(Photo by Michael Maslan/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) Is this a legitimate site?Īmong the few relatively (perhaps) “legitimate sites” I could find was the KIX 105-7 country music website.
So, as with other cryptid lore, there’s at least a vague tangential element of plausibility to some of it.Īn 1826 map of the state of Missouri shows county boundaries, roads, settlements, and topographical features. We don’t have any legend about an escaped circus ape, which is too bad, because it’s definitely a missed opportunity for us over here (think of the tourism and stray T-shirt sale potential!). Granted, Michigan is not Missouri, but the story demonstrates how such accidents are entirely possible. Though that almost sounds like a far-fetched tale, I oddly enough can provide a local story from where I live that sounds eerily similar, titled “ 3 Die in Michigan Crash of Truck Carrying Gear for Circus Company“ “At least three persons were killed and three others were injured when a van carrying props for a Shrine Circus touring company careened across a highway and struck a concrete bridge abutment” in Houghton, Michigan, in 1978. I have found various claims that the Beaman Monster is a “12-foot Gorilla” that escaped from a crashed circus train. That was disappointing, as that might be considered a more valid source than some Wikipedia-style page (though, in this world, one can hardly be sure of that). For example, a Google search ostensibly provided a link titled “‘Monster’ tales alive in Sedalia – News – Columbia Daily Tribune,” but clicking on it was a dead end for me. More details on the Beaman Monster…and a circus truck crash?ĭetails are scarce on the mythological beast. So, even though Beaman Monster surely doesn’t exist, this Holman guy seemed to. Now, I know what you are thinking: “That’s a cryptid Wiki page, and therefore can’t be at all credible.” I get it, but it does appear that a man named Russell Lee Holman did exist, but died in 2021. For even more proof than his obituary page, here’s a news article about a storm that knocked a tree through the roof of his house. So, at best, one might call it a gorilla-wolf-coyote thingie, aside from the Beaman Monster, or whatever official scientific name one might assign to a gorilla-wolf-coyote thingie.Ī Cryptid Wiki quotes a man named Russell Holman, who lives in Beaman, as saying: “It seems like they revive that story every 50 years…Dad said when the boys would get out of hand, they’d call out the Beaman Monster if you didn’t behave.
Some sources online say it’s shaped like a gorilla, others maintain it looks like a wolf or coyote. What is the Beaman Monster from the Sedalia area of Missouri? It’s another piece of evidence that people can’t get their story straight, but want to create a monster and call it “folklore.” In this case, it’s some extra-blurry Missouri folklore, but folklore nonetheless.
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