It was Fishing for Carp! | Lake Wright Patman, Texas

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0:43 Welcome to big for Society. If you have Bigfoot activity to report from the same areas discussed in this episode, please reach out to me directly after this episode, and if you'd like to be on the podcast to discuss a personal Bigfoot encounter, please reach out to me directly at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. Do you wish there was more big for Society to listen to you every week? Well there is now. If you become a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special members only episode every single week on Wednesdays, and sometimes even more episodes head on over to Patreon dot com. Ford Slash the Big for Society and now let's get on with the show I Big for Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Chris today. He's a listener that reached out with some very interesting things that happened to him down in Texas. But it's a pleasure to have you on the show today. Chris, how's it going.

1:36 Good. We were talking a little bit about your encounter beforehand. It's going to be a very interesting one and it's in a real interesting area. But Chris, I'm going to say go ahead and take us where we need to what we need to know about this area and what happened to you that day. Grew up on a farm on the backside of what a lot of people call Lake Rod Patman. I'll probably refer to it as Lake Texakna because that's what most of. The locals call it. But if you look I'm on a map, it's Lake. Right Patman, Northeast Texas, outside of Texas, Cana. I was out checking the cows and we had a bull out and he was out on the back side of our place. Well, we had an eight acre pond and the bull was out fighting with the neighbor's.

2:25 Bull in the back. So I ran to the house to get a horse. And as I'm running back, I had to jump over we had what was called a spillway, and jumped over the spillway. Well, the dam of the lake is U shaped and the water was about eight nine foot from the top of the dam. Well, I was really fast and I loved cutting the corner down kind of close to the water, and then you would come. Up on top of the dam. And as I jump or come up on top of the dam, I made the curve. So now on the dam and I looked down and.

3:07 As the spillway come around the creek that flowed into Lake text Cana. This is kind of is a pretty heavily wooded area and the sunlight was the gap in the trees was perfect for this beam of sun to shine down on that spot and boom, there was this big object there and it wasn't brown. It was more of a reddish brown than darker brown. But right as I made the curve, I looked down and saw it, Well, there's big oak trees that's on the dam. This pond was built in like eighteen ninety something, and I saw it, and then I hit one of those roots and I kind of stumbled, and then when I kind of caught my ballot once I looked up and what was really cool.

4:01 This creek had been flowing since, you know, eighteen ninety and above the. Ground, it's probably about three to four foot to the bottom of the creek. Now, this is late late summer, in about nineteen eighty seven, eighty eight, and it gets real dry, and that creek pretty much dries up except where the holes in the creek is and the water's usually let's just say about a foot deep. Well, there's big carps that you can catch in these holes. When I say big, there are probably four, three, four or five, some of them six eight pounds. And I looked over there, saw it after I hit the route, caught my ballance again and looked, Well, that thing when I looked back, it basically stood up and in one step took his left foot, stepped up onto the ground, and in one step just climbed up out of the creek.

5:06 Well, right beside the. Creek is a bunch of bushes and briars and all that kind of stuff, And instantly he was gone. I had to look back down to find the next route. And that was pretty much the main gist of it. Man, that must have been. That must have been a wild few seconds for sure. Were you able to get any I mean it's such a quick, quick thing. But were you able to catch any any details of the face? I was looking at it straight from the side. No face, no nothing, And you know, you always hear, you know, he was eight to nine ten foot tall.

5:50 I don't think he was that tall. I think he was this one was closer to six, you know, six foot tall. But the thing that shocked me was in one step, he just stuck his foot up on the ground and stepped up out of it. And that had to be at least three and a half four foot tall. There's no way I'm six foot one and to climb out of that creek. Because again, me and my brother, this is the eighties. There wasn't internet and all the four hundred channels. We just grew up on a farm. We'd fish, go shoot, water boxins and all that out of that creek. And he didn't jump up out of it. He just stuck one foot, just stuck one foot and then climbed out and that was the thing that I kind of caught my eye. A whole lot was in just one step it stepped up and climbed out. And the color because it was more red than it was brown or dark brown or anything. And the way the sun was shining straight through the trees was you know, if y'all, I know most of y'all been in the woods and the sun's up he its like beams a lot coming down to the bottom of the deal and it perfectly sending right in there. Of course, it's the creek bed, you know, so you don't have a whole lot of coverage over it. But it was probably couldn't have been twenty twenty five yards away. I mean it was just right there if that far. But coming up

7:22 over that onto the dam boom, I saw it and was like, oh what is that? Because there's I mean, we're less than a mile from Lake Texas Canna or right patman uh, and it's just easemut land all the way, thick trees brush all the way to the lake. Because Lake Terrace Canna is not real deep at all. Average depth is probably six foot, so when it floods, it floods all the way up into our our farm is actually most of it is easement land, and the lake will back up into the pond, through the creek and around. But you know, back then, you didn't have a whole lot.

