THE WHITE RIVER MONSTER - Pictured is a northern section of the White River located near the small town of Cotter, Arkansas. Arkansas monster lore tells tale of a “boxcar-sized,” grayish-white, manatee-like creature - or fish - that has swum the tributaries of the White River as far back, perhaps, as the mid-1800s. The first recorded eye-witnessed encounters began in 1915 near the White River town of Newport, further to the south - with reports (numbering in the hundreds) peaking in 1937 during a “Monster Hunting Frenzy” throughout the River Region. The Unknown Cryptid, which came to be known as “Whitey,” has been alleged to have been seen over the subsequent decades along various portions of the river. Enough anecdotal accounts accumulated to back this folk-tale to spur the Arkansas legislature to enact the 1973 White River Monster Refuge Law which makes it illegal to harm the legendary creature believed to lurk the darkest waters of the White River. Photo by Michael Huntington - April, 2018. @Huntington_Strange_Travels #MichaelHuntington #StrangeTravels #HuntingtonFamily #HuntingtonAdventures #WhiteRiverMonster #Whitey #CryptidWhitey #ArkansasRiverMonster #ArkansasMonster #RiverMonster #Cryptid #Cryptids #WhiteRiverArkansas #WhiteRiverMonsterRefuge #NewportArkansas #CotterArkansas (at White River - Cotter, Arkansas)
