[Music]
[Various Faint Animal Sounds]
[Frogs Croaking]
[Various Faint Animal Sounds]
[Tranquil Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] The swamps of southern Arkansas.
[Tranquil Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Stretching out for miles and miles, the beginning of a new day.
[Tranquil Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Been repeating itself for centuries upon centuries over these bottom lands.
[Tranquil Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Some of these Great Cypress have stood here before the Vikings sailed the seas in their long ships.
[Tranquil Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Towering above this back watered country, watching, listening to a multitude of life. Old and new.
[Tranquil Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] It is here that rivers are born, and creeks and sloughs branch off and cross this vast wilderness. Leaving dense thickets and big timbers that rise up out of this murky soggy earth.
[Tranquil Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Beaver, mink, birds, raccoons, snakes and alligators are but a few of the creatures that make up the swamp's legend.
[Tranquil Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Sometimes it's eerie, and sometimes pristine.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] But it is ever alive and, alert.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] The Sulfur River makes its way south from here. Heading for the Mississippi, and then on to the salt water of the Great Gulf.
[Dr. Lockhart] It is along this river, and its tributaries, that decades ago a legend was born.
[Dr. Lockhart] A legend that told of a huge hairy man-like creature that lives and roams these rivers and swamps.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] It is said that he stands over eight feet tall, and can weigh as much as three hundred pounds.
[Dr. Lockhart] Thick hair covers almost his entire body.
[Suspenseful Music] [Various Animal Sounds]
[Dr. Lockhart] It is from this tributary, that the creature got its name. This is Boggy Creek.
[Dr. Lockhart] It branches off from the river, and makes its way through the swamp.
[Dr. Lockhart] And the believability of the sightings along Boggy Creek are rated very high.
[Dr. Lockhart] For most of them have been reported by experienced hunters and fishermen, who have made their way deep into this back watered country.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] So everyone wants to know...
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Is it man?
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Could it be a creature? Or is it myth?
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] No one really knows?
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] So the legend continues.
[Suspenseful Music] [Leaves Rustling]
[Various Animal Sounds]
[Water Sloshing Faintly]
[Cranes Bugling]
[Water Sloshing]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dramatic Music]
[Eerie Silence]
[Birds Chirping]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Water Sloshing]
[Suspenseful Music]
[School Band Playing Music]
[School Band Playing Music] [Crowd Cheering Loudly]
[School Band Playing Music] [Crowd Cheering Loudly] [Referee Blows Whistle]
[School Band Playing Music] [Crowd Cheering Loudly]
[Crowd Cheering Loudly]
[Phone Ringing] [Radio Announcer Calling Game]
[Radio Announcer Calling Game]
[Tim] Uh, yeah? Hello? I mean, Dr. Lockhart's office! Yeah. Yes sir. He's at the game sir.
[Radio Announcer Calling Game]
[Tim] Get him? Sir, he's at the stadium with seventy-five thousand insane Hog Callers! Yes sir. Yeah. Right away sir.
[Radio Announcer Calling Game]
[Crowd Cheering Loudly]
[Crowd Cheering Loudly] [Players Grunting]
[Crowd Cheering Loudly] [School Band Playing]
[Crowd Cheering Loudly]
[Dr. Lockhart] Yes sir. Well listen, we appreciate you calling us. We should be in Texarkana before dark, yes. Okay. Thank you very much, goodbye.
[Dr. Lockhart] Alright. We got everything? Got the Jeep? Camper? Got the computer? Mic sensors?
[Tanya] Everything but the mic sensors.
[Dr. Lockhart] Okay, where's your friend Leslie?
[Tanya] She should be here anytime.
[Dr. Lockhart] Tim, go ahead and get the mic sensors. Put them in. Uh. Got the...
[Tim] That should be everything.
[Dr. Lockhart] Alright, um... I'll take one of these.
[Leslie] Hey girl, how are you? [Tanya]Hey! There you are!
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Anybody tell you where we're going?
[Leslie] Yep. Texarkana.
[Dr. Lockhart Chuckles] They tell you we're gonna be in the woods most of the time?
[Leslie] Well, she said we're going down to looking for some kind of wild man. Why?
[Dr. Lockhart Chuckles] You just don't look like you're dressed for the occasion.
[Leslie] Well, I brought my jeans and shorts.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] I certainly hope so. Load up, and let's go.
[Tanya and Leslie Together] Alright! [Tanya] Come on.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] My name is Brian C. Lockhart. My friends call me "Doc".
[Dr. Lockhart] And I'm a professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas, located deep in the Ozark Mountains.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] With me, one of my freshman students, Tim Thornton.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Leslie Ann Walker, all I know about her is she's a good friend of Tanya Yazzie, one of my prize students.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] After my call from the Miller County Sheriff's department, we were soon leaving the rolling hills of northern Arkansas behind, and headed for the swamps and delta country around Texarkana, Arkansas.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Texarkana. Lying in the southwest corner of the state, borders Texas, and is but a few short miles from the Louisiana state line.
[Dr. Lockhart] Our objective, investigate the latest report about the legendary Boggy Creek Creature's attack on a sheriff's deputy.
[Music]
[Radio Playing Music]
[Woman Behind Counter] Can I help y'all?
[Radio Playing Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Good evening.
[Man Behind Counter] Good evening.
[Dr. Lockhart] Do you, uh, have any ammunition?
[Man Behind Counter] Yes sir.
[Radio Playing Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] I need a box of thirty-thirty shells.
[Man Behind Counter] Regular? Or hollow point?
[Dr. Lockhart] Doesn't matter.
[Radio Playing Music]
[Man Behind Counter] Y'all going camping?
[Radio Playing Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] I guess you could say that. We're looking for the Boggy Creek Creature.
[Music]
[Laughter]
[Man Behind Counter] There ain't no such thing, you know?
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] I guess that's why we're here. We're gonna try to determine if there is one or not.
[Man Behind Counter] You can take my word for it. There ain't no monsters around here.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] I believe that's about all we need.
[Man 1] Hey boy! Where you think you gonna find that monster?
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] I'm gonna find it in the swamp, if it exists.
[Man 2] Bet he don't.
[Tanya] He's been seen over a hundred times since the early fifties.
[Man 1] Seen by who? Drunks? Or city folks like you, all wanting your names in the newspaper?
[Laughter]
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] What do I owe you?
[Man Behind Counter] Well that'll be sixteen sixty-nine please?
[Music]
[Man Behind Counter] Thank you.
[Dr. Lockhart] No problem.
[Music]
[Man Behind Counter] You know something, Will?! We ought to go down there to that swamp tonight with a monkey suit, and these here folks will stay tomorrow night in a motel in the city!
[Laughter]
[Dr. Lockhart] You know something?! I believe there's a creature here. And being a city fellow, like I am, I'm scared to death of it.
[Dr. Lockhart] That's why I got a thirty-thirty rifle in the back of that Jeep, and I bought this box of shells.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] In fact, I'm so afraid of it, I just might shoot a monkey if it jumped out on me. Good day sir.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] That's W.L. Slogan's farm that we studied about right there.
[Tanya] You think he'll let us go look in the barn?
[Leslie] Yeah, let's go look in it! Besides, we might find something!
[Dr. Lockhart] Tim run up to the farmhouse and see if they'll let us go down to the barn and look around, okay?
[Leslie] Bet she don't want us around here.
[Tim] Okay... Hey y'all come on!
