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The Fouke Monster

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

A seven-foot red-haired swamp thing that terrorized a farm family near Fouke in 1971 and became a national sensation when a local filmmaker turned it into The Legend of Boggy Creek, a drive-in classic. Sightings along Boggy Creek run back a century. The bottoms are real and dark and full of hogs and gators; the monster is the folklore that keeps the town on the map.

The ground it haunts

Boggy Creek, Fouke (Miller County, AR). Source: Swamp folklore that became a movie legend. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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