*WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES OF DEER KILL*
On January 9th, 2015 @ about 5:20-5:30 p.m. at Canyon Lake, Texas, my family and I were backing out of our drive way, and the weather was bad that day, kind of hazy, misty rain, and it was about 37 degrees. I had my high beams on because it was beginning to get dark outside. As I backed out of the driveway my lights caught the attention of a very big creature about 9 foot tall grayish blonde in color with a 4 to 4 1/2 ft across from shoulder to shoulder, standing in front of an oak tree, it turn towards me from about 40 yards away, and it stood with its arms down at it’s side, I asked my son to look and I looked away briefly, when I looked back it was gone. The following Friday my wife and step daughter, while walking along the shoreline of the lake, discovered a bloody and strange deer kill site (fresh kill), the deer’s neck was broken and twisted all he way around, lungs, heart, and liver were gone and the deer’s intestinal content was thrown about, the back half of the deer was eaten,the front shoulder was eaten,but not the other shoulder.
I called the BFRO and left a message, J.D. from San Antonio came out and took pictures of the scene, I asked him if I should roll the deer over because of the shoulder bone sticking out. After rolling over I pulled the hide back and there was a sharp edged stone underneath the hide with flesh and blood on the stone–I kept this stone–there was also a 10 feet dragging kill-blood streak across the rocks, then it abruptly stops, and the deer’s carcass seems to be thrown about 15 feet from that spot with no blood stains in between the two spots. Upon further investigating I discovered a 5 foot long stick about 1 1/4 in diameter-rigid, with a sharp end on it, and the end of it had deer hair and flesh on it, like it was used to either stab the deer or just to hold it down, then it broke the deers neck, the kill was made from the waters edge side not the woods side, meaning the thing that killed the deer was hiding in the water…I also discovered tracks some were 19 inches long but were not castable, not enough definition, also found some tracks that were 14 inches long, and some 11 inches long along the shoreline down from the kill site, all of them were not castable it had also been raining that whole week off and on. Upon even more research we discovered At least 5 other deer carcasses in the general area. Called area fish and game warden out and she walked the area and observed all of the evidence on Sunday January 18th..
The site where this first deer kill was found:
The deer kill:
Finding a deer carcass in the general area would not be uncommon. Deer are often hit by cars and dumped in wooded areas. As well, bow hunting occurs in the area and a deer hit with a poorly placed arrow can travel some distance. Upon inspection, the deer carcass appeared to have no sign of being shot with an arrow or firearm. There was massive trauma, with a large amount of flesh removed from the carcass, but no obvious signs it had been removed with a knife. Nor was there evidence of “road rash” or signs of the deer hitting or sliding on asphalt on the remaining skin. As well, there appeared no easy way for a person to transport the deer carcass to the area. There is no vehicle access. It would need to have been carried approximately one quarter mile from the road. It was also not placed in the nearby brush, as would be expected if one was dropping off the carcass to allow nature to dispose of it. It was lying about halfway between the water’s edge and the brush line. The shallowness of the water near shore would preclude someone from using a boat to deposit the carcass. The lake bottom didn’t appear to have any disturbance, which even a shallow draft boat would have left.
View from the kill site showing drag marks, and an area with no sign on the ground, with the deer in the background:
It appeared the kill site, or where the carcass was first deposited, was directly at the water’s edge. This is where the largest amount of blood was seen. The best guess is the kill was likely done the night before my arrival. Our weather was dry, yet at approximately 5 pm when I inspected the site, there were still large drops of blood which had not fully dried in the direct sunlight. The carcass was not rotting, with no foul smell present, and buzzards (turkey vultures) had not yet discovered the kill. There was what appeared to be a drag line, where blood was smeared on the rocks, leading away from the water diagonally. It went for approximately fifteen feet. The carcass itself, at the time of inspection, was approximately fifteen feet further in a straight line. There was no blood or sign indicating the carcass had been dragged this final distance. It appeared to have been dragged then carried, without touching the ground, the last fifteen feet. This placed it within approximately ten feet of the brush line. Between the carcass and the water were located the intestines and stomach. The intestines did not appear to have been dragged, but carried from the carcass and deposited in place. Seemingly absent from this pile were the heart, liver, and lungs. Closer to the water was an approximately ten foot line, running parallel to the water, where there were numerous small piles of stomach contents. At one end was the stomach, which appeared to have been ripped open. A large amount of stomach contents were still with the stomach. There was no obvious sign the stomach had been dragged, but seemed to have been carried.
