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Encounter on Toledo Bend
While fishing from a boat near shore, the witness smelled a strong musky odor for several minutes, then spotted a tall hair-covered figure partly hidden behind a short tree at the treeline. The figure remained still for a couple minutes, then stood, stepped into the open to look at the boat, and walked slowly uphill into denser forest. A companion in the boat also smelled the odor but did not see the figure.
Movement only in Texas
During the day the group split on a trail to look for prints while trying to stay quiet. They suddenly heard a loud crash like a truck driving through the woods nearby. The witnesses concluded it was not made by their own split group.
Wood knock in Texas
On Friday night the group heard vocals from multiple directions. After dropping a 4x4 board to mimic knocks, the surrounding area erupted in sound. Walking up the trail, they heard something step out and shake a large tree very close and heard bipedal footsteps hit the mud, then backed out.
Movement only in Texas
On Thursday night while three men sat by a vehicle, something crashed quickly through thick brush, flanked across the road and behind them. The witness followed the local guide into the treeline and a large log was thrown end-over-end toward them, hitting a tree. On leaving they found a log deliberately placed across the road where the thing had crossed and heard distant chatter and howls.
Sasquatch sighting in Texas
While touring a remote camp area with a group that included recent visitors, the witness saw a sasquatch-like shadow or movement on a distant ridge going through trees. Others positioned further up reportedly had a better view.
Sasquatch sighting in Texas
The witness was alone fishing from a boat on a lake in the afternoon. About twenty yards away on the bank the witness saw a black upright figure trying to hide its face and move away. It slipped through brush silently, ran up a hill, and made loud branch-breaking sounds that frightened the witness, who waited at the ramp before leaving.
Sasquatch sighting in Texas
After dogs ran toward the woods and quickly returned, the witness saw a tall two-legged figure with broad shoulders and a round head walk behind the shed. He compared it to his brother and estimated about seven feet tall. Both he and his wife then heard heavy footsteps moving through leaves toward them, which stopped as they talked.
Growl near Kendall County
On a hot dry summer afternoon the witness drove alone to fill a large concrete trough. Still water showed a wave as if something had just been in it, with a spaced bipedal water trail leading to brush. When approaching, the witness heard a deep resonant growl felt in the chest and retreated to the vehicle frightened.
Sasquatch sighting near Cheetah, Texas
An eyewitness was walking in an area by a power line searching for arrowheads. She noticed something chasing a rabbit at a distance and realized it was very large. She froze hoping not to be seen, and the creature eventually ran off into the woods. She also reported recognizing a distinct pungent smell in that area.
Footsteps in Texas
While walking in the woods on their North Texas property, the witness says on a couple of occasions something moved parallel to the group. The sounds stopped when they stopped, taking one or two extra steps. The family could not see what was making the noise.
Movement only in Texas
New occupants thought a house was haunted because it was slapped and rocks hit it at night. They later saw something running from the house back into the forest. The teller offered it as similar to the Mississippi house case.
Sasquatch sighting in Texas
While waiting on a porch after getting stuck hunting, the guest and cousin spoke with an older resident. She said that on the prior morning she had watched what looked like a stump in a clear-cut across from her house stand up and walk into the woods. She had thought it might have been a bear.
Movement only in Texas
A Texas researcher told the host about a place where blue lights appear almost nightly and showed videos and pictures. On one occasion a group followed the lights into the woods, kept going deeper, separated, and became practically lost.
Sasquatch sighting in Texas
The witness, then a teenager, drove to a ranch at night to hunt raccoons with a dog. The dog acted fearful, livestock were huddled, and the woods were silent before a foul odor, heavy thumps, a branch break, growls and a scream occurred. The witness then saw large red eyes and a huge upright figure at close range, froze in terror and prayed, then fled to the truck without clear memory of the retreat, later finding the dog on the road and abandoning the rifle.
Woman tells of her husband's close encounter as a young man with "The Hermit" near Huntsville
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.
Odor near Gladewater, Texas
In the same area that same year the witness was on foot after dark without a light, felt hair stand up and as if followed, smelled a strong almost-skunky odor, and hurried out while hunting dogs ran ahead to the house.
Vocalization near Woodville, Texas
On a night, the witness's relative heard a foul-smelling unseen animal moaning, groaning and breathing heavily outside bedroom windows in the same house.
Sasquatch sighting in Texas
The witness was camping with his uncle and two cousins when they saw a panning light and several fast black shadows cross a pasture. They challenged a suspected poacher, then heard clear bipedal footsteps outside their tent during rain. Lightning illuminated a massive man-like shadow on the tent with very long arms, which then ran away, prompting them to abandon camp for the farmhouse.
Rock throwing near Granbury, Texas
Sitting atop stored freight cars at night the witness and his friend threw rocks into the woods and heard one hit flesh with a deep thud. Rocks were then thrown back at them, sparking on the rails and clanging on the metal cars. After smelling a dead-animal stench and hearing more impacts they climbed over a barbed-wire fence to the road and took a long route home.
Odor near Granbury, Texas
Walking home in the dark the witness smelled a terrible stink and heard slow footsteps approaching in the woods. When he jogged and looked back he saw a huge black mass at a tree archway with reflective glowing eyes. He sprinted home barefoot after losing his untied shoes and stopped visiting his friend after dark.