Photos and Story by Ken Hulsey
Earlier this month, I was traveling through Arkansas on business and decided to make my monthly stop in the town of Fouke. As many of you know, the area around Fouke is the alleged stalking grounds of the infamous Fouke Monster - a Bigfoot-like creature that has been reported since the late 1800s. Most people learned about this famous monster from the 1970s drive-in classic "The Legend of Boggy Creek," which depicted several encounters with the Fouke Monster. The movie honestly scared me as a kid, so I find it fascinating that I still stop in Fouke years later to relax, unwind, and take nature walks.
I consider myself a believer in the Fouke Monster. I've experienced some strange things down by Boggy Creek - from wood knocking (how Bigfoot creatures communicate over long distances) to eerie, simian-sounding "whooping" calls that seemed more at home in a rainforest than the Arkansas woods.
Originally, I hadn't planned to stop in Fouke that morning - I was actually headed to Texarkana for some sales calls. But the lure of the monster was too strong to resist, especially on that perfectly creepy, foggy morning - the kind of setting where, as we know from Scooby-Doo and 70s horror movies, monsters love to roam. It felt like being on the set of a Hammer horror film. I didn't know if I'd encounter Bigfoot or Dracula!
Alas, neither showed themselves that day. But it was still a great experience that delightfully played on my childhood fears. The mystique of the Fouke Monster continues to captivate me.
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