Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On:
November 22, 2015
DATE: 07/1990
06/10/14
TIME: 10:00am
LOCATION: Hitchcock
County, Nebraska
TERRAIN: River
bottom
OBSERVED: I
was around 12 years of age at the time and at that time i
spent most of my time running up and down the republican
river bottom. I had spent the night cat fishing at one of
the local sand pits around ten in the morning I gathered up
my things and headed for home. I walk the game trail that
ran along the edge of the river as I had done several times
throughout the year rather it be hunting,Trapping or
fishing. As I approached a spot in the river were a huge
tank had blown into the river several years earlier. I herd
a clacking sound coming from the area of the tank. I
couldn't see the tank yet but being real familiar with the
area I could tell the sound was coming from there. I slowed
down and stopped to listen my first thought was someone was
netting fish from inside the tank as i often did. I set my
things down and moved closer and as I came around the bend
in the river were the tank was submerged in the river I saw
what I thought was a bear or something and i froze in fear.
The animal did not see me and continued doing what it had
been. It was smashing clams on a rock that lay on the
bank of the river I saw his hand reach down and pick up a
clam just as i would. he was facing away from me kind of
side ways. It was knelt down and appeared to have fur
covering his entire body. I started to move back slowly He
turned and looked right at me kind of over his right
shoulder. At that time I saw it was no bear and looked to be
a man covered in reddish fur. He did not bolt of. He rose up
on two feet and fully turned to face me with his body. I
said he because I could clearly see what distinguishes
between male and female as i looked down trying not to make
eye contact. He looked over to the opening of the tank and
grunted and that's when i herd water splashing and looked
over to see a second one emerge from the tank and it was
clearly a female. She moved quickly to the bank and both
then jumped up the bank and disappeared into the trees. I
quickly went the other way and ran all the way to the safety
of town. I then told my dad what happened and he did not
believe me and laughed it off. I later went back to retrieve
my things I left behind and in the sand i clearly saw
tracks and all the clam shells that were broken on the rock.
There was also a small stack of clams beside the rock that
were neatly stacked that had not been broke, open. I
brought my shotgun with me when i returned to get my things
and i was scared to death the hole time. My dad asked me
about it when i returned home with my stuff and i told him
of the tracks and he said he would go with me in the
morning to look. He did but the tracks were unidentifiable
and the stack of clams were gone all that remained were the
broken ones. So needless to say I was not be believed by
him. I then told friends from school and was heckled over it
for a few days and then a harvest crew guy rolled his wheat
truck about a mile from where my sighting was and he claimed
two hairy men ran out in front of him in the road causing
the wreck. I know what I saw. The mail was around 7 feet
tall and the female was slightly smaller in height. they
both were very muscular looking with about the same build. I
don't remember having eye contact with the female but the male
i did. he had fear in his eyes and i could tell there
was some kind of humanity there. The nose was very wide
sitting on the face as ours. the mouth was just as ours the
skin was dark on the face with hare lacking around the eyes
nose and upper cheek area. I was close around 30 feet and
slightly above them on the bank. The bank was around three
feet above the water level. When the mail rose up he was
about eye level. I looked down in a submissive way
instinctively and i often wish i would not have because
there was something about its eyes that intrigued me and i
will never forget looking into them. I have had feelings
several times wile in the woods that i was being watched and
two years ago wile deer hunting with my wife I heard a loud
tree knock and then a whistle from the other direction.
Those are the only other strange things that have ever
happened to me in all the years i have spent in the woods. I
have also spent many hours behind a spotlight coon hunting
without a single incidence.
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