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“The Legend of Boggy Creek” movie inspired D.W. Lee to drive to Fouke, Ark., in search of Bigfoot.
Since the 1990s, he has become an avid researcher and expert on the legend and the creature.
And a believer.
“Once you see one, you want to see another one,” Lee said. “Hearing their vocalizations and movement around you is incredible.
“It gives you pause to think about what goes on in a woods at night.”
Lee and his Stilwell-based Mid-America Bigfoot Research organization are part of an international long-term Bigfoot investigation using cameras and video equipment. Their Web site, www.mid-americabigfoot.com, has a message board where researchers discuss their findings, Lee said.
Once, when researching north of Claremore, he saw a dozen of the creatures move on all fours through an open field, then stand up and walk when they got to the tree line.
“We have a white Bigfoot in this area,” Lee said.
“We’ve been tracking it in this area since 1994. It travels in between Adair and Cherokee counties.”
Bigfoot is definitely a primate, he said.
“There are three kinds: those with human type features and a nose more human in shape; those with a gorilla look; and some with a monster look that are terrifying to look at.”
They’re found throughout the U.S. and active in Oklahoma, according to Lee.
“They’ve been here for ages,” Lee said. “We shouldn’t be afraid. They’re just as curious about us.”
Some people feed them, and they have found plenty of dead chickens outside chicken houses, he said.
“They’re really good at catching deer,” he said. “They hunt in packs. Part of them will run deer in the general direction of the others, and they can grab them when they run by.”
Two women in the Lost City area – Peggy and Margaret Hance – have grown up watching Bigfoot for 25 years. Margaret moved to the area with her parents when she was 12.
Over the years, they’ve had things thrown at their house, including rocks, lumber, sticks, and a cat that died at the hands of the creature.They’ve seen Rose of Sharon bush torn up and claim they hear, see and smell Bigfoot regularly.
“I’ve heard them holler and scream,” Margaret said. “Mom’s seen them and I’ve seen them in the backyard 20 feet away.”
She describes them as tall, with long, brown-reddish hair, no hair on their face, and standing upright with long arms, reaching almost to their knees.
“We see them every day,” she said. “We’ve seen small, medium and large footprints.”
Peggy said she was only scared the one time she thought a little Bigfoot was trying to come in the house.
“A sheriff’s deputy spotlighted one once,” she said.
Another time, her husband was in the tool shed and a Bigfoot was standing outside the door watching him.
“My granddaughter yelled at it to, ‘Get away from my grandpa,’” she said. “And it moved on.”
She thinks the Bigfoots (or is it Bigfeet?) like red-haired children most of all.
“They used to watch my grandchildren,” Peggy said. “They’d even watch them go out and get on the school bus. I’d see them hiding behind a tree or bushes.”
She’s seen two females.
“They have breasts, usually with no hair, and on their face and palms of their hands,” Peggy said.
Margaret said they come in all different colors.
“Light brown, medium brown, dark brown but mostly reddish-brown,” she said. “In California, they have silver-tipped ones.”The Hances used to grow garlic in the backyard, but think the creatures pulled it all up, “so much it doesn’t hardly grow.”
“I heard they really like garlic,” she said.
Margaret read about a woman in Georgia who said they could talk, but, “I’ve only heard them grunt, growl and call across the creek to each other. Or scream and yell when a dog chases it.”
Those looking for some Bigfoot fun can attend the annual Festival in Oklahoma in October.
Honobia, near Talahina, holds a Bigfoot Festival.
Lee’s organization helps host, and it’s their second year to have a conference.
This year, an anatomy and anthropology professor from the University of Idaho will be the featured speaker.
“He’s gone on record saying he believes there are Bigfoot,” Lee said.
Whether you’ve seen one and can’t wait to see another, find it hard to believe what you’ve seen and just don’t want to admit it, or consider Bigfoot bogus, enthusiasts like Lee will continue to research until there is enough evidence to change legend into fact.
TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESSBy RENEE FITE Press special writer
Date / Time: 7/12/2008 4:42 PM UTC
Sightings are being reported again in Cherokee county of the tall, hairy creature with a face resembling a human and a strong stench - Bigfoot.“I feel like Faye Ray here,” said Sheryl Mast, of the Gideon community. “Maybe he’s looking for a girlfriend.”
Bigfoot is a common reference to an uncommon and unexplained occurrence.
People seeing it may assume the creature is a bear or choose to not tell anyone about what they saw.
After all who would believe them?
Sightings have been reported in almost every state and many countries, of a creature known as Yeti in Asia, Yowie in Australia, Sasquatch in Canada and Chiya tanka by the Lakota Indians.
Bigfoot prefers mountainous and forested regions.
This time north of Tahlequah on rural State Highway 82 at Gideon, near Peggs, experiences include the thud of heavy footsteps running and shaking the ground, large footprints in the mud and a very strong, musky odor.
Urban legends abound and can be tracked worldwide on the Internet from sworn affidavit accounts to obvious nonsense.
But in an area known as Muphy’s Hill, between two branches of 14-Mile Creek, Sheryl Mast is sure she didn’t imagine the loud bang against the side of the trailer and the terrible smell.
She’s lived there about a year.
The closest neighbors are about five miles away, other than a second trailer that sets besides her boyfriends’, where a friend lives.
The Bigfoot is curious, Mast said, and is getting to be a regular visitor.
“It’s getting bolder, coming out in the daytime,” she said. “Sunday afternoon the wind shifted and we smelled it.”
Mast said she went up in the front part of the yard by the lane, where her dog was upset in a pen.
“She was crying and moaning and squealing and I found a beer bottle in the pen,” she said. “Something broke the whole door almost in half.”
A beer can was found in the area where trash is burned, “and none of us drink,” said Mast.
On previous visits the Bigfoot has left small signs of being in the area.
“It tore a branch off a tree in May,” Mast said. “And I think it threw our little dog against the trailer. When I opened the door it was panting and kept coughing for two days.”
The dogs usually chase people, she noticed, “but they get really quiet when this thing is around.”
Mast said the first time the Bigfoot came was around was in February.
Their friend moved into the trailer in March.
“He said he heard a deep, low growl and something shook his trailer,” Mast said.
One night they were outside talking and the dogs got still.
Then the little dog started barking and chasing something tall and furry, which they saw running between the trailers.
They went inside and locked the door.
“It banged on the door,” she said.
“Then we could hear and feel heavy footsteps running away.”
There were no markings or dents left on the trailer, but this is when the little dog may have been, “picked up and tossed at the trailer,” Mast said. “It would have to be really big, have big hands, to pick up that little Jack Russell and throw it.”
A lock hanging on the door was knocked or thrown and later found under the trailer,
Two weeks ago she said the whole trailer shook.It only lasted five minutes, she said, “but we were scared to death.”
They looked outside with a lantern but only smelled a strong musky odor.
Mast thinks the location of the two trailers between two creeks may bother the creature, that they’re in its way.
There’s a path worn in the tall grass leading down the hill and to the woods, Mast said with, “a mashed down area where something has been laying.
“We have no deer here and that’s strange for this area and by two creeks.”
She’s not so much afraid, as uncomfortable.
“So many appearances make me think we’re getting closer to a confrontation,” she said. “You know the feeling something is watching you. It gives you tingles.”
It makes you really wonder what’s out there, she said. “I don’t feel threatened. I think it’s curious about us.”
The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, founded in 1995, has a database of comprehensive sightings and Classic sightings.
It’s one of several Internet sites that list sightings by state.
Since the 1990s sightings have been documented in the Daily Press by citizens certain what they saw was not a bear. And it always had a strong odor.
As early as the 1800s reports have been given about Sasquatch from frontiersmen and Indians.
Pioneer American missionary Elkanah Walker’s story is told in Classic Sightings, about the Spokane Indians in Washington State.
