The Legend of Boggy Creek is one of those movies that may have frightened you as a child,

especially given that it was based on true events that happened in Arkansas in the 1970s.

Supposedly, the whole community was terrorized by this Sasquatch-like creature that lived

in the swamps.

Today, we're going to look at the history and separate what's real from what was made

up for the Hollywood movie.

The Boggy Creek Monster is next, Unskeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The Boggy Creek Monster.

It was 1971 in Falk, Arkansas.

Falk is a small hamlet of under a thousand people in the Boggy Creek area of southwestern

Arkansas, tucked in just between Texas and Louisiana.

In the middle of a thousand miles of flat country, dense dark woods rippled with rivers and

creeks that twist every which way before finally draining into the Louisiana swamps.

It was on a hot summer night in May that two newlywed young couples and a friend or two

were crashing in the house they'd just rented a few days before after a long day of unpacking.

But the mellow evening took a shocking turn for the worse when Elizabeth Ford, 22, thought

she'd have a nap on the couch when it happened.

You know that moment when you see something unexpected, but it takes a few seconds for

your mind to process what it is?

That was Elizabeth's experience.

When she realized that what she was looking at was a huge furry hand with claws reaching

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