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

DATE:    April 19, 2009
 

TIME:     06:00 
 

LOCATION:   Hardin County, Texas 
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded 
 

OBSERVED:    On a recent trip to one of my best friends grand parents place to help clean the property from some debris that was left from a previous hurricane i showed up right at sun up, i smelled something like a wet dirty dog and when i started to walk into the woods at the back of the property about 45 ft from where i smelled the stench i saw what looked like a big gorilla, i stand at 6'1" and this thing was a good 2 to 2 1/2 feet taller then i am it made a sound like a groan and kinda scurried off when i walked to where the "animal" was standing and on the ground there was an imprint like something had been laying there  
 

Activities of Witness:   was walking around observing the work that had to be done that day  
 

Description of Creature:  It was at lesat 8 ft tall and real hairy it was right at sun up so it was still kinda dark out in the woods but the hair was thick and dark i didn't look at its face it seemed that it kept its back to me 
 

Other Notes:    Since hurricane IKE alot of the trees and thick wooded areas have fallen and been cleared and there has been alot of "game" activity although the animal that i saw hasn't been seen before.  His aunt and grandparents did mention that a couple of days prior they had heard some strange noises coming from the back of the property 
 

Other (Informational or Encounter History in the General Area) Notes:    To my knowledge there was no occurrences like this one before we had talked to my buddies grandparents as well as his great aunt who also lives on the property and they all have denied seeing anything before that day we are planning on another trip to set out some game trail cameras to see if we can capture this beast on film 
 

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments: 
Follow Up Notes by Bobby Hamilton: A follow up conversation was had with the witness over the phone following the submission of this report.  The witness, said that when he arrived at the property, that he was standing there looking at the back of the property.  He noticed an awful smell, similar to a wet dirty dog.  Then he said something moved and caught his attention, and that is when he shifted his gaze and saw this thing standing there.  It appeared to have it's back towards him, and he said it just stood there and at one point it kinda raised one of its arms up and you could see longer hair hanging off it's arm.  He said he must have looked at it for maybe two minutes, before it walked off.  He said he had a small caliber handgun on him, but did not feel it was enough weapon to do enough damage to this thing, it was that big.

Since the report was posted, he has found out that, the neighboring wildlife has been acting funny in the sense, that they used to come up on the back of the property to be fed, and they had stopped doing so about a week prior to this event.  There has also been alot of weird vocalizations being heard in the evening hours that wasn't previously being heard.  

Also, a neighbor had a hog that was killed and the head and front shoulder was torn off and missing.  The neighbor followed the blood trail to a nearby woodline and didn't proceed to follow the blood any further.  The man said it looked like it was either torn off, or cut off with an extremely dull hatchet.

The Saturday evening following the initial encounter (April 25, 2009), the grandfather went out to feed their chickens and seen the creature or "A" creature moving across the end of their property.

The next morning on Sunday morning (April 26, 2009) the grandmother, looked out her kitchen window and seen what she described as a possible smaller creature, with a different shade of brown hair blending into the black hair, moving across the back of their pasture area.

I am in contact with the witness and, when our work schedules permits us, we will both meet out at the location and I will do a full field report on the area and the incidents described in this report.