Class 3a Encounter Report in Mena, AR, Case #03131000

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: 03131000

Afternoon Sighting and Strange Occurrences

Report Details

Occurrence date: April/2006
Location: Polk County, AR
Nearby/Vicinity: Mena
Time / Conditions: Clear late afternoon.
# of Witnesses: 2

Witness Account:
First off cannot remember specific day but it was late March or first week of April. Time would have been late afternoon.

Our mail box is a 1/4 mile from the cabin and I would walk it daily. On this specific afternoon I got up to the front horse paddock and heard 3 loud metal on metal clanks. I had not yet purchased that 20 acres and was thinking that there was a trespasser or poacher and went back into the cabin to get a rifle and told my then 16 year old son to keep his ears open if I had any problems. I walked back up to the front horse paddock as movement caught my eye just on the other side of the fenced in area. I visibly witnessed a small (no taller than 4' to 4'1/2" foot tall lean, black, bipedal animal running from the right to the left towards the back valley. The distance I witnessed from was roughly 20 yards. The movement was "fast" the way it moved was unlike anything normal that I have ever witnessed. It ran with it's chest "bowed out", arms were trailing behind it's back, legs appeared to move without bending and the head "never bobbed" while it was within my line of sight.

I ran back into the house and got my son and a camcorder and we walked the area behind the front horse paddock, not only trying to see it again to get it on film but to also try and figure out what it was clanking on. (Even though I did not witness what was making the metal on metal clank sounds, seeing this animal in the direct vicinity of the sounds led me to believe it had to be the animal doing the clanking.)

Never found any sign of it or whatever it may have been hitting. Son wanted to walk the road and I agreed that we would walk up to the mailbox just as the camcorder started dinging that the battery was dying and laid it down on the side of the road and we continued walking. The walk up to the mail box was uneventful but on the way back almost to the entrance to the property we stopped as we heard something "whizzing" through the trees and ended with a thunk, thunk sound. My son looked at me and said "that was a rock" and I agreed. We agreed to both walk up the road again and several more rocks were chucked, one smaller one whizzed past us and landed in the road (I still have it in my gear bag).

We owned 2 wolves and as we just got past the hill the wolves started sounding off, my son thought that it had doubled back to the cabin area and he wanted to go back and check. I agreed and was able to watch him walk back up the hill towards the cabin when he stopped and was staring into the woods, looked back at me and started pointing into the woods. I started walking towards him looking into the woods towards where he was pointing and caught the rear back side of a black animal leaping behind a big oak. Never taking my eyes off that tree I stood next to my son as he explained how it seemed to play peek a boo, looked out from one side of the tree at him and then the other. I decided to walk into the woods to that tree expecting to find it or seeing it run but there was nothing there behind that tree. There is no explanation on why neither one of us never saw or heard it leave that area. It was starting to get dark and we decided it was best to get back to the cabin and retrieve the camcorder. As we got up into the yard near the cabin rocks started falling into the yard and were hitting the top of the van parked alongside the front of the cabin. As I was putting the cam on the charger my son took 2 rifles and set one at the front door and the other next to the couch, though nothing else happened that night. There were also 2 rocks discovered by a friend on the roof of my second story cabin a few days later.

Physical evidence:
Rock that was thrown and landed in the road, also 2 rocks up on the the roof of our second story cabin.

Hand/foot prints:
Large hand print on window but not from that time frame.

Sounds:
Not from that time frame.

Additional observations:
The way the animal moved as listed above/ the 3 loud metal on metal clank sounds as listed above. No unusual smells.

Investigator's Observations

Investigator(s): Bob Strain

I spoke with this witness and found her to be very sane, very rational and very authentic. Despite the passage of time, her remembrance of this day hasn't changed.