[Dr. Lockhart] Come on.
[Tim] Hey, thank you very much.
[Stall Door Rattles Loudly]
[Dr. Lockhart] It was late in the afternoon. Slogan came from that field there, driving his cows. He had to have put them in that stall right there.
[Dr. Lockhart] But, it was in this barn, that he saw the creature. Let's look in here a minute.
[Barn Door Creaks Open]
[Heavy Footsteps on Wood Planks]
[Dr. Lockhart] You know, they said Slogan was in his late sixties.
[Dr. Lockhart] I think it was in about sixty-three or sixty-four.
[Tanya] It was sixty-four.
[Dr. Lockhart] That's correct. It was in the fall of the year. In fact, it was probably about this time of day, late afternoon.
[Dr. Lockhart] He had come in from that field, drove those cows over here in the stall.
[Cows Mooing]
[W.L. Slogan] Hey, come on! Get up there!
[Music]
[W.L. Slogan] Get in there.
[Music]
[Stall Door Latch Clicking]
[Music]
[Rooster Crows]
[Stall Door Creaks]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Stall Door Creaks]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Dog Barking in Distance]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Eerie Silence]
[Dog Barking in Distance]
[Dr. Lockhart] That's about all anybody knows about the incident. In fact, Slogan wouldn't tell anybody about it for years. He was afraid people would laugh at him.
[Tanya] Doc?! Do you think it's true?
[Dr. Lockhart] Yeah, I think he saw what he said he did.
[Dr. Lockhart] Because Slogan had hunted and fished these bottom lands all his life. He wasn't afraid of anything. He certainly wanted no publicity.
[Dr. Lockhart] It was only after his brother said that he saw it in the woods back in there, that Slogan told of the incident here in the barn.
[Dr. Lockhart] Now, he probably did that, to give some validity to what his brother's story was.
[Tim] What are you guys afraid of? Think he might still be in here? It's only been twenty years!
[Tanya] Doesn't mean he couldn't have come back!
[Leslie] Yeah, hell, this might be his hangout!
[Dr. Lockhart Chuckles] Well, I'll tell you one thing, the morning that Slogan came in this barn, he was probably standing just about where Tim's standing right now. Right there.
[Tim] Damn if I wanna stand where he stood!
[Leslie] I think I want to go back to the Jeep.
[Tanya] You ain't waiting on me!
[Heavy Footsteps on Wood Planks]
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Tim?! Hand me that map out of there. I want to check something here. Let's see...
[Dr. Lockhart] That sign back there said "Sulphur River".
[Tanya] Are we there yet?!
[Dr. Lockhart] We're close. And that... got about a mile or so more.
[Leslie] Phew! Good, I can finally change these clothes!
[Engine Roars to Life]
[Engine Revving]
[Jeep Accelerating]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Tires Squealing]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Y'all wait in the Jeep.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Tanya] Hey Doc! What is it?!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Looks like a dead deer!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Tanya] Let's go look at it!
[Leslie] No way! I'm not going to go down there and look at a dead deer!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Looks like a car or truck hit it, not long ago either.
[Tim] What happened to its head?!
[Dr. Lockhart] I don't know. What happened to the car or truck, is the question.
[Tim] I don't believe any car or truck hit this deer.
[Dr. Lockhart] Why do you say that?
[Tim] Something's been eating on it's right hind quarter.
[Dr. Lockhart] Doesn't matter. Let's get it out of the road before somebody else runs over it and has a wreck.
[Tim] I still don't believe a car or truck hit this deer.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Well, doesn't matter, Charlie. A bobcat, raccoon, or something. Who knows?! Maybe it belongs to the creature.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Jeep Driving Past]
[Jeep Slowing to a Stop]
[Cicadas Buzzing] [Birds Chirping]
[Dr. Lockhart] We're close to the swamp. We're going to make camp right here. Right here.
[Birds Chirping]
[Dr. Lockhart] That's pretty good Tim. In fact, I'd say that that's pretty close to what it actually looks like.
[Leslie] Let me see?!
[Tim Mimics the Creature Growling and Chuckles]
[Leslie] You've got to be kidding!
[Dr. Lockhart] Nope. Fits all the descriptions.
[Leslie] You mean to tell me that we're camped down here in the swamp where that thing might be living?!
[Tanya] Well, I think he's sexy!
[Leslie] Well, I think we're all crazy if we don't go to town and get a motel room.
[Dr. Lockhart] I wouldn't worry a lot about it, I don't think it's been seen in a few days anyway.
[Leslie] That doesn't mean anything either. You think he just dropped dead?!
[Dr. Lockhart] No, but if my facts are right in that computer, I'll tell you this, we could come across him, or see him, at any time.
[Tim] What do you mean by that?
[Dr. Lockhart] Meaning that every year since nineteen fifty-six, when these river bottoms, and these swamps, are flooded with water... brings him out. In fact, he's never been seen in a drought year.
[Tim] Meaning the high water drives him out of the swamp, right?
[Dr. Lockhart] Exactly! Brings him out in search for food. In fact, we've already had a lot of rain this year, believe me!
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] After breakfast, we hit the back country roads. I knew there were a whole lot of old abandoned homesteads around, and I figured we'd spend our first morning just getting acquainted with the area.
[Music]
[Music] [Jeep Door Opens Loudly]
[Music] [Birds Chirping]
[Music]
[Music] [Birds Chirping]
[Leslie] Hey Doc! Can we get out and look around?!
[Dr. Lockhart] Yeah, why not?! I don't think anybody lives here!
[Birds Chirping]
[Jeep Door Slams Shut]
[Leslie] This is an eerie looking old place.
[Tanya] Looks like our old college room.
[Birds Chirping]
[Dog Growling]
[Dog Growling and Snarling] [Dramatic Music]
[Tim] Mad dog! Mad dog!
[Dr. Lockhart] Get in the house! Get in the house!
[Dramatic Music] [Girls Scream]
[Tim] Mad dog!
[Dramatic Music]
[Dramatic Music] [Two Gunshots]
[Dr. Lockhart] Get down! Get over here! Hold this door!
[Leslie] Oh my god! What have we got ourselves into!
[Dr. Lockhart] Quiet! Tim?! Do you see him?!
[Tim] No.
[Dr. Lockhart] Alright, check those other rooms!
[Leslie] Tim doesn't see him!
[Dramatic Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Be quiet.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Tim?! Look out those windows.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Leslie] Where you going?! Don't leave me! We gotta hold the door!
[Dr. Lockhart] Quiet!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] See anything Tim?!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dog Growling and Snarling] [Dramatic Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Get back!
[Dramatic Music][Gunshot]
[Leslie] My God, what's going on?!
[Tanya] Come on Doc!
[Gunshot]
[Dr. Lockhart] Quiet!
[Dramatic Music]
[Tim] Did you get him Doc?!
[Dr. Lockhart] I don't think so, he moved on me. Watch that window!
[Tim] That was too close.
[Dr. Lockhart] He almost got in this damn house. Jesus Christ!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Tanya] Just hold the door.
[Dr. Lockhart] Do you see him? Get out of the way and let me check it out.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dog Growling and Snarling] [Dramatic Music] [Girls Screaming]
[Dr. Lockhart] Where is it?! Where is it?!
[Tanya] He was right here at the door! [Leslie] He almost came in on us!
[Dog Growling]
[Dr. Lockhart] Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! He's under this house. You, don't move!
