DATE: 6/71
TIME: Around Noon
LOCATION: Texas, Montgomery County FM 149
TERRAIN: Wooded
OBSERVED:
The event occurred in far northwestern Montgomery County (as best I can
remember) in, or
near the edge of
the Sam Houston National Forest, near the Grimes County line. I had
just turned 15. My brother, who was two years older than me, and
I went biking and hiking along a dirt trail with our new friend, who had
been born and raised in the area and knew it well. He was between
my brother and me in age. My brother and I were new to the area and
anxious to explore it with our ten speed bicycles.
The trail we went on went through, or along the edge of, private property for part of the way and our friend had to get permission from the owner before we could enter the trail. I don't remember the exact details of where we entered and how we got to the rugged part of the trail. All I can remember is the three of us riding our bikes down a paved FM to a gate. After we left the paved FM and went through the gate, we were able to ride our bikes down the dirt path for some distance. I think we were going due east. We stuck together, at first; then I got way ahead of the two boys.
By then, I was in
a heavily wooded area and the trail had become so rugged and somewhat hilly
that I had to push and pull my bike alongside me up and down the trail.
The trail had become very narrow, too, and was hard for me to follow at
times. I'm not sure what direction I was going in either. There
was a rising and falling embankment on my left side with a barbed wire
fence and rolling pastures on the other side of the fence. Beyond
the pasture was forest. To my right was about 15 feet of tall grass
and weeds then a heavily wooded area with a shallow creek running through
it, I think. The trees were mostly pine. It was afternoon and
the
weather was perfect.
As I walked along
the path, enjoying the scenery and the weather, I started to feel like
there was something in the forest, to my right, watching me. I tried
to ignore the feeling and concentrate on the lovely flora around me but
the feeling got worse and worse. I told myself I was imagining things;
what in the world could be out there to be afraid of? News of the
Fouke Monster hadn't reached our area yet and I was skeptical of Bigfoot's
existence. I began to get goose bumps that wouldn't go away despite
the warm weather. I could feel adrenaline start to surge through
my body though there had been no sort of stimulus to elicit such a response.
I
listened for familiar
sounds, particularly birds, to reassure myself that nothing was wrong.
I heard no reassuring sounds. The boys were farther back up the trail
and couldn't hear me calling. I was so frightened I couldn't call
that loud anyway. All I could hear was the sound of twigs and branches
snapping in the woods alongside me. The sounds kept up with me as
I made my way along the path. I became so frightened that I stopped
several times to see if the snapping would stop and it did, pretty much.
No, it wasn't me stepping on twigs and not realizing it was me making the
noise. I had a very strong mental impression that there was "someone"
watching me and following me and was contemplating coming out of the woods
to grab me. There seemed to be more than one of them after a while,
also. One was keeping pace with me and the other was about 30 feet
in front of the pacer. I can't accurately describe the terror I felt.
I was fully prepared to try to get through a barbed wire fence, with or
without my ten speed, to at least try to make a run for safety across the
pasture should the thing(s) try to pounce on me.
I finally turned around and waited for the two boys to catch up with me. They finally did and were deep in conversation, oblivious to the world around them. I could still feel the thing(s) watching the three of us and trying to decide if it (they) would attack. We came out of the woods onto a paved FM (FM 149) and rode our bikes back home.
Description of Creature: N/A
Activities
of Witness: We were all just
riding our bikes and walking when the trail got rough. The boys were
deep in conversation
and apparently didn't see or hear anything they thought was unusual.
They
didn't seem to be
aware of the eerie silence.
Other Notes: There was an eerie silence.
Other
Other Notes: The three of
us would drive into Huntsville once a week to eat hamburgers and watch
a
movie. We
always rode in our new friend's old Chevy pick-up truck. One evening,
between about 11 o'clock and midnight, we were driving back home from Huntsville
on FM 149. We were in the Sam Houston National Forest. The
moon was between new and first quarter, or second quarter and new, because
it was very dark. Plus, there are no street lights in the forest.
We passed a pick-up truck that our new friend recognized. He pulled
over to the same side of the road the other pick-up was on but yards up
from it. He went down and talked to the person, a Baptist deacon,
who had walked straight back into the forest, unarmed. He obviously
wasn't there to hunt and he wasn't walking straight back into the forest
as far as he could possibly go just to
relieve himself,
as our friend explained later. Our friend came back grinning and
shaking his head but wouldn't explain why the deacon made a habit of driving
into the forest late at night, pulling over, and walking straight back
into the forest as far as he could go. My friend and I saw him returning
from one of his late night
expeditions a second
time and I wanted to talk to him myself but my friend wouldn't let me.
My friend kept telling me that the deacon was crazy but wouldn't go into
detail.
A couple of months
after school began (as best I can remember), a class mate, who sat behind
me in one of our classes, came to school one morning looking shocked.
He told anyone he could get to listen to him that he had gone walking in
the woods late the previous night (insomnia, most likely) and had met the
devil. We didn't believe him and we teased him but he didn't care
that we didn't believe him. I questioned him about what the devil
looked like and what he had said and my classmate told me that the devil
was about seven feet tall, more or less, brown (I forgot if he said the
devil had long hair), looked sort of like a gorilla, and spoke in a deep,
guttural voice.
The devil didn't say much either; he just made deep monosyllable responses
to my class mate's chatter as they sat on fallen logs. Then the devil
got up and walked back into the forest. None of us knew what to make
of his story. We expected him to say that he had consumed a six pack
then saw a big red, cloven-hooved critter with horns, a tail, and pitchfork,
who tried to get him to sign his soul away.
Report taken and
Posted to the G.C.B.R.O. web site by Bobby Hamilton
Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization Home Page
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