Report Received From: The GCBRO Online Report Submission Form.
 

DATE:    November 17, 1997
 

TIME:     Aprox 5:30 am
 

LOCATION:   Hutchinson County, Texas
 

TERRAIN:    Wooded
 

OBSERVED:    I was hunting deer on the North side of the Canadian river, the riverbed is about 1-1 1/2 miles wide pretty much choked with salt cedar and Cotton wood trees and mostly unpenitrable with clearings every now and again with lease roads running through it for pumpers to use to check their wells, is dry with a small stream running through the center of it is not inhabited by anyone and was until about 4 yr. ago state owned, I had picked this spot to hunt deer as a good spot....kind of secluded, but easily gotten to by way of a dirt road and a short walk aprox. 125 yd. to the edge of the clearing where I was hoping some deer would pass through, I was setting with my back to a small cottonwood tree (aprox 25 ft tall) facing the clearing with the main riverbed to my back, had been there for about 30 minutes (about 5:30 am) still very dark and cloudy had sleeted earlier in night but stopped. temp was about 30 degrees and no wind. While setting waiting for enough light to see by, I heard something moving behind me, branches from salt cedars rubbing together and clicking from something moving through them, I sat almost holding my breath so as to hear it thinking it might be a big buck, it got pretty close behind me est. 30 or 40 ft and I could hear it breathing heavy, when it started tearing the hell out of the salt cedars around it, I could hear it grunting and making growling sounds and such, I was sure now this was no deer and from the sounds of it nothing I had ever heard before. Having hunted all my life I know most animal sounds and while this thing didn't scream or make any sounds like I have heard on various web sites,  I know what it wasn't and that narrows it down a lot. I sat there stiff and scared to move, for about 5 or 6 minutes while this thing went berserk, I had my deer rifle ( a 7 mm rem mag) but I could not see a thing and was scared to move. After 5 or 6 minuted it quit tearing the cedars up and I guess left, because it got real quiet and I mean QUIET. I sat for 10 more minutes till I got up the nerve to leave and I hauled ass out of there and have never been back. I don't care to go back and since the land has gone to the land owners around the river so no hunting is allowed now. But While this area up here is barren for the most part, this river is an ecosystem in itself, running most of the way across the panhandle full of cedar and cotton woods with water available and plenty of wildlife you could live in this river for your life time and if you didn't want to be seen....you would be. This is the only time I have ever felt danger or threatened while hunting and I am 6'3"; 250 pounds and not easily scared, but this still raises goose bumps, I know not what this was but it made it's displeasure very very evident.
 

Activities of Witness:   Hunting
 

Description of Creature:  Didn't see only heard.
 

Other Notes:    This river is very very large and while dry it has steep canyon sides and it's own ecosystem of sorts. Deer and rabbits and bobcats and yes an occasional mountain lion have been seen, for the most part this is a no-mans land. It runs for 80-100 miles of salt cedar and cotton wood forests with only the wildlife and cattle ranchers and pumpers to see it. I have not seen any track of really
ever thought to look for any, the river is very sandy and choked with salt cedar.
 

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments:  Upon contact the witness added, "I hope this helps as I have never read a report from this area, I am not sure if what I heard was a bigfoot but I was definitely odd and not consistant with any known creatures I know. But thanks I have never told anyone about this not even my wife as she would just shrug it off."

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