[Dog Growling] [Gunshot] [Girls Screaming]
[Leslie] Doc! I don't think I hear him anymore!
[Dr. Lockhart] Quiet! Quiet!
[Dog Growling][Gunshot]
[Tanya] God!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Oh my god.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Tim! There's a hole in the floor! Look in that closet over there! Hurry! See if you can find something to put over this hole!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dog Growling and Snarling] [Dramatic Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Get out!
[Dramatic Music] [Girls Screaming]
[Gun Clicks]
[Dr. Lockhart] Stay! Stay!
[Gun Clicks]
[Dog Growling and Snarling] [Gun Clicks]
[Dog Growling and Snapping] [Gun Clicks]
[Dog Growling and Snapping]
[Dr. Lockhart] No! Stay!
[Rifle Clicks] [Gunshot]
[Rifle Clicks] [Shell Loudly Lands on Floor]
[Tim] Doc?! Are you okay?!
[Dr. Lockhart Gasping Breathlessly]
[Dr. Lockhart] I'm okay. Jesus!
[Tim] Is he dead?!
[Dr. Lockhart] He's dying, if he's not dead.
[Dr. Lockhart Breathing Heavily]
[Dr. Lockhart] Get in the Jeep.
[Dr. Lockhart Breathing Heavily]
[Dr. Lockhart] Let's get out of here. Jesus Christ!
[Music]
[Jeep Doors Opening and Closing]
[Leslie] I don't believe this!
[Tanya] I think that gun's a little too loud!
[Dr. Lockhart] Tim?! Get me some shells.
[Leslie] You're crazy.
[Leslie] Well, Mister Professor, what exciting things do you have planned for us tomorrow?!
[Tanya] Yeah, I think that mad dog was a little too much for all of us!
[Gun Clicks]
[Dr. Lockhart] You let me tell you something right now, I don't think I promised any of us a picnic when we come off on this trip, did I?!
[Dr. Lockhart] True enough, that confrontation with the mad dog was a close call for all of us.
[Dr. Lockhart] But, in order to find out more about the reported sightings, I knew we had to get out into the field and investigate the area, and to drive those back country roads, and talk to people.
[Dr. Lockhart] Most of the sightings have occurred at early dusk, or late evening. Leading me to believe that this creature must be nocturnal.
[Dr. Lockhart] Also, there have been those who have claimed to see more than one of them, and they say they emit a foul odor.
[Dr. Lockhart] Roaming about in the night in search of food, always hiding from man, like the the Sasquatch or the Bigfoot, along with the Yeti of Tibet. All of these man-like creatures are known to be very shy.
[Dr. Lockhart] Making them elusive and hard to find. Daytime glimpses are very rare.
[Dr. Lockhart] Although they appear to be docile, and never intentionally harmed anyone, there is one incident that's always intrigued me.
[Dr. Lockhart] It was sometime in the fall, a few years back. An elderly gentleman by the name of Otis Tucker was on his way home from grocery shopping in Texarkana when he had a blow out on a lonely stretch of road that runs parallel to the swamp.
[Frogs Croaking]
[Otis Tucker] Oh good lord, have mercy!
[Car Jack Clicking]
[Frogs Croaking]
[Hubcap Loudly Falls to the Ground]
[Frogs Croaking]
[Twig Snapping]
[Frogs Croaking]
[Otis Tucker] Hello?!
[Frogs Croaking]
[Otis Tucker] Anybody there?!
[Frogs Croaking]
[Twigs Snapping]
[Frogs Croaking]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Otis Tucker] Anybody there?!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Otis Tucker] Oh Good Christ! [Creature Screams]
[Dr. Lockhart] Otis Tucker never regained consciousness. He stayed in a hospital for over two years. Therefore, he was never able to tell anybody what happened to him.
[Tanya] Tell her about the billfold.
[Leslie] What about it?
[Dr. Lockhart] Well, when they found Mr. Tucker that night, his billfold was still his in his pocket, and he still had eighty dollars in it. Ruling out any chance of robbery.
[Tim] Whatever it was, it pushed his pickup right off the jack and down in the ditch.
[Leslie] Jeez!
[Dr. Lockhart] That's true. There was not one dent anywhere on that truck, which means no other car could have come along and side swiped him.
[Tanya] And they said that man didn't have an enemy in the world.
[Dr. Lockhart] That's also true. But, whatever attacked him, was powerful. It drug him down that ditch for over fifty yards. They found one mark on him, a big soft bruise up here on his forehead.
[Dr. Lockhart] Anyway, I tell you what, it's getting late. I want to run a test on that computer.
[Dr. Lockhart] I want to set out those sensors, cause I want to be sure that I can set at this home base and watch this entire area.
[Dr. Lockhart] Tim, why don't you get the sensors out, I'll get the computer going, and you guys get the walkie-talkies, and let's set it up and run a test, okay?
[Generator Humming]
[Leslie] The circles? What do they represent?
[Dr. Lockhart] Well, see this first line? That's two hundred meters, then we come into seventy-five, fifty, and of course, this square here that represents the home base.
[Dr. Lockhart] So, we should be able to sit right here, and monitor this whole area.
[Leslie] Oh. So, you mean, if anything approaches the camp, we should be able to see it.
[Dr. Lockhart] It depends on how sensitive we set these sensors, uh, for instance, there's two ways we can do it.
[Dr. Lockhart] We can set this up for weight, or we can set it up for height.
[Dr. Lockhart] Well, let's run this first test on weight. For instance, Tanya's about a hundred and ten pounds, so, I'm going to enter that in now.
[Keyboard Keys Clacking]
[Dr. Lockhart] Okay, Tim, I'd say, is about a hundred and thirty.
[Keyboard Keys Clacking]
[Dr. Lockhart] That's in. Now, there's one other thing that I gotta do. We need to set this at anything over a hundred pounds to set it off.
[Dr. Lockhart] So, one hundred pounds.
[Dr. Lockhart] Because like snakes, or small animals, raccoons or something, we don't want to set it off.
[Dr. Lockhart] Let's raise them on the radio, and run our test.
[Leslie] Alright. Tanya? Do you read?
[Tanya] Yeah I read! It's just me, and a bunch of blood thirsty mosquitoes.
[Leslie Chuckles] Tim? Do you read?
[Tim] Loud and clear. Hey Doc?! How long do you want me to wait out here?! I'm getting hungry.
[Dr. Lockhart] That boy is always hungry! Okay! Gang, we're all set up here, um, I'll tell you what I want you guys to do now.
[Dr. Lockhart] I want you to start back to the base, and I want you to come directly at me, try to come in a straight line, okay?
[Tim] Gotcha!
[Computer Beeping Steadily]
[Dr. Lockhart] Okay. Okay! There's Tim. See?! Okay, see this dot? That's Tanya. She just broke the first, uh, two hundred meters right there.
[Dr. Lockhart] Hey! Baby is working like a charm!
[Leslie] Oh, the marvels of modern science!
[Computer Beeping Steadily]
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Leslie] Brian?! What's that?!
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Dr. Lockhart] I don't know. Something broke the southwest corner of the perimeter there.
[Leslie] It's moving toward Tanya.
[Dr. Lockhart] Don't panic now. Hold this a minute. Could be a deer. Could be a cow. Anything.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Let me put some weight in, see what it says. I'll go to two-fifty.
