May 14, 2024
165. Bigfoot: Fouke Monster 2, Sightings
On today's bonus episode, we dive into some more sightings of the famed Fouke Monster from 1908 to the 2020's. We cover everything from historical sightings of what was being called, the "Wildman", to when it was referred to as "The Jonesville Monster", to the modern moniker of The Fouke Monster. Some of these are weird, some of these are your typical "bigfoot crossing the road", or a "there's something in the tree line". But some, are down right terrifying, like when a hunter has a run in with the beast as it climbs the deer stand that he is sitting in. Welcome Back to Infinite Rabbit Hole! InfiniteRabbitHole.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/infiniterabbithole/support
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Imagine this line represents the
time present 1985 Future Past
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prior to this point in time
somewhere here in the past.
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The timeline you put into this
tangent creating on the street
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1985 alternate tube near
Einstein.
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Welcome back to the Infinite
Rabbit Hole, everybody.
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I'm your host, Jeremy, and today
we're going to dive right back
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into the FALC monster, and we're
going to jump into some of my
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favorite sightings and
encounters that I found while
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doing research into the subject.
There's a lot here.
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OK, There is a lot.
Just to be clear, we're not
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going to be covering any of the
reports from part one, so
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everything in this one is going
to be brand new to you today.
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And I also did my best to stay
away from the typical quote a
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Bigfoot cross the road report,
but I did add a few that seemed
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to be important.
The sources for these particular
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encounters I got from Lyle
Blackburn's books Boggy Creek,
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Case Files and The Beast of
Boggy Creek, The True Story, The
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Falk Monster, Smokey Crabtree's
Book, Smokey and the Falcon
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Monster, The Bigfoot Researcher
Organization or bfro.net, the
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website of the Gulf Coast
Bigfoot Research Organization,
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BC pro.com, and publications
referring to the articles from
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the Texas Bigfoot Research
Center.
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Unfortunately, I wasn't able to
get to their actual was.
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I don't know if it was down or
just wasn't working when I was
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there, but I found articles that
referred to their database, so I
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want to make sure I give them
credit as well.
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to talk about here.
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Nice and short today, everybody.
We're going to jump right in.
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It's not a very long episode,
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You guys will like it.
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travellers.
The early encounters Most people
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who have ever heard of the Falk
monster are made aware of the
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creature by way of the 1972
cinematic docudrama The Legend
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of Baki Creek, which, although
never truly mentions the time
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frame of the reports it was
dramatizing, is believed to have
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encounters primarily from the
late 1960s to the 1970s.
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This would leave most who
discovered the Falk monster to
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believe that the creature burst
onto the scene as a sudden and
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new threat in that time frame.
But the truth is that this
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monstrosity has been around far
longer.
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An encounter by Willie Smith's
sister in 1908 that I very
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briefly mentioned in the
previous episode is just one
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example.
And if you open the search
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requirements to include reports
of quote UN quote, wild men, the
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results not only grow
exponentially, but they go way
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further back in time as well.
Unfortunately for us, there are
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not a ton of properly detailed
reports prior to the 1900s,
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primarily due to the nature of
the time when it came to
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documenting such encounters, but
we do have plenty of others once
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the first newspapers in the area
began popping onto the scene.
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Turns out that there are no
solid details on Willie Smith's
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sister's encounter with a
creature other than the locals
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all being well versed in the
fact that she had an encounter
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in 1908.
But Blackburn does end up noting
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that his sister was a woman by
the name of Kate Savelle, then
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in 19/16/19 miles West of Falk
near Wright Pat Man Lake in
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Texas.
Side note, one of the rivers
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that lead into the lake is none
other than the Sulphur River,
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which Boggy Creek stands as a
tributary to.
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An encounter is documented
involving an older couple coming
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home by mule drawn carriage one
night when the animals that were
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pulling them began to act
erratically as they approached
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their property.
The man who originally thought
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that it may be a snake in the
road peered over to see if he
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was correct when a howl broke
out near one of his pastures.
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Soon after, a tall, upright,
walking dark figure walked out
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of the tree line and began
heading in their direction, all
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while continuing to make a
strange howling sound.
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The man reached for his rifle
before firing on the creature.
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The shot missed, but the sound
of the report was enough to
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scare whatever it was off.
They would go on to describe the
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creature as taller than a man
with a slouch like an ape.
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Blackburn included another
account from a creature from
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1932 in the area that he had
received through conversation
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with a Falk local by the name of
John Attaway.
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The encounter involved Attaway's
personal friend by the name of
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Ace Coker, who was living with
his sister at the time.
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One day, as Coker was opening
the door to enter the house, he
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spotted a very large, hairy,
upright creature right next to
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the porch.
Surprised as he must have walked
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right by it, Coker quickly ran
inside and locked the door
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behind him.
Then he took a peek outside to
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get a better look.
The thing was already almost out
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of the yard.
In the October 5th, 1910 edition
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of the Texarkanic Gazette, an
article was published detailing
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an unknown animal making strange
sounds and killing pigs in the
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area north of Texarkana.
The whole article, word for word
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states quote wild beast at large
A strange beast which roars like
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a lion is reported to be running
at large in the woods near
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Spring Lake Park near Texarkana.
The animal is said to have
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killed several pigs on the
McAllister Place and several
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large dogs near Newtown.
The roars of the strange beast
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have so frightened the people
that they are afraid to leave
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their homes after dark, and
windows and doors are kept
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securely barred.
In 1946, a woman reported the
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sheriff, Leslie Greer, who was
campaigning to be the local tax
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assessor at the time, that there
was a large animal that had
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walked on two legs down to the
field below her house.
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She described it as looking like
it was a man, but it wasn't a
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man during the transition of the
creature's moniker, which was
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caused by the Famous Four
article by the Texarkana Gazette
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due to them not being aware of
the then called Jonesville
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monster.
There were a few noticeable
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encounters that I left out of
part One from the rest of the
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1960s, including a report in
Chapter 15 of Smokey Crabtree's
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book Smokey and the FALC
Monster, where in 1966 a FALC
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school bus driver who is
beginning her route early in the
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morning when she spotted the
creature crossing the road a few
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100 feet in front of her.
A few other encounters involving
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the Jonesville monster were
eventually recorded.
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Most involved the hunter in the
woods coming across something
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that they couldn't explain, but
one person's encounter stands
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out among the rest.
Louise Harvin had two encounters
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with the creature.
The first took place as she was
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going out to check on her pigs
when she startled the thing as
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it was eating scraps out of the
through.
