population in the area
and that this one was simply a

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juvenile money.
The sightings became so

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plentiful that June that the
local radio station offered up a

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reward of $1090.00 to whoever
would bring in a live specimen

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of whatever the monster was.
A few other rules that the radio

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station highlighted was that
there must be absolutely no

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property damage in the process
of the creature's capture, and

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that after the creature was was
turned into the radio station,

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it would then be property of the
radio station.

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This last bit would later be
countered by Sheriff Leslie

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Greer with his own statement
claiming that it would in fact

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not be property of the radio
station, rather it would belong

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to Miller County.
A man by the name of Raymond

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Skogan's would also offer up
$200.00 of his own money as a

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reward to anyone who could shine
light on the issue as well.

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Again, a stipulation was
included that the creature would

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be captured completely unharmed.
As we have seen in many other

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situations in which at 40 an
event took place or a creature

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has been spotted and a bounty
has been placed on said subject,

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there was a huge influx of
people who wanted their chance

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at earning the prize.
And just like in the events of

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injured Cole, the Ozark, Howler,
the Kelly Green Men, the

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Snallygaster and many others,
this turned out to be a bad

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idea.
Many people showed up from other

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portions of the country to try
and bag themselves a monster.

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This brought a huge influx of
guns, alcohol and people.

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The locals soon began having
major issues with people cutting

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fences, strangers on their
property, random gunshots

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echoing through the area, and
people being loud and obnoxious.

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The issue with the outsiders
became more of a concern to the

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locals than the beast, and soon
after it all began.

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A rule was put in place that
banned the carrying of firearms

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outside of hunting season in the
general area.

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Fortunately for all that were
involved, there were no serious

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accidents during this influx of
visitors.

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Aside from a plethora of cases
involving property damage and

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drunken rowdiness, the locals
and the Sheriff's Department

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kept things in line for the most
part.

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Some of the locals even turned
this increase of outside

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visitors into a financial gain.
Willie Smith sold the cast that

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were made in this bean field for
quite a bit of money.

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A local 15 year old boy by the
name of Perry Simmons gave tours

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of the Ford house for a dollar a
person.

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Perry noticed that there were
times when the road in front of

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the house was so overrun with
people that traversing it was

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impossible.
Simmons's stepfather, Joe

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Simmons, was the owner of the
house in which the Fords were

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moving into, and Perry found it
to be a great opportunity to

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make some cash that summer.
Smoky Crabtree before the now

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famous Ford Encounter.
The beast, now famously known as

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either the Falk Monster or the
Beast of Boggy Creek was known

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by another name, the Jonesville
Monster.

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Jonesville being a small town
just six miles southwest of Falk

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in 1965, Lynn Crabtree would
have an encounter that would

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become extremely important in
the history of the then

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Jonesville monster.
Early one evening, Lynn would

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set out into the woods with a 20
gauge shotgun loaded with

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squirrel shot in an attempt to
hunt some small game.

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As he sat with his back against
a tree, a commotion erupted from

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the nearby pond that sounded
like some horses were running

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into the water.
This was not alarming to Lynn,

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as there were plenty of horses
in the area and sometimes they

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would go into the shallow waters
when the flies got really bad.

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Then he heard what he believed
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Screaming in pain, Lynn began
running down the pathway to an

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old fence in the direction of
the cries where he believed his

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dog may have got tangled up in.
But before he got there, the

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sound that he thought was his
dog started up again and this

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time it was mixed with some
groans and grunts that sounded

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like it came from something much
bigger.

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As he was walking to see what
was going on, he stopped in

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horror as his eyes set on an 8
foot tall man like creature

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covered in long dark reddish
brown hair with his back to

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Lynn.
Whatever it was was clearly

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agitated and must have been why
the horses sought the safety of

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the pond.
The thing stood roughly 30 steps

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away from where Lynn had stopped
as it turned and began to walk

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towards the young man,
completely oblivious of Lynn's

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presence.
Then everything changed as Lynn

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startled the creature, who then
began to look over Lynn with

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curiosity, in which Lynn
responded by shouting and waving

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his gun around to try to scare
it off.

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But the creature never stopped
walking towards him, which then

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caused Lynn to react by raising
his shotgun and shooting the

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thing in the head before
shooting it twice more, which

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seemed to, for the most part,
not faze the beast at all.

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With the realization that he was
not properly equipped to defend

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himself against the now possibly
pissed off Behemoth, Lynn ran

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for his life back to his parents
house where his parents and a

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few of their guests were
conversing.

