Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
And this episode we're talking about the Ozark Blue Man.
That's correct, the Ozark Blue Man.
Now this is a Cryptid down there in the Ozarks.
I think it's similar to Bigfoot perhaps, but more human like.
We can find the definition over here at cryptids.fandom.com.
Title Ozark Blue Man. The Ozark Blue Man was a wild
man like creature reported to roam the remote wooded hills
around the Ozarks. The creature was infrequently
seen but his presence felt as far back as the 1860s.
Looking to chase and kill, he carried a wooden club, his huge
hand through large boulders and feasted upon livestock.
Periodic appearances sent locals spinning into a tizzy and brave
men searching the woods and caused enough excitement to last
until the next sighting. It was the Blue Man of Spring
Creek. It is a genuine Ozark legend,
and if the testimony of scores of men during all these years is
to be accepted, the legend is absolutely true, reported the
Springfield Leader in 1924. The name allegedly came from
Blue Saul Collins, the 1st man to see him.
That sighting supposedly took place in 1865 and was recounted
in the Springfield Republican in 1915 and the early spring of
1865. Blue Saul Collins was hunting on
the divide between North Fork and Spring Creek.
A light snow had fall the night before.
The woodland seemed to be covered by admirable tracks,
tricky tracks, deer tracks, rabbit, fox and Coon tracks, big
and little tracks, but most conspicuous were the tracks that
resembled somewhat those of a bear.
Blue Soul was a hunter without fear and believing the bigger
the game the better the hunt. He followed the long broad
tracks with a claw like impressions in the in the soft
snow. After following the trail for
several hours over the North Fork, Indian and Spring Creek
hills, Saul suddenly came upon the object of his search on the
north slope of Twin Mountain. Saul looked up, jumped out of
the path of several descending boulders and Wren.
He had seen an object, unmistakably human, though
strongly resembling a vicious animal, hurling huge boulders at
him down the steep hillside. Newspapers reported periodic
encounters in the years that followed.
The experiences weren't only tied to Douglas County.
At other times, he was supposedly seen in counties such
as Ozark. And how the Blue Man was
described as Neanderthal like and wearing primitive animal
skin clothing while wielding a wooden club.
Sightings often reported the creature leaving Bigfoot like
prints. And then it has a bunch of these
different articles you can take a look at.
So this is something that was going on back in the late 1800s,
early 1900s, and you know, from like 1915 on, we started to have
these written reports talking about what people had seen out
there in the deep woods of the Ozarks.
If these folks were just imagining these things, it's
hard to believe they go to the trouble having it printed up.
So I found this article on thelibrary.org and I'll have the
link over at Kofi. It says Blue Man of Spring
Creek. Published October 13th, 2019.
Submitted by Renee. The story of the Blue Man of
Spring Creek has been current in the rough region in the eastern
part of Douglas County, Missouri for 60 years.
It is a genuine Ozark legend, and if the testimony of Scourgs
and men during all these years is to be accepted, the legend is
absolutely true. So begins a long tale of
sightings of the Blue Man. The article printed in the
Springfield Leader in the November of 1924 begins in 1865
when a hunter, Saul Collins, was hunting between the Big North
Fork and Spring Creek. He was tracking game and saw
tracks that he thought were a bear.
After following the tracks for hours and while climbing a
mountain, he barely had time to leap behind a tree as a boulder
came rolling down the mountain directly in his path.
A second boulder followed the 1st, and a third boulder crashed
into the tree with such force that the boulder shattered.
When he peered around the tree, he saw on the hillside a
gigantic figure shaped like an immense man, stark naked except
for the skin of some animal around its waist and other
wrappings of skin around its feet.
The creature was covered from head to foot with a tightly
curling coat of short black hair, which, as the sun struck
upon it, took on a dark blue hue.
Collins always claimed that the giant was not less than 9 feet
tall. The giant threw one more rock
that also shattered against the tree and he made the hills echo
with an ear splitting scream. More terrifying than ever came
from any wild beast that roams the woods.
