Everybody. I've got Don on the line. Don lives in southeast Texas and
he's got some encounters he wants to talk about. I'm kind of coming in
this cold and I don't really know what they are. So we're all going
to find out together about these events. So Don, how's everything going,
buddy? Oh, I'm I'm great. It's just hot down here in Texas
right now, is it? Actually we've had a like eighty five degree temperatures
for a week. It's kind of and the humidity hasn't been that bad.
But but man, I know exactly what you're talking about. Hey, tell
us a little bit about where you live and the environment and the geography and
all of where you grew up. Well, well, I live in uh
in Orange County, Texas. It's a it's right on the border of Louisiana.
It's very piney and mark swamp area set a lot of pine woods,
oaks. I mean, it's it's it's pretty. It's pretty rough once you
get off you know, the beaten path of certain areas. Some pretty rough
terrain out here, especially with the swamp lands, you know, and got
all those credits running around out there. Yeah, or you have you had
like a long series of events, or you want to just start at the
beginning and just kind of walk us through. Yeah, there's a couple of
strange happenings, especially out well out in all Field where I live. The
first one, U and I have some for me and my dad, my
brother telling me stuff. I mean, if you want me to talk about
that, I can you share with us what you're willing to share. And
we're man, we're all sitting at the table here listening with our ears parked
up and ready to go. So you just think it's the floors, You're
all right. The first thing I'll talk about is when I've seen this thing.
I was a pretty avid rabbit hunter when I was young. I was
I was I think I was about twelve or thirteen when I've seen this thing.
Out in the all Field, there's different sections of woods, and they
were all divided from the old dirt roads that went through the old fields,
so you'd have very large patches of pine wood, you know, wooden lines
and stuff around. Right behind our house where we lived, there was a
patch of woods that usually every time I went out rabbit hunting, I could
at least kill three rabbits right there, and it was a smaller It was
a smaller patch of wood. I had a bunch of tallow trees and stuff
in there. Well, that night, I've decided, you know, I
got my my brake barrel four tens, and I took off, you know,
from the house, told my dad, hey, I'm going hunting.
I'll be back in a little bit. Well, that hunting trip turned real
short. So I got all my stuff ready and went out and I went
to that little patch of wood. Well, the patch of woods was by
where our chicken coop was. We didn't have chickens at this time. But
I was just kind of walking along there, and I think I might have
caught the drop on this thing or something, because he didn't It's almost like
he didn't notice I was there at first, and I wasn't really paying attention
at first. And I cracked that. I cracked that old fourteen clothes,
and you know, I had a good feel and I was like, oh,
usually I always kill rabbits right here. When I cracked that barrel clothes,
I looked up. I had a headlamp on. I looked up and
I seen this thing and it it scared me, Like I don't understand.
I'm getting nervous even talking about this. And he was standing there and it
was like he was picking you know, those little balls that grow on a
tallet tree, like those little green I don't know, gold or something.
I'm not really familiar with them, but like a gum ball. Yeah,
so it's it's a it's a. We have two many tallows down here and
there's there they grow these little like some kind of little green ball on him.
And this thing was here. And when I seen this, saying,
it wasn't like I would have pictured a big foot to look like it was.
It's about seven or eight foot tall, and it was solid black.
The hair on it was black, and it wasn't real long and shaggy either.
I don't must know how to explain it. It was just like and
he was massive, like he was he's very muscular. And all doesn't make
sense what later on into the story. But when I see this thing,
I froze. I mean, you know, I mean I think it was
pretty much anyone would just kind of freeze if they seen one of these.
But yeah, and some of my head, you know, was telling me
don't shoot at it, because I mean, all I had was a four
ten. He probably just piss them off and beep you to death. Anyway,
So me and this thing are staring at each other and it lasted for
about thirty seconds, and I kind of shined it up a little more towards
his head, and he kind of scorned his eyes at me, and he
kind of grown it at me and just kind of gave me one of those
just the low cooh, you know, like I can't. I can't mimic
the sound he made, but he kind of gave me a little groan.
He kind of turned away from me walked into this patch of woods. Well
after he turned his back and walked into this wood, I sprung out of
my you know, frightened stage and I ran around because, like I said,
though that little patch of woods wasn't very big, it'd be easy to
run around and seeing him come out on the other side. So I did
that. I ran around there, and nothing came out. Well in the
in those woods, there was this old pipe crack with old drill pipe sitting
on it, and it was probably like thirty foot ball, and you know,
in my head, I'm like, that ain't had to go under there.
That thing had to duck off under this pie crack or something. I
just kind of gave up looking for it, and I went back to the
house and I told my dad, you know, and I'm scared shitless at
this point. You know, I don't know what I've just seen. You
know, I'm kind of explaining my dad, you know, what I've just
seen, and I because this day, I really can't explain to you what
that thing was. You know, I want to say it was a big
foot. I don't know. And he just he kind of just didn't believe
me. He was just kind of like, oh, son, you just
seeing thinks your imagination. You know. Of course, my dad him being
an old roughneck out in the alfield, he's not really scared too much.
