Palo Pinto County, Texas

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Palo Pinto County Texas (Class B) BFRO

December 1994

I was recently discussing your web site with a friend and was directed to the sounds that were recorded and placed on your web site. Initially I laughed it off. At least until I heard the Ohio Howl. I have heard that particular sound before. The only difference was a slightly higher pitch. When I heard the sound on your site I got the same goose bumps and the same sick feeling I had the first time I heard it. I was on an evening deer hunt in mid to late December. It was cold and clear with a light wind. I was sitting on the ground backed into a cedar tree. At one point I could hear something walking up behind me. I could tell it wasn't a hooved animal by the sound the feet made when it walked. I waited about 10 minutes looking for it to step out of the brush. That's when I heard that sound. It couldn't have been more than 20 ft away, because it was so loud I had to put my hands over my ears. I immediately clicked the safety off on my rifle and could hear it moving back deeper into t...

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Palo Pinto County Texas (Class B) BFRO

Boy scouts have possible encounter near Possum Kingdom Lake

It was early July of 1988, and I was a Boy Scout at Worth Ranch for Summer Camp in Palo Pinto, Texas. I didn't see much but a white figure shooting behind a grove of trees on top of a nearby rocky ...

July 1988

Palo Pinto County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Encounter during a summer camp campout near the Brazos River

It was 1969, and I was at summer camp at age 14. I was one of about 20 campers and two counselors that went on a 3 day, 2 night canoe/camping trip down the Brazos River. We put in just below the d...

July 1969

Palo Pinto County Texas (Class B) BFRO

Brazos River campers encounter powerful vocalizations at close range

I was 14-15 years old. My father and I were camping with another father and son along the Brazos River. It was after midnight and my friend and I were running a trotline we had stretched across the ri...

June 1977