Incident #992940
Texarkana, Miller Cty, Arkansas
Sep 1997
Account
Informant's husband outside watering lawn felt something watching, looked around and saw movement in nearby woods. Walked over and saw 7-foot, dark brown creature with a black face and no whites in its eyes. They watched each other, then he went into house and got pistol. Came back anf found it sitting on the ground 30 feet from former position. Watched it from about 200 feet away until it could no longer be seen in the dark. Two weeks later a pig was taken from a pen with a 4-foot fence, dogs barking but would not follow. A month later informant's mother saw 'a large gorilla type creature' standing at the tree line watching a man fixing the house roof. In February, 1999 a wild pig was killed and carried off near her home in the middle of the night, with many screams and howls and dogs going nuts.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 17 1997
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1997
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- evening (light)
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Arkansas
- County
- Miller Cty
- Nearest Town
- Texarkana
- Latitude
- 3317
- Longitude
- 9400
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Erik Beckjord quoting Luke Gross quoting unnamed woman quoting her husband.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark brown
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- got downýstopped still
- Reaction
- watched
- Second Colour
- black
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- work outdoorsýat home
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Action on sighting
- studiedýdeparted slowlyýcame back