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Jul 13

Seven-foot hairy monster attacks youths near Abilene?

Three teenage boys reported having rocks thrown at them by an ape-like creature. The creature was described as having huge arms that hung to it’s knees and extremely tall.

Locals weren’t sure what to make of the boys’ story, but noted that something was to blame for twenty one goats that had gone missing from the area.

Big Spring Herald
“The crossroads of West Texas”
Big Springs, Texas (79720) Thursday, July 7, 1977

Seven-foot hairy monster attacks youths near Abilene?

ABILENE, Tex. (AP) – Neighbors, some with tongue in cheek, listened today to stories about he so-called “Hawley Him” – described as a hairy, 7-foot tall monster – roaming the countryside.

Three teenagers told of dodging rocks hurled at them Wednesday by the ape-like creature on a ranch outside Hawley, a community 5 miles north of Abilene in West Central Texas.

“Whatever it was, he looked like kind of an ape but was still a man,” said Larry Suggs, 15. “He had huge arms – they hung to his knees.
“You’d have to see him to believe it.”

One of the rocks hit Suggs’ right leg, he said, and other narrowly missed his companions, tom Roberts, 14, and Renee McFarland, 15.

Yound Suggs and Roberts, who live at Abilene Boys Ranch ran to the McFarland home after first sighting the creature. She returned with them packing a deer rifle and handed it to Suggs after the monster reappeared.

“She handed the gun to me and said, “You shoot it,”Suggs related.

He fired from a distance of about 40 yards and apparently missed, he said, adding that the weapon’s recoil knocked him off his feet.

The teenagers said the “Him” – their name for the beast – went crashing away through almost impenetrable brush. They led others to a spot where foot long prints marked the passage of something.

Bob Scott, manager of Abilene Ranch, owns the place where Suggs and Roberts were working when they said the creature appeared.

Scott said some sort of animal apparently is to blame for the disappearance of 21 goats off his land in recent days. Several carcasses were found later in the brush, he said.

Sheriff’s officers expressed a belief that coyotes killed some of the goats but had no explanation for the complete disappearance of the others.

 

 

Credit:

http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/

Steven J.

9 Responses to “Seven-foot hairy monster attacks youths near Abilene?”

  1. Steven J

    There are a few more sightings in this immediate area that I am tracking down. Ep. 229 happened only about 90 miles from this location, and I am also aware of at least one other report that occurred in 2010. I sent this to Wes simply to demonstrate a history in the area that I had no idea existed.

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