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A listener writes “This event I am telling is the first time in 40 years I have told this story publicly. I will give you my background. I grew up with 3 brothers and my Mom and Dad that hunted deer with Bow and Guns since I was 8 years old.

The reason I never repeated my story is that I spent over thirty years in Law Enforcement. I was afraid that I would lose any credibility if I repeated it. I am now 60 years old and retired.

It began on a evening still hunt on 1500 acre track of heavy hills and wooded area that my Family owned where we grew up… I was dropped off by that day by my Dad and Mom in his jeep at around 115pm on a Warm clearNovember Day. I was going to deer hunt til dark as I had done over thousands of times before. I was 17 years of age and walked about half mile to a steep bluff and climbed my tree stand to start my hunt. I Had scouted earlier and found heavy deer trials in this bottom area where deer were feeding on acorns After about 2 hrs I heard loud movement about 75 yards to my east at the top of the next bluff across from me eye level,that was heavy and thick thick with trees and briars but also had alot of what we called Japenese Bamboo trees that get about 8 inches in diameter an really tall some over twenty feet. I kept hearing this loud noise coming closer like grunting that was reaching end of the top of the bluff where bamboo thicket ended directly across bottom from me.

What I thought was ,it was some ferral hogs or maybe several deer making their way through vegitation.

Now a back story having grown up in that area I was not scared of anything in the woods there. Having camped there by myself and scouted them woods all of my life. I have walked up on huge Rattlesnakes hunting an other poison snakes because that year Louisiana had a warm deer season, which is not unusual for us .So im not afraid of the woods at least then.

So I positioned myself in my tree stand which was about 15 ft off ground and I stood up to get a clear look at what was coming. After a few mins. I Saw a very huge dark figure moving bamboo over. I then clear some more small branches from my field of view. I now had a very clear view of what was fixing to exit the heavy tall bamboo thicket. Now i loaded my rifle and waited but still could just see movement and shadows The time was 340pm and sun was setting at my back so what was coming would be facing sun. It was a clear warm evening. I began to get excited because I have seen on a few occassion black bears while hunting. That is what i began thinking what it was because is was much larger than a hog. I wanted to watch it when it cleared bamboo so I could brag to my older brother.

Now im trying to give you what it look like what I was watching. I was in a huge whiteoak on a high rigdge with a huge bottom around 80 feet below with deer trails from traveling through bottoms of hills. Looking straight east, im eye level with ridge that is thickly tree’d but with these strange Large japenese bamboo thicket I have no idea how it got there but Dad said it sas there when he was a boy and has been growing wild for as long as I can rember. This bamboo is much to big to use as cane poles to fish with. It is over 7 to 8 inch diameter sometimes bigger very green an grows thick at over 20 feet tall.

Well what happen next changed my life. I noticed a large dark brownish mostly black muscular creature walking on two feet. It was standing on edge of bluff overlooking same bluff directly no more than 60 yards from me. It had alot of gray on its matted head. It had to be old. It was at least 10 feet tall with a huge wide shoulders but weird thing not much hair was on chest it was like black dirty skin it was holding a huge bamboo about 8 foot long it had broken off and was chewing end of it like we do sugar cane. It was holding it with a huge black hand easliy wrapping 8 inch diameter bamboo with hand wrapping it. The other hand was like it was rubbing his butt like removing briars. It was looking around and I then started freaking out Not scared then but how mean its face looked.

It had not a monkey face but like a scary ass mean black caveman.It had a thick forehead. I thought of shooting it then Our Dad said always identify what you are shooting I didnt want to kill someone if they were in a suit even though I knew damn well it was no way a suit or a human.. I raised my rifle and at that time he wooped and froze and was staring directly at me. I kept watching as he was watching me and we both didnt move. I could see his nose like a human but wider trying to scent me. The sun was cutting his vision of me but I had a very clear look at it. When I put my gun down that was a mistake. That is when he saw me.

He then threw a 8 foot piece of bamboo at me but it landed way short of me but still made it across the bottom.and started slowly walking down steep cliiff. The feet looked human, i noticed how easy and quiet it was trying to hunt me. I noticed he was watching me then all of a sudden fast as lightning jumped from bluff at least twenty feet to a huge tree landing in the middle of trunk and didnt move nothing or make a noiseand landed to a tree closer to me, but hid behind tree very well then like inched til his one black eye could see me.

I decided it was trying to manuever through trees to try and flank me I then started shaking and dropped my rifle and set a would record leaving tree stand i was so scared how smart it was watching and using trees as cover never going to ground but quickly tree to tree never making a sound. It would use its landing on bigger trees never to high as to make their branches move. But thick part of trees always using tree between us even though I coud see his wide shoulders he was a statute. I then I knew it would be dark soon so took off running never going closer to him to get my rifle. That is when it hollered like a growl but loud as hell ,I dont know what would have happened had I stayed but I was 17 year old kid.

So I took off running but I was shaking and watching behind me but shadows were starting and I didnt see it coming. I knew i had at least 2 miles to go to find where my Dad and other brother were hunting but I was freaked out. Luckly for me my Dad and brother had shot a deer and were heading back tp get me to help, so I only had to run maybe a mile when I heard jeep coming. Well that was longest wait. My Dad and Mom both said when they first saw me , I was running and pale he an my older brother an my mom knew something was wrong. They said i was shaking and not making any sense saying I was being hunted and I was white as a ghost. I dont rember that but they thought a trespesser was hunting me so they decided they would take me back to my stand while it still had may 15 mins daylight left to get my rifle and see what it was I saw. We got to stand my older brother retrieved my rifle. They had me point out where person was that was hunting me came from. I showed them.

It took them until it was dark to climb embankment creature had no problem with. Noone lives nesr my Dads property u couldnt build in them hills, closest people would be state prison that uses the tunica hills to keep inmates from escaping its so tuff landscape. Well state prison is at least 25 miles away so nothing. My Dad kept telling my Brother while they searched it had to be a another hunter I then told my mom at jeep story it took that long dont know why we then heard my Dad and brother hollering and all of sudden top of huge trees were bending and making loud noises from no doubt the creature, i think the same one i saw ,traveling through treetops above them. It was too dark to for them to see but even my Dad was spooked and he never spooked. The trees bent til it was out of sight way up high in huge trees. It was gone so fast never leaving treeline.to come to the ground. My Uncles all drove up and woth flashlights My Dad found bamboo that was ripped up and was chewed on by the thing. It smelled like a skunk when u see one that has been hit on a dirt road. Everyone said they had no clue what we spooked. It bent trees leaving. My Dad turned over chewed bamboo to LSU Vet school because it had spit all over it for them to test. We never heard back and the guy that took it told us It was a chimpanzee without even testing it.but this was before DNA But I always wandered if it was labeled a preserved but never asked because of my profession the guy said it must have escaped from zoo or something. My Dad told him it must have been a king kong as loud as it growl and my god shook full grown trees. Dont know what is was but something is out there. Im shocked one hasnt been killed or captured. Must be very smart. This one was.

Well thats my story, I have not hunted that land since that day. I swear to you what I have written is the truth. I dont know what I saw but it was half as tall as 20 foot bamboo, very mean face and had a wide nose because when he or it was looking for me but blinded by sun kept smelling towards me so Pass my info on if it will help.”