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Once it noticed Louise had stood
up and ran away, she would go on
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to describe the animal as having
long, reddish brown hair, a
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large, flat nose, and a darker
skin tone on its face than the
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color of hair that covered its
entire body.
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Her second encounter involved
her leaving her house, only to
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witness the thing licking an old
hubcap that she used as a dog
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food bowl just outside of her
front door.
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Again, once it realized it
wasn't alone, it ran off on two
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legs.
During this encounter, she was
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able to notice that the creature
had a set of large canines that
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reminded her of ones that she
had seen on baboons, but the
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face looked more like that of a
gorilla's.
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A few other reports were
documented in Smokey Crabtree's
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book Smokey and the Falcon
Monster, including one from the
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mid to late 1960s that described
his father's string of
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encounters in which the creature
would come up to the house and
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scream, basically scaring the
shit out of the entire house.
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This pattern went on for quite a
while and eventually evolved
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into scaring their dogs away
from the property.
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When the dogs returned, the
creature would come back and do
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it again.
Another report that I wish we
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had more details on was one that
Lyle Blackburn described in his
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book Boffy Creek Casebook, which
highlighted a hunter in the mid
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late 1960s that was out in
Mercer Bayou when he spotted the
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creature.
The unnamed hunter attempted to
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approach the animal, but
unfortunately it retreated as it
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noticed the man coming towards
him.
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In November 1968 in the Sulphur
River management area West of
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Falk.
A man and his son had just
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retrieved their boat out of the
Sulphur River and began eating
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lunch in front of their truck
before heading home when they
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spotted a large, approximately 8
foot tall upright man like being
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crossing the road about 200
yards away.
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They watched as the Auburn hair
colored Something crossed the
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road in only three steps, which
it seemed to be carrying
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something near its stomach.
The road in the area was just
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over 25 feet wide, and in order
to clear such a distance, the
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thing stride would have to have
been over 8 feet long.
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With the average human having 5
foot strides.
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This creature was certainly
unlike any human.
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And finally, in December of
1969, John Copeland and his
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family slowed their car down and
ordered to lend a lift to who
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they thought was a man in a long
foot coat.
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But as they approached, John
began to think differently as
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whatever it was lifted its arm
to block its eyes from the
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headlights.
This was no man, as the beast
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stood much taller than any man
John knew.
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It was completely covered in
brown hair and had what looked
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like caked on mud attached to
its body from its feet to about
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mid thigh.
And John quickly changed his
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mind and speed off for fear of
his family's safety.
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The 70s On June 2nd, 1971,
Gloria Dean Ritchie, Jerry
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Smallwood and Junior Goodman
witnessed the creature squatting
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on the embankment across the
street of Gloria's house near
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Texarkana.
The group heard a commotion
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across the street which set off
Gloria's dog, so she shined a
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flashlight to see what was
moving around.
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After the light shone on the
creature, it stood up and ran
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into the dense woods behind
where it was standing.
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Miss Ritchie would go on to
describe the creature as, quote
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real tall and hairy and had real
red eyes.
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Junior and Jerry attempted to
track the animal through the
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woods after retrieving more
flashlights and guns, but
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unfortunately were unable to
track down after attempting to
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follow its trail.
The incident occurred about 10
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miles north from where the Fords
had their run in with the
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creature, but when the officials
showed up to investigate the
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incident, they found no evidence
other than a trail through the
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woods and three terrified
people.
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On an unknown day in late June,
another peculiar sighting would
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be reported in a strange way to
a few locals in town.
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Two men approached a few others
and asked about what animals
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were seen locally.
The locals instantly believed
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that the two men were trying to
make a joke about recent
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sightings, but rather when they
were told about the currently
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ongoing flapper run insurance,
the men were completely caught
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off guard.
The two men were from Kansas,
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which was confirmed by their
license plate, and they were
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driving through just a few miles
South of town when they both
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spotted a large, hairy, upright
creature standing on the side of
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the road.
Curious as to what it could be,
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the men pulled over to see if
someone could explain it as a
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commonly found animal in the
area and claimed to have
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absolutely no previous knowledge
of the issue the town was having
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with the beast.
There were many sightings in the
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area around this time, so much
that there were plenty of
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reports made to the Sheriff's
Office that never made it to the
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media.
One in particular was that of
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Deputy Sheriff Robinson, who
almost hit the creature with his
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cruiser while on patrol.
Sometime in 1970, a local farmer
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described an encounter with
Charles Pierce, producer of the
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movie Legend of Baggy Creek, in
which he surprisingly ran into
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the beast when he approached his
barn to milk his cows.
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The man and creature stood and
stared at each other before
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whatever it was eventually
turned around and walked away
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through the man's pasture.
He went on to describe the
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creature as having really long,
shaggy hair that dropped off of
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its arms.
In a personal interview with
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author Lyle Blackburn, a man by
the name of Butch Hamilton
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recalled the day in the fall of
1971 when he and his mother and
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father had arrived at the local
boat ramp in Mercer Bayou, where
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he and his mother began a relay
of calls back and forward with
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something in the woods.
As his father unloaded the boat
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into the water, whatever it was
that was calling back to them
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sounded closer and closer every
time it replied, until
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eventually it revealed itself in
the tree line across the street.
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Butch remembered it being
enormous, with reddish brown
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hair covering its entire body.
The creature caused quite the
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ruckus as two other men gathered
to witness the animal as it
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began walking over a fallen
tree.
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Butch's mother told him to get
in the truck, where they watched
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as the men retrieved their
shotguns from their camper and
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began approaching the beast just
before things got really heated.
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Butch's father, who was
completely unaware of the
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situation at the time, started
up the motor of the boat, which
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caused the creature to turn and
run into the woods and
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disappeared.
In the early summer of 1973,
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teenage girls Reba Jones and
Karen Crabtree were riding in
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the back of a pickup truck on an
old country Rd.
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In Jonesville when the girls
witnessed an extremely tall,
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brown haired, covered creature
across the road after they
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passed.
Karen described being most
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impressed by its really long
arms.
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In 1973, when Mona Jackson was
still a child, she recalled the
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sightings she had when she was
riding her bike on a sectional
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Rd. next to an old pipeline
clearing.
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She noticed a dark figure
traversing the clearing on 2
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legs before she frantically
peddled away as fast as she
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could.
She would admit in her adult
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years that at the time she was
well aware of the Falk Monster
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and all of its stories, and
explained that it was because of
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her knowledge of the beast that
she had took off so fast.
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In 1974, William Richmond and
his brother were heading out
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squirrel hunting in an area
South of Falk known as Valley
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Gin.
When they pulled up on the side
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of the road, the men instantly
heard the chatter of squirrels
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in the tree line.