[Keyboard Keys Clacking]
[Dr. Lockhart] Southwest corner.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] It's over that. I'll go to three hundred.
[Keyboard Keys Clacking]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] I'll go up to four hundred pounds.
[Keyboard Keys Clacking]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] We got a problem. Give me that mic.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Tanya?! I don't want to alarm anybody but there's... something just broke the southwest corner of the perimeter. Do you hear or see anything?
[Suspenseful Music]
[Tanya] Doc?! I don't see a thing.
[Dr. Lockhart] It's moved more than fifty yards in the last few seconds.
[Leslie] Something's out there and it's heading toward Tanya! Tell them to come in Brian!
[Dr. Lockhart] You guys, I want you to come back to base, and I want you to come back quickly! Tim, come on, move it! Get in here now! Come on Tanya, move!
[Dramatic Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] I want you to stay on this mic, and watch that screen. Here, take this! I'm going out there, there is something wrong.
[Leslie] Run, girl, run!
[Dr. Lockhart] Keep me posted.
[Dramatic Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Come on. Come on. Give me the walkie-talkie.
[Tanya] Is it him?!
[Dr. Lockhart] I don't know. Keep going. Get to camp.
[Dramatic Music]
[Leslie] Doc?!
[Dr. Lockhart] Yeah, come on. I read you.
[Leslie] He's close to you!
[Dr. Lockhart] My left, or right? Hold! Alright. Where you at?!
[Dramatic Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] I smell you!
[Dramatic Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] You better say something!
[Dramatic Music]
[Leslie] Oh God! Thank God you're alright!
[Tanya] What's going on?!
[Dramatic Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] You alright?!
[Tanya] I'm okay.
[Leslie] Brian?! It's gone. It was there, and it just disappeared. It's fast. I've never seen anything that fast in my life!
[Dr. Lockhart] Where's Tim?
[Leslie] Oh no!
[Dr. Lockhart] I'll go. Let me check this thing.
[Keyboard Keys Clacking]
[Dr. Lockhart] My God! He's not there! Wait a minute! He is not there!
[Keyboard Keys Clacking]
[Thud] [Tim] Boo!
[Tanya Sighs with Relief]
[Dr. Lockhart] Boy! You scared the shit out of us!
[Frogs Croaking]
[Frogs Croaking] [Generator Humming]
[Dr. Lockhart Yawns]
[Owl Hooting]
[Dr. Lockhart Sighs]
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Computer Beeping Rapidly] [Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Keyboard Keys Clacking]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Oh no!
[Suspenseful Music] [Keyboard Keys Clacking]
[Suspenseful Music] [Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Dr. Lockhart] I thought you'd be in between it. Wake up! Hey! We got a visitor!
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Dr. Lockhart] We got a visitor! Come on!
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Dr. Lockhart] Look at this!
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Dr. Lockhart] He just passed the two hundred meter perimeter right there.
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Leslie] I can't take anymore of this!
[Dr. Lockhart] Well, hold! Just, let's just watch him a minute!
[Tanya] Doc?! Are you sure it's him?!
[Dr. Lockhart] Positive. I just put in three hundred and fifty pounds, then I went to four hundred, and he was exactly where I thought he'd be. In between.
[Leslie] Doc?! Let's get out of here!
[Dr. Lockhart] Wait just a minute! We're gonna watch him!
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Dr. Lockhart] He's still away yet. Look! He stopped.
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Dr. Lockhart] There he goes! He's moving north. Away from us now.
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Dr. Lockhart] Look at him! He's circling this camp! I don't believe it!
[Computer Beeping Rapidly]
[Dr. Lockhart] He's watching us! Look at him! He's turning back. He's coming across the fifty now.
[Tim] Doc, he's heading for the camp!
[Girls Screaming]
[Dr. Lockhart] Hold it!
[Girls Screaming]
[Dr. Lockhart] Shut up! Hold it! We lost power! Be quiet! I gotta hear! Don't panic! Nobody panic! I got to be able to hear it!
[Dr. Lockhart] That's important. Get that candle over here! Get us some light in here! Tim?! Did you put gas in the generator?!
[Dr. Lockhart] Don't tell me that! Cut it out! We got to be quiet! I got to hear! Everything depends on that! Give me that gun! Quick!
[Dr. Lockhart] Give me the gun! Quick! Take this light!
[Tim] Alright.
[Dr. Lockhart] Give me the dart.
[Leslie] Oh my God, Brian! Not that!
[Dr. Lockhart] Listen, it may be the only chance we have. If it's him, I'm going to try to stop him right now! Okay! Now listen, it's important!
[Dr. Lockhart] Do not panic! Because we may not ever get this chance again! Now, you gotta be quiet! So I can hear! Listen. Tim?! Where's the gas?
[Tim] It's just outside.
[Dr. Lockhart] Alright. You get the gas can. You guys stay right here, and quiet. Let's go! Move!
[Leslie] Y'all be careful!
[Dr. Lockhart] Alright. Let's go.
[Camper Door Clacks Open]
[Dr. Lockhart] Alright, hold it!
[Camper Door Slams Shut]
[Dr. Lockhart] Let me see that light!
[Something Falls Over in the Camper]
[Dr. Lockhart] Quiet in there!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Move to the end. Wait a minute, hold it right there!
[Suspenseful Music]
[A Sound Erupts from the Camper]
[Dr. Lockhart] Quiet!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Where's the gas can?!
[Tim] It's under there.
[Dr. Lockhart] Alright! Get it! Come on!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Gas Sloshing]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Pouring Gas]
[Dr. Lockhart] Hurry! Crank it! Hurry!
[Suspenseful Music] [Generator Sputters]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Mysterious Music ] [Generator Clatters to Life]
[Suspenseful Music] [Generator Humming]
[Dramatic Music] [Creature Growling]
[Dramatic Music]
[Creature Growling]
[Flashlight Hits the Ground]
[Dart Gun Clicks]
[Creature Growling]
[Dr. Lockhart] Talk to me!
[Creature Growling]
[Gunshot]
[Dramatic Music]
[Creature Screams]
[Creature Grunting]
[Dr. Lockhart] What kept attracting him to come back around our camp puzzled me. The dart gun was a mistake. He simply reached and pulled it out.
[Birds Chirping]
[Dr. Lockhart] Everyone was so shook up after last night, including myself, I decided to tell them one more story that was a little bit on the lighter side.
[Dr. Lockhart] The story I've heard, goes something like this. Oscar Culpotter was his name...
[Myrtle Culpotter] Just what are you looking for?!
[Oscar Culpotter] I'm looking for the Sears-Roebuck catalog.
[Myrtle Culpotter] Well, I guess you're gonna mess up the whole house for it?!
[Oscar Culpotter] I will if I have to. I'd rather do that than mess up my pants.
[Myrtle Culpotter] Well, we certainly don't want that! The catalog's on the back porch!
[Oscar Culpotter] Phew!
[Music]
[Music] [Heavy Breathing]
[Oscar Culpotter] Damn cows! You can't even take a crap in peace!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Oscar Culpotter] Myrtle?! Is that you?! I'm trying to take a crap!
[Heavy Breathing]
[Crashing Sound]
[Dramatic Music]
[Oscar Culpotter] Myrtle help!
[Dramatic Music]
[Myrtle Culpotter] Oh God! Hold on Oscar!
[Oscar Culpotter] Myrtle help!
[Myrtle Culpotter] Oh God! Hold on Oscar, I'm coming!
