Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy

Road cross encounter at dusk near Bon Wier.

Report#: 01060004
Occurred November 1981: (Submitted February 15, 2006)

Witness Observation

My wife (ex-wife now) and I were traveling from Gulfport, MS where I was stationed with the SeaBees, to Nacogdoches, TX for Thanksgiving. And if you look at a map there was no good/direct way between these two points, so we were "experimenting" with different routes to find the quickest way to go in the future (171 in Louisiana, 96 in Texas, IH 10 to Beaumont then north on 69, etc., etc.).

Well anyway, as best as I can remember we left Gulfport in the early afternoon which put us in this area about dusk (my headlights were just becoming effective). O.K. I'm finding it a little difficult to start.

Look we were about two miles to half way between Bon Wier and Newton, TX. when this Chubaka (George Lucus/StarWars) like thing calmly walks out into my headlights (1/4 mi) ahead stops dead in the middle of the road, looks at us coming coming at "him?" at about 60 MPH, then calmly strides off the other side. "He" was traveling east to west (my right to left). Both of us were sober and wide awake. Although during the 6-10 seconds I had to absorb what I was seeing I didn't look over at my wife or say a word. Obviously, for me, I was driving unfamiliar road so I was paying attention and knew what I saw.

As we passed the spot of THE crossing (at 60 MPH) my wife turns to me and says something like, "Did you see that?" and started quizzing me for details about what we saw and giving her own input so I'd know she saw "him" too, thus I wasn't having some kind of hallucination.

Details: Both sides of the road were flooded as far as the eye could see. There was no man made fence line on either side - just thicket like bushes (no big pines that I can remember). Shoulder of the road was small. "He" STRODE easily to the center of the road in four or five "steps?" and was gone in as many. "He" was at least, underline at at least, 7 feet, I remember thinking (and I don't know why) that if he fell over he would cover almost an entire lane in the road. It's uncanny but if you took the character Chubaka's gunbelts, boots, and bandileros(sp?) away and gave Chubaka less facial features (smallish eyes, nose not sure size of mouth) hairy face makes details difficult. Flat non-chalant expression. Genitals?? hairy-don't remember seeing anything in that area one way or the other.

Color: Straw yellow but that may have been influenced by the yellow of my headlights (New 1982 Datsun kingcab pick-up) otherwise I'd say Light grey to silver. Nearest buildings (as far as this being some kind of GREAT practical joke) I'd say two miles either way. To me this was pretty much the middle-of-nowhere.

Physical Evidence

We were in shock a minute or two and didn't stop.

Time and Conditions

Dusk 1700-1900 hrs?? - Thicket in a flood plain. Overcast/dark (maybe some occasional drizzle).

Investigator's Comments

Rebecca Elkins

This investigation was conducted as a result of an incident that allegedly occurred in Newton County, Texas, in 1981.

I interviewed the witness on 16 February 2006. He is a respected member of the medical profession and is very clear in his remembrance of the sighting that took place 24 years ago. He was certain that his ex-wife would tell of the event just as he told it to me, but he only had her name to offer and her last known location; I was unable to contact her as a corroborating witness. During the interview, the witness added the following details:

* When the subject paused briefly in the road to look towards the oncoming headlights of the witness's pickup truck, its facial expression seemed to be one of total unconcern, just as if it was crossing the road in no particular emergency; it was not lingering, nor did it seem to mind that a vehicle was approaching.
* The subject was disproportionate in size to what a human would look like standing or walking in the road; it was seven feet tall at the very least. The witness reported that it did not look extremely broad and appeared a little on the lean side. Still, it appeared to be a formidable being, something that would be a hazard if the witness's vehicle had collided with it.
* The stride seemed to be about four feet long; the subject made it to the middle of the road without even trying.
* The witness remembered that the subject was covered in hair, including the feet. The nose was not pronounced; the fingers seemed to be close together as it walked along; the face almost reminded the witness of a shaggy dog. No genitalia were noticed, however, the witness's impression was that the subject was male.
* The closest proximity from the witness to the subject was 100 yards at most; the subject had already crossed the highway and gone into the brush when the witness's vehicle was at the point of crossing. But still, the witness knows what he saw and is adamant that this was no person, nor is he deterred by others who might say otherwise.
* The witness and his wife were unable to speak for a few seconds and kept driving in stunned silence. His wife was the first to speak and began to discuss the details of what they had both just seen.

It should be noted that there are two creeks on either side of the highway, not to mention the Sabine River runs just to the east of Bon Weir. Also a report was submitted to the TBRC relating an encounter by some kids at a 1981 4th of July family gathering in Longville, Louisiana, which is only about 30 or 40 miles southeast of Bon Wier, Texas. There are deer hunting leases all around the areas offering plenty of habitat.

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