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Julius Crabtree AKA Smokey
Lynn's father, would go out to

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the location in question once
Lynn calmed down and was able to

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tell his story.
Smokey and his wife June, also

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Lynn's mother, had heard the
three gunshots and were

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concerned for their child due to
both him being so scared and

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hearing the report of the gun go
off multiple times in

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succession.
There, Smokey found where his

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son had shot his gun into a tree
at a height of about 10 feet

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high, which makes sense if his
son was aiming up towards a

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towering 8 foot tall creature.
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higher than his target if he had
missed, but he was unable to

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find any shells.
This encounter is so important

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to the history of the Jonesville
or Falk monster because this

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story did exactly what the Fords
encounter did and brought out

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many other reports from the
locals of something stalking the

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woods.
An encounter just three miles

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away from the Crabtree property
would become another very famous

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event, as it was one that would
be portrayed in the famous

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docudrama titled The Legend of
Boggy Creek of 1972.

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Mary Beth Searcy was a teenager
at the time when she was working

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on her schoolwork.
As the sun went down, her older

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sister asked Mary Beth, as she
could tack up a blanket over the

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window to help keep the cool
spring air out in hopes to

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prevent the baby from getting
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As she stood at the window, Mary
Beth noticed a large dark shadow

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on two legs walking in their
yard.

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When the creature exited the
shadows of the trees and entered

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into the moonlight, she could
clearly see that whatever it

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was, it was covered in long
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She screamed and the house full
of the women of the family were

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left sleepless the rest of the
night.

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It may not have had the reach
like the Ford Encounter with the

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radio, TV and newspapers
covering it, but the Crabtree

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encounter certainly got the
locals excited and ready to

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haunt a monster. 20 locals
showed up with rifles tracking

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dogs and horses in hopes of
finding this beast, but

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unfortunately they never found
anything other than one man

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claiming that something had
spooked his horse, but whatever

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it was never really revealed
itself.

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Although the locals excitement
over the monster quickly dies

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after the failed search, Smokey
was not ready to give up, and

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good thing he didn't.
In a 1971 interview with a

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Texarkana Gazette, Smokey would
mention that for some time after

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the event, their dogs wouldn't
go near the woods on their

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property.
He was hoping to get them out

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there to try to chase it out,
but the dogs wouldn't budget.

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Then he came up with the idea to
use the sound of an injured

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rabbit to try to get it lured
out.

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But what he got in response was
a series of strange noises from

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deep within the tree line.
Quote.

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It started making a noise like a
house cat, then went into a

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chatter something like a goat,
then into a noise something like

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an owl.
After a while it seemed to get

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annoyed and it made a sound like
a cross between a scream and a

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growl.
Now during my research I

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discovered that Smoky Crabtree
had published a book telling his

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side of the story in a relation
to the Falk Monster and the

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filming of the movie Legend of
Boggy Creek.

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The book is called Smokey and
the Falcon Monster and was

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published in 1974.
It took a long time and a pretty

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penny, but I found a copy and I
ordered it even though the

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description said it was in bad
shape.

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Now another side note, I
discovered from a pretty obscure

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source that the book was
republished at some time with a

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slight change to the book's
appearance.

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The original book had a title
section on the bottom of the

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cover that was filled in light
blue, and the reprint had this

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section colored white.
I found this out after I

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purchased the book, but I was
very pleased to see that I had

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purchased one of the original
prints which made this new

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addition to my library that much
more special.

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And when the book arrived it was
like Christmas morning.

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As these kinds of books from
people who were intimately

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involved in such a story mean an
absolute ton to me, the book was

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indeed rough.
Not only were the pages yellowed

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and stiff from age, but the
cover has two large brown

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circles from God knows what.
But none of that matters as I

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was now well on my way to
getting a really beautiful and

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rare behind the scenes look at
what life was really like during

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the Falk monster mania.
A lot of this book actually has

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nothing to do with the monster
at all.

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In the first few chapters you
read mostly about his young life

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and his experience of almost
losing his two brothers to

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drowning in the Creek behind
their house, to the death of his

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father and dog Sputter, and how
his mother raised him and his

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six siblings all by herself with
zero electricity and $29.00 a

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month for a salary.
It wasn't until page 84 out of

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the 142 pages that we get to
begin hearing his story in

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relation to the Falk or
Jonesville monster, when he

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begins telling his side of his
son Lynn's encounter all

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squirrel hunted the big screen.
In 1972, a docudrama movie

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titled The Legend of Baki Creek
hit Drive in theaters

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everywhere.
This creature feature was

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director Charles B Pierce's
introduction to the world of

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directing and would arguably be
one that he is most remembered

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for.
Along with the movie itself

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being so recognizable by name
alone, the movie's official

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poster, now VHS or DVD and
Blu-ray cover, became an instant

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classic all on its own.
Originally painted by the then

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soon to be world famous artist
for his work with George Lucas

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on the physical character
imagery of the top tier series

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Star Wars in 1977, Ralph
Mcqueary would be given full

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reign of design for one of the
most recognizable images in the

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world of cryptozoological fandom
today.

