- Class 1a
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1a A sasquatch/bigfoot specimen has been collected (alive or dead).
- Class 1b
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1b A report investigation results in a sasquatch observation or the documentation of clear tracks or other forms of physical evidence by an investigator.
- Class 1c
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1c An investigator determines that a visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot by a very reliable observer is a distinct possibility, tangible corroborating evidence is documented, and all other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 1d
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1d A visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot is a distinct possibility involving two or more reliable observers, and all other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 2
- Class 2, Competency: Reports involving sightings by professionally trained or highly skilled observers.2 Investigator determines that a visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot is a distinct possibility, the observer is exceptionally trustworthy, professionally trained, and experienced in the outdoors and/or is accustomed to looking for and recording details (e.g., biologist, anthropologist/archaeologist, ranger, trapper/tracker/seasoned hunter, bird watcher, game warden, naturalist, law enforcement), and other explanations can be reasonably excluded.
- Class 3a
- Class 3, Credibility: Sightings or possible wood ape evidence reported by credible witnesses.3a Investigator determines that a visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot is a distinct possibility, the observer is credible, and all other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 3b
- Class 3, Credibility: Sightings or possible wood ape evidence reported by credible witnesses.3b Unidentifiable vocalizations were reported and there is accompanying tangible evidence to possibly indicate the presence of a sasquatch/bigfoot, the observer is very reliable, and other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 3c
- Class 3, Credibility: Sightings or possible wood ape evidence reported by credible witnesses.3c No visual encounter occurred, but physical evidence was found to indicate the presence of a sasquatch/bigfoot (tracks, hair, scat, etc.), the observer is very reliable, and other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
Case: 01050013
Class 3aTeen has sighting through bedroom window.
Report Details
Occurrence date: March/2005
Location: Polk County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: Livingston
Time / Conditions: midnight — It was just after midnight, the weather was cool, skies were clear. The area that I live would be considered a pine forest, considering that all around the area I live is or has been clear cut in all directions except for southside for it is part of The Big Thicket National Preserve.
# of Witnesses: 3
Location: Polk County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: Livingston
Time / Conditions: midnight — It was just after midnight, the weather was cool, skies were clear. The area that I live would be considered a pine forest, considering that all around the area I live is or has been clear cut in all directions except for southside for it is part of The Big Thicket National Preserve.
# of Witnesses: 3
Witness Account:
This is what happened as told to me by my sister-in-law who lives with my wife and family. On this night she had my baby daughter in the room with her on the bed and she was getting up to close the blinds to the window that she said, "she could see the stars up in the sky that she had noticed earlier that night", as she got up off the bed, she turned to make sure her niece wasn't going to fall from being close to the edge, when she turned back towards the window she noticed something looking in from the outside, it scared her so much that she grabbed her niece and ran out of the room to tell her mother who was in one of the other rooms of the house. Her mother then called my place of work to have me come back to house to take a look around, as I first arrived, I noticed that there was some kind of bad odor in the area but as i keep looking around along with my coworker, who gave me ride back to my house, and my mother-in-law, on the east side of the house where there is no lights, we all heard something stepping on twigs or branches laying on the ground for the snapping and breaking noise that it makes, as I attempted to walk towards the noise, whatever was there seemed to move farther back into the woods out of reach of my flashlight, after looking around we went to ask my sister-in-law if she could say who or what she had seen in the window, all she could say was that it was "big, black, hairy" and something about its eyes, she is really talkative all of the time but after that happened she looked liked she was in shock her face was pale and her eyes seemed to liked she was lost.
Right after this happened she told her mother who was in the hallway from her room, who then called for me to be enroute back to the house, for I had just started my shift at work and in about four to six minutes, my coworker and myself arrived at the house to find my mother-in-law on the front porch waiting for us, as we got out of the vehicle to take a look around towards the back of the house, all three of us heard some noise in the woods on the east side of the house just out of reach of our flashlights, the noise we heard sounded as if whatever was there was moving away farther into the woods, it was like someone stepping on branches and you could hear the popping or snapping noise it makes.
Additional observations:
She was cleaning her room, while watching her baby niece, who was on the bed, and as she was about to close the blinds to the window, she stated that she had turned to see where her niece was, then turned back towards the window, which she said she had been looking out of earlier in the night looking at the stars, when she noticed that someone or something was standing by the window looking inside at her, after asking her if she could describe who or what it may have looked liked all she could say was "big, black, hairy" and that the eyes really scared her.
