Happy Valley group concerned school will harm Bigfoot habitat
A local environmental group has vowed to stop construction of a new Coweta elementary school, claiming the work will destroy the habitat of a Bigfoot-like creature known as the Happy Valley Horror.
“The Board of Education of Coweta County is going to build a new elementary school on Jim Starr Road and forever change our quiet country life,” said Michael Bright, head of the newly-formed group Save The Happy Valley Horror (STHVH).
“My concern is that this area is known to be the home of the infamous and rare Happy Valley Horror,” Bright said. “The Horror has been seen by several residents recently and is the only one known to exist. If this habitat is disturbed it will surely mean the demise of a truly unique part of Coweta County’s history. Please help us stop this travesty by alerting concerned citizens before it’s too late.”
The Horror was first reported in 2005 when a resident mailed the Times-Herald anonymously to say he had seen what he described as “an enormous, very hairy” beast walking upright in a field on Happy Valley Circle.
The letter went on to say, “It scared me to death!” and concluded by asking if anyone else had reported seeing something resembling… “a Bigfoot.”
After the first sighting, The Times-Herald launched an investigation. A possible indication of an environmental intruder was a recently-noted shortage of armadillos in the area. Armadillos are suspected to be a favorite food of Bigfeet.
A Happy Valley Circle resident, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Times-Herald, “I used to dodge armadillos every week just driving home from work. But not any more.”
Research also indicated most Bigfoot sightings occur near a stream or other body of water. Lake Redwine, located on Happy Valley Circle, offers enough water to support a large Bigfoot population — but at the time, Lake Redwine residents had not reported seeing large, hairy creatures, except for the resident who caused a stir when he was spotted walking home late at night from a Davy Crockett Day party wearing a large coonskin hat.
“You see a big hairy head like that, what are you supposed to think?” asked the resident who reported the sighting. “Even at Lake Redwine you don’t see stuff like that.”
The Times-Herald also interviewed Coweta County EMS and 911 director Eddie Ball.
“We haven’t heard a thing about a Bigfoot,” said Ball. “And I’m glad, because that last thing sure did stir up a fuss.”
The “last thing” referred to by Ball is the Belt Road Booger, which Ball is actually credited with naming. Years ago, lawmen and emergency personnel were flooded with reports of a large, hairy, two-legged critter roaming the Belt Road area on Newnan’s west side, scaring residents half to death.
The Booger has not been reported since the Clinton Administration, but research shows that Bigfoot-type creatures have been spotted in Georgia over the years, including one just south of Griffin.
Since the 2005 incident The Times-Herald has been in contact with the Chattahoochee Bigfoot Organization and the Bigfoot Research Organization. No new Coweta sightings have been reported, although a woman said her super-sized underwear kept disappearing from her clothesline.
STHVH leader Bright says the lack of contacts probably means the beast has found a new location where it can breed and watch SportsCenter unmolested. Bright believes if the school is built, The Horror will lose its last refuge and possibly, its life.
“This would be a crime of the magnitude of the Tennessee River snail darter and the western spotted owl,” Bright says. “Global Warming has already killed thousands, maybe millions of species. But nobody cares because they’re mostly bugs. This one is different. It has a fur coat. And it must be saved.”
Coweta school board officials would not comment, citing privacy concerns about future students at the planned school, including possible offspring of the Horror who might qualify for the pre-K program.
Bright said donations to pay for legal fees and pizza are being accepted. They are not tax-deductible, but Bright said, “donations are way cool anyway.”
Those wishing to contribute may write Bright for instructions at [deleted] Newnan, GA [deleted].
“People talk about wanting to save the world,” Bright says. “Why not start right here at home. It may be a Horror, but it’s our Horror and it deserves to be saved.” ~ By Alex McRae.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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