REPORT RECEIVED From: From the Field Research Notes Of  Jay Michael
                                            (Report Contains Very Graphic Photographs)
 

DATE:   December 2002-Janurary 2003 (present)
 

TIME:     
 

LOCATION: South Mississippi, Specific Location is being witheld due to ongoing investigations into the area.
 

TERRAIN:  Wooded  
 

OBSERVED:  I'm going to give this report in story form because it's eaiser for me to tell it all and try not to leave out any details. Here goes...
 Around the first of December 2002 My friend Patrick mentioned to me at a party at my house that he had found some "dead deer" at a location where he works. Pat is a cellular technition and often travels to cell sites to work on the transmitters. He said the deer looked like they had been "ripped apart" by something. Being curious I asked him when he goes back if he would take his digital camera and take some pictures because I wanted to see it.
About four days later I got an email from him and attached were some pictures. The deer did look "ripped up", so I forwarded the pix to Bigfoothunter for his opinion. (see attached photos below this report)
Bobby (Bigfoothunter) wrote back that he was amazed at the photos too and as a deer hunter he couldn't come up with a plausible explination for the condition of the deer. He suggested I go down there and look around, and I agreed to take a video camera and video the area in case there were footprints or such.

A few days later Pat & I went to the location and I video taped the deer. I was amazed to find these bodies that appeared to be ripped in half. Their insides seemed intact. In fact I found a stomach some feet away and on another deer where it 's stomach was open and I could see the contents.
While there and videotaping I started looking around and investigating the area for any sign of what may have done this and / or if BF sign was present.
I started to find several trees that were twisted and broken over. Some were the cause of weather but some didn't appear to be a result of either trees falling on them, weather or disease.
As I walked along taping the various trees and such and looking for prints I came across another area where some cattle had been either killed or brought there. There were several bones and a couple of skulls. Rib cages, backbones and thigh bones littered the area. This was at an entrance ot trail into the woods.
As I made my way around I found a couple more trails into the woods and at each entrance were bones.

I ventured down a trail and found some stick formations that could have been natural but didn't seem so. Limbs positioned in saplings and crossed sticks and twigs. I even had a moment where I felt that I heard something walking but discounted it as just the wind. It was just a momentary feeling of being watched and I scrugged it off and went on. I mention it only because the area does give you the creeps and Pat had mentioned that he too felt "creepy" when he is down there.

This was defiently a mystery. We stayed till after dark to listen for any calls or sounds but heard nothing. A few days later I went back and found the deer were now scattered around some. Originally two deer had been stacked on top of each other and their head & necks were crossed in an X pattern. This trip they were seperated and I assumed small scavengers might have tugged at the bodies and scattered them about. Again I looked around and re-examined some of the tree breaks in the area. I have always been skeptical of tree breaks because so much is blamed on Bigfoot when no one has ever seen bigfoot make tree breaks. But they do appear in reports so I look at them anyway. In most cases I can now tell weather damage, disease and other conditions that may cause these breaks. And most of what I found appeared to me to be just weather and disease damage. But a few were not so easily discounted.

A few days later I had some time so I drove back to the area. Nothing much was changed but one curious thing. The two deer that had been scattered were now back, stacked on top of eachother with their heads in the X pattern. I made a mental note of this and looked around again for prints. I found nothing.

A week or so later I went back again and the deer were again seperated. This time not far but a foot or two apart. Again I looked around and went back down to see the dead cattle area, nothing there was amiss.

A couple of days ago I took yet another trip back down to the area. Guess what, the deer were back in their X pattern again. By this time the bodies were decaying badly. Insects mostly were devouring them. Some whole peices were gone but for the most part they appeared to be intact, which makes me wonder that maybe vultures or other animals may not be feasting on them as I would assume. But I do not know.

I'll keep an eye on this area and I'll let you all know of any findings. So far, it's a mystery and I can't say "Bigfoot did it." But here is an area with tree breaks, dead deer and tree breaks. Cattle bones and stick formations. It's enough to keep an eye on and keep an ongoing investigation.

The area itself is sparse. Houses are miles apart and it's mostly woods. There are farms nearby as well as a heavily traveled highway. No Interstates or large cities, just small rual towns and communities seperated by miles of forest. The area where the Deer carcuses are is about 5 miles from the Leaf River and 2 miles from a creek.  If there are Bigfoot in the area they picked a good spot.
 

Activities of Witness:    N/A
 

Description of Creature:   N/A
 

Other Notes:  N/A
 

Additional Notes or Comments:  Location is under current investigation.

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