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Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Ozark howler is the distinctive sound it makes, described by Wikipedia as being “a combination of a wolf’s howl and an elk’s bugle.”
As you will see shortly, this factor has led me to have a personal thought concerning the creature’s true identity. In fact, reports from witnesses who believe they have heard the beast, far outnumber those who claimed to have seen it.
One witness reported that he and his wife did, both within hours of each other on May 28 and 29 of 2011, near Jasper, Arkansas, in Newton County. They promptly reported it to my friend Lon Stickler on the 30th, and he posted it on his popular website Phantoms and Monsters. (If you have never checked it out, do so.)
The couple were camping at a local RV park and took a short hike through a nearby valley in daylight, and on their way back, the man noticed something that seemed to be pacing them a short distance in the brush bordering the trail. During the next 10 minutes, the man caught several brief glimpses of it, but could only describe a “dark four-legged creature moving back and forth slowly through the brush.”
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