- 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: 03120070
Class 3bEvening Visitor Creates a Nuisance
Report Details
Occurrence date: October/2012
Location: Clark County, AR
Nearby/Vicinity: hatfield
Time / Conditions: 08:00 — just after dusk. weather in the 70's and clear. no wind.
# of Witnesses: 2
Location: Clark County, AR
Nearby/Vicinity: hatfield
Time / Conditions: 08:00 — just after dusk. weather in the 70's and clear. no wind.
# of Witnesses: 2
Witness Account:
We were staying in a cabin outside Hatfield Ark when I heard a whistling sound coming from the tree line directly behind our cabin. It was dark and I was just beginning to grill chicken on the back deck. The whistle was not animal like but more human sounding. However, there was no possible way a human was in the trees behind us. Shortly, after the whistle I heard a large branch breaking and some rustling in the same direction of the whistling. I had a strange sensation that I was being watched and brought the chicken inside. After I was inside the cabin, my wife heard rocks being thrown against the northeast side of the cabin facing the tree lines. Again, there is no way a human was in those trees.
After about an hour, we decided it was bed time and I opened the front door to smoke a cigarette. A strange, pungent, rotten mildew odor filtered into the cabin. Both my wife and I smelled this for a few minutes after I closed the door. As we were turning off the lights, we again heard rocks being thrown against the outside wall and also my wife heard a whooping growling call coming from the opposite side of the tree lines. She didn't hear anything call back, but it was not an owl, or coyote. It was strange and almost human like, as if someone was calling their location.
During the night, I heard a banging noise against the back door close to our bedroom window. I can conclude it was something hitting the deck. It was large enough to shake the back bedroom.
In the morning, we woke up to discover a cup we left on the back deck was moved to the tree lines which was about 20 yards from the deck. And a very large ice chest full of ice and Gatorade was moved and pulled to the side of the porch closest the tree line. The latches on the ice chest were opened. My wife remembers clearly securing the latches that previous night to ensure the ice would not melt.
Sounds:
whistle
large branch breaking
rustling in the trees
whooping growl sounds
rocks hitting walls of cabin
Additional observations:
pungent rotten mildew smells
Investigator's Observations
Investigator(s): Travis Lawrence and Ed Harrison
The witness is a truck driver living in Western Oklahoma that grew up hunting and fishing and generally enjoying the outdoors. He is 42 years old and was married on October 9th, 2012, and was celebrating his honeymoon at a remote cabin near Hatfield, AR when the reported events took place. He stated that he had been watching shows on the subject of wood apes his whole life and has had a lifelong interest, but had never experienced anything he felt was related to wood apes. Before we got too far into the interview, I asked the witness point blank if he was trying to hoax us. Sounding truthful, he responded with a ‘no’ and stated that he wasn’t sure what he and his wife had experienced in that cabin and that he didn’t claim to have seen anything, but he wanted to report the events to someone who cared and would listen.
The cabin company is called “Meadow Pines Cabins” and their website can be accessed here. They were staying at the cabin called the “Wild Thing Hideaway”. He described the area as somewhat remote and stated that it was surrounded by a thick mixture of hardwood, pines and red cedar. The witness stated that you couldn’t see the other cabins from their cabin, but that there were four other cabins, one of which was occupied at the time. If the address for the cabins on Google is correct, an aerial view is attached. The witness stated that the cabin he and his bride were staying in was the westernmost one. Based on the website for the cabins, I couldn’t determine any more information about the location of the “Wild Thing Hideaway”, but I am guessing that it is the cabin that I circled in the picture. About two miles north, the cabins are bordered by the Ouachita National forest and about five miles east, the cabins are again bordered by the Ouachita National Forest.
The witness first stayed at this cabin a year earlier. He stated that he wanted to go to the cabins to explore and have a chance to ride his four wheeler around the area. He reported that, during his ride, he noticed many “stick structures” and “bent over saplings” that looked way out of place and reminded him of things he’d seen on TV that were supposedly associated with wood apes. When asked if he had submitted reports to any other group, he said that he had submitted the same report he recently submitted to us to the BFRO, but had not heard anything back from them. He also stated that he had reported his stick structure finds to us the year before, but never heard back from us and “was not too worried about it”. These things are the only red flags in the report, but he did not push any of them to an uncomfortable level. After he talked about finding the stick structures, I asked him what he thought Bigfoot was. He stated he thought it was probably some type of primate that had remained undiscovered or possibly a human ancestor like a Neanderthal. After that, we came back to his report.
