The story is that in 1850s, in western Oklahoma, there were Choctaw Indians and white settlers in the area who started having problems with thieves. It started with the theft of food, moved onto cattle rustling, and eventually escalated to women and children gone missing. This enraged the Choctaws who raised a war party to track and kill the thieves.
They rode for a day before coming upon a forest clearing with a horrible stench coming from it. When they entered the clearing, they were horrified to discover it covered with the half-eaten bodies of their missing women and children. Standing over the bodies, they saw three gigantic hairy, humanoid creatures dining on the remains. Infuriated, the Choctaws attacked and a battle ensued. All the Bigfeet were killed with only the loss the Choctaw leader, Joshua LeFlore, who had his head tore off in the scuffle. They buried the bodies of the women and children and burned the Bigfeet carcasses. What became of LeFlore's headless body is lost to the mists of history.
Sounds totally plausible to me, especially since it was first revealed in Lyle Blackburn's highly reputable book Sinister Swamps: Monsters and Mysteries from the Mire.
However, I do have a few questions. Why is there no contemporaneous record of this event. One would think that an outbreak of giant carnivorous monkeys would generate considerable interest -- reports to the territorial authorities, newspaper accounts, and years of retellings of the story around general store pickle barrels, but all of that is curiously missing. I wonder why people lost interest in the matter from almost the first day.
Secondly, it took only a day for the Choctaws to track and locate the murderous simian beasts. What does that say about contemporary Bigfeet investigators? They've spent decades, and used all manner of high-tech equipment, and can find nary a clue (tuffs of hair, Bigfeet scatt, etc.) much less one of the big goobers, dead or alive. They certainly need to up their game a bit.
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