 It received brief widespread attention in the early 1970s due to sightings/claims of a bigfoot-like creature known as the ""Fouke Monster,"" as well as the subsequent fictitious docudrama movie "The Legend of Boggy Creek," which played nationwide.The area around Fouke had long been inhabited by the Native American Caddo, prior to European colonization of the Americas.Caddo tribes and European explorers traded pelts, honey, beeswax, flour, tobacco, blankets, guns, and other items.