Bigfoot Sightings

Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.

Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On: March 1, 2007

OBSERVED: I had 2 sightings, 4 months apart in same area. First was at a place called (name withheld), an offshoot of (name withheld) near the (name withheld) right on the Calhoun/Union county line. It was on June 23, 1982. I was 18, and had just graduated high school, and was preparing to go to college to play football. My grandfather was an avid outdoorsman, and spent his whole life in the river bottoms of south Arkansas, and I knew spending a summer trying to keep up with him rummaging through the swamps would get me in good shape (plus I worked out and ran everyday also), plus I just loved hunting and fishing in that area, and knew the area well, having accompanied him all around the area since I could walk. This day we had spent our way going down the dirt road to get to (name withheld), stopping every so often, and I would target shoot with a pistol (.44 magnum) I had gotten for my birthday a month before. I had sort of a western holster for it, and had it strapped on as we got to (name withheld) lake. We got the flat-bottomed aluminum boat off the boat rack of the truck, and out it in the lake. We then loaded our fishing gear, which was a new bait cast reel I had just gotten, an Abu Garcia, a fly rod for my grandfather, and a couple of cane poles, a tackle box, and some worms we had dug up. Had a couple of paddles also, didn't need a motor, (name withheld) lake is only about 50 yards across by maybe 150 yards long, if that. More of a pond than a lake. We were out in the middle, I had caught a couple of 2 lb bass , and my grandfather was catching a few bream with his fly rod. All the sudden, I smelled something that smelled very bad, sort of a garbage, urine, skunk smell. I had seen wild hogs all around that area just about every time I was there, and said to my grandfather that there must be some hogs around, and did he smell it. He whispered he did, which I thought was odd (whisper). He was looking around, like he was searching for something along the south tree line that bordered the lake. He paddled over to a spot on southern bank, jumped out of the boat, and took my 2 bass off the stringer. I said what the hell are you doing. He said shhh, be quiet and watch. He got back in the boat, and we paddled back out where we were. We sat there, I was fidgeting around, getting pretty annoyed, when my grandfather put his arm out and pointed, and whispered "look". He was pointing where we left the fish. I looked up, and saw a large, maybe a little over 7 ft, hairy looking man, attempting to hide behind a large cypress tree. He was too big to totally hide behind the tree. He was peeking around looking at us, and then bent down and moved over where the fish were, about 2 ft from water (tree was maybe 5-6 ft away). He looked up at us, and I was still wearing my pistol, which I instinctively reached for, because I was pretty much in shock. My grand father whispered "don't", and the thing kind of growled and showed his teeth like a dog would looking right at me. I kept my hand on my gun, it grabbed the fish in the biggest hands I've ever seen, a 1 1/2 -2 lb bass looked like a small bream in them. It stood there and looked at us for a few seconds, backed away, then walked off into a thicket, kind of hunched over, arms swinging, looking back at us mostly the whole time. I looked at my grandfather and said "papaw, wtf?...how did you know it was there?" He said a few months back in April, he had been wading in the spot where he left the bass, out about 25-30 ft, when he smelled that smell , and felt he was being watched. He said what scared him was there were no sounds in woods, no birds, no insects, nothing. Just him whipping his fly rod. He said then he felt something watching him and turned around to see the same creature holding up his stringer of bream at the bank. His truck and guns were on other side of the lake, so he told the thing to just take the fish. He said then it just walked off. I would say the thing was 7 ft at least, maybe between that and 7'4", and weighed close to 500 lb.. It was huge. I was 6'1" and 250 lb. back then, and it was at least 2 of me. Dark black hair, not really fur, about 4-6" over the body, except for eyes palms and feet. Was thin in the butt. Skin was a darker color, but I don't know if that was from dirt, or the color. Massive muscles all over. Its head was kind of rounded, no point, and looked kind of small for his size. I say this, because I thought I saw a penis when he stood there, and he didn't have female breasts, just big chest muscles. The face was human/ape, but more human. Nose was flat, small lips. Teeth were flat, and not pointy, no fangs. Eyes were very dark, but kind of an orange/red where a humans are white. I have seen a drawing that is exactly what I saw on XXXX (another database web site). It was a drawing someone had made of a sighting in a California cypress forest that looked pretty close to where I saw this, but creature is as close to exact as it comes. I spent a great deal of time close to the area, maybe a mile NW at a deer camp we belonged to, scouting the summer, clearing out some areas, and building a couple of deer stands for deer season. I left for school and football practice in early august, and didn't come back until thanksgiving, which was doe season. The day after thanksgiving, I was going to use one of the new stands, but decided to go with the one I had always used since I was 5, one that was over a very old "hog pen" where