Creature observed kneeling beside a creek late at night witnessed in Murray County, Oklahoma

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It was on Halloween night in 1996. I had taken my younger brother, a high school senior at the time, to Veteran's Lake inside the Chickisaw National Recreation Area in Sulphur, Oklahoma because some of his friends from the high school band were going to meet that night to try and see the "Lady of the Lake" (a local myth). As we went to the lake I was rather preoccupied with the conversation I was having with my brother so I did not pay close attention to the events going on around us, if any. After dropping him off to hang out with his friends I left to return home. As I drove back down toward the 12th street entrance to the park I drove over the Rock Creek Bridge which crosses Rock Creek just a few yards south of the Rock Creek camp grounds. As I drove over the low water bridge I saw a figure squatted at the edge of the creek about 20 yards east, down river from the bridge. It was quite large, at least 4.5 to 5 feet tall in the squatted position. I drove on down a little ways and tur...