- 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: 04080010
Class 3cFour camping teens see strange eye shine and find track.
Report Details
Occurrence date: Summer/1983
Location: Calcasieu Parish County, LA
Nearby/Vicinity: Starks
Time / Conditions: 01:00 — misty rain
# of Witnesses: 4
Location: Calcasieu Parish County, LA
Nearby/Vicinity: Starks
Time / Conditions: 01:00 — misty rain
# of Witnesses: 4
Witness Account:
me and three friends were camping out on a old rice canal one summer night when it began to rain. We gathered up our blankets (we didn't have a tent back then so we slept on blankets by the fire) and stuff and began the walk back home (about a mile or so). Being I was the only one with a gun and headlight I started hunting rabbits in the misty rain when about a hundred yards from where we were camped on the west side of the tram road I shined a pair of eyes about 7 to eight feet off of the ground. The eyes shined bright bluish silver. The animal was behind a grown pine tree and as I was shining it kept moving its head back and fourth around the tree from one side to the other. Just as I raised my gun to shoot it disappeared. So we kept walking further down the road about two hundred yards when a armadillo ran from the same side of the road as the animal across my feet and into the opposite woods. It scared us a little and then we walked on for about twenty yards and I shined it again this time on the opposite side of the road and crouched down behind a fallen tree looking at us. I wasted no time and fired at it and the recoil knocked my headlight wires loose. When I fixed them (about 30 seconds) I shined the log and didn't see anything. I started walking out to the log to see what I shot when one of my friends said you better not go out there it might get you! Well that was the end of that and we quickly walked home as fast as we could. The next day me and one friend and my mother went to see what I shot and only found one large foot print about 15 inches long by a tree near the log where the animal was when I shot at it.
The second time I was between Starks and Deweyville Texas north of Hwy 12 on long slough with an older man fishing for bass when we heard the sound of a tree top being broken like it fell, but without the thud of it hitting the ground. We didn't think much of it and went on fishing after rounding a couple of bends my friend on the west bank and me on the east bank I came up to a fresh mud flat that the receding water left and on that flat was two sets of foot prints one large about 13 or 14 inches and one small about 6 or 7 inches walking side by side up the mudflat away from us. I told my friend what I found and we immediately left headed back to the car on hwy 12 about a half to a mile away.
Physical evidence:
The eyes shined bright bluish silver
Hand/foot prints:
yes one footprint at the first sighting about 15 inches long and a set of large footprints about 13 to 14 inches and a set of small footprints about 6 to 7 inches in the mud flat.
Sounds:
No, but I have noticed rotten smelling odors before while hunting.
Additional observations:
A squealing scream and a loud splash in the water. When I heard the vocalization of bigfoot on Animal Planet it brought back a memory of a night back in 81 or 82 when me and one of the same friends from the first sighting where camping under the Patterson Slough bridge on Hwy 12 with his step dad when about 11 or 12 that night we were awakened by a squealing scream followed by a loud splash in the water about 20 yards north of us and the bridge. when we asked his step dad what it was he said probably a wild hog. We then went back to sleep. This area is about a mile through the woods from were I saw the footprints.
Investigator's Observations
Investigator(s): Charles DeVore
This investigation was conducted as a result of an incident that allegedly occurred in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, 1983.
I interviewed the primary witness at length 2 May 2005. I found him to be a life long hunter, very familiar with the outdoors and its accompanying sounds. A credible witness to the events even though he has no actual complete animal sighting. His initial report was well detailed leaving very little to add.
Additional details: he shot at the eye shine with a 20 gauge shotgun loaded with light shot for rabbit. When they returned the next day to look for evidence of shot, they found no blood or marks where the shot hit; they found only the 15 inch footprint near where he was shooting.
Other events: the witness has two uncles who both claim to have seen a "large hairy man" during their hunting days in these same river bottom lands. Seeing the Animal X program last month and hearing the whooping sounds prompted him to report his event as he has heard this same sound many times during his hunts.
All of these events are within seven miles of the Texas-Louisiana border with Orange County, Texas where their have been reported sightings along the Sabine River bottoms.
This investigation was conducted as a result of an incident that allegedly occurred in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, 1983.
I interviewed the primary witness at length 2 May 2005. I found him to be a life long hunter, very familiar with the outdoors and its accompanying sounds. A credible witness to the events even though he has no actual complete animal sighting. His initial report was well detailed leaving very little to add.
Additional details: he shot at the eye shine with a 20 gauge shotgun loaded with light shot for rabbit. When they returned the next day to look for evidence of shot, they found no blood or marks where the shot hit; they found only the 15 inch footprint near where he was shooting.
Other events: the witness has two uncles who both claim to have seen a "large hairy man" during their hunting days in these same river bottom lands. Seeing the Animal X program last month and hearing the whooping sounds prompted him to report his event as he has heard this same sound many times during his hunts.
All of these events are within seven miles of the Texas-Louisiana border with Orange County, Texas where their have been reported sightings along the Sabine River bottoms.
