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Bugs the BigFoot killer

A caller tonight was asking Art about a show he did once that had this guy on calling himself "Bugs". The guy purportedly had killed a couple BigFoots and had them in storage. Art says that he believed Bugs because he said the guy was scared shirtless.

Can any hard-core Art Bell fans out there tell me what the original airdate is on that show? I would love to get a hold of a copy of that show.

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It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. - Jack Handey

Space, I believe that the original call to Art from "Bugs" was made in 1995 or the first few months of 1996. I think that it was on "Dreamland" when Art hosted that show rather than on "Coast to Coast AM" but I am not completely certain of this.

The following is from the Art Bell Commemorative CD and is the earliest mention of Bugs on the CD but the listings only go back to September 1996. I am sure that it is not the original call but a subsequent one.

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4/2/97 - Wednesday / Thursday

* Area 51 Pilot.... Art replays the conversation with a guy flying a plane into area 51.
* Porky.... The guy in Sitka, Alaska who pulled an April Fools joke by lighting tires on fire on top of a mountain to similate a volcano will be talking with Art to.
* Bigfoot.... A gentleman named Dan joins Art to relate a bigfoot story and a photograph he has taken is available on the web.
* Bugs... Our old friend Bugs contacts Art via Fax and Art puts him back on the air to relate his story of his shooting of a bigfoot.
* Schramek.... Chuck Schramek comes on to discuss his life after the Hale-Bopp fiasco.
* Hepatitis.... Thousands of students in California and Georgia will be innoculated today against Hepatitis A after eating contaminated strawberries. Art puts this story in the "Quickening" category.
* Weather.... The Northwest continuing to get hammered with hurricane type winds.
* Sailor.... Another U.S. Sailor arrested in Japan for allegedly sexually assaulting his 21 year old Japenese girlfriend. Art feels the Japanese will again be very unhappy with us.

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racehorse

http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/articles/bugs.htm

The "Bugs" Affair

"Bugs" Texas Bigfoot Carcasses

Dateline: January 1976 shooting of two supposed bigfoot and their burial on the Elm Creek in the Texas Panhandle by a man identified as "Bugs" and two of his hunting friends.

On a recent Art Bell broadcast a former marine and Texas farmer identified as Bugs claims that he and two other Viet Nam veteran friends shot and killed two 6 toed bigfoot on the Elm Creek while hunting for pelts to sell for profit at night with spotlights and rifles, subsequently burying the two bigfoot for fear of murder charges because the creatures looked so humanlike. They swore each other to secrecy. Bugs recently provided Bell with a map to the location where the burial occurred. Bugs went into great detail of the creatures descriptions, describing the male as nearly 8 foot tall, and 350 pounds and the female less in height and 30 pounds or so lighter. Longtime bigfoot researcher Robert Morgan helped Art Bell interview Bugs. Bugs thought Morgan would know that the bigfoot have "six toes", evidently thinking all bigfoot have six toes. Bugs seemed to have little knowledge of other bigfoot evidence in North America.

Living, hunting and farming in western Kansas myself at that time period and also having relatives in the Texas Panhandle, I am familiar with pelt prices at that time period in the area, the said location and also the soils present. All these items and Bugs stories regarding these items are perfect. Bugs himself in the entire interview process seemed and sounded completely sincere, going into fine detail. Bugs claims that now at age 56 he feels guilty and wants to get this incident off his chest. Bugs also claims fear that these local bigfoot still remember his deed and have it in for him. Bigfoot researcher Robert Morgan was in on the interview of Bugs with Art Bell, and he cultured Bugs fears that the bigfoot remember his deed and that "Bugs now needs to make friends with them with Morgan's help."

My conclusion is that Bugs probably does farm and live in the said area of the Texas Panhandle and that the way he related the story is seemingly in complete sincerity. I also conclude from past experience that some people can spin wild detailed and completely detailed yarns with a straight face and seemingly completely sincere. I also conclude that the Texas Panhandle is part of the Bible Belt and giants with 6 toes are included in Bible accounts. I further conclude that an 8 foot bigfoot male, would likely weigh much more than 350 pounds if well muscled as described by bugs. I have also never seen any physical evidence in the form of footprints come from that area in spite of nice soft farm soils for making tracks in for all these many years that farmers have been tilling the soil there. I for one am not going to go to the Elm Creek area of Texas to dig 4 to 5 foot deep for 25 year old bones of a hairy six toed goliath and his female counterpart, but perhaps someone might.

I urge everyone to go to www.artbell.com and listen themselves to Bugs' story in the archive section. If Bugs is making the whole thing up, he did a really good job of it, except for the few oddities in his descriptions. The story will likely stay with us for awhile, so researchers should probably be informed on it. I still have never seen anything of concrete evidence east of the Rockies for all these years of only sightings from there, while from the western states I have seen hundreds of pieces of very consistent physical evidence.

Article contributed by Keith Foster

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racehorse

Kewl, thanks RH, nice to see you!

fab

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gone fishing....

Kewl! This give me a frame of reference for how long I've been tuning in. I had been listening for about a year when I heard the 'Bugs" show. When I first started listening Malachai Martin was very popular - I'm thinking the end of '95, beginning of '96.
Those were the days. <sigh>

There must have been an earlier Bugs appearance before 1997, since that one refers to "old friend" Bugs. Then Bugs returned in 2001 with bigfoot researcher Robert W. Morgan for his "final" appearance:

6/05/01 - Tue/Wed
Guest: Robert W. Morgan with "Bugs"
Bigfoot Researcher and Founder of The American Anthropological Research Foundation

Thanx a bundle for the research and info. guys! I knew I could count on you.

With the dates and details it helps with tracking down the shows a little easier.

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It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. - Jack Handey

was there any follow-up on this case????

if they had six toes then must have been six fingers per hand. also, reading many stories of bones found of giants then there would be two sets of teeth, their regular teeth then one more set directly in back.

also would like to hear some followup on this too.

andy