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                                                                    Submitted by Bobby Hamilton
                                                                              Reported by W.P.

REPORT RECEIVED: From the GCBRO Online Reports Submission Form
 

DATE:         July 1973
 

TIME:          6:30 A.M.
 

LOCATION:  20 Miles NE of El Dorado, Arkansas, Union County,
                   Ouachita River Bottoms near Eagle Lake
 

TERRAIN:     Piney woods with thickly grown underbrush.

The underbrush was covered by four foot of water for about a month, so the vegetation was covered with brown mud and dust with very little green or new growth.  The woods was completely the same color brown below the four foot flood line, so the river bottoms were darker than usual.  Lots of brown dead fallen limbs.  Right beside the encounter is a swampy lake.
 

OBSERVED: I am a 38-year-old news videographer.  My career will be jeopardized if I report false stories or vary from the truth.  When I was an 11-year-old, I was camping with my family and others in the Ouachita River bottoms beside Eagle Lake in south central Arkansas.  After setting up camp, everyone else went out on the lake fishing so we could eat fish for dinner.  My pet dachshund and I stayed at the campsite to gather firewood and keep the camp from being pilfered by the wild hogs which scavenge through the woods.  I was alone for about ten minutes, and the camp was quiet.  It was around 3 p.m. on a hot mid-July afternoon, and a brown mud caked all the vegetation through the dark woods, marking the waterline from the river's flood earlier in the year.  I walked to the wood's edge and started to drag a large limb toward camp.  As soon as I grabbed the limb and made the first reasonably loud sound, I heard something extraordinary.

It sounded like gibberish, much like a Tibetan woman auctioneer screaming as loud and fast as possible.  This lasted for about ten seconds.  Then It ended with a VERY low pitched humb-bob-boo-mbee-mbumb moan.  The sound was SO LOUD the woods reverberated like a gymnasium--the thing had to be very near, maybe 100 feet.  My dachshund's hair stood on his back as he growled and whimpered beside me.  I was very puzzled because I know the sounds of the South Arkansas woods very well.  I yelled back "Hey" as loud as I could.  After about a 15 second pause, the thing started again in gibberish and ended in the same low mbeeb-mbobm moan, only this time it was longer (about 20 seconds).  I stared very hard into the brown-mud covered woods, and I felt like I should sight this creature just because it garbled for so long and loud.

I answered "Hey" again, and the thing started chattering a third time, but only about ten seconds and no low moan.  I yelled a third time, but there was no answer.  I stood there for a good three minutes searching into the woods for any movement or sound, but I could (not) see it.  No one out on the lake heard me or this thing.  Eagle Lake is a long oxbow lake rimmed by huge cypress and tupelo trees.

Here is the clincher.  That fall I received my first pair of glasses!  I might have been
staring directly at a bigfoot and could have mistaken it for a large tree trunk!
 

Description of Creature: Sound Description, It sounded like gibberish, much like a Tibetan woman auctioneer screaming as loud and fast as possible.  This lasted for about ten seconds.  Then It ended with a VERY low pitched humb-bob-boo-mbee-mbumb moan.  The sound was SO LOUD the woods
reverberated like a gymnasium.
 

Activities of Witness:  Lots of banging and clanging of ten people setting up camp.  Then all but one (the witness) left to go fishing, so the camp fell relatively silent about ten minutes before the encounter.  I had begun gathering firewood, and I had just entered the piney woods by the camp area.

Other Notes: The gibberish part of the noise had many syllables, but M's and B's and O's were predominant.  I had the impression that I startled whatever it was at the time.  As a matter of fact, I was not aware of a creature such as bigfoot until a few years later  when the Fouke Monster started making the news two counties over to our west.  I guess that explained why I wasn't very scared during the encounter.  In these same woods I have heard panther screams, packs of coyotes, hoot owls, wolves, gator, bear, grunting wild hogs---you name it.

Other Other Notes:    I have fished in this remote area numerous times.  On occasion out on the boat we have heard what sounded like a large limb being smashed against a large tree trunk or into the water.  I never associated this with bigfoot at the time, but I often wondered who or what would bang a large limb like that and why.  Sometimes we would hear it two or three times within a ten minute span, but it never occurred to us it might have been a bigfoot.  I remember talking to a fishing partner more than once about why or how a bear or deer would pop a large limb up against a tree trunk.

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