the old timers would try and trap hogs back in the day. I had killed some pretty big deer (and 2 hogs) there, so I figured why mess with success. During the summer, I had cleared out a swath about 30-40 yards long and maybe 20-25 yards wide in front of the stand, which was about 12 ft high, and overlooked a pine thicket. I had put out about 50 lb. of corn in early august, and some apples, and there was a large oak tree the stand was in and a ton of acorns around. Perfect spot, plus a small creek/slough ran right by also. The day after thanksgiving I got into the stand around 4:30-5 am. Didn't see or hear anything but squirrels and woodpeckers until around 9:45-10, when I heard something crashing in the woods about 100 yards away. I had thought it was a big hog, running. As it got closer, was crashing through the thicket, and I had my 7 mm mag rifle already raised, and ready to fire where I thought it would come out into where I had cleared. All of the sudden, this big doe popped out in my clearing and stumbled and fell like it was drunk, and struggled to get up, it was also breathing heavy through its mouth, and making bleak sounds. It was very wobbly, and looked exhausted, so before it could get rested, I shot it in the head and dropped it right there. I lowered my rifle, and looked around to see if a buck was following (which I should have done before, but was too excited from the doe coming up, and she was a big one for a doe). I sat there in my stand looking for 10-15 min, when I smelled that "smell" again. I froze stiff, and was looking all around. I looked at about my 10 o'clock position, and squatting there was a large hairy creature, looking right at me. Right when I saw it, it stood up. I was maybe 35 yards away, and it was maybe 5 yards from the deer. I was very alarmed, because other than the deer crashing through the thicket, I had not heard this thing approach. I was thinking how in the hell did something this big get this close to me without a noise? When it stood up, I was shaking holding my rifle up, and it took sort of a side-step and looked down at the deer and then back at me. It then in one move grabbed the deer by its back legs (both) and threw it over its shoulder (one armed right, and we are talking about a big doe deer here, maybe 130-145 lb.). It turned away from me, and I aimed my rifle at its head, had the crosshairs of scope right on its head. It turned back to me, and growled, and gave the same "smile" (showed its teeth), which I took as, "don't even think about it". I could have easily killed it (I think, with a clear head shot from 25 yards), but it looked like a big human more than an animal. I was scared to death, but had 7 shots in the rifle, 5 -12 gauge slugs in a shotgun, and my .44 mag, so I felt pretty safe, should it come after me, but just seemed interested in the deer. I lowered my rifle, and it turned and once it entered the thicket, I couldn't see it, but could hear it move away through the thicket..I just sat there, rifle in hand ready if it came back. Description was same as other. If it wasn't the same creature, well, it has a twin brother. I didn't get out of the stand until about 45 min later, when my grandfather came up and asked "how big?", having heard me shoot (he was about ½ mile away down the slough/creek). I got down out of the stand, and took him to where I had shot the deer, which being a head shot, there was blood and skull/brain matter all over. He asked me where it was..I told him."your friend got it", and told him what happened. There were 3-4 large tracks where it went back into the thicket. I wear a size 13 EEE, and even in boots, the track was wider and about 4-5 inches bigger than mine. It was also about 6 ft between the tracks. We both stood there and talked about it for a min, and both guessed it had been chasing the deer through the thicket, but strange thing to me was, after the deer came into sight, I didn't hear a sound. Now, this could have been because I was focused on the deer, but think hearing something that big move through the thicket would have gotten my attention. Almost 25 years later, I am still amazed at how big it was, and how it got there totally without me seeing it. My grandfather died the next April in 1983. I never even talked to anyone else about this except for him, so nobody in last 23 years. I never hunted in that particular stand again. I have been by it and in that area maybe 5 or 6 times over the years (I got older, started family, and without my grandfather just wasn't that much fun), last time being in January of 1997 when my grandmother died, and went out to (name withheld) and the deer camp with 2 of my cousins. That stand was still there even then. That was only 2 times I saw anything, but have smelled that smell before, a couple of times coon hunting at the deer camp at night (both times dogs that were not scared of anything cowered at my feet and refused to hunt), and also have heard some screams that are almost exact to ones I've heard on the internet. On one occasion was within 100 yards I would say. I always brushed it off to coyotes, but now know wasn't that after listening to a coyote howl.

Description of Creature: 7'-7'4"....approx 500 lbs.....black hair, not fur....approx 4 " all over body except for face at around upper lip level, palms, bottoms of feet, and was thinner on butt

Other (Informational or Encounter History in the General Area) Notes: have read some on yours and other sites, one on your site across the river, less than 2 miles away, several within 5-10 miles

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