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In 1970, Pierce was living in
Texarkana and owned an

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advertisement firm, which was
how he earned the money he

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needed in order to propel his
dream career in the arts.

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When the 1971 Ford Encounter
became well known, Pierce

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instantly latched onto it as an
opportunity to drive into the

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director role of a film of his
own.

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He would eventually find someone
to fund his project and the

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likes of Mr. Ledwell of Leadwell
and Sun Enterprises, who he had

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previously done advertisement
work for.

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When asked what he wanted to
make his film about by Mr.

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Ledwell, Pierce responded.
Quote I want to do one about the

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booger that's jumping on folks
down the road there.

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Finding someone to fund the
project ended up being the easy

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part.
The hard part was convincing

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anyone, in fact, to be a part of
the movie when very few of them

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even wanted the project to
happen, let alone in their town.

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Eventually he convinced enough
people to put his plans into

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action and the documentary style
drama was officially ready to be

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created, one of which was none
other than Smokey Crabtree, who

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worked as a tour guide of sorts
for Pierce to finding filming

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locations.
The cast was made-up of mostly

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locals from Falcon Texarkana who
either played themselves or

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stood in for those that did not
want to be part of the project.

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And eventually the town slowly
started to get behind the movie,

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even to a point where the
Sheriff's Office was providing

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cruisers for props and closing
down sections of the road for

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filming.
The big payoff of the movie was

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the creature itself, which was
created from a costume that

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Pierce ordered from a place in
Los Angeles that they would

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eventually alter with locally
sold wigs.

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Although this film had a no name
director, no real actors,

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minimal recording equipment, and
a writer who had never written a

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movie script, the movie became
an instant cult classic and

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terrified young children and
drive ins all across the

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country.
Due to its initial G rating, The

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Legend of Boggy Creek became an
instant classic and is still

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consistently talked about among
movie and monster aficionados

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alike.
The movie sported a never before

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seen approach to a documentary
which has since been dubbed A

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docudrama, which is literally a
portmento, meaning a dramatized

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documentary.
Those with encounter sat in

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front of the camera and told
their stories in a way that made

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you feel like you were listening
to them relive their encounters

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from the day before.
As you listen to each and

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everybody's story, a dramatized
version was played out on the

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screen that made you feel like
you were really watching it

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happen.
This movie has been picked apart

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by many throughout the years and
to many this is simply just a

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drama with a spit of horror in
it in the shape of a Bigfoot

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like creature which shares no to
very little actual details about

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any real events.
But that isn't true.

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This movie does an incredible
job at using real events as told

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by the residents themselves to
retell their story and terror.

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That was the Falk monster.
Every scene is a representation

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of someone's story and yes, a
few of them are slightly

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inaccurate as a few names were
changed due to not having

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permission by the original
experiencer to use their

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likeness or a specific scene
being exaggerated a little to

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add entertainment value.
Remember this is a movie and is

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made to entertain the person
watching it, so this is

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understandable.
So if you want a good idea of

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what happened in a visually
dramatized format, The Legend of

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Boggy Creek is an incredible
place to start.

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Just remember that the movie was
released in 1972, so there are

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many parts in the movie that
will show its age.

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After the movie was brought to
the international market by

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Halco International, who
promptly and effectively

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distributed the masterpiece, the
once sleepy town of Falk once

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again became the epicenter of
monster lovers from every nook

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and cranny of the world.
But this time everything was

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much worse.
On September 16th, 1973, the

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Texarkana AR Jay CS, AKA the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,

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placed a reward of $100,000 for
the live capture of the creature

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now more commonly known as the
Beast of Baki Creek.

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This of course brought the
shotguns and monster hunters

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back to the front steps of the
sleepy town.

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But with these creature hungry
out of towners came a plethora

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of letters, with some even
addressed to the Falk monster

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itself.
According to Blackburn, the

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mayor's office once delivered a
bundle of more than 800 letters,

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but the circus didn't stop
there.

