Beyond Boggy Creek: In Search of the Southern Sasquatch by Lyle Blackburn

Author:Lyle Blackburn [Blackburn, Lyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anomalist Books
Published: 2017-02-02T22:00:00+00:00

SABINE THING

South of Caddo Lake lies the Sabine River. The river, which originates in the prairies of North Texas, is an extremely long waterway forming much of the boundary between Texas and Louisiana as it snakes through miles of the lower Piney Woods and western bayou country. The river is revered by campers, hikers, and paddlers alike for its serene beauty, but for people such as myself it’s also notable for the presence of a Bigfoot creature the locals refer to as the Sabine Thing.

Dramatic sightings of the alleged beast date back many years, and in fact, we’ve already been introduced to one particularly chilling account in which Paul Matlock claims to have seen a massive, bipedal ape pummel a hog on the banks of the river in 2003. This took place in Panola County, Texas, where many of the Sabine Thing reports originate.

An older account from Panola County dates back to the winter of 1969. In this case, Teresa Dixon, her aunt, and her little sister (all very young at the time) were exploring a patch of fire-damaged woods behind their grandmother’s house near Beckville when they noticed some kind of animal crouching behind some trees. As soon as they made eye contact, it stood up on two legs.

“It was very tall, thin, and hairy like an ape, but was more manlike,” Dixon told me in an interview. She’s unsure of the exact distance they were from the creature, but distinctly remembers seeing its eyes. “It didn’t look menacing,” she recalled. “And it wasn’t scared.”

Maybe not, but the girls were certainly scared. Enough that they turned and ran as fast as they could back to their grandmother’s house located beyond a big field and a barbed wire fence. “I don’t remember how I got over that fence,” Dixon said. “But I’ll never forget what I saw that day. It’s tattooed on my brain.”

After telling her family of the experience, her grandfather admitted that he’d seen an ape-like creature several years before near their house. He kept it quiet so as not to frighten anyone.

Approximately two years after Dixon’s sighting, around 1971, her uncle claimed to have seen a similar creature while camping in the bottoms between Beckville and Carthage. Other locals whispered of a strange beast responsible for many unexplained livestock deaths.

In 1986, just west of the Sabine River in Panola County, Jeff Stewart was camping with friends as they often did on weekends. He was 15 at the time and already a skilled outdoorsman, having grown up in a culture of hunting and fishing typical of that area. The spot where they camped was located on 580 heavily wooded acres owned by his family, of which he was intimately familiar both in terms of geography and wildlife… or so he thought.

Earlier in the day he and his friends caught a load of catfish in the river and cleaned them at an old pump-well present on the property. Afterwards, they intentionally threw the entrails on the ground so they could return at night with flashlights to harvest any fur-bearing animals caught eating the scraps.

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