Halloween Countdown 2018, Day 14

During the 2013 Halloween Countdown, I mentioned the Boggy Creek Monster, or Fouke Monster, sightings of which center primarily around the Boggy Creek area on the borders between Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The creature was made famous beyond the region thanks to the 1972 docudrama The Legend of Boggy Creek (which was an annual viewing tradition in my Oklahoma family) and the films it inspired, such as Return to Boggy Creek (1977) and Boggy Creek II: The Legend Continues (1984).

A couple of recent documentaries have looked into the phenomenon: Southern Fried Bigfoot (2007) and Boggy Creek Monster: The Truth Behind the Legend (2016).

Last year, two of my daring Halloween Countdown undercover operatives (also known as my parents) made a bold journey to Fouke, Arkansas, saw the monster-related sights
firsthand, and sent photos of their journey.

Now I bring you more monstery goodness.

As you can see above, my father has gotten into the spirit of things and fashioned his own creature to lurk at the treeline of my parents’ backyard. Something about this fills me with glee. You see, this looms just at the edge of the swingset-and-swimming-pool-filled playground area where my nieces come to play. They’re growing up in the shadow of something spooky, and they love it.

Not to be outdone, my parents’ neighbor also has a creature – well, not one now but three. The leader of the line used to stand alone, but recently the family joined him to form a cryptid parade. How very, very Halloween!