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A song simply called Falk
Monster was released by a band

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named Billy Cole and the Falk
Monsters.

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Souvenir shops and carts began
popping up with some of the

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locals trying to make do with a
new wave of enthusiasts with

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trinkets such as replica casts,
stickers, T-shirts, ashtrays,

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postcards, among many other
things.

453
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,600
With the revived interest in the
creature came a wave of

454
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,320
sightings that many claim are
not very credible, but there are

455
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,840
a few that stand as intriguing,
especially if the reports were

456
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,760
from locals.
One of which was by Orville

457
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,960
Scoggins, who was previously a
very strong skeptic to the

458
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,440
matter who claimed to have seen
an upright, walking, black

459
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,440
haired beast strolling across
his bean field.

460
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,920
Scogan's estimated the critter
to be only 80 to 90 lbs, which

461
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,080
would trend on the smaller side
of the reported sightings but

462
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,200
not unheard of and as I
mentioned earlier, may have been

463
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,520
a sign of a healthy breeding
pair and their offspring.

464
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,640
The particular sighting fueled
an official investigation by

465
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,720
Constable Red Wall Raven in
which he and his officers found

466
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,560
a trail of five inch wide tracks
that spanned an eighth of a mile

467
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,560
across Scogan's Bean Field.
Other details were mentioned in

468
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,240
reports, including that they
were three toed and had a 40

469
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,840
inch stride.
Another well known encounter is

470
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,960
that of the Giles brothers, who
claimed to have the creature

471
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,280
jump into the bed of their truck
and attack the motorcycles that

472
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,840
they had strapped down.
This was yet another outlier as

473
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,760
there were very few actual
sightings where the creature

474
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,640
made physical harm to either a
person such as Bobby Ford or

475
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,880
Property.
In this case, although the

476
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,240
monster wasn't to blame for a
lot of the property damage post

477
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,920
release of the film, another
critter was the fans of the film

478
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,600
that had come to infest the area
began paying special attention

479
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,720
to Smokey Crabtree in
Jonesville.

480
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,840
The issue got so bad on his
property that Smokey and a group

481
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,800
of monster seekers ended up in
the Sheriff's Office one night

482
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,120
due to Smokey chasing and
threatening them with a shotgun.

483
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,800
Smokey would go on to get
rightfully pissed at Charles B

484
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,240
Pierce due to the fact that he
was now a millionaire due to the

485
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,600
movie, but he and the locals of
the area that contributed so

486
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,720
much were left not only without
any compensation, but now had to

487
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,920
deal with people trespassing and
infringing on their privacy.

488
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,640
Some were even coming onto
properties where the film had

489
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,400
shot a scene just to snap a twig
off a tree that they had seen in

490
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,440
the movie.
So in 1974, Smokey Crabtree

491
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,760
wrote a memoir on his experience
with the times before, during

492
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,640
and after the crave that was the
film The Legend of Baki Creek.

493
00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:49,480
Unfortunately, there were two
attempts at making a sequel, or

494
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,560
at least a movie based off the
creature, the first of which was

495
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,400
a horrible movie by the name of
Return to Baki Creek.

496
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,640
This movie was directed by Tom
Moore, who enlisted big names

497
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,040
such as Dawn Well of Gilligan's
Island, but no stars from any

498
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,920
other successful projects were
going to fix this movie.

499
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,680
The concept of the new movie
completely abandoned the

500
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,800
docudrama style for one of a
more traditional script, the

501
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,480
second of which was simply
titled Boggy Creek 2, which was

502
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,560
successful in recruiting Pierce
as the director, but ultimately

503
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,120
flopped as well.
The movie was so bad that Pierce

504
00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:27,080
claimed it to be the worst he
had ever done Smokey's Bones.

505
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:33,160
On November 27th of 1991, James
Mackey and a friend of his came

506
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:37,840
across a very strange corpse on
his property near Karnak, Texas,

507
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,640
about 60 miles southwest of
Falk, Arkansas.

508
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,080
The body of whatever this
critter was was almost 8 feet

509
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,000
tall and was completely missing
its head.

510
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,400
One of the first people that
Mackey would show the body to

511
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,200
was his nephew, who quickly took
the body over to his property in

512
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,760
Louisiana, where he believed
they had possession of a true

513
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,960
unidentified creature.
Mackie contacted Smokey Crabtree

514
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,000
since he was one of the more
official voices of the nearby

515
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,360
famed Falk monster, and Smokey
immediately headed down to take

516
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,480
a look and was extremely
impressed in how much whatever

517
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,920
it was resembled the creature
that has been seen in and near

518
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,800
Falk for a better part of the
decade.

