Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 

DATE:    June 1978
 

TIME:     Early Morning
 

LOCATION:   Arkansas, Miller County (Sulphur River Bottoms)
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded, swampy
 

OBSERVED:    AT THE TIME OF THE EVENT I WAS A FORESTER WORKING FOR THE PAPER COMPANY LOCATED IN XXXX AR. MY DISTRICT CONTAINED SOUTHWEST ARK. AND NORTHWEST LA. I WAS CONTACTED BY A LOCAL LANDOWNER TO CRUISE 80 ACRES OF TIMBER HE OWNED NEAR FOUKE, AR. I ARRIVED AT THE SITE AT APPROX. 6:30 AM AND HAD TO WALK IN TO THE TRACT AS IT WAS LANDLOCKED AND NO ROADS WERE LEADING IN. THE AREA BEING DESCRIBED IS ALL BUT THE HEART OF THE SULPHER RIVER DRAINAGE AREA THUS BEING SWAMP, OR LOW LYING HARDWOOD.

AS I PROCEEDED TO CRUISE THE TRACT I KEPT HAVING THE ODD FEELING OF BEING WATCHED, WHICH DIDN'T PARTICULARLY BOTHER ME FOR I ALWAYS CARRIED A SIDEARM WITH ME WHEN CRUISING ALONE.

WHEN I WOULD STOP TO MAKE A PLOT SURVEY I WOULD HEAR THE NORMAL WOOD SOUNDS SUCH AS BIRDS AND SMALL ANIMALS, BUT THE FURTHER I PROCEEDED INTO THE TRACT THE LESS THE "NORMAL SOUNDS" COULD BE HEARD.

SUDDENLY SOMETHING OF TO THE NORTHWEST OF ME WENT CRASHING THROUGH THE THICK UNDERBRUSH AND MADE A SOUND THAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS A LONG LOW WAILING NOISE. CERTAINLY NOTHING I HAD EVER HEARD BEFORE. (NOTE: I WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE OUTDOORS EVER SINCE I WAS 6 YEARS OLD) UPON HEARING THE NOISE I NATURALLY WITHDREW MY SIDEARM AND NOTICED THAT I WAS SHAKING QUITE A BIT. AGAIN WHATEVER IT WAS, SCREAMED AGAIN, THEN IT WAS DECIDED THAT I HAD CRUISED ALL THE TIMBER IN THAT AREA I WANTED. I TURNED AROUND AND STARTED BACK TO THE ROAD WHERE MY TRUCK WAS PARKED, AND COULD HEAR SOMETHING FOLLOWING ME ALL THE WAY BACK TO MY TRUCK. THE UNDERGROWTH WAS SO THICK THAT I COULD NOT CATCH A GLIMPSE OF WHAT WAS FOLLOWING ME.

TILL THIS VERY DAY ONLY A FEW HUNTING FRIENDS OF MINE HAS HEARD THIS STORY, NEEDLESS TO SAY I KEPT QUITE AROUND MY FELLOW FORESTER'S IN FEAR OF RIDICULE. AND AS FAR AS I KNOW THAT PARTICULAR TRACT OF TIMBER HAS REMAINED UN-CRUISED!!!!
 

Activities of Witness:   CRUISING TIMBER FOR LANDOWNER
 

Description of Creature:  N/A
 

Other Notes:    AS STATED I DID NOT SEE WHATEVER IT WAS, BUT AM CERTAIN IT WAS LARGE FOR THE AMOUNT OF NOISE IT WAS MAKING WHILE TRAILING ME BACK TO MY VEHICLE.
 

Additional Notes or Comments:  AFTER THE INCIDENT I DID TALK TO SEVERAL OF THE LOCALS AND THEY REPORTED BEING FOLLOWED BY "SOMETHING" LARGE WHILE EITHER HUNTING OR FISHING THE RIVER OR ONE OF THE MANY SLOUGHS IN THE AREA.

Additional - Additional Notes or Comments:

Upon contacting the witness, they had this to add:

This report is as truthful as i could tell it. I'm under the old adage that only Robert Rourke could put into words....next time i'm in that area i will use enough gun.....

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