BFRO #179: Man and witnesses have two seperate sighting, 1st while fishing, 2nd while driving

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1981--My first encounter (Sept.):My girlfriend, her father and I were parked on the bank of the Chattahoocheeriver. My girlfriend's father was sitting on the hood of the car with hisfishing pole in front of him. He was night cat-fishing. While we satthere, with the car lights shining across the river, my girlfriend and Iwere sitting in the front seat just making small-talk (honest), when all ofa sudden I heard the most horribly incredible scream coming from my rightside. To set the scene: Our car was parked about two feet from the water,on the bank. Off to my right about 60 feet was where the foliage began. Very swampy, very thick, and very hard to walk through. About 40 feetfurther up the bank (which can't be seen from our car because of thefoliage) is a huge oak tree. I'd have to guess that the tree had about a 15foot circumference - massive! About 10 feet up the tree is a huge branchthat went about 20 feet out over the river. My friends and I would climbthe tree and jump/dive into the river at least once every couple of weeks orso. During one occasion, there were about 9 of us standing on this branchattempting to make it move - we barely made it do anything, let alone shake!Anyway, back to the car. As I heard the scream, my body instantly went intowhat I think was shock. As I turned to my right s.l.o.w.l.y.. with all myhair standing straight-up, we heard the next sound~~~> achuuu..chuuu..chuuu..chuuuuuuu... (my feeble attempt to describe the soundof that huge branch I mentioned earlier that was shaking due to somethingGIGANTIC jumping off it into the water. The splash that came next wasequally as horrific. All we did was just sit there in shock...waiting (Idon't know why), staring at this point - straight ahead at the water. Myguess is that we were waiting for the thing to float into our headlights. We waited and waited and waited and all of a sudden an object - black - long- I would guess at least 9-10 feet, floated into our headlights and stopped.Please keep in mind that this action was deliberate, because it was floatingdownstream. We stared at it forever it seemed.until it opened it's eyes -two huge balls of red (reflecting off the headlights of our car I imagine)light and looked at us. My girlfriend's father at this point put the carinto reverse, and we sped off.. extremely terrified.1982--My second encounter (April):My girfriend and I were driving back from our senior prom (Georgia- chattahoochee river border area). Our high school was 37 miles down-river"way-out" in the boon docks. Anyway, as we were driving back home, we cameto a flat 2-mile section of road that had a "slippery-when-wet" sign. Because we were tired, "sober", with road-hypnosis, the sign reflectioncaught our attention (she told me after). As we came closer to the sign,something moved or reflected as we came closer - getting our attention. About 100 feet away, with our car lights fully shining on the it, we sawthis massive, black creature leaning on the sign. The top of the sign Iguessed to be about 10 feet. Whatever this creature was, all we could seewas the top of the chest and down (about 10' of the creature!) we couldn'tsee the head. It just stood there - we could see the massive muscles - mostin rippling detail, shiny-black fur, standing with intelligence if you canunderstand that term, etc. We sped-up all the while screaming at each other- scared to death. A mile down the road, my left-rear tire blew out. Idrove 7 miles to the first house with a light and called my father to comeout and help us. While at this home, we talked with a few of the peoplethat were there (they were having a party). We were told a couple ofstories about a missing hunter, animals found gutted or with their headmissing. A lot of strange screams in the night, etc. First, I must saybeyond a shadow of any doubt that this was no hoax - the costume alone wouldhave cost thousands and thousands of dollars to create. Second, the peoplethat live in the area are extremely poor. As a matter of fact, the homethat we drove-up to after our tire blew, had light seeping through thecracks in the siding of the house, while it sat on cinder blocks - very poorpeople!

🔍 Circumstances

1981: Myself, girlfriend, and her father1982:Myself and my girlfriend

🌤️ Weather Conditions

1981: Late at night1982: About 12:30a.m. Very clear and starry night.

ℹ️ Additional Details

1981: Late at night1982: About 12:30a.m. Very clear and starry night.

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