William responded by telling his
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little brother to go ahead
without him as he finished his
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cigarette, but before the
younger man was able to take a
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few steps towards the tree line,
the area erupted in a valley of
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hoots, screams, grunts, and
footfalls that instantly made
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the two men peer out into the
forest.
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William and his brother agreed
that this was probably not the
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best time for this and decided
to head back.
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But before they could put their
planned motion, the source of
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the ruckus charged at them from
the trees and stopped about 30
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three feet away, screaming at
the top of its lunge.
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William and his brother were
shocked and petrified at what
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they were looking at.
It was about 7 feet tall, 4 feet
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wide, covered in hair and pure
muscle.
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The men began shooting their
small guns that they knew would
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do nothing in hopes that it
would at least scare it off.
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Luckily, it did, because if it
hadn't, William may not have
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lived to tell his encounter in
an interview with Lyle
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Blackburn, and sometime in the
late 1970s, a man by the name a
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crocky Pilgrim noticed something
hunched down by the pond in his
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backyard.
As he cleaned the dishes in his
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kitchen, he watched as whatever
it was stood up on two legs and
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poured water from the pond into
its mouth from its hands before
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walking away on the two legs
like a man.
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The 80s.
The Texas Bigfoot Research
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Center published a report from
sometime in the 1980s by a man
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named Harry Elrod who was going
out to the Mercer Bayou to
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retrieve his trot lines when he
had a run in with the beast that
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scared the life right out of
him.
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Elrod was picking up line by
line to his annoyance of no fish
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on any of them up until the one
that seemed to be snagged on
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something under the water as he
reached back to unclip his knife
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to cut the line free.
A large, hairy beast bursted out
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of the water holding his line,
effectively scaring him to the
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point that he jumped out of his
boat once near the shallow water
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and ran out of the woods to a
nearby house where he was able
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to call the Sheriff's Department
to come out and investigate a
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story.
Unfortunately, there was nothing
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ever found to verify his report.
In November of 1984, a local
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hunter and Falk encountered the
creature walking in the water of
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Sulphur Creek Wildlife
Management Area up to its waist.
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Soon after he noticed a
creature.
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The creature then noticed him
and walked off into the thicket
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and out of sight.
The hunter followed the beast in
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hopes of being the one to bag
the monster that was so famous
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in the area.
After searching for a little
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bit, he once again laid eyes on
it and raised his gun to take
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the shot, but the beast took off
and was never seen again.
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But now the hunter was all alone
in the area of the management
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area that he was unfamiliar
with, with an eerie feeling of
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being watched from multiple
angles.
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So we slowly hiked out of the
trees before heading home for
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the day.
On February 20th, 1982, a young
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man by the name of Terry Sutton
was fishing from a small boat on
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his family's pond in Jonesville
when he spotted the creature on
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the shore.
He watched as whatever it was
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seemed to not notice that he was
around.
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It casually worked its way
through the immediate area
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before disappearing down a
ravine towards a Creek on the
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property.
Terrified, Terry paddled over to
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the shore where he originally
entered the pond, and during his
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own ruckus he heard whatever it
was begin running through the
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leaves.
This scared Terry and he took
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off as fast as he could back to
his parents house.
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There he told his mother what he
had seen and she placed a call
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to Terry's father, Lloyd's
Sutton, who promptly came home.
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Terry, visually terrified in his
father's eyes, told his father
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that he had seen the Falk
monster through his tears.
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Lloyd grabbed the pistol and two
flashlights and gave one the
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lights and the pistol to his
nervous son before they headed
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back out towards the area of the
pond that he came from.
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For the most part they found
nothing but the God awful smell
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of something that neither of
them have ever smelled before in
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the general area where Terry
believed it was when it
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responded by running away to
this noise When he came ashore
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very soon after, just out of the
reach of their flashlights,
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something large ran across their
path.
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Both of the Suttons began to
chase, and every time they
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stopped they could hear whatever
it was nearby walking or running
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through the leaf litter.
Two other noticeable encounters
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took place in the 80s, one again
in 1982 when Jerry Wayne Scogans
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witnessed the creatures splash
around in the waterway of the
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Sulphur River Bottoms before
exiting onto the shore and
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walking away into the trees.
The other occurred in 1987 when
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James Jones and his wife were
spending some time on the water
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near dark when they spotted two
eyes watching them thanks to the
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reflection of the light that
they were giving off.
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Whatever it was seemed to follow
them, and when they could see
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the silhouette of whatever it
may have been, they noticed that
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it was not only huge, but it
walked on two legs.
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The rest of the 80s proved to be
quite slow in regard to
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sightings of the Falk monster.
It's not completely clear
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whether or not it was due to the
lack of actual sightings or if
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the Median Sheriff's Office was
over the entire subject, but
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with the expansion of the
Internet in the 90s, the once
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popular subject of Falk monster
sightings came roaring back.
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The 90s and 2000s In 1995 men
were travelling by car on their
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way to Shreveport when the
silhouette of a large hair
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covered manly figure was
illuminated by a tractor trailer
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travelling on the northbound
side of US 71.
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The creature made its way across
the highway in front of both
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cars as they both slammed on the
brakes to watch it finish
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crossing the road and enter into
the field on the other side.
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The two parties of six men
discussed their sighting in
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which they all believed was not
a bear.
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Two of the men that were
travelling in the car came out
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years later and mentioned that
at the time they had never heard
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of the monster from Falca,
Arkansas.
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But this encounter alone stands
as one of the best pieces of
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evidence of a more modern Falca
monster.
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Another event highlighted from
the Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research
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Organization, or GCBRO, details
a couple from the area of
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Jonesville who were waiting on
the second story of their home
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from the local hog pack to come
buy their property.
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As the hog showed up, the
husband raised his rifle to
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shoot one when a painful scream
rang out from the area just off
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the tree line of their property.
Whatever was happening,
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something was dying.
The next morning they went out
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to see if they could find any
evidence of what happened, but
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all they found was a ton of
fresh blood all over the area,
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no sign of the hog who was being
attacked and no sign of the
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attacker.
This event is highlighted due to
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the couple having a history on
the property, which includes one
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other encounter with a Bigfoot
which ended with the husband
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guiding his wife into the house
from a car due to him spotting
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the creature in the tree line of
their property, seemingly
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watching her in the driveway.
In the summer of 1996, Alex
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Burgess, who was only a child at
the time, was playing in the
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family yard with his sister, the
creature walking perpendicular
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just a few feet into the tree
line of their property.
