Comments on: Southeast Texas Police Officer Sees Bigfoot

By: DWA

DWA — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:18:44 +0000

It probably would be good to add here:

1. The officer was off duty. If you aren’t showing the trappings of authority it is much harder to flag someone down without blocking the road in front of him.

2. Even with a gun, this guy was, not to put too fine a point on it, scared. Cops are human; and there was no compelling job-related reason for him to go back there. You don’t think a cop, with a gun, admitting to fear was some kind of scared?

3. Again, this encounter happened fast. You don’t always put everything together in the time you have to do so, particularly when you’re still processing the unreality (to you) of what you saw.

By: lenny

lenny — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:55:14 +0000

The officer had every right to pull over the trucker because he braked and was swerving. BUT!.

The officer was probably to in disbelief to react properly at the moment and tried to analyze in his mind what just happened. one of those thoughts did not fall into the category of pulling the trucker over.

Cops react to out of the ordinary observances so his mind was ocuppied with the sighting first and the truck braking and swerving second.

The mind sometimes goes blank when confronted with the unknown.

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:07:45 +0000

It goes to show you even Law officers are seeing this thing.

By: DWA

DWA — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:03:28 +0000

Well, Cabochris, it might be easy from an armchair to say what the obvious thing would be to do.

I bet you my bottom dollar I would have made no effort to do any kind of anything to the truck; I would have been too thunderstruck to even consider it. (The tag number? Hah!) This happened FAST.

I’m furthermore a POLICE OFFICER. How likely am I to stop a truck to ask “did you see the Bigfoot I just saw?” I have, er, ah, a JOB to consider here, a job that requires one not to be on any kind of Dangerous Drugs. So I’m gonna tell a truck driver — after pulling him over — that I just saw Elvis’s buddy? How do I know he won’t clam up and say I’M the nutty one? “Yes, Your Honor, that’s him. He asked me whether I saw a Bigfoot. Was a deer ‘f ya ask me….”

He submitted this account to TBRC anonymously, to protect himself and his livelihood, which is precisely why sites like TBRC allow anonymity.

Shame, that we have to allow this for something the National Park Service, ferpetesake, should be clamoring for people to substantiate. But such is the reality we live in.

Oh, this report is legit as any, no worries about that.

And count on the truck driver never to say a thing. Unless of course he surfs the web and just happens across something. Which is why so many decades-old sightings are only coming out of the woodwork now.

By: cabochris

cabochris — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:50:35 +0000

The problem with this story is it sounds very believable. I can just picture this in my mind. But where is the proof that this is even a real story? How about the name of the officer? Or a police report? If I had just seen a Bigfoot on the highway, I would have made every effort to pull the truck over, or at least get the tag number to confirm what I had just seen! After all, the trucker must have had a perfect view? For now this tale is just wishful thinking.

By: EastexQueenB

EastexQueenB — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:26:00 +0000

I live about 40 minutes away from where the officer allegedly made his sighting, and after spending all my life in this area, I can tell you that I believe he saw what he saw. The area is part of the Trinity River bottoms, is thick and dense, pitch black at night, and can hide just about anything. It’s not unheard of of someone getting lost out there. That particular stretch of river bottom, stretching northwards up several miles past where I used to live until I was in my teens, has been one of the most active areas in terms of sightings for years. (I’ve heard what I believe to have been vocalizations, but have never actually seen anything.) There are other records on TBRC’s website regarding other sightings on this very same stretch of road. It basically forms sort of a long loop off the main Hwy 321 that roughly follows this section of Trinity River. A lot of people live down there, but it’s still very much the deep, dark woods.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:28:07 +0000

I am not suprised that it would run out in front of the truck. Did this happen in the evening, or during the day? Sometimes animals at night will become startled by an oncoming vehicle and rather foolishly dart off across the road. I am sure most posters here have had the experience of a deer, fox, raccoon, even a housecat dashing out in front of their car as they drove along a lonely stretch. Why not Bigfoot? It has already been mentioned in an earlier article that they often haunt roadsides looking for roadkill. I myself almost got killed once when I swerved to avoid a deer and put my car in a ditch. I have read lots of reports of a Bigfoot running out in front of cars. This aspect of this story is not entirely far fetched.

By: Ole Bub

Ole Bub — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:31:34 +0000

Thanks Craig….

Who ya gonna call when you got that 800 pounder wedged in your Kenworth intercooler? The cab height on most tractors is well over 10 feet…JMHO

seeing is believing…

ole bub and the dawgs

By: mitchigan

mitchigan — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:27:28 +0000

The officer should have pulled the 18 wheeler over and questioned the trucker about what he saw, a corroboration of the officers sighting in other words.

By: chrisandclauida2

chrisandclauida2 — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:38:47 +0000

if only the driver had been a little more tired and a tad bit less alert.