- 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: 01080031
Class 3aFamily experiences strange activity and daughter has close visual encounter during two-week period.
Report Details
Occurrence date: Summer/1976
Location: Marion County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: Jefferson
Time / Conditions: Very dark.
# of Witnesses: 5
Location: Marion County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: Jefferson
Time / Conditions: Very dark.
# of Witnesses: 5
Witness Account:
At the time I was a teen-age girl. My parents and sisters and I were staying in a small weekend cabin located at the end of a dead end road that was near Black Cypress Creek. I had enjoyed hiking and riding my horse on the thousands of acres of pasture, woods and creek since I was small. There had never been anything that scared me or caused me to be frightened in this lovely countryside. This ended for me after what I witnessed.
We had heard some strange screams or howls coming from the woods every night for several nights running. My mother described the sound as an old-fashioned horn that might be on an old car, but I knew it wasn't a horn. It was some sort of animal that we had not heard in the woods.
One night, as one of my sisters was standing by the kitchen sink, she smelled a horrible smell and she called me and our mother to the window. We were all three overcome by a really strong stench coming from the darkness outside. We finally agreed whatever had been making the screams in the woods was probably outside of the window, but no one volunteered to go out and see what it was. Later, after my mother went to bed we were startled as someone or something pounded on the kitchen wall near the window. We ran to our mother who was sleeping in the bedroom, but she refused to investigate thinking we girls were simply trying to frighten her.
Not long after, one night I returned home late from the neighbor's house. It was very dark, and the family had forgotten to leave the porch light on for me. I had to park the car approximately 30 ? 50 yards from the house because of a locked gate. I sat in the car for approximately fifteen minutes to adjust my eyes to the dark because I knew I had a long walk in the darkness to reach the front steps. I got out of the car and approached the gate. I found that my family had also forgotten to leave the gate unlocked. Rather than fumble with the lock, I decided to simply crawl through the barbwire fence. About the time I got one leg through and was ducking down to pass through, I heard a lopping sort of sound coming towards me down the fence line near the house. I could tell it was a large animal coming towards me, so I quickly tried to go through the fence. My first thought was that a bear was about to attack me. Suddenly a large, dark figure loomed over me. It came to a stop about an arm?s length from me and actually bent over me as if to look closely at me. I could tell that it was no bear. I actually felt the hot breath of the animal as it moved its head closer to me. I started screaming frantically. Whatever it was became alarmed at my screams and ran away. As it ran, my eyes were accustomed enough to the dark to see it run away on two legs until it was out of sight.
I estimated it was very tall, because it had no trouble in bending over and down to look at me. My screaming brought the family to the fence where they helped untangle me and took me inside the house for medical attention.
Physical evidence:
Dead calf, footprint.
Hand/foot prints:
It was a large, human-like print, but was just too large and wide to be human and it had a really big toe. The toes seemed to go straight across the top rather than slant like on a human foot.
Sounds:
Howls that sounded kind of like an old car horn.
Additional observations:
There was a foul-smelling animal smell.
Investigator's Observations
Investigator(s): Jerry Hestand, Mark Porter and Charles DeVore
This investigation was conducted as a result of incidents that allegedly occurred in Marion County, Texas near the community of Berea, in the summer of 1976.
Mark Porter, Charles DeVore and I (Jerry Hestand) met and interviewed the primary witness along with her mother at a caf
This investigation was conducted as a result of incidents that allegedly occurred in Marion County, Texas near the community of Berea, in the summer of 1976.
Mark Porter, Charles DeVore and I (Jerry Hestand) met and interviewed the primary witness along with her mother at a caf
