October 14, 2025 • 45 mins
This week Sierra takes us to Illinois to explore the Big Muddy River and a cryptid that many have not heard about... The Big Muddy Monster.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Twisted Humans.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Do you find yourself wanting to know more about the
latest murder, conspiracy, cult or haunting.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Than this is the podcast for you.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm Alicia and I'm Sierra and this is Twisted and Uncorked.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hello, and welcome to episode two fourteen of Twisted and
Uncorked during Halloween season, an unsolved episode which takes place
in the nineteen seventies and therefore pairs well with our
costume theme of the week seventies. We will reveal in
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three two one.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Like we did exactly the same posts.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well, I mean it's necessary. I am like a beachy hippie.
I am so jealous of your flower crowd and I
was literally trying to make myself a daisy flower crown
or find one and I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
This is literally a necklace that I.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Just put on my hair perfect, so perfect. I like it.
You look cute. Thanks. My headban's really itchy, but it works.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And I got to bust out my feathered earrings that.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I was looking for feather earrings. I went with the
feather necklace instead because I couldn't perfectly know those earrings
are so cute, thaks, so big and fluffy, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's how they're supposed to be. Everything is bigger.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah. That was what took me the longest is I
didn't even straighten the back of it. The back is
still curly, but I was like, I just need to
straighten this part.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Welcome to Costumes Podcast Edition. I am actually wearing like
flared pants and everything. Look at them wildly uncomfortable. Oh
my god, those are so cute. Where did you get those?
The thrift store?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Likely?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Likely?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm like, or did you already have the Oh they're
like the skinny bell bottom ones.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh, like the boot cut.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, I have full bell bottom.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Kevin's like you look very summary.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm like you look mid summary. Yeah, like mid mid summary.
You look like you're joining a cult.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I was gonna say, we both looked like we're about
to get on the Manson bus exactly. You look so
glowy than protesting in the sun about sex, drugs and
rock and roll.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, I was tempted to not wear a bra just
to like go with the theme, but I was like, yeah,
everybody does need to see that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh I definitely could not wear a bra.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah. My shirt is also you know, it's cream colored,
but it's white. You can see my brawl clearly.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It's still really cute. I like the best. I was
trying to tell those exacts, trist Yeah, you pictured the
same thing, and I'm here.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So, as I said, this is an unsolved episode, though
not so much an unsolved crime as an unsolved mystery.
We're going to get to have some fun with this
one after we share fun facts.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Tell me the whole time, because I have a migraine
right now, wear them.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I have my red ones, but I was like, they're two.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Those would have been great.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It just changes my vision too much.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I couldn't for sure. No, I get that. My fun
fact is seventies related perfect naturally, because why not. Apparently
the seventies was the height of the video game industry
the video games themself. Elves truly took off in nineteen
seventy two with the Atari releasing Pong, and it was
(04:06):
the first commercially successful video game, which is super cool
and fun fact. Kevin has an Atari. Yeah, wild to me,
and I'm pretty sure he has Pong as well, so nice.
Welcome to nineteen seventy two, peeps.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
My parents had an Atari when I was little and
replayed it all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It was great, so much fun.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Such simplicity of trying to keep a ball within two spaces. Yeah,
early video games are my favorite, though, Like sometimes video
games now really overwhelmed me.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I literally tell the video games now exactly that. That
is the one complaint I have. When Jesse's like, why
did you play video games with me? I'm like, I
don't like how many buttons there are? Like why can
I do this? This, this, this, this, this, and the
like can I just run and shoot?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
That's all I need to know how to do? Run
and shoot?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
There's too many original Halo, Yes, Gears of War, the
very first Call of Duty, Black Ops.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's all I want to do.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Maybe sometimes I'll throw a grenade, but like I don't
want to lay down and this and that like the Crouch.
It's learn how to fly a plane like Jesse plays
Destiny Kevin, Right, what do they fly?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's why fishing involved?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, they fish. They fly on broomsticks. They have like
a little ball orb that followed and sometimes can do
its own thing.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'm like, what why are.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
There so many things?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Okay, anyway, this.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Is welcome to our video game Ted talk. This is
why I play Animal crossing because I just run around
my little island and take care of it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, this is why SIMS has always been the best
game ever. Yes, my fun fact is that gorillas were
not formally discovered as a species until eighteen forty seven.
What talks of hairy people and manlike apes were had
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before this formal discovery, but these were largely regarded. These
were largely regarded as rumors or legends, kind of like
how we think of cryptids today. So if you think
about it, the people who colonized and created the United
States of America did not believe in gorillas.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
They didn't think they existed.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That's crazy, eight eighteen forty seven.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It was not that much of a stretch because like
look at chimpanzees. Gorillas are like muscly cumanized. But it
still with all the same things hurt their hands and feet.
That yeah, so it can't be that far of a stretch.
They're just way bigger, way bigger. Have you seen what's
in the ocean? People, we should not be surprised by it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean, in eighteen forty seven, they had not seen
what was in the ocean yet.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So let's face it. In twenty twenty five we've barely
seen in the ocean, we barely know.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Speaking of gorillas, today's episode pairs well with a drink
that is a mix between a mud slide and a
drink sometimes called a chunky monkey, sometimes called a dirty monkey.
I'm torn between calling it a muddy monkey or just
calling it a banana mud slide. Oohy flavors used to call.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Them chunky monkeys, and I was left unattended with it
for far too long.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Someone has gone, well, the flavors of this one is
gonna be banana, chocolate and coffee. So I've seen a
lot of banana and chocolate. I've seen a lot of coffee,
banana chocolate coffee.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It works.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The cocktail recipe is quite intricate, with one and a
half ounces of vodka, half an ounce of banana liquor
sorry liquor, half an ounce of Irish cream, half an
ounce of coffee liqueur, one ounce of heavy cream, one
banana chocolate syrup and ice. But for a much easier
mocktail version, you can simply mix banana. I did banana pudding,
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mix with chocolate, milk and coffee. How did you make yours?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I originally did mine with a whole banana, a little
bit of ice cream, two shots of coffee, and chocolate syrup,
and I blended it in a blender and it was
fucking delightful. It is very Now I'm drinking the rest
of my coffee with the last little bit of what
was in the blender, which is not good. It just
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tastes like like banana coffee. At this point the balance
of the three flavors. Gotta add some uh some coffee
and chocolate and drinking it is so fast. Clearly I
was hungry.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I love chocolate and banana shakes. There is do you
guys have Checkers or Rallies? There's a Checkers slash Rallies,
two different things owned by the same person.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
They just call them.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Different things in different parts of the world, Checkers or Rallies,
whatever you have in America, in your part of America.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
That's what I meant to say.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Anyway, they have the absolute best chocolate banana milkshake, and
it's I love it because I like actual banana and chocolate,
but it's banana flavor. But it's done so good, like
it tastes like candy. It's so freaking good. I tried
to get one on my way home so that I
could just put.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Coffee in it.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But because it is false season now, they switched their
banana with salted caramel, so they didn't have the banana until.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That sounds really good.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It does sound really good, but they don't have it
until it's fall season is over, so unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
See my favorite part about getting milkshakes out is that
they're always like thick and perfect, yeah, whereas I apparently
just don't know how to make frozen beverages and it's
always wait to water.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, mine is very Mine turned into like a chocolate
milk type thing, so I put ice in it. It
looks good though it is it's very yummy.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Mine was like a banana chocolate coffee milkshake. If I
was not working in four hours, I was gonna make
the boozy version because I actually do have banana li cure,
which why I ever remember? But I do actually have
banana li cure. But it's good, so I might have
to make it at a later date and report back.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So aside from the bananas being a favorite food of
the gorillas, uh, this streak also pairs well with this