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The Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research
Organization notes an encounter
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from July 11th, 1998, when a
young woman who was babysitting
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her sister's children noticed a
large hairy being standing just
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a few feet behind the tree line,
watching her and the children.
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As the kids played in a freshly
cleared area with a few trees on
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the ground leftover from the
cleanup, she never mentioned the
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creature watching them from the
woods to any of the children.
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Instead, she created the
diversion and got the children
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and herself out of the area
immediately without taking her
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eyes off the peeping beast.
An encounter that Blackburn
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reported on from the Texas
Bigfoot Research Conservancy, or
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TBRC, outlines an experience
which left a hunter in January
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of 2000 terrified and hesitant
to share his encounter.
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The witness and a few of his
buddies were Coon hunting
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sometime after midnight near
Mercer Bayou when one of his
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hounds alerted them that they
had a raccoon treat.
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Following his dog's lead he
started trekking across the
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shallow, mucky brackish water
when he heard the sound of
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someone also walking through the
same stuff just out of his
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sight.
He called out as he believed as
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one of his friends but never got
a response.
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The only thing he noticed was a
God awful smell and that his
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other dogs that were following
him had their tails tucked and
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seemed extremely scared.
As he continued walking he
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noticed the sound of whatever it
was moving in the water again
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and turned around and realized
that about 30 feet behind him
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stood A towering upright hair
covered monster.
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This thing was huge, and it was
making a sort of hissing sound
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at him while splashing its
enormous hands in the water in
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an attempt to get him wet.
The witness's dogs began
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barking, snapping their teeth at
the behemoth, only for the
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experiencer to grab hold tight
of their leashes and take off
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running into the woods as fast
as he could.
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The man hid behind a tree and
listened as whatever it was
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remained in hot pursuit.
Eventually the beast gave up and
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Lombard off, audibly
disgruntled.
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Another encounter was detailed
on an episode of the show
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Monster Quest, involving a young
man by the name with Stacey
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Hudson, who was hunting in a
stand when he noticed a few
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different large black animals
that he originally thought were
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cows moving through the area.
As he tried to focus in on the
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subjects, he watched out of the
corner of his vision, a large
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black hand reached up and
grabbed the broad head of the
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arrow in his bow.
The owner of the hand was cut by
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the razor sharp edge of the
broad head and let out a
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horrific scream just under
Stacey, which gave him the scare
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of his life as he did not hear
anything making its way up the
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ladder to his tree stand.
Hudson let out a loud yelling
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response and the creature fell
to the ground and ran away.
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Stacey claims that he stayed in
his tree stand scared out of his
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mind until well after sunrise
before he headed back to his
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truck.
In September of 2011, Heather
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Owen was heading home from a
friend's house in Falk when she
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spotted a creature hunched over
on the side of the road.
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As the headlights met the beast,
it stood up and ran in front of
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her car before leaping
completely over a runoff ditch
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on the other side of the road
and stepped over a slightly
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obscured barbed wire fence.
About an hour before she left
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her friend's house.
The family dog was barking
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non-stop at something unknown,
and seeing that Heather's
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encountered, happened just a
short distance away from her
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friend's house.
She believed that the dog may
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have been trying to alert the
family that this creature was
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out there.
In January 2013, Doyle Holmes
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was gathering firewood for a
camping trip with his wife on
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the shores of Carter Lake when
he began to hear a strange cry
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coming from the nearby field.
When he approached, he noticed
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what looked to be a juvenile
Sasquatch standing in the middle
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of the field, completely
unobstructed.
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Making an almost saddening cry,
the creature stood approximately
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4 feet tall with dark colored
hair.
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When it became aware of Doyle,
it took off running towards a
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murky waterway in the area
before Doyle lost sight of it.
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He then quickly ran back to
camp, drove home, grabbed his
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00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:58,680
canoe and returned to try and
track it back down.
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It took a long time, but when
the sun went down the soft
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moaning cry began again, only
this time when the sound
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started, so did the sound of
movement from something much
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bigger making its way through
the water towards the sound that
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he was trying to find.
Soon after, a set of very large
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00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,960
whoops rang through the area and
Doyle became terrified that he
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was near something so big.
And finally on December 7th
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2019, Dustin Clark and friends
were out scouting an area of the
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woods by Mercer Bayou at night
when he noticed movement ahead.
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The crew followed the creature
for as long as they could before
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they lost track of it.
Clark then promptly made a call
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00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,800
to a friend named Stephen who
had a pair of night vision
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goggles.
Stephen quickly made it out to
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00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,400
where the group was and the
search continued from a
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00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,440
stationary position until they
were able to find where it had
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00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,960
gone.
The group had almost given up
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00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,800
when one of them took the
goggles and searched in the area
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00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,400
of a nearby gully and
successfully tracked it back
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00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,080
down.
The group was stunned and all
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00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,400
witnesses noted that it was huge
and seemed to be aware of them
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00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,160
as it looked to be hiding behind
a thick tree looking in their
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00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,760
direction.
Clark even noted that he was
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able to see the white eye shine
that illuminated through the
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00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,640
view of the night vision
goggles.
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00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,440
After a few minutes of watching
Ferd's next move, the group
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00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,680
decided to try and get a little
bit closer, but as they
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00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,920
approached it ran away and the
team was unable to re spot it.
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00:27:31,730 --> 00:27:34,850
Well that's it everybody.
That's the quick overview I have
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of some of the more impressive
sightings of this creature.
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Now there are hundreds, I mean,
shoot, there may even be into
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00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,920
the thousands of smaller
reports, mainly those a Bigfoot
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00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,280
cross the road reports or I
heard something a lot of
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00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,760
footprints, a lot of sounds.
There's a lot.
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That's all I can really say.
There's a lot.
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It's honestly really impressive
how much there is of the Falk
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monster.
And and it was because of this
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that I chose to research the
Falk monster as the start of our
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local Bigfoot Legends series, if
you will.
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It's not going to be an official
series, but definitely going to
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00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,240
be bringing a lot more local
Bigfoot Legends to the table
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00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,640
soon.
So be ready for that.
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That's pretty much it.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
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I hope you guys have a great
rest of your day and next week
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we'll dive into something
different.
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And that's it, travelers.
Until next time.
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I'll see you in the next fork in
the path of the Infinite Rabbit
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Hole.
Goodbye.
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Hi.
This line represent the time
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present 1985 Future Past.
We're higher to this point.
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In time, somewhere in the past,
the timeline you're going into
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this gadget creating an
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Imagine this line represents the
time present 1985 Future Past
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prior to this point in time
somewhere here in the past.
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The timeline you put into this
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1985 alternate tube near
Einstein.
