Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy

Investigator's Comments

Daryl Colyer and Tod Pinkerton

This investigation was conducted as a result of an incident that allegedly occurred in Montgomery County, Texas, 27 October 2007.

I interviewed the witness at length by telephone a few days after she submitted the sighting report. Exactly one week after the sighting was alleged to have occurred, TBRC investigators Tod Pinkerton, Bob Hilliard, James Cotton and Travis Lawrence met the witness and her husband onsite on 3 November 2007.

Upon concluding my comprehensive interview with the witness, I concluded that she indeed believed that she saw a sasquatch. I do not believe the witness was lying.

She seemed startled or even perplexed about what she saw. She emphatically told me that there was no doubt in her mind that the subject was not human. Although she had initial difficulty in processing what she saw, she was not at all confused regarding whether or not it was human or non-human; she was decidedly settled that the subject could be nothing other than a sasquatch. She stated that she was certain that the subject was large and covered with brown hair.

Tod Pinkerton drafted a post-investigation report of his team's findings after having met with the witness and her husband on Saturday, 3 November 2007.

Below are his comments:

Bob Hillard, Travis Lawrence, and I met at 9:00 a.m. We looked over the emails, and determined where we thought the alleged sighting had occurred. The three of us walked the area for a couple of hours looking for sign. We were able to locate lots of deer and hog sign.

James Cotton joined us at noon. After Cotton arrived, we met the witness and her husband in person.

We interviewed her informally for a few minutes. She seemed to reiterate her story as we knew it through the initial report; all points were consistent. The witness's husband backed up everything that she said.

The witness stated that she was relieved that she could speak to someone like us who would listen and not ridicule her for even bringing up the subject.

The witness showed us the exact spot where she viewed the subject in question. I found it interesting that she had apparently been viewing the same location for the last six or seven years and had never seen anything out of the ordinary. She said she always looked this way because she liked the setting, but this one time she saw something that she knew immediately was out of place.

The witness was the passenger that day in the family's late model Ford Mustang; the husband was driving, and son was in the back seat.

Immediately after the sighting the witness turned to her husband and said "....I think I just saw a bigfoot!" The witness told us that she and her husband discussed it for a minute, then tried to go back to the scene. They estimated that it took about seven minutes to get back to the bridge. By the time they got there, nothing was observed. The husband mentioned that had he not been right beside her in the car, and seen firsthand her immediate reaction, it would have been much harder for him to accept.

While the other investigators walked down to the area where the witness observed the subject, I stayed with the witness and her husband on the bridge. Travis Lawrence reenacted the subject's behavior and movement patterns, to include walking the same route, and attempting to mimic suggested arm swing movement. The witness said that had the subject been wearing camo like the TBRC investigators, she would have instantly recognized it as human even from the moving vehicle.

The witness said the subject was much noticeably taller than Travis Lawrence, who is six feet three inches (6 feet 3 inches).

No corroborating sign was found in the area.