episode due to the location of why this unsolved mystery
happens in southern Illinois in a town called Murphysboro, near
the Big Muddy River.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
We're going to take a quick break and then we'll
get into the episode.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
On the night of June twenty fifth, nineteen seventy three,
a young man, Randy Needham, and a young woman, Judy Johnson,
snuck out in the night and rode together to the
river's edge at Big Muddy Judy Johnson, probably not a
real name, was already married and not to Randy Needham,
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so they were trying hard to be out of sight
of anyone at all, but by the end of the night,
they'd both be interviewed by police at their own free will,
because the mystery that they had stumbled upon was even
more scary than Judy's husband and the rest of the
town finding out that she was with Randy.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The scandal. I feel like I've just walked into an
episode of Riverdale. Oh yeah, know why that's the vibe
I'm getting. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Just as they were starting to really enjoy their night,
Judy twenty eight and Randy nineteen heard something outside of
the car so very much more Riverdale esque. They called
it a cry, but described it as a greatly amplified eagle.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Shriek, it's her eagle.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
And when they peered out the front windshield from probably
not the front seat, Randy reportedly saw a creature at
least seven feet tall, hairy, light colored, but matted in mud,
staggering toward them.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Okay, that's terrifying. I also don't know why I didn't
go mothman with my first guests, But now I'm picturing
it Yetty, because you said light colored.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah. The not couple staggered into their seats and peeled
out of the area, debating on whether or not to
formally report what had just happened. Eventually they decided that
they couldn't go on knowing that that big muddy monster
was out there, able to hurt some innocent person. They
went to the police together and told them everything. Surprisingly,
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the police took the reporting very seriously. They were quite
shocked that the two would admit to being together, all
alone in the middle of the night, in the back
of a vehicle near the water's edge. Quote. They wouldn't
like them exactly. Quote they wouldn't risk all that if
they weren't really scared.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
End quote.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But I do believe the police agreed to change Judy
Johnson's name on the police report, as it looks like
a name ending with an E was erased from the
spot where Judy Johnson now sits.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
But whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
A few officers, including Jimmy Nash, went out to the
site where the young adults reported to have seen the creature,
and they were baffled by what they found. According to newspapers,
they searched the river bank for hours, following the sounds
of splashing or thrashing in knee deep water. Near the edge,
they found large footprints indenting the sticky mud that made
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them believe exactly what the Knot couple described, And when
they heard the shriek for themselves, they scrambled, knowing they'd
need some sort of backup to discover what was really
going on. Quote there was the most incredible shriek I've
ever heard.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It was in those bushes.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
That was no bobcat or screech owl, and we high
tailed it out of there end quote. The very next night,
yet another report came in about a big, muddy monster.
Four separate witnesses, all seeing the same thing at the
same time from completely different points of view. At one home,
a four year old boys chasing lightning bugs in the
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backyard when he was spooked by something nearby. Quote Daddy, Daddy,
there's a big ghost out back end.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
At about the same time, a woman at a farmhouse
nearby was getting ready for bed and heard the shriek,
same noise that Judy and Randy had heard before seeing
the big muddy monster. And at yet another home, a
teen couple sat on a dark porch when they heard
something moving in the night. Feeling brave and skeptical, the
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teen boy, also named Randy, went to see what was
out there, while the teen girl, Cheryl, went to turn
on the lights. Stepping out from the patch of trees,
the teens described an eight foot tall gorilla like creature
three hundred and fifty pounds, with shaggy, muddy hair that
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smelled like sewage and river sludge that is horrible. It
was there for about thirty seconds before it turned and
walked away into the field towards.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
The big muddy river.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, it sounds to me like there's more than one, though,
because this one's a foot tallar just saying this one's
a foot taller.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Smellie or people are very bad at describing nights. Okay,
I could never tell you I'm so small that I'd
be like it was seventeen feet tall, you.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Know, I know, I literally did that the other day.
Everyone was making fun of me. They're like, what a
Shack out there? I'm like, he was a very large man.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, listen, I was at Walmart the other day and
I swear to you, a man he was taller than
any other human being in this Walmart. I'm not kidding.
It was like bigger than Shack, but just like tall
and skinny and lanky, like not you know, Shack's big everywhere.
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This guy was just tall and skinny and lanky. But
he was like I could not stop staring, and I
felt bad, Like when he was checking out, it was
like his knees were at the belt, like he was gigantic.
I don't understand how nobody else stared like I did.
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He much taller than anybody there. I must have went
up to his waist like that's it.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Like huge, taller than like the aisles.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I don't know, because I was checking out. I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That would have been really crazy, though, if you just
felt like ahead, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
My gosh, I mean, it was already scary enough because
he was taller than like all of you know how.
I don't know if you guys haven't murder how your
grocery stores are. But like at the end of all
the checkout aisles, there's like fridges that like hold sodas
and stuff. He was taller than all of those. That's
what all my attention.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I was like, what holy who is this man? Like?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It was crazy anyway, seventeen feet tall, I tell you,
the police chief ordered a fourteen man I phrased this weird,
a fourteen man creature hunt accompanied by a German shepherd
attack and training canine named Reb. A clear trail through
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the woods was discovered with dangling branches and snap trees,
But what really gave it away was quote gobs of
black slime, much like that of sewage sludge in settling tanks,
on a direct line between the river and the house
end quote.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Which is just disgusting. Like what the fuck is that.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I've never been to the Big Muddy River, but if
it's just full of black slime, I think that it's
like a safety hazard.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
It sounds disgusting.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And maybe somewhere we don't need to add to our bucket. Lits. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I mean maybe the gobs of black slime are like,
you know, out of this world kind of thing. But
the way everyone just casually talks.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
About it, it's and.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I don't think it is. I think it's because they're like, oh,
it's a white creature or light colored creature, but it
has mud all over it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's muddy.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Is it muddy with that black slime? And it came
out of the big muddy river? Why is that black
slime in the river? That's disgusting. Somebody needs to clean
up this wasteland.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
It sounds like a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode in
terms of like something horrific happening and somebody turning into
a monster.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah. Yeah, like someone fell into a vat of.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
What's it called when you turn into a evil superhero
super villain that of.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Like a like a boiling pot of something that they
fall into and they're different after.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Like nuclear slime or something.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, nuclear waves's blowing. Probably. Yeah, we're there, we're there.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I think we're just really high right now because it's
nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Truth my mom.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
One of the officers said he touched the gew and
it left a black residue on his fingers. Reb took
the group of the officers all the way to a
barn at the farmhouse, but the poor good boy was
too scared to go inside, yelping and whining. When the
men went in to investigate, they found nothing, at least
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nothing that they could see, but maybe the German shepherd
could see something they couldn't. From this day forward, for
a few years many people suspected that they may have
seen the creature, but the reports weren't as official as
these ones. Probably more like one guy or gal telling
a few neighbors and friends to grab their guns and
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come and get that monster with them. Or maybe people
just said that they were going to grab their guns
and go after it but never really did. Either way,
it got a little dangerous, to the point that some
people didn't make reports because they didn't want hordes of
gun wielding citizens there to try and help in case
things went wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I remind you of the Hammersmith Ghost.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, and the Looney Tunes Christmas Bank robbery.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yes, innocent people get hurt when you just.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Go out guns of boazon, like at a carnival on
the night of July sixth, when the big money monster
was seen and not reported until the next day for
fear of carnivalgoers fleeing and gun wielders rushing in. Bert Miller,
owner of the carnival, waited until the night of the
seventh to alert the police that four of his workers
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saw the creature near their ponies, which were tied up
and freaking out being near the thing. They described a
large creature seven or eight feet tall, light brown hair
over its entire body, standing on two legs, and weighing
three hundred to four hundred pounds. The workers said that
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it appeared to be curious about the ponies, just watching,
interested until it realized it was spotted and ran off.