That was enough for Collins, who took to his heels and fled for
his life. For several days, Collins and
his neighbors tracked the Blue Man and many caught glimpses of
him, but he was never caught. It was believed that the Blue
Man was responsible for the disappearance of many sheep and
pigs. After a week or two of terror,
the creature disappeared. For 16 years there was only
spreading sightings of the Blue Man along the Big Fork, and then
he disappeared completely between 1890 and 1911.
Then suddenly he was back, and more men than ever tried to hunt
him down. They thought they had found his
din in a remote valley, but the man had disappeared as before.
Well, this thing almost sounds like a Bigfoot to me, the way
he's kind of just moving so elusively through the forest.
Now, the fact they say here that he wasn't seen from 1890 to
1911, it could just be that he was seen, but it just wasn't
reported. One explanation is given by old
Uncle Jerry Hildebrand, who settled in what is now Douglas
County in 1820 and who died there in 1885.
He used to tell the following story, which she had been told
by, which had been told by him by yet older residents of the
hills. Some years before the American
Revolution, while Missouri was still part of the French colony
of Louisiana, a French fur trader came into the Ozarks,
bringing with him a very beautiful Spanish woman.
The trader, soon tired of his fair companion, bartered her to
an Indian chief for a goodly package of furs, and slipped
away, leaving the woman a captive.
The poor woman thus abandoned in the wilderness, lost her reason
and lived for years a demented creature of the woods from her
spring, a race of people half Spanish, half Indian.
They never mingled with either French or Indians, but hid away
in remote and inaccessible places, where they increased in
numbers and were known to exist for many years.
When the pioneer settlers poured into the Ozarks from 1820 to
1840, the strange half breed race disappeared and it was
generally supposed by those who knew anything about them that
they migrated into more remote and unsettled depths of the
wilderness. The Boston Mountains in western
Arkansas were thought to be the place which they had retreated
to. From these people, probably the
last of their race, came the Blue Man of Spring Creek.
Leader, November 17th, 1924. We can kind of see it in a
normalcy bias for these things. Clerk back in the 1920s, people
are presented with something they don't understand and they
kind of naturally weave a story around it.
The cartoon representation of a Blue Man Hunt appeared in the
News Leader October 3rd, 1965 in the Good Old Days column.
If you love legends, ghost stories and tales of horror,
check out the programs available at the Library of the horror
events this weekend. That's pretty cool.
Pretty neat story. And I want to follow us up and
just do a couple more sightings on in Arkansas and compare these
to some of the Bigfoot reports that we have down there now,
bfro.net, and that's Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.
They've got just one of the coolest sites around, I think,
and you can go over there. It's really easy to search.
I'll put the link at the Kofi site and they'll give you county
by county references to what people have seen down there.
And this is from 2007. It says the seasons of fall, the
month of November. Now, this is Missouri, Ozark
County, so we're talking about the Ozarks down there.
Location details, it says I have to find the information in
Brixie, Missouri. When I was living in Brixie,
Missouri, I lived out in the country.
We had woods all around us and the houses were also spaced out.
We had a good sized pond in our yard and a lot of deer and other
animals came through to drink from the pond.
One night me and my now ex-husband were asleep.
It was the middle of the night when I was woken up by the sound
of my rabbit that was in a big dog kennel on the porch that was
covered to keep the rabbit from the cold.
The kennel was right outside the front door and under a window
where my bed was. I had a clearview of the front
door and the window. When I woke there was a big dark
figure in the window. It looked big and hairy.
I don't know what it was but I do know it was not a dog,
coyote, a deer, or a bear. My dogs that I had there that I
still have will bark at anything but didn't bark.
One was laying on the sofa like she was trying to hide something
she has never done before and hasn't done since that night.
I now live in Texas and I would really like to know if you guys
have ever got reports out of Missouri or if I'm the first
one. I don't know what it was for
sure but I think it was a Bigfoot.