[Myrtle Culpotter] What the hell was that after you Oscar?!
[Oscar Culpotter] Damned If I know Myrtle! I thought it was you! It's the wildest thing I've ever seen!
[Myrtle Culpotter] Well, you gonna get that stuff off of you?!
[Oscar Culpotter] Yeah! Hand me that catalog in there, and let me clean myself up!
[Myrtle Culpotter] Going to take more than a catalog Oscar. If you ask me, it's going to take the water hose.
[Myrtle] Golly Oscar! You get yourself into so much mess! So much!! Golly!!!
[Dr. Lockhart] How much truth there is to this story, I couldn't say.
[Dr. Lockhart] I can tell you for sure that Oscar Culpotter is a retired attorney from Texarkana, and is known, from time to time, to have had a drinking problem.
[Dr. Lockhart] Anyway, back to the more serious side. I reached Deputy Williams by phone, and arranged a meeting at the local coffee shop.
[Dr. Lockhart] And I decided I would not tell him, or anyone at this point, about seeing the creature myself last night, and I advised Tim and the girls to do the same.
[Dr. Lockhart] I wanted to hear from Williams, and his version of what he said it looked like, without my input.
[Dr. Lockhart] Okay, y'all don't forget anything now!
[Deputy Williams] Morning!
[Dr. Lockhart] Good morning sir! You must be Deputy Williams?!
[Deputy Williams] You Doctor Lockhart?
[Dr. Lockhart] I am. Let's get some coffee.
[Deputy Williams] Alright.
[Dr. Lockhart] We've been studying incidents about what people say happened to them around here for years.
[Deputy Williams] Well, mine's pretty simple. I don't have any answers and I doubt anybody else does.
[Dr. Lockhart] I talked to the sheriff, before I left Federal, and, he told me a little bit about what happened to you, but I'd like to get some more details, if I could?
[Deputy Williams] That'd be fine. That'd be fine.
[Pouring Coffee]
[Waitress] Would there be anything else sir?
[Dr. Lockhart] I think that's all.
[Waitress] Okay, thank you.
[Deputy Williams] Well, that day, I had been fishing down on the Sulfur River. It was late in the afternoon, it wasn't dark. And I went to the shed.
[Mrs. Williams] Did you catch any fish?!
[Deputy Williams] I did.
[Mrs. Williams] Take them down the shed and clean them, I don't want them smelly things up here.
[Dramatic Music] [Deputy Williams Screams]
[Dramatic Music]
[Dramatic Music] [Little Creature Screaming]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Large Creature Growling]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Deputy Williams] No one believes me. My wife doesn't even think I seen such a thing. That thing was huge.
[Deputy Williams] His eyes glaring out under that hairy forehead. He had a pointed skull!
[Dr. Lockhart] Hmm. Do you think it meant you any harm?
[Deputy Williams] No. I think he just smelled dead fish, and just came up to investigate.
[Dr. Lockhart] Sounds like that little one was hard to get off your back though.
[Deputy Williams] He was strong as hell. I didn't think I was ever going to get loose. I had to go into town and get my back sewed up. It took nine stitches!
[Dr. Lockhart Chuckles] Oh, excuse me. I don't mean to be laughing but, how you doing now?
[Deputy Williams] Well, the stitches come out tomorrow. By the way, have you talked to Old Man Crenshaw?!
[Dr. Lockhart] Don't believe I ever heard of him.
[Deputy Williams] He's an old man. I bet he's lived on the bottoms all his life. He could be able to tell you something.
[Dr. Lockhart] You think he's ever seen it?
[Deputy Williams] He was going on there every month, calling the department, complaining. And when he'd come into town for supplies, he was always talking about the creature hanging around his cabin.
[Dr. Lockhart] I'll definitely have to find him.
[Dr. Lockhart Sips His Coffee Loudly]
[Dr. Lockhart] Is there anything else that, um, you can think of? Maybe some details you might have forgot.
[Deputy Williams] No. I will say, Old Man Crenshaw always said one thing about the creature.
[Dr. Lockhart] What's that?
[Deputy Williams] He was an incredible runner, and an unbelievable swimmer.
[Birds Chirping]
[Tanya] Alright you guys, it's ready! Come and get it!
[Tim] What are we having?!
[Tanya] Baloney sandwiches and Pork-n-Beans.
[Dr. Lockhart] Great! One of my favorites!
[Leslie] Well, it's not one of mine!
[Birds Chirping]
[Leslie] Tanya? Do you have my blush?
[Dr. Lockhart] Blush?! Jeez!
[Tanya] No, I don't have your blush!
[Leslie] Besides! I don't want to be down here anyway! Let's go into town and get a motel?
[Tanya] Are we going in the swamp with you guys?!
[Dr. Lockhart] Not today.
[Leslie] You are going to leave us the rifle, aren't you?!
[Dr. Lockhart] The rifle?! You wouldn't know what to do with it if I did!
[Tanya] Want to bet?!
[Dr. Lockhart] Tim and I began searching behind the camp, hoping we might find hair, or even a small blood sample, from where the creature had torn off through the woods.
[Birds Chirping]
[Leslie] Can you drive the Jeep?!
[Tanya] Sure. Why?
[Leslie] This is crazy.
[Tanya] What do you mean by that?!
[Leslie] We're fools for just sitting here!
[Leslie] Who says that thing only comes out at night?!
[Leslie] It could be watching us right now!
[Tanya] These fools are fixing to riot.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Trooper Williams left out one important fact, he said nothing about the foul odor the creature emits. Which was still very much present many hours after Tim and I were in the forest.
[Jeep Pulling to a Stop]
[Tanya] I knew we should've stayed at the camp.
[Leslie] Well, I don't believe we came this way. I don't remember these mud holes.
[Tanya] We had to have. We went through several mud holes.
[Leslie] But not these! They're too deep!
[Tanya] Do you know how to put that thing in four wheel drive?!
[Leslie] Hell no, I don't! I've never been in one of these things until I came off on this stupid trip!
[Tanya] Then you just better hold on!
[Music]
[Music] [Engine Revving Loudly]
[Music]
[Music] [Engine Revving Loudly]
[Zipper Unzipping]
[Leslie] You've done it now!
[Tanya] Me?! It was your idea to go riding around in the first place!
[Leslie] Put the damn thing in four wheel drive, and let's get out of here!
[Tanya] I don't know how to put the damn thing in four wheel drive!
[Leslie] Maybe there's a manual in here that will tell us how to do it!
[Tanya] It's going to take more than four wheels to get us out of this hole. Like about eight!
[Leslie] Quit joking! We got to figure this out! It's getting late!
[Tanya] I'm not joking. The mud is almost up to our doors!
[Leslie] Look! Here it is! This is all we have to do.
[Leslie] There. That should be in four wheel drive. Crank it up and let's get out of here. Okay?
[Engine Revving] [Mud Splashing]
[Music]
[Tanya] No use! We're going to have to walk out of here.
[Leslie] My God! Don't even suggest such a thing! It'll be dark soon!
[Music]
[Tanya] I'm open for your suggestion.
[Leslie] Well, blow the horn!
[Tanya] Blow the horn?!
[Tanya] What good is that going to do?!
[Leslie] Well, Tim and Brian are down here somewhere, maybe they'll hear it!
[Tanya] Tim and Brian have probably been back at the camp for hours! Resting... Eating... Dry... Comfortable...
