Open Case File 016-2014
Location: SE Oklahoma, Pushmataha County
Case Type: Historical Information from Family Stories
Time Frame: Late 1800s through Today
Investigator: Troy Hudson, Sasquatch Genome Project
This investigator was contacted on May 18, 2014 by email from an individual that wanted to relay some information that he believed would be beneficial in the research of the Sasquatch phenomenon. I traded emails with this individual for more than a week. The information provided was merely stories he heard as a child growing up in SE Oklahoma. Stories referred to his grandfather's bedtime stories of when he was a child growing up in a small rural farm house near Nashoba, Oklahoma. The stories were typical, they would see a large bipedal hairy man like creature that would watch them from a distance when they would be farming or out hunting in the mountain areas around their home. Time went on and no further contact with this individual was not received until 07-11-2014.
The latest form of emails that were received indicated that this individual (this is investigator will nickname "Joe" for the sake of the public aspect of this investigation) has located multitude of journals and other family stories from other sources within the family. Spending couple of days and several hours on the phone with Joe, this investigator has opened a new chapter to historical information about the nature of what was the Indian Territory (1890) and oral reports of Sasquatch being present in SE Oklahoma prior to Statehood (1907). See also Investigative File Case (014-2014). This investigator was asked multiple times to the confidentiality of the names and exact locations of the homesteads for the sake of the family's knowledge of current Bigfoot Research Groups attempting to gain and exploit the family history for profit. This investigation will disclose additional information further down in this case file*
Joe's family has lived in and around the Nashoba, Clayton, and Cloudy, Oklahoma areas for several generations. Joe's family has native blood on both sides of the family. He can prove their stake of claim to the Indian Territory that dates back prior to 1889. Prior to today's Pushmataha County name and location, this investigator researched that the area of Nashoba was once called Nashoba County. First US Post Office established in 1886, Choctaw Nation. Joe's family journal indicated the extreme and harsh life that was lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s with drought, disease, almost impossible farming environment conditions. However the journal doe's have several entries that tell of stories of some family members observing only what was called "creature that stands up taller than the log home" Unknown measurements of the family home, no records to indicated the height of the log home. One story read (word for word) "late on summer evening kids were playing near the trail something screamed at them and they ran to the front" The story doesn't indicate what screamed at them and what the "front means, however further explanation from Joe's grandfather which was one of the children that was screamed at said, "It was tall with dark hair and had a deer on it's shoulder".
This investigator has spent the past 9 years conducting Sasquatch Field Investigations, and have heard and read more than 15 different witness reports that have seen and suggested that Sasquatch have been observed with dead deer draped over their shoulder's. The grandfather also referred to a story that was written in the year 1903 (4 years prior to Statehood) that several family members would not leave the safety of the homestead due to several large manlike creatures walking past the family's doorstep in the evening times. The meaning of doorstep was explained to being the front of the log cabin not actually the front door of the home. Only further explanation is that during the fall time frame the "creatures" were traveling between two mountain ridges and that their log home was in the middle of these "creatures" travel routes. The word creature was used multiple times due to the label/name Bigfoot-Sasquatch was never heard of by the family during this time period. The grandfather spoke of conversations with other families within a 10-15 mile radius of their homestead that spoke of seeing and hearing strange sounds and very large manlike creatures within the mountains between what today is Clayton and Nashoba, Oklahoma. One interesting entry into their family journal was the discovery of what they described as large strange foot tracks embedded into rocks located in a creek bed. It was many years later they were named Dinosaur tracks by the family. Joe remembers as a kid (1960s) that college students from someone came and examined the tracks, unknown if they still are there, the location has changed due to weather and environmental conditions.
The grandfather explained in his own words, that there were people that lived here before his family, those people warned of large creatures that walked like man, spoke like man, and had a family like man. These other people lived away from man, but they are related to man. This investigator has compiled numerous investigative files, learning the evidential value of the Sasquatch DNA project and heard stories many tribal elders that with this recent investigation it would seem just another confirmation that the Bigfoot-Sasquatch is just as many believe. A distant relative to the human race. This as many investigations leaves more questions than answers. (See conclusion)
*Related to the family wanting to have complete confidentiality on their name and exact location has been respected and adhered after learning that they have had contact with several members of a local Bigfoot research organization that has only left them with a very negative attitude towards research organizations as a whole. This investigator was contacted by the family after learning that I have grown up in SE Oklahoma and come from law enforcement as well as family friends passing my name along with recommendations.
Investigative Conclusions: History books, historical societies, local libraries, and even traditional storytelling authors tell stories and suggested exact history accounts of events. But are they true? Are they made up to give dramatization to the listener? Stories are majority of historical accounts of what our ancestors saw, heard, and did in the past. Written accounts of events and the "way it was" are but few and far between. The family's journal is a precious memory of their family's history and serves as a key to historical data about possible Sasquatch presence in SE Oklahoma. The family has indicated they know of another family that has written accounts of possible "creature" experiences that date back to when the highway was paved that leads from Antlers, Ok to Clayton, Ok. (Highway 271) The dinosaur tracks are very interesting area of their family's journal. This only leaves this investigation open for further interviews and research of historical data. The Sasquatch Genome Project/DNA has been a controversial subject to many, however evidence suggest that the results of the study link that it is better than 99% that the Bigfoot/Sasquatch have a connection to the human race. It is not this investigators purpose to make the reader believe that this scientific evidence is to be received, taken, and/or accepted as true and the only evidence of who and what the Bigfoot/Sasquatch are. The fact remains, that everyone that has had an encounter/witness that described them to be manlike, stand on two feet, speak a language, and sometimes have behavior similar to a human. Present the evidence and let the reader make up his/her own mind.
Case Status: Open
Insert: Dinosaur Tracks near Black Mesa, Oklahoma (Oklahoma Panhandle)
Insert: Looking to the west, near Clayton, Oklahoma
