Bigfoot kin may have made tracks for sunny Arizona

Apr. 3, 2009 | Clay Thompson

[JoeProBono]

Today's question:

When I was a kid in Phoenix in the early '60s, I spent a week every summer at a Boy Scout camp east of Pine, just below the Mogollon Rim. Sometimes late at night, around a campfire, the older scouts would regale us with tales of attacks on ranchers and campers by the "Mogollon Monster." Has anyone claimed to have seen hairy ape-men in Arizona recently?

The Mogollon Monster is Arizona's version of Bigfoot. It supposedly lives, as you may have guessed, along the Mogollon Rim, although it has allegedly been spotted around Prescott and in the Grand Canyon. It seems to be a shy thing, but every now and then, it tears up a campsite or takes the campers' food.

Don Davis, a cryptozoology investigator who died in 2002, claimed that he encountered the monster at a Boy Scout camp near Payso in the 1940s. He reported:

[HiJinx]

Last outhouse I used was on Grampa’s farm in Mississippi.
I was more afraid of snakes than falling in...!

And I love the Payson/Pine/Heber area of the rim. We hunt, camp, and fish up there several times a year.

[SunkenCiv]

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[ElkGroveDan]

Global warming chased him away. Big Foot and Global Warming have a lot in common.

[Eaker]

Ain’t he kin to y’all?

[concentric circles]

I saw one, and he went after the children first! It was terrible.

[ApplegateRanch]

Speaking of large, hairy monsters in Arizona...

[TheMom]

Wrong Bigfoot, Bonehead.

[JoeProBono]

[happygrl]

Laugh if you wnat, but some years ago I camped south of the Grand Canyon in that area, and had to sleep in my car because of the unearthly screeches by some group of animals. They weren't coyotes, as I'm familiar with that howling and yelping.

It was the most unnerving sound I've ever heard.

[humblegunner]

Wrong Bigfoot, Bonehead.

I don't know, he may be some distant kin to me.

Somewhere along the journey my line seems to have gotten a pretty good shot of Neanderthal genes.

[Non-Sequitur]

You’ve heard stories about Bigfoot for what, 70 years or more? I imagine they’re getting old and ready for retirement. Why not Arizona?

[wolfcreek]

Cougars or maybe, javalina. They both make really unnerving sounds.

[Hatteras]

"At www.mogollon monster.com, you can see pictures of Mogollon Monster poop and caves, watch some videos,..."

Awesome! I've been looking for some Mogollon Monster poop to complete my collection!

[happygrl]

I've been told that about cougars; they can sound like humans.

Javalinas, I've never heard.

[cyborg]

How on earth did you get a photo of petronski!

[Dustbunny]

Oh yuk !!!!!!

Hope that wasn't the one that has been tearing up our bird feeders and running off with the suet cakes while still in their holders.

[refreshed]

Of course the Mogollon Monster is real. What else could have made the tracks on Houston Mesa Road?

[wolfcreek]

Javelinas make a horrible sound and have been know to attack humans. (in/out of the tents.) Not sure if they exist as far north as the Grand Canyon. (but close) http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/game_javelina.shtml

[SunkenCiv]

Yow. There have been recordings of unidentified nocturnal animal howling, out west; there have been witness reports that Bigfoot individuals have gone out of their way to attack or even kill dogs.

[happygrl]

I've heard recordings on the cryptozoology specials with Loren Coleman and also on the old C2C with Art Bell that purported to be Bigfoot.

I gotta tell you... the sounds I heard were similar, only there was a whole group of animals vocalizing at once, DEFINITELY not coyotes, as I have camped enough out west to know what they sound like.