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Welcome back to the Infinite
Rabbit Hole, everybody.
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I'm your host, Jeremy, and today
we're going to dive right back
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into the FALC monster, and we're
going to jump into some of my
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favorite sightings and
encounters that I found while
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doing research into the subject.
There's a lot here.
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OK, There is a lot.
Just to be clear, we're not
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going to be covering any of the
reports from part one, so
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everything in this one is going
to be brand new to you today.
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And I also did my best to stay
away from the typical quote a
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Bigfoot cross the road report,
but I did add a few that seemed
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to be important.
The sources for these particular
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encounters I got from Lyle
Blackburn's books Boggy Creek,
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Case Files and The Beast of
Boggy Creek, The True Story, The
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Falk Monster, Smokey Crabtree's
Book, Smokey and the Falcon
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Monster, The Bigfoot Researcher
Organization or bfro.net, the
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website of the Gulf Coast
Bigfoot Research Organization,
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BC pro.com, and publications
referring to the articles from
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the Texas Bigfoot Research
Center.
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Unfortunately, I wasn't able to
get to their actual was.
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I don't know if it was down or
just wasn't working when I was
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there, but I found articles that
referred to their database, so I
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want to make sure I give them
credit as well.
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Nice and short today, everybody.
We're going to jump right in.
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It's not a very long episode,
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travellers.
The early encounters Most people
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who have ever heard of the Falk
monster are made aware of the
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creature by way of the 1972
cinematic docudrama The Legend
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of Baki Creek, which, although
never truly mentions the time
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frame of the reports it was
dramatizing, is believed to have
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encounters primarily from the
late 1960s to the 1970s.
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This would leave most who
discovered the Falk monster to
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believe that the creature burst
onto the scene as a sudden and
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new threat in that time frame.
But the truth is that this
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monstrosity has been around far
longer.
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An encounter by Willie Smith's
sister in 1908 that I very
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briefly mentioned in the
previous episode is just one
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example.
And if you open the search
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requirements to include reports
of quote UN quote, wild men, the
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results not only grow
exponentially, but they go way
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further back in time as well.
Unfortunately for us, there are
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not a ton of properly detailed
reports prior to the 1900s,
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primarily due to the nature of
the time when it came to
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documenting such encounters, but
we do have plenty of others once
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the first newspapers in the area
began popping onto the scene.
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Turns out that there are no
solid details on Willie Smith's
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sister's encounter with a
creature other than the locals
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all being well versed in the
fact that she had an encounter
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in 1908.
But Blackburn does end up noting
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that his sister was a woman by
the name of Kate Savelle, then
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in 19/16/19 miles West of Falk
near Wright Pat Man Lake in
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Texas.
Side note, one of the rivers
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that lead into the lake is none
other than the Sulphur River,
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which Boggy Creek stands as a
tributary to.
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An encounter is documented
involving an older couple coming
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home by mule drawn carriage one
night when the animals that were
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pulling them began to act
erratically as they approached
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their property.
The man who originally thought
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that it may be a snake in the
road peered over to see if he
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was correct when a howl broke
out near one of his pastures.
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Soon after, a tall, upright,
walking dark figure walked out
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of the tree line and began
heading in their direction, all
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while continuing to make a
strange howling sound.
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The man reached for his rifle
before firing on the creature.
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The shot missed, but the sound
of the report was enough to
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scare whatever it was off.
They would go on to describe the
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creature as taller than a man
with a slouch like an ape.
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Blackburn included another
account from a creature from
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1932 in the area that he had
received through conversation
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with a Falk local by the name of
John Attaway.
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The encounter involved Attaway's
personal friend by the name of
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Ace Coker, who was living with
his sister at the time.
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One day, as Coker was opening
the door to enter the house, he
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spotted a very large, hairy,
upright creature right next to
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the porch.
Surprised as he must have walked
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right by it, Coker quickly ran
inside and locked the door
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behind him.
Then he took a peek outside to
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get a better look.
The thing was already almost out
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of the yard.
In the October 5th, 1910 edition
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of the Texarkanic Gazette, an
article was published detailing
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an unknown animal making strange
sounds and killing pigs in the
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area north of Texarkana.
The whole article, word for word
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states quote wild beast at large
A strange beast which roars like
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a lion is reported to be running
at large in the woods near
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Spring Lake Park near Texarkana.
The animal is said to have
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killed several pigs on the
McAllister Place and several
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large dogs near Newtown.
The roars of the strange beast
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have so frightened the people
that they are afraid to leave
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their homes after dark, and
windows and doors are kept
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securely barred.
In 1946, a woman reported the
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sheriff, Leslie Greer, who was
campaigning to be the local tax
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assessor at the time, that there
was a large animal that had
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walked on two legs down to the
field below her house.
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She described it as looking like
it was a man, but it wasn't a
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man during the transition of the
creature's moniker, which was
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caused by the Famous Four
article by the Texarkana Gazette
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due to them not being aware of
the then called Jonesville
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monster.
There were a few noticeable
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encounters that I left out of
part One from the rest of the
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1960s, including a report in
Chapter 15 of Smokey Crabtree's
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book Smokey and the FALC
Monster, where in 1966 a FALC
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school bus driver who is
beginning her route early in the
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morning when she spotted the
creature crossing the road a few
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100 feet in front of her.
A few other encounters involving
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the Jonesville monster were
eventually recorded.
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Most involved the hunter in the
woods coming across something
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that they couldn't explain, but
one person's encounter stands
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out among the rest.
Louise Harvin had two encounters
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with the creature.
The first took place as she was
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going out to check on her pigs
when she startled the thing as
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it was eating scraps out of the
through.
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Once it noticed Louise had stood
up and ran away, she would go on
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to describe the animal as having
long, reddish brown hair, a
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large, flat nose, and a darker
skin tone on its face than the
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color of hair that covered its
entire body.
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Her second encounter involved
her leaving her house, only to
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witness the thing licking an old
hubcap that she used as a dog
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food bowl just outside of her
front door.
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Again, once it realized it
wasn't alone, it ran off on two
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legs.
During this encounter, she was
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able to notice that the creature
had a set of large canines that
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reminded her of ones that she
had seen on baboons, but the
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face looked more like that of a
gorilla's.
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A few other reports were
documented in Smokey Crabtree's
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book Smokey and the Falcon
Monster, including one from the
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mid to late 1960s that described
his father's string of
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encounters in which the creature
would come up to the house and
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scream, basically scaring the
shit out of the entire house.
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This pattern went on for quite a
while and eventually evolved
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into scaring their dogs away
from the property.