519
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,160
The only thing that kept him
from thinking that this was the

520
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,160
exact culprit was the fact that
the feat on whatever it was was

521
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,280
most likely not the feat that
were making the famous 3 Toed

522
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:30,360
prints near Falcon Jonesville.
From there, Smokey, Mackey's

523
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:35,360
nephew and another unnamed man
made a deal that if this turned

524
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,040
out to be a major biological
discovery, that the three would

525
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,440
share the overall earnings.
From this point.

526
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,160
Smokey took possession of the
corpse and created a display

527
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,080
case that was airtight in order
to preserve it for future

528
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,600
endeavors.
Smokey claims to have sent

529
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,880
samples to the University of
Arkansas, but never heard back

530
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,160
with their findings.
Author Lyle Blackburn's great

531
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,680
investigative research into the
true identity of the mystery

532
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,320
critter reveals exactly what the
story was behind the famous

533
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,360
body.
In the December 11th, 1991

534
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,240
edition of the Texarkana
Gazette, the author explains

535
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,320
that the body was that of a
Siberian tiger who originally

536
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,680
belonged to an exotic animal
collector in nearby Jefferson.

537
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,320
When the tiger passed away from
pneumonia, the owner sold the

538
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,760
body to a local man who then
brought it to a taxidermist who

539
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,120
would go ahead and remove the
head, claws and pelt before

540
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,920
dumping the body, apparently on
the Mackie property.

541
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,600
Every piece of this reported
story was apparently 100%

542
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,800
factual, and the body that was
found on the Mackie property in

543
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,960
Texas was unfortunately that of
a Siberian tiger.

544
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,120
I include this in this
presentation that is a very

545
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,920
famous addition to many
different tellings of the Falk

546
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,680
monster story, but unfortunately
it would seem that in this case

547
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,800
it has nothing to do with the
beast at all footprints.

548
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,160
It's unfortunate that the famed
smoky Crabtree bones turned out

549
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,200
to be nothing substantial, as
the evidence a body would

550
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,520
provide in the case of the
existence of a Sasquatch species

551
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,840
would be a huge weight off the
shoulders of not only the world

552
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,320
of Crypts zoology, but also in
all of subjects of 40 in

553
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,560
studies.
But unfortunately that didn't

554
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,520
happen.
So in the case of the Falcon

555
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,440
monster, we will have to turn to
the physical evidence that is

556
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,920
properly documented on multiple
occasions.

557
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,400
Footprints.
There are not a ton of prints

558
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,640
linked to the Falcon monster,
such as the ones found by author

559
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,800
Kennedy in the bean field he was
leasing from Willie Smith.

560
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,160
But the ones that do exist that
are not replicas of original

561
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,840
cast mass produced for souvenirs
do tell quite the story.

562
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,160
Prior to the famed Ford
Encounter, Bobby Ford and a

563
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,880
friend named Corky Hill were
fishing from the Bank of the

564
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,360
Creek when they spotted a
strange 3 toed print pressed

565
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,400
into the mud.
The men never thought much about

566
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,840
it other than it being strange,
but after the events of the

567
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,800
attacks on the Ford house,
authorities discovered sporadic

568
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,920
3 toed tracks coming in and out
of the immediate area, as well

569
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,560
as torn siding on the House that
seemed to be made by an animal

570
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,560
with three claws.
Unfortunately, the evidence of

571
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,240
these findings was never
documented in a way that we can

572
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,320
study now, so other than
newspaper articles about the

573
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,560
night in question, there isn't
anything else to go off of.

574
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,960
One of the more famous tracks
found of the beast was the

575
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,840
previously mentioned prints
found by author Kennedy.

576
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:30,120
The trackway stretched an area
of about 150 yards and

577
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,880
originated from the tree line on
the edge of the field.

578
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:38,240
The three toed prints were
consistent 13.5 inches long, 4.5

579
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:43,400
inches wide, and had a stride of
57 inches on average.