[Leslie] Don't tell me that stuff! Trade places with me! I wanna drive!
[Tanya] No way! You're just going to make it worse!
[Leslie] Well, we're lost, remember?! I'm not going to just go start walking off in these woods, looking for a camp that we have no idea where it is!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Tanya] It might get a little cool before the night's over.
[Leslie] We do have a heater in this thing, don't we?!
[Tanya] Yep. I believe we do.
[Leslie] How much gas we got?
[Tanya] Over half a tank.
[Leslie] Good.
[Tanya] Today is Tuesday. They should find us before the weekend. When we run out of gas!
[Leslie] You got me into this mess! I want to get out, and I want to go home! All we got to do now is find a tombstone to mark the spot where you buried us!
[Generator Humming]
[Dr. Lockhart Forcibly Exhales]
[Generator Humming]
[Dr. Lockhart] It's almost eight o'clock.
[Generator Humming]
[Dr. Lockhart] We're going to have to go find them.
[Tim] How?! It's fifteen miles out of this bottom.
[Generator Humming]
[Tim] And remember? They have our only transportation.
[Generator Humming]
[Dr. Lockhart] Where the hell could they be?!
[Generator Humming]
[Tim] Leslie probably talked Tanya into going into town. Probably looking for something besides bologna to eat.
[Wolf Howling]
[Leslie] What was that?!
[Tanya] What was what?
[Leslie] That sound we just heard!
[Tanya] Sounded like a wolf.
[Leslie] A wolf?!
[Leslie] You mean, there's wolves in these woods too?!
[Tanya] Also snakes... bobcats... alligators...
[Leslie] That's enough! Don't tell me anymore!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Tanya] God! There's a winch on the front!
[Leslie] What's that?!
[Tanya] Something that gets you unstuck with!
[Leslie] Well, why in the hell haven't you mentioned it before now?!
[Tanya] You didn't ask! Besides, I don't know how to use it!
[Leslie] Stupid! We have a manual right here! Hand me the flashlight.
[Leslie] Okay, it says you keep the motor running... you pull... keep the vehicle in neutral... you pull on the cable until...
[Suspenseful Music]
[Music]
[Leslie] Here it is right here!
[Music]
[Mud Slurping as Tanya Walks]
[Leslie] See?! There's the cable right there! You just pull out on that!
[Music]
[Tanya] I figured I'd be doing all the work.
[Music]
[Splash]
[Leslie Screams with Laughter]
[Tanya] Look woman! You want to get out of here, you better get down here and help me!
[Leslie] Well, I do want to get out of here. Okay.
[Music]
[Mud Splashing]
[Mud Sloshing as Tanya and Leslie walk]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Music]
[Mud Sloshing]
[Music]
[Mud Sloshing]
[Music]
[Jeep Cranking]
[Engine Running]
[Tanya] Oh my God Leslie! There he is!
[Dramatic Music] [Leslie Screams]
[Dramatic Music] [Tanya Screams]
[Dramatic Music] [Mud Splashing]
[Generator Humming]
[Tim] Doc? What time is it now?
[Generator Humming]
[Dr. Lockhart] Almost eleven.
[Generator Humming]
[Tim] I feel something's bad wrong.
[Generator Humming]
[Dr. Lockhart] Yeah. So do I.
[Generator Humming]
[Dr. Lockhart] I'll tell you what let's do. I don't think we can wait any longer. Take the rifle, and we're going into the swamp.
[Generator Humming]
[Generator Humming] [Computer Beeping Steadily]
[Tim] Is he back?
[Dr. Lockhart Chuckles] No, but the girls are.
[Tim] Are you sure?
[Dr. Lockhart] No, but you see how slow that's moving?
[Generator Humming] [Computer Beeping Steadily]
[Dr. Lockhart] That's them alright. Get over there. Just get on the bed.
[Generator Humming] [Computer Beeping Steadily]
[Dr. Lockhart] We're gonna play this out.
[Generator Humming] [Computer Beeping Steadily]
[Dr. Lockhart] It's them alright. Just relax, now. Let's just watch this a second.
[Generator Humming] [Computer Beeping Steadily]
[Generator Humming]
[Generator Humming] [Girls Knocking on Camper Door]
[Generator Humming] [Computer Beeping Steadily]
[Dr. Lockhart] Come in ladies.
[Generator Humming]
[Dr. Lockhart] You want to tell me about it?
[Leslie] I'm going to let her!
[Generator Humming]
[Dr. Lockhart] Well?
[Generator Humming]
[Tanya] We stuck the Jeep.
[Dr. Lockhart] That figures.
[Tanya] That ain't all.
[Tim] Did you wreck it?!
[Tanya] No... We saw it.
[Dr. Lockhart] You saw what?
[Leslie] I knew they wouldn't believe us. Dammit Doc! We saw it. You and Tim saw it! We believed you! Why can't you believe us?!
[Generator Humming]
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Tanya? Did you see it?
[Music]
[Tanya] Yeah.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] It wasn't that I didn't believe them. I guess I just wanted to get back at them a little bit, for what they put Tim and I through for the last six hours.
[Dr. Lockhart] This was the day I knew we had to travel the river to Crenshaw's. I went over my notes, and put in all the new information that I had.
[Dr. Lockhart] One thing I didn't quite understand though, was Trooper Williams' last statement to me when we were at the coffee shop.
[Dr. Lockhart] Crenshaw had told him, the creature was incredible runner and an unbelievable swimmer.
[Dr. Lockhart] Anyway, we got ourselves together, loaded up, and headed for the Sulfur River.
[Music]
[Music] [Water Splashing]
[Music]
[Music] [Water Splashing]
[Music]
[Music] [Water Splashing]
[Music] [Bubblegum Popping]
[Music] [Water Splashing]
[Music] [Kids Yelling]
[Kid Yelling] Go on!
[Dog Barking in Distance]
[Water Splashing]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Water Splashing]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Water Splashing]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Water Splashing]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Water Splashing]
[Tommy] It's Jaws!
[Girl] God!
[Boy] Tommy?! Get outta here!
[Waves Lapping the Shore]
[Woman Singing]
[Dr. Lockhart] Howdy.
[Man] Howdy. You going hunting, or fishing?
[Dr. Lockhart] Well, we're heading down river.
[Man] Well, how you traveling? You wading? Or riding?
[Dr. Lockhart] Well, hope to be riding. Do you rent any boats?
[Man] I got one, I can rent you five dollars an hour. And I got a larger boat I can rent you for twenty-five dollars a day, everything furnished.
[Dr. Lockhart] We'll take the one for all day.
[Man] Good. I'll get you one. If you want to go right down there and wait, I'll go bring it around.
[Woman Singing]
[Tanya] How far is it down to Crenshaw's?
[Dr. Lockhart] Well, according to Deputy Williams, it's about two miles down river.
[Leslie] Tanya, we should have brought our swimsuits so we could stay for a while. Instead of going off on this stupid safari.
[Dr. Lockhart] Hm. I hear the boat coming, let's go.
[Outboard Motor Humming]
[Woman Singing]
[Dr. Lockhart] You wouldn't know a fellow by the name of Crenshaw, would you?
[Man] Everybody up and down this river knows Crenshaw.
[Dr. Lockhart] How far down river is it to his place?
[Man] Oh, by crow flying? Or by boat?
[Dr. Lockhart Chuckles] By boat.
