DATE:           July 16, 2000 to present day

TIME:         9:50 P.M.

LOCATION:     Texas, Sabine County

TERRAIN:            Wooded
 

OBSERVED:  I have been putting off posting my last observation since Easter weekend when it happened.  But, when my father call me this morning with the latest occurance, I felt I would share the latest with you.

Easter weekend, my brother and I planned to get together for a short campout with my son at my father and grandmothers place.  The retired farm is a 16 acre stretch of land mostly cleared off that is in the middle of thousands of acres owned by a lumber company that has farmed pine trees on it for many many years that butts up against a National Forest.  Call us "chickens--t's" but previous experiences and occurences, some recent, coerced us to camp at the treeline just behind the house.  We had drank a few beers and I told my son to go to sleep as it was a little before 3:00A.M. My son had not been asleep but for about 15 minutes when between conversations, my brother and I heard a 3-4 second vocalization (roar/scream) reverb through the woods, and consequently our chests.  1-2 seconds later, all of the hunting dogs up the way (coon dogs 200 yrds away) began to raise -ell.  During the vocalizations, my brother and I had time to turn and just look at each other.  Very shortly after, I walked hesitantly into the dark, to my Blazer and retreived my AR-15.  After which point my larger little brother got his 9mm  and 2-15 round clips.  We felt a little easier as we waited for day break.

Now the reason I decided to post today.  My father as mentioned in at least one previous report called today to tell me his latest.  For those who may not want to look up the other postings; my father is the son of a Methodist Minister (now deceased), and a well educated man, who has been an educator for over 29 years (High School and College).  Without a doubt is the most intelligent (sp?) (didn't rub off on me) and well read person I have ever known.  I have never in my 34 years known my father to lie or exaggerate, much less just open his mouth and let a lie fall out.  Enough said.  Anyway, he told me that last night 7/16/2002 at approx. 9:50P.M. he was in the back bedroom with the lights, TV and window unit A/C on, when he heard the loudest, blood curdling screams he has ever experienced.  He said that it had to have been at the fence line just inside the fence about 50 feet behind the house, and that there were 3 several second vocalizations.  He immediatly turned the lights, TV and A/C off to look out and try to see anything, but was unable.  There is a mild security light behind the house before the fence, and this causes blindness beyond the light.  He said that he now sees what I must have tried to explain about the way it makes you feel.

My father and I have been out in the pasture in the past and heard Puma/Mountain Lions making a pass behind the acreage doing their thing: calling, screaming, and so forth, and have obviously heard our share of mother cows bellowing etc.  He knows the difference.  This morning, he went out to the fence line and poked around, but found nothing obvious to him in way of foot prints.

 ACTIVITIES OF WITNESSES:   Camping/watching television in bedroom

DESCRIPTION OF CREATURE:   N/A

OTHER NOTES:   Several occurances of the following:

10 - 11 P.M., my dad has been outside messing with his plants smoking a cigar and has heard very uncommon bird calls and thump noises just behind the house in the edge of the woods.

8-9P.M. my dad has had a real uneasy feeling, and smelled horrible smell that he related smelled only like the smell he experience before in Houston coming from a car that sat in the woods for 4-5 months with a dead body in it .

Several times in the past, almost always around 3am, has heard at a greater distance the vocalizations.

My brother and I when young had the experience of being paced while walking down a recently dug pipeline.  Ending up with what ever was pacing us crashing through the woods breaking trees etc. (never saw it, too busy running for our lives).

There are pictured of a dog (Rottwieler)sp? that is posted on a websight, search (Sabine Thing) on Yahoo, that has a double fist size bite taken out of his shoulder.  I recommend everyone looking at it.  Unbelievable.  This dog belongs to people that live  not 4 miles from my father and grandmother

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OTHER SIGHTINGS IN THIS AREA:   Yes