After police were notified, they went to check out the
scene but found nothing. Even any potential footprints had already
been ran over by other carnival goers and could not
be identified. But even in hoping that people in town
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with their guns and bravery would stay away from the
sightings and hunting of this thing, of America was hearing
about these Murphysboro, Illinois monster sightings, and people were sending
letters to the Chief of Police and to the Mayor
of Murphysborough. Quote, Dear Sirs, my partner and I read
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a story in the Sunday Orgonian Oregonian Oregonian. That's a
hard word to say about a creature you have cited there.
We are very interested in obtaining more information about this thing.
We are trappers and might be interested in making a
try at this creature. I have lived in Alaska for
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many years and have had some experience in trapping of
several kinds of animal beings. We would be willing to
take on this adventure at only the costs of expenses
and materials for doing so. Sincerely, Jim and David. End quote,
what the fuck do you catching in Alaska? Jim and
David animal beings?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Like?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
What the fuck is an animal being? And if you
really did capture it, why do we not.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Know about it?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Again? That's happening here.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Okay, here's another one.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Dear sir, we read in the Fresno Bee about your monster.
My mom can catch it. She is good too.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Please let her try.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
She loves big adventure like this one. Write her. She's
my mom, and I know how good she is. Her
name is Georgie. Where there is terror, she loves to solve.
She is good with guns and knives. Also end quote
This one made me so happy, so cute a ten
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year old write, though I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Okay, here's another one quote.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Dear sir, why don't you put bread and cheese or
eggs out for your creature? If you can catch it,
don't hurt it. Maybe it is a person. It isn't
too unfriendly, It hasn't made aggressive moves, but it is
intelligent enough to recognize the dangerous advances of people and
their weapons and dogs. You would have a splendid attraction
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if you could have it in a little hut to
show people A one creature zoo yours truly russell.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
This one?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Okay, it was so sweet.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
But also where I read it, all of these are handwritten,
by the way, oh well recently, but most of these
are handwritten, and yes they look like from children some
of them. Some of them are from like clear grown
adults like in the UK, who even sent a picture.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Of themselves in it.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But this one, when I read it, I misread it
because it's handwritten, and I thought it said you would
have a splendid attraction if you could have it in
a in a little hat.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
To show people.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I was like a little at Bigfoot in a hat
I would come and see this one reature zoo.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Okay, it made me so happy.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
That's really cute. Again, have you watched K Pop Demon
Hunters yet?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I have?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
The bird and the little Hat is one of my
favorite characters. He has so much attitude and he stole
it from the cat that could eat him. Yeah, that's
what I pictured when you said the little hat.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
All right? Last one quote, Greetings, I have just read
an article regarding the river Monster. Apparently this is an
old article, although I can't be sure because I found
it cut from the paper without a date. The story
is fantastic and I'd just like to ask, what's the
latest scoop on this here river Monster? Apparently the story
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is at least a year in the making. I'd really
appreciate a reply, and for that purpose, I have enclosed
a return envelope with my address. Thank you, Robert end quote.
And I picture that this was written by like a
thirteen year old who's like, I'm gonna be really fancy
in my writing and maybe I'll get a reply. Yeah
(27:14):
that it still means like.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
When did James Bond come out? He thinks he's James Bond.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, we're like what's the latest scoop on this river monster.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, that's here, oh man. Simpler times.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
If you go to Murphysboro dot com, there is a
collection of photos of handwritten letters sent to the town.
You can read more if these interest you as much
as they did me. But we have a little more
to talk about, so we're just gonna keep going. The
three events that I have described so far happened in
the summer of nineteen seventy three, and as I said,
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people did stop reporting to the police after this, but
that doesn't mean the sightings stopped. However, there were more
official sightings reported to the police three years later, during
the summer of nineteen seventy six. On June nineteenth, nineteen
seventy six, three young boys, Ricky ten, David eleven, and
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Russell thirteen, were playing with a whiffle ball when one
of them knocked it into the woods. They all went
wandering in to find it. Ricky, who was leading the way,
stopped suddenly noticing something tall and gray staring at them.
Ricky screamed, which alerted the other boys to look in
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the direction of his sightline, and when they saw what
he did, they two screamed and all three began running
back towards home. None of the boys saw the creature move,
but they heard it. As soon as they began to
run back. The sounds of a loud stomping and thumping
erected behind them, like it was running away too. The
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boy's parents debated whether or not this was serious enough
to tell the police or if it was just the
kid's imagination playing tricks on them in the night, but
after talking with the boys for a while, they decided,
knowing their kids, this was serious. They saw something. The
police came by and took the report and searched the woods.
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They didn't find any footprints or obvious trails, but they
did find a bunch of rocks that had been recently
turned over in the area where the boys saw the creature,
and the final official reported siding came about a week
later on June twenty seventh, nineteen seventy six. Again, three
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kids who were out playing at night noticed the creature.
I don't have the ages of these children because not
all cops are created equal.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
But.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Two of them were siblings, Michael and Melinda, and one
was a friend, Karen. The kids were playing at a
park that was just across the street or so from
the siblings house, and they had their dog with them.
The kids were on the swings when they heard something
moving over near the creek bed in the woods. About
the same time they heard it, so did the dog.
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The dog went crazy, barking at it, but also backing
away as if it was scared. One of the children
described it. Okay, let's keep in mind these are children,
all right. One of the children described it as a
six foot tall monster that must have weighed five to
six tons and had a black, furry coat. Another of
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them said it was quote real tall, fat and big
end quote. And the last child said she saw an
object walking in the woods. That was her full description.
An object walking, sure, five to six tons, okay, five
to six tons.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
More than an elephant, but whatever, only.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Six fnt tall, fat, though.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Apparently made out of iron bricks.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Again. The police searched the area but found nothing. Were
the kid's minds just playing tricks on them because they
knew about the big muddy monster from around town or
was it getting better at covering its tracks? Was it
looking at the children with curiosity and interest like it
looked at the ponies three years prior? And what even
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is the big butt Muddy Monster anyway. Some people think
that the Big Muddy Monster may be the same creature
that was spotted three times just an hour and a
half northeast of Murphysboro in the spring of nineteen seventy three.
This creature was known as the Enfield Monster. The first
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sighting was on April twenty fifth, nineteen seventy three, at
about ten pm, scratching outside the front door of a
man named Henry McDaniel. Two weeks later, the same man
saw the creature, but this time out by the railroad tracks.
He called the radio station to tell the others about it,
and they came investigate. They came to investigate the next day.
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They alleged that they saw a creature standing near an
abandoned building on Henry's property and made recordings of the
noises it made, which they called cries, and then they
fired gun shots in its direction and it ran off.
And I'm like, how is a decade so revered for
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being about peace and love also the one where people
are just like, yeah, let me shoot at it real quick,
Like what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
What if it was just a really big burly man, cry, Yeah,
what the fuck the night let alone being shot at.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Two days after the incident, the police had to be
called out to investigate separate reports of gunfire as a
group of drunk men were out allegedly hunting the Enfield Monster.
They say they found the thing, but police couldn't really
believe the drunken men with firearms. They just arrested them instead.
Did the big muddy monster start in Enfield in the
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spring and make its way down to Murphysboro by summer,
scared of the gun fielding crazies further north.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
It's possible.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
In fact, many people believe that the only reason it's
seen in the summertime is because it must be migrating,
just passing through the Illinois area altogether. Though Henry McDaniel
isn't a very reliable source about the Enfield Monster, his
descriptions changed a little at first. When he heard the
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thing outside of his door. He said that quote, it
had three legs on it, a short body, too little,
short arms, and two pink eyes as big as flashlights.