[Man] Well, I'd say about three miles. First cabin on the right.
[Dr. Lockhart] Thank you very much. Let's load up.
[Outboard Motor Humming]
[Outboard Motor Humming] [Water Splashing]
[Jet Ski Motor Buzzing]
[Water Bubbling]
[Dramatic Music]
[Dramatic Music] [Jet Ski Motor Buzzing]
[Dramatic Music] [Jet Ski Motor Buzzing] [Boy Yelling]
[Dramatic Music] [Water Splashing] [Jet Ski Motor Puttering]
[Dramatic Music]
[Dramatic Music] [Water Splashing]
[Dramatic Music] [Jet Ski Motor Buzzing]
[Jet Ski Motor Buzzing]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] These river bottoms are truly a sight to behold. As we traveled the river that day, it made me feel good.
[Dr. Lockhart] Here the air is clean, reminding me that much of this country is still, and should remain, unspoiled.
[Dr. Lockhart] With all the wildlife, moving water, and vegetation, I was beginning to understand how easy it is for this creature to survive, and hide from man.
[Dr. Lockhart] I am convinced now that... he is more man-like than animal.
[Dr. Lockhart] In every reported sighting, he's always been seen in an upright position on his back two legs.
[Dr. Lockhart] Bears, gorillas, orangutans, and such other animals can walk about on two legs, but under stress or strain, will go down on all fours to run.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Crenshaw's.
[Music] [Goat Bleating]
[Music]
[Birds Chirping]
[Heavy Footsteps on Wooden Steps]
[Birds Chirping]
[Dr. Lockhart] Anybody home!
[Birds Chirping]
[Dr. Lockhart] Knock on the door Tim, let's see if anybody answers.
[Birds Chirping]
[Tim Knocks Loudly on the Door]
[Birds Chirping]
[Goat Bleating]
[Birds Chirping]
[Dr. Lockhart Exhales Forcibly]
[Dr. Lockhart] I don't think anybody's home.
[Birds Chirping]
[Leslie] I don't like this at all.
[Birds Chirping]
[Leslie] That could be a mad goat!
[Goat Stares Disapprovingly]
[Crenshaw] Hey! What are y'all doing here?! You looking for something to steal?!
[Dr. Lockhart] Nope. Not exactly. Saw your place from the river. Thought we'd stop for a minute.
[Crenshaw] Well, boy, if everybody stopped here that saw my place from the river, all I'd be doing is entertaining.
[Dr. Lockhart] I met with Trooper Williams in town the other day, and he suggested we stop down and see you.
[Birds Chirping]
[Crenshaw] Trooper Williams? How's he doing?
[Dr. Lockhart] He's doing fine.
[Tim] Doc, I think we better head back home.
[Crenshaw] Come on down here son and sit down, my bark's a lot worse than my bite. Y'all have a seat.
[Birds Chirping]
[Crenshaw] How you young ladies?
[Dr. Lockhart] My name is Brian Lockhart. Dr. Lockhart.
[Crenshaw] How you doing cousin?
[Dr. Lockhart] Fine. This is Tanya, Leslie, and Tim.
[Crenshaw] Hi girls.
[Birds Chirping]
[Birds Chirping] [Goat Bleating]
[Crenshaw] You want some gal?!
[Tanya] Give me some!
[Crenshaw] At a girl!
[Birds Chirping]
[Crenshaw] You married ma'am?
[Birds Chirping] [Goat Bleating]
[Crenshaw] That sure is a man's kind of woman!
[Birds Chirping]
[Dr. Lockhart] Um... Mr. Crenshaw? Been living down here long?
[Crenshaw] I sure have. I buried my truck back over here in forty-six, and there ain't been no way in here, except the river, since then.
[Dr. Lockhart] We're from the university, and we're studying man.
[Crenshaw] Well, boy, if you come down here to study me, you better be prepared to stay for a while.
[Birds Chirping]
[Dr. Lockhart] No, sir. But I would like to ask you some questions, if I could?
[Crenshaw] Uh-huh!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Crenshaw] You ain't with the revenue boys, are you son?!
[Suspenseful Music] [Gun Clicks]
[Crenshaw] Cause if you are, I'll throw down on you before nine gars can gut a minnow.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Nope. Like I said, we're from the university. We're studying the Boggy Creek Creature.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Crenshaw] The Boggy Creek Creature, huh? Well, I've known that all my life, he's right back over there in them woods.
[Dr. Lockhart] You ever seen him?
[Crenshaw] Yeah, I see him all the time. He's out here yelling, and bawling, and carrying on.
[Leslie] Are you serious?!
[Crenshaw] Yeah I'm serious! They woke me up around here one morning, a banging and a beating on on the tubs, a man can't get a bit of sleep around here for them!
[Dr. Lockhart] Hm.
[Music] [Birds Chirping]
[Dr. Lockhart] What did the little one look like?
[Suspenseful Music]
[Crenshaw] Well, cousin, the littlun looks just like the biggun.
[Dr. Lockhart Chuckles] Yeah. I guess.
[Crenshaw] Here girl, you want some of this?
[Birds Chirping] [Thunder Rumbling in the Distance]
[Crenshaw] What's the matter with you girl?! You sick?!
[Tanya] I am.
[Birds Chirping]
[Crenshaw] That's you a man's kind of woman!
[Leslie] I'm gonna go check on Tanya.
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Crenshaw] Looks like there's a storm coming up.
[Crenshaw] And a baddun too.
[Dr. Lockhart] I think we'd better head back down river. Tim, you wanna get the girls?
[Dr. Lockhart] It'll be dark here in a little bit.
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Crenshaw] Boy, you don't wanna get on that river with a storm coming up like this! That water draws lightning!
[Crenshaw] Well, I got to go tend to my fires.
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Dr. Lockhart] Are you okay?
[Tanya] I think so.
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Dr. Lockhart] Wait, wait!
[Dr. Lockhart] I'll tell you one thing, this old man is up to something. And whatever it is, I got a feeling we're going to find out something we've been looking for, and studying about, for a long time.
[Dr. Lockhart] Those brush piles around there got a lot of ash under them. He's been burning that brush for days.
[Dr. Lockhart] I'm gonna go around there, and I'm gonna approach the old man, and try to find out what's going on. I want you guys to get on the porch, and wait for me, okay?
[Dr. Lockhart] Now, let's go!
[Birds Chirping]
[Gas Sloshing]
[Dr. Lockhart] Clearing land?
[Crenshaw] Nope.
[Dr. Lockhart] You get a storm in these trees?
[Gas Sloshing]
[Crenshaw] Nope.
[Dr. Lockhart] None of my business, is it?
[Gas Sloshing]
[Crenshaw] Nope. You can wait in the house with the girls if you want to.
[Gas Sloshing]
[Birds Chirping]
[Door Creaks Open]
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Gas Sloshing]
[Tanya] Doc? Come here!
[Tanya] What's he doing?!
[Gas Sloshing]
[Leslie] What did you find out?!
[Dr. Lockhart] Nothing yet. Except he's up to no good.
[Leslie] So, we're gonna have to spend the night here?!
[Dr. Lockhart] Way this storm is, and it's getting worse, we'll be here for tonight.
[Tanya] Doc, here he comes.
[Dr. Lockhart] Okay! Get over here and sit down! Quick! Come on! Y'all be quiet over there!
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Crenshaw] You say you're a doctor, boy?
