Fouke

Bobo?

Just northwest of there is a place called Fouke, where they filmed this movie called The Legend of Boggy Creek.

Boggy Creek.

Which was another large ape-like cryptid that people saw widespread.

That's kind of what...

but in the process of writing The Beast of Boggy Creek, I needed to go to the place where people said they saw things and interview people, go to this small town of Falk, Arkansas, and I went into the Sulphur River bottoms myself, and I looked, and I thought, well, heck, if I see it, well, now I can know what people are telling me.

So I go into that, and I feel like I'm something of a documentarian where I have, especially in a lot of old cases like Boggy Creek, Lizard Man, Lake Worth Monster, Momo and the Missouri Monster.

I've compiled the whole story.

Now we have where you can interview these people on video.

So, yeah, that's definitely, you know, gives you another perspective.

And in most of my presentations I do, I do point out that, you know, people may be laughing because, oh, where are these creatures going to hide? But if I dropped you off in the middle of the Sulphur River bottoms out there near Falk, Arkansas, with no phone and no compass, good luck.

Find your way out.

And I think that these areas going out in Texas and of course, Arkansas, Mina, Arkansas, the Ouachita, uh, Mountains and National Forest is a big hotspot.

People say, um, that there's still activity out near Fouke, Arkansas, where the legend of Boggy Creek is.

Um, and even in Louisiana near, uh, the Sabine River, Sabine Lake, all of these different areas, the Trinity River going through, uh, Texas.

Um, these are all amazing places that I would say seem to harbor enough life already.

They call it the booger.

And if you grew up anywhere near the little town of Fouke, you learned three rules before you ever learned to drive.

You don't go into the bottoms alone.

You don't go in after dark.

So keep your headlights on, watch the mile markers, and remember, we are only visiting.

It lives here.

Welcome to Fouke, Arkansas.

Welcome to Boggy Creek.

For those who venture into the deep forests along the rim, the legend serves as a stark reminder that the wilderness keeps its own secrets, some of which may be large, hairy, and very hostile.

Now, in the murky swamplands and moss-draped cypress groves of southern Arkansas lurks one of America's most famous regional cryptids, the Fouke Monster.

This creature is inextricably linked to the small town of Fouke and the labyrinthine waterways of Boggy Creek.

While stories of a wild man in the area circulated for decades, the beast clawed its way into the national spotlight during a series of intense encounters in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Fouke Monster is typically described as a large bipedal hominid standing around seven feet tall and covered in thick dark brown or black hair.

Its chest is said to be massive and broad, and it moves with a peculiar loping gait, swinging its arms as it runs.

But its most defining characteristics, its glowing red eyes, and most notably, its tracks.

Unlike the five-toed footprints associated with Bigfoot, the Fouke Monster is said to leave behind enormous three-toed tracks, a biological anomaly that deepens its mystery.