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On the night of May 2, 1971, in the small town of Fouke, Arkansas, Bobby and Elizabeth Ford were settling in when something reached through their window. Elizabeth, dozing on the couch, woke to a clawed arm pushing through the screen. Her husband ran outside and came face to face with it in the dark. A creature close to seven feet tall, covered in long dark hair, with eyes that glowed red. It threw an arm around his shoulder. Bobby tore loose and ran so hard he went straight through the front door without stopping to open it.
By morning the panic was real. Investigators combing the property found tracks pressed into the dirt around the house. Here is the detail that nobody could explain. The footprints had only three toes. Almost every animal in North America, and every known primate, has five. Plaster casts were taken. No one has ever matched them to a living thing.
The story became the 1972 film The Legend of Boggy Creek, and the sightings did not stop with the movie. People around those bottomlands have reported the same hairy giant for more than fifty years.
The truth may be far stranger than we have been told.
A bear in the dark, a hoax that got out of hand, or something that still walks the Boggy Creek bottoms? What do you think the Fords saw?
What do you think about this? Over five months from late 1989, more than 13,000 people in Belgium reported a silent black triangle with three corner lights. In March 1990 two F sixteen jets locked radar on it, and it made moves no pilot could survive. Secret aircraft, or a genuine visitor?
What do you think about this? The Abenaki spoke of something in Lake Champlain long before Europeans arrived, and Port Henry still keeps a sign counting sightings. In 1977 Sandra Mansi photographed a long neck and a dark hump, and no hoax was ever found in it. Log, or a real animal?
What do you think about this? In 1579 Francis Drake beached the Golden Hind somewhere on the northern California coast and claimed the land for England. Nobody can say which beach. A brass plate found in 1936 was celebrated for decades, then proved a hoax. Point Reyes, or somewhere else?
What do you think about this? Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, one is engraved on copper instead of parchment, and it is a treasure map. It lists 64 hiding places holding tons of gold and silver. Not one has ever been found. Real temple gold, or an ancient legend set in metal?
What do you think about this? On August 15, 1977, an Ohio telescope caught a 72 second burst from Sagittarius, 30 times stronger than background, right on the hydrogen frequency. The astronomer circled it and wrote Wow. It never came back. Fluke, or one word of a conversation?
What do you think about this? The Shroud of Turin carries a full length image of a man that behaves like a photographic negative, which nobody noticed until it was first photographed in 1898. Carbon dating said medieval. Nobody can explain how the image formed. Artwork, or something else?
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