The Monster Arkansas Tried to Protect: The White River Monster | Cryptids & Strange Encounters

For decades, people along Arkansas’s White River reported seeing an enormous grey creature moving beneath the muddy water. In 1937 the sightings sparked a full-scale monster hunt involving armed patrols, a professional diver and hundreds of spectators, before the creature returned more than thirty years later and Arkansas created an official refuge to protect it.The BOOKBY US A COFFEEJoin Sarah's new FACEBOOK GROUPSubscribe to our PATREONEMAIL us your storiesJoin us on INSTAGRAMJoin us on TWITTERJoin us on FACEBOOKVisit our WEBSITEResearch Links:https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/white-river-monster-2790/https://time.com/archive/6768313/science-newports-monster/https://aymag.com/arkansas-backstories-white-river-monster/https://www.ozarksalive.com/stories/white-river-monster-long-lived-ozarks-storyhttps://www.entetsu.co.jp/tetsudou/kisaragieki/https://arkansasroadstories.com/monsters/ms3.htmlhttps://whiterivermonster.weebly.com/in-the-press.htmlhttps://www.arkansas.com/state-parks/experiences/park-eventsThanks so much for listening, and we'll catch up with you again on Thursday.Sarah and Tobie xx"Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/SURVEY Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.