Is There A Booger In Your Area?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 16th, 2012
In our journey through “name game” links to how various past Bigfoot, Mystery Cat or other cryptid sightings and folklore are often left as an artifact in geography, via the naming of the land, we must consider “Booger.”
Like most words that seem tied to past close encounters of the monstrous kind, the obvious is often taken for granted.
Devil Monkey © Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe 1999, 2006; © Harry Trumbore 1999, 2006, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates.
Booger is related to the same origins as boogey man and is a generalized place name now for areas where any kind of strange beasts have been seen. Remember the “Belt Road Booger“? Tom Finley has investigated “boogers.”
Henry Franzoni doing research on the name once found sixteen Booger locations in the USA and Canada.
There is a Booger Pond in South Carolina, Booger Den Hollow, Booger Hill, Booger Hollow and Boogertown Gap, all in Tennessee, Booger Canyon in New Mexico, Booger Branch and Boogertown in North Carolina, Booger Hole Slough in Mississippi, Booger Hollow in Kentucky and one in Arkansas, Booger Canyon and Booger Spring in Arizona, The Booger Hole and Boogerhill cemetery in Alabama, and Booger Lake in Ontario.
There are more out there, as lots of Booger spots, a creek here, a pond there, in the South just are not on any of the newer, bigger maps.
Do you have one in your area?
For more on another closely related name game, see the “Fayette Factor.”
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Sounds like a derogatory term for bigfoot
Always loved the area around Booger hollow. Too bad the old trading post/tourist trap closed. Famous for its Double Decker Outhouse (still there) and the Dover Lights.
No boogers, but in the early 1970′s in and around Iowa City, IA (both north and south of town), people kept reporting a “bird man” because of the way it screeched or screamed. Sand Road was a big area of sightings and reports (south of town), and my mother remembers driving out there to see if they could see it or hear it.
North of town it was Dingleberry Quarry where people kept reporting. I have an aunt who was out there hiking with a girl friend and something started thrashing in the trees. They took off back for the car in a hurry. My aunt remembers opening the door, getting in, and she glanced back to see something big and black coming out onto the trail. Then they took off.
Go figure.