The eyewitness was hunting in a Louisiana swamp near their home when they encountered, what was believed to be, a possible large bipedal canine-like creature.
“The beast was never clearly seen, but around 1992 while hunting a swamp just before dark here in Louisiana I was stalk hunting while wading through knee-deep water. I saw water movement through some very thick hedgerow-like brush. At first, I believed it to be ducks so I sneaked up to the edge of the brush for a clear shot, but when I got there I could see movement through the thick brush 6ft over the water, and at the same time there were small wakes in the water coming through the brush ever time it moved. I was less than 10ft from this animal and I could hear it sniffing the air. It suddenly froze still when it picked up my scent.
We were frozen in a noiseless standoff for at least 2 minutes! It couldn't see me but it was looking for me because it knew I was very close. I knew this was something weird and my situation wasn't good, so while mostly hidden I slowly and quietly over a minute or so replaced the bird shot in my 12-gauge with three 3" magnum 000 buckshot. When I raised my gun to ready fire it saw me, and when it did I believe it thought that I was closer than it expected because that thing screamed like a wild hog being killed X10 - very hair-raising loud. It then suddenly leaped several feet out of the water and about 12 or so feet out into deeper water of about 8-10 feet deep. In that instant when it jumped I could see its back or something slightly above the brush, it had spiked hair. When it landed in the water it sounded like a 300+lb animal splash, it remained underwater until it reached the other side of the slew, when it came out on land I couldn't see it. I then made a huge circle around the animal to try and cut it off in an ambush. I wasn't really scared because even though it was God knows what, I knew I scared it more. I mean I sneaked up less than 10 feet of this thing and it had no clue I was even there until it winded me! Besides at that range, a 12-gauge with that load of shots is like being shot 10 times with an AR-15 in one spot. A 12-gauge load like that can put a hole the size of your fist through a wild hog, that's an animal that has one of the toughest hides on the planet. There's nothing on this Earth that will survive very long with a rib cage shot from that load at that range. I knew this already, that's why I give chase.
Anyway, I tried ambushing with no luck, I wanted to continue hunting it, but all I had was a small pocket light and it was only about 10 minutes before total darkness. Before I set out of the swamp I looked and found its tracks. I found canine-like tracks about 4-5" wide and 6-7" long, they were bipedal tracks set about 6 feet apart due to the animal running. There's a lot more to the story but I will leave it at this for now. I gathered enough info about this animal over the years that I'm convinced it can be hunted and killed. It walks on 2 legs and has K9-like feet, so it's whatever you want to call it. I just know it exists, and I see it more as an animal than a monster!” - KS
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