It stood four and a half feet tall and was
grayish colored. If they do find it, they will find
more than one, and they won't be from this planet.
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I can tell you that end quote.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
That's a very different creature.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yeah. Also, many people in the area believe that it
was likely just a kangaroo that escaped from the zoo,
which sounds about right. Listen, buddy, you came face to
face with a.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Kangaroo, not a fucking alien, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Short legs sah.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And the incident two weeks later at the train tracks,
though he described something completely different. He said he saw
the creature again, which would imply it was the same
one or same type. But when he invited the men
down to look and they found something near the abandoned building,
they called the creature quote unquote ape like kangaroos just
don't look like apes. The famous Patterson Gimlin film of
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Bigfoot was taken in nineteen sixty seven, roughly six years prior,
but word traveled slow back before the internet, so maybe
Illinois had just recently heard about it and got in
their minds that they had a big foot too. Based
on the sketches made by all of the people in Murphysboro,
that is exactly what the big muddy monster looks like,
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and surprisingly to me, Illinois is fifth out of fifty
for the most reported bigfoot sightings states by state. Sorry, so, like,
of all fifty states, Illinois has the fifth most bigfoot sightings,
which was crazy to me.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I had no idea Illinois had that many sightings.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, I thought that was like more Pacific Northwest for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Well fourth is Ohio.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah. Well that doesn't surprise me. Everything Ohio is fucking yeah,
Ohio is Ohio. Nothing surprises me. Yeah, but outside of that,
that is surprising.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
The town of Murphysboro has recently leaned into the idea
that a bigfoot may use their town as a stop
in their migrating season, and it is now home to
the Big Muddy Monster Festival and a Big Muddy Monster sculpture,
as well as a Muddy Monster comic book, a mural,
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Big Muddy Brewing, Big Muddy brew Fest, and a song
that I am not going to try to sing, so
look it up yourself. The police chief said in nineteen
seventy three, quote, we don't know what the creature is,
but we do believe what these people saw was real.
We have tracked it end quote, and the sentiment remains
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the same today. Something is out there, but without the
proof of some scientific discovery, it's just another unsolved mystery
that is the Big Muddy Monk, Sir of Murphy'sboro, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I don't know how I've never heard of that.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I don't know how I hadn't either, I mean, I
guess because it just gets lumped in with every other
bigfoot story, you know. But what I can tell is
people believe that this is a mix between a brown bigfoot,
I guess, and a yetti A mix between a bigfoot
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and a yetti that, you know, maybe the two, you know,
just a different species of a bigfoot, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
And because it's.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Lighter colored, it's not brown like regular bigfoot, but basically
it looks exactly the same. So they didn't the police
didn't write down what they described.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I guess they just the picture instead.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Anyway, love it Love that that was his drawing.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Yeah, very creepy.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, And like do people still see this creature or
what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Have not heard of any new sightings that's crazy, at
least not reported to the police. Maybe people don't take
it seriously anymore. But the Big Muddy Monster Festival just started,
I think in twenty twenty two, so like they're recently,
you know, trying to go the mothman around with this.
They built a sculpture and they're like, We're gonna make
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a whole tourist attraction out of this, you know.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Why not do it to the creepy people? Yeah, but
I'm just like I need to know what this is.
We may have to go to the festival in here,
we may have to all. So what is the sculpture?
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Look? It looks like, uh, yeah, a bigfoot.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
It looks like a bigfoot?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Does it have an amazing But also I doesn't seeds,
But if it doesn't, it should. This is the important
news that are twisted humans are after for sure.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
They definitely want to.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
There it is, But why are all of the photos
taken at such an angle where I can't see his butt?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
It's only important to us, apparently a couple of perverts.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Oh man, oh some kind of you can see?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Do we approve? Oh no, it could be juicier. It
looks exactly like Bigfoot.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
They even took the State the.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Walk Yeah, yeah, the Patterson Gimblin film Walk.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Interesting, I'd still visit it if it was.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah. The Big Money mural, though, is much different.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Where is the mural there? It is in this one
he's more white colored.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Well yeah, because that's how everybody described it.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, I guess it's white but mud.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Come on, focus see though I can't get into focus.
But yeah, that's a mural painted on one of their
walls and it looks like someone dresses.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Up amazing as you should.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Focus there you go, focus.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
See that's epic.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah, interesting, great costume though. Yeah, that's a big muddy
monster right there.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I love it. I'm glad that we didn't dress up
as big muddy monsters because yeah, that's too much.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
No, he only visited in the seventies, wheneverybo.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
It was about peace and love and high as shit.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
So yeah, well we need to move on to something happy.
Do you think we do?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I have something to share, Okay, So I my brain
is mush right now because we just spent so last
week was homecoming week. Oh my gosh, it was so busy,
and then Sissy had homecoming night, and then the every
next day we all went to the Lakehouse because we
had to paint.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
At the Lakehouse.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
So Sunday we drove all the way there and just
went to bed. Monday we taped everything up.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Tuesday we painted.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
We didn't leave until this morning, and Jesse had to
work at ten, so we like drove in a rush
from the lake house back home. So I'm sleepy. That's
what coffee as a drink was great.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
But while I was.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Working on this episode on Sunday, probably I was outside
sitting on the back porch area, and I kept hearing
like howling, the drinking, like crying, like it sounded like
there was a freaking bigfoot out of the lake. And
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I tried to explain it to my children. I tried
to record it.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
But you can't.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
It was so it was so loud in my ears,
but I could not get it on recording, like as
loud as I was hearing it.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
As hard as I tried, Missie, I didn't even hear
it at all.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Now you can you can't hear I don't know why
you can't hear it. Maybe, but it sounded like like
I've watched Missing for When One episodes about Bigfoot. It
sounded like that, like like, Okay, this is gonna sound
stupid because I'm a human making these noises, But it
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kind of sounded like oo oo, you know what I'm
talking about, Like that's.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Like the noise of the Bigfoot.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Maybe he was out there mating calling.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
I mean, maybe he knew I was writing about him
and he was like here I am.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Maybe I don't know it was we would believe that more.
That is crazy.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
It was creepy.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
I mean, Bigfoot is out there. You can't tell me otherwise.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
So yeah, I mean they didn't even know gorillas existed
until eighteen forty seven, so it's very possible Bigfoot also exists.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Bigfoot's just more elusive than the gorillas. Yeah, it's better
at hiding. Yeah, Jesus, Well, that's cool. That is something happy.
It was cool. My something happy is not Bigfoot related, sadly,
but I am really happy about it. I'm going to
vent to you off air about it. But the good
of it all is that I get next Wednesday and
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Thursday off. Finally, I have been told so that I
can go to Seattle and the beach to Sandy Live.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Up until yesterday, I didn't think I was going to
Up until like an hour ago, I didn't think I
was going to be able to go. Rather, Yeah, I'm
very happy and exciting from Pacific Northwest Haunts and Homicides
is going to come meat me. Nice drive from Portland,
so I'm excited and uh, hopefully we get good weather
because there will be lots of walking. But it is Seattle,
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so I won't hold my breath. But I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
That is exciting.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah, yes, and when I tell you the other parts
on Bitch and Wine, you were gonna be like, what
the fuck? Just wait, just wait to get mad. If
you want to hear about that, come join us over
on Patreon and we will also have a October Urban
Legend for you this month.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
So yes, I.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Don't know what is in store for us, but I
do know the theme and I'm excited for the costumes,
so you guys will definitely want to see that, and
we will see you next week for my I'm gonna
call it Paranormal of Sorts episode and in the meantime,
Keith It Twisted, Twisted and Uncorked is hosted and produced
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Hello, Twisted Humans.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Do you find yourself wanting to know more about the
latest murder, conspiracy, cult or haunting.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Than this is the podcast for you.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm Alicia and I'm Sierra and this is Twisted and Uncorked.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hello, and welcome to episode two fourteen of Twisted and
Uncorked during Halloween season, an unsolved episode which takes place
in the nineteen seventies and therefore pairs well with our
costume theme of the week seventies. We will reveal in
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three two one.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Like we did exactly the same posts.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well, I mean it's necessary. I am like a beachy hippie.
