What Do You Call Bigfoot? Names by State

Ask ten people what to call the big fella in the treeline and you'll get ten answers, and about four of them will start with “well, where I'm from…” Here's the map we keep behind the counter at the farm store.

Sasquatch: the name that started it all

Long before anybody printed him on a t‑shirt, he was Sasquatch — a name that comes to English by way of the Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest. It's the oldest name most of us know, and it's still the one that sounds the most like respect. That's the one we put on our labels, and it's the one the farm is named for.

Bigfoot: the nickname that went national

By the late 1950s, northern California logging crews were reporting enormous tracks pressed into the mud around Bluff Creek. Newspapers ran with the obvious nickname, and Bigfoot stuck so hard that it swallowed every regional name in the country — at least on the evening news. Locally, though, the old names never went anywhere.

Wood Booger: our neighbor here in Appalachia

Up and down the Appalachians — and especially over in southwest Virginia — he's the Wood Booger. It's the name we hear most from guests who grew up in these hills, usually delivered with a grin and a story about a grandfather who "saw something once" and never talked about it again. If you're camped at the farm and something big moves through the treeline after dark, congratulations: you've met the neighbor.

Skunk Ape: Florida's swamp cousin

Head south into the Florida cypress swamps and he picks up a name that tells you exactly what people remember about the encounter — the Skunk Ape. Same big fella, hotter climate, considerably worse manners downwind.

Grassman: Ohio's field walker

Ohio calls him the Grassman, after a habit of moving through tall grass and cornfields instead of deep timber. Farm country produces farm-country legends.

Momo: the Missouri Monster

In the early 1970s a small Missouri town had a summer it never quite lived down, and out of it came Momo — short and sweet for the Missouri Monster. Short name, long memory.

The Boggy Creek Monster: Arkansas royalty

Down in Arkansas he's the Boggy Creek Monster, also known as the Fouke Monster after the little town at the center of it all. A 1972 docudrama turned the story into drive-in legend, which arguably makes him the most famous movie star on this list.

And a few more, for the collectors

Mogollon Monster — Arizona, along the Mogollon Rim. Proof he does not require a forest to be scary.
Honey Island Swamp Monster — Louisiana, and yes, the swamp is doing a lot of the work here.
Yeti — the Himalayan relative. Different mountains, different coat, same tailoring problem.

Why we keep a list at all

Because it's the fastest way to figure out where somebody's from. We've had folks pull into the campground, look at a shirt, and say "we call him the Wood Booger where I'm from" — and thirty seconds later we're deep in a story about a county road in 1987. That's the whole reason Squatchy Style started at a campground instead of a warehouse. Every design has been worn on our trails before it ever got a price tag.

So whatever you call him — Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Wood Booger, Skunk Ape, Grassman, Momo, or the Boggy Creek Monster — he's family at our farm. And there's a shirt here with his name on it, more or less.