How I got into this Big foot thing.

[MATLOCK12C]

April 3rd, 2004 I was hunting on the Sabine River north of Logansport La,  There is a big bottom there, full of hardwood trees and little pine thickets.

The hog hunting is great in these bottoms, and you cant beat it. I had a climbing stand, and was about 25 ft up. I had staked out a wallow, was just getting settled in it was about 6;20 am. It was foggy and just breaking light .

I heard what I thought was hogs coming through the bush about 75 yrd's off to my left. I had put out some old sweet potatoes, and corn the day before along with some apples that I had cut up.

The hogs were having a field day on the taters an corn, and it was just light enough to make the shot. just as I was going to shoot, I caught a movement off to the right. I glanced over and there it stood!  :shock:  it was easing from tree to tree half hiding behind them as it came toward the hogs . At first I thought it was just another hunter in one of those Guillie suits.  As I watched it stalk in I realised no man is that  tall, or big !

It was about 80 yrds away from me and totaly focused on the hogs. This thing did not make a sound! I was amazed at how easy it moved, I put my scope on it for a better look and could not belive it :eek:  It was a she!
 It was about 7ft tall and I guess about 350/400 lbs, covered in dark brown hair maybe 3 in long. It was plain to tell the gender of it cause it had boobs!  There was no hair on the face and it had big eyes. It had no neck to speak of, its head just sort of sat on these massive shoulders. I was so excited that it was hard to keep the scope steady. As I watched her stalk, I was amazed at just how it blended in with the surrounding woods and brush.  When it stoped moving it would almost disappear.  

It took her about 20 min to close the distance on the 4 young hogs. As it got closer it dropped down to all fours. As I watched it eased into range and just exploded into a charge to the pigs. The roar was deafening! The pigs scattered but she was on them like that! She hit one and knocked it up against a oak tree and was on top of it in less than a second! it hit the hog about 5 or 6 times with its hand . Kind of like you would pound a table, with the bottom of your fist.

It picked up the hog like it was nothing, this hog had to be 150 lbs or more. it tucked it under its arm and started walking back the way it had come . It made a little noise like  "wooooop wooooop woooop" and there was an answering call back.  I was scared, I don't mean a little, I mean piss yourself scared!  I thought  "theres more than one out here"

I was still on her with the 270. and was trying to keep calm. I didn't think it could get to me up like I was.  She was right in front of me about 50 yds out. I don't know if she caught wind of me or what, but she stoped and looked all around and let out a yell that made my blood run cold . I said something , I don't remember what. and it looked right up at me! I mean right in my eyes!  We both just stared at each other for what seemed like forever. It could have only been a minute or so.

She had this look like "what are you doing up there?" kind of suprised that I was so close.  Its head turned from side to side like a dogs, trying to figure something out.  then it turned and just walked away. It didn't run , just strolled away with the hog under its arm. It turned and looked back once and disappeared into the woods.

I got down after a while and got out of there!.  That is what started it all for me .  Anyone who has seen this thing move will know what I am saying when I tell you it moves like a cloud, it just flow's through the woods. no noise, nothing.

[bullet maker]

Wonderful story Matlock12C;
    That was a very exciting story, and I know just how you feel. I`ve got a few that I posted, and I was the same way, after the first one I saw, I was hooked for life, in that I wanted to know more about these very wonderful and secretive creatures.
   Its very hard for the people that`s never seen one, to relate to us that have. It`s like, there not suppose to exsit, but there they are.
thanks for the story

bullet maker

[propredator]

matlock if you had to do over again would you have pulled the trigger?

[1911crazy]

If you live where they are being seen I'd be very careful about hurting one because in one of the stories in Russia it came back and killed the whole family after they shot at one.  And one at a time starting with his kid, then his wife and then him all dead with some sort of hole in their neck.   I would never hurt one unless its shows a danger to me and i would rather make friends with it to learn from it like the russians did with the female one they caught.                                                                   BigBill

No No I don't need one for a misses just some help with the firewood since they are so strong and have so much energy to spare!!

