Sasquatch Sightings

Account

The most definite of several stories involving young people in the Nowata area. Leroy Phillips was spending the night in a clearing near Double Creek in an area called Overcut Bottoms, "a dank, weed-choked slough and quarry area bounded by the Verdigies River and backed by a hill called Devil's Backbone." He burned a chicken he was cooking, threw the remains on some rocks behind the campfire, and was almost asleep when he heard chicken bones breaking, and past the fire saw the outline of a huge body, about 7 feet tall without shoulders, "kinda like the Hunchback of Notre Dame would look but much bigger." It had yellowish-red eyes reflecting the firelight. He fired a .22 over its head, then started to gather up his tent, but something hit him on the back of the head, knocking him to his knees, so he jumped in his truck and drove off.