DATE:Fall 88
 

TIME: Late morning
 

LOCATION:Closest town, Fruitvale. Van Zandt county Texas
                South East of Hwy's 80 and 19
                           Between Hwy's 119 and 243

TERRAIN: Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    This is just South of where I had my first sighting.  Me and my best friend had been deer hunting that morning and had had no luck.  We took a short drive to this area to try our luck calling in some coyotes or bobcats or other varmints with a predator call. We did not want to do this in our deer hunting area, naturally.  We set up off of an oily blacktop road about fifty yards to our North. This road is also the southern boundary to the valley where my first sighting occured.  We were in a small area in the woods, not quite a clearing, but most of the small bushes and trees were not present here.  I sat with my back to a decent sized oak and my friend did the same. We were facing each other, about ten yards apart so we we would not have any varmints come up behind us.   I began blowing on the call and continued for about three minutes. I then waited a couple of minutes and began again, this time not as loud. After a couple of minutes I stopped again. As usual, while not blowing the call, we were scanning the woods around us and listening.  Well, we didn't see anything, but listening sure payed off. I heard VERY heavy breathing, just start up, right behind me. I looked at my friend and could tell he had heard it too. I motioned for him to look behind me as I knew that something was right behind me. He had to see it, it was so close. But he's sitting there motioning for me to look behind HIM ! I motion again to look behind me and he's shaking his head that theres nothing there and to check behind him again. I shake my head again. No.  So we sit and wait and after a short while, a minute maybe two, the sound lessens and stops. We never have figured this one out. There is no way either of us did this and got away with it. We were too close to each other and too scared.  Needles to say, we held tight to our weapons and departed soon afterwards.
This makes sense only because of my earlier sighting several hundred yards to our north.
 

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESS(ES):  Blowing on predator call. Hunting.
 

DESCRIPTION OF CREATURE:
 

OTHER NOTES:   No sound of walking, scurrying or anything.
No sounds or sights of ANY animal.

Follow up: f
 

OTHER SIGHTINGS IN THIS AREA?:   Yes. A possible bigfoot sighting and strange splashing in a creek at night to be submitted in other reports.