[MATLOCK12C]

I have had time to think about it and No. The only way I would shoot it was if my life was in danger.  Its enough just to see these creatures in the woods.
Its not like a deer or a hog, this thing has a soul its almost human, it would be like murder to shoot one just to do it.
I do have some beliefs when it comes to pulling the trigger .

1 To eat, and provide for my family.
2 To defend myself and others.
3 To stop an animal from suffering needlessly.
4 To uphold the law and Constitution of this Land.
5 To stop the horror of "gangsta rap music" :shock:
#5  IT'S JUST A JOKE  FOLKS!.  :lol:    :-D  :-D

[MATLOCK12C]

Trust me you don't want to make this thing mad! I have seen it kill, not a pretty sight.  When this thing attacks it can cover 50 yds in about 2 seconds. If you shoot it, you better kill it the first shot. You wont get a second. Then you have to worry about the others, they travel in groups just like the apes in Africa. If you see one, you can bet the others are close by.
They communicate with each other by clicks and wistles, and wood knocking.  They understand the concept of pack hunting, and ambush. This is a very intelligent creature.
 It has the concept of thought, and planing.  No it's not the so called "missing link" it's just a primate, but a smart one!  It will use found tools, like a stick to dig, or rocks as a weapon.
It builds crude shelters, or nest's to sleep in.  It will freeze, or hide to avoid contact with humans.  It will trail you, just out of sight to see what you are doing.  
Deer and hogs live by pure instinct, and habit. This thing can learn by watching others, just like chimpanzees do.  I think the only reason it doesn't go out of its way to hurt humans is because we look so much like it to a degree.  
The great Apes of Africa seldom hurt one another. They will scream and beat the ground, throw things and posture. But rarely will they attack and hurt one another. They are the closest thing we have to compare our primate or "big foot" too.
Look fella's I am not a zoologist here or even an expert in this field. Im just a guy that spends a lot of time in the woods. I don't have all the answers. All I know is what I have witnessed, studyed and researched.  

I would like to ask all of you if you have anything that might shed some light on this creature to post it. The smallest detail can help a lot.

Please e mail me personally, if you don't want to post it here. I understand what this all sounds like to the sceptical  I don't care if folks think I am a "nut". My wife knows I am crazy  

[MATLOCK12C]

If any of you good folks are intrested, there is a great site you need to check out .
WWW.TEXASBIGFOOT.COM  
It has a ton of good info on there and interesting sighting reports from the whole state.
The Texas Bigfoot Reserch Center has a big convention every year here in Jefferson Tx.

[Antlurz]

I read a story that supposedly it was a female and produced some half human children that assimilated and passed for just a rather course type of person in the town.. Seems like they named her something that is similar to Thelma...  Maybe Alma.

Can't remember where I read it..

From Occultopedia.com :

mid 1800s — A wild reddish-black hair covered woman with both mongoloid and negroid features, dark skin, broad body, large hands and feet and a sloped forehead, was allegedly captured in the western Caucausus region of Abkhazia, and given the name Zana or Zanya. According to accounts, she was very physically powerful, able to perform feats of exceptional strength. While in captivity, Zana was passed on through a succession of owners, including noblemen, and mothered several children (she was reputed to have a fondness for wine, which supposedly played a role in her pregnancies). According to the story, she had as many as 6 offspring, by different men. Of these, the first 2 perished, due to Zana washing them in cold water after birth. The other 4 survived with the help of the local village women, who took care of the children. They were fairly normal, except for being dark and physically powerful, and grew up accepted among the villagers. Each of these children reproduced and allegedly had descendants throughout the region, up to nowadays. Zana died sometime in the 1880s.

[bullet maker]

April 4th 2004 I was hunting on the Sabine River north of Logansport La, on the Texas side. There is a big bottom there, full of hardwood trees and little pine thickets.

The hog hunting is great in these bottoms, and you cant beat it. I had a climbing stand, and was about 25 ft up. I had staked out a wallow, was just getting settled in it was about 6;20 am. It was foggy and just breaking light .

I heard what I thought was hogs coming through the bush about 75 yrd's off to my left. I had put out some old sweet potatoes, and corn the day before along with some apples that I had cut up.

