Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
Report Posted To GCBRO Web Site On:
December 01, 2015
DATE: 03/08/2011
06/10/14
TIME: 5:00 AM
LOCATION: Lauderdale
County, Alabama
TERRAIN: Wooded
OBSERVED: Recurring
Incidents
Area descibred is in Lauderdale County, Alabama in the
Center Star community. The area is a mix of new
subdivisions, farms, trailers, and old homes. It is very
thickly wooded with plenty of deer, fox, turkey, and other
wildlife and livestock. The entire area runs along the
Tennessee River with several large creeks branching off of
them. The Bluewater creek runs off the river inland and has
some areas with high cliffs and caves.
The main areas of focus are the following County Road of 33,
31, 411, 111.
The area has plenty of areas where the woods get so thick
you cannot access them. There have also been some very
large deer (14 point) killed here.
I will describe each incident in detail:
Incident #1
March 2011 about 7a.m. It was the morning of daylight
savings and I was delivering papers. As I was making a
delivery on road 33 I noticed a large herd of deer running
across the road about 100 yards in front of me. I would see
deer nightly so what caught me was they were being chased.
They crossed from the woods to the south to the thicker
woods to the north. I pulled up and looked to where they
came out of the woods. Only thing I noticed was it was very
still and quiet for that time of the morning and the trees
were shaking. I also noticed some cows in a nearby field
were acting funny…very nervous. I grew up around cattle so I
can tell when they are out of sorts.
Incident #2
the next morning around 5A.M. I was on the backside of
the previous incident on road 411. This is a dirt road going
down to the sailing club. It is very thickly wooded to the
north and to the south are some weekend homes and the club.
I would deliver one paper, turn around, and drive back out.
There is one street light at the end of the road but it is
still very dark.
I had stopped to use the bathroom. As I was doing so I was
facing the woods and something growl/screamed out of the
woods at me. It was close enough it made the hair on the
back of my neck stand up. It was probably within 20 yards of
me.
I came back in daylight and drove thru but didn’t see or
hear anything. I also investigated bobcat calls, this was no
bobcat call.
Several nights later I was in the same area and on my way
out about 200 yards in front of me I had some eye shine
cross from the river side into the woods. The shine was
about 6 feet high. I did see that the farm bordering this
road had a large horse and she had gotten out a few times
but she was not 6 feet off the ground. I began riding thru
with a video camera.
A few days later I saw the farm owner out and I asked if she
knew her horse had gotten out. She said she had not but that
her father in law said that was probably what was trampling
all over the garden.
This whole area is very well suited to a bigfoot. I called
the woods the bigfoot woods. They just have a creepy feel to
them. I began to check the area several times a day but
nothing. A few weeks later the landowner moved some cattle
in but they did not stay long. I left a note on the fence
asking if I could hike the area, I never heard from him.
In the next few months we moved into the area about a mile
away from here into a newer neighborhood on the river so I
was able to observe the area at several different times of
the day and night.
Incident #3
Late August around 3a.m. This was roughly about two miles
from the first incident along road 111 closer to Bluewater
creek. The area is an isolated road with thick woods to both
sides. There are farms on either side as well. It was a very
muggy nigh and I had my windows and my tops out of the car.
I was making a delivery and the area across the road from me
sloped up slightly into some thick woods between two farms.
The woods went all the way back to the creek and river
inlet.
I had just made my delivery when I heard the scariest thing
I had ever heard. From across the road came this combination
of a bark/owl hoot/monkey chatter. It sounded like it was
right inside the tree line and it sounded like it was more
than one. I left as quickly as I could. If something had
come out of that slope it would have been right on top of
me. I never took my tops out again on that road and kept my
windows up unless I was delivering.
The next few nights I did slow down and listen. I also began
to patrol that area several times a day at different times.
I did notice the area had a small ditch running down the
middle of it. I never could find out who owned the land to
explore it more. I did however, download some bigfoot calls
and screams on my phone and when I was making deliveries or
at various times, especially dusk and dawn I would ride
through playing those calls. I never got a response.
There were several times though I would hear hoots and
calls. We had a lot of foxes in the area but I know they do
not get loud. These were heard over a distance.
There were also several times I was outside at night and I
would hear “screams” from the area of my first sighting. I
was about a mile to the east. I also would jog and run that
area but never saw anything else.
I know Lauderdale County has had a few sightings. I was
directly across the river from Colbert County where they had
some activity around 2000…see GCBRO web site.
Additional Things:
N/A
Activities of Witness:
Driving, Delivering Newspapers
Description of Creature: only
heard....possible sighting that may have been a horse....eye
shine about 6-7 feet off ground
Other Notes: N/A
Other (Informational or Encounter History in the General
Area) Notes:
N/A
Additional Notes and or Follow up
Comments: N/A