{"id":298,"date":"2012-03-24T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.woodape.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/24\/bobcreview\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T00:10:07","slug":"bobcreview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodape.org\/index.php\/bobcreview\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beast of Boggy Creek: Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"writeboardbody\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"367\" height=\"550\" alt=\"alt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.woodape.org\/images\/stories\/Articles\/bobccover.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Ohio during the \u201cformative\u201d years of North American  Bigfoot knowledge\u2013the Yeti expeditions of the 1950s and 1960s, the Jerry  Crew California tracks of 1959, and the Patterson-Gimlin film of  1967\u2014the Bigfoot phenomenon was to me a distant beacon, tantalizing, but  far away. I had just graduated from college and entered my working life  when I saw the movie <i>The Legend of Boggy Creek <\/i>in late 1972. It became a  watershed event for me because, as a \u201ctrue\u201d story, it brought Bigfoot  out of the far away Pacific Northwest and into the heart of America. And  if the beast was found in a little bottomlands town like Fouke,  Arkansas, it might be elsewhere across the country, and it might be  closer to me than I thought possible, further piquing my already  significant interest in the subject and leading me to pursue it later in  life. Now in 2012, another defining moment has arrived on the subject  of Boggy Creek and its big-screen monster. Lyle Blackburn\u2019s definitive  book, <i>The Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster <\/i>(2012,<span class=\"bodysmall\"> Trade Paperback \/ Anomalist Books)<\/span>, is such a watershed moment in that he  has brought to life the history behind the beast that terrorized Fouke  and the surrounding towns in the well-publicized encounters of 1971 that  led to the movie <i>The Legend of Boggy Creek<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn\u2019s book is both informative and entertaining, written in a  style that is easy to read and sequenced in an order that follows our  logical thought process about the Fouke creature and the resulting movie  and answers all the important questions a reader might ask \u2013 \u201cWas there  a history of sightings before the movie? Did the events in the movie  really happen? How did the movie get made? What happened to the creature  since the movie? Is it still there? Was it the same type of creature  throughout the sightings? What was the real evidence? Who is Smokey  Crabtree and what was his role in this?\u201d The research behind this book  is extensive and encompassed years of investigation and interviews in  the Fouke area, providing a top-rate journalistic viewpoint on the  phenomenon and the movie.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Beast of Boggy Creek\u2019s<\/i> excellent reading material is supplemented  by maps of the Fouke area and the bottomlands of the Sulphur River and  Boggy Creek, wonderful sighting illustrations by Dan Brereton, and an  extensive number of photographs, including many from the Miller County  Historical Society. The appended materials include both a chronological  sightings database and the movie scene by scene database with the  corresponding real-life sighting descriptions. A comprehensive  bibliography also provides a wealth of research materials into the  history of encounters with the Fouke Monster and the region\u2019s rich  history of sightings.<\/p>\n<p>The Sulphur River Bottoms and its various tributaries, like Boggy  Creek and others, have provided a wealth of Bigfoot creature sightings  in its three-state (Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana), rain- and  wildlife-rich environment. It is the perfect location to hide such a  creature, with vast areas of impenetrable swamplands, thick vegetation,  scant human populations, linked river systems, and temperate weather  conditions for the most part. In short, it is a highly sustainable  habitat for such a creature. Our <span class=\"caps\">TBRC<\/span>  sightings database provides an accurate window into that environment and  the Boggy Creek creature in the numerous sighting reports from the  Sulphur River area, several of which are detailed to great effect in  Blackburn\u2019s book. In addition to his accurate and comprehensive  descriptions of the physical setting of the Fouke Monster\u2019s habitat,  Blackburn brings to life the true spookiness and isolation of the swampy  bottomlands, something anyone who has been there can appreciate and  something that was a major factor in the popularity of the movie,  inspiring that drive-in movie monster kind of fear.