The town of Mena is in Polk County, west of the Ouachita National Forest. The mystery of Don’s chance encounter with a thieving Sasquatch captivates the imagination. It is also testimony to how strong and quick they are.
“One time about ten years ago I was deer hunting down by the
Lake of the Ozarks by Climax Springs, Arkansas on a friend’s land.
I have hunted there many times. The land has a 3/4-mile right of
way just to drive in. I had been taking my son hunting with me for
several years and it was his third year for me to let him hunt by
himself on a separate stand. He was about 200 yards from me. As
the day progressed, I kept having a strange feeling and it made the
hair stand up on the back of my neck for about ten minutes, but I
couldn’t detect anything unusual. Then suddenly I heard a report
from my son’s rifle. 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 saw a huge buck right below
him by the stand and shot it. He said it walked about ten feet more
and went down.”
“Then my son heard something odd; he looked all around and
then he saw something by the body of his deer and immediately
looked the other way because he was scared. He said he was
hoping if he didn’t look at it, the thing wouldn’t see him. He never
really saw what it was for sure because of the small cedar trees.
He said that the height of its head came just above the trees and
the trees were approximately 8 feet high, give or take. My son said
when he looked back again at the deer, it 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 fell, or where it should have been but was now
missing. It looked like it left about a gallon of blood on the
ground; the puddle was huge. There was also a trail of blood.
We followed it thinking the deer was just wounded real bad and
would find it before long. By the time the blood trail stopped I
know I must have seen about a gallon or two of blood spilled
along the trail. There was no way a deer could go that far with
that much blood loss.”
find the deer we found one of the legs that looked like it had been
literally torn off the body of the deer. Then about half-hour later
found part of another leg. But never did find the deer. I have
probably killed 35 to 40 deer in my life time with a rifle, a bow,
or black powder and had never seen anything like that before. It
had to be something big enough to pick up and carry a deer off
because it left no drag marks on the ground; strange. I am positive
about what I saw and heard that day.”
(Don Thomas, Mena, Arkansas)
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