Welcome to
Junebug, Oklahoma 74666
Where Hell Comes Sweeping
Down the Plains

Founded in 1891 by Josiah Bugg, some say Junebug was named after Josiah’s wife, June, while others claim it was so named because of the millions of June bugs that infest the area from May through the middle of June each year.

 

Upon Oklahoma’s statehood, a 200 square mile area was christened Bugg County, being formed by natural boundaries: a twenty-mile outcrop of granite mountains on the north, the North Fork of the Red River on the east, Buttermilk River on the west, and the Red River on the south.

 

Although local written history has no record of it, legend says that Josiah obtained the land that would one day be the City of Junebug and Bugg County when he killed a Kiowa shaman who had a claim to the land when it was known as Indian Territory.

 

Coincidentally, when the shaman was found hanging from an old cottonwood tree with a block-printed suicide note pinned to his leather vest, Josiah produced a will leaving him and him alone the 200 square miles.

 

At the time, no one questioned the fact that the Kiowa shaman neither spoke nor wrote English.

 

A recent historical exhumation of the shaman’s grave and the subsequent necropsy have revealed a small caliber bullet hole at the base of the back of the man’s skull.

 

Some have joked that the old Kiowan was quite the shaman indeed to have shot himself at the base of his skull and then hung himself.

 

Since its questionable founding, Junebug has experienced a series of weird, strange, and horrific events.

 

Although Josiah Bugg became one of the wealthiest men in Oklahoma and the wealthiest in Bugg County, within fifty years, the Bugg Family eventually died out.

 

Some say the time had come for the line to die out. Others claim it was the spirit of the dead Kiowa shaman who had placed a curse on the family: Several of the Buggs died under mysterious and somewhat bizarre circumstances.

 

For example, Josiah’s eldest son, Ephraim, was found dead in the Bugg backyard at the age of twelve. The cause of death listed on the autopsy was drowning, which wouldn’t have been so questionable given that the Buggs didn’t own a swimming pool. The Bugg water well was in the basement of the house.

 

Ephraim’s body and clothing were as dry as desert-bleached bones.

 

June Bugg claims her son had been outside for only ten minutes when a hired hand found the boy, water spewing from his mouth, nostrils, and ears.

 

Junebug is famous for four things: the famous horror writer Edwin A. Dark; the annual Junebug Chocolate and Rattlesnake Festival, along with the snake meat BBQ; being the smallest county in Oklahoma; and the weird, strange, and horrific events that have taken place over the past one-hundred years.

 

You have just read three of these weird, strange, and horrific tales, tales not so much of the supernatural but of the unnatural.

 

People who live in Junebug and those who have visited there believe that when they die, they will go to Heaven because they have already been to Hell in Junebug, Oklahoma.