Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 

DATE:    1987
 

TIME:     Around Midnight
 

LOCATION:   Travis County, Texas

TERRAIN:    Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    I have not told anyone this story in quite a long time, but back in 86 or 87 myself Jon, and Dave used to play war games in the woods near Jon's mothers house.  We were camping about 50 - 60 yards from Jon's moms house.  We were positioned right beside a creek bed and had our tents set up around a campfire pit we had dug out and set rocks around.  We were cooking out and my buddy Dave was getting drunk.  Myself and Jon did not want to drink.  Well it was getting late, so we called it a night.  Dave slept in the tent with me and Jon, cause his tent was soaked from the previous nights rain.  About midnight or so, myself and Jon heard this scream so loud it scared me down to the very core of my soul.  It sounded like it came from the hill behind our tent.  After a second, we heard another scream, and the sound of a tree or branch being snapped and rolling somewhere down the hill.  By this point myself and Jon were completely terrified, whispering to ourselves what would we do if that thing got into the tent.  Dave was still passed out and Jon and I grabbed our survival knives.  That is when we heard heavy footsteps approaching our camp.  At that point we both made up our mind not to look outside of the tent.  The thing walked around the whole campsite and slowly around Dave's wet tent.  Then it walked around our tent.  It came to a stop right behind mine and Jon's head.  We heard heavy breathing and slight movement.  Then it turned away and walked off.  As it left and was on the hill it let out another scream.  We could not sleep much through the rest of the night.  We got out of the tent the next morning, to see if we could not find any tracks.  Due to the leaf fall on the ground we found none.  But we found the broken tree and it was a good size that had looked like it had been pushed over and broke at the base. I have not been back to that place since 1987.  I have been in the military for 13 years now and never heard anything like that before.  I was afraid to tell anyone this because of being made fun of.
 

Activities of Witness:   We were camping and cooking food at the campfire and just busy being teenagers.
 

Description of Creature:  No observations were made.  We were too scared to come out of the tent.  The sound of a good sized tree being broken.  A very unnerving screaming sound enough to scare us to pieces.  Heavy footsteps around camp.
 

Other Notes:   That's the only time we ever heard it.  We were cautious every time we went out there.  A feeling of uneasiness came over us ever time we were out there.
 

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments:  Upon contact the witness had no additional information to add to this report.

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