Posted on 02/02/2015 11:35:42 AM PST by BenLurkin
A recent story in Cryptozoology News caught my eye because it referred to a creature I had never heard of before. A woman in Mississippi claimed that in 2013 she saw a large creature with wings that scared her dogs and reminded her of the stories her grandparents told of a Mothman-like creature they called a Swift Peter.
Marie (no last name) says she saw the creature near Arkabutla Lake in Tate County at around 11 pm on a night when a storm knocked out the electricity. Hearing dogs barking everywhere, she investigated and saw a shadow of something that was large and could fly. She and her mother found a set of 7-toed footprints the next morning.
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Imagine it hitting your windshield.
Oh, not so fast. Some “cryptoBSologist” just snookered Les Stroud into hanging out in the East Texas Panola County “Yeller Dog” Sabine River bottom videoing for a week.
The Mothman Prophecy. Look up the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, WV.
Incident happened ca. 1967 I believe.
Maybe avoid old and structurally deficient bridges for a while.
I’ve red several books by Ivan T Sanderson. They are a hoot!
Mothman, Point Pleasant WV
I live near Lake Arkabutla. By and large, it’s a lousy place to fish, so I don’t even bother. However, I duck hunt only a few miles from the lake and the hunting has been great the past few years. If I see a Swift Peter near the duck blind, he’s mine.
One night, a few of us from OM had a “hold my beer and watch this” moment. We jumped off the Hwy 51 bridge into the Hickahala creek. Deep enough, but the mud flats were at least 100 miles wide, perhaps someone will find my shoes sometime in the far future.
That’s great stuff.
About a year ago I saw a black congregation having a baptismal service in Hickahala Creek near dusk. They wore white gowns. It looked like a scene from the 1930’s.
Someone should change that to “But it was Bigfoot”
GO BOBO!
It's been over 35 years since I read the book but I came away thinking it was a one-time-only thing and not a cryptid by any means. That silly statue they erected in Point Pleasant, W.V. is an abomination.
Keel himself stated he was not a UFO-logist or a cryptologist but a demonologist!
On the other hand, it could've been a large specimen of a known species of owl.
Well hell, looks like them "swamp haunts" done slud over into East Texas too :)
BFL
Your moniker is a classic from Weird Al (not that you didn’t already know that).
Yes, I would figure it was demonic.
Yes, but, also from an old Broomhilda comic. We use to have a copy of it under the glass on the check out desk.
I think Mother Goose and Grimm have also used it.
Big Foot hustlers for sure!
Hell, I spent nearbout 50 years in and out of that Sabine bottom and this was first I ever heard of any Big Foot. Hope Wes Stroud enjoyed the million Water Meskins and spent lots of money locally.
Rougarou
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