DATE:      01-07-02

TIME:        Dark/ Dusk

LOCATION:    Arkansas, Washington County

TERRAIN:     Mountains, next to a big spring partially hid from view

OBSERVED:     Less than a week ago, my wife was on her way to town and it was raining.  About a mile from the house in the headlights on the right hand side of the road, a large, hairy, reddish to brown (dark) 2 legged thing was tearing the limbs off a tree next to the road.  I am a carpenter and stopped to measure this tree limb (lots of laughs as I am a skeptic) The limb was 10 feet and 4 inches off the ground and as I stood there, I felt really uneasy.  The ground is very trashed over with dead leaves and stuff and soft from the rain.  Maybe my imagination was running away with itself but there was lots of ground tearing at this place.  It was all disturbed.

OK, that was nothing compared to this evening.  As I was working in my shop, I heard a couple of chirps and grunts and even a crying noise, followed by a whistling.  I thought maybe my children were doing something and paid it little attention.  Believing I can discern between my children faking a noise and the real thing.  (XX is 16)(XX is 12).

XXXXXX, my wife, came up from the house and asked what that noise was?  Again, I listened carefully and stated my earlier opinion that its the kids, says I in my wisdom.  XXXXXX said its coming from the woods by the spring (It's a big spring, maybe 25 gallons a minute) and XX is at XX house, and XX is watching T.V.

Up until this moment, I always thought it was a bunch of stuff, this bigfoot thing, not for the serious at all.  What walked out of the woods makes my skin crawl to think about it.  Wasn't no 7 feet tall, but it was at least 6 and there was more than one, there was a little one too.  It hung back in the trees and was much less visible.  But I saw it plain as can be.  The bigger one headed uphill at the edge of the treeline and followed the old stage coach road up and over the spring.

From farther up the hill, we could hear what sounded like someone beating a tree with a board or a limb.  It was also close to a full moon and we are missing a few calves around the country.  We live next to an old, old orchard (dates back to the civil war when this place was  XXXXXXXX).

In the morning light, I will cut through the cedar thicket and see what is going on up on the hill a couple of hundred yards from our house.

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESS(ES):   Working in shop

DESCRIPTION OF CREATURE:   There was 2 of them.  One was 6 or so feet tall.  The other was maybe 4 foot tall.  Both were hairy and both were quiet on their feet.  I didn't hear them walking in dry leaves.  Until I saw the bigger one, I would have missed the smaller one, except it moved fast and I saw it for maybe 3 seconds.

OTHER NOTES:      Yes, XXXXXX noticed a tree standing in the middle of all the others on the hillside that kept moving.  Really moving!  That is where I will start my search (no guns, just a camera).  Wish me luck.

FOLLOW UPS:

OTHER SIGHTINGS IN THIS AREA:   There have been many sightings in our area Northwest Arkansas and Northeast Oklahoma.  I always thought they were a little nuts wanting attention or something.

FOLLOW UPS:   Information added by eyewitness in follow up report.

It is 7 A.M. here.  Went yesterday and looked around.  Found a lot of sign but nothing worth taking a picture.  Seems they were only passing through here.  I think they went south into the heavier woods and more streams with a couple of lakes, one north and one west.  If they follow the river it will take them to the little Illinois River which dumps into the Arkansas River with Lake Ten Killer being a watershed (man made) but there are a lot of woods and I mean a lot between here and there.  Its very important to us that someone believes us.  And if they go any direction there will be more reports.  I will keep my ears open and my camera handy.  Thanks.  The thing that sticks in my mind is how they walked (leaning slightly forward) the feet wre picked up and down (no shuffling) and they seemed to overswing their arms, a little kind of rolling gate if you will.  Well, gotta run, later.
 
 

Follow up by Fay Easley January 29, 2002:

I first spoke with Mr. X by telephone on Tues. night.   Mr. X said that over the weekend he was working in his shop next to his home and just before dark kept hearing these weird vocalizations and wood knocking. He thought his children were playing a joke on him and tended to ignore it but finally hollared out for the kids to stop playing around. Needless to say the sounds continued. His wife, Mrs. X, came into the shop a few minutes later and he told her to tell the kids to stop playing around and she told him that their son was not home at that time and their daughter was inside watching television. At that time, he said they heard more wood on wood knocks and a chirping/trilling type vocalization and walked out of the shop and followed the sounds towards the woods and stopped at their fenceline.

