The Tickfaw River runs 113 miles from Amite County in southwest Mississippi to Livingston Parish in southeast Louisiana. Its mouth opens into Lake Maurepas, which conjoins with Lake Pontchartrain. The name Tickfaw is thought to be derived from the Choctaw phrase meaning “pine rest” or “Rest Among the Pines.”
A listener writes “I discovered the podcast about a year ago. Here’s a story from an experience a friend and I had while squirrel hunting. A friend and I decided to go squirrel hunting Nov of 1994. We were both early 20’s.
I had access to some family land it’s roughly 70 acres that borders the Tickfaw river pronounced (tick fall). This is roughly 40 minutes east of Baton Rouge and hour and half north of New Orleans. Me and a buddy were hunting when we came to a spot in the river that we swam and put our kayaks in. We noticed something on the opposite bank on all fours with its head in the water. My friend whistled this thing stood upright.
Was roughly 25yds away. I’m 5’10 my buddy was 6’4 from the distance appeared to be roughly our height covered in reddish brown hair and it had breast. It’s looking across at us with an O crap expression. I would say about 30 seconds passed before we heard an “ope ope ope” sound nope without the n. When she heard that this creature actually gave us a little wave spun around and got out of sight quickly.
A couple years later I told my encounter to an older cousin and he told me my grandfather use to tell them leave the river monkey alone. It looked like a smaller version of the Bigfoot from Harry and the Henderson’s.”
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