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When the dogs returned, the
creature would come back and do
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it again.
Another report that I wish we
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had more details on was one that
Lyle Blackburn described in his
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book Boffy Creek Casebook, which
highlighted a hunter in the mid
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late 1960s that was out in
Mercer Bayou when he spotted the
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creature.
The unnamed hunter attempted to
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approach the animal, but
unfortunately it retreated as it
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noticed the man coming towards
him.
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In November 1968 in the Sulphur
River management area West of
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Falk.
A man and his son had just
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retrieved their boat out of the
Sulphur River and began eating
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lunch in front of their truck
before heading home when they
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spotted a large, approximately 8
foot tall upright man like being
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crossing the road about 200
yards away.
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They watched as the Auburn hair
colored Something crossed the
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road in only three steps, which
it seemed to be carrying
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something near its stomach.
The road in the area was just
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over 25 feet wide, and in order
to clear such a distance, the
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thing stride would have to have
been over 8 feet long.
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With the average human having 5
foot strides.
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This creature was certainly
unlike any human.
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And finally, in December of
1969, John Copeland and his
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family slowed their car down and
ordered to lend a lift to who
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they thought was a man in a long
foot coat.
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But as they approached, John
began to think differently as
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whatever it was lifted its arm
to block its eyes from the
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headlights.
This was no man, as the beast
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stood much taller than any man
John knew.
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It was completely covered in
brown hair and had what looked
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like caked on mud attached to
its body from its feet to about
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mid thigh.
And John quickly changed his
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mind and speed off for fear of
his family's safety.
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The 70s On June 2nd, 1971,
Gloria Dean Ritchie, Jerry
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Smallwood and Junior Goodman
witnessed the creature squatting
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on the embankment across the
street of Gloria's house near
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Texarkana.
The group heard a commotion
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across the street which set off
Gloria's dog, so she shined a
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flashlight to see what was
moving around.
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After the light shone on the
creature, it stood up and ran
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into the dense woods behind
where it was standing.
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Miss Ritchie would go on to
describe the creature as, quote
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real tall and hairy and had real
red eyes.
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Junior and Jerry attempted to
track the animal through the
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woods after retrieving more
flashlights and guns, but
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unfortunately were unable to
track down after attempting to
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follow its trail.
The incident occurred about 10
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miles north from where the Fords
had their run in with the
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creature, but when the officials
showed up to investigate the
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incident, they found no evidence
other than a trail through the
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woods and three terrified
people.
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On an unknown day in late June,
another peculiar sighting would
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be reported in a strange way to
a few locals in town.
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Two men approached a few others
and asked about what animals
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were seen locally.
The locals instantly believed
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that the two men were trying to
make a joke about recent
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sightings, but rather when they
were told about the currently
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ongoing flapper run insurance,
the men were completely caught
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off guard.
The two men were from Kansas,
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which was confirmed by their
license plate, and they were
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driving through just a few miles
South of town when they both
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spotted a large, hairy, upright
creature standing on the side of
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the road.
Curious as to what it could be,
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the men pulled over to see if
someone could explain it as a
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commonly found animal in the
area and claimed to have
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absolutely no previous knowledge
of the issue the town was having
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with the beast.
There were many sightings in the
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area around this time, so much
that there were plenty of
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reports made to the Sheriff's
Office that never made it to the
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media.
One in particular was that of
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Deputy Sheriff Robinson, who
almost hit the creature with his
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cruiser while on patrol.
Sometime in 1970, a local farmer
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described an encounter with
Charles Pierce, producer of the
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movie Legend of Baggy Creek, in
which he surprisingly ran into
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the beast when he approached his
barn to milk his cows.
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The man and creature stood and
stared at each other before
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whatever it was eventually
turned around and walked away
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through the man's pasture.
He went on to describe the
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creature as having really long,
shaggy hair that dropped off of
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its arms.
In a personal interview with
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author Lyle Blackburn, a man by
the name of Butch Hamilton
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recalled the day in the fall of
1971 when he and his mother and
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father had arrived at the local
boat ramp in Mercer Bayou, where
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he and his mother began a relay
of calls back and forward with
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something in the woods.
As his father unloaded the boat
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into the water, whatever it was
that was calling back to them
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sounded closer and closer every
time it replied, until
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eventually it revealed itself in
the tree line across the street.
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Butch remembered it being
enormous, with reddish brown
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hair covering its entire body.
The creature caused quite the
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ruckus as two other men gathered
to witness the animal as it
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began walking over a fallen
tree.
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Butch's mother told him to get
in the truck, where they watched
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as the men retrieved their
shotguns from their camper and
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began approaching the beast just
before things got really heated.
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Butch's father, who was
completely unaware of the
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situation at the time, started
up the motor of the boat, which
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caused the creature to turn and
run into the woods and
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disappeared.
In the early summer of 1973,
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teenage girls Reba Jones and
Karen Crabtree were riding in
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the back of a pickup truck on an
old country Rd.
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In Jonesville when the girls
witnessed an extremely tall,
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brown haired, covered creature
across the road after they
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passed.
Karen described being most
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impressed by its really long
arms.
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In 1973, when Mona Jackson was
still a child, she recalled the
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sightings she had when she was
riding her bike on a sectional
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Rd. next to an old pipeline
clearing.
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She noticed a dark figure
traversing the clearing on 2
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legs before she frantically
peddled away as fast as she
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could.
She would admit in her adult
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years that at the time she was
well aware of the Falk Monster
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and all of its stories, and
explained that it was because of
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her knowledge of the beast that
she had took off so fast.
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In 1974, William Richmond and
his brother were heading out
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squirrel hunting in an area
South of Falk known as Valley
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Gin.
When they pulled up on the side
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of the road, the men instantly
heard the chatter of squirrels
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in the tree line.
William responded by telling his
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little brother to go ahead
without him as he finished his
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cigarette, but before the
younger man was able to take a
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few steps towards the tree line,
the area erupted in a valley of
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hoots, screams, grunts, and
footfalls that instantly made
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the two men peer out into the
forest.
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William and his brother agreed
that this was probably not the
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best time for this and decided
to head back.
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But before they could put their
planned motion, the source of
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the ruckus charged at them from
the trees and stopped about 30
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three feet away, screaming at
the top of its lunge.
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William and his brother were
shocked and petrified at what
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they were looking at.
It was about 7 feet tall, 4 feet
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wide, covered in hair and pure
muscle.
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The men began shooting their
small guns that they knew would
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do nothing in hopes that it
would at least scare it off.
