It goes by many names: Skunk Ape, Wendigo, Sasquatch, Bigfoot. But the folks of southwest Arkansas only know it as The Boggy Creek Monster. The 8-foot tall, hairy, bipedal, humanoid monster that ...

Throughout June, the Arkansas Cinema Society is showing five movies not only set in The Natural State but also filmed here. First on deck is Charles B. Pierce’s “The Legend of Boggy Creek,” a 1972 ...

DOVER, Tenn. — Charles B. Pierce, an independent filmmaker whose inexpensively made documentary-style drama “The Legend of Boggy Creek” influenced the hit film “The Blair Witch Project” decades later, ...

You could argue the two most noteworthy cinematic icons to have come out of Arkansas are actor/writer/director Billy Bob Thornton and the large hairy Sasquatch monster in Charles B. Pierce's 1972's ...

DOVER, Tenn. (AP) -- Charles B. Pierce, an independent filmmaker whose inexpensively made "The Legend of Boggy Creek" made him something of a legend himself, has died at the age of 71. Wayne Anglin of ...