The hogs were having a field day on the taters an corn, and it was just light enough to make the shot. just as I was going to shoot, I caught a movement off to the right. I glanced over and there it stood!  :shock:  it was easing from tree to tree half hiding behind them as it came toward the hogs . At first I thought it was just another hunter in one of those Guillie suits.  As I watched it stalk in I realised no man is that  tall, or big !

It was about 80 yrds away from me and totaly focused on the hogs. This thing did not make a sound! I was amazed at how easy it moved, I put my scope on it for a better look and could not belive it :eek:  It was a she!
 It was about 7ft tall and I guess about 350/400 lbs, covered in dark brown hair maybe 3 in long. It was plain to tell the gender of it cause it had boobs!  There was no hair on the face and it had big eyes. It had no neck to speak of, its head just sort of sat on these massive shoulders. I was so excited that it was hard to keep the scope steady. As I watched her stalk, I was amazed at just how it blended in with the surrounding woods and brush.  When it stoped moving it would almost disappear.  

It took her about 20 min to close the distance on the 4 young hogs. As it got closer it dropped down to all fours. As I watched it eased into range and just exploded into a charge to the pigs. The roar was deafening! The pigs scattered but she was on them like that! She hit one and knocked it up against a oak tree and was on top of it in less than a second! it hit the hog about 5 or 6 times with its hand . Kind of like you would pound a table, with the bottom of your fist.

It picked up the hog like it was nothing, this hog had to be 150 lbs or more. it tucked it under its arm and started walking back the way it had come . It made a little noise like  "wooooop wooooop woooop" and there was an answering call back.  I was scared, I don't mean a little, I mean piss yourself scared!  I thought  "theres more than one out here"

I was still on her with the 270. and was trying to keep calm. I didn't think it could get to me up like I was.  She was right in front of me about 50 yds out. I don't know if she caught wind of me or what, but she stoped and looked all around and let out a yell that made my blood run cold . I said something , I don't remember what. and it looked right up at me! I mean right in my eyes!  We both just stared at each other for what seemed like forever. It could have only been a minute or so.

She had this look like "what are you doing up there?" kind of suprised that I was so close.  Its head turned from side to side like a dogs, trying to figure something out.  then it turned and just walked away. It didn't run , just strolled away with the hog under its arm. It turned and looked back once and disappeared into the woods.

I got down after a while and got out of there!.  That is what started it all for me .  Anyone who has seen this thing move will know what I am saying when I tell you it moves like a cloud, it just flow's through the woods. no noise, nothing.

Hey Mat;
  have you been back since, or do you plan on going back? It would be interesting to hear future developments of this place you saw it.
bullet maker

[MATLOCK12C]

I did go back and walked all over the place there. I did not see anything though. Just the usual a whole lot of woods and mosquitos!  I did see lot's of hog sign, but no sign of the "big ugly girl"  
To be honest I really think it was a rare sighting, elusive is not a strong enough word for this thing.  :?
As a rule everything I have managed to find on this creature says the same thing when you look at the facts. If you do see one it's because it wants you to, or it's a total accident.
My sighting was a total case of blind luck.
If I had not been 25 ft, up in a tree stand just about totaly invisible with cammo and limbs. I have no doubt I would have only seen hogs that morning. I will keep looking , but I don't think I will ever get that lucky again.

[bullet maker]

Sure you will matlock12c
   you have the right humility. You just said what a lot of bigfoot hunter`s fail to realize. When you just realize, how smart they are, then you are on the right track to seeing one again. Sort of a Zen thing, (grasshopper)LOL.
   But the next most important thing, would be the time spent in the woods. I think that`s why I`ve been lucky. Maybe one out of 20 times, I get a sound or a glimps of a showdowy figure, etc. Course I like being in the woods anyhow, for instance, I might just go sit for hours at late evening or at night and with my nightvision, I see alot. Course wher I`m at there is a lot of Bigfoot history in this 35 mile radius area. So I`m positive you will see one again, with that being a female, there probably is a family there.
Good story and keep the camera pointed.
bullet maker

[1911crazy]

Oh a hairy woman who can hunt where were they when i was single?? Just to have a woman who can punch a hog silly or the living crap out of someone would be awesome?? (kidding)  But wow think about it!!

