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about 1905
Dollar, Carroll Cty, Tennessee
Ida Jones and her brother and sister walking home from a party saw a thing that looked like a man but was covered with dark hair sitting out in a field beside the road. The moon reflected from its eyes.…
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Dec 1994
Covington, Tipton Ct, Tennessee
Jim McCalla and three friends coon hunting, waiting for action on the bank of the Hatchie River, heard a noise and saw in bright moonlight the outline of a monster at the edge of a field. It ran across faster…
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1979
Springfield, Robertson Cty, Tennessee
Building a dam in a creek in a wooded valley behind tobacco barn, confidential and brother heard a stick break and started to leave. Confidential crossed fence and turning back to get BB gun came eye to eye with huge…
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1989
Palmyra, Montgomery Cty, Tennessee
Driving home near midnight, 16-year-old saw what he thought was a large deer (presumably on the road) 100 yards ahead, but it stood up and ran off into the woods on two legs. There was roadkill on the road, and…
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May 1992
Halls, Lauderdale Cty, Tennessee
Riding in car towards the MississippiRiver in Hailspoint Bottoms on Hwy 88, saw 7 ft. creature, est. 245 lb., beside road. Lightly covered with dark brown long hair, eyes reddish tinted as it looked at them. Features cross between ape…
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1875
Austin, Travis Cty, Texas
Wild boy seen wallowing in a shallow pond, ran a mile before men on horses lassooed him, then fought until overpowered and tied. Covered with hair about 4 inches long, about the size of a 12-year-old. Can't talk. Follows captor…
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mid 1940's
Pittsburg, Camp Cty, Texas
E.O. (Tex) McNeil, coon hunting with father and two uncles in the Big Cypress River bottoms between Cason and Pittsburg, heard strange scream that frightened hounds. Could find no evidence. Next week the same thing happened and they found tracks.…
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1957
Bourne, Kendall Cty, Texas
A. J. Kocurek Jr. wrote that at a private lake 35 miles north of San Antonio he had watched across the lake an eighth of a mile away a creature 8 or 9 feet tall, covered with longish grey to…
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Mar 1973
Benbrook, Tarrant Cty, Texas
Mark Fricke was listening to the radio, sitting at the shore of Lake Benbrook, when he heard a loud growl behind him, got back in his car and aimed the headlights in the direction of the sound, and saw about…
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Aug 1964
Ranger, Stephens Cty, Texas
Leroy Yarbrough and Jerry Oakes took fuzzy stills and movies of a hairy black figure walking on two legs. Pictures did not establish that it was not a person in a costume.
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about 1964
Caddo, Stephens Cty, Texas
Charlie Gantt said he fired 10 shots at a creature 7 feet tall, 4 feet wide, covered with hair. The name "Caddo Critter" was already established, so there were obviously other reports.
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early 1960's
Bells, Grayson Cty, Texas
Travelling salesman saw apelike creature bound across the road in the beam of his headlights.
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about 1965
Longview, Harrison Cty, Texas
Nick E. Campbell was told by David Lawson and Royal Jacobs about a giant hairy creature reported roaming the thickets and back country northeast of Longview, Texas about 1965. A man and his daughter said it was large, black and…
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1960's
Austin, Travis Cty, Texas
Perry and some friends parked in an area where people were reported to be harassed at night, heard a moaning sound, then saw two large hairy creatures, one that came from behind their car and one that came from the…
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1969
Commerce, Hunt Cty, Texas
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…
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Jul 1969
Lake Worth, Tarrant Cty, Texas
Fort Worth police were told by John Reichart and the others that a half-man, half-goat covered with fur and scales jumped out of a tree onto their car while they were parked at Lake Worth near Greer Island. There was…
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Jul 1969
Lake Worth, Tarrant Cty, Texas
Jack E. Harris was one of may people who went monster hunting on Greer Island in Lake Worth after the newspaper report of the creature jumping on a car. He and his friends heard it squalling, saw it cross the…
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1969
Lake Worth, Tarrant Cty, Texas
Mike Kinson, the a teenager, started looking for the creature after his brother-in-law saw it in 1966. Eventually saw it twice. The first time it was running in the bush and he did not see it well. The second time…
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1969
Lake Worth, Tarrant Cty, Texas
Sallie Ann Clark, with Garry ? and Allan Plaster, saw creature squatting by a bush at the edge of the gravel pit about 15 feet away. They got in their car and honked their horn and it left, walking through…
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Nov 1969
Fort Worth, Tarrant Cty, Texas
Charles Buchanan was sleeping in the back of his pickup across from Greer Island while he had fishing lines out in Lake Worth. About 2 a.m. he was picked up, sleeping bag and all, and then dropped by a huge,…
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Apr 1970
Reno, Lamar Cty, Texas
Bob Allison kept watch to see why livestock were acting up night after night. One night he saw a 7-foot creature that fled. Next week it was back and he fired at it twice with a shotgun from 30 feet.…
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1972
Paris, Lamar Cty, Texas
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…
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Sep 1973
Commerce, Hopkins Cty, Texas
Dave Lewis wrote that a creature similar to the Fouke Monster had been sighted twice in the South Sulphur River bottoms near Peerless, TX, and that one of the witnesses supposedly had photos of its tracks.
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1774
Terrel, Kaufman Cty, Texas
Unnamed fireman was riding near Hwy 429 between Terrel and Lake Tawakoni looking for lost cattle, in very heavy rain, horse spooked by something coming out of a nearby gulley, moved very fast into trees, but only 30 feet away.…
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Aug 1976
San Antonio, Bexar Cty, Texas
Ed Olivarri said that he went outside early in the morning to see why his dog was barking and was looking towards a wooded area along Quintana Road when a train whistle sounded on the Missouri-Pacific tracks and an animal…