Class 1b Encounter Report in Big Cedar, OK, Case #02080033: wood ape, bigfoot, sasquatch

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: 02080033

NAWAC investigator and wildlife biologist Alton Higgins finds trackway in Ouachita Mountains near Big Cedar.

Report Details

Occurrence date: September/2000
Location: Le Flore County, OK
Nearby/Vicinity: Big Cedar
Time / Conditions: 10:00 — Hot and dry.
# of Witnesses: 3

Witness Account:
Three of us were scouting for tracks in McCurtain and Le Flore County. We happened to meet a retired Forest Service supervisor who directed us to an area that he thought might be worth checking out for sasquatch activity. He owned some cabins on the Little River and said he had experienced sasquatch encounters on his property.

The road to the remote area was extremely rough. For two days we neither saw nor heard anyone else. On Sunday the driver stopped at a spot where the jeep trail skirted what had been a muddy stretch, now dried. We had made many similar stops that weekend to look for tracks in places not covered by rocks and thick vegetation.

I noticed a concentration of dead leaves in the midst of the smooth dry mud; I moved the leaves to reveal a depression that the leaves had filled. It was a sixteen-inch track. One of the other guys, an experienced local hunter, announced the discovery of another track, then another. Four tracks were found, deeply impressed in the mud, paralleling the jeep trail. It had not rained for months, so the tracks could have been made the previous May or June.

Alongside the huge tracks was a series of black bear tracks, an adult and a cub. There was no mistaking that the huge tracks we were looking at were NOT bear tracks.

In a spot where the abandoned stretch of jeep trail had a raised center, a left foot registered what looked like a series of marks from a flat nail of a big toe. The tracks were about seven inches wide across the ball, with a heel about four inches wide; depth varied, but they were up to 1.5 inches deep. The average heel-to-heel distance was about 57 inches for the first two steps. The last step, the one where the big toe left the nail marks, was about 80 inches, leading us to speculate that the animal may have slightly stumbled when its foot hit the high center of the road.

It appeared that the track maker had been walking alongside the road, not in it. Rather than walk around the abandoned short muddy curve, it looked like the animal just kept to its straight course.

We took pictures, but I was later informed "none of the pictures turned out."

Additional observations:
Near Highway 259.

Investigator's Observations

Investigator(s): Alton Higgins

This report was published as a result of an incident that occurred in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, in 2000.

Class 1b Encounter Report in Big Cedar, OK, Case #02080033: wood ape, bigfoot, sasquatch

Case: 02080033

NAWAC investigator and wildlife biologist Alton Higgins finds trackway in Ouachita Mountains near Big Cedar.

Report Details

Investigator's Observations

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