Bigfoot in Polk County

Cemetery in the Big Thicket, east of Livingston

A 10-year-old, a best friend and the friend’s mother reported a large, dark, hairy creature behind a cemetery’s back fence. It grunted and left at “kind of a half-waddle, half-trot.” The mother never went back.

📍 NAWAC says the cemetery is gone and the pin is approximate.

Dirt road near Segno, now in the Big Sandy Creek Unit

A 12-year-old, her grandmother and great-aunt reported a 7–8-foot, long-haired figure crossing the road, missing the bumper by about 3 feet. The grandmother suggested a man in a hairy suit. The witness questioned that wardrobe choice during deer season.

Highway shoulder near the Alabama-Coushatta Reservation

A Houston Post delivery driver, parked to wrap papers with his high beams on, reported a light reddish-brown “hairy man” following a herd of deer he saw almost nightly. He kept it to himself until he met a NAWAC investigator.

Highway 59, southbound

A family reported a small, upright, hairy figure about 4 feet tall running down a grassy slope and into a drainage pipe under the road. Everyone asked “What was that?!” at once. Agreement came before identification.

📍 The family wasn’t sure of the exact spot, so the pin is NAWAC’s estimate.

FM 1276, by the Big Sandy Creek Unit

A couple reported a stocky figure with reddish-brown hair, “the same color as an orangutan,” crossing partly on all fours, looking back, then walking upright into the woods. The husband said his father saw it at the same spot that week.

Highway 190 through the preserve, near Dallardsville

A driver reported a dark, upright, long-haired figure standing in the road that did not move for the horn. The driver swerved and the car rolled into the woods. The account was given to an emergency responder at the scene.

A house near Livingston, at the edge of the Big Thicket

A teenager reported something “big, black, hairy” looking in the bedroom window. The search afterward turned up a bad smell, footsteps snapping twigs back into the thicket, one track in the sand and a bent section of fence.

US 190 East, between Big Sandy Creek and Bear Creek

A man biking to work reported heavy steps and grunting that seemed to shadow him for about 100 yards. Heard, not seen. The report says he “rode his bike so fast.”

FM 350 North, near Livingston

A woman watching for deer reported a reddish-brown, long-haired figure beside a power pole, at least 10 feet tall, lit by her headlights for about five seconds. Not the roadside check she expected.