I am so jealous of your flower crowd and I
was literally trying to make myself a daisy flower crown
or find one and I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
This is literally a necklace that I.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Just put on my hair perfect, so perfect. I like it.
You look cute. Thanks. My headban's really itchy, but it works.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And I got to bust out my feathered earrings that.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I was looking for feather earrings. I went with the
feather necklace instead because I couldn't perfectly know those earrings
are so cute, thaks, so big and fluffy, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's how they're supposed to be. Everything is bigger.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah. That was what took me the longest is I
didn't even straighten the back of it. The back is
still curly, but I was like, I just need to
straighten this part.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Welcome to Costumes Podcast Edition. I am actually wearing like
flared pants and everything. Look at them wildly uncomfortable. Oh
my god, those are so cute. Where did you get those?
The thrift store?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Likely?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Likely?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm like, or did you already have the Oh they're
like the skinny bell bottom ones.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh, like the boot cut.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, I have full bell bottom.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Kevin's like you look very summary.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm like you look mid summary. Yeah, like mid mid summary.
You look like you're joining a cult.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I was gonna say, we both looked like we're about
to get on the Manson bus exactly. You look so
glowy than protesting in the sun about sex, drugs and
rock and roll.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yes, I was tempted to not wear a bra just
to like go with the theme, but I was like, yeah,
everybody does need to see that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh I definitely could not wear a bra.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah. My shirt is also you know, it's cream colored,
but it's white. You can see my brawl clearly.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It's still really cute. I like the best. I was
trying to tell those exacts, trist Yeah, you pictured the
same thing, and I'm here.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So, as I said, this is an unsolved episode, though
not so much an unsolved crime as an unsolved mystery.
We're going to get to have some fun with this
one after we share fun facts.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Tell me the whole time, because I have a migraine
right now, wear them.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I have my red ones, but I was like, they're two.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Those would have been great.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
It just changes my vision too much.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I couldn't for sure. No, I get that. My fun
fact is seventies related perfect naturally, because why not. Apparently
the seventies was the height of the video game industry
the video games themself. Elves truly took off in nineteen
seventy two with the Atari releasing Pong, and it was
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the first commercially successful video game, which is super cool
and fun fact. Kevin has an Atari. Yeah, wild to me,
and I'm pretty sure he has Pong as well, so nice.
Welcome to nineteen seventy two, peeps.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
My parents had an Atari when I was little and
replayed it all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It was great, so much fun.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Such simplicity of trying to keep a ball within two spaces. Yeah,
early video games are my favorite, though, Like sometimes video
games now really overwhelmed me.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I literally tell the video games now exactly that. That
is the one complaint I have. When Jesse's like, why
did you play video games with me? I'm like, I
don't like how many buttons there are? Like why can
I do this? This, this, this, this, this, and the
like can I just run and shoot?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
That's all I need to know how to do? Run
and shoot?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
There's too many original Halo, Yes, Gears of War, the
very first Call of Duty, Black Ops.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's all I want to do.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Maybe sometimes I'll throw a grenade, but like I don't
want to lay down and this and that like the Crouch.
It's learn how to fly a plane like Jesse plays
Destiny Kevin, Right, what do they fly?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's why fishing involved?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, they fish. They fly on broomsticks. They have like
a little ball orb that followed and sometimes can do
its own thing.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'm like, what why are.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
There so many things?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Okay, anyway, this.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Is welcome to our video game Ted talk. This is
why I play Animal crossing because I just run around
my little island and take care of it.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, this is why SIMS has always been the best
game ever. Yes, my fun fact is that gorillas were
not formally discovered as a species until eighteen forty seven.
What talks of hairy people and manlike apes were had
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before this formal discovery, but these were largely regarded. These
were largely regarded as rumors or legends, kind of like
how we think of cryptids today. So if you think
about it, the people who colonized and created the United
States of America did not believe in gorillas.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
They didn't think they existed.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That's crazy, eight eighteen forty seven.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It was not that much of a stretch because like
look at chimpanzees. Gorillas are like muscly cumanized. But it
still with all the same things hurt their hands and feet.
That yeah, so it can't be that far of a stretch.
They're just way bigger, way bigger. Have you seen what's
in the ocean? People, we should not be surprised by it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean, in eighteen forty seven, they had not seen
what was in the ocean yet.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So let's face it. In twenty twenty five we've barely
seen in the ocean, we barely know.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Speaking of gorillas, today's episode pairs well with a drink
that is a mix between a mud slide and a
drink sometimes called a chunky monkey, sometimes called a dirty monkey.
I'm torn between calling it a muddy monkey or just
calling it a banana mud slide. Oohy flavors used to call.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Them chunky monkeys, and I was left unattended with it
for far too long.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Someone has gone, well, the flavors of this one is
gonna be banana, chocolate and coffee. So I've seen a
lot of banana and chocolate. I've seen a lot of coffee,
banana chocolate coffee.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It works.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The cocktail recipe is quite intricate, with one and a
half ounces of vodka, half an ounce of banana liquor
sorry liquor, half an ounce of Irish cream, half an
ounce of coffee liqueur, one ounce of heavy cream, one
banana chocolate syrup and ice. But for a much easier
mocktail version, you can simply mix banana. I did banana pudding,
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mix with chocolate, milk and coffee. How did you make yours?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I originally did mine with a whole banana, a little
bit of ice cream, two shots of coffee, and chocolate syrup,
and I blended it in a blender and it was
fucking delightful. It is very Now I'm drinking the rest
of my coffee with the last little bit of what
was in the blender, which is not good. It just
(08:55):
tastes like like banana coffee. At this point the balance
of the three flavors. Gotta add some uh some coffee
and chocolate and drinking it is so fast. Clearly I
was hungry.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I love chocolate and banana shakes. There is do you
guys have Checkers or Rallies? There's a Checkers slash Rallies,
two different things owned by the same person.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
They just call them.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Different things in different parts of the world, Checkers or Rallies,
whatever you have in America, in your part of America.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
That's what I meant to say.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Anyway, they have the absolute best chocolate banana milkshake, and
it's I love it because I like actual banana and chocolate,
but it's banana flavor. But it's done so good, like
it tastes like candy. It's so freaking good. I tried
to get one on my way home so that I
could just put.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Coffee in it.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But because it is false season now, they switched their
banana with salted caramel, so they didn't have the banana until.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That sounds really good.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It does sound really good, but they don't have it
until it's fall season is over, so unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
See my favorite part about getting milkshakes out is that
they're always like thick and perfect, yeah, whereas I apparently
just don't know how to make frozen beverages and it's
always wait to water.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, mine is very Mine turned into like a chocolate
milk type thing, so I put ice in it. It
looks good though it is it's very yummy.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Mine was like a banana chocolate coffee milkshake. If I
was not working in four hours, I was gonna make
the boozy version because I actually do have banana li cure,
which why I ever remember? But I do actually have
banana li cure. But it's good, so I might have
to make it at a later date and report back.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So aside from the bananas being a favorite food of
the gorillas, uh, this streak also pairs well with this
episode due to the location of why this unsolved mystery
happens in southern Illinois in a town called Murphysboro, near
the Big Muddy River.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
We're going to take a quick break and then we'll
get into the episode.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
On the night of June twenty fifth, nineteen seventy three,
a young man, Randy Needham, and a young woman, Judy Johnson,
snuck out in the night and rode together to the
river's edge at Big Muddy Judy Johnson, probably not a
