- Class 1a
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1a A sasquatch/bigfoot specimen has been collected (alive or dead).
- Class 1b
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1b A report investigation results in a sasquatch observation or the documentation of clear tracks or other forms of physical evidence by an investigator.
- Class 1c
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1c An investigator determines that a visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot by a very reliable observer is a distinct possibility, tangible corroborating evidence is documented, and all other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 1d
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1d A visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot is a distinct possibility involving two or more reliable observers, and all other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 2
- Class 2, Competency: Reports involving sightings by professionally trained or highly skilled observers.2 Investigator determines that a visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot is a distinct possibility, the observer is exceptionally trustworthy, professionally trained, and experienced in the outdoors and/or is accustomed to looking for and recording details (e.g., biologist, anthropologist/archaeologist, ranger, trapper/tracker/seasoned hunter, bird watcher, game warden, naturalist, law enforcement), and other explanations can be reasonably excluded.
- Class 3a
- Class 3, Credibility: Sightings or possible wood ape evidence reported by credible witnesses.3a Investigator determines that a visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot is a distinct possibility, the observer is credible, and all other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 3b
- Class 3, Credibility: Sightings or possible wood ape evidence reported by credible witnesses.3b Unidentifiable vocalizations were reported and there is accompanying tangible evidence to possibly indicate the presence of a sasquatch/bigfoot, the observer is very reliable, and other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 3c
- Class 3, Credibility: Sightings or possible wood ape evidence reported by credible witnesses.3c No visual encounter occurred, but physical evidence was found to indicate the presence of a sasquatch/bigfoot (tracks, hair, scat, etc.), the observer is very reliable, and other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
Case: 01040005
Class 2Hunter has close encounter on on family property near Caddo Lake.
Report Details
Occurrence date: Spring/1988
Location: Harrison County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: Karnack Texas
Time / Conditions: 1st 5:30 pm and clear. 2nd 2 hours before sunrise — Cold & clear. Wooded, there were fairly good size private gardens with fruits and vegetables.
# of Witnesses: 1
Location: Harrison County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: Karnack Texas
Time / Conditions: 1st 5:30 pm and clear. 2nd 2 hours before sunrise — Cold & clear. Wooded, there were fairly good size private gardens with fruits and vegetables.
# of Witnesses: 1
Witness Account:
In 1988 my wife (fiance at the time) and I were visiting my grandmother who was in her mid eighties at that time. She was living on some property that has been owned by my family for over half a century. She had spent a good portion of her life on this property.
It was dusk and we were about to leave so we decided to sit on her porch before leaving. After sitting on the porch and talking for a while we heard a loud AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHWWWWWWW! It was coming from just inside the woods behind her house.
I'm pretty familiar with animal sounds, but couldn't identify this sound. I figured that since my grandmother lived there most of her life she would know what it was. I asked her about the sound and she said that she didn't know, but she said that she takes all her scraps and garbage to the edge of the woods every evening and lately she had the feeling that she was being watched. She also told me she had started carrying a garden hoe when she went out there.
In December of 1989 my friend and I went hunting on my family's property near Caddo Lake. It was about two hours before dawn and we settled into our deer stands. My deer stand was on the edge of a pipeline clearing. My friend's stand was in a thinly wooded area overlooking a small clearing about a quarter mile away from mine. I sat in my stand freezing my butt off. I didn't hear or see anything for almost an hour in the freezing temperatures. There was a full moon that night and it was pretty easy to see in the cleared areas. About an hour before the sun started to rise, I noticed something coming out of the woods. It began to walk down the opposite side of the pipeline clearing, towards me. It stayed in the shadows along the side of the wooded area it had exited. It was walking on two legs. At first I thought it maybe a hunter, but I looked hard to see if he had a gun and didn't see one. This was private property a mile off the nearest road and I didn't see a gun! It was also deer season, dark outside, and the woods are thick with trees, vines, and briars. This thing had just walked out of woods that are hard for me to walk through during the daytime without getting cutup from the briars. I couldn't imagine any person strolling through these woods at night during deer season. At first it was probably 75 yards away but it was getting closer. I thought maybe I'm seeing things, but I decided to click the safety off on my gun just in case. Immediately after I had clicked off the safety, this thing heard it; it was barely audible to myself. I could tell it had turned my direction, because its shoulders were now turned towards me. Without missing a step it was now walking backwards while looking at me. After about four steps backwards, it quickly spun around and I couldn't count the steps after that, it took a few more steps and quickly exited the pipeline. It entered the woods at a different location from where it had exited.
