White River Monster: Creepy Camping at Jacksonport State Park 

I enjoyed the adventure! Combining the homemade MRE and camping video really works, more please!

I grew up in Jackson County Arkansas where this Video was Filmed at, I remember hearing stories like this Growing up there.

You give us the mystery of the White River Monster, the MRE cook, and a nice review of Jacksonport State Park. That is red carpet treatment as far as I am concerned. Thanks!

Good to see DBA relaxing in his natural habitat 🍻 Cheers

Love your channel!!! I live at Fouke, Arkansas. So I love when you check out things in our state. Will keep watching. 😀

The homemade MREs are what brought me to your channel but this type of content is very relaxing and interesting.

Good Sunday morning. It is smart to diversify in almost everything. I enjoy your presentation style. Contemplative and introspective. #iknowwhatexpirationdatesare #calmdown #armchairexperts

Also for your MRE videos ALDI has these really good large chocolate bar packs with 5 individually wrapped Bars they would be great in the MREs for your snack

Loved the video. I really enjoy your personality, commentary, and the way you articulate and explain everything. I live in Utah, I love camping and the outdoors, so I enjoy watching others doing the same in their "part of the woods."" I think more camping with easy-to-pepare foods, camping tips, and tricks in your future videos would be something people would enjoy and appreciate. I look forward to more from your channel.

Arkansas has a lot of nice state parks.

That bathroom was the 1st I have ever seen that clean and stocked at a state park in my 47 years. Might as well be a 5 Star for state parks.

Well as an Arkansan I've got to tell you Welcome to the Natural State. On your drive across from TN. you bypassed two other great ASP. One at PARKIN and a short detour to just out of WYNNE is the VILLAGE CREEK. But if the 52 great state parks Petit Jean is hands down the top of the list. So looking forward to meeting you on the trail sometime.

Nice, heard about the legend. Been through Newport many times extraditing prisoners, never camped in that area. Used to work as a Ranger on Beaver Lake, it's the first lake of the White River in Arkansas.

This was a cool camping spot and the museum would of been a really nice tour of history.

I really enjoyed this. Would like to see more. I really like the camping food prep and cooking.

I love cryptids as well! Super cool video, would love seeing more like this!

Of course the bathroom was clean. The Airstream and the pull-out RV weren't going to use them! You're the only one, Brother!😂 Just kidding. Wife and I hit a bunch of state parks in younger years. Connecticut has some great ones. New York also. Since we got south there was no need to go camping. We were living it! Love the outdoors. Enjoy your videos. Keep on! We'll be here. Gotta admit, you have a clever way of lighting your stove. Helps keep you away from flare ups. Good stuff.

Thanks for the adventure. My mother in law was from Arkansas. I would like to see more camping and "creature " watching/ exploring adventures.

I would love to see more cryptid camping videos ! I just had the pasta roni that you had , my reaction was the same . Have a great weekend

Great video, thanks for sharing with us! Also, love to see a fellow camper using a percolator for coffee!! Cheers and safe travels

Great video. I live in Collierville. I figured you lived close when I saw the Bass Pro Shop prior to you crossing the river.

Very enjoyable! Billy from Kansas.

Nice quick trip. Here’s a challenge… Build five to ten MRE’s using Costco or Sam’s Club, not sure what you have near you, with an average cost of $10 or less per meal. Same rules apply as previous MRE videos.

It would be cool to see you do a little tour of your camper setup! I know it's the basics, but still fun to see!

Great video. Hubs and I love camping

That smell is called Newport!!😂😂

Keep up the videos,MRE’s and adventures👍🏼

I love those brownie brittles with coffee.

Judging by the 3 sightings the "monster" looks like large floating branches. The large fish theory is also plausible Having said that, I do like to keep an open mind I really like that you've shown another cool cooking gadget and you did show a very good homemade MRE as well Overall, a job well done.

Came here for the MREs, stayed for the creepy camping. ;)

Spot on vid. I did so enjoy your vid with the varied content. We are history nerds so our camping generally involves places of historical significance. Your campground review was really good. In the future as you pivot from MRE crafting, camp gear, camp ground reviews, camping gear, local history and lore, could be interlaced into a vid. Much as was done with this one. Remember, each video is done from your personal preferences, done with truth, as is experianced by Yourself at the time vids are made. That being said, as far as trolls are concerned, let them rant. Some persons have lost the ability to understand that what you do is done with kindness, and a servants heart. Remember, always smile, makes them wander what your up to. 😂 Enjoy the camp, see you on the trail.

Whenever I hear about lake monsters, I always check if the lake has arctic char. I have no idea why, but they show up together a lot--Loch Ness, Champlain, Muckross, and the Chinese one whose name escapes me--just to name a few. Looks like this one is an exception--couldn't find any here.

very nice looking campground, Its really funny you were talking about firewood bundles, I just brought my log splitter home to supply our local RV resorts

Fantastic upload bud, so nicely narrated and executed 👏👏

Traveling to a spot in Arkansas looking for "Whitey" 🤣 Can't wait to go camping this year. Last 3 days I've had the family out bike riding and picnicking.

I definitely enjoyed this one!

Great video and review of the state park!

Cool video, I bought a case of those Nature's Valley Wafer bars from Sam's they're too good.

