BFRO #59307: Broken trees and possible print found after swaying animal evades hunters near Grovespring
π Location
Smittle Cave Conservation Area near Grovespring, Wright County, Missouri, Grovespring, MO
Specific Location: Smittle Cave Conservation Area, near intersection of Highway H and TT, Wright County, MO
Coordinates: 37.34000, -92.86000
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37.3400Β°, -92.8600Β°
π Description
i want to start this off by saying, I don't know what I saw. I know it wasnt a bear. Having said that I don't know what to think. I am attaching a google doc that has pictures of what we found...So this last Saturday at about 12:30 my hunting partner and I went to Smittle cave conservation area to scout and see what conservation has cleared. We crossed a creek bottom to where there are small food plots.Once we crossed to the other side of the field we saw something on the trail about 150 to 200 yards off. even from that distance I could see it was big. I noted a head by a limb that I judged was maybe 5 or six feet of the ground. what we saw then crouched and sort of swayed a few times before taking off to the right and stopping. not being sure what we saw we crossed into the next field and discussed what it was, we turned around and went back to the field we had seen the creature and it was gone. We crossed back to where it had been and found a large fresh footprint. I put my foot down next to the print. I wear a size 10 1/2 and the print is way bigger than my foot. We estimate it to be 16 or 18 inches long. In that same area we found broken trees that had been pulled up and then wove between other trees. What does that?Also the limb we thought was maybe five or six feet off the ground was more like 8 foot maybe 9.What we saw was big and when it moved it almost glided. It was dark gray with brown hair, it was bipedal. I couldn't make out facial features or say 100 percent what it was. We were too far away.
π Circumstances
Me and my hunting partner. We were walking in a food plotted small field.
π€οΈ Weather Conditions
early day about 12:30 or 1
βΉοΈ Additional Details
early day about 12:30 or 1
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Case Information
- Case ID
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- Primary Source
- BFRO
- Added to Map
- December 9, 2025
- Last Updated
- December 10, 2025