<\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s treatment of its centerpiece\u2014<i>The Legend of Boggy Creek<\/i>  movie\u2014is, by itself, more than ample reason to buy this book. Blackburn  richly conveys how a whirlwind of publicity around the Fouke sightings  in 1971 created a demand to know more about the creature and Fouke; how  that demand led a fledging movie maker, Charles B. Pierce, to leave his  advertising career in Texarkana to make his first of many movies; how a  shoestring budget forced Pierce to use local Fouke-area people to  reprise their own encounters at the actual sites in some cases and to  portray their neighbors in other cases; and, how that same shoestring  budget forced Pierce to adopt a handheld camera filming approach, a more  documentary style. All of these factors, Blackburn concludes, created a  perfect storm of a movie that appealed to many on a visceral level,  generating both fear and attraction. Blackburn\u2019s interviews with those  involved with the movie and the film-maker, including Pierce\u2019s daughter,  flesh out what we want to know about the how the movie was made and why  it was made the way it was. One important example of that is  Blackburn\u2019s exposition of the Crabtree family\u2019s role in the creature  sighting saga and the movie, both in front of and behind the camera.  Smokey\u2019s son Lynn and his sighting were portrayed by the other Crabtree  son Travis, making him the character we knew in the movie. Smokey  Crabtree was enlisted as a shooting guide for the area and became the  informal liaison between Pierce and the residents of the Fouke area.  Later Smokey would become the focal point of some animosity the locals  had for Pierce when they did not receive, according to the author, any  monetary benefit from the film when it hit big. From a regional  low-budget ($100,000) movie that only was seen at first because Pierce  rented the theatre to show it in, the film eventually grossed $25  million; this book provides an entertaining behind-the-scenes look at  that process.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s climax and focal point, the repeated encounters at the  Ford house, are detailed in the book and fact is separated from movie  fiction, the latter of which is a whole lot less than you might imagine.  This and other actual sightings, both those portrayed in the movie and  those not, are brought out in the book in excellent journalistic style  (and never dry) with supporting interviews and other background  materials.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn provides a lot of great material on sightings and  encounters reported in years after the movie in the immediate area and  the region.  He also details the impact of the film\u2019s success on the  Fouke area locals and the trouble it caused, from the large influx of  bothersome monster hunters trampling property to the tension among the  locals regarding the film itself. His documenting of contemporary  research efforts of organizations such as the <span class=\"caps\">TBRC<\/span>,  the continuation of sightings to the present day, and the solid nature  of such sightings (presented in vivid detail), lead the reader to the  conclusion that an unknown man-like creature is alive and well in the  Sulphur River basin.<\/p>\n<p>As to the nature of the beast itself and the curious three-toed  tracks associated with this creature, Blackburn discusses and  effectively disproves the many theories given about the monster: that it  was an escaped circus ape, an invention of moonshiners to keep people  away from their stills, a racist town\u2019s means of keeping the area  segregated, a hoax, or a panther. We are left then with the concept that  this could be a \u201chidden hominoid\u201d as Blackburn puts it, perhaps a  Bigfoot cousin of \u201cPatty\u201d (the film subject in the Patterson-Gimlin  film). Then, if real, we are left to answer the question of the  three-toed tracks, which Blackburn investigates in a subchapter,  entitled \u201cTrouble with Three Toes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Beast of Boggy Creek<\/i> is, besides being a first-rate piece of  journalism regarding this unknown creature and the movie inspired by it,  the comprehensive reference to the Fouke Monster and a thoroughly  entertaining read, suspenseful and intriguing. Like the improbable movie  that ignited many of us to actively research the Bigfoot phenomenon,  Blackburn\u2019s book should serve to jump-start this kind of journalistic  research in the Bigfoot community. <i>The Beast of Boggy Creek<\/i> is a  must-read for the serious researcher, the fan of <i>The Legend of Boggy  Creek<\/i> movie, and the Bigfoot enthusiast.<\/p>\n<p> You can pick up your own copy of <i>The Beast of Boggy Creek<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foukemonster.net\/shop.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Ohio during the \u201cformative\u201d years of North American Bigfoot knowledge\u2013the Yeti expeditions of the 1950s and 1960s, the Jerry Crew California tracks of 1959, and the Patterson-Gimlin film of 1967\u2014the Bigfoot phenomenon was to me a distant beacon, tantalizing, but far away. 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