The Legend

Monsters slay 'Nauts, set sights on Mayors

JUGTOWN - The Legend of Boggy Creek is a scary classic American docudrama horror film about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that reportedly has been seen in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1940s. The 1972 film mixes interviews with local residents who claim to have encountered the creature, along with reenactments of these encounters. The film's director and producer, Charles B. Pierce, was an advertising salesman (no foolin') who convinced a local trucking company to invest in the film and hired locals (mainly high school students) to help complete it. The movie was made on a $160,000 budget and was released in theatres on August 8, 1972. After Pierce's daughter Pamula Pierce Barcelou acquired the rights to The Legend of Boggy Creek, a remastered version of the film premiered in 2019. The film has been reported to have grossed over $20 million. The film also claims to be a true story, detailing the existence of the seven-foot-tall Bigfoot-like monster that has been seen by residents of the small Arkansas community for over 80 years. The "Fouke Monster" is described as being completely covered in reddish-brown hair, leaving three-toed tracks (no hock Sherlock) and having a strong, foul odor. In the film, several locals from the small town of Fouke recall their stories, often appearing as themselves, claiming that the creature has killed many large animals over the years. Legend has it that the beast was spotted by a farmer carrying off two of his 100 lb. hogs with little effort, leaping a fence with both hogs tucked under its arms. "The Legend" has supposedly been shot several times, but always managed to escape. Highly trained hunting dogs refuse to chase the beast. In an actual newspaper account of the monster that inspired the film, the creature is shown menacing a family in a remote country house. After being fired upon, the creature attacks, sending one family member to the hospital. The creature has never been captured and is said to still stalk the swamps of Southern Arkansas to this day. We saw the movie at the theatre in 1972, but all I could ever remember was the movie's title. In the NFL, Randall Cunningham (1985-2001) was self-titled "The Legend". In the BDFL, we have "The Legend of Shades Creek", the notorious Sloth Monsters who have been terrorizing the league each week since 1999. With BDFL titles in 2001 and 2015, "The Legend" is now in position to win a third BDFL championship. In Week 17 of the BDFL, two teams finally emerged as the league's best in 2022 - The Magic City Mayors and the Shades Creek Sloth Monsters. In Week 18 of the BDFL, the Mayors will try to defend their 2021 BDFL championship title against the raging Sloth Monsters in Big Daddy Bowl XXI. It should be another scary classic.

Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple (1972)