Close up photo of the deer:
The carcass itself was of a young spike buck. It appeared to have had the skin on the rear half ripped and torn. The hind quarters had been stripped of flesh, as well as the front right quarter. The bones did not appear broken on these legs, but the legs were only attached to the body by strips of soft tissue. The body cavity was totally empty, even the windpipe having been removed at the throat. One shoulder appeared relatively intact, except the skin was torn. This was the front quarter facing the ground. When the witness flipped the carcass over, a small flat rock was seen under the torn skin of this shoulder. It was a limestone rock which appeared to be a chip from a larger stone, leaving a semi-sharp edge.
Here are photos of the rock found under the hide, the witness kept this rock:
The deer’s head was facing its back as it lay on the ground. When the witness moved the head, it became obvious the neck was broken. While the area does have steep, small hills, there did not appear to be any place near the carcass where a deer could break its neck and end up at the shoreline.
JOHN E
Number 1
JOHN E
THATS RIGHT THIS IS THE WAY THEY KILL AND TEAR AND EAT …I ONLY HOPE THEY NEVER FIND A KNIFE AND LEARN HOW TO USE IT …IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN …BUT REALLY THIS IS A NICE FIND…..BIG TIME FIND….THANKS FOR POSTING.
Seamus J. C
This is fascinating. Hats off to the witness and BFRO rep for their reasoning skills. Either it was BF did this, or else seeing the BF was a coincidence, and there’s a family of relict neanderthals living under cover in the area.
Steven B
Hmmmm – that’s only less than a couple of hundred miles north of me. This could mean that ole booger breath is moving south… rather disconcerting 😛
Christopher c
Awesome pics.!,I for one can say for sure they use rocks as tools since there are many reports of them throwing rocks at animals people etc., I for one believe they like to take the high position on cliffs overlooking narrow canyons so they can spy their prey and right at the moment of truth they drop huge boulders on unsuspecting prey breaking the cranium or spine etc. ultimately rendering the prey helpless as they they move in towards the kill,in the C. C. C. me and a fellow from work went on a coastal hike when all the sudden something large and powerful started to bulldoze the forest in our direction in what I would have to say was a definite bluff charge because it stopped just short of revealing itself,now in this particular area one could hear sea lions barking below they cliffs, we couldn’t see them due to extreme forest canopy but I always wondered if they drop bombs off coastal cliffs on unsuspecting sea lions,my buddy in Orleans Ca. (5 mi. from Bluff Creek)had an incident with his family one night going home up hwy.96 as they turned a corner in the road they spotted a basketball sized boulder in the road so they pulled aside to remove the boulder ,while doing this my buddy noticed right as he rolled the boulder off the 150′ cliff down towards the river out came the most ungodly scream roar! it was so loud his family in the car heard it even though the windows were up and the radio playing full blast!,meanwhile on my trip with my mother in 2008 to Crater Lake I found juvenile prints in an area completely off trail and clearly not an area suitable for going barefoot not to mention what kind of parent let’s their flat footed child go wandering off in the middle of the Nat. Forest with no shoes ,and let’s them stand alone literally 1 foot away from falling to ones death in a wild area with no trails and no guard rails,THIS AREA WAS A FEND FOR YOURSELF AREA!A COMMON SENSE REQUIRED AREA!NOT FOR KIDS PERIOD!,i always have to wonder if the creature that left those prints was hunting along the ridge and looking down in tight 150′ ravine for some kind of prey to drop boulders on?,seemed like a sensible explanation since the early loggers in the east called these creatures (Pelter’s) because if you got too close to one of these things it was already too late since they would pelt you with rocks and sticks and everything in the forest ,same with the (Sea’atics) of the northwest coast who were better known as stick shower Indians as they would shower a person to death with sticks and rocks if one got too close.
SHANNON D
Great post and pics!!! Fantastic!!