580
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,560
Now side note, this is roughly 6
inches longer than the average

581
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,120
human stride, but what stood out
the most about the strange

582
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,360
footprints was a peculiar 4th
digit that set about 5 inches

583
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,680
back from the large toe that
left a very vague indentation

584
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,040
that was barely noticeable, but
was present on all of the

585
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,520
tracks.
Many officials and locals

586
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,200
witnessed this particular
trackway and all agreed that

587
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,400
they had never seen these types
of tracks before and these were

588
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,680
people who spent most of their
lives outdoors in the local

589
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,600
area.
And for those of you who would

590
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,280
like to see a really good
picture of one of these prints,

591
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:26,280
there is one on page 117 of Lyle
Blackburn's book, The Boggy

592
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,200
Creek Casebook.
This also stood as the first set

593
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,480
of tracks to be properly cast
and was done so by a local woman

594
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,600
by the name of Jane Roberts, who
used her personal stock, a

595
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,480
plaster of Paris that she used
for her personal arts and

596
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,680
crafts, as the local police and
population were not versed in

597
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,160
the art of casting at the time.
But one particular piece of the

598
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,160
puzzle was noticed by journalist
Jim Powell during the

599
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,400
investigation.
He was not convinced of the

600
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,600
authenticity of the trackway, as
he was the first to point out

601
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,800
that the tracks seemed to
purposely not step on any of the

602
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,320
bean plants that were in the
field.

603
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,640
In his opinion, a wild animal
would have no sense of the

604
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,240
importance of the farmers
plants, it would simply walk

605
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,360
over or through the plants that
maxed out at a height of only

606
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,360
two feet tall.
But that was not the case in

607
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,600
this event, as they were
considered to be baby plants and

608
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,639
would have been even easier to
simply walk on.

609
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,560
And seeing how those prints went
on for about 150 yards through

610
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,639
the field, with very little
space between the plants, he

611
00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:26,040
found it very odd that none of
the plants were damaged.

612
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,520
In his opinion, the prints were
most likely made by someone who

613
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,600
found the plants to be important
enough to not damage them.

614
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:36,239
Unfortunately, these tracks were
on display in the Boggy Creek

615
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:40,320
Cafe when it burned down in the
1970s and are no longer in

616
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,840
existence.
Tom Zorn, however, was also able

617
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,239
to cast a print that he
discovered near Boggy Creek in

618
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:50,239
1973 and is still on display
today in the famous Monster Mart

619
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,000
small display of evidence for
the creature and Falk.

620
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,480
Then there were the tracks that
span the length of about an

621
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,200
eighth of a mile by Orville
Scoggins after he spotted what

622
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,680
is believed to be a juvenile.
As mentioned before, these

623
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,200
tracks had a 40 inch stride and
were 5 1/2 inches in diameter.

624
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,520
There were never any cast or
pictures taken of these prints,

625
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,440
but reports state that the
prints matched those from the

626
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,120
Ford case, which were now
famously known as three toed

627
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:21,440
prints.
A5 toed left footprint was cast

628
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,840
near Carter Lake in 2004 by a
man named Doyle Holmes, which

629
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,280
measured at 15 inches long and 8
1/2 inches wide.

630
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,280
The one print, which was a part
of a small trackway that led out

631
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,880
of the water into a nearby Berry
Bush, highlighted a clear

632
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,640
impression of what appears to be
a bunion, or growth under the

633
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:44,840
big toe, which was also present
in every left footprint made in

634
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,960
the trail of prints left in the
muddy shore.

635
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,880
So what is it?
In May of 2009, Jennifer Bland

636
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,760
was driving down an old dirt Rd.
between Long Slough and Smith

637
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,840
Park when a tall, brown haired
covered creature walked in front

638
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,880
of her car and disappeared into
the trees on the other side of

639
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,120
the road.
As she slowed down to see if she

640
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,000
could see the creature as it
traversed the woods, a loud

641
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,920
blood curdling scream emanated
from its location which made

642
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:15,640
Jennifer quickly change her
mind.

643
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,800
This encounter stands as a very
unique and possibly important

644
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,960
encounter as it is the only one
that I have seen where the

645
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,080
Witness describes a snout in her
description of the creature.

646
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,560
Why, may you ask, is this an
important detail?

647
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,880
Well, this is not a feature that
is typically found in your

648
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,400
average Bigfoot encounter.
This is however a detail that is

649
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,160
not only included in specific
species or race of Bigfoot,

650
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,640
known as a Gogwit, which is well
known to be extremely dangerous,

651
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,160
which would help with the
understanding the Falk Monster's

652
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,400
Brutus nature, but is also a
well documented feature in a

653
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,080
different Cryptid altogether,
the Dog Man.