All the non believers think your just going to walk in the woods and see one it just ain't going to happen.  If something this smart doesn't want to be seen you will never see one since its half human and half animal it has the senses of both so its harder to see or find than a mountainlion which is the most elusive animal I have ever seen so far. Like i said before something follows me at my camp and it stays out of my sight but i hear it walking while I'm walking and stops when i stop its not dumb.  I just want to see what it is just once.   My camp borders on the national forest and there are no other houses nearby its like where your tree stand would be in the woods.                                    BigBill

What are these things and where did they come from?

[MATLOCK12C]

big bill, I don't think it is half human, or the so called missing link. It's just a primate, a big ol gorilla type of thing.  If you got one you are hearing at your camp you can bet there are more there you don't see or hear. Have you tried baiting it up?  Does it follow you in the woods alot?  Does it shake trees, and growl at you? Please tell me more about your camp. Is it close to a water sorce, a river or creek?

[propredator]

Mat if i saw what you seen i wouldnt ever go back in the woods unarmed again.One thing is fer sure them creatures arnt all vegatarians. Do these creatures exist?I aint never seen one,but i aint never seen a mountain lion here in Iowa but 4 have been killed in the last year :shock:
 I have a brother who saw some foot prints,not mountain lion, that went accross a mud road down from his house.His wife saw them too,they didnt tell me or anyone for long time.Didnt think anyone would belive em.This was in october,in november coon season was on and he was a avid coon hunter.One night he got spooked bad by something.It was a partly moon lite night and he was just kinda strolling along headed in the direction he thought the hound was tracken.Something big jumped up about 25 yards away and tore threw the brush,said it scared him big time,no doubt.
 He said he turned his light up to bright aand spanned the direction of the ruckus.What ever it was it stoped and shook a small tree vioently and made some kind of squeel like he has never heard before.Said this tree shaken and noise went on for about 30 seconds and what ever it was ran off.Said he never did see any glow of eyes from the light.
 I asked could it have been a deer?He said no way,the tree he was shaken was way too much for a buck thrashing it good and the sound it made made his neck hair stand straight up.Said it was a sound that he has never heard before and he has heard all the snort and wheezes and grunts deer make.
 Anyway he has never been coon hunten since that night.Now there aint a whole lot of woods in this area and it was about a mile from a small town.He believes that these creatures migrate with the weather,if not these creatures would never make it threw a december deer season here with the snow on the ground and the shotgun hunters hitting ever possible bit of woods there are around here on deer drives.
 do you guys think theses creatures do migrate?

[MATLOCK12C]

I dont think they "migrate" like your saying, but they seem to be moving around a lot more down here in TX. I think it's because of many factors.

1. logging has really increased and as the timber co. moves deeper into the woods they are moving to avoid  human contact.
2. There are more folks out in the woods now due to 4-wheelers and extreem sports and such.
3. More folks are buying land and moving out into the country.
4. there is a lot more land development goin on, and the natural habitat is shrinking.
These things all are factors that cause any anamal to be on the move more. Just ask the folks that have all kinds of wildlife getting into there trash in the suburbs now!

[1911crazy]

big bill, I don't think it is half human, or the so called missing link. It's just a primate, a big ol gorilla type of thing.  If you got one you are hearing at your camp you can bet there are more there you don't see or hear. Have you tried baiting it up?  Does it follow you in the woods alot?  Does it shake trees, and growl at you? Please tell me more about your camp. Is it close to a water sorce, a river or creek?

