Guess Who Is Coming To Dinner?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 26th, 2011
Rita Graham’s Washington State encounter from Mysterious Monsters (1976). Dated to September 12, 1975, in the narration above, and to June 1975, according to the trailer’s narrator, below.
Washington State summary begins at 1:30 minute mark. End of trailer has a classic drive-in movie ad.
The Rita Graham incident in Mysterious Monsters (1976) reminds folks of the bathroom scene in The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972).
Of course, in The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, there is the tent encounter (starting at the 6:00 minute mark in the first clip below).
Released in 1957, it predates both of the 1970s’ scenes. For its time, that Yeti movie was meant to scare the living daylights out of its audiences, as can be understood from the tone of the trailer at the bottom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010JEvQQwzo
The idea (and thus imagery) of a Yeti getting into a tent during a Nepalese expedition was a real fear for these explorers.
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Hey, Loren! there should always be some scary stuff at Christmastime as well as all the warm, fuzzy stuff. There always HAS been…the BBC for YEARS on both radio and television has remembered that..featuring ghost stories not only from Charles Dickens but from M. R. James and others at this festive time of the year.
Thank you for the scary side of Squatching!
That scene from “Mysterious Monsters” scared me so bad as a little kid, I didn’t sleep next to windows for years. I actually met an Oregon native a few years ago who told me that scene was a re-creation of an event that allegedly happened to his uncle and aunt.