The Fouke Monster

Around the small town of Fouke in Miller County, Arkansas, people have long reported a tall, foul-smelling, hairy creature moving through the Sulphur River bottoms, the Fouke Monster, brought to wide fame by the 1972 film The Legend of Boggy Creek. A run of sightings in 1971, including a family who said the thing reached through a window, set off the panic.

It is the bottomland South's answer to Bigfoot, a swamp-haunting figure tied to one stretch of creek and river. O Devil, Where Art Thou? tells it as Boggy Creek, among its cryptid sides.