Missouri has different levels of secondary roads. Going from OK to not so good to gravel to fire roads. Fire roads here are more or less goat trails. I was on one of these goat trails several years ago. This particular back breaker is about four miles long and deadends at an old graveyard. I know it as Rambo graveyard from the locals and it affiliation with a church of the same name. There is also a large sink hole back in there that I had found while deer hunting. Its quite interesting and big enough to swallow a house. Anyway I saw something that day. It was large upright and moving very fast. I was looking out of the drivers side window when it flashed in front of me. What I caught seemed to be shoulder blades and small of the back as it entered the under brush. What I noticed first was the speed then the apparent size. The color of the hair was reddish brown and long. I honestly dont know what it was. I do know it wasn't a bear, deer or hog.
Momo is the name of a local legend, similar to the
Bigfoot, which is reported to live in
Missouri. The name Momo is short for 'Missouri Monster' and it is reported to have a large, pumpkin-shaped head, with a furry body, and hair covering the eyes, which resembles a shag carpet. First reported in 1971, near
Louisiana, Missouri by Joan Mills and Mary Ryan, Momo was first reported up and down the
Mississippi River with later sightings documented further west by travel of water ways. It is supposedly a large, 7 ft (2.1 m) tall, hairy, black, manlike creature that emits a terrible odor. Some suggest it was a rogue
American Indian. Following sightings in 1972 beginning at 3:30 pm July 11, first reported by Terry, Wiley, and Doris Harrison, and lasting for about two weeks, tracks were found and submitted to Lawrence Curtis, director of the
Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden. He deemed the tracks to be that of an unknown primate species.[
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