The Legend of Boggy Creek depicts Bigfoot as a lonely, sad, sexually frustrated and eventually criminal trespassing creature tormenting the women of Arkansas. The one theme explored in the film is the social isolation that the Foukes monster must feel being the only one of his kind, and how periodically he is drawn to civilization like a moth to a flame... Since I was a child I have been terrified / fascinating with the concept of a Bigfoot. It's a weird hybrid of man and wild animal.. huge and strongly built. The prospect of meeting one alone in the woods, despite very few stories of direct attacks, sends a primal shiver through the nerves. Whether you believe the myth or not, it feeds into this sense of chaos of nature, that we could be prey instead of predator, and that there are "creatures" out there who live according to different more feral laws than our rather civilized ones. We have a hard enough time coping with other humans in our world, stepping into another realm where we are more less foreign gives us quite the disadvantage. In a recent documentary on the Learning Channel, one suggestion of what the Bigfoot could be relates to the shamanistic traditions of certain first nation peoples of the Pacific Northeast. According to the commentator, the process of becoming a shaman meant going out into the wilderness and leaving your tribe for years, and learning the ways of nature on it's term. Some went feral and tribe members who stumbled upon them in the woods started to think of them as wild people or human animal hybrids. I put a link to the video clip below. I have not been able to find out much information via the web on this practice, but it is intriguing. But back to Boggy Creek, which is the only song I know of that seems sympathetic to the plight of Bigfoot. But beware to women who step into Boggy Creek for he is looking for love. Enjoy this song to Swamp Stalker

Learning Channel video