Cindy Jones
ENG03-11
June 23, 2010
Big Foot Really Does Exist
This is a true story about events that happened to my family in my home state of Texas with an elusive creature. It has been named Big Foot or Sasquatch. Sightings have been found in Texas; scientists believe that the biggest colonies exist there. Memories of these sightings have left deep impressions of fear for some of my family members. However, some of us had been fascinated by the creature.
In the spring of 1983, my husband and I had purchased a two acre lot deep in the piney woods, also called the Big Thicket, located in Pumpkin ,Texas. There was a shell house with wooden shingles and a tin roof located on the property. In the evenings my husband Terry would go to work on the house. Because there had not been electricity on the property, he brought out a generator for power. Eric, our eight year old son, traveled with his dad to work on the house. Later as night arrived, Eric had become tired and he decided to go out to the truck to take a nap. Suddenly, the truck begun to shake and he looked up at the driver’s side window to see a hairy face staring back at him. His dad usually stored a pistol under the seat, but Eric could not find it. Terry realized that his son was not in the house, so he went outside to find Eric jumping back and forth in the seat of the truck. Terrified, Eric told his dad what had happened. My husband grabbed his hammer and went into the woods looking for whatever scared his son. There was a pole barn next to the house with old appliances under it. As Terry
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came out of the woods he noticed a very large shadowy figure. It was so large that...