8:05 Of Bigfoot shows and TV and the Internet and the BFRO and shows podcasts like y'all's and I Guess What in Search of was about the only Bigfoot he really had saw. And we're only maybe as the crow flies twenty miles from Falk, Arkansas, where that Bigfoot was. Sall the Body Creek Monster. The Bobby Creek Monster, and it's just straight woods swamp all the way from Texture Cannon down there. And actually they did a Finding Bigfoot Show episode that was on the other side of Lake textare Cannon from where we're I'm at, which is not far at all. From what you could tell, it looked like they filmed out of Atlanta.

8:53 State Park, which is just the side. And I don't know where they actually filmed because they in the woods, and of course Lake Treskanna is all the same looking no matter where you're at. I am going to say, just so people don't come after me, it's also called the Fout Monster too, just so that I don't get just totally demolished in the comments for saying that. But going back to your sighting for a minute, so you had that side view just for a very short time. Did you notice any details like maybe the shape of the head or length of the arms at all.

9:33 No, not really, because as I come up onto the dam, and he couldn't have heard me. I mean, it couldn't hurt me. It was perfect for sneaking up. On something because I'm down kind of by the pond and then just run up onto the dam and I saw it. And about that time when I stumbled over the oak, and again those oak roots stood up. You know, they were anywhere two three four five inches tall out of the dam, because of course the trees were huge and over the years of erosion and all that. And when I saw it, I didn't turn my head. I just saw the or I kept my eyes on hit and then hit the roots. Well, then I stumbled and then looked back up as soon as I caught my balance, and all I noticed was it stood up, put one foot up on the ground, and then I had to look back at the ground to find the next set of roots. It was kind of more of like an obstacle course kind of a deal when you ran across the dam, because there's a whole bunch of big oak trees through there with all the root systems and these oak trees, I mean, you couldn't even wrap your arm around hand arms around them, you know, they're that big because of that old But what caught my eye was the color and then the way it just stepped up onto the ground. And again I had to look back down and it was gone, and I had to go

11:03 get the horse anyway, to go get the bull in because they were back there fighting. So you had seen it put its foot up on the top side of the bank, did you actually see the foot make contact with the ground at that time? Not as then just totally looking at the foot. It was more of just wow, I can't believe that just did it, because again I'm not really thinking bigfoot. I'm thinking, you know, what is that thing? And then how in the world did that get in one step just climb up like he did. I mean literally like just stepping on a step and going up, and then I'm back looking for the roots to keep running.

11:54 The dam is only about you couldn't really drive a pickup truck on it. I mean you could barely, but you would be a little on the scared side about falling off the dam because the dam on the side of the creek is probably fifteen foot up from the ground, you know, on the back side of the dam, it was probably about fifteen foot and then maybe twenty yards its probably not even twenty yards is the creek and that's where it was. So I just ran up the hill or ran up the dam. Boom there was tripped, tought my balance, looked back at it, it stepped up, took another couple of steps and I'm back into the roots and then it was gone. And didn't really think much about it being bigfoot until, you know, kind of years later, I knew it wasn't a person at all.

12:49 There's no way it could have been a person. Where we were at, where it's just located, and this is we're less than a mile anybody knows, kind of the bridge on the backside of like teref Cana, and that's what it's called the locals called at the bridge, and that's where we were at, and it's just miles and miles of just woods haul back through there. So it sounds like after this happened. You didn't really run home and tell your parents, Hey, I thought I saw a bigfoot like that. That really didn't happen. I'm guessing no.

13:29 They wasn't even home this eighties, right, And this was the farm. And my big worry was going and getting the bull back in because they had tore they started fighting again and they were tearing up fences and cutting each other up and beating each other up. These are big, simitole bulls, and that was my main concern was getting the bull back in. That makes sense. Did you also have horses on that farm as well? Yes, some chickens kind of that they were by the house. You would hear and again, y'all got to remember this is the eighties. You don't have all of the technology and all that listening. But there was panthers bobcats out that area because the game warden whenever the panther, there was a panther that would come through our neck of the woods, and of course we had we were in anywhere forty to sixty head of mama cows and when we were the panther would come back. He'd always tell us when we would kind of keep the cows close to the house because it's eighty eight acres and half of its woods thick woods, so we would.

