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Sam Houston National Forest: while taking daughter's friends home, mother has roadside visual encounter.

Report#

01090048

Occurred Fall 1997

(Submitted July 4, 2009)

Witness Observation

The weather was cool and sunny. There were thick woods on both sides of road. On the passenger side there was a dip for runoff and the property was fenced, the owner has longhorns on that property but the property was wooded. On the driver side there was a deeper runoff where the brush was real thick, there were downed trees on the edge and no fence.

I was driving a 1993 Saturn. I had let my daughter sit in the back with both of her friends and they were laughing and talking, enjoying the last few minutes before I took them home 20 miles away. They were around 15 at the time, I had to have them home by 12:00 noon and that’s why I remember the time.

As I came out of the dip the road curves to the passenger side and before the road curves to the other side. I am facing the road and looking into the thicket ahead, and 60 to 80 feet from my car in the thicket I see what I first thought was the haunches of a horse moving around I could only see the top part. What I saw had short reddish hair and was like 7 to 8 feet high. Then I remembered I didn’t see a tail. As I go up this curve toward this thing I start to look at it a little closer and then this thing that I thought was a horse turns around and crouches down and tries to hide behind a little tree and it’s sitting there looking at me. It had a face and reddish hair on top of its head and the eyes followed me and I drove within 15 to 20 feet of it and I did see it crouching down looking at me as I went by. The thing was big in a crouched position and I couldn’t have been driving more than 20 mph and I don’t remember if I slowed down even more or not but I kept going. I was so scared that I didn’t even stop at the stop sign and I was also scared I would flood the car since it was a standard [transmission]. The girls looked up and I couldn’t talk and I was finally able to talk. I asked them if they had seen anything and they said no and I told them I thought I had seen something in the woods, then I told them it was nothing. But I did see something there and it saw me. If I had persisted with my daughter, she would have never been able to live there ever again.

Later that day I told my husband about it and he didn’t believe me. He started telling me he saw a ghost dressed in blue in the front yard when he went to work in the mornings. So I didn’t mention it again.

Well after that I didn’t go into the woods anymore. We had 2 ½ acres, we cleared about 1 acre of our land and I wanted to clear all of it. I use to work to clear little by little. My husband stopped helping me because the more I cleared the more he had to mow. But I didn’t want the woods that close to the house I wanted to see what was out there. Needless to say, my clearing days ended after that.

I started closing the curtains at night and I put lights all around the house. When I drove home I would turn on the high beams to make sure there was nothing out there since our property was not fenced. And I know what is out there -- deer, hogs. I have chased billy goats and those longhorns out of my yard before and I know what they look like up close since.

We moved to West Texas in 2007.

We are located at the top of a little hill the back part of our subdivision land is lower and there are creeks and ponds back there and there some parts that have really thick woods. About a mile down FM 1725 there is another road called Dabney Bottoms that when it rains a lot you cannot drive thru here, even the road is graded dirt thru that part. Another 2 miles down the road on FM 1725 the Sam Houston National Forest starts, my husband use to hunt there and he said there was places on the Dabney Bottoms side of the forest that were really deep and very thick that you couldn’t hunt there. He also said he had been in an area back there where he come across a place that smelled really bad and it looked like a place where several big things slept there, all the brush was flattened out. He just remembered smelling that smell at other times and always wondered what that was, but he never saw anything except for the smell.

I never even considered that it would have been a bigfoot, never entered my mind. Then one day in February this year my husband John asked me to describe what I had seen a long time ago. Then he asked me to read some of the articles on this website and the same fear came over me and couldn’t believe other people were describing what I saw back then.

Sounds

None

Additional Observations

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Time and Conditions

11:15 am - Weather was clear, cool and sunny.