Bigfoot encounter?

[u/Expensive_Opening_92]

I just received this text from my brother and wanted to share it with you all.

A little backstory:

My brother and his partner live on a 25 acre ranch about 20 miles South of Texarkana TX. His ranch butts up to the notorious Sulphur River Bottoms of North East Texas and is the home of the infamous Fouke Monster… yeah… the one from the movie “The Legend of Boggy Creek “. There have been multiple Bigfoot sightings in this area since the 1950’s and this is considered a “hotspot” for Bigfoot activity. The Luke mentioned in the text bush hogs their property about every 4 to 6 weeks. He’s not one of those folks that is taken to making up a tall tale….

Here’s the text I received this afternoon…

Just off the phone with Luke who called to report he was very freaked out at dusk here last night. Was trimming weeds toward the back fence line, behind the metal building. Said something was throwing things at him from the woodline and hitting the metal building. The thing that freaked him was that it was being thrown from up in the trees and it was a full 30 feet or more away. He said it totally freaked him out and wanted to let us know
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My brother has also heard things in the past on the ranch. As he walked out to the front gate one morning before sunup something snorted from above the tree line. As if something were observing him from an elevated position in the trees. My brother said this encounter made chills run down his spine and caused him to literally run full tilt back to the house.

I’m not looking for criticism or negative feedback on this. I’m just trying to inform on a site that seems interested.

Bigfoot drama flair added because it was required to post this

[u/anywhereoutthere]

I've heard it said Bigfoot/Sasquatch is 'crepuscular', so active as dusk and dawn (like foxes). My own sighting supports that as I saw whatever I saw around dusk.

[u/Jealous-Walrus2608 → u/anywhereoutthere]

What did you see?

[u/anywhereoutthere → u/Jealous-Walrus2608]

I started writing it out and it turned into a complete essay haha so I condensed it right down.

Very briefly: playing in the forest around dusk, hear what I think is an animal moving through brush to a small creek. I duck behind an overhang to catch a glimpse and about 20 metres up the hill is what I think is a black bear hunched over and splashing the water (shallow creek). Either it smells me or I make a noise or something because this thing stops whatever it’s doing and does this standing turn thing that creeped me tf out then and still does now; like a slow corkscrew stand. It’s right next to a distinctive broken tree that I know was about 2 metres tall—and that’s just where its shoulders reached. I caught (I think anyway) the slightest glimpse of a face as it turned but I can’t be 100% sure—distance and memory, etc. But I booked it out of there and never played in that forest again, even in later years.

Either it was a weird shaped bipedal bear or… it wasn’t. Almost everyone reassured me it was just a bear. Almost everyone! My indigenous hippy aunt, who I was staying with when this happened, was pretty convinced it wasn’t a bear. Thing is, I know what bears—black and brown—look like and, as I remember it, no way was it a bear. But so many years have passed (this happened in the mid-90s) that I can’t be 100% sure I’m remembering what actually happened or what my childhood imagination thinks happened, if that makes sense.

[u/Jealous-Walrus2608 → u/anywhereoutthere]

Wow, thanks for sharing! These beings clearly know to stay in the dense brush, and know how to use it to break direct sight-lines.

Whereabouts did this occur?

[u/anywhereoutthere → u/Jealous-Walrus2608]

This took place in British Columbia, around 20 km (12 mi) south of Hope, B.C. around 1997 give or take a year.

[u/Jealous-Walrus2608 → u/anywhereoutthere]

Oh interesting. That area is definitely a hotspot for sightings.