DATE:           1930'S to present

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LOCATION:  Columbia County, Arkansas
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TERRAIN:Creek Bottoms, Big thickets, Occasional pasture
 

OBSERVED:    This all started some 20 years ago I suppose. One day in Squirrel season as I was hunting I heard a Strange sound, That I identified as a kid crying , but with a different pitch and more power.  I froze by the tree I was standing at and listened to this for some five to ten minutes, trying to figure out what the heck was going on in that thicket ahead of me.

A year or two later I suppose it was , I and my youngest daughter were hunting, when we walked up on a sweetgun sapling with stubs of what used to be limbs were rubbed down with relics of hair on them.  The hair didn't really tax my brain as did the height at which the broken limbs and tufts of hair were at. I'm 6'3" and I had to reach up to highest lodgings of hair.  I took some home with me and kept it for years.  Unlike any hair I have seen.  Stiff of a sort, but not like a hog.  About one to two inches long. This was a black hair with a slight salt and pepper appearance.

After reading this site regularly and other experiences of folks, I would in a discrete way open the door for information. I can't name them all so I'll be brief. Back in the 20's or 30's One of our neighbors went to the bottom Duck Hunting one morning. His son (now in his 70's) told me about overhearing him telling his mother, thinking all the kids were asleep, of how something chased him out of the bottom.  I found out that one of his son's went hunting within hollering distance of his father's episode.  Something would shake a big sapling and let out ear-rattling screams, causing him to leave right away.

At the time I didn't know all this, but, the crying in the thicket years later that I heard was no more than three hundred yds. from his experiences. And to put the icing on the cake some five years ago my father, my brother, and myself went back to this spot one morning before daylight to hunt.  We made all the usual racket of unloading , getting our guns out and ready,you know the scene.  I got my stuff ready first, so I went across the slew, and walked into the edge of the big timber on the other side only as far as I could see to walk.  I stopped with my gun on my shoulder to look listen and wait for the others and daylight.

All of a sudden to my right was a commotion, and a sound that I passed off as a wild hog at that time, NOT thinking and knowing that a hog would be long gone from all the racket we had made.  And I was not even 40 Yds from the truck when it startled me.  I thought at the time that that hog sounded e-xtra pissed off. Sounded like it was making an attempt to cuss me out.  And this was not over 15 ft. from me .  Not to mention seeing a 3-toed small track in the edge of a slew, twice. Not to mention the story of a man who lives on down the creek who was fishing and this thing walked up behind him , just stood there breathing, causing him to leave very soon.  Or the trapper that had a pile of super-human looking excrement in his usual path going home. There's more , but for now I'll let it be.  My observation and opinion is that these creatures are somewhat migratory, and move around in small groups. They illude people when possible ,& hide as much as possible. I cannot give you a visual description of these thing, though I would under the right conditions like to see one . Who knows.
 
 
 

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESS(ES):  Hunting
 
 

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 OTHER SIGHTINGS IN THIS AREA?:  Several
 

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