Incident #992759
Mountain Springs, Cook Cty, Texas
May 1990
Account
Mike Golden, Kyle, Russ and Daryl camping on the north side of Lake Ray Roberts. Mike and Russ decided to go fishing, but turned back because they felt like they were being watched. The feelling increased as they headed back, eventually they ran. Then they heard a loud screeching roar, shone a sotlight and saw something plow through the trees. They left, but came back the next night with a shotgun, heard the roar far away and then within a few feet, and saw the creature running from them in the spotlight. It stopped as if it was looking at them and Russ shot at it with the shot gun, apparently hitting it in the chest. It roared again and pushed a cottonwood tree over. They left. The tree was later found to be living, and 8 inches in diameter.
When
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1990
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Texas
- County
- Cook Cty
- Nearest Town
- Mountain Springs
- Latitude
- 3329
- Longitude
- 9703
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- camp
- Shot Hit
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- several
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
- Nearby Water
- lake
Weather and light
- Lighting
- spotlight
Source
- Source
- BFRO Curators from Mike Golden <[email protected]>
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- stopped stillýwatched observer
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Aggressive To
- tree
- Object Handled
- tree
- Sound
- scream
- Human Contact
- followed
- Reaction
- approachedýfled from
- Additional Movement
- made a noise
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- campingýfishing, shore
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- shot