The following year, the witness and his wife returned to the same cabin. During the first two days of their stay, the witness reported that he and his wife did not leave the cabin much, but on their third day, they left and explored the area where he had witnessed the stick structures the previous year. The witness stated that the stick structures were still there. Later that evening, the witness was grilling some chicken outside when he heard two whistles come from the woods to his east, followed immediately by a loud break that was either a tree or a limb. The witness stated that the whistles sounded like a person and tried to recreate them. They were short high pitched whistles that varied slightly in tone. A little spooked, the witness quickly took the chicken off the grill and headed inside to tell his wife about what had happened. When asked what he thought had whistled at him, the witness stated that he honestly thought it was “bigfoot”, because he felt there were no humans in the woods and that he didn’t know why a human would, or could, whistle and then snap a large branch or tree like that. The witness then stated that he went inside and told his wife what had happened and they ate. Later, the witness stated that he and his wife heard light “taps” on an outer wall of the cabin at about “gutter height” that he and his wife took to be small rocks impacting the wall. The witness said he heard about four of these sounds, each about thirty seconds apart. I asked the witness if he and/or his wife were scared at this point and he stated that they weren’t “freaking out”, but that they were a little bit uneasy. Later still, the witness, being a smoker, started to walk outside to light up a cigarette. Immediately upon opening the door, the witness stated that he was bombarded with a horrendous stench that he described as “rotten mildew”, or “sort of like sulpher”. The witness stated that it was a very unique smell that he had never smelled before or since and had trouble describing. The witness stated that as soon as he smelled the stench, he knew that there was something outside and he did not want to go out on the porch, so he stood in the doorway and smoked. His wife was inside watching TV and she smelled the smell as well while he was holding the door open. When he was done with his smoke, the witness flicked his cigarette outside and shut the door, stating that the smell went away shortly thereafter. About that same time, while standing inside, the witness said his wife heard a sound that she described as a “Whoop Howl” come from the opposite side of the cabin from where the rocks had hit. The witness did not hear the sound and could not provide much more detail on it, but stated that his wife felt the call was not a coyote or owl and was meant as some sort of locator sound for the animal on the other side of the cabin. Later, he and his wife retired to bed. When they finally drifted off to sleep, the witness reported that they were rudely awakened by a loud thud that shook the cabin and the room they were in. The witness stated he and his wife were very “amped up” at this point, and got out two handguns, one for each bedside table. He stated that they both had trouble sleeping for the rest of the night. The following morning, after poking around outside, the witness stated that he felt something had violently struck the deck, which goes around the backside of the cabin near the treeline, during the night, which shook the cabin. Upon going outside the witness also noted that his large ice chest that was “big enough that one person could not pick it up” had been moved to the east side of the porch, near the woods, and that the latches had been lifted up. He stated that it did not look as though it had been opened and did not notice anything missing. The witness then stated that his wife later found his “bubba keg” mug about 20 feet from the porch near the tree, though he had left it on the porch. When asked what was in the mug, the witness replied that he and his wife were enjoying themselves and had drank a little vodka mixed with Red Bull that night, and that’s what was in his cup. I asked him straight if they were drunk and he stated that they were not. I then asked him if there were any marks on his cup or ice chest of any kind, such as teeth or claw marks, the witness stated that he did not notice any. After his wife found the cup, the witness stated that he walked a circle around the cabin, looking for tracks or any trace evidence of a visitor the night before. The witness found nothing and stated that there was no way he was going to enter the woods and look out there. Though the witness and his wife had planned on staying another night, they opted out, and packed their things and left that morning. The witness stated that he asked the cabin owner about the incidents on his way out and was ignored. When asked if he would return to the cabin, the witness stated that, on his own, he would not be staying there again, but would be willing to possibly join us for an on site investigation.
The witness is a truck driver living in Western Oklahoma that grew up hunting and fishing and generally enjoying the outdoors. He is 42 years old and was married on October 9th, 2012, and was celebrating his honeymoon at a remote cabin near Hatfield, AR when the reported events took place. He stated that he had been watching shows on the subject of wood apes his whole life and has had a lifelong interest, but had never experienced anything he felt was related to wood apes. Before we got too far into the interview, I asked the witness point blank if he was trying to hoax us. Sounding truthful, he responded with a ‘no’ and stated that he wasn’t sure what he and his wife had experienced in that cabin and that he didn’t claim to have seen anything, but he wanted to report the events to someone who cared and would listen.
The cabin company is called “Meadow Pines Cabins” and their website can be accessed here. They were staying at the cabin called the “Wild Thing Hideaway”. He described the area as somewhat remote and stated that it was surrounded by a thick mixture of hardwood, pines and red cedar. The witness stated that you couldn’t see the other cabins from their cabin, but that there were four other cabins, one of which was occupied at the time. If the address for the cabins on Google is correct, an aerial view is attached. The witness stated that the cabin he and his bride were staying in was the westernmost one. Based on the website for the cabins, I couldn’t determine any more information about the location of the “Wild Thing Hideaway”, but I am guessing that it is the cabin that I circled in the picture. About two miles north, the cabins are bordered by the Ouachita National forest and about five miles east, the cabins are again bordered by the Ouachita National Forest.
