Woman tells of her husband's close encounter as a young man with "The Hermit" near Huntsville
Account
About 1960, the submitter's husband and two school friends were spending a weekend night inside a relative's cabin when they felt watched and saw a tall hair-covered figure silhouetted by the open refrigerator light. The boys shouted and split up to flee to the car, with the husband reporting something running close behind him that he could hear breathing and smell strongly like moldy skunk. In hindsight he wondered whether the figure was also fleeing and had simply taken the same path.
What was reported
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Described appearance
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- Height src
- six-foot-tall-plus
- Hair colour src
- dark
- Hair length src
- about 4-6 inches long, all over
- Face src
- couldn't see a face
- Age / size src
- teen-age (felt not adult)
- Clothing src
- totally covered with hair
Facts & provenance
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| Time of day |
between 6pm and 12pm
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|---|---|
| Place |
Huntsville TX, Walker County, Texas
Stated
BFRO report #23531
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
30.81, -95.76 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 23531 with published boundary
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
3
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
hanging out at cabin at night
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| Witness's word for it |
The hermit
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| Source classification |
Class B
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Evidence & investigation
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- Investigated by
- Sybilla Irwin (BFRO)
An investigator contacted the submitter about other witnesses and details, learning one witness could not be identified and another related witness had died, with no further incident details beyond location description.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #23531 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference
The report refers to
- “History Channel show about a curious Bigfoot”Not in the Anomadex yet
- “books about legendary creatures such as the Abominable Snowman”Not in the Anomadex yet