MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (KFVS) - The home of the Big Muddy Monster celebrated the 50th year of its sighting. On Saturday, June 24 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Murphysboro, Illinois hosted the Big Muddy Monster ...

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. -- The city of Murphysboro installed a new sign to celebrate its hometown friend, the Big Muddy Monster. City officials debuted the sign on Saturday, June 22, as part of the Big ...

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (KFVS) - The Big Muddy Monster Festival celebrates the mysterious creature with vendors, food trucks, speakers and presentations about the Big Muddy Monster. A cryptid is an animal ...

It was a typically humid, early summer evening as the sunlight began to fade in Murphysboro on June 25, 1973. Air conditioners worked steadily across town as the temperature lingered near 90 degrees ...

Do you think SUVs these days are big? Do you think F-150s are huge? You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen Monster Trucks. And sure enough, the giant four-wheeled machines filled the Grand Arena ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - The Muddy Monster Cross Country run will be held Saturday, Oct. 24 at Seminole Valley Park. The event features a 15K, 5K and youth mile and “Lil Monster” fun runs. Courses go through ...

The Big Muddy Monster is, in a word, elusive. Yet, the creature will be the center of attention at a number of Jackson County events this weekend, including a first-of-its kind festival in his – or ...

At a time when the public’s craving for muscle cars was beginning to die down, a new form of vehicular entertainment came about: it is called mud bogging, and it’s all about driving insane machines ...

Chad has been a muscle car and classic truck lover since he could walk. The classic vehicles from the '60s and '70s are the best in his eyes, but he is more than willing to give the new technology a ...

It’s not every day that most people have an opportunity to ride in a monster truck. The world looks a lot smaller, a lot more crushable from 12 feet up, riding on 6 tons of fun with 66-inch tires.

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. - In the early 1970s, two-wheel drive was still the norm for most motor vehicles; four-wheel drive was still relatively uncommon outside of the military or on farms, and the ...

Monster trucks are about more than car-crushing craziness. The modern crop of monsters are packed with tons of engineering and tech to really make them fly. Emme Hall Former editor for CNET Cars I ...