- 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: 01050036
Class 3cWhile walking dogs at midnight, man hears unusual vocalizations.
Report Details
Occurrence date: October/2005
Location: Montgomery County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: The Woodlands/Spring
Time / Conditions: 12:30 AM — Perfect summer-like evening. Wooded, no farms that I am aware of for miles.
# of Witnesses: 0
Location: Montgomery County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: The Woodlands/Spring
Time / Conditions: 12:30 AM — Perfect summer-like evening. Wooded, no farms that I am aware of for miles.
# of Witnesses: 0
Witness Account:
It was a whooping noise. I could tell it was from a large animal, but could not place it. I go for a walk with my 2 dogs every evening before bed. We heard it the whole time, I did not think too much of it at first. I'm new to Texas and figured it was an animal I never heard before. I stood outside for about 15 minutes longer and just listened to it trying place it. My Golden Retriever is about 13 years old and just sat there with her ears perked. My 1 year old wiener dog acted like it wanted to investigate the noise. My wife was up, but I did not tell her until the following day. I went online as soon as I got in the house and looked up animal noises at night and did not really get anything. I am from a rural area and have always been around animals and I could tell this was different and was more like a calling. I had a feeling it could be a Bigfoot but did not want to jump to conclusions. Then after a few days I typed in The Sounds of Bigfoot and found exactly what I heard. Every hair on my body stood up when I heard the 1974 recording of the whooping and knocking. There was no knocking, but the whooping was exact. It may have been a quarter mile or so away. There is a back way and it is undeveloped. That is where it was coming from. I am taking my camera on every walk form here on out to at least get an audio recording. I am considering getting some thermal imaging if I hear it again.
Sounds:
A whooping noise, just like in the 1974 recordings.
Additional observations:
No odors. It wasn't close enough.
Investigator's Observations
The witness was eager to share his experience with me and told me that I would be welcome to meet him there in the next few days to conduct an onsite investigation. I will soon arrange to visit the site within days and will investigate the area comprehensively. The area is a newly developed subdivision and the witness lives along its outer fringes. Beyond the subdivision is dense, thick, hardwood-pine East Texas forest. Not very far to the north is the Sam Houston National Forest. The witness explained to me that he and his family have seen coyotes and wild hogs in the area.
As the witness walked his dogs, he began hearing some distant, yet peculiar and unfamiliar vocalizations. At first, as he wrote in his submission, he paid little attention to the whoops. However, as the whoops continued over and over for minutes, the witness and his dogs began to seriously take notice. The witness was at a loss to identify the kind of vocalizations that he was hearing. I asked him about the possibility of humans or owls making the sounds, and he was very quick to tell me that he was very familiar with owl vocalizations, having come from a rural area of the Midwest, and the whoops were certainly not owl vocalizations. He went on to tell me that the volume of the vocalizations was great, and the originating source may have been inside of a quarter mile away from him; he categorically ruled out a human as the source. The witness actually began to be somewhat alarmed as the primate-sounding whoops continued incessantly for approximately 30 minutes.
Finally, the witness and his dogs returned to his house after the sounds ceased, and the witness immediately told his wife what he and the dogs had heard. She was also perplexed as to what may have caused the sounds.
Although the witness did not disclose his suspicions to his wife about the source of the sounds, he tried to find vocalizations on the internet that would be kindred to what he heard. When he heard the recorded whoops from the Sierra Sounds, his body reacted involuntarily with raised hair on his arms. The witness told me that the whoops he heard online were almost exactly what he and his dogs had heard not far from his own house, on the edge of a new subdivision, just 40 miles north of the fourth largest city in the United States.
As the witness walked his dogs, he began hearing some distant, yet peculiar and unfamiliar vocalizations. At first, as he wrote in his submission, he paid little attention to the whoops. However, as the whoops continued over and over for minutes, the witness and his dogs began to seriously take notice. The witness was at a loss to identify the kind of vocalizations that he was hearing. I asked him about the possibility of humans or owls making the sounds, and he was very quick to tell me that he was very familiar with owl vocalizations, having come from a rural area of the Midwest, and the whoops were certainly not owl vocalizations. He went on to tell me that the volume of the vocalizations was great, and the originating source may have been inside of a quarter mile away from him; he categorically ruled out a human as the source. The witness actually began to be somewhat alarmed as the primate-sounding whoops continued incessantly for approximately 30 minutes.
Finally, the witness and his dogs returned to his house after the sounds ceased, and the witness immediately told his wife what he and the dogs had heard. She was also perplexed as to what may have caused the sounds.
Although the witness did not disclose his suspicions to his wife about the source of the sounds, he tried to find vocalizations on the internet that would be kindred to what he heard. When he heard the recorded whoops from the Sierra Sounds, his body reacted involuntarily with raised hair on his arms. The witness told me that the whoops he heard online were almost exactly what he and his dogs had heard not far from his own house, on the edge of a new subdivision, just 40 miles north of the fourth largest city in the United States.
