Snow Community News - By Shirley Taylor
On one of our trips moved to this area. We drove past Bugtussle Road between Snow and Finley. Researching the name was an experiment in some Indian history. We also being a fan of The Beverly Hillbillies we ran across the mayor of a town of Bug Tussle. The great James - niving mayor of the city of Bug Tussle, who Jed and Granny especially are fond of. His BIG SECRET is that he needs fast cash to cover all the town money he embezzled over the years! This was a running gag throughout the series as most every con man or woman wanted to get a hold of the Clamwas an enormously popular actor, usually playing big winded characters with his booming voice and personality. He was in several to the 1940s and one of the original producers at the Hollywood. There’s a hilarious scene as the mayor meets fellow con man Mr. Drysdale. Believe it or not, notes indicate that there are a few small towns named Bug Tussle across the US. fancy antique car as he arrives at the Clampett’s estate. Obviously, this was wouldn’t it be funny if we actually found the previous Mayor of Bugtussle down the road. There are several that have a colorful history to them. Honobia, Is one of these towns. The community is named for O-nobi-a, Choctaw Indian land allottee. The name of the community is pronounced locally “Hoe-nubby.”
Following the Choctaw Indians’ relocation to the area over the Trail of Tears, and the establishment of the Choctaw Nation there, Honobia became home to a Choctaw settlement. Until statehood the area was part of Wade - nubbee District of the Choctaw Nation. Although the national capital and its stately Choctaw Capitol Building were located only - homa, Honobia was (and remains) isolated. An was alerted to his window in February after his dog - ing in fear. The McAlester man claimed he saw was an 8-foot tall, 800-pound “bipedal humanoid creature” cross in front of his window and disappear into a drainage canal. Around the same timeframe of the and snorting in some woods along the same drainage canal system during an early from a deer “blowing in alarm” and what she heard, and added that there was The noise scared her so much, she peddled straight home. The reports are two of more than a dozen Troy Hudson, founder of the Research Organization, and his team receives in a year. Hudson said growing up in a Native American household, he would always hear
“But the word Bigfoot was never used, so I never had any of that in my mind,” Hudson said. “It wasn’t until I got into that I heard and the things more sense.” He said he - ever seen a Bigfoot. The co - foot expedition in Honobia, located in the eastern part of the state near the Kiamichi Mountains. Hudson because he has family that lived near there and went to Boy Scout Camp in the same area. Hudson said after the conversation, he signed up to go on the expedition and was eventually recruited to run and organize the expeditions in 2006. He began running the Bigfoot Festival in Honobia in 2010 before deciding to step down and start NOBRO. “Basically, whenever somebody has a property, a piece of property or they live in a rural or remote area what’s going on. We go out and investigate those locations,” Hudson said. “Now but nine times out of 10, we usually don’t go out and investigate those because months old and they are really not much more than just collecting data.” Reports are then sorted by - in February in McAlester, are when the reporter saw a - port from Krebs around the same time as the McAlester sighting, means the reporter heard sounds or vocals, seen a shadow, or found footprints. A Class C report something Bigfoot related before starting NOBRO, said investigations are coninvestigation by getting the follow-up questions before searching the area for evidence. We live in a very in
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