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title: "Lyle BlackburnThe Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster"
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# Lyle BlackburnThe Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster

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Lyle BlackburnThe Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster

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## Customer Reviews

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    A Rash of Sightings, a Surprise Blockbuster, and the History Before and After
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2021*

One night in early May 1971 brought attention, a lot unwanted, to a 500-person town that eventually became apart of the cultural zeitgeist thanks to surprise blockbuster.  The Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster by Lyle Blackburn examines the events of 1971 and the surprising aftermath as well as the events long before and up to the present-day to give context to those of early 70s.Before his examination of the string of incidents, Blackburn gives a physical and cultural background of the Fouke, Arkansas region before incidents that brough the little town to the national monster zeitgeist.  Then Blackburn goes right into the 1971 incidents using newspaper accounts and interviews of those directly involved or who investigated them in the aftermath including local law enforcement officers to examine all of them.  Blackburn then goes back to previous sightings in time over the course of the previous half-century that occurred in the nearby but equally small Jonesville, including those that involved the family of Smokey Crabtree.  Blackburn then examines the events leading up to, during, and aftermath of the filming of The Legend of Boggy Creek including its surprise box office performance—leading to horrible sequels—and cult classic status even today.  Blackburn then transitions after the “heyday” of the 1970s to explore if there had been anymore sightings and relating many of them through to and past 2000.  The last fifth of the book is dedicated to examining theories of what, if anything, the monster could have been from misidentification to an unknown bipedal ape as well as any incidents of hoaxes, particular with the three-toe foot tracks.Aside from Florida’s Skunk Ape, Fouke Monster is the essential Southern Bigfoot within the cryptozoological community.  Blackburn keeps his focus on events directly in Fouke or connected with it from sightings and interactions to the guerilla-style filmmaking of the surprise smash hit that is based off events within the community.  As stated above, Blackburn only really goes into analysis and speculation at the end of the book as the primary focus is on those events in 1971 that created the phenomenon and then if there were any similar events before and after the 70s heyday.  The most important thing I found in the book is that Blackburn took years researching this book and traveling to the area so often that it appears those in the community that were suspicious of his motives realized he was not there for a hatch job on the community and were willing to be interviewed, some of them relating events for the first time to an ‘outsider’.The Beast of Boggy Creek is a thorough look into the early 1970s cryptozoological and box office phenomenon as well the history before and after those defining events.  Lyle Blackburn writes in an engaging style the clearly brings the events and facts to the reader so they can come to a informed conclusion of their own.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great Read! Loved Learning More.
  

*by P***H on Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2017*

If you were a kid in the early 1970s and went to the drive-in theater, then you probably had the be-jeebus scared out of you watching "The Legend of Boggy Creek". Maybe you thought, "Thank, God, that's over!" when the movie came to an end and maybe, as you rode home in the backseat, peering out the car window, you watched the roadside and surrounding woods just a little bit closer, wondering if there was a similar creature out there, waiting and watching.Lyle Blackburn takes us back to those days, when the Fouke Monster was all the rage and scaring children and adults alike. Ah, yes, THOSE good old days. Only this time Lyle trudges ever deeper into the dark and mysterious Sulpher River Bottoms and swamps of Arkansas. Here he digs up even more stories and more evidence that not only was there a 'ape-like man' wandering around long before the movie came out, but it still makes that area its home.A great read! I loved learning more!This book will become part of my ever-growing research library!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good narrative and fascinating read
  

*by B***Y on Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2016*

As a compendium to Smokey Crabtree's book "Smokey and the Fouke Monster," this book really helps fill in the gaps with information on the who, what, when, and where of the famous 1971-1973 flurry of interest in the beast of Boggy Creek. Interesting details, like the fact that the bogus-looking, but still interesting, 3-toes tracks famously "discovered" in a soybean field, were on property owned by Smokey's brother-in-law. The same guy that then sold plaster casts of said tracks as well as other trinkets in his service station and diner. The tracks were "found" as Crabtree was giving up-and-coming film producer Charles Pierce tours of the region and telling him all sorts of Tories about the monster. Motive? While Blackburn is careful to not outright dismiss the entire Fouke episode as a hoax, it's pretty clear that there is zero evidence that a throng other than tall tales from Crabtree and some locals who enjoyed messing with reporters and movie producers were involved. But the narrative is clear, interesting, and well presented. The drawings, by a noted comic book artist portray the monster as a muscle-bound '80's metal head-looking manimal. They're unique, but not especially close to what people claimed the monster actually looked like (mostly just a stooped over, hairy mass with no visible facial festers except a flat nose). That aside, the book definitely warrants a place on the shelf if you're a fan of monsters, Bigfoot, and '70's monster mania.

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