Walker considered it a superstition that they believed in a race of giants that inhabited a snow covered mountain, worked at night and were men stealers, coming to lodges when people were asleep and taking them to their abodes without even waking the people up.They would also steal salmon from the Indian nets and eat it raw. And their smell was so strong it was nearly intolerable.It is generally believed Reverend Walker was referring to Mount St. Helen which has always carried Sasquatch legends.
In 1924, Fred Beck was among five miners attacked by a creature they called an abominable snowman in this same Mount St. Helen vicinity.
They said very large footprints had been seen by creekbeds and springs, whistling could be heard at night for a week and a booming, thumping sound was also heard. One evening two of the miners saw a tall creature with blackish-brown hair near a spring. They shot at and it ran behind a pine tree. They shot again and it ran fast and upright until it disappeared.
Back in a sturdy cabin the men had built themselves, they decided to return home the next morning as it was too late in the afternoon to make it out of the mountain before dark.
Near midnight the cabin was rocked by what seemed like boulders being thrown at it, some coming in through the fireplace, as it had no windows.
Some of the mortar was knocked loose between the logs and the men could see though.
They shot their guns in the air and never at one of the creatures, counting six of them,
It was daylight when the Bigfoot cousins finally stopped shaking and hitting the cabin. As soon as the men were sure they could made it to their trucks, they left $200 in equipment behind and headed to safety as fast as they could.
Another report in 1925 by a group on a British geological expedition in the Himalayas, with a Greek photographer, found and documented large footprints with photos including a large, upright human creature that showed up dark against the white background.
In 1951 in Nepal, Micha F. Lindemans writes about the origins of Bigfoot or Rakshasa in Encyclopedia Mythica.
“It smells terrible and it’s strong. It likes to throw boulders as if they were pebbles. It makes a ululating or whistling sound. And it’s rumored to be strong of alcoholic drinks.”
And females have also been reported, as the one by trapper and hunter William Roe in Canada in the 1950s, that was six feet tall with brown hair tipped in silver, its face, feet and breasts were gray-brown, and it weighed about 300 pounds.
He observed it didn’t seem to be afraid of him once it made eye contact with him, but walked quickly away looking back over its shoulder at first.
Chinese call it Yoren, the Chinese Wildmen, Man Monkey, Man Bear.
Wherever it’s seen, by whatever name, Bigfoot remains an unidentified mysterious animal whose existence has been reported but not proven - a cryptid.
By RENEE FITE Press special writer TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
Date / Time: 4/20/2008 1:35 PM UTC
Report# 03080034
Occurred March 13, 2008 (Submitted March 20, 2008)
We were crappie fishing in a lake by the Arkansas River. We were catching crappie in shallow water by the bank when we smelled a bad smell like body odor and saw him looking at us through the brush. He snort-grunted like a hog and took off. We found a few fish remains where he stood but the sand was not conducive to leaving a good print.
Grunt-snort.
Parts of eaten fish.
11:00 am - Clear, windy.
Daryl Colyer
This investigation was conducted as a result of an incident that allegedly occurred in Arkansas County, Arkansas in March 2008.
I talked at length to all three witnesses involved in this incident. The three men were reportedly fishing in a boat about 60 yards from the north wooded bank of the Old River Lake, very near the Arkansas River, north of Grady. They were using a trolling motor to maneuver around and were being fairly quiet.
The men indicated that they had been fishing less than an hour when they smelled something and then the primary witness saw movement on the bank. He indicated that at that time he saw an upright figure, with long, shaggy, brown hair bending over and then standing on the bank. The witness said that he briefly yelled, which alerted the other witnesses. The witness said the subject appeared to have bent down and stood up; his impression was that it had grabbed a fish.
The second witness also reportedly saw the subject and described it as at least eight feet tall, upright and covered with brown hair. He indicated that it appeared to have a fish in its mouth. He said when he looked, the subject quickly made an abrupt noise and turned away, hurriedly walking into the woods and disappearing.
