REPORT RECEIVED From:  The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 

DATE:    1981
 

TIME:     Daytime
 

LOCATION:   Alabama, Marion County
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    There were MANY experiences that we had.  The first was simply a very overpowering feeling of being watched.  There were three of us boys who would go into the woods to explore, etc... There was a clearing just a little distance from entering the woods where we would often go just to sit around and talk.  We'd been there many times before, and felt nothing out of the ordinary.  Then one day I was there by myself, and could feel something watching me.  I didn't see or hear anything at the time, but still I left quite hastily, as this was a very unnerving feeling.

I found the other two boys and told them about it, and we decided to investigate as a group.  Armed with a couple of sticks (smart huh? lol) we went back to the woods and followed the trail that lead through there.  We found nothing.  So, then we left and headed back across the field, back toward where we lived.  One of the neighborhood dogs had went with us, and after we were about halfway across the field, he was still at the entrance of the woods, barking like crazy.  One of the other boys turned around to see what was going on, and he swore to us that he saw a large, black hairy creature, with what appeared to be round yellow eyes.  Comparing it to a tree limb nearby, it would have appeared to be over 7 feet tall.  The other boy and I didn't see it, as we were a bit ahead of the one who did, just over a rise in the field.  He passed us like a bullet and we just took off running behind him.  I saw the same thing at a later time, but not this trip.
 

Activities of Witness:   Prior to the feeling of being watched, I was just sitting at our campsite in the woods.  A place we had frequented many times before, all uneventful.  However, in later visits to these woods, several of us seen and/or heard many strange things, such as the time I recorded the sasquatch yell from a movie and played it back on a portable tape player...and it was answered by apparently TWO creatures;, one up stream and one downstream from where we were.
 

Description of Creature:  Approximately 7 feet tall or so, hair was like a black that had been kinda bleached brownish by the sun, large round yellow eyes, a ruddy like face, with no hair on the face.  Long arms and very broad shouldered.
 

Other Notes:    On other occasions, we found many tracks that were like 17 11/2 inches long and about 7 inches wide at the ball of the foot.  We also found black hair up in trees.  Most of the time, these trees would be broken off about 7 feet above the ground.  These were GREEN trees, about 6 inches in diameter and not just some old dead saplings.  Oftentimes, these trees would be broken in pairs of two, making an X shape...something that I've read may be territorial markings of Sasquatch.

We also heard the most scary yells imaginable at different times.  They were unlike anything I have ever heard, except for the re-created yells in the movie that was titled Sasquatch.
 

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