real name, was already married and not to Randy Needham,
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so they were trying hard to be out of sight
of anyone at all, but by the end of the night,
they'd both be interviewed by police at their own free will,
because the mystery that they had stumbled upon was even
more scary than Judy's husband and the rest of the
town finding out that she was with Randy.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The scandal. I feel like I've just walked into an
episode of Riverdale. Oh yeah, know why that's the vibe
I'm getting. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Just as they were starting to really enjoy their night,
Judy twenty eight and Randy nineteen heard something outside of
the car so very much more Riverdale esque. They called
it a cry, but described it as a greatly amplified eagle.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Shriek, it's her eagle.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
And when they peered out the front windshield from probably
not the front seat, Randy reportedly saw a creature at
least seven feet tall, hairy, light colored, but matted in mud,
staggering toward them.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Okay, that's terrifying. I also don't know why I didn't
go mothman with my first guests, But now I'm picturing
it Yetty, because you said light colored.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah. The not couple staggered into their seats and peeled
out of the area, debating on whether or not to
formally report what had just happened. Eventually they decided that
they couldn't go on knowing that that big muddy monster
was out there, able to hurt some innocent person. They
went to the police together and told them everything. Surprisingly,
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the police took the reporting very seriously. They were quite
shocked that the two would admit to being together, all
alone in the middle of the night, in the back
of a vehicle near the water's edge. Quote. They wouldn't
like them exactly. Quote they wouldn't risk all that if
they weren't really scared.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
End quote.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But I do believe the police agreed to change Judy
Johnson's name on the police report, as it looks like
a name ending with an E was erased from the
spot where Judy Johnson now sits.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
But whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
A few officers, including Jimmy Nash, went out to the
site where the young adults reported to have seen the creature,
and they were baffled by what they found. According to newspapers,
they searched the river bank for hours, following the sounds
of splashing or thrashing in knee deep water. Near the edge,
they found large footprints indenting the sticky mud that made
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them believe exactly what the Knot couple described, And when
they heard the shriek for themselves, they scrambled, knowing they'd
need some sort of backup to discover what was really
going on. Quote there was the most incredible shriek I've
ever heard.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It was in those bushes.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
That was no bobcat or screech owl, and we high
tailed it out of there end quote. The very next night,
yet another report came in about a big, muddy monster.
Four separate witnesses, all seeing the same thing at the
same time from completely different points of view. At one home,
a four year old boys chasing lightning bugs in the
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backyard when he was spooked by something nearby. Quote Daddy, Daddy,
there's a big ghost out back end.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
At about the same time, a woman at a farmhouse
nearby was getting ready for bed and heard the shriek,
same noise that Judy and Randy had heard before seeing
the big muddy monster. And at yet another home, a
teen couple sat on a dark porch when they heard
something moving in the night. Feeling brave and skeptical, the
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teen boy, also named Randy, went to see what was
out there, while the teen girl, Cheryl, went to turn
on the lights. Stepping out from the patch of trees,
the teens described an eight foot tall gorilla like creature
three hundred and fifty pounds, with shaggy, muddy hair that
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smelled like sewage and river sludge that is horrible. It
was there for about thirty seconds before it turned and
walked away into the field towards.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
The big muddy river.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, it sounds to me like there's more than one, though,
because this one's a foot tallar just saying this one's
a foot taller.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Smellie or people are very bad at describing nights. Okay,
I could never tell you I'm so small that I'd
be like it was seventeen feet tall, you.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Know, I know, I literally did that the other day.
Everyone was making fun of me. They're like, what a
Shack out there? I'm like, he was a very large man.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay, listen, I was at Walmart the other day and
I swear to you, a man he was taller than
any other human being in this Walmart. I'm not kidding.
It was like bigger than Shack, but just like tall
and skinny and lanky, like not you know, Shack's big everywhere.
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This guy was just tall and skinny and lanky. But
he was like I could not stop staring, and I
felt bad, Like when he was checking out, it was
like his knees were at the belt, like he was gigantic.
I don't understand how nobody else stared like I did.
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He much taller than anybody there. I must have went
up to his waist like that's it.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Like huge, taller than like the aisles.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I don't know, because I was checking out. I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
That would have been really crazy, though, if you just
felt like ahead, oh.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
My gosh, I mean, it was already scary enough because
he was taller than like all of you know how.
I don't know if you guys haven't murder how your
grocery stores are. But like at the end of all
the checkout aisles, there's like fridges that like hold sodas
and stuff. He was taller than all of those. That's
what all my attention.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I was like, what holy who is this man? Like?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It was crazy anyway, seventeen feet tall, I tell you,
the police chief ordered a fourteen man I phrased this weird,
a fourteen man creature hunt accompanied by a German shepherd
attack and training canine named Reb. A clear trail through
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the woods was discovered with dangling branches and snap trees,
But what really gave it away was quote gobs of
black slime, much like that of sewage sludge in settling tanks,
on a direct line between the river and the house
end quote.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Which is just disgusting. Like what the fuck is that.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I've never been to the Big Muddy River, but if
it's just full of black slime, I think that it's
like a safety hazard.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
It sounds disgusting.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And maybe somewhere we don't need to add to our bucket. Lits. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I mean maybe the gobs of black slime are like,
you know, out of this world kind of thing. But
the way everyone just casually talks.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
About it, it's and.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I don't think it is. I think it's because they're like, oh,
it's a white creature or light colored creature, but it
has mud all over it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's muddy.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Is it muddy with that black slime? And it came
out of the big muddy river? Why is that black
slime in the river? That's disgusting. Somebody needs to clean
up this wasteland.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
It sounds like a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode in
terms of like something horrific happening and somebody turning into
a monster.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah. Yeah, like someone fell into a vat of.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
What's it called when you turn into a evil superhero
super villain that of.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Like a like a boiling pot of something that they
fall into and they're different after.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Like nuclear slime or something.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, nuclear waves's blowing. Probably. Yeah, we're there, we're there.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I think we're just really high right now because it's
nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Truth my mom.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
One of the officers said he touched the gew and
it left a black residue on his fingers. Reb took
the group of the officers all the way to a
barn at the farmhouse, but the poor good boy was
too scared to go inside, yelping and whining. When the
men went in to investigate, they found nothing, at least
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nothing that they could see, but maybe the German shepherd
could see something they couldn't. From this day forward, for
a few years many people suspected that they may have
seen the creature, but the reports weren't as official as
these ones. Probably more like one guy or gal telling
a few neighbors and friends to grab their guns and
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come and get that monster with them. Or maybe people
just said that they were going to grab their guns
and go after it but never really did. Either way,
it got a little dangerous, to the point that some
people didn't make reports because they didn't want hordes of
gun wielding citizens there to try and help in case
things went wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I remind you of the Hammersmith Ghost.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, and the Looney Tunes Christmas Bank robbery.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yes, innocent people get hurt when you just.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Go out guns of boazon, like at a carnival on
the night of July sixth, when the big money monster
was seen and not reported until the next day for
fear of carnivalgoers fleeing and gun wielders rushing in. Bert Miller,
owner of the carnival, waited until the night of the
seventh to alert the police that four of his workers
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saw the creature near their ponies, which were tied up
and freaking out being near the thing. They described a
large creature seven or eight feet tall, light brown hair
over its entire body, standing on two legs, and weighing
three hundred to four hundred pounds. The workers said that
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it appeared to be curious about the ponies, just watching,
interested until it realized it was spotted and ran off.
