DATE:           11/01/90

TIME:             Late evening
 

LOCATION:   Canton Texas  Van Zandt county
                 Between Hwy's 119 and 243
                           Between Hwy's 119 and 243
TERRAIN:       Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    It was late evening. I had been deer hunting since about 3pm. It is usually dark around 6pm this time of year.
I had climbed a tree that was bending low over an old overgrown trail. The tree was about 10'-12' off the ground.
From this vantage point I could see up and down the trail about fifty yards in either direction as well as through some of the surrounding woods.  It was sometime after five in the evening as it was beginning to get dark. I had been scanning up and down the trail for over two hours and as I looked down the trail to my left, facing south, I saw a human shaped figure standing in the trees off the trail. My heart leapt as I had been looking this way off and on and had seen nothing.   The woods were already very shadowy but this thing was only about thirty yards away. I couldn't make out any clear face, but the body was dark and it appeared to have a slightly reddish color to it. The stomach on down area was covered up mostly by brush. There seemed to not be much of a neck. I would guesstimate the height to be around 9' as I wasn't really looking down on it as across.
It stayed there, unmoving for about thirty  minutes and just before dark it was just gone. I had looked away a few times to try to determine how I would leave the area without having to turn my back and the next time I looked, it was just gone. I left too. Quickly.
 

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESS(ES):  I was in a tree, deer hunting., see above
 

DESCRIPTION OF CREATURE:  I couldn't make out any clear face, but the body was dark and it appeared to have a slightly reddish color to it. The stomach on down area was covered up mostly by brush. There seemed to not be much of a neck. I would guesstimate the height to be around 9' as I wasn't really looking down on it as across.
 

OTHER NOTES:  I have seen trees torn and uprooted in the middle of the woods. Some large piles of scat.
 

OTHER SIGHTINGS IN THIS AREA?:   Yes. In another part of this county I saw what I now believe was a bigfoot. Also experienced some strange sounds and activity both day and night.  My friend found a single huge footprint in this same area above while I was away at Fort Knox Kentucky in late 87'.
 

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