Like I said before my camp borders on three sides by the national forest that runs south to north all the way to Canada and I'm by my self with no other houses by me just the wilds/woods.  When I first bought the land in '86 it was the moose going by, blackbears hootin at night to each other, deer all over the place and I could hear coyotes go from one end of the valley to the other at night my place is about 1/2 way up the ridge on an old loggin access road.  Well it started in the 90's my first encounter was after supper I was using the outdoor plumbing and all of a sudden something was very close to me and let out this scream that I have never heard before it was dark and i couldn't see what it was and then a year later one night at my camp after frying bacon for cheeseburgers I had the roof vents open on my trailer something let out a scream again  that made the hair on the back stand up again.  I'm a light sleeper and I sleep next to an open window and I have heard rocks being banged together at about 1am constantly then it stopped.  And I have heard some sort of gibberish language right near my window by the time i looked it what ever it was, was gone.  There are reports of something screaming at campers who where hiking in Hancock, Vt. and they were chased out of the woods by it and its right near me within walking distance it was reported on a bigfoot sight.   For many years no matter when I went hunting or just walking down the old road something follows me while I'm walking  and when I stop it stops.  I can hear the leaves russle or branches breaking up above me on the ridge but I never can see what it is.   I look thru my scope when I'm hunting but there is nothing but yet I can hear it and I can't figure out what it is maybe it blends in really good like deer and I have to look for the outline of it but I have never looked for anything so big because i never thought of it being one I just looked for a coyote or a bear.   I've been up on this ridge in the area where I hear the noise comming from and their is no possible way and thing could walk thru there without making noise because there are small evergreen trees down all over the place all over the ridge all the green parts are gone so they have been down a long time the whole are is destroyed and you can't make a step without stepping over a tree.  I have for many years been looking for tracks everytime I'm in the higher elevations were no one goes and i have seen mountainlion tracks for many years when no one would believe me and i finally got to see one at night in my headlites and the very next day it was above my camp growling at my son outside my trailer before it seen me and left and i never seen or heard it again.  I feel its not the cat following me they are very stealthy and quiet.  I just can't believe what makes this god awful scream type roar.  At first I thought it was a fisher but there is no way a fisher could be so loud its lungs has to be bigger than mine way bigger I could not match the loudness of it.   What ever it is it likes the smell of bacon good enough to blow its cover and let me know its there but it won't show it self yet!!   I been thinking of a ham hock over a camp fire at night till the fire goes low then it will come in for a visit??   I just want to see it once to be sure what it is I'm hearing.                                                   BigBill

[MATLOCK12C]

Go for it man! hang up a ham, he just might come in for a bite ya never can tell. Of course you might git a hungry bear, so hang it high!
We have some bears down this way but they are little brown honey bears. Thats what we call em anyway. I have seen there tracks, but thats it.
I have heard the wood knocking you spoke of, before I always tossed it up to wood peckers.  You are right about the scream/roar thing it will make ya pee your kilt!
From your description of your place I figured out just where you were located. You live in Piece Plum, a good piece up the road and plum back in the woods!      You lucky devil! I envy you
Just to let you know there is a fella down this way claims that they come up to his house to get food he puts out for them. He told me he puts out sweet potato's and such. He said that they will come get it in the night. He puts it out at the woods edge on a table. Give it a try. Good luck to ya!

[propredator]

If you guys are seriuos about this thing put up trail cams.I did a lot a traping for many years and i know every creature out there has a way of leaving their sign of tracks where ever they go,and if you look hard enough you will find their den or nest or bed.You guys say they are familys or herds of them or packs,that is that much more sign out there.
 If these creatures do exsit they would have to stay on the move,never really staying in one area for long,not even an area of a thousand square miles because with the hunters and trapers and hikers we have now a days there would be more encounters with them and they would be tracked down.
 Think about it now,if you were to go live in the wilds and survie and didnt want to be seen you could do it if you had the knowledge to live that way,but you would leave a aboundunce of tracks if you stayed in any one area for long.Now take in to account you have your wife and kids with you.Gets a little tougher covering your tracks now,and when the snow falls and the deer hunters arer out where are you going to hide your tracks and bed.
 Now them mountain lions that have been seen here are all young males that have been pushed off there territory in the Dakotas by larger males,they are a protected cat their,but not here.When they are seen here they are shot.
 A while back a feller here came accross a partly eaten deer that was covered in leaves,he suspected a mountin lion.He put up a trail cam by the carcass and a week later he had pics of a very big bobcat,they are protected here.
 Now if i ever saw what Mat saw i dont know if i would shoot at it either,most likely i would be caring a frontstuffer shooten a roundball,probably not a good load for a 400 pond monster
 If i had a .270 an seeing what Mat had seen and had it looken at me with a pig under its arm that early in the morning i would have put it right between the eyes maybe or i might have been so stunned by the whole ordeal that it may have sliped away.I really hope i aint ever in the sistuation. :eek:

[propredator]

Maine hound hunter we never thought about that,wouldnt be faimlar with moose here.There has been a couple rumble thew northern Iowa over the years.I think the tracks he said he saw on the road my have made his encounter with what ever it was possibly a little more.He had to have the tracks in the back of his head when he was out there hunten at night.
 Could have been someone playing a trick on em being that close to town i guess.
 Ive hunted coon at night for years also and his encounter dint slow me down none.I think it was a buck and he let his imagineation get away from him,but i werent there.

[1911crazy]

I'm sure its no one playing tricks on me my buddie up there told me he wanted to spook me and my brother but the firepower we have when were up there kept him from doing it figuring he just may get blasted.  Playing games at night to make people think its a bigfoot or try to scare them ain't no joke when firearms can be involved.  My 338win.mag. has 4,000 ft.lbs. at the muzzle and I'm sure just the muzzle flash from the 8mm Hakim I have as a camp gun at night must be awesome too.  Its not time for playing around its time for some serious research and i want to see it bad no matter what it is.                  BigBill

It makes me think about the two police officers on ther travel channel at night in OKlahoma one just started shooting his 9mm in the woods in the dark while rocks were comming at them thats not smart if your not sure of your target we have to see what were shooting at too.  I don't want to shoot one but if its close and comming at me to hurt me I have no choice then.

[propredator]

Bigbill i was refering to the tracks made on the mud road,not the encounter he had that night.I dont doubt that your hearing something, i dont know if such a creature exisit,if it does it aint in my neck of the woods.
 i have seen some strange things,no big foot but i saw a black panther about 25 years ago.not mountain lion size but about 1/3 as big.Could have shot it but by the time i figuared out it werent no humungus tom cat he was gone.The same brother who saw the big unexplainable tracks on the mud road told me he had shot at this cat the year before but it was too far out of range for his slug gun.I thought he was pullen my leg but when i did see it i became a beliver,so who knows.
 If  i ever come across some big foot prints out in the woods that truely aint human most likely i would be like bullet maker and be out there looken for it and putting trail cams up and just wouldnt ever be satisfiyed till a pluged one.Guess thaqts why the mountain lions aint gonna get a chance to hang around here long,if there is a chance that its a danger to us or our childern its gonna be snuffed out.

[1911crazy]

My cousin told me about bigfoot back in the early 70's and i been looking for tracks every year since when I'm in the woods thats how i found the mountainlion tracks.  I have become one hell of a tracker too I can track deer right thru dry leaves now too.  We have seen many large blackbear tracks too like bigger than my 13" sorel boots.  The very first time i seen mountainlion tracks they were along side two sets of blackbear tracks in the fresh fallen snow.  One morning when it was still dark the 4 of us while walking up the mountain going to our stands had an encounter with a blackbear on one side of the road hootin at a cat on the other side of the road they were talking to each other back and forth.  We made it to our stands and while walking out in the daylite the bear was hootin all the way down the mountain behind us, it heckled us all the way to the car having fun with us.  We sure had respect for nature after that and we left that bear alone for many years after that.  The droppings from it now the last time I was up there would fill a 5 gallon bucket 2/3rds the way up now its a big bruin now.  Trackin is fun I guess most hunters never look down for tracks?  Or travel to the upper elevations too or they would of seen the mountainlion tracks I have for many years too.   BigBill

I have even seen mountainlion scat in the smaller access roads leading to the old apple orchards in the national forest too.

[SoloKane]

Matlock, YOU are the one who had that sighting??? I read it on Texas Bigfoot, and e-mailed to some buddies of mine who share a lease with me about 5 miles up Hwy 31 from the Louisiana border, near the Socagee.

Our lease is down in the IP land, just up against the SRA property line.  There have been other sightings in there, mostly further North up around Buzzard Roost and after the Sabine turns North toward the Carthage highway bridge.  As you know, that is really remote country, and none too comfortable at night.