Jan W
Great post. So the BF was hiding in the water? Makes sense, as they are known to be prolific swimmers. Guess they hide underwater and wait for wildlife to come to the waters edge for a drink. The sharp rock and stick are really fascinating. Good detective work! Be careful!
Robert P
Steve there was a recent episode that was even closer
Steven B
@Robert P – all right – now I’ll have to carry the 44 mag in my pocket around home and not the 32 ACP 😉
Tracy A
A close exam by an expert in stone tool making could tell if it were made by several strikes or just a chip , same for stick. If more than 1 strike on either…holy s**t!!
Knobby
They evidently breed them smart down in Texas. Here’s a book review of “Sasquatch Tool Use,” by David Claerr who discovered a flint core that sasquatches have been chipping off of to make stone cutting tools and hand axes, and he found markings on bones that matched up to those tools. The hand axe was used to help split open bones to reach the marrow.
Claerr’s findings were also in Texas like the more recent stone cutting tool found in the deer hide. It’s likely a learned stone tool making behavior used in that region.
Here is the book reivew:
http://sasquatchresearchers.org/blogs/bigfootjunction/2015/02/11/book-review-of-sasquatch-tool-use/
Here’s an image of a stone cutting tool after it was recently pulled out from inside the hide of a deer kill.
Knobby
http://sasquatchchron.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/pic6.jpg
Many things about this kill reflects a bigfoot kill, broken neck, specific inner organs removed, especially the liver, the hind quarters eaten, etc. What is unusual is the sharpened stick it may have been stabbed with. It might have brought it down with a long sharpened stick and then broke it’s neck. The other unusual factor is the cutting tool found left inside the hide.
But as I noted in the book review above stone cutting tools have been found elsewhere in Texas; so, the ones down there sound more like cavemen.
Leah G
Stellar find with a well-organized presentation of pertinent details and logical conclusions. Great images. Thank you!
Steven B
“… the ones down there sound more like cavemen.” I resemble that remark! 😉
Steven B
@Robert – they may not need to hide totally under water, they could crouch so that their head is exposed enough to breath. With their coloration it would just look like a deadhead log, stump, or rock sticking out of the water to the deer. This would allow them to move very quickly out of the water to tackle the deer on the shoreline. Just a thought.
Charles K
Did it occur to you that since the stone cutting tool was still in the hide, you interupted “leftovers” and the Squatch was watching you from cover? Lol
Papa - Yeti
As far as tools and weapons go, one encounter reported the creature witnessed carrying a primitive huge round stone war club. Another encounter in the Sasquatch episode encounter archives the UBE (unidentified Biological Entity, was witnessed very up close as it was using a long wooden spear like tool (no stone spear head) as it was very busy digging out the insides of a pit it was excavating that was surrounded by dear fall trees it had dragged though a muddy meadow up the mountain side as they were gathered and all came to an open topped pointed structure as it worked digging away. This occurred in the Oregon Volcanic cascade range.
m99
Hello Papa Yeti!
Paul M
Wow them squatch are indeed not in preschrooll mode anymore. .. they in a smartthinker / greathunter / fantasticgather / totalyawsomekiller/ Mode. It’s a dam good thing they don’t stalk/hunt humans.. they would be 100% in the NEVER CAUGHT BOOK… can we say 411.. Just sayin.
Paul M
Wow them squatch are indeed not in preschooll mode anymore. .. they in a smartthinker / greathunter / fantasticgather / totalyawsomekiller/ Mode. It’s a dam good thing they don’t stalk/hunt humans.. they would be 100% in the NEVER CAUGHT BOOK… can we say 411.. Just sayin.
Papa - Yeti
They are nothing human they are:
Cebidatelidae arktos
Cebidatelidae nerteros pacificus
Cebidatelidae somphos
Cebidatelidae americanus
Cebidatelidae texicanus
Cebidatelidae amazonia
SANDRA E
Good encounter and great pictures!!
Stephanie G
Papa Yeti, I love your scientific identifications of the various species. Seriously, I do. And thanks to the poster for great pictures. Great narrative, too. All-around fascinating.
m99
Yep, these creatures are smart, skilled, deadly, stealthy, frightening …