DATE:           1980

TIME:            Morning, just after light

LOCATION:  Arkansas, Drew County, Seven Devils Swamp

TERRAIN:     Wooded, Flat bottom land, old growth trees

OBSERVED:    After duck hunting the swamps for years, almost every day during the duck season, I decided to try and find an area with less people. I was looking for a good spot that people couldn't get to or wouldn't try to get to so I would be away from all the other hunters. I drove an old logging road around the swamp. My friends and I weaved our way around trees until we could not go any further. Everyone jumped out and hit an animal trail in front of the truck and along the water. I was last out of the truck, getting my gear together. As I stepped around my truck, along the waters edge, I looked down to see a very large bare foot print on the soft bank coming out of the water. I had thought that someone had fallen down in the water and took their wadders off but later realized that there were no tire tracks other than ours getting to the area and no foot traffic getting here either not to mention the temperature was just above freezing. At the time I dismissed it. We laughed and joked the whole time while hunting and really never got into the ducks that morning. Later I asked the guys if they had seen the foot print also, but none had noticed.

Description of Creature:   N/A

Activities of Witness:  Duck Hunting

Other Notes:  There have been just a few times, through the years, that I felt like something was watching me and some times something was following me through the swamp in the water. I could never see anything and every time I stopped it would stop. Usually this happened when the bottoms were empty and I was the only one down there. Once I was wadding in during an early hunt, only vehicle down there so only one hunting, that I came across a wadding trail. Nothing leaves a wadding trail except people. I had always dismissed these occurences.

Other Other Notes:  N/A