{"id":1119,"date":"2012-03-06T11:53:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T15:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2012-03-06T11:53:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T15:53:42","slug":"now-available-the-beast-of-boggy-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Now Available: The Beast of Boggy Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/boggy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-full wp-image-1122\" title=\"boggy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/boggy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Growing up in Texas, Lyle Blackburn became fascinated with the legends, lore, and sighting reports of alleged real-life monsters. Today, the infamous frontman of the devilishly eclectic rock band, Ghoultown, has authored his first book, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=63\">The Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, all about the large, legendary, hairy, man-like creature of Southern Arkansas known as the Fouke monster. Over the years, the creature has been seen by numerous witnesses, including respected citizens, experienced hunters, famous musicians, and even a police officer. The encounters were often so shocking, they served as inspiration for the classic horror film, <em>The Legend of Boggy Creek<\/em>, by Charles B. Pierce. And frightening encounters with the Fouke monster continue to be reported to this day. With a foreword by Loren Coleman, the book has already drawn advance praise from people such as Nick Redfern who believes the book is &#8220;Destined to become a cryptozoological classic!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Texas, Lyle Blackburn became fascinated with the legends, lore, and sighting reports of alleged real-life monsters. Today, the infamous frontman of the devilishly eclectic rock band, Ghoultown, has authored his first book, The Beast of Boggy Creek: The True Story of the Fouke Monster, all about the large, legendary, hairy, man-like creature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beast-of-boggy-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}