I still couldn't believe what I had seen, but I kept watching where it entered the woods in case it came back out. I noticed one large tree a few yards back in the wooded area that was higher than the other smaller trees around. This tree began to shake violently. After that I was done hunting, but was too scared to exit my stand. I was certain that it had to be Bigfoot. Every noise I heard after that spooked me. I stayed in my tree-stand until my friend came and got me after the sun came up. I told him what I had seen. I don't know if he believed me but we went to look for tracks. We didn't find any tracks but we saw a well-worn trail on the ground where it had exited the woods. I couldn't enter this trail because the trees and briars were real thick. It looked as if small animals could only use this trail, as it was low to the ground. There was a freshly beaten path where it had reentered the woods. I was able to enter the where it had reentered. I noticed an old plastic pail hanging about five or six feet up on the tree that had been shook. I have no idea why this pail was there. Nothing was in it but pine straw. The woods were too thick from that point on and we didn't see where it could have gone from that point.
Hand/foot prints:
Footprint in some soft soil.
Additional observations:
At least six foot. It was hard to judge because my deer stand was about six to seven foot high with a chair in the stand, and I was sitting higher than it stood. What I saw was at least six-foot tall, barrel-chested, and walked stooped over. There was no smell.
My father and his brothers and sisters were born on this land. My father had told me about several encounters he had as a small boy in the 1940s and 50s. He only told me about his encounters one time and I could never get him to retell them again. He said as a small boy he would look out his window at night and see something walking between his family's barn and their pond. He also told me that he and a friend were followed out of the woods once and never saw what was following them. It would stop when they stopped and run when they would run. I don't know all the details of his other stories, but he told me that his other family members have had encounters also. From what he told me some of them were pretty close encounters with Bigfoot.
Investigator's Observations
Investigator(s): Charles DeVore
This investigation was conducted as a result of incidents that allegedly occurred in Harrison County, Texas in 1988.
I interviewed the witness at length 26 February 2004. We talked almost two hours and I was impressed with his attention to detail, honesty and seemingly forthright answers to my questions. My impression was that he is extremely seasoned in the outdoors and has been n a hunter most of his life. I deemed him one of the most reliable witnesses whom I have interviewed to date.
Location: Approximately five miles south of Karnack, Texas off Highway 43. There is a creek flowing about one-quarter mile south of the sighting location. The creek flows into Big Cypress Bayou just before it enters Caddo Lake. Both events reported by the witness were said to have occurred on the same property.
Vocalization incident: The long vocalization that he and his fiance reportedly heard was about twice as long in duration as any other "normal" wildlife vocalizations routinely heard around the location. No one living there knew for sure what made the noise. I was impressed that the grandmother carried a garden hoe for protection, which reminded me of my own grandmother back in the 1950s. She also took a garden hoe for protection from everything including snakes, stray dogs and irate bulls. Those old gals could do a lot of damage with a garden hoe.
Visual encounter incident: The witness indicated that he had been in his deer hunting stand for approximately an hour; it was still before sunrise and there was still a full moon which provided ample illumination. The witness's first impression was that a person was approaching since the subject he was now seeing was clearly walking on two legs. The subject was walking towards him in the pipeline ROW (right-of-way; a clearcut path through the forest). As the subject got nearer, the witness began to realize that it wasn't a person, but was something with which he was entirely unfamiliar; it vaguely began to take shape as something more animal-like in appearance, in spite of its bipedalism. As the subject closed the distance to about 50 yards, the witness became increasingly concerned. At that time, he reportedly flipped off the safety on his rifle. As he flipped off the safety, the subject seemed to hear it and immediately turned slightly to face him; it began to quickly walk backwards for about four steps before hastily turning around and disappearing into the woods.
The woods were thick underbrush with mostly new-growth young pine trees about 15 feet tall, one tree was larger at about 20 feet tall. The larger tree begin to shake violently for three to four seconds.
Then all was quiet.
After sunrise and when his hunting partner came up, the witness told his partner of what he had seen; they investigated the area where the subject disappeared into the woods, and where the larger pine tree had been violently shaken. The witness and his partner could find no prints to identify the subject and there appeared to be only small animal trails in the underbrush.
