Giant Spider Reported in MIssouri

Fisherman Spots Giant Spider in Missouri River

By Cryptozoology News December 29th, 2013

LEXINGTON, Mo. — A man had an eerie encounter Saturday while fishing the Missouri River on the stretch between Kansas City and Lexington, M0.
L. Smith, 45, claims he saw a strange “hairy critter” he wasn’t able to identify. The creature, he says, was at least five feet wide and had “long, hairy legs that looked like a spider.”

“I’m lucky to go fishing almost every weekend, wife allowing, so I know what kind of animals live around here. I have plenty of experience around the the woods and the river… It was around noon, I sit down a few mins for a smoke, when I start hearing dry leaves moving on the left. I turn my head to where I heard the noise and I see a huge, long pair of hairy legs grabbing my canteen that I had just placed there a few seconds ago. Sheesh, it scared the bejesus out of me, I almost swallowed the smoke.”

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Smith says the incident only lasted a few seconds and that he wasn’t able to get many details of the creature. “It was fast, it felt like when a spider catches its prey. I can tell you the hairs on the legs looked black, very thick, attached to the legs, it reminded me of the quills of a porcupine, only I guarantee you that it was not a porcupine. Porcupines don’t have long legs like that. You seen those spiders from the cartoons when they come out of the quicksand? Something like that.”
Smith investigated the area where he claims the incident occurred, but he wasn’t able to find a hole on the ground where the alleged “spider” made its appearance.
“I know people won’t believe me, but that thing is not something you’d find any place in America. I don’t believe it either. That thing measured, I estimate, around five feet wide.”
The Jba Fofi, also known as the Congolese Giant spider, is well known among the natives of Central Africa. This cryptid arthropod is presumably has been a favorite subject of researchers across the world. Local stories tell these five foot spiders construct tunnels under the tree roots and then cover them with leaves, allowing them to ambush their prey. Their eggs are supposed to be yellow and the spiderlings a bright yellow and purple color. George Eberhart describes people’s encounters with these creatures in his book Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology – Volume 1.
Naturalist Williams J. Gibbons writes he learned about these creatures from the natives while looking for the Mokele-Mbembe, an alleged living dinosaur: “These giant ground-dwelling spiders prey on the diminutive forest antelope, birds, and other small game, and are said to be extremely dangerous, not to mention highly venomous”.
Most of the Jba Fofi sightings have happened in Congo, although there are a few reports coming from Papua New Guinea (1942), Louisiana (1948), Cameroon (2001), Brazil (2011), and Texas (2013).
This is the first known report of a giant spider sighting in Missouri.

http://cryptozoologynews.com/fisherman-spots-giant-spider-missouri-river/

[This is also possibly some sort of a large crustacean as seems likely in other locations, but the fact there was no hole in the ground where it seems to have come out of makes a very strong hint it was not reral in the physical sense-DD]

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From the Hairy People Facebook group. I think the dialogue there best explains the circumstances of why I included this:

Dale Drinnon I would want to run this picture on my blog and point out some features of interest in possible identification as to identity. I would include the link to ebay as part of the posting and to this wall too if you like. I believe I may have expressed such an interest for other artwork you have here before.

October 31 at 8:43pm · Like · 2

 

 

Michael Jon Wawrzyniec This one is based on Arkansas ,i lived there in the 70,s off and on and heard many storys of the fouke county hairy man , and other stoys of indian lore with the hairy people that make you forget ,oh say ha, ? I never actually seen any down there ,but invision them in the backwoods with differant envirnmental living conditions creating slightly differant hair ,body, and looks according to my knowledge of the area , my sightings 3 were all here between 2000 & 2005 withen a 3county are two in rockingham va. One on the green county border, skyline drive*

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Merrie Barnes I lived in a little place called England Arkansas (transplanted from Newport RI-total culture shock!) in the early 80's and used to listen to the 'ole folks talk about the foulk monster but never put it together with bf..

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Dale Drinnon This is just perfect. I just had a similar picture from Indiana and I had made such comments as I mentioned, and also said it was a good match for reports in Kentucky and Tennessee, but I had to yank it at the last minute because the person that had made the other picture was supposed to have been involved in a hoax. This would be the perfect replacement for me and I could add Arkansas to that list

October 31 at 8:50pm · Like · 1

 

Michael Jon Wawrzyniec Sometimes I get mixed up and also do some called Wooly Booger but that one lives in southern va.*

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Dale Drinnon Booger is common throught the area, also Mountain Booger. Some people use other names and I have also heard "Hairy Whompas" but that is really the name of a Mystery Cat: some people just like the sound of that "Whomp-Ass"

October 31 at 8:55pm · Like · 2

 

Michael Jon Wawrzyniec But Climate changes all creatures even of the same species, northern versus southern and also southern mountains versus southern swamp, and so on I have spent a lot of time in the wilderness startex when I was 7 skipped school a lot to be there !

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Dale Drinnon Right, that's why I wanted to know the geographic area especially, My initial comments was basically for Indiana and the old Border States of the Civil War era. That includes West Virginia. It may go further than that but my comment was originally a depiction from Indiana and then I said "Hey that looks exactly like reports from Tenneessee and Kentucky"

Below are the features as attested to by witnesses in Indiana and adjoining states , and I can attest to the witnesses insisting on these points, which suggest some form of Archaic Homo sapiens. The double arched brow ridge (NOT just straight across) is diagnostic for Neanderthals (only)

 

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Posted in reply to my message at the Georgia Bigfoot Society by Larry Hagedon: 'Reminds me of the two spiders my brother saw facing off in the Iowa, Missouri, Illinois tri state corners area many years ago. It was a wooded area and they were cutting some trees there for logs. He said he was hooking one up to drag it out and he saw two spiders the size of dinner plates facing off. He didnt want to kill them, and he had no way of capturing them alive, so he went on about his business. My brother never plays jokes like this one could be. He says he saw them, so he saw them. larry'