Wow that's pretty Wildman. That poor rabbit sitting out
there on the back porch. Also notice it says for a few
months we had a few of my ex husband's boss's horses and his
aunt's horses out in a field out by the house.
There were a few times it was like there was something outside
scaring them. It happened about two times.
Both times it happened it was at night the horses would just
start going nuts, running all over the place and just freaking
out. The horses were used to being
around dogs and deer were seen a few times in with the horses and
they never messed with them. However, what was around them
those nights they did not like and they were scared of it.
Man that's pretty wild. Thinking the same might have
been slipping up there just kind of mosing around where the
horses rat it. Says other witnesses.
My ex boss was with me but didn't get to see it.
It was gone in a matter of seconds.
It says no. I never really thought to ask
because I didn't want people laughing at me.
So they hadn't talked to other people about this time and
conditions. It was between 12:00 and 2:00
AM. It was a little chilly out with
a clear night sky. It was dark inside and out.
Tell us that the environment, there was a lot of forest with a
lot of good food and water. A little past the old Brixey
Post office and there was an old diner right across the road
where the house is and where the sighting happened and there is a
nature reserve right down the road.
Sounds like it had lots and lots of habitat now.
They did a follow up investigation.
These guys are always cool about this.
It says follow follow up investigation reported by BFRO
investigator Carter Bouchard. I spoke with a witness who was a
bit reluctant to speak with me. She actually hung up on me
thinking of someone calling to make fun of her.
After we spoke for a bit, she relaxed and recounted the nice
events. The cage or kennel her rabbit
was in was being rattled around by something she felt it was
trying to get to the rabbit. It was a kennel for a larger dog
and she had moved the rabbit from its usual pin to its big
kennel on the front porch to keep it from the wind.
You know, you kind of wonder maybe this thing was just
messing with it too, kind of have all the fun.
It was very cold and this was actually the first night she had
put the rabbit in the kennel and whatever it was was slamming the
kennel around pretty good. Her two dogs, who usually bark
at anything were dead silent and frozen.
A place Her bedroom window is right next to the front door
where the kennel was and she had a direct sight line to the front
of the house. She saw a massive creature just
standing in the front window looking in.
She saw the head and shoulders from her bed which is about 15
to 20 feet from the window. Her porch is 3 feet off the
ground and the creature had moved off the porch and was
standing in front of the window just off the porch.
With her porch being 3 feet off the ground and her window was
another three to four feet high. She and I estimated the height
to be 7 foot plus she felt like the siding lasted for at least
30 seconds to a minute. They just stared at each other
during this entire event. She was trying to awaken her now
ex-husband and when he finally awoke the creature took off.
He saw nothing. The only ambient light was a
single yard light up on a telephone pole which backlit the
creature. Light was about 30 feet up a
foam pole and at least 50 to 60 feet from the home.
The situation with the horses was that they were being kept at
her place as a favour. She was familiar with them, had
seen them in their normal environment and they were
peaceful, not afraid of dogs or other animals.
Yet when they got to her place, there was something that was
spooking them. She could not say it was a
Bigfoot or any other animal that was speaking them.
Just that being at her place made them very skittish.
Soon after this incident, she divorced and moved to Texas.
And it's got a picture of the investigator down here.
They just do such great detail on this bfro.net site.
I mean, these guys, they, they really got it together.
Now this last one here also comes from BFRO, Bigfoot
Research organization, Bigfoot Field Research organization.
Another great one. This is from says approximately
1985 season winner State of Missouri Ozark County.
Location details from Hwy. 60 E from Springfield, MO Take
highway 5 S to Hwy. 95 N and it's approximately 6 miles then
left County Road. Can't remember the number of the
road. Nearest town Gainesville nearest
Rd. Hwy. 95.
And I did have to do a little bit of editing on this just to
make it easier to read. The experiencer tells us I was
just a kid when I saw it. I was sitting in the back of an
old shaved citation that was pretty new at the time.
