Choccolocco, Alabama

Choccolocco is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States.

[5][6] The community gained brief notoriety in 2001 when The Daily Show aired a piece on the "Choccolocco Monster",[7] a part of local folklore concerning sightings of a mysterious creature in the area in the late 1960s.

An October 2001 article in the Anniston Star newspaper revealed that the creature was, in fact, local resident Neal Williamson.

As a teenager, Williamson would don his costume (consisting of a cow skull and a sheet) and gain the attention of passing cars by jumping out of the woods onto the roadside, often startling motorists.

This Calhoun County, Alabama state location article is a stub.

Map of Alabama highlighting Calhoun County