654
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,880
Now I am not saying that I
believe that the Falk monster is

655
00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,280
Guguay or Dogman, I am yet again
only reporting on details and

656
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,240
drawing lines of possibility.
The area of Texarkana is not a

657
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:08,280
known area for dog man activity,
but this general area of the

658
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:12,040
country isn't completely lacking
in encounters of either creature

659
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,720
and could simply be a one off
report of a lone animal and may

660
00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:18,400
not actually be a Falk monster
report at all.

661
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:23,120
But you can never say never.
But what else can it be Like I

662
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,800
do with all cryptids, I look at
3 possibilities of what could be

663
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,640
the answer.
One, is it actually a new

664
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,600
animal?
Two, is it misidentification?

665
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,240
And three, is it a hoax?
Let's start at the beginning.

666
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,840
Could it be an undocumented
animal?

667
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,840
If we take into consideration
the famed 3 toed prints, we come

668
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,840
up with more questions than
answers in this regard, as there

669
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,520
are no bipedal 3 toed creatures
in the world.

670
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,800
This will definitely fall under
the category of an undocumented

671
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,760
creature if proven to be true.
But is it different from a

672
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,760
Bigfoot which seems to be the
most reasonable encounter?

673
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,800
No, and our reason stems from
the physical proof of the tracks

674
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,760
that are in the pool of
evidence.

675
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,720
All of the tracks that I can see
from verifiable sources with

676
00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:12,160
three toes do not have the toes
spread apart as in the case of,

677
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,160
let's say, the Bishopville
lizard man.

678
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,200
Rather, it looks more like an
injury or a deformity that

679
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,480
resulted in the loss of the two
toes on the outside of the foot.

680
00:38:21,720 --> 00:38:24,760
Being that the population is
small, inbreeding for multiple

681
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,040
generations can cause these
kinds of deformities to occur.

682
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:30,880
This has been seen in humans on
multiple occasions.

683
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,200
But if you want my opinion, this
looks like a case of missing

684
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,400
toes due to either snapping
turtles, alligators, or another

685
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,120
form of severe injury.
Some people may think that this

686
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,520
area of the country doesn't
house Gators, but the local CBS

687
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,800
affiliate THV 11 published an
article on September 27th of

688
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:52,840
2022 of a giant 12 foot 6 inch
alligator pulled out of the

689
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,760
Sulfur Spring Wildlife
Management Area just outside of

690
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,680
Falk, Arkansas with prints
simply looking like a typical 5

691
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,200
toed print that is missing.
The two outs toes, the large

692
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,280
number of five toed prints that
are found with no injuries

693
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,960
resulting in missing toes that
are in the same form and shape

694
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,680
as three toed ones, and the
local ecology housing many

695
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,240
critters that can easily take a
toe or two.

696
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,440
I feel like this is the most
probable outcome if it turns out

697
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,000
to be an actual cryptozoological
creature.

698
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,960
What about option two though?
Can it be misidentification?

699
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,200
A lot of people like to point at
these quote UN quote location

700
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,960
based Bigfoot variants that are
seen in various locations not

701
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,080
only around the US but also
around the world as being more

702
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,560
along the lines of urban legend
instead of truth.

703
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,520
And the most common explanation
for creatures such as the Falk

704
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,960
Monster, Honey Island Swamp
Monster, Momo AKA the Missouri

705
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,560
Monster, the Minerva Monster,
the Checo Monster Nabi, and even

706
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:53,160
smaller legends such as the Coal
Hollow Monster among many others

707
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,200
is the old story of a train
crash with circus animals that

708
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,080
escaped and created a new
population of misplaced

709
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,640
creatures.
I am not a fan of this

710
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,640
personally.
That would be a lot of trains

711
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,320
crashing with specific animals
on board across the country.

712
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,600
Which may be one of these
legends can be blamed on such

713
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:13,200
crash, but the likeliness is
low, let alone it being the

714
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:14,960
answer for the Falk monster
mystery.

715
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,800
What I can see, however, is a
chimp or other primate escaping

716
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,680
from a private collection or a
local zoo of sorts.

717
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:25,440
This happens a lot, and there
are plenty of undocumented cases

718
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,960
throughout time of these
incidents that not only involve

719
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,520
primates, but span into all
sorts of animals such as big

720
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,640
cats, Kangaroos, and even
elephants among many others.

721
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,360
As for a local animal being
misidentified as the Falk

722
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,400
monster, I just don't see that
being the case either.

723
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,720
The only real animal that has an
outside chance is the black

724
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:48,320
bear, but I have long not been a
fan of this being a possibility

725
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,040
in any instance where an upright
walking ape is described.