The witness first stayed at this cabin a year earlier. He stated that he wanted to go to the cabins to explore and have a chance to ride his four wheeler around the area. He reported that, during his ride, he noticed many “stick structures” and “bent over saplings” that looked way out of place and reminded him of things he’d seen on TV that were supposedly associated with wood apes. When asked if he had submitted reports to any other group, he said that he had submitted the same report he recently submitted to us to the BFRO, but had not heard anything back from them. He also stated that he had reported his stick structure finds to us the year before, but never heard back from us and “was not too worried about it”. These things are the only red flags in the report, but he did not push any of them to an uncomfortable level. After he talked about finding the stick structures, I asked him what he thought Bigfoot was. He stated he thought it was probably some type of primate that had remained undiscovered or possibly a human ancestor like a Neanderthal. After that, we came back to his report.
The following year, the witness and his wife returned to the same cabin. During the first two days of their stay, the witness reported that he and his wife did not leave the cabin much, but on their third day, they left and explored the area where he had witnessed the stick structures the previous year. The witness stated that the stick structures were still there. Later that evening, the witness was grilling some chicken outside when he heard two whistles come from the woods to his east, followed immediately by a loud break that was either a tree or a limb. The witness stated that the whistles sounded like a person and tried to recreate them. They were short high pitched whistles that varied slightly in tone. A little spooked, the witness quickly took the chicken off the grill and headed inside to tell his wife about what had happened. When asked what he thought had whistled at him, the witness stated that he honestly thought it was “bigfoot”, because he felt there were no humans in the woods and that he didn’t know why a human would, or could, whistle and then snap a large branch or tree like that. The witness then stated that he went inside and told his wife what had happened and they ate. Later, the witness stated that he and his wife heard light “taps” on an outer wall of the cabin at about “gutter height” that he and his wife took to be small rocks impacting the wall. The witness said he heard about four of these sounds, each about thirty seconds apart. I asked the witness if he and/or his wife were scared at this point and he stated that they weren’t “freaking out”, but that they were a little bit uneasy. Later still, the witness, being a smoker, started to walk outside to light up a cigarette. Immediately upon opening the door, the witness stated that he was bombarded with a horrendous stench that he described as “rotten mildew”, or “sort of like sulpher”. The witness stated that it was a very unique smell that he had never smelled before or since and had trouble describing. The witness stated that as soon as he smelled the stench, he knew that there was something outside and he did not want to go out on the porch, so he stood in the doorway and smoked. His wife was inside watching TV and she smelled the smell as well while he was holding the door open. When he was done with his smoke, the witness flicked his cigarette outside and shut the door, stating that the smell went away shortly thereafter. About that same time, while standing inside, the witness said his wife heard a sound that she described as a “Whoop Howl” come from the opposite side of the cabin from where the rocks had hit. The witness did not hear the sound and could not provide much more detail on it, but stated that his wife felt the call was not a coyote or owl and was meant as some sort of locator sound for the animal on the other side of the cabin. Later, he and his wife retired to bed. When they finally drifted off to sleep, the witness reported that they were rudely awakened by a loud thud that shook the cabin and the room they were in. The witness stated he and his wife were very “amped up” at this point, and got out two handguns, one for each bedside table. He stated that they both had trouble sleeping for the rest of the night. The following morning, after poking around outside, the witness stated that he felt something had violently struck the deck, which goes around the backside of the cabin near the treeline, during the night, which shook the cabin. Upon going outside the witness also noted that his large ice chest that was “big enough that one person could not pick it up” had been moved to the east side of the porch, near the woods, and that the latches had been lifted up. He stated that it did not look as though it had been opened and did not notice anything missing. The witness then stated that his wife later found his “bubba keg” mug about 20 feet from the porch near the tree, though he had left it on the porch. When asked what was in the mug, the witness replied that he and his wife were enjoying themselves and had drank a little vodka mixed with Red Bull that night, and that’s what was in his cup. I asked him straight if they were drunk and he stated that they were not. I then asked him if there were any marks on his cup or ice chest of any kind, such as teeth or claw marks, the witness stated that he did not notice any. After his wife found the cup, the witness stated that he walked a circle around the cabin, looking for tracks or any trace evidence of a visitor the night before. The witness found nothing and stated that there was no way he was going to enter the woods and look out there. Though the witness and his wife had planned on staying another night, they opted out, and packed their things and left that morning. The witness stated that he asked the cabin owner about the incidents on his way out and was ignored. When asked if he would return to the cabin, the witness stated that, on his own, he would not be staying there again, but would be willing to possibly join us for an on site investigation.