Can you tell me exactly where you had the sighting?  I would appreciate anything you can tell me.

I have seen one too, but down on the Neches - many years ago.

Did you talk with Charles Devore, from Texas Bigfoot?  Charles is a great guy, lives south of Caddo Lake, up in your neighborhood.  He investigates reports for that group, and can tell you a lot.  Right now, it appears that James Bayou, on Caddo, is very active with these things.

[MATLOCK12C]

I talk with Charles a good bit, it was he who talked me into posting my sighting on TBRC.
I have hunted that area on Socagee from 31, back down for years now.
I was way up past the bridge on US 79 on that day.

[SoloKane]

I knew that the area from where the Sabine narrows and turns north toward 2517 was active, but I have never been north of 2517.

Is this sighting the only one you've had, or know of?  This one is in our neighborhood, down near the Socagee from the description of the terrain:

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=4139

I had one walk up to my car one night... saw it within 6 feet.  I had another one follow me through the woods at dusk.  Both times were in Angelina County, between Lufkin and the Neches River.

[MATLOCK12C]

like I said I was above hi way 79, I put in at the boat ramp there at 79 and went north about a mile or so. There is a big bottem there full of hogs.
Is the report on bfro, site you and yours?

[1911crazy]

I've been to the most haunted place in america "dudleytown" like 4 times there.  I went in a non believer and came out a believer for sure. Now on this bigfoot thing I sure have something going on at my camp too its very strange.  On the gcbro.com bigfoot reporting site there is a report about campers being run out of the woods in broad daylite by screams in Hancock,VT. "addison county" in 1990, my place is right near that spot were the campers were.  All my experiences started after that in the same area.  Only its at night in the dark it comes close and lets out this ungodly scream that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Right after i fry bacon and then its gone.  Or i hear rocks banging together in the middle of the night.  And some sort of gibberish language near my window at night but by the time i got up to look it was gone.  I was leaving left over food out at night but no more now.  I have to record this sound its very close to the recordings on the net you can hear.                       BigBill

A while back something broke the double plexaglass window on my camp door it threw a rock thru both windows and it embedded itself into the opposite wall in the paneling.  Then it ripped off the inside door knob trying to get in but it didn't know how to turn the knob or unlock the lock which any human could of done.  Think about it?

[FOsteology]

In your report you claim to have turned the scope up to 9X right after seeing the partial face, and LEFT it at that power.

Anyone who uses scopes can verify that at close range(as this was, ending up at around 40 yards distance), such high magnification would have made it extemely difficult to follow a fast moving animal in the scope, particularly one that was making erratic and quick moves. It would have made the observation of details borderline imposible. The basic reason for this is that the field of view is so reduced that following any movement out of the sight window is very difficult. Even following a deer in the open, running in a straight line is diffcult at high power at close range, and following a movement as jerky and unpredictable as is reported, would be even more so.

I would be less sceptical had you said the opposite, that you turned the scope DOWN as the animal approached.. Had the animal remaind stationary the whole or most of the time, then the higher magnification would have been usefull...but the description is of a fast moving target, that would have again been very difficult to even follow, let alone detail out to such an extensive degree, at such restrictively high magnification.

[MATLOCK12C]

You must be talking about the report on the TRBC web site. I did not write that  report. It was posted by Charlie De Vore, not me. I  told him about my sighting, He asked me about a thousand questions over several days. Thay are very thorough to say the least! Yes I did turn the scope up. But the creature was not moving fast at all, it was stalking the hogs and the only time it moved quick was from tree to tree and when it attacked them. 80% of it I seen with my own two eyes.
I did look at some things with the scope though. You are right about it being hard to follow.

[jrlinz]

And some sort of gibberish language near my window at night but by the time i got up to look it was gone.

BigBill, can you describe the sounds a little better?  I have had an experience with strange gibberish or whispering along with tree banging (one bang) here in East Texas.  Not saying it was a BigFoot, but it was something I have never heard before.  I am 50 and have spent a lot of time in the woods.
Thanks.