Incident #991874
Commerce, Hunt Cty, Texas
1969
Account
Kenneth Wilson was one of four people who drove to a dyke southwest of Commerce by the South Sulphur River. The other three walked down a road and were frightened by something They drove to a gas station where Jerry Matlock worked to borrow a pistol, and he went back with them. The creature "came flying over the levee tearing up everything...squalling and tearing out saplings and ripping up tall grass and heading towards the car." Matlock said it was 8 feet tall and more than a yard across the shoulders. They drove away, but the two of them went back the next day and found footprints as long as Matlock's arm from the elbow to the tip of his fingers.
When
- Year
- 1969
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Texas
- County
- Hunt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Commerce
- Latitude
- 3315
- Longitude
- 9555
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- shore
- Near or/at
- road
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 5
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- No. of Track Witnesses
- 2
Setting
- Terrain
- bottom land
- Nearby Water
- river
Source
- Source
- Commerce, TX, East Texan, Sep. 20, 1978, quoting Kenneth Wilson, Jerry Matlock and others
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Shoulders
- wide
- Torso Front
- wide
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- approachedýhandled something
- Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- peopleýtrees
- Arms Used
- for breakingýother
- Object Handled
- treeývegetable matter
- Sound
- howl
- Human Contact
- bluff
- Reaction
- ran at
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- big
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in carýoutside on foot
- Action on sighting
- fled