Incident #991881
Paris, Lamar Cty, Texas
1972
Account
Making butane delivery in late evening a few miles from Paris, stopped on dirt road, then smelled foul odour and saw hairy creature approaching truck. It was as tall as the truck. They drove off, but saw it again as they drove back, running in a field and disappearing in some trees.
When
- Year
- 1972
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Texas
- County
- Lamar Cty
- Nearest Town
- Paris
- Latitude
- 3339
- Longitude
- 9532
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- field
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
Source
- Source
- Throneberrys' Bigfoot Bulletin, Jan. 1978, quoting Kenneth Thurman, Paris, TX.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- maintained distanceýentered woods
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Odour
- strong
- Reaction
- approached
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truckýoutside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Action on sighting
- fledýkept going