May 10, 2006
An article (now unavailable online) posted on Dirt Rag Magazine‘s (a mountain bike magazine) website makes reference to a regional name for Bigfoot in Arkansas, the Womble. I have never heard this term used. The only reference I can find with the use of Bigfoot and Womble together is a children’s book The Wombles: Bigfoot Womble and the resulting children’s cartoon series.
The article was about a popular mountain biking trail in Arkansas, the Womble Trail.
Nobody can say for sure where the trail’s name comes from, but the explanation I like best is that "Womble" is the regional word for a Yeti-like critter—the Arkansas equivalent of the abominable snowman, or the northwest’s Sasquatch—and that this is his home territory. So fill your hydration pack, sharpen your focus, climb on a quick-handling bike, and hit the Womble to learn what it feels like to be that hairy old man of the forest.
Do any of the Cryptomundo readers have any knowledge of this term being used for a Bigfoot creature in Arkansas?
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
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