Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 

Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On:  May 3, 2005
 

DATE:    Mid 1980's
 

TIME:     Evening
 

LOCATION:   Houston County, Texas
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    My family and some friends of ours had a deer lease outside of XXXXX Texas.  I want to say it was at least xx miles outside of the city limits as it was a nice little drive to get into town.  I am not sure of the acreage of the land but it was a large piece of property that had a creek running through the middle of it, and the backside of the property backed up to the national forest.  There were several open fields on the property that we had planted oats in, and we had a dozen or more stands scattered around the area.  The only area we never built any stands was on the backside of the property across the creek by the national forest.  There were several old stands there that not been used  in several years, but no one ever explained why.  Being 11-12 years old at the time I was curious at this and asked   the man who leased the property to us.
He simply stated that that part of the property had a "creepy" feeling  to it, and very few people ever hunted it.  He was right about the "creepy feeling.  Right after we got the  lease we went back in that area to search for deer sign, and possible places to put stands.  We had no sooner crossed the creek when it felt like we were being watched.  I was with my dad, his best friend, and his son.  We were all armed with shotguns but still felt a little uneasy.  We looked around for about an hour and hadn't found much deer sign so we headed back to camp at the front of the property.  The feeling of being watched stayed with us until we had crossed the creek on our way back to camp.
We didn't go back there much after that.  This was in the early 80's several years later while night hunting for rabbits me and my brother-in-law had an incident happen to us that we couldn't explain.  It was around 8:00 at night and we had decided to walk and shine a spotlight into the oat fields to see if we could shoot some rabbits.  We were close to the creek area when my  brother-in-law asked me if I had heard anything.  I listened and heard what I thought was someone walking up the trail.  What was unusual about this was that  it was coming from the other side of the creek, and the only way back there was down the trail which we were on.  No one in camp had left before us so it wasn't one of them.  We listened for a few minutes and realized the sound was coming closer.  Now  it was a cloudy night, not much moonlight, and who ever was walking down the trail was not using a flashlight, at least not that we could
see.  My brother-in-law and myself trail stepped off the trail into the brush kneeled down turned off our light and listened.  We heard someone or something cross the creek and then it stopped about 400 yards
away from where we were.  All was quiet for several minutes.  Then we heard whatever it was cross the
creek again and head back in the direction it came from.  We didn't stay around long after that.  We hightailed it back to camp.  Everyone was there no one was missing.  We told them what had happened but they dismissed it as being a deer or a coyote.  I have my doubts about this as it sounded like a person walking on two legs.  My brother-in-law who was a big man, 6'6 375 lbs, was also a little rattled by this, and he did not rattle easily.  To this day I can not explain it, and tragically my brother-in law died unexpectedly last year but we talked about it often and wondered what it might have been. There was no smell that we could notice but it was deathly quiet that night.
 

Activities of Witness:   Night hunting
 

Description of Creature:  N/A
 

Other Notes of Possible Interest: N/A
 

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments:  Upon contact the witness had no additional information to add to this report other than to confirm it was a legitimate report.

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