That's that's pretty much that encounter right there. Now. Uh, let me
ask you a couple of questions about it. So you say it was about
seven to eight feet tall, I had black hair. Can you kind of
describe the face because because you could see it's eye squint when you shine the
light in its eyes. Yeah, it's I want to say it kind of
looked like a gorilla, A little bit like a gorilla fo you know how
his their heads are kind of dome shaped, like they have a like a
cone head. Almost. His head was like that, but it wasn't as
coney as a gorilla. It was kind of it's more like a human,
like if somebody had like a gorilla human shaped head, right, you know,
he didn't. He didn't really have a nose had His eyes were pretty
large, of course, and when he when he grown it, I kind
of seen his teeth and his teeth kind of looked like gorilla teeth also with
those humongous canines and stuff in there. It did have sharp looking like predator
teeth. Oh yeah, it definitely had teeth. And when I when I
mentioned this, I don't talk about this to many people. And when I
did mention it to somebody, one of my friends like, oh, you
shoot a dog man, I was like, no, no, no,
no, that's not what this thing was. It didn't have a snout or
nothing like that. This thing had to be at least six foot across the
shoulder. I mean, this thing was humongous, but I could explain it
was he looks like a ginormous bodybuilder. That's the way his body type was.
He wasn't like the one that you know everybody sees on that video that
the Patterson film or something, you know that the one down here don't look
like that. They're they're extremely muscular. This thing looked like a hairy hulk
walking around. That's unreal. Could you see through its hair, I mean
used to was its face covered with hair? Could you get the color of
the skin. Was it black or kind of charcoal color? I think his
skin was okay. So so his hair was like a little bit longer than
like you would see like a pit bulls hair, because the pit bulls hair
is like it is like very close to the skin. I couldn't really make
out, I'm sure. I think his hand was probably dark because the finel's
face was dark, like a maybe a cool color. And the weird part
about it, when he turned away for me to walk, I didn't hear
him walk. I mean, something that big, you would think you would
hear him, you know, like snapping limbs and stuff, you know,
moving around in there. I didn't even care. And that's what surprised me.
I don't really know what I would have done when I ran around the
woods to see if he came out. I don't know what I would have
done to him, But or what he would have done to me. But
I was just like when I when I made eye contact with him. But
that is the worst fear I've ever felt, The biggest fear I've ever felt
in my entire life. Was it was that moment. Yeah, I believe
you, now you you saw this thing and you backed out and you ran.
It must have been a real small patch of woods. Yeah it was.
I'd say it was probably about thirty yards alone, about maybe twenty yards
wide. It wasn't that big. It wasn't that big at all. Yeah,
I know. I used to squirrel hunt in little patches like that,
so I and they're full of wildlife because it's like the oh yeah, you
know, for one hundred yards or so. It's the only environment where they
can stay concealed. So I understand. And you ran around, it didn't
come out, and did you come back through the woods? Right there at
the edge of the woods is where I'd usually see them rapids because the hair
the head like a little bit into the woods. There's a pipe act,
like you could clearly see the pipe act through the woods right Like. It
wasn't real thick, thick woods. It was a bunch of tallow trees,
and it was it was some pine trees there, and it had a pretty
thick underbrush too, Like in those patches of the woods we have down here,
we got really thick underbrush, you know. Yeah, I felt like
I should have seen him under there. I didn't see it. He just
it's kind of like he just vanished after, you know, after he turned
around and walked into the woods. That was the last time I've seen him.
Yeah, I was gonna ask if you had been back or went through
there again and figured out maybe where he could have escaped. But I mean,
if it's twenty or thirty yards square, you know, a deer can
skirt out places you never see them leave, and then they could run three
hundred yards cross field. You're on the other side of the trees, you
never see them. And you know, my brother was telling me. My
brother recently got into the to the research a big foot. He lives up
in up near Tech's Arcanum and he had he actually had a scream at him,
which if that something was a scream to me, I would have probably
craft all over myself. I'm not laughing at you. I'm just like,
you know, after these things are over and I don't know how you are
about it, and I know it terrifies you as especially as a twelve year
old. But like the way you describe it, it's um you know,
it becomes I think over time it becomes comical while it's still very serious to
you because these things scare people to death. I mean, they scare people
to death. And I don't know, I don't know how you deal with
it through all the years. How have you dealt with it? Have you
had nightmares or do you have a problem going back in the woods. Can
you tell us a little bit about that. Well, after after the fact
of seeing it, I still hunted, but I felt like something was kind
of watching me, you know, if that makes sense. But the way
I've dealt whether it is I just kind of I must see it to believe
it type type of person. You know, you can tell me this exists
all day, but if I don't lay my eyes on it, I mean,
you know, I'm kind of like a realism type guy. I gotta
see this thing to believe it. Well, I kind of. I mean
for a while I didn't go hunting at all, you know, from like
twelve to maybe fourteen, I was like, I'm not having this. I'm
not having this. I will literally shit all over myself if I see this
thing again. I'm not dealing worth it, you know. And now I
just kind of well, but even then, I just kind of accepted that
that thing was out there. And I'm guessing it's always in the back of
your mind though your your head's on a level quite a bit, I'm sure.
Oh yeah, iDeer in hog hunt now and I definitely keep my eyeball
casts onto that wooden line. Yeah, it's it's because I don't want one,
you know. Like I said, how I kind of I feel like
I got to drop on him because like I feel like he wasn't really paying
attention when I walked up. I don't want one to do that to me.
The things I heard about about these creatures is that they don't like guns
too well. And I'm always carrying I haulg home with a six point five
Creedmore and if that can if he comes at me and I can't drop him
with that, I'm pretty much just done at that point. Yeah, some
people say they're impervious to bullets. I don't think they are. Well,
I think there's some type of animals. I think they're actually some type of
this massive animal. I don't know how to explain it. I think the
reason that it scared me so bad is pretty much the fear of the unknown.
I didn't know what that thing was.