Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 
Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On:   December 1, 2009

DATE:    1950's 
 

TIME:     N/A 
 

LOCATION:   Sunflower/Bolivar County Mississippi
 

TERRAIN:    Flood plain of the Mississippi, plus cotton fields  
 

OBSERVED:    My mom and her siblings were raised on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta. This occurred neared the town of Drew which is very close to the Sunflower River - lots of cotton farms/plantations at that time. When their father would be ill, the girls - 13, 11, 9, 7 - would have to go to the fields without him.

On at least one occasion, the girls were walking to the field to work - river on one side, woods on the other. My mom had always talked about how they would hear something following them as they walked. She thought it must have been a hobo or transient; however, she and her sisters would hear the footsteps and stop to listen. The footsteps would stop. When they would begin walking again, it would start again. She reports they never saw anything because whatever it was would stay just inside the tree line.

I had never considered a sasquatch/bigfoot would be responsible before I came across this web site which I have been reading daily for 3 months. I talked with my mom again about it and she repeated the story as I have always heard it, not one change in the 40 years I've known it.

The other girls haven't forgotten it either. Made an impression.

Additional things: There was also a black lady who was picking cotton in the same field and Mom said the lady obviously heard it too. She didn't describe her reaction but was very sure the lady heard the noises too. 
 

Activities of Witness:   Mom and her sisters were their dad's only help in picking cotton to help support the family. They lived in a small sharecropper's cabin on a plantation that was located near the Sunflower River. 
 

Description of Creature:  They never saw or smelled anything.
 

Other Notes:    My mom and her sisters also tell a story of during the summer one year, that "something" would come into their house (doors did not have locks) and walk around their bed, sometimes stroking their hair and then leave. They had also witnessed "something" slowing turning the doorknob on the kitchen door while they sat at the table doing homework. They would blame their little brother trying to scare them but he was found in the living room watching TV.

Whatever it was never came in obviously.

It's possible the intruder may have been a transient but it happened several times. My uncle is a writer (nothing published) but he has written a fictional story about Sasquatch in Mississippi (based on their childhood experiences?) so I think he knows more than what he's telling. 
 

Other (Informational or Encounter History in the General Area) Notes:    I have read at least two other stories from this area on your site but they happened a long time after my mom's experience. 
 

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments:   I thought my mom and her sisters only heard the noise in the woods once. I stand corrected. They heard it ALL the time. Each time they would go to the fields. When they asked my grandfather (their daddy) he would tell them it was "squirrels" but of course he would say that to keep them from being frightened about going to the field to work.