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Encounter during a summer camp campout near the Brazos River
During a multi-day canoe camping trip along a river, the witness and a companion chased an animal to the top of a cliff near camp. The witness collided with a large hair-covered creature and both the creature and the two companions screamed. The pair fled in panic over the cliff edge and survived the fall, while other campers heard the screams and saw the fall.
Two sisters have late-night sighting through bedroom window
The witness and her younger sister were talking in a dark bedroom late at night when they heard twigs crunching outside. Looking out the window in bright moonlight, they saw a very large hairy bipedal animal in the yard. Their grandfather came to the room, knocked out the window screen and fired a rifle at it. The animal bellowed, ran on two legs and stepped over a barbed-wire fence toward a creek, and no sign was found the next day.
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
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.
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.
Wood knock in Texas
Three people toured a remote site and heard a wood knock, then heard loud crashing and footsteps rushing toward them. They retreated and a light stopped the approach about ten feet away before it turned and walked off. The next day they found medium and very large tracks by a broken leaning tree.
Footsteps in Texas
A few years before the interview the guest walked a forest road at night in deep East Texas to see if an animal would follow him. After hiding by cane and waiting between pines, he fired his thermally sighted rifle at a heat signature following him. The animal screamed loudly, crashed through brush and splashed across a creek, and was tracked for two days with no blood or hair found.
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.
Rock throwing in Texas
The witness and a friend returned to a vehicle after dark and it would not start. A softball-sized rock and then a stick were thrown over the vehicle, followed by snapping in the woods. Something on two feet paced them step-for-step to the gate as they left, and they fired shots before calling for a ride.
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.
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.
Footsteps near Lipan, Texas
While walking alone down the dirt road the witness heard branches breaking then heavy elephant-like running steps behind him. Something kept pace with him in the trees with loud nasty huffing wheezing breathing. He ran home hyperventilating and his parents later found a pushed-over trail in the tall grass where something had run.
Footsteps in Texas
Three brothers were tent-camping alone in the state park during the off season. After midnight in rainy and windy conditions they heard heavy, lumbering footsteps circling their camp at a distance and breaking large branches for over an hour. The sounds paused after they turned off lights and later resumed, and mud prevented finding tracks the next morning.
Footsteps near Tyler, Texas
The witness and a companion riding a 4-wheeler heard loud footsteps keeping pace and noticed trees moving.
Sasquatch sighting near Henderson, Texas
The witness saw a very large dark bipedal figure running through the pasture at night and heard heavy sounds indicating great weight and speed.
Wood knock near Willis, Texas
The witness joined an investigator and a companion for an overnight camp in the same area with knocks, footsteps, a tree pushed over, and rock clacking sounds.
Vocalization near Harleton, Texas
The family reported unexplained vocalizations, heavy stomping noises, strong sewer smells, and loss of chickens.
Vocalization near Fannin County
During the first night of the December trip the campers reported hooting and chimp-like chatter, an outhouse door moving, eyes in forest, and tent zipper and fire-pit disturbances with objects thrown in lake.