The third witness looked just in time to merely see vague movement in the trees and was not able to make out any detail.
The primary and secondary witnesses could not discern facial details; the estimated distance of the sighting was approximately 60 yards. The witnesses saw the arms swing as the subject walked off, but neither could remember details about the legs. The second witness recalled that the subject's gluteal area seemed flat. They could discern no indications of gender. Both witnesses indicated that the estimated length of the visual encounter was no more than 10 seconds. They estimated that the length of hair was at least six inches and possibly as long as ten inches.
Immediately after seeing the subject, the three men elected to leave that part of the lake and went to fish elsewhere. They were, by their own admission, somewhat shaken after the incident and actually did not fish for much longer. However, just before leaving the lake for good, they returned momentarily to the spot where they saw the subject to look for tracks. They remained in the boat but were very close to the bank. They could not see tracks, but there were remains of dead fish all along the bank.
The witnesses are in law enforcement and wanted to ensure total anonymity. The primary witness has told a few people about the incident, but he said no one has believed him and so he is now quite reluctant to talk about it. When I first contacted him, he was very reluctant to discuss it because he thought it might be someone mocking him.
The primary witness indicated his desire for the subject to be left alone. He voiced concern about the possibility of it being shot and expressed his hope that that would not occur. As he saw it, the subject was not harming anyone or anything, and he believed that it deserved to live. He indicated that since there was one, that there must be a population of them, and if it is nocturnal and rare, that would explain why it is so difficult to just see one.
The witnesses told me that it had rained more than twelve inches in parts of Arkansas within the last several days and now the rivers and creeks in the area are overflowing; the site is now under water.
The witnesses said if the agency with whom they are employed were to find out about the incident, it would not bode well for them.
Found at: http://www.texasbigfoot.org/reports/report/detail/485
Date / Time: 12/1/2007 1:39 PM UTC
KATMANDU, Nepal - Members of a TV production team investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal said Friday that they have found footprints intriguing enough to merit further investigation.
The team of nine producers from "Destination Truth," armed with infrared cameras, spent a week in the icy Khumbu region where Mount Everest is located and found the footprints on the bank of the Manju River at an elevation of 9,350 feet (2,850 meters).
One of the three footprints found on Wednesday is about 1 foot (30 centimeters) long, with an appearance similar to those shown in sketches of the purported apelike creature, the team said.
"It is very, very similar," Josh Gates, an archaeologist who serves as the host of the weekly travel adventure series, told Reuters in Katmandu after returning from the mountain. "I don't believe it to be a bear. It is something of a mystery for us."
"Destination Truth" appears on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States. (The network is owned by NBC Universal, which is a partner with Microsoft in the msnbc.com joint venture.)
Tales by sherpa porters and guides about the wild and hairy creatures lurking in the Himalayas have seized the imagination of mountain climbers going to Mount Everest since the 1920s. Several teams have searched for it and some have even claimed to have discovered footprints. But no reputable investigator has actually seen the creature, nor has it been scientifically established that the Yeti exists.
Gates said the footprints on lumps of sandy soil, which would be sent to experts in the United States for analysis, were "relatively fresh, left some 24 hours before we found them."
"This print is so pristine, so good, that I am very intrigued by this," said Gates, flanked by his team members.
Even if the traces are found to be authentic footprints, it's not yet clear how they could be attributed to a Yeti rather than, say, a less exotic mountain creature. Nevertheless, the evidence may be enough to fuel a TV show. "Destination Truth" chronicles some of the world's notorious purported cryptozoological creatures and unexplained phenomena.
Some local sherpas believe that the Himalayas are abodes of strange creatures and consider the Yeti (also popularly known as the "abominable snowman") as a protector. Others say it is a destroyer.
"There is a kind of mysterious creature that lives in the Himalayas," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of Nepal Mountaineering Association in Katmandu, who hails from the Khumbhu region.
This report was supplemented by msnbc.com
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