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| Christina Windmiller holds a Momo cast made yesteryear her father |
While Doris Harrison all the same claims the Momo sighting was rattling real, in that location is retired schoolhouse teacher, Priscilla Giltner, who thinks several of her pupils faked the whole thing. It is of import to banking corporation annotation she was out of town at the fourth dimension of the 1972 sighting. You tin picket her interview below as well as a in-depth storey from the Herald-Whig after that.
By RODNEY HARTHerald-Whig Staff WriterLOUISIANA, Mo. -- Mention the discussion "Momo" around Louisiana these days, as well as you'll learn everything from laughs to furrowed brows.Some tell it was a hoax perpetrated yesteryear several kids amongst active imaginations. Others swear it was a large ape-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the pocket-size Mississippi River town twoscore years agone this month.One affair is sure enough -- people yell back the creature.It was dubbed the "Missouri Monster," or Momo for short. It caused a huge uproar inwards the surface area as well as nationally equally people searched for the creature. For years later, Louisiana businesses had celebrations similar "Momo Days." Montgomery City native Bill Whyte, right away based inwards Nashville as well as scheduled to perform July 28 at the Pike County Fair, fifty-fifty wrote a vocal virtually Momo.The location where it all started is nigh Ninth as well as Allen streets, correct side yesteryear side to what is right away called Star Hill. Back as well as thus it was called Marzum Hill, as well as the Harrison menage unit of measurement lived correct side yesteryear side to it.The 3 immature Harrison children, Terry, Walley as well as Doris, claimed to lead keep seen a tall, night as well as hairy creature. There was an awful olfactory belongings coming from it, as well as it appeared to live holding a dead animal.Doris Harrison Bliss was fifteen during that summertime of 1972, as well as she says Momo was real."I was inwards the bath cleaning the sink, as well as I looked upward out the window as well as I saw it," Bliss said Tuesday afternoon from her Louisiana home. "I made my brothers come upward in, because they were scared to death."When Edgar Harrison, their father, returned abode that afternoon, he constitute brush beaten downwardly where the children said the creature had been. In a 1985 interview amongst The Herald-Whig, Edgar Harrison claimed to lead keep seen 2 creatures behind the house."It was almost similar a human except it had dark pilus all over it," Harrison told Herald-Whig Staff Writer Edward Husar.What followed were reports yesteryear many of seeing the monster, hearing foreign noises as well as sniffing awful odors. Louisiana Police Chief Shelby Ward didn't believe inwards Momo, but amongst many gun-toting citizens crashing through undergrowth inwards the area, he became concerned as well as organized a 20-man search political party 8 days after the furor started.Nothing was ever found.More sightings were reported inwards areas around Louisiana, as well as media began arriving from around the solid position down to study on the foreign story. There was fifty-fifty a see from a human being who ran the Unidentified Flying Objects Bureau.Clyde Penrod made a plaster cast of a foreign footprint believed to live made yesteryear the monster. There is confusion virtually where the footprint was constitute -- his daughter, Christina Windmiller, says the three-toed footprint was located on the River Road that runs along the Mississippi River. Other reports said it was made on a nearby farm nearly a calendar month after the creature, or creatures, were sighted."It's genuinely prissy to mean value that it (Momo) was real," Windmiller, who was a yr one-time when the hysteria started, said. "But it likely wasn't."Priscilla Giltner is a retired schoolteacher from Louisiana who thinks several of her pupils faked the whole thing. She won't yell their names, but she laughs when remembering."I had them inwards school, as well as 1 of them dressed upward equally Momo," Giltner says. "It was zippo inwards the basis but a prank. They were upward on Star Hill for whatever reason, as well as for whatever reason, God exclusively knows, they decided to delineate this trick."I genuinely don't mean value they counted on anybody genuinely seeing them upward there."Giltner, whose husband, Donald, was the mayor of Louisiana from 2006 to 2010, says she was on a menage unit of measurement opor-garai inwards Georgia when it all started. Her boy went to learn a newspaper, as well as they were astounded to encounter a large headline maxim "Big Foot Has Found H5N1 Mate In Louisiana, Missouri."Momo may non lead keep been real, as well as it never was captured, but the resulting attending it brought to the sleepy river town inwards Pike County was zippo but good. Momo Days, the vocal virtually Momo as well as other events helped the town remember."There was fifty-fifty a Momoburger at the local Dairy Queen," Priscilla Giltner says. "It sort of sparked this town up. It's sort of our thing. We don't lead keep much, but nosotros create lead keep Momo as well as nobody else tin claim Momo but us."The boys involved inwards the prank merely had active imaginations, the retired schoolteacher claims."I don't respect anything incorrect amongst what they did," she says.The solid where Doris Harrison Bliss lived amongst her right away deceased parents as well as brothers was torn downwardly concluding year, but the memories remain."I was harassed virtually it a lot at school, as well as I don't fifty-fifty similar to utter virtually it," Bliss says. "But it's true. I wouldn't prevarication to you."I used to loathe talking virtually it, because people made fun of me as well as stuff, but now, as well as you lot tin pardon my French, they tin osculate my (butt). I saw what I saw as well as I heard what I heard."
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