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Folklore
The witness notes the Fouke monster legend is well known in the area.
Folklore
Family elders warned that something big lived in the woods and to keep away from it.
UFO sighting
The guest retold an Aboriginal legend from a plaque at Coolatops National Park about a god in a ball of light cruising treetops. Seven women climbed trees for a better view and were taken up into the stars to become the Pleiades, one dimmer star being the less pretty woman.
Sasquatch sighting in North Dakota
As a six or seven year old at a North Dakota gathering, the guest heard an announcer tell in the traditional language how a boy playing with cousins along a creek was chased and taken by a Bigfoot. A multi-day search party was lured and misled by mimicked voices and bonfire activity, and the child was never found.
Folklore near Lovelock, Nevada
The hosts retell tribal accounts of tall red-haired cannibalistic giants who trapped and ate local people and were eventually trapped in a cave, burned and killed after a multi-year war. Later miners reportedly found large mummies, oversized sandals and artifacts, and a large hand-like mark was seen on the cave wall.
Folklore
The witness recalled a school rumor that a sasquatch lived in a nearby park.
Scream
Locals have long called a wooded stretch along the river the Monkey Den after reportedly being screamed at there for many years.
Folklore
Local lore told of a swamp monster called orange eyes living in the river bottom.
Sasquatch sighting in Florida
A few years after the 1918 incident the community reportedly captured another hair-covered figure in the same swamp area. The teller suggests this individual and the 1918 figure were humans with a hair-growth condition from a family that arrived in 1901, distinct from the original 1884 wild man.
Sasquatch sighting
Other local residents reportedly see the creature when looking into the woods, and community members often talk about it living nearby.
Folklore
An old local legend around the Payson area tells of a large hairy creature near the rim that attacks people.
Folklore
Locals reportedly spoke of unspecified strange activity in the bottomlands.
Folklore
Elders reportedly say homes now stand where trails were once walked.
Folklore
Locals and early settlers told of a legend that stole hogs and cattle and ruined gardens.
Folklore near Goat Neck, Texas
The witness heard post-sighting encounter stories from area residents about a creature called Goat Man.
Folklore
The witness stated similar animals have been seen in the area for many years and locals refer to them by a traditional wildman name.
Folklore near LaRue/New York, Texas
Local people jokingly refer to a nicknamed creature being around the area.
Folklore near Bosque County
Older residents told stories of a wild man in the area that the witness had dismissed as tales to scare kids.
Folklore
As a child the witness was warned not to go near certain abandoned buildings where wild hairy people were said to live.
Folklore in Washington
In old times people lived around the lake but left after daughters were said to be taken by a hairy tribe from higher on the mountain. A truce was made where the tribe shared cedar-basket weaving knowledge in exchange for the people leaving the lake area.