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Biology teacher's experiences around "the 1893 Bridge."
A teacher and companions are said to have encountered a tall creature on at least six occasions near an old bridge in Cooke County, Texas. The encounters occurred at night from a vehicle, with the figure seen as a tall silhouette in headlights and heard making threatening noises while moving through brush. On one occasion the creature was described as bouncing a limb, whose height was measured the next day, and daytime searches reportedly found bones in the creek. Shots were allegedly fired at the creature without apparent effect.
Two brothers have early morning encounter
On a bright early morning in summer 1972, the witness and his brother were sleeping at home when the witness noticed a large shadow at the window that remained about five minutes. After the brother woke and made a noise, the figure turned, showing a flat-faced profile and hunched posture, then walked away and was seen from the back door as covered in dark hair. The figure paused when they struck the glass, then continued leaving. A day later they found tracks behind the house leading toward the houses.
Witness spots a large, dark, hairy creature standing 50 yards away
When the witness was about 10 years old, they accompanied a friend and the friend's mother to a small cemetery to visit a grave. After placing flowers, the group heard a crash at the woods edge and saw a large dark hairy creature standing behind the back fence about 50 yards away. The creature grunted and shuffled back into the woods, and the group quickly got in the car and left.
Tall creature seen by witness
The witness's father and a companion were fishing at Chambers Creek when a large hairy creature estimated at eight to ten feet tall appeared before them and roared while displaying its arms. Frightened, the two men ran to the truck and drove back to town. The account notes the creature was reportedly seen by others afterward.
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.
Sasquatch sighting near Union Valley, Texas (1958)
In 1958 the guest's father and his brother-in-law were driving home after hauling hay when they passed a big white hairy creature standing and yelling by an old house and corral. They turned around twice to look again, seeing it shaking its hands up and down with long hair on its arms and body, before it was gone on the third pass.
Vocalization in Texas
While in Texas with a limited permit, the group heard vocalizations from every direction all night long as they were leaving one camp location. The host worried about a youth troop arriving to camp there 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.
Vocalization in Texas
On the first night out at a pond area, the group heard vocalizations that seemed to approach rapidly from a distance. They also heard a crisp tree knock and an owl sound that shifted into monkey-like calls. Later around the campfire they heard constant vocals for hours and something threw a large log toward camp.
Sasquatch sighting in Texas
While out in Texas hearing unknown sounds through the night with a companion carrying a flare, the witness glimpsed a man-like figure run into bushes. Minutes later something threw a log at them. The companion also saw the figure and considered it his first sighting.
Vocalization in Texas
In the middle of the day indoors, the witness heard his dog bark then yelp as if hurt from behind the house. He ran outside and found that dog unharmed in the front yard. He believed the sound may have been mimicked to lure him or the dogs.
Vocalization in Texas
On consecutive nights around 10:30, the witness and his wife heard loud primate-like sounds outside. The first was a long yelp that sent them inside. The next night he heard a loud whoop answered by a second whoop.
Vocalization in Texas
While the group talked around a campfire, a recorder left about one hundred twenty yards away captured what sounded like two individuals communicating. The recording was described as clear monkey-like talk rather than screams. The witness offered to share the audio for cleanup and analysis.
Growl in Texas
The witness and a companion exchanged owl calls on a road and then heard different owl-like answers. After the witness made a loud gorilla-like call, a deep guttural growl sounded from an embankment about thirty feet ahead. The companion, usually calm, insisted they leave immediately for the vehicle.
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
After dragging a dead calf to a field edge, the neighbor ran out of gas and saw one standing at the creek edge. It hollered so loudly he felt it in his chest. He ran for a tractor and returned to find nothing there.
Scream in Texas
The neighbor, initially a non-believer, reports ongoing hollering, screaming, grunting, monkey sounds and whistles from multiple directions. Sticks and limbs were thrown at them on a tractor, and whistles answered post-driving. The property shows stripped bark, snapped and twisted trees, a trail-camera image and a footprint at a low-water crossing.
Sasquatch sighting near Burkeville, Texas
The witness returned to the property late at night and saw a tall, less-hairy creature pacing across the road bent over with long arms. It threw a large log that narrowly missed, while another presence moved to the side. Pine cones and rocks struck the witness, who fired and hit the creature center mass, watched it fall groaning, then found bloody fluid on the ground the next day.
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.
Vocalization near Grand Prairie, Texas
On other occasions the witness heard unusual night vocalizations and wood knocks, most recently hearing four knocks west of home answered by three knocks east of home.