Momo

In Loren Coleman's book Mysterious America he begins his Bigfoot chapter with a detailed case. It takes place in northeastern Missouri. The name of the monster that is reoccurring is the "Momo", which is a the newspapers abbreviations for "Missouri Monster". It was along River Road that stretched north from Highway 54 along the Mississippi River. Here there is a long standing tale of a phantom man who walks the streets then disappears. Mary Ryan and Joan Mills were not on this road in July 1971 but not far from it. Ryan and Mills had taken the highway back to St. Louis because they were looking for a nice picnic spot. They found a promising spot, they turned of on a dirt road put the blanket down and got out the food. Mary Ryan recalls, "We were eating lunch when we both wrinkled up our noses at the same time. I never smelled anything as bad in my life." Joan commented that they were smelling a whole family of skunks. Then suddenly her jaw drops and she points towards a brushy thicket behind her companion. Ryan says, "It was half-ape and half-man." And according to Mills, "Then it made a gurgling sound like someone trying to whistle underwater." They tell you that the half-ape half-man stayed its distance from them and eventually wasnt interested anymore. they knew that there story would be very hard to believe but there commetn on that is "but all you have to do is go into those hills to relize that an army of those things could live there undeteced."


This case is helpful to my source to understand what people have seen and to hear different stories. But as a non believer myself I'm trying to be convinced and this didnt work. The whole story just seemed way to thought out to be real. And I couldnt take any of it seriously. The writing was great through out the chapter but this case just turned me off because it seemed to be trying to hard to say "Hey, Bigfoot is sooo real."

Coleman, Loren. Mysterious America. New York, NY: Pocket Books, 2001. 188-205. Print.