While we have addressed Bigfoot in general elsewhere on this site, the case of a seasonal Bigfoot near the Sabine River and Mineola Nature Preserve required a bit more detailed coverage. As noted earlier, most of the ASUP cases involving Bigfoot are on or very near the Sabine River, which theoretically is the route followed by these creatures from the north to south of East Texas.

The original reports of this creature were from an individual who owned property adjacent to the nature preserve area. She and her sons were berry picking in a densely brush covered area of her property and at one point they were on one side of an enormous berry bush, while the Bigfoot was standing and picking berries from the other side of the same plant. Their eye to eye contact was caricatured by the witnesses as being almost like a scene from a cartoon, each catching a glimpse of the other simultaneously and each running in opposite directions immediately.

Brian Mollenkopf (an archeologist) examining a casting made by the client

In all the ASUP visited the site many times over the next year, in all sorts of weather, but the activity seemed limited to the spring and summer months and centered on the berry plants and other edible vegetation in the area in those periods. Numerous footprints, broken branches too high to have been broken by humans and too thick to be broken by birds, were the key evidence, along with the distinctive smell associated with the creature. While the area is not densely populated, those who do live there have all seen glimpses of the beast and many have given chase to it, none successfully.

In every instance, anyone chasing the creature would find themselves within earshot of his heavy breathing and footfalls, but in every case, the witness would report coming onto a clearing, or the banks of the Sabine River itself to find themselves alone, with on creature in sight. One witness stated that unless Bigfoot had wings, he could not offer any possible explanation on how it would be a few yards in front of him one minute and totally disappear the next.

This led to what is now referred to in the ASUP as Rick’s Unified Theory of Everything, that is that the Bigfoot is not a flesh and blood creature, but possibly travels via another dimension or that it is a spirit that materializes and disappears at will, which would make it part of the area most heavily studied by ASUP. The group found that it did not require a night time vigil to look for the creature, that signs, sounds, smells and sightings are possible in full daylight with water being the one critical element in the equation to seeing the creature. Until someone comes up with definitive DNA evidence to the contrary, Moran will continue to classify Bigfoot as a paranormal creature.

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