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Luckily, it did, because if it
hadn't, William may not have
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lived to tell his encounter in
an interview with Lyle
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Blackburn, and sometime in the
late 1970s, a man by the name a
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crocky Pilgrim noticed something
hunched down by the pond in his
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backyard.
As he cleaned the dishes in his
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kitchen, he watched as whatever
it was stood up on two legs and
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poured water from the pond into
its mouth from its hands before
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walking away on the two legs
like a man.
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The 80s.
The Texas Bigfoot Research
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Center published a report from
sometime in the 1980s by a man
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named Harry Elrod who was going
out to the Mercer Bayou to
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retrieve his trot lines when he
had a run in with the beast that
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scared the life right out of
him.
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Elrod was picking up line by
line to his annoyance of no fish
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on any of them up until the one
that seemed to be snagged on
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something under the water as he
reached back to unclip his knife
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to cut the line free.
A large, hairy beast bursted out
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of the water holding his line,
effectively scaring him to the
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point that he jumped out of his
boat once near the shallow water
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and ran out of the woods to a
nearby house where he was able
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to call the Sheriff's Department
to come out and investigate a
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story.
Unfortunately, there was nothing
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ever found to verify his report.
In November of 1984, a local
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hunter and Falk encountered the
creature walking in the water of
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Sulphur Creek Wildlife
Management Area up to its waist.
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Soon after he noticed a
creature.
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The creature then noticed him
and walked off into the thicket
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and out of sight.
The hunter followed the beast in
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hopes of being the one to bag
the monster that was so famous
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in the area.
After searching for a little
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bit, he once again laid eyes on
it and raised his gun to take
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the shot, but the beast took off
and was never seen again.
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But now the hunter was all alone
in the area of the management
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area that he was unfamiliar
with, with an eerie feeling of
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being watched from multiple
angles.
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So we slowly hiked out of the
trees before heading home for
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the day.
On February 20th, 1982, a young
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man by the name of Terry Sutton
was fishing from a small boat on
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his family's pond in Jonesville
when he spotted the creature on
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the shore.
He watched as whatever it was
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seemed to not notice that he was
around.
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It casually worked its way
through the immediate area
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before disappearing down a
ravine towards a Creek on the
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property.
Terrified, Terry paddled over to
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the shore where he originally
entered the pond, and during his
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own ruckus he heard whatever it
was begin running through the
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leaves.
This scared Terry and he took
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off as fast as he could back to
his parents house.
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There he told his mother what he
had seen and she placed a call
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to Terry's father, Lloyd's
Sutton, who promptly came home.
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Terry, visually terrified in his
father's eyes, told his father
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that he had seen the Falk
monster through his tears.
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Lloyd grabbed the pistol and two
flashlights and gave one the
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lights and the pistol to his
nervous son before they headed
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back out towards the area of the
pond that he came from.
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For the most part they found
nothing but the God awful smell
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of something that neither of
them have ever smelled before in
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the general area where Terry
believed it was when it
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responded by running away to
this noise When he came ashore
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very soon after, just out of the
reach of their flashlights,
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something large ran across their
path.
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Both of the Suttons began to
chase, and every time they
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stopped they could hear whatever
it was nearby walking or running
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through the leaf litter.
Two other noticeable encounters
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took place in the 80s, one again
in 1982 when Jerry Wayne Scogans
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witnessed the creatures splash
around in the waterway of the
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Sulphur River Bottoms before
exiting onto the shore and
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walking away into the trees.
The other occurred in 1987 when
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James Jones and his wife were
spending some time on the water
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near dark when they spotted two
eyes watching them thanks to the
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reflection of the light that
they were giving off.
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Whatever it was seemed to follow
them, and when they could see
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the silhouette of whatever it
may have been, they noticed that
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it was not only huge, but it
walked on two legs.
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The rest of the 80s proved to be
quite slow in regard to
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sightings of the Falk monster.
It's not completely clear
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whether or not it was due to the
lack of actual sightings or if
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the Median Sheriff's Office was
over the entire subject, but
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with the expansion of the
Internet in the 90s, the once
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popular subject of Falk monster
sightings came roaring back.
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The 90s and 2000s In 1995 men
were travelling by car on their
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way to Shreveport when the
silhouette of a large hair
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covered manly figure was
illuminated by a tractor trailer
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travelling on the northbound
side of US 71.
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The creature made its way across
the highway in front of both
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cars as they both slammed on the
brakes to watch it finish
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crossing the road and enter into
the field on the other side.
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The two parties of six men
discussed their sighting in
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which they all believed was not
a bear.
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Two of the men that were
travelling in the car came out
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years later and mentioned that
at the time they had never heard
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of the monster from Falca,
Arkansas.
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But this encounter alone stands
as one of the best pieces of
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00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,840
evidence of a more modern Falca
monster.
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Another event highlighted from
the Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research
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Organization, or GCBRO, details
a couple from the area of
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Jonesville who were waiting on
the second story of their home
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from the local hog pack to come
buy their property.
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As the hog showed up, the
husband raised his rifle to
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shoot one when a painful scream
rang out from the area just off
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the tree line of their property.
Whatever was happening,
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something was dying.
The next morning they went out
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to see if they could find any
evidence of what happened, but
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00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:28,960
all they found was a ton of
fresh blood all over the area,
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no sign of the hog who was being
attacked and no sign of the
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attacker.
This event is highlighted due to
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the couple having a history on
the property, which includes one
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00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,400
other encounter with a Bigfoot
which ended with the husband
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00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,800
guiding his wife into the house
from a car due to him spotting
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the creature in the tree line of
their property, seemingly
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watching her in the driveway.
In the summer of 1996, Alex
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Burgess, who was only a child at
the time, was playing in the
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family yard with his sister, the
creature walking perpendicular
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00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,120
just a few feet into the tree
line of their property.
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The Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research
Organization notes an encounter
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from July 11th, 1998, when a
young woman who was babysitting
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00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,040
her sister's children noticed a
large hairy being standing just
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00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,720
a few feet behind the tree line,
watching her and the children.
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00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:21,000
As the kids played in a freshly
cleared area with a few trees on
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00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,120
the ground leftover from the
cleanup, she never mentioned the
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00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:26,720
creature watching them from the
woods to any of the children.
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00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,560
Instead, she created the
diversion and got the children
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and herself out of the area
immediately without taking her
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00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,720
eyes off the peeping beast.
An encounter that Blackburn
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reported on from the Texas
Bigfoot Research Conservancy, or
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TBRC, outlines an experience
which left a hunter in January
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00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,200
of 2000 terrified and hesitant
to share his encounter.
