I found these "Monster Feet" at an estate sale this summer. It reminded me of the Bigfoot scare/mania of the 1970's when Bigfoot seemingly waited around every tree in every forest around me.
These aren't water wings, folks. Don't use them as a life preserver.
Raymond Castile over at The Basement of Horror was able to provide the shot below of the original packaging.
In 1977, I was in fourth grade and I remember the local St. Louis news doing coverage about "MoMo", the Missouri Monster, which was our version of Bigfoot. The first sighting of MoMo was in Louisiana, Missouri in 1972, so I'm not sure what piqued the local interest again 5 years later. I do see there was a Bigfoot book published in 1977 that featured a story on MoMo, so it could be that. Whatever the reason, MoMo was all the buzz on the playground the next day. One girl in my class claimed she'd seen it in the woods behind her house. Of course, we all believed her. I became terrified to enter the woods behind my own house and think I probably stayed out of the them the entire summer afterward.
Funny how those sort of generational memories spread without the aid of social media. I was still in Colorado at the time, and you can be damn sure i was scared of the forest at night, and i remember my nephew and i being absolutely convinced we heard Bigfoot howls one night at my grandmother's cabin in the Rockies. BTW, those feet look like they would be sweat-inducing, yuck.
ReplyDelete>Funny how those sort of generational memories spread without the aid of social media.
DeleteThe playground was the water cooler (which is no longer a thing either) of my day.
>BTW, those feet look like they would be sweat-inducing, yuck.
That may explain the fungus...
Kids love to hear scary tales of monsters. But sorry it ruined your summer of forest bathing.
ReplyDeleteWell, there were snakes too, so double jeopardy.
DeleteI think my over 50 year old brother would STILL like to get these. LOL
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