While standing there they heard the wood knocks and also what sounded like a baby crying then a cooing somewhat like a dove makes and the crying stopped but the wood knocks continued.  Mr. X said he thought a neighbor was in the woods trying to knock a coon out of a tree or something and shouted out to him not to be hunting back there.  At that moment the woods became completely silent. Within a few moments, his wife grabbed his arm and told him to look over to his left . Standing just outside the treeline about 100 ft. from them  was a female bigfoot. He said a small one also came out but went back into the woods in a flash.  (He said he didn't see the small one in detail due to this). He told his wife not to move and as they stood there looking at each other, the female bigfoot sort of tilted her head back and he could see her nostrils flaring and she was clenching and unclenching her hands but did not make any sound. When asked how he knew it was a female, he stated that he could clearly make out her breasts.  Said there was not as much hair in the face area as the rest of her body.  He stated that her forehead looked mongaloidish and had deepset eyes.  Hair color was a brownish/silver.  Arms reached almost to her knees and she stood and walked slightly bent forward. Mr. X also stated she had huge hands. After a few moments she walked back into the treeline and they turned and walked back to their house where he immediately got on the computer to find something about bigfoot and came across our website and decided to make the report.

 
The next morning he saw the little one up on the hill playing before daylight. He stated that with the full moon he could make it out but not clearly due to the distance and he did not step out of the house instead watching it from his window. Later he and his wife walked up into the woods where he said he found a pretty good camp minus a campfire. When asked what he meant by that he stated there was an area where the leaves have been raked/piled up and there were limbs from cedar trees placed on top of that. He stated he saw the tree where evidently the limbs were broken from and said some of the limb breaks were estimated at 7 1/2 ft. They also saw where there were some scratchings on the bark of some of the trees and as they have some cattle thought maybe it could have been from them at one point but then discovered some scratches at a height of 5 ft. and also found a clump of hair, which they recovered and are going to send me.  They said the hair had several different colors and was very matted. They took pictures of everything they found and are also going to send them once they are developed. They also found where something had been digging in the ground with sticks. They said the sticks still had dirt on the ends of them. Also saw where something had been digging with fingers as you could clearly see the impressions of fingers. Took pics of this also.

The area immediately behind their home is a pasture, then heavy woods going uphill. There are creeks and a flowing well back there. There are some fruit trees (apple) with fruit on the ground. There is a good deer population. They once had a cow that came up missing and never found it. They did mention that while searching yesterday they did find a jawbone near the bedding area. This past summer, they said they had a garden and that the tomatoes and several other vegatables came up missing and they were dumbfounded as to where it got off to. They have a cat and several dogs which roam freely. The night of this particular sighting the dogs went to the front of the property away from the owners and refused to come back to the house even after calling them. At times the dogs will not leave the yard. Mrs. X said that she has observed her cat's wandering route and at times, it will not leave the back porch, only stay there and stare towards the woodline. They have observed the cattle becoming agitated and running from the wooded area and out into the open pasture huddled together.

While speaking to them today, Mr. X related that a friend of his was hunting earlier this month about 7 miles from this sighting and that a bigfoot creature ran him out of the woods. When I asked the details of this here is what he said:

The friend was still hunting and heard something big crashing in the woods near him. He was thinking "bear" when this creature burst into line of vision approximately 150 ft from him. He stated it was in a very agitated state, growling and had a big stick in it's hand. The man was thoroughly frightened but had enough sense about him to remain perfectly still. Actually, he said he decided not to run because he felt if he did it would easily catch him and attack. After a few moments of angry gesturing and growling the creature went back into woods out of sight and he could hear him going deeper into the woods until he heard him moving no more. He said he sat there for about 15 more minutes before he could even move (also said that he lost control of his bladder) then walked back out of the woods to his truck and drove home. This fellow was so shaken, he could not go to work for two days.

 When I spoke to Mr. X last night he told me of another report that happened to a lady not far from  him in a town named xxx.  He got this report first-hand as he was hired to repair the damage that happened with this sighting. He stated that a lady who lived in a mobile home was taking a shower and there was a window next it it about 7 1/2 ft off the ground. While the lady was toweling dry she looked up and saw a creature looking in the window and at this time the lady screamed and the creatured screamed back and smashed the window, breaking it and also damaging the siding in that area of the mobile home.

 Mrs. X is originally from Oregon and today in our conversation, she told me of an experience she had while living there. She said that she was young (about 7) when she and her family and others went camping. Her parents had made the children a big pallet under the trees (open-air camping) to sleep. She stated she woke up in the middle of the night to see a creature that looked like it was sitting down on a log looking at them. She stated that all she can remember was a huge hair-covered leg and the eyes that were brown but would have a reddish glare to them. Also she said she remembered the smell most of all. She said she didn't do anything but duck her head back under the cover but became physically ill and threw up, which woke the other children up and they started screaming because of the mess she made. She stated she tried telling her parents of what she saw but they pooh-poohed it and as she was so young, she believed what her parents said instead of what she had seen. One thing she mentioned was that the odor stayed in her nostrils for a day or two. She also said that when she drove by the bigfoot creature over the past weekend that was standing by the road tearing up a tree, the smell was the same.