14:42 Keep them up there. But you would, you know, you'd be sitting outside at night and you would hear different screams and haulers and. Loud noises. But you heard boats at the lake. We were close enough to the lake, you'd hear boats out there, you know, vehicles passing all that kind of stuff. You never you know, you'd never heard of bigfoot hauler like you do down hall the shows and podcasts and all that. Did anything ever weird happen to your your horses that were on the farm. Not the horses we had. We had wild dogs. People would take their dogs down to the lake and drop them off and they would run back, and since we were the first house with cows and horses and chickens and everything like that, they would try to take up residence. And through the years we would have it's usually a cow would lay down and throw a baby calf premature from the wild dogs chasing.

15:40 Them big for society, who would be right back after these messages. But nothing you know, out of normals. It's farm, you know, everything's kind of normal on the farm. Gotcha, gotcha? Just double check. Sometimes people with firemen horses will you know, report, you know, their horse's hair being braided or weird things like that. So just double checking on that. Did people, any neighbors or any people that you knew around the lake ever report having any interactions with creatures like Bigfoot as well?

16:36 Or now It's something that I never really talked about until, you know, the last ten years, especially now with TikTok all the videos from deer cams and and all that, Bigfoot's kind of become popular, I guess, but I've never really said anything besides my wife and my kids and maybe a couple of close friends, and you know, they're always you know, was he drug? Was he smoking something? You know that kind of deal. Like, No, I saw it. I'm telling y'all, I saw it. Thinking back to that that day, do you remember what the sounds were like around that that area that you were in or were there any weird smells or anything like that.

17:19 No, I was a little probably far away for a smell. And again I'm running. My only is trying to catch a horse, get it saddled up, one of the horses, whichever one you could catch, get it saddled up, you know, grab the rope and head back around there and get the bull in and then fix the fence and all that kind of mess because the person behind us they probably had sixty to eighty acres also, and here they have. Forty to fifty headed cows like we did. And the last thing you want is the cows to get out, so your your main focus is get the cows back and hit the bull back in and fix the fence.

18:00 Back then, bigfoot wasn't a. Big thing, you know, nobody really knew bigfoot. After I it vanished and I made the next curve, I was like, I think I just saw bigfoot. Are there are there reports of any other weird things in this area besides Bigfoot? Sometimes people also have dog man in the same areas. Or no, I've never heard of anything. Back about two thousand, I went on the FRO website and was just looking around, and there's quite a few reports just to the BFRO in my general location, and we're not that far from Jefferson, I think Jefferson or Marshalls where they have the was it Northeast Texas or East Texas Bigfoot meeting yep? And I didn't Finding Bigfoot also do another episode around London or Marshall somewhere along through there too.

19:01 Yeah, I am sure he did that. They did. There's so much going on in that that side of Texas. I wouldn't be surprised. I need to do another watch of that show. It's been a while for me, but I wouldn't be surprised listeners know, I'm sure no one someone knows. You can put that in the comments for sure, But. That's I got the scene twice. Sure, just a second and then just a little longer than a second. But it's a vision. It's kind of etched into your brain, you know, like everybody says, once you see it, you can't unsee it. And it was, you know, wow, what is that? And then hit the roots, stumbled, look up and it's like.

19:43 I can't believe that thing just stood up in one foot and climbed up over it. But think you, I mean, now you go back and think he was in there catching those carp out of that hope coming because we did. We'd get on one side of the hole and the creek had multiple deeper, deeper holes in it, whereas when the water would go down kind of late in the year, Northeast Texas gets low rain like Ween had rain in two months, I think that creek would drive up and the only basic water would be in those holes, so it would be easy to catch those big carb you know, and that's a free meal to them, and a good sized meal there some of them are you know, two three four pounds.

20:38 There was a report let me think real quick. Yeah, there was a report I took at the Iowa State Fair and it was actually the report the person had said that there was a big foot. This was about southeast to Des Moines, and they were also seen fishing for carp as well. That's very interesting. Yeah, I mean it makes sense because it's a good sized fish. And definitely give them, give them a fair amount to eat, which would be good. Most of these when I say these holes, you know they're during the summer, they would almost dry up. You're talking less than a foot and a half two foot of water and these holes might only be six foot long. Maybe, you know, it's not like they're big holes or anything.

21:29 They're the holes ain't that big. Because what men and either my brother our buddies would come over. Because if you have the farm, everybody comes over and works cows or hals haze, you know, all that kind of stuff, and we all love the bass fish at that time. But you could get down there on one end and just kind of walk walk towards the other end, and you would see them and you just shove them up out to where the you know, there was no water. You just reach down and catch them. And here you've got a you know, a big fish. If you had the opportunity, would you would you want to see what you saw again?

