DATE:  10-13-01
 

TIME:  6:50 PM
 

LOCATION: Junction City, Arkansas, Union County
 

 
TERRAIN:  Very thick highline that was recently cleared.
 
 

OBSERVED:    Upon arriving to my deerstand, approximately one hour passed when I began to hear the sound of two logs/sticks being beat together.  I then began to hear what sounded like 15 to 20 people running in the water/swamp, splashing and making a horrific noise.  There were dogs that were dogs that were running along the swamp occasionally squealing and barking.  I was undecided as to whether to get down out of my stand and check out the noise, but was uncertain as to the nature of the dogs.  This is private property and I was thinking they could be wild/stray dogs.  Closer to dark, the noise subsided, and that's when I began to feel like I was being watched.  The hair on my neck began to raise.  It was a very strange feeling.  I was up in the tree about 25 ft. in my tree stand and looked down to my left toward the slough (~50 yds behind a very large white oak.  I could see the outline of a very large figure peering around the tree.  It was blackish/brown in color.  Had hair over the face and long extremities.  It was making a chirping noise followed by a scream that sounded like a woman.  At that time, the figure turned and began to break branches approximately 7 to 8 ft off the ground and entered the thicket that bordered the slough.  I didn't exit my stand until after approximately an hour had passed.  I called my son Dustin and my neighbor David who then came in on 4 wheelers to pick me up.  All I had was a compound bow, so I was a bit leery to climb down unarmed.  With lanterns, we went to the tree where the figure had stood and observed imprints in the leaves/mud and what appeared to be a large mass of excrement.  The trail the creature left was large enough to drive a 4 wheeler through with the overhead canopy displaced.
 
 

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESS(ES):   Had been bowhunting for deer.  The highline had recently been cleared of thickets and small timber to allow for passage of a gasline.  Large slough in the middle of the highline that was virtually inaccessible
 

DESCRIPTION OF CREATURE:  Blackish/brown in color.  Hair covering the body/face.  Strong pungent odor resembling a skunk/decaying carcass.  Several instances of cattle being killed and found in thickets.  Apparently drug or carried hundres of yards and over intact fences.
 
 

OTHER NOTES:
 
 

 OTHER SIGHTINGS IN THIS AREA?:  Have heard the sounds of limbs/sticks being clashed against one another in the past at times when there was no other sounds (birds, squirrels, animal activity present).
 

Follow up: f