[Dr. Lockhart] That's right.
[Crenshaw] Then you must be pretty good at patching up folks that's all busted.
[Dr. Lockhart] Not that kind of doctor. Who's hurt?
[Crenshaw] I thought all you doctors were good at doctoring on sick folks.
[Crenshaw] Let me tell you something cousin... me and you has got to have a talk... and all nice and private.
[Dr. Lockhart] I think we're overdue.
[Crenshaw] You come on with me.
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Door Latch Opens Loudly]
[Door Creaks]
[Crenshaw] Now, cousin, I'm gonna cut you in on something that's gonna get us rich. Now, you got the book learning, and the doctoring power.
[Crenshaw] But you don't have a handle of this situation.
[Leslie] I'm worried about this.
[Tanya] Doc knows what he's doing.
[Leslie] What do you think they're doing in there?!
[Crenshaw] I'm gonna let you get rich with me boy!
[Dr. Lockhart] Go ahead! I'm listening.
[Crenshaw] I know how to catch that creature out there in them woods.
[Dr. Lockhart] You gonna trap him?
[Crenshaw] Sort of. You come on back here, and let me show you something.
[Dr. Lockhart] Go ahead.
[Crenshaw] Come on over here boy, hunker down, I will show you something.
[Dr. Lockhart] Alright.
[Dramatic Music]
[Dramatic Music] [Thunder Rumbling]
[Dramatic Music]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Little Creature Wheezes]
[Dr. Lockhart] My God man! How long have you had this?!
[Music]
[Crenshaw] I caught him a few days ago in my trap. What do you think about him?
[Dr. Lockhart] I think you're crazy, that's what I think! This thing is almost dead! It's weak!
[Little Creature Wheezes]
[Crenshaw] That's what I got you here for boy! I want you to patch him up!
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Let me tell you something old man!
[Dr. Lockhart] It's why that thing's been going crazy lately, jumping on people! Been around our camp, followed the girls!
[Dr. Lockhart] He's after this little one!
[Dr. Lockhart] That's why you're building these fires around this camp, isn't it?! Cause it's afraid of the fire. Isn't it?!
[Crenshaw] You finally smartening up cousin! You figured it out!
[Dr. Lockhart] We gotta get this to a doctor!
[Music]
[Music] [Thunder Rumbling]
[Door Creaking]
[Door Thuds Closed] [Door Latch Opens Loudly]
[Door Creaks]
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Leslie] Doc?! What is it?!
[Door Latch Opens Loudly] [Door Creaks]
[Door Thuds Close]
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Crenshaw] Lord have mercy! I got to get to my fires!
[Door Creaks Open and Closed]
[Leslie] Doc?! What happened in there?!
[Dr. Lockhart] I saw it!
[Leslie] You saw what?!
[Dr. Lockhart] I saw the little creature!
[Leslie] No!
[Dr. Lockhart] Wait a minute! [Leslie] No!
[Dr. Lockhart] Quiet!
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Bonfire Ignites]
[Fire Crackling] [Thunder Rumbling]
[Leslie] I don't wanna see it!
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Dr. Lockhart] You stay here Leslie! Watch that old man out here! You guys come with me!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Fire Crackling]
[Suspenseful Music] [Little Creature Wheezes]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Little Creature Growls in Pain]
[Tanya] He ain't gonna make it if we don't get him to a doctor.
[Suspenseful Music]
[Tanya] Storm, or no storm, we have to get him out of here!
[Thunder Rumbling] [Fire Crackling]
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Thunder Rumbling] [Fire Crackling]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Fire Crackling]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Fire Crackling]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Leslie Screams]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Leslie Screams]
[Leslie Screams] Doc! I heard the creature! I heard the creature!
[Dr. Lockhart] Quiet! Quiet! Did you hear it?!
[Leslie] Yeah, I heard it!
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Creature Growling]
[Suspenseful Music]
[Suspenseful Music] [Creature Growling]
[Dr. Lockhart] Just wait a minute! He's on the porch! Be quiet!
[Gunshot] [Leslie Screams]
[Dr. Lockhart] Shit! Stay in the house!
[Door Opens Loudly]
[Dr. Lockhart] Hold it man!
[Rain Falling Loudly]
[Crenshaw] The rain's knocked the fires out! He's coming in here on us!
[Dr. Lockhart] Put the shells back in your pocket!
[Crenshaw] You better let me kill him now!
[Dr. Lockhart] You're not gonna fire that gun man! I mean it! Hold it! Don't cross me this time old man! In that house! Right now!
[Rain Falling Loudly]
[Dr. Lockhart] Get in there!
[Rain Falling Loudly]
[Dr. Lockhart] Tim, Tanya?! Check those windows!
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Dr. Lockhart] Here old man! Give me the gun.
[Crenshaw] You don't know what you're doing boy!
[Gun Clicks]
[Dr. Lockhart] Don't let me tell you again old man! Give me the gun!
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Dr. Lockhart] Now, let's sit down in that chair and get real comfortable, okay?!
[Thunder Rumbling]
[Dr. Lockhart] Stay right there old man!
[Dr. Lockhart] Tim?! Hold this gun.
[Dr. Lockhart] Take this. You know how to use it. You stay here old man. Watch him close.
[Door Open and Closes Loudly] [Thunder Rumbling]
[Crenshaw] Come on boy! Give me that gun! Don't be as stupid as that doctor!
[Tim] No way.
[Wood Splintering] [Creature Growling] [Girls Scream]
[Dramatic Music] [Wood Splintering] [Girls Screaming]
[Music] [Creature Growling]
[Dr. Lockhart] Hold it.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Nobody's going to hurt you.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] No. Not anymore.
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] I know you don't understand but, I'm gonna give you what you came for. Easy does it!
[Music]
[Music] [Creature Growling]
[Music]
[Music] [Creature Growling]
[Music]
[Crenshaw] Give me that gun boy!
[Music]
[Tanya] No! No!
[Crenshaw] Get away from me girl!
[Crenshaw] Get away from me! [Dr. Lockhart] Hold it!
[Rain Falling Loudly] [Thunder Rumbling]
[Crenshaw] Well, give me them shells boy!
[Rain Falling Loudly] [Thunder Rumbling]
[Birds Chirping]
[Crenshaw] Well, boy... you right about one thing.
[Birds Chirping]
[Dr. Lockhart] How's that?
[Crenshaw] That thing ought to be left alone. To remain free, and live in the wild.
[Birds Chirping]
[Music]
[Dr. Lockhart] Crenshaw was not telling me anything new. For the last few days, I knew this is the way it had to be.
[Dr. Lockhart] Looks like I'm gonna fall into the same category as other people have done in this area for years and years.
[Dr. Lockhart] I just felt, for some special reason, what I saw, and what I now know, I wanted to keep to myself.
[Dr. Lockhart] It wasn't really a matter of whether anyone would believe me or not. I guess you could say it was a matter of keeping him a mystery.
[Dr. Lockhart] Cause this is where he belongs. It's like the old gentleman in the store said to me, "Boy! There ain't no monsters around here!"
[Dr. Lockhart] And you know something?! They were right. He's a part of nature, living in harmony in one of America's last great wildernesses.
[Dr. Lockhart] That's why this legend will continue. For I feel God intended it that way.
[Music]
[Birds Chirping]
[The end.]
[No. Seriously. It's the end of the movie.]
[Told you.]