726
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,480
Due to when a black bear lifts
up on its hind legs, it is

727
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,840
dramatically different compared
to how a human in a costume or

728
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:01,840
Bigfoot would look.
There are many videos of bears

729
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,400
who walk on their hind legs for
short periods of time that just

730
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,360
look too far off from what is
described.

731
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:10,960
And then there is the last
option.

732
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,520
What if it's all a hoax?
I can guarantee you that a

733
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,520
handful of cryptological
creatures, accounts, and reports

734
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,200
are hoaxed.
Unfortunately, this is human

735
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,480
nature and honestly it sucks.
And the same will go for the

736
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,920
Falk monster.
But simply due to the sheer

737
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,640
number of accounts of run
insurance with a famed beast, I

738
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,320
do not think this is the case
for all of them.

739
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:36,040
So if we take the entire pool of
Falcon or Jonesville monster or

740
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,320
quote UN quote, Wildman reports
from the beginning of recorded

741
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:43,040
history in the area which we
delve into exclusively on our

742
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,200
next episode.
And we take out half for

743
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,480
possible hoaxes which may be on
the very high end of what the

744
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,560
amount of hoaxes actually are.
And we take out a few for

745
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,880
misidentification of a black
bear in reports in which the

746
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:58,800
witness claims to only have seen
the animal sitting down, then

747
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,160
remove one or two for escaped
animals from private

748
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,040
collections.
We are still left with a very

749
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:08,240
large pool of unexplained
sightings and tracks under this

750
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:11,360
evidence alone.
I do personally believe that

751
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,880
there is, or at least was, an
unknown upright walking ape like

752
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,880
creature stalking the forests
and waterways in Miller County,

753
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,440
Arkansas and the surrounding
areas Falk.

754
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,840
It was reporter Jim Powell that
first coined the name the Falk

755
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,200
Monster in one of his articles
about the subject.

756
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,320
The name would stick very
quickly, but was not something

757
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,160
that most of the 800 locals ever
really enjoyed having their name

758
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,160
attached to.
The influx of monster hunters to

759
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,840
the area did not leave a good
taste in their mouths, and the

760
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,360
town never really embraced the
creature after that.

761
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,000
That didn't stop the area from
obtaining many nods of its own

762
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,040
to the famous events that
followed the Ford's Famous

763
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,120
Night, a stretch on US 71 that
finds itself dividing the town

764
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:59,080
of Falca, Arkansas, nearly in
half is legally called the

765
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,400
Monster Expressway.
A simple look at Google Maps

766
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,040
confirms this is still the case.
Just outside of the borders of

767
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,040
FALC lies the tourist hotspot
called the Monster Mart, where

768
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,160
you can only find a handful of
souvenirs that commemorate the

769
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,520
cryptozoological heavyweight.
Sightings are still reported

770
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,240
periodically to the local
Sheriff's Department, but solid

771
00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:21,320
evidence has never been found of
the exact nature of what the

772
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,640
enigma actually is.
And as it would seem, the locals

773
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,840
of Falk, Arkansas are just fine
with that.

774
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,320
Well, that is it.
That is my coverage of the Falk

775
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,000
Monster.
Actually, let me take that back.

776
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:46,120
It's not the full coverage as we
are going to release his special

777
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,280
episode next week.
That's right travelers, you get

778
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:53,160
a bonus episode in our off week
of nothing but sightings of the

779
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:58,000
Falk monster.
Now there are a lot, There's a

780
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,280
ton.
I got most of my sightings from

781
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,400
places like the BFRO database,
couple different books,

782
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:08,440
especially the casebook by Lyle
Blackburn, a couple other

783
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:12,720
websites from Texas, Oklahoma,
Missouri, all the local Bigfoot

784
00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:15,320
research groups.
There's a lot and I narrowed it

785
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,440
down to something that would fit
probably within 40 minutes of

786
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,680
recording.
With that being said, you are

787
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,520
not done with a Falcon monster.
That will continue next week.

788
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:29,120
So without further ado,
travelers, I'm not going to keep

789
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,320
you long.
I absolutely love this.

790
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,560
I love everything, Bigfoot.
You guys already know that about

791
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:34,800
me.
That's it.

792
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,400
That's all I got.
I'll see you next week

793
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,960
everybody.
And I'll see you in the next

794
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,120
fork.
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795
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:47,680
hole.
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796
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:51,120
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815
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This line represents the time
present 1985 future.

816
00:45:54,760 --> 00:46:10,880
Past to this point in time?
Has the timeline pewed into the

817
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scandal creating 1985 alternate
few near Einstein for everyone

818
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