Investigator's Observations
Investigator(s): Daryl Colyer
This investigation was conducted as a result of an incident that allegedly occurred in Polk County, Texas, in March 2005.
Robert Fletcher (teacher, biologist and investigation volunteer) and I visited the site of the alleged encounter and spoke at length with the witness and others who were involved in the incident. The site is at the edge of the Big Thicket National Preserve. The vegetation is dense, and in many areas nearly impenetrable.
During the face-to-face interview, the primary witness gave a compelling report of how she viewed a large, hairy ape-like creature as it was peering through the bedroom window.
The witness showed us where the subject was positioned and described exactly how it was apparently standing when she saw it. The witness described the subject as standing to the side of the window in what must have been a bent stance; its left shoulder was visible and it had the appearance of being somewhat stooped. The witness saw hair on the shoulder and all over the head. One small human-like ear was visible on the subject's left side; the ear was partly covered with hair. The witness stated that the nose was wide and flat. Hair covered the face except around the mouth and eyes. The skin was black. The eyes were said to be very large and dark - and the witness remarked that the eyes scared her; she saw no white around the eyes. The closest thing that the witness could compare the subject to was a gorilla.
Upon comparing my own height of five feet eleven inches in a stooped position while viewing from the side of the window in the same manner as the subject as described by the witness, it became apparent that the subject must have been one foot taller than me; Fletcher and I surmised that the subject was no less than roughly seven feet in height.
The witness stated that the subject appeared to quickly recede into the darkness toward the thicket surrounding the house.
When the submitter of the report arrived (reservation security), he and his partner attempted to venture into the thicket to determine the source of the sounds of footfalls they were hearing. As they approached, the footfalls retreated deeper into the thicket. He and his partner would stop, the footfalls would stop; they attempted again to proceed after the unseen trespasser and once again it proceeded to flee deeper into the dense undergrowth.
The men did find a single track in the sand and found a section of the fence behind the house bent over.
The witnesses have since burned a significant amount of the thicket surrounding the house in an attempt to make the immediately adjacent areas more conducive to visibility. The redounding ashes seemed to make the area quite good for footprints, should the witnesses be revisited.
The Alabama-Coushatta word for the animal is "eeyachuba."
This investigation was conducted as a result of an incident that allegedly occurred in Polk County, Texas, in March 2005.
Robert Fletcher (teacher, biologist and investigation volunteer) and I visited the site of the alleged encounter and spoke at length with the witness and others who were involved in the incident. The site is at the edge of the Big Thicket National Preserve. The vegetation is dense, and in many areas nearly impenetrable.
During the face-to-face interview, the primary witness gave a compelling report of how she viewed a large, hairy ape-like creature as it was peering through the bedroom window.
The witness showed us where the subject was positioned and described exactly how it was apparently standing when she saw it. The witness described the subject as standing to the side of the window in what must have been a bent stance; its left shoulder was visible and it had the appearance of being somewhat stooped. The witness saw hair on the shoulder and all over the head. One small human-like ear was visible on the subject's left side; the ear was partly covered with hair. The witness stated that the nose was wide and flat. Hair covered the face except around the mouth and eyes. The skin was black. The eyes were said to be very large and dark - and the witness remarked that the eyes scared her; she saw no white around the eyes. The closest thing that the witness could compare the subject to was a gorilla.
Upon comparing my own height of five feet eleven inches in a stooped position while viewing from the side of the window in the same manner as the subject as described by the witness, it became apparent that the subject must have been one foot taller than me; Fletcher and I surmised that the subject was no less than roughly seven feet in height.
The witness stated that the subject appeared to quickly recede into the darkness toward the thicket surrounding the house.
When the submitter of the report arrived (reservation security), he and his partner attempted to venture into the thicket to determine the source of the sounds of footfalls they were hearing. As they approached, the footfalls retreated deeper into the thicket. He and his partner would stop, the footfalls would stop; they attempted again to proceed after the unseen trespasser and once again it proceeded to flee deeper into the dense undergrowth.
The men did find a single track in the sand and found a section of the fence behind the house bent over.
The witnesses have since burned a significant amount of the thicket surrounding the house in an attempt to make the immediately adjacent areas more conducive to visibility. The redounding ashes seemed to make the area quite good for footprints, should the witnesses be revisited.
The Alabama-Coushatta word for the animal is "eeyachuba."
