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This report arrived on my desk June 19, 2000

The Year was 1969. It was late fall. About 2 weeks after the corn fields were picked. We lived 2 miles south of Strasburg Mo. By Big Creek. 

I was out fishing on the creek about 1/2 mile from my house. I had been fishing for about 6 hrs and it was starting to get dark. I kept hearing something up above me on the top of the bank I was in the creek about 12 ft 
down.

 I at first thought it was a dog or something. My dog use to come down where I was fishing. The fish were biting great so I wasn't paying too much attention to any thing else. Then I smelled something that smelled like a cross between a hog and a skunk. it would come and go. I just thought probably a skunk was up there. Like I said the fish was biting good. 

When it started to get dark I started loading up my fishing gear to go and thought I would make 2 trips up the bank. One with the poles and bait etc. and one with the fish. 

To be able to go up the bank I had to walk up the bank about 100 ft to where their was a small creek running in and climb the bank there. Well I walked around and up the bank to lay my poles down and thought I seen something up the bank where I was fishing. But really didn't get a good glimpse of it. So I started back down the bank, back to where the fish were. 

As I rounded the curve in the creek I saw something that looked like a giant gorilla picking the fish stringers up. I froze! I thought I might be seeing things or something because it was starting to get dark . Then it turned, looked at me, and took off running with the fish. 

It jumped over the creek almost to the other side about 12 ft or so. Then ran up the bank and disappeared. I was scared s*** less and froze.  It took me a minute or so to realize what happened. I went back up the bank, grabbed my pole, and ran for home checking over my shoulder all 
the way. Through the open corn field. 

I tried to tell my mom and dad but they said it was just seeing things and it was probably just someone's monkey that got away or something, and I just thought it looked big. But I tell you if it was a monkey it was about a 10 ft monkey. 

I wanted to take my dad back to see the footprints in the mud and he said we would go down the next morning. But that night it rained hard and the creeks were up . I never went back down there fishing again. 

PS. Before that happened it was my favorite spot to fish. I just about forgotten about it till I read your report and 
your description. and it got me remembering... 

...One other time about 10 years ago I was deer hunting down by the lake of the Ozarks by Climax Springs on a 
friends land . I have hunted there many times. The land has a 3/4 mile right of way just to drive in. Anyway I had been taking my son hunting with me for several years and it was his 3rd year for me to let him hunt by himself on a separate stand. 

He was about 200 yards from me . any way I kept having a strange feeling and it felt like the hair standing on the back of my neck for about 10 minutes or so. I couldn't see anything unusual, then I heard my son shoot. So I climbed down to go help him dress the deer. 

When I got there. he was still in his stand and pale as a ghost . I asked him what happened he said he seen a huge buck right below him by the stand and shot it. He said it walked about 10 ft and fell down. Then he heard something funny and was looking around . He said he seen something by his deer. and he looked the other way because he was scared. 

He said he was hoping if he didn't look at it wouldn't see him. 

He never really saw what it was for sure because of the small cedar trees. He said that the head came just about to the trees. The trees were approx 8 ft give or take a foot. 

Any he said when he looked back the deer was gone . Well I figured he just had buck fever because it was the first big buck he ever shot while by himself. So we walked over to where the deer should have been and it was gone. It looked like about 1 gal of blood on the ground . 

There was a big puddle and all over. There was also a trail of blood so I followed it. thinking the deer was just wounded real bad and would find it before long. But by the time the blood trail stopped I know I must have seen about a gal or two of blood . And there was no way a deer could go that far with that much blood loss. 

Finally after about an hour of tracking and trying to find the deer we found one of the legs that looked like it had been torn off the deer. Then about 1/2 hr later found part of another. But never did find the deer. 

I have probably killed 35 to 40 deer in my life time with 
rifle, bow, and black powder, and had never seen anything like that before. Something big enough to pick up and carry a deer off like that leaving no drag trail.. Strange... I hope this helps. I don't tell anyone about these 
things because I don't want them to think I am crazy . But I know what I seen and heard and what happened and nothing will ever convince  Don Thomas

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