MOMO, THE MONSTER THAT TIME FORGOT

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

For a few months back in the summer of 1972, a shaggy beast terrorized the tiny town of Louisiana Missouri, scaring the living bejezuz out of kids and adults and mystifying researchers. He had been spotted at a year previous but forgotten- passed off as a prank, but when he came back, he did so with a vengeance- killing at least one dog, and running one family out of their home. He left genuine three toed footprints, smelled like long dead meat, and had thick black hair covering his face and body. He was witnessed by dozens, He was also accompaniied by very strange lights and objects in the sky, Sometime after 1972, the beast called MoMo (for Missouri Monster) ,like Puff the Magic Dragon, slipped sadly back into his cave. But his legend survives as the monster that time forgot.

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0:00.0	The Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one heroes, legends, histories, histories, and mysteries
0:31.3	podcast. This is your host, John Hagadorn, and it's great to have you with us for another
0:36.1	adventure into history, and this time, the unknown. I was watching a Missing 411 documentary by David Poletus on
0:44.7	YouTube. He has a lot of them, but this one dealt with missing hunters in North America,
0:49.8	and I found it fascinating. For those of you who are not familiar with the Missing 411 series and its author slash host David Politas,
0:57.8	it deals with the mountain of research and interviews that former police officer turned paranormal investigator,
1:04.4	David Politas, has put together in order to document the strange missing persons cases which have taken place in North America, mostly
1:12.1	in national parks, but in remote areas as well.
1:15.9	In the hunter series I watched, Politas chose that particular category of missing persons,
1:21.0	because hunters are generally very familiar with the territory in which they're hunting.
1:24.9	They're not intimidated by the wild, and they know how to handle themselves,
1:28.3	and they're armed. Men and women like this generally do not vanish into thin air. Yet, many cases exist,
1:35.8	many of them, and they seem to occur more often in what Politas describes as hotspots throughout North
1:40.9	America. There are enough cases of hunters vanishing into thin air alone for him to be
1:45.7	able to list similarities between the cases, similarities in landscape, weather, in details of the
1:52.3	search, in lack of witnesses as to how they vanished, and many others. For example, in the case of
1:59.6	missing hunters, they're either hunting alone or separated from their party when they vanish.
2:05.1	There are no signs of foul play. There are no tracks to follow from the last known location they occupied.
2:11.6	Dogs can't pick up their scent. Usually, no gear is found by search parties, or when it is, it either turns up months later,
2:19.3	or in places where there's no rational reason why it should be found there.
2:23.3	The areas where disappearances happen are often filled with boulders and rocky areas and outcrops.
2:29.3	There's almost always foul weather involved within a day or two after the disappearance.
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