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00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,080
The witness and a few of his
buddies were Coon hunting
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00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,080
sometime after midnight near
Mercer Bayou when one of his
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hounds alerted them that they
had a raccoon treat.
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00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,720
Following his dog's lead he
started trekking across the
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00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,280
shallow, mucky brackish water
when he heard the sound of
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00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,160
someone also walking through the
same stuff just out of his
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00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,320
sight.
He called out as he believed as
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00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,480
one of his friends but never got
a response.
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00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,360
The only thing he noticed was a
God awful smell and that his
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00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:15,960
other dogs that were following
him had their tails tucked and
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seemed extremely scared.
As he continued walking he
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00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,440
noticed the sound of whatever it
was moving in the water again
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00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,400
and turned around and realized
that about 30 feet behind him
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00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,800
stood A towering upright hair
covered monster.
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00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,000
This thing was huge, and it was
making a sort of hissing sound
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00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,920
at him while splashing its
enormous hands in the water in
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00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,400
an attempt to get him wet.
The witness's dogs began
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00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,400
barking, snapping their teeth at
the behemoth, only for the
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00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,600
experiencer to grab hold tight
of their leashes and take off
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00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,560
running into the woods as fast
as he could.
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00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,440
The man hid behind a tree and
listened as whatever it was
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00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,680
remained in hot pursuit.
Eventually the beast gave up and
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00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,280
Lombard off, audibly
disgruntled.
439
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,720
Another encounter was detailed
on an episode of the show
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00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,800
Monster Quest, involving a young
man by the name with Stacey
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00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,720
Hudson, who was hunting in a
stand when he noticed a few
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00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,920
different large black animals
that he originally thought were
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00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,320
cows moving through the area.
As he tried to focus in on the
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00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,760
subjects, he watched out of the
corner of his vision, a large
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00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,760
black hand reached up and
grabbed the broad head of the
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00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,840
arrow in his bow.
The owner of the hand was cut by
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00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,640
the razor sharp edge of the
broad head and let out a
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00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,880
horrific scream just under
Stacey, which gave him the scare
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00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,640
of his life as he did not hear
anything making its way up the
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00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,400
ladder to his tree stand.
Hudson let out a loud yelling
451
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,920
response and the creature fell
to the ground and ran away.
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00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,760
Stacey claims that he stayed in
his tree stand scared out of his
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00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,640
mind until well after sunrise
before he headed back to his
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00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,760
truck.
In September of 2011, Heather
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00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,200
Owen was heading home from a
friend's house in Falk when she
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00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,880
spotted a creature hunched over
on the side of the road.
457
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,680
As the headlights met the beast,
it stood up and ran in front of
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00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,040
her car before leaping
completely over a runoff ditch
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00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,080
on the other side of the road
and stepped over a slightly
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00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:11,440
obscured barbed wire fence.
About an hour before she left
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00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:13,480
her friend's house.
The family dog was barking
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00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,320
non-stop at something unknown,
and seeing that Heather's
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00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,680
encountered, happened just a
short distance away from her
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00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,600
friend's house.
She believed that the dog may
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00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,920
have been trying to alert the
family that this creature was
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00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,560
out there.
In January 2013, Doyle Holmes
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00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,400
was gathering firewood for a
camping trip with his wife on
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00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,520
the shores of Carter Lake when
he began to hear a strange cry
469
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,080
coming from the nearby field.
When he approached, he noticed
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00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,760
what looked to be a juvenile
Sasquatch standing in the middle
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00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,680
of the field, completely
unobstructed.
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00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,960
Making an almost saddening cry,
the creature stood approximately
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00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,800
4 feet tall with dark colored
hair.
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00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,680
When it became aware of Doyle,
it took off running towards a
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00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,640
murky waterway in the area
before Doyle lost sight of it.
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00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,360
He then quickly ran back to
camp, drove home, grabbed his
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00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:58,680
canoe and returned to try and
track it back down.
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00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:01,880
It took a long time, but when
the sun went down the soft
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00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,400
moaning cry began again, only
this time when the sound
480
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,400
started, so did the sound of
movement from something much
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00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,080
bigger making its way through
the water towards the sound that
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00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,880
he was trying to find.
Soon after, a set of very large
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00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,960
whoops rang through the area and
Doyle became terrified that he
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00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,080
was near something so big.
And finally on December 7th
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00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,240
2019, Dustin Clark and friends
were out scouting an area of the
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00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,040
woods by Mercer Bayou at night
when he noticed movement ahead.
487
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,640
The crew followed the creature
for as long as they could before
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00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,440
they lost track of it.
Clark then promptly made a call
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00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,800
to a friend named Stephen who
had a pair of night vision
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00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,960
goggles.
Stephen quickly made it out to
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00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,400
where the group was and the
search continued from a
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00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,440
stationary position until they
were able to find where it had
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00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,960
gone.
The group had almost given up
494
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,800
when one of them took the
goggles and searched in the area
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00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,400
of a nearby gully and
successfully tracked it back
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00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,080
down.
The group was stunned and all
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00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,400
witnesses noted that it was huge
and seemed to be aware of them
498
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,160
as it looked to be hiding behind
a thick tree looking in their
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00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,760
direction.
Clark even noted that he was
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00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,880
able to see the white eye shine
that illuminated through the
501
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,640
view of the night vision
goggles.
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00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,440
After a few minutes of watching
Ferd's next move, the group
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00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,680
decided to try and get a little
bit closer, but as they
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00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,920
approached it ran away and the
team was unable to re spot it.
505
00:27:31,730 --> 00:27:34,850
Well that's it everybody.
That's the quick overview I have
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00:27:34,850 --> 00:27:38,010
of some of the more impressive
sightings of this creature.
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00:27:38,210 --> 00:27:42,440
Now there are hundreds, I mean,
shoot, there may even be into
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00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,920
the thousands of smaller
reports, mainly those a Bigfoot
509
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,280
cross the road reports or I
heard something a lot of
510
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,760
footprints, a lot of sounds.
There's a lot.
511
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,120
That's all I can really say.
There's a lot.
512
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,240
It's honestly really impressive
how much there is of the Falk
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00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,320
monster.
And and it was because of this
514
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:04,560
that I chose to research the
Falk monster as the start of our
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00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,320
local Bigfoot Legends series, if
you will.
516
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,960
It's not going to be an official
series, but definitely going to
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00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,240
be bringing a lot more local
Bigfoot Legends to the table
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00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,640
soon.
So be ready for that.
519
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,320
That's pretty much it.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
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00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,640
I hope you guys have a great
rest of your day and next week
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we'll dive into something
different.
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And that's it, travelers.
Until next time.
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I'll see you in the next fork in
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