My uncle was driving, my aunt was in the passenger seat, and
my little cousin, who was around four or five, was sitting in the
back seat with me. We were coming home, I believe
from visiting family or something.
My aunt and uncle live down this old dirt Rd. about two miles
long. Right before their driveway,
which was on the left, there was an old dry branch or Creek that
ran across the road. It didn't have a concrete slab
to cross over it, so you had to slow down a little to cross.
Directly to the right of the Creek was an old driveway
leading to an abandoned house that no one had lived in for
years. It was dark, so naturally we had
the headlights on. As my uncle began slowing down
to pass over the rough gravel, something in the corner of my
eye came into view. My aunt kind of screamed, but
not loudly because we were amazed and terrified.
Something that looked to be around 8 feet tall.
I know I was 10 or 11 and as a kid it was huge.
Came across the branch which led out of the old driveway.
So you see this Bigfoot just sauntering across this dry Creek
there. It must have really been
something. It wasn't running, but walking
briskly and it came directly in front of the car.
We all just stared as if it were some dream.
It was swinging its arms a little and acted like we were
not even there. It walked across the Creek and
cross the Watergate. I don't remember if it went
under or over, but what I do remember is that the branch had
washed out the Bank of my uncle's yard.
His perimeter fence was quite tall if you were standing in the
dry Creek. And this bright red haired thing
jumped over from the bed of the branch like it was nothing and
into my uncle's yard. While so he's saying that this
thing was pretty tall as fence was, but this creature Bigfoot,
whatever it was, it just jumped up out of this Creek bed over
this tall fence just like it was nothing not not something a
human really even be able to think about doing.
Mind you, we were still watching from the car.
We could see it walk up through the yard and up the hill until
we lost sight of it with the headlights.
My uncle turned into the driveway and we all looked and
we all locked the doors. My aunt and uncle did the count
of three thing and we opened the doors and ran inside the house.
Once inside my uncle got his hunting rifle out and we went
outside with his floodlight to look for it.
On his way back he tripped on the cord which came unplugged.
Then he yelled and got up and ran into the house and locked
the door. To this day if you ask him about
what he saw he will say he saw something but doesn't know what
it was or that somebody was playing a joke on us.
My aunt will tell you that she saw Bigfoot and so will I.
My little cousin was too small to remember much, but I remember
to this day I don't go out into the woods without a weapon to
the best of my ability. This is what it looked like.
It was around 7 to 8 feet tall, completely covered in red hair
and one feature I remember is that his arms looked almost as
long as his legs. It was not afraid of us.
Also, at the time there was a man who I do not remember but
who lived in the area and was at the local store in Sutter,
Missouri. He was telling everyone that he
had seen Bigfoot and no one believed him.
So none of us ever made much mention of it except a family or
close friends. But I believe I know what I saw.
Wow that is really impactful. What a cool story.
Goes on down here. Says it seems like my uncle the
next day could see footprints in his yard but I don't remember my
uncle and aunt and me and my little cousin.
We're all witnesses and he says that's it except for the man a
month earlier claiming to have seen Bigfoot, which no one
believed. Tells us that this happened
around midnight and that there was in a heavily wooded
environment. Goes on as his follow up
investigation report by Investigator Stanley Courtney.
I spoke with both the witnesses and his aunt by phone.
Although he was young at the time, the witness remembered
many of the same details as his aunt.
The aunt added that there was a bright moon and they could see
rather well with the headlights on.
The animal appeared thin with a rounded head, long arms having
brownish red hair extending past his waist.
She stated that it acted as if it was startled and walked
arched over, kind of leaning as it left, swinging its arms.
Wow, it's almost kind of a sad sight.
So there we have this kind of a target rich area down there in
the Ozarks where there's a Blue Man or whether it's Bigfoot, you
have this heavily forested area with lots of remote places to go
out and look for these things at and lots of cool sightings.
Whether it's 18601960 or 2024, they're still seeing these large
bipedal cryptids down there in the Ozarks.
Until next time, this is UFO warning over and out.