The Subject: Although the full moon provided decent illumination in tandem with predawn glow, it was still too dark to make out facial features. The witness basically saw a large bulky body walking on two feet. It made no noise that the witness could detect. The subject gave off no odor that the witnes could detect from the 50-yard range.
Conclusion: It is no doubt interesting that the subject apparently heard and quickly reacted to the witness's ever so slight and quiet movement of clicking off his rifle safety by taking steps backward to the game trail and disappearing quickly into the underbrush. It may be possible that the subject dropped to all fours and "knuckle-walked" through the underbrush and game trails where humans could not go without extreme difficulty. The violent shaking of the pine tree seemed to be a warning to the hunter to keep away; this behavior is documented to be typical of the known great apes, and is referred to as "intimidation behavior," (which incidentally, served its purpose).
In light of the alleged ongoing events of the family who were on this land since the early 1900s and the close proximity of other reported encounters (within six miles) in Harrison County, I find it highly possible and plausible that this hunter encountered a sasquatch.
This investigation was conducted as a result of incidents that allegedly occurred in Harrison County, Texas in 1988.
I interviewed the witness at length 26 February 2004. We talked almost two hours and I was impressed with his attention to detail, honesty and seemingly forthright answers to my questions. My impression was that he is extremely seasoned in the outdoors and has been n a hunter most of his life. I deemed him one of the most reliable witnesses whom I have interviewed to date.
Location: Approximately five miles south of Karnack, Texas off Highway 43. There is a creek flowing about one-quarter mile south of the sighting location. The creek flows into Big Cypress Bayou just before it enters Caddo Lake. Both events reported by the witness were said to have occurred on the same property.
Vocalization incident: The long vocalization that he and his fiance reportedly heard was about twice as long in duration as any other "normal" wildlife vocalizations routinely heard around the location. No one living there knew for sure what made the noise. I was impressed that the grandmother carried a garden hoe for protection, which reminded me of my own grandmother back in the 1950s. She also took a garden hoe for protection from everything including snakes, stray dogs and irate bulls. Those old gals could do a lot of damage with a garden hoe.
Visual encounter incident: The witness indicated that he had been in his deer hunting stand for approximately an hour; it was still before sunrise and there was still a full moon which provided ample illumination. The witness's first impression was that a person was approaching since the subject he was now seeing was clearly walking on two legs. The subject was walking towards him in the pipeline ROW (right-of-way; a clearcut path through the forest). As the subject got nearer, the witness began to realize that it wasn't a person, but was something with which he was entirely unfamiliar; it vaguely began to take shape as something more animal-like in appearance, in spite of its bipedalism. As the subject closed the distance to about 50 yards, the witness became increasingly concerned. At that time, he reportedly flipped off the safety on his rifle. As he flipped off the safety, the subject seemed to hear it and immediately turned slightly to face him; it began to quickly walk backwards for about four steps before hastily turning around and disappearing into the woods.
The woods were thick underbrush with mostly new-growth young pine trees about 15 feet tall, one tree was larger at about 20 feet tall. The larger tree begin to shake violently for three to four seconds.
Then all was quiet.
After sunrise and when his hunting partner came up, the witness told his partner of what he had seen; they investigated the area where the subject disappeared into the woods, and where the larger pine tree had been violently shaken. The witness and his partner could find no prints to identify the subject and there appeared to be only small animal trails in the underbrush.
The Subject: Although the full moon provided decent illumination in tandem with predawn glow, it was still too dark to make out facial features. The witness basically saw a large bulky body walking on two feet. It made no noise that the witness could detect. The subject gave off no odor that the witnes could detect from the 50-yard range.
Conclusion: It is no doubt interesting that the subject apparently heard and quickly reacted to the witness's ever so slight and quiet movement of clicking off his rifle safety by taking steps backward to the game trail and disappearing quickly into the underbrush. It may be possible that the subject dropped to all fours and "knuckle-walked" through the underbrush and game trails where humans could not go without extreme difficulty. The violent shaking of the pine tree seemed to be a warning to the hunter to keep away; this behavior is documented to be typical of the known great apes, and is referred to as "intimidation behavior," (which incidentally, served its purpose).
In light of the alleged ongoing events of the family who were on this land since the early 1900s and the close proximity of other reported encounters (within six miles) in Harrison County, I find it highly possible and plausible that this hunter encountered a sasquatch.