After police were notified, they went to check out the
scene but found nothing. Even any potential footprints had already
been ran over by other carnival goers and could not
be identified. But even in hoping that people in town
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with their guns and bravery would stay away from the
sightings and hunting of this thing, of America was hearing
about these Murphysboro, Illinois monster sightings, and people were sending
letters to the Chief of Police and to the Mayor
of Murphysborough. Quote, Dear Sirs, my partner and I read
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a story in the Sunday Orgonian Oregonian Oregonian. That's a
hard word to say about a creature you have cited there.
We are very interested in obtaining more information about this thing.
We are trappers and might be interested in making a
try at this creature. I have lived in Alaska for
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many years and have had some experience in trapping of
several kinds of animal beings. We would be willing to
take on this adventure at only the costs of expenses
and materials for doing so. Sincerely, Jim and David. End quote,
what the fuck do you catching in Alaska? Jim and
David animal beings?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Like?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
What the fuck is an animal being? And if you
really did capture it, why do we not.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Know about it?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Again? That's happening here.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Okay, here's another one.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Dear sir, we read in the Fresno Bee about your monster.
My mom can catch it. She is good too.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Please let her try.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
She loves big adventure like this one. Write her. She's
my mom, and I know how good she is. Her
name is Georgie. Where there is terror, she loves to solve.
She is good with guns and knives. Also end quote
This one made me so happy, so cute a ten
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year old write, though I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Okay, here's another one quote.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Dear sir, why don't you put bread and cheese or
eggs out for your creature? If you can catch it,
don't hurt it. Maybe it is a person. It isn't
too unfriendly, It hasn't made aggressive moves, but it is
intelligent enough to recognize the dangerous advances of people and
their weapons and dogs. You would have a splendid attraction
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if you could have it in a little hut to
show people A one creature zoo yours truly russell.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
This one?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Okay, it was so sweet.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
But also where I read it, all of these are handwritten,
by the way, oh well recently, but most of these
are handwritten, and yes they look like from children some
of them. Some of them are from like clear grown
adults like in the UK, who even sent a picture.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Of themselves in it.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But this one, when I read it, I misread it
because it's handwritten, and I thought it said you would
have a splendid attraction if you could have it in
a in a little hat.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
To show people.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I was like a little at Bigfoot in a hat
I would come and see this one reature zoo.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Okay, it made me so happy.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
That's really cute. Again, have you watched K Pop Demon
Hunters yet?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I have?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
The bird and the little Hat is one of my
favorite characters. He has so much attitude and he stole
it from the cat that could eat him. Yeah, that's
what I pictured when you said the little hat.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
All right? Last one quote, Greetings, I have just read
an article regarding the river Monster. Apparently this is an
old article, although I can't be sure because I found
it cut from the paper without a date. The story
is fantastic and I'd just like to ask, what's the
latest scoop on this here river Monster? Apparently the story
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is at least a year in the making. I'd really
appreciate a reply, and for that purpose, I have enclosed
a return envelope with my address. Thank you, Robert end quote.
And I picture that this was written by like a
thirteen year old who's like, I'm gonna be really fancy
in my writing and maybe I'll get a reply. Yeah
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that it still means like.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
When did James Bond come out? He thinks he's James Bond.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, we're like what's the latest scoop on this river monster.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, that's here, oh man. Simpler times.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
If you go to Murphysboro dot com, there is a
collection of photos of handwritten letters sent to the town.
You can read more if these interest you as much
as they did me. But we have a little more
to talk about, so we're just gonna keep going. The
three events that I have described so far happened in
the summer of nineteen seventy three, and as I said,
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people did stop reporting to the police after this, but
that doesn't mean the sightings stopped. However, there were more
official sightings reported to the police three years later, during
the summer of nineteen seventy six. On June nineteenth, nineteen
seventy six, three young boys, Ricky ten, David eleven, and
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Russell thirteen, were playing with a whiffle ball when one
of them knocked it into the woods. They all went
wandering in to find it. Ricky, who was leading the way,
stopped suddenly noticing something tall and gray staring at them.
Ricky screamed, which alerted the other boys to look in
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the direction of his sightline, and when they saw what
he did, they two screamed and all three began running
back towards home. None of the boys saw the creature move,
but they heard it. As soon as they began to
run back. The sounds of a loud stomping and thumping
erected behind them, like it was running away too. The
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boy's parents debated whether or not this was serious enough
to tell the police or if it was just the
kid's imagination playing tricks on them in the night, but
after talking with the boys for a while, they decided,
knowing their kids, this was serious. They saw something. The
police came by and took the report and searched the woods.
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They didn't find any footprints or obvious trails, but they
did find a bunch of rocks that had been recently
turned over in the area where the boys saw the creature,
and the final official reported siding came about a week
later on June twenty seventh, nineteen seventy six. Again, three
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kids who were out playing at night noticed the creature.
I don't have the ages of these children because not
all cops are created equal.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
But.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Two of them were siblings, Michael and Melinda, and one
was a friend, Karen. The kids were playing at a
park that was just across the street or so from
the siblings house, and they had their dog with them.
The kids were on the swings when they heard something
moving over near the creek bed in the woods. About
the same time they heard it, so did the dog.
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The dog went crazy, barking at it, but also backing
away as if it was scared. One of the children
described it. Okay, let's keep in mind these are children,
all right. One of the children described it as a
six foot tall monster that must have weighed five to
six tons and had a black, furry coat. Another of
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them said it was quote real tall, fat and big
end quote. And the last child said she saw an
object walking in the woods. That was her full description.
An object walking, sure, five to six tons, okay, five
to six tons.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
More than an elephant, but whatever, only.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Six fnt tall, fat, though.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Apparently made out of iron bricks.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Again. The police searched the area but found nothing. Were
the kid's minds just playing tricks on them because they
knew about the big muddy monster from around town or
was it getting better at covering its tracks? Was it
looking at the children with curiosity and interest like it
looked at the ponies three years prior? And what even
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is the big butt Muddy Monster anyway. Some people think
that the Big Muddy Monster may be the same creature
that was spotted three times just an hour and a
half northeast of Murphysboro in the spring of nineteen seventy three.
This creature was known as the Enfield Monster. The first
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sighting was on April twenty fifth, nineteen seventy three, at
about ten pm, scratching outside the front door of a
man named Henry McDaniel. Two weeks later, the same man
saw the creature, but this time out by the railroad tracks.
He called the radio station to tell the others about it,
and they came investigate. They came to investigate the next day.
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They alleged that they saw a creature standing near an
abandoned building on Henry's property and made recordings of the
noises it made, which they called cries, and then they
fired gun shots in its direction and it ran off.
And I'm like, how is a decade so revered for
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being about peace and love also the one where people
are just like, yeah, let me shoot at it real quick,
Like what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
What if it was just a really big burly man, cry, Yeah,
what the fuck the night let alone being shot at.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Two days after the incident, the police had to be
called out to investigate separate reports of gunfire as a
group of drunk men were out allegedly hunting the Enfield Monster.
They say they found the thing, but police couldn't really
believe the drunken men with firearms. They just arrested them instead.
Did the big muddy monster start in Enfield in the
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spring and make its way down to Murphysboro by summer,
scared of the gun fielding crazies further north.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
It's possible.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
In fact, many people believe that the only reason it's
seen in the summertime is because it must be migrating,
just passing through the Illinois area altogether. Though Henry McDaniel
isn't a very reliable source about the Enfield Monster, his
descriptions changed a little at first. When he heard the
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thing outside of his door. He said that quote, it
had three legs on it, a short body, too little,
short arms, and two pink eyes as big as flashlights.
It stood four and a half feet tall and was
grayish colored. If they do find it, they will find
more than one, and they won't be from this planet.
