Witness Observation
On April the 17th 2004 I was turkey hunting in the Ouachita National Forest about four miles West from Big Cedar, Oklahoma with my girlfriend and my brother. I had crossed the creek that ran alongside an old log road that headed up the mountain to the west, when I decided to hunt the creek bottom that afternoon. As I set up my turkey blind and got settled in to do some hunting, I blew one of my locater calls. It was a screaming hawk. After sitting there for about 15 minutes, I turned my head and noticed a burnt looking tree about 50 yards to my left. I raised my shotgun and looked at it with my scope when I realized what I was seeing was not a tree but a large creature like I have never seen before. It stood about eight feet tall, had charcoal dark color hair covering its entire body. It was about three inches long and coarse in appearance. It was watching me as well as I was watching it. Its eyes were reddish-brown in color. it had long arms and walked up right never taking its eyes off me, and I never took my eyes off of it. I have never been scared of anything in the woods but this thing was massive in size and I can say this thing scared me, and I have not been back in the woods before daylight since.
Sounds
Not at the time I saw this thing.
Additional Observations
It was a very large creature around 8 feet tall, walked upright and had a musky odor with hair covering most of its body that I could tell. It had very large arms and legs and its biceps were longer than a man’s. There have been a few folks that have said they’ve heard strange screams sometime at night.
A week after, my nephew and I were sitting on the tailgate of my truck in front of my sister’s, when we both heard loud screams of some large creature coming from the mountain in front of my sister’s place not far from where I had been hunting. This was something like I have never heard before. The cows were so scared they ran in panic and got up under an RV light.
My nephew said he and his brother looked the next day and found a bunch of grass that looked as if some large man had walked around and found something that looked like footprints.
Time and Conditions
4:00 pm – Partly cloudy, rain was forecast.
