OK guys I'm gonna make one of my rare starter posts here. Since I've seen nor heard anything I even remotely suspect was a bigfoot I don't start many threads. But this one from Texas was told to me by the folks who experienced it. I might see if I can get either of them to drop in later to comment as they likely recall it better than me.
Location is the Reed Ranch on the Trinity River near Kerens which is just east of Corsicana. The Reed Ranch is about six miles from front gate to the river at the very back. Well back in there perhaps half way is a good size natural lake named Bearman Lake. Jim Reed, the owner tells of the stories he was told as a boy about the "bearman" that would get you if you were caught out at night down in those bottoms and swamps along the river. To this day he still kinda believes those stories and doesn't feel comfortable down in there at night. He'll go but he won't feel comfortable.
Just up from the river is a little flat spot where on our first trip out a huge old log had washed up on the bank and and they called it the "sitting log". For a photo I might can round up later to add here they put some seat belts on it and had me and Faye pose for a photo. The plan was for me and her to sit there on the sitting log to hunt. No one else was brave enough or perhaps stupid enough to do that at night. Turned out we didn't either as no one would volunteer to take us down there or come back for us after the hunt. :eek:
Why? Well one night when Kevin and Jim, one or both (memory is foggy here) were down in there late after dark getting ready for the hunt they heard a horrible squealing noise from a hog. They were pretty sure a fair large one. Can't recall the details clearly enough here to remember just why they were sure it was a large one. At any rate they were quite confident something was killing and maybe eating the hog from the sounds they heard. Needless to say neither were in any mood to go see what or why that night. They left.
Next day all they found was some blood where something had obviously been killed and perhaps eaten there. And it seems to me I recall something about a stick. Maybe the stick had the blood on it? Memory of the details are foggy here again. Been a few years since I heard the story.
So what's there? What gave the lake it's name and what prompted the legend of the bearman? I dunno.
I do know that one night when I was down in there less than a mile from the river waiting for hogs to show at the feeder I heard a really loud sound in a tree very near me. This was the night I later killed the GrayGhostWhumpusHog. But that's another story. I was sitting waiting for the hogs to show and all of a sudden I heard a huge animal jump up into a tree and go climbing up aways. It then jumped down and continued on it's way.
What was it? I have no clue. Both cougar and blackbear have been seen in the area. Maybe it was one or the other. It wasn't anything smaller I'll promise ya that.
So that's my tale from TX for now.
