Clearwater Oklahoma Bigfoot Incident

In memory of Jason J. Patterson. (June 29, 1973 - August 25, 2019)

by Jason J. Patterson

Oklahoma has a rich history of classic Bigfoot encounters, from the El Reno Chicken Man of the late 60's and early 70's and the Green Hill Monster (also from the early 70's) to the Nowata County Noxie Monster of the mid 70's. There are, however, some reports that are less well known. Reports that didn't make the evening news, or become campfire tales that bigfooters tell each other late at night as they listen for those eerie howls from the impenetrable dark.

One such story happened in the 80's outside a Bingo parlor in the Clearwater, Oklahoma area during one of the state's many freak thunderstorms. As the storm weakened, the bingo players began to hear heavy thumping and metal creaking, sounds that could have been attributed to the storm had it not quieted down.

Unable to see the cause of the commotion, as the bingo parlor was a windowless Quonset hut, several people went outside only to find that multiple cars had been overturned where they sat. Some had even been flipped end to end, and lay on their roofs. The rest of the cars in the parking lot had been untouched, an odd revelation if the retreating storm had been responsible.

Later, a few people claimed that they had seen a large, dark figure disappear into the trees that lined the edges of the parking lot. There were also reports of the figure being seen earlier near the parking lot, during lighting flashes as the storm was building in strength. Several people told of a guttural, but high pitched scream that was heard, but others claimed that the sound was the metal from the cars "screaming" as the incident took place.

There was never mention of a follow up investigation or whether prints were found on the rain softened ground, but the encounter still gets mentioned from time to time, some 30 years later.