- 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: 01980004
Class 3aHunter has visual encounter while trying to find hunting spot near a creek.
Report Details
Occurrence date: November/1987
Location: Red River County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: Clarksville
Time / Conditions: Around 10 am in the morning. — Swamp and oak trees. 4Duce Ranch. Boware Slash.
# of Witnesses:
Location: Red River County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: Clarksville
Time / Conditions: Around 10 am in the morning. — Swamp and oak trees. 4Duce Ranch. Boware Slash.
# of Witnesses:
Witness Account:
I was deer hunting with friends on a place known in that area as the boware slash, a slash where I come from is a swampy area. We had to cross the 4 DUCE Ranch to get to our hunting lease, the ranch was owned by Sally Gooding at the time, I don't know if she still owns it now, it has been 11 years ago since this happened.
We had to cross a creek in a boat to get to the deer lease. This lease was surrounded by two creeks. These creeks ranged from 12 to 24 feet wide and had been drug out by beavers which made them 7 foot deep and deeper in places. You will understand why I'm giving you all this info in a few minutes. There were three of us hunting in this area it is way off the beaten path. My friends went one direction and I went the other. I had never been there before and so I spent most of the morning slowly making my way through the woods and trying to keep my bearings about which direction I WAS going. We had gotten into the woods before daylight and there was only a light breeze blowing, and I was trying to keep it in my face. I had seen a couple of does after the sun came up, and I could hear several dogs running on the opposite side of where we came in. Weyerhaeuser owned a few hundred acres on one side of us and the 4 DUCE RANCH was on the other side, were pretty secluded. I was making my way along the creek in the direction that I should have found one of my friends. I was moving very slow still looking and hunting as I went, and still had the wind in my face.
Before I tell you more I want you to understand I grew up and have always lived out in the country. I have played in the woods from daylight till dark and I have never been scared like I was on this day. As I came up on a big blowdown with a lot of undergrowth around it I could see something moving around in the brush pile, I heard the limbs moving and twigs popping first and thought it might be one of my friends making him a blind to hunt out of. I whistled like a quail twice to get his attention so that I wouldn't startle him. I was probably 30 or 35 feet away and the brush and undergrowth in the slash was pretty thick. After I whistled the movement stopped and I could see a large dark colored figure moving toward the creek at an angle away from me, my hair on the back of my neck stood up and I had a feeling that I had never felt before. This had never happened to me before while I was hunting. I was still thinking to myself it may be somebody, but I still took my 30.06 off of safety and walk toward what ever it was I lost site of it in the underbrush and then picked it up again on the other side of the creek. The creek in this area was about 12 or 14 feet wide, I never heard any sound of anything hitting the water. I ran up to the edge of the water and about 100 feet on the other side I could barely see a black figure with a silver looking tint to its hair, where it was standing the sun was shining on it, I only saw it for about 30 or 40 seconds this last time.
Whatever it was walked on 2 legs and was 6 foot tall or taller and moved through the woods quieter than anything I have ever seen, after it was on the other side of the creek it never made any noise. The ground was covered with oak leaves that were damp and a lot of undergrowth so I didn't see any footprints. I walked back to the blowdown where I had originally seen it, and found where a large log had just been moved, this log was probably 3 foot tall and maybe 20 foot long, although it was decaying it was too heavy for anyone I know to move.
I figured I had interrupted a midmorning snack and then I questioned my own good judgment about going toward it when I first saw it. I get chills just writing this. I decided it was time for me to head back to the pickup. It was one of the longest walks I have ever made. I had to go through some thick stands of switch cane. My heart was in my throat and I left my gun off of safety all the way back to the truck -- that's something I have never done before. I pride myself in being safe with firearms, and have been hunting since I was 6 years old.
I told my friends what I had seen, but they just made light of it, they said it might have been a bear. I am familiar with all types of wildlife and I know it was not a bear, it was something I have never seen before or since.
Investigator's Observations
Investigator(s): Craig Woolheater
This report was published as a result of an incident that allegedly occurred in Red River County, Texas in 1987.
This report was published as a result of an incident that allegedly occurred in Red River County, Texas in 1987.
