REPORT RECEIVED FROM: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.

 
REPORT POSTED TO GCBRO WEB SITE ON:  March 15, 2013
 

DATE:    06/15/01
 

TIME:     10:30-11:00pm
 

LOCATION:   Vernon Perish, Louisiana
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    While serving  for 3 yearsas an observer-controller at the Joint Readiness Training Center I spent probably 15 days a month in the woods helping train Army units for combat or peacekeeping missions. In early summer of 2001 we were covering down on a 10th Mtn Division unit preparing for rotation to Bosnia. We had the training area set up to replicate the small towns they may encounter, so all of the activity and focus was in and around the mout site and Geronimo drop zone. The main paved road along the northern boundary was "in game play", so observer traffic was limited and had to enter/exit from the south tank trails and make the 25 mile or so drive back to main post on south boundary road. There is zero population for 30+ miles in any direction out there and it's all on federal property that butts up against the wildlife refuge. My shift was over and I was leaving Geronimo to the south on a tank trail when I had the urge to urinate, so I stopped my HUMMWV just short of a concrete culvert that had a stream running under it. It was pitch black with no illumination and somewhere between 10:30-11:00. I got out of the vehicle, shut off the engine, and took a few steps away from the truck and began to "let it go" off the side of the road toward the creek, when I notice how quiet it was, (there  usually a lot of insect and frog noises especially that time of year). There was just the sound of my radio occasionally breaking squelch from the truck. All the sudden I heard this loud woofing kind of sound coming from the other side of my truck just inside the woodline. Whatever it was "woofed" (sorry I lack a better description) at me several times getting faster and faster and more intense, then it stopped for a second then started a scream that began from a deep barrel chested almost rattling growl that increased in pitch that had a kind of female sound to it. I can't properly describe how loud or intense the volume of this thing was, but there is no doubt in my mind that human anatomy can't produce that volume or range. I honestly was frozen in place when this happened. When I got my wits I took a step toward the vehicle and whatever it was turned and stomped or stepped away breaking branches as it left. I could actually feel the weight of the footfalls and it was deffinitely on two legs. I was very cautious about telling anyone I worked with since I had a security clearance to protect and was getting promoted to E8 pretty soon. I figured no one would believe me anyway and it wasn't worth the ridicule from a bunch of Army studs. I've been retired now for several years, but the experience still sticks to me. I can't talk or think about it without some base physical reaction. I've searched for the sound I heard for years on the internet and the only soundbite I could find that's close is the sound of a silverback gorilla when it's getting mad and making that aggressive woofing Sound. I still havent heard a scream that sounds similar. I've heard everything in those woods from peacocks, bobcat, wild boar, and woke up to wild horses sniffing me in my sleeping bag on the hood of my vehicle. All I know was this thing was  heavy, walked on two legs, and had a big enough pair of lungs and diaphragm to make the loudest scream I've ever heard that echoed through those woods. I'm a skeptic on a lot of fronts, but I know for a fact that there's something running around out there that made me question my current understanding of the animal kingdom. Somebody out there needs to find some hard evidence so I can wipe that damn smirk off my wife's face.....she thinks the whole notion is bunk!
 

ADDITIONAL THINGS:  N/A
 

DESCRIPTION OF CREATURE:  Didn't see anything in the dark. 
 

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESS:   On military duty.
 

OTHER NOTES:    N/A
 

HISTORICAL OR NEIGHBORING AREAS:  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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