The Beast of Boggy Creek, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

For over a century, a hulking, hairy figure known as the Fouke Monster has prowled Arkansas’ Sulphur River Bottoms, stirring up spooky campfire chatter and real-life eyewitness accounts in equal measure. Some say it’s a Southern Sasquatch; others believe it’s an unsolved mystery that refuses to lie low in the bogs. In this episode, we’re joined by Lyle Blackburn—author of The Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster—to shed light on the creature’s legendary origins, spine-tingling sightings, and the enduring theories that keep its story alive in the dark corners of the swamp.

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0:00.0	Today on The Grave Talks, a conversation about the Falk Monster with author Lyle Blackburn.
0:09.4	For more than a century, reports of a strange beast, known as the Falk Monster, have circulated among the locals in southern Arkansas.
0:18.9	Described as a large, hairy, man-like creature. It's said to haunt
0:23.0	the vast sulfur river bottoms as it travels the secluded waterway known as Boggy Creek. Over the
0:30.5	years, the creature has been seen by numerous witnesses, including respected citizens, experienced
0:36.3	hunters, famous musicians, and even a police officer.
0:41.5	I'm Carol Hughes in for Tony Bruske, and on this episode, we'll talk about the sightings and theories
0:47.8	surrounding the Falk Monster with Lyle Blackburn, author of The Beast of Boggy Creek, The True Story of the Falk Monster.
0:56.6	And Lyle, thank you so much for joining us today and tell me, how did you become interested in the
1:02.9	falc monster?
1:04.6	Like thousands and thousands of people in the 1970s, when I was really young, I saw a movie called The Legend of Boggy Creek.
1:13.2	And that movie was a sort of docudrama horror movie based on the true life sightings of the
1:19.9	Falk Monster. It was released in 1972 and played for many years in theaters and drive-in circuit and even on television in the 70s and made, I mean, the movie was made for $150,000 and made upwards of $25 million.
1:38.6	It was a huge movie.
1:41.6	And the particular connection I have to it is that I was born in Fort Worth, Texas,
1:48.6	and I lived in Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas all my life. And the Falk, Arkansas is in the southern,
1:58.6	southwest portion of Arkansas is about three and a half hours from where I live.
2:03.4	So, you know, I mean, like I said, I was into Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster,
2:08.7	but all that stuff seemed so far away.
2:11.4	But as fate would have it, my parents, we were actually in Arkansas.
2:17.4	And for some reason, my parents were going to a
2:21.2	movie and ended up at the drive-in, and then we saw the legend of Augie Creek. And I don't remember
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