22:10 Oh yeah, I've always and I'm a I travel for a living mainly I don't know, about one hundred miles north of the coast of Louisiana and then I've got a big chunk of northeast Texas. So I'm on the road. All day long and you're always looking down pipelines and high lines and all that, just hoping to see and actually I go this morning, I went straight through Falcon on the Interstate forty nine. The whole time you're driving and you know, you're looking down both sides, looking forward. Oh, I mean absolutely yeah. If I was able to drive down there, I would have have the dash cam ready.

22:53 And who knows, And that's that's after, you know, you get older and you start hearing all about the big Foot TV and now. Podcast and all that. It's like growing up there for all those years, and how twenty twenty five acres was thick woods? How many times did. I walk right past one that wasn't far because yes, you would. You would smell dead stuff, and if you just take it as something dead, you kind of go and look and make sure it's not a cow or cast because the horses mainly stayed up closer to the house, you know, wondering how many times maybe I did smell one and you know, you didn't know anything about bigfoot and smells back then.

23:40 Is there also a military base in that area as well? It's actually from this the farm. It's actually about two miles. Oh wow, the. Backside of it. Yeah, you know you got redgrid vromy defo you Long Star Army ammunition plant was routed beside it, and it's all all right there. It's a huge complex. Hmmm. It's I've always thought it's interesting when you have stuff like this happened near military base areas. But it will be interesting to see if anyone reaches out that has had things also happen in that area.

24:22 And a beer hunted on the west end of fridri Romy Depot. Some of it is high fenced, but a lot of it is just in bab war fence. Interesting. M hmm, it's definitely. You know, as we were talking before the the show started, there's been multiple people that have reached out recently about this particular lake and things that have been seen around it. So we'll see if that trend continues. But yeah, because you're you're not far, you know, from jeff all the way up for Broken By, Oklahoma, and it's just pretty much a straight path right through that whole area. And years ago they were kind of thinking they would come down to your Jefferson London type area and into Louisiana and that's where they would have the babies, and then they would come down there for a winter and then go up into Oklahoma for the summer.

25:26 Because this little cooler up there in the. Mountains such such an interesting area. I mean, you could literally have a mini Bigfoot adventure down there. Go to that lake, check out a sulfur river, check out Mercer Bayou, go over to the Falc Monster mark. All that good stuff would be one crazy trip for sure. And that's actually I took my kids when they were I don't know, ten eight somewhere along through there, and we were going through there, I said, hey, yeo, I got to take you out here because I'd always watched the Finding Bigfoot and usually they would sit and kind of watch you with me. And took them over and got to see the footprints and the pictures and some of the news paper articles and all. That's really cool place and you don't think it's got that much in it.

26:18 And that's what I kind of said, ay that I've seen one of them when they were like no, no, no, and I was like. Yeah, it's all down the farm. There you go, there you go. Oh man, Chris, this has been a this has been a fun chat. Thank you for sharing what happened that day that was that was extremely interesting. I'm just happy to talk to you today. I know we were trying to get things together and we got it together today at the last minute. But in anyone else who's listening that's had stuff happen in this area, please feel free to reach out as well. You can email me Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com, or you can put something in the comments as well, but email is the best way for me to see stuff.

27:01 So glad I finally got it out there. I need to tell some more people and like even put it on like the BFRO so that a way it's documented, because this is the first time I've ever really really told anybody about it. But as you get older, you just kind of want to get it out there. And I don't know if you have kind of like a database system also where you keep up with the locations, but that's where's that. I don't yet, but I would recommend you know, if you get a few minutes, you can always there's BFRO. There's a Bigfoot Mapping project, but it is good to have it in some area like that just for you know, future generations to look at and then starts to make a picture once you're able to see all the reports in the same area. So yeah, that would be cool if you could do that.

27:50 The Bigfoot mapping is that like Bigfoot mapping. It's bigfootmap dot com. What he does is it's actually really cool. So he takes the data from BFRO, but then he takes it from other places as well, and then he gets reports his you know, just put into his website, but he uses the data and he does heat maps of the entire US, so you can see, you know, going off of the reports, which parts of each state are more you know, real likely probably to have Bigfoot encounters. And it's a really cool thing to check out. So and the time of the year.

28:31 Yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, Chris, thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it and definitely keep me in the loop if anything else happens across your plate in the future. Done there. Will dig. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, thank you so much, make sure that you're subscribed, share the show with a friend. Really, it's all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've had a bigfoot encounter related to the following, or know someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email.

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