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I can tell you that end quote.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
That's a very different creature.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Yeah. Also, many people in the area believe that it
was likely just a kangaroo that escaped from the zoo,
which sounds about right. Listen, buddy, you came face to
face with a.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Kangaroo, not a fucking alien, all right.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Short legs sah.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And the incident two weeks later at the train tracks,
though he described something completely different. He said he saw
the creature again, which would imply it was the same
one or same type. But when he invited the men
down to look and they found something near the abandoned building,
they called the creature quote unquote ape like kangaroos just
don't look like apes. The famous Patterson Gimlin film of
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Bigfoot was taken in nineteen sixty seven, roughly six years prior,
but word traveled slow back before the internet, so maybe
Illinois had just recently heard about it and got in
their minds that they had a big foot too. Based
on the sketches made by all of the people in Murphysboro,
that is exactly what the big muddy monster looks like,
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and surprisingly to me, Illinois is fifth out of fifty
for the most reported bigfoot sightings states by state. Sorry, so, like,
of all fifty states, Illinois has the fifth most bigfoot sightings,
which was crazy to me.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I had no idea Illinois had that many sightings.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, I thought that was like more Pacific Northwest for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Well fourth is Ohio.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah. Well that doesn't surprise me. Everything Ohio is fucking yeah,
Ohio is Ohio. Nothing surprises me. Yeah, but outside of that,
that is surprising.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
The town of Murphysboro has recently leaned into the idea
that a bigfoot may use their town as a stop
in their migrating season, and it is now home to
the Big Muddy Monster Festival and a Big Muddy Monster sculpture,
as well as a Muddy Monster comic book, a mural,
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Big Muddy Brewing, Big Muddy brew Fest, and a song
that I am not going to try to sing, so
look it up yourself. The police chief said in nineteen
seventy three, quote, we don't know what the creature is,
but we do believe what these people saw was real.
We have tracked it end quote, and the sentiment remains
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the same today. Something is out there, but without the
proof of some scientific discovery, it's just another unsolved mystery
that is the Big Muddy Monk, Sir of Murphy'sboro, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I don't know how I've never heard of that.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I don't know how I hadn't either, I mean, I
guess because it just gets lumped in with every other
bigfoot story, you know. But what I can tell is
people believe that this is a mix between a brown bigfoot,
I guess, and a yetti A mix between a bigfoot
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and a yetti that, you know, maybe the two, you know,
just a different species of a bigfoot, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
And because it's.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Lighter colored, it's not brown like regular bigfoot, but basically
it looks exactly the same. So they didn't the police
didn't write down what they described.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I guess they just the picture instead.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Anyway, love it Love that that was his drawing.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Yeah, very creepy.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, And like do people still see this creature or
what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Have not heard of any new sightings that's crazy, at
least not reported to the police. Maybe people don't take
it seriously anymore. But the Big Muddy Monster Festival just started,
I think in twenty twenty two, so like they're recently,
you know, trying to go the mothman around with this.
They built a sculpture and they're like, We're gonna make
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a whole tourist attraction out of this, you know.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Why not do it to the creepy people? Yeah, but
I'm just like I need to know what this is.
We may have to go to the festival in here,
we may have to all. So what is the sculpture?
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Look? It looks like, uh, yeah, a bigfoot.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
It looks like a bigfoot?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Does it have an amazing But also I doesn't seeds,
But if it doesn't, it should. This is the important
news that are twisted humans are after for sure.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
They definitely want to.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
There it is, But why are all of the photos
taken at such an angle where I can't see his butt?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
It's only important to us, apparently a couple of perverts.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Oh man, oh some kind of you can see?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Do we approve? Oh no, it could be juicier. It
looks exactly like Bigfoot.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
They even took the State the.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Walk Yeah, yeah, the Patterson Gimblin film Walk.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Interesting, I'd still visit it if it was.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah. The Big Money mural, though, is much different.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Where is the mural there? It is in this one
he's more white colored.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Well yeah, because that's how everybody described it.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, I guess it's white but mud.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Come on, focus see though I can't get into focus.
But yeah, that's a mural painted on one of their
walls and it looks like someone dresses.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Up amazing as you should.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Focus there you go, focus.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
See that's epic.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah, interesting, great costume though. Yeah, that's a big muddy
monster right there.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I love it. I'm glad that we didn't dress up
as big muddy monsters because yeah, that's too much.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
No, he only visited in the seventies, wheneverybo.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
It was about peace and love and high as shit.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
So yeah, well we need to move on to something happy.
Do you think we do?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I have something to share, Okay, So I my brain
is mush right now because we just spent so last
week was homecoming week. Oh my gosh, it was so busy,
and then Sissy had homecoming night, and then the every
next day we all went to the Lakehouse because we
had to paint.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
At the Lakehouse.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
So Sunday we drove all the way there and just
went to bed. Monday we taped everything up.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Tuesday we painted.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
We didn't leave until this morning, and Jesse had to
work at ten, so we like drove in a rush
from the lake house back home. So I'm sleepy. That's
what coffee as a drink was great.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
But while I was.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Working on this episode on Sunday, probably I was outside
sitting on the back porch area, and I kept hearing
like howling, the drinking, like crying, like it sounded like
there was a freaking bigfoot out of the lake. And
(41:54):
I tried to explain it to my children. I tried
to record it.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
But you can't.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
It was so it was so loud in my ears,
but I could not get it on recording, like as
loud as I was hearing it.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
As hard as I tried, Missie, I didn't even hear
it at all.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Now you can you can't hear I don't know why
you can't hear it. Maybe, but it sounded like like
I've watched Missing for When One episodes about Bigfoot. It
sounded like that, like like, Okay, this is gonna sound
stupid because I'm a human making these noises, But it
(42:42):
kind of sounded like oo oo, you know what I'm
talking about, Like that's.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Like the noise of the Bigfoot.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
That's wild.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Maybe he was out there mating calling.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
I mean, maybe he knew I was writing about him
and he was like here I am.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Maybe I don't know it was we would believe that more.
That is crazy.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
It was creepy.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
I mean, Bigfoot is out there. You can't tell me otherwise.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
So yeah, I mean they didn't even know gorillas existed
until eighteen forty seven, so it's very possible Bigfoot also exists.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Bigfoot's just more elusive than the gorillas. Yeah, it's better
at hiding. Yeah, Jesus, Well, that's cool. That is something happy.
It was cool. My something happy is not Bigfoot related, sadly,
but I am really happy about it. I'm going to
vent to you off air about it. But the good
of it all is that I get next Wednesday and
(43:37):
Thursday off. Finally, I have been told so that I
can go to Seattle and the beach to Sandy Live.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Up until yesterday, I didn't think I was going to
Up until like an hour ago, I didn't think I
was going to be able to go. Rather, Yeah, I'm
very happy and exciting from Pacific Northwest Haunts and Homicides
is going to come meat me. Nice drive from Portland,
so I'm excited and uh, hopefully we get good weather
because there will be lots of walking. But it is Seattle,
(44:10):
so I won't hold my breath. But I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
That is exciting.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah, yes, and when I tell you the other parts
on Bitch and Wine, you were gonna be like, what
the fuck? Just wait, just wait to get mad. If
you want to hear about that, come join us over
on Patreon and we will also have a October Urban
Legend for you this month.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
So yes, I.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
Don't know what is in store for us, but I
do know the theme and I'm excited for the costumes,
so you guys will definitely want to see that, and
we will see you next week for my I'm gonna
call it Paranormal of Sorts episode and in the meantime,
Keith It Twisted, Twisted and Uncorked is hosted and produced
(44:58):
by Sierras Lorn and Alisha Watson. If you like the show,
don't forget to leave a five star rating and review
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