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BigFoot Research Organization
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Report
Received From: The GCBRO Online
Report Submission Form.
DATE:
October 18, 2003
TIME:
4:00 PM
LOCATION:
Lagrange County, Indiana
TERRAIN:
The area surrounding the property is mainly farmland with a few farm houses
that are basically scattered.
OBSERVED:
First off I have admit that I am somewhat skeptical of all the bigfoot
claims but I did encounter something that I cant explain. I was hunting
deer in the 03 Indiana archery season and while sitting in my tree stand
I caught a glimpse of something moving through the woods in a rather random
pattern.
At first I thought it was a deer
heading my way, I was dressed completely head to toe in one of the new
scent lock suits that's supposed to contain your human odor so that wildlife
don't pick up your scent. I still wasn't sure what I was seeing but it
was heading in my general direction and didn't seem alarmed so I just waited
for it to get closer as I thought it was still a deer. It was moving in
and out of the trees which were still partially covered with leaves that
hadn't fallen yet so it would disappear and then reappear from time to
time and it was only visible for a split second each time. This went on
for approx. 10 minutes or so and you could clearly hear the footsteps,
finally it was within approx. 30-40 yrds and I could make it out clearly
now and it wasn't a deer or any animal I had ever seen in all my time in
the woods. I have hunted my entire life and have seen just everything that
walks, crawls or flies and most likely hunted them at one time or another
and this wasn't anything I had seen before. It appeared to be covered in
a reddish type hair that looked like it was a darker color underneath,
it walked upright and hunched over on two legs like a human but clearly
wasn't human, I would guess its hair to be 5-6 inches long, the hair was
longer on the back of the legs and arms than the rest of the body and its
arms were very long and powerful looking, its head was rather large and
seemed to be somewhat pointed with a protruding forehead covered with long
shaggy hair, Im 6'2" and 230 and this thing was easily twice my weight
and then some, I was sitting in a ladder type tree stand that the bottom
of the platform was 15 ft off the ground and this thing was approx. half
as tall as that, I watched and remained motionless as it appeared to sniff
the air. After a minute or so of this it let out some real deep growls
and turned and looked in my general direction, I had remained motionless
the entire time so I know it didn't see movement but somehow it knew something
was there, it started circling my position and every now and then would
let out a ear piercing scream followed by more growling. There were times
when it was circling that it would disappear from sight but you could always
tell where it was by the noise it made. While it was out of view I stood
and placed and arrow on my bow as I was unsure of what else to do and wasn't
going to take any chances, it made a complete circle around my position,
there were times when you would see the small trees shaking and it sounded
like it was hitting the trees with something but I couldn't tell for sure.
It returned to approx. the position it started from, by then I believe
it had figured out where I was as it was looking straight at me. It took
a couple of steps toward my location and I decided that was enough, I drew
back my bow and shot an arrow in to a tree just to the left it where it
was standing, I had no intention of shooting it because I figured it would
simply make a bad situation worse than it already was, besides I am pretty
certain it wouldn't have done the job anyway, the arrow made a thud when
it stuck in the tree causing the creature to scream at me, it backed off
a short distance and when it took a few more steps in my direction I again
shot and arrow in to a tree, it screamed once more at me then it turned
and looked at the arrow and stood there for a minute or so looking at me
then turned and walked away, as it was walking away it turned and looked
back at me several times screaming each time. I couldn't believe it, still
don't really but I know what I saw. I watched it for a long as I could
see it and after approx. 30 minutes from the last time I saw it I climbed
down and headed quickly in the opposite direction for my truck. Im not
really sure what else to say except that if I hadn't been there I probably
wouldn't have believed it myself.
Activities of Witness:
I had hunted the morning in a different stand location and moved to this
one at approx. 1 pm.
Description of Creature:
It appeared to be covered in a reddish type hair that looked like it was
a darker color underneath, it walked upright and hunched over on two legs
like a human but clearly wasn't human, I would guess its hair to be 5-6
inches long, the hair was longer on the back of the legs and arms than
the rest of the body and its arms were very long and powerful looking,
its head was rather large and seemed to be somewhat pointed with a protruding
forehead covered with long shaggy hair, Im 6'2" and 230 and this thing
was easily twice my weight and then some.
Other Notes:
N/A
Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments: Upon contact the witness had no additional information to add to this report.
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