This was another great video. I haven’t ever heard of JSP. A neat destination and MRE.

Teardrops, MRE's and River Monsters Oh my!. Thanks for another solid vid. A further hike to AR than you here in FL, but seems to be worth a camping road trip.

great adventure

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As a native Arkansan, I remember the news reports in the 70s about the White River Monster sightings. At that time I was living in Clarendon and the WRM was ranging from Newport to almost to Clarendon. The WRM was turning over cotton trailers and just being a nuisance. Personally I believe that it was a bunch of kids causing trouble. BTW those showers are boiling hot. They forget to turn the temperature down after winter.

Love your videos

👍 Great video. Thanks 😂😂😂😂

I was cruising Wally-World and noticed Libby's veggies in individual plastic cups. Ready to eat and good until 2025 or 26. Also, Bean Vivo has a chili good for about a year. Also, Miracle Noodles. Not sure how they taste. I will know soon though.That is all. Carry on.

The sling chair is taking it one step too far. 😂

Considering the sightings were before the flood of 1927 and the lock and dam systems it was most likely a catfish or a gar. If you like cryptids you might want to check out the fouke county monster. Happy Camping!

The fish called a sturgeon can get very large. But it wont be walking around on land or making noise.

good times there my friend

Good morning, I hit like before I even finish the video. Thanks again and have a great day 😀

The Jackson Newport Funeral Home Museum. When I was a kid ( seems like forever ago, late 60s-70s ) my Grandparents would take me touring around spots in Arkansas. I live in Texas, an would spend my summers with them. My Mamma would make my Pappa stop an Any " Roadside Antique " shop. There was a older couple that ran one of them that we would stop at, I can't remember if it was before or after Rogers Ark. The older man asked if my Pappa & I would like to see something special. Come to find out, he restored old horse drawn Herses. He had all kinds ! I wonder if some of those Herses were his. PS. Sure glad the " monster " didn't get ya !

The monster is just Richard Simmons jazzercising through the river for his next work out video. After the MREs there's always camp cooking stuff if the camping videos like this catch on.

Here in southwest Virginia we have the Woodbooger.. Same as Bigfoot

What a beautiful site! The romantic in me always hopes a cryptid is real, but I've had too many science classes to believe in them. Unfortunately. Doesn't stop me from enjoying the story though. And if you ever get to SE Ohio, there's another mortuary museum in Marietta!

I wish I had known this story when I lived in Oklahoma! I would love to try to spot a river monster or other Cryptid. Great story and video! I see all these awesome heat and eat items in videos and can't find them anywhere in my area for a decent price, it's so disappointing.

I've been curious about why Scarlett stopped making videos and stopped being in yours.

I really enjoyed this. Think it’s a good idea incorporating the homemade MRE’s into other videos that you want to make. Do you have a Rose’s or Maxway near you? I think they would be pretty tough for your MRE challenge

I kind of wish I was on the outing the tear on but it would have been really really really really really really noisy crowded and we would have never gotten anything done everybody just stared at each other.... No it's cool that is absolutely cool I wish that during my camping days I could have had a teardrop camper I always wanted one and I know what to do with it I knew how to customize it so I'm envious but, but good luck to you wherever you go I love your videos man I really do good

I would say to branch out into camping and adventure videos. 😊😊😊

Did you mention how much it cost to stay at the camp sight or did I miss it. I'm curious, you mentioned the cost of the firewood but I'd like to know how much it is to stay there and for how long. I guess you're not aloud to use the dead wood there which is weird because there seems to be a lot of it. Great video though, really enjoyed this one. God bless. 👍🧡✝️🇺🇸🧡👍

If i had to guess those facilities were remolded over winter...nothing that clean in northeast Indiana! Keep it up i the viewer like camping videos.

Man I did t realize you were that close to ar!

Drive to Illinois and learn about the the legend of the Piasa Bird. There is a large image of it on the bluff that is how the indians described it at the time. You can drive up the river road and camp at Marquette State Park.

GREAT VID, ALSO WHO CARES WHAT U EAT YOU FOOD OUT OF A PAN OR POUCH, ITS UP TO U. THANKS FOR SHARING....Z..

Familiar with the monster. About 150 river miles down stream. Those fish were probably silver or bighead carp (jumping carp) an invasive species

Very interesting. Like the mix of crypto-zoology, history and practical uses of MREs. They aren't just for shtf.

What I thought was weird was that the bathroom stalls and showers had handicap bars, but how would the handicapped people get up those stairs if YOU had trouble with them

The river monster is 💯×50%ABV.😂😂

Nice video DBA, That was a very nice bathroom. My wife and I were full time RVers for over 2 1/2 years, and we've seen some pretty nasty state and national park bathrooms. We always travel with a "Toilet Kit" in our vehicles. I made a short video on it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HvuVJJYtUPk.htmlsi=N6rIk3Dc276zYu-B That's the best time of year to go camping. Not many bugs to speak of, not many people etc.

Big ass catfish.

The definition of beauty is subjective 😉… Arkansas is an unflushed toilet lol

Oo oo that smell 🎶 😆 you'll have to make your way to Fl and get a 👃 of our skunkape whewee 🥹. I ❤ 🏕 👍