Evidence That The Legendary Fouke Monster Is Still Lurking Around Southern Arkansas Continues To Grow

 After my own personnel experience outside Fouke, Arkansas last November I am becoming more and more convinced that the legendary monster is actually a real creature.

From KATV Little Rock:

Arkansas may be the Razorback state, but Miller County residents live under the hairy shadow of a different beast.

For decades, locals in the small town of Fouke and its surrounding area have said that something inhuman stalks the deep, dark swamps in their region...the Fouke Monster.

Reba Killian was a little girl when she says she first saw the creature on a late-night drive.

"Seven and a half to eight feet tall. And we just started screaming, we were banging on the truck trying to get our parents to stop because we were kids, nobody was going to believe us. And we used to run those woods all the time in between my house and her house. And after that, I said no more, I'm not going back in those woods. It could have snapped us like a twig if it wanted to," Killian said.

Reports of the creature go back over a century ago, but the most famous rash of sightings occurred in the early '70s when a family claimed to have been attacked in their house at night.

The incident generated so much media attention that the monster became national news, putting Fouke on the map and bringing monster hunters from around the country, much to locals' dismay.

It wasn't long before a movie was made about the attack and other encounters—folk horror as much as a documentary, the wildly successful 1972 film—entitled "The Legend of Boggy Creek"—forever cemented the Fouke or "Boggy Creek" monster in the town's identity.

In the many years since then, monster sightings have continued, the most recent occurring just weeks ago.

"First thought it was a deer, but I said no, that's no deer—it had too big of a body mass, it was reddish orange. Looked to me kind of like an orangutan," Roberts said of a sighting that happened on a drive two Sundays ago—the first he has ever experienced.

Locals claim other evidence is often found as well. Doyle Holmes says he and his son found tracks while out hunting and created casts from them.

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