East Texas College Students Have Bigfoot Encounter During Field Trip

When students on Dr. Lynch’s botany field trip discovered a set of unusually large footprints and a tuft of coarse hair caught on a tree, they thought they’d made the discovery of the century. Unfortunately, Dr. Angela Carter with the Animal Sciences department is less convinced.

The excitement occurred last Saturday when 16 students and Dr. Peter Lynch hiked the Big Thicket forest for a lesson in native fora.

“Just after we’d taken a break for lunch, all of a sudden we all heard this crashing noise. It sounded like someone running blindly through the brush, like maybe a spooked animal,” said Jamie Dawe, a Sports Medicine Junior. “Four of us were curious and went to check it out. The first thing we noticed was this terrible smell, like something had died. Then we came on this little clear area where it looked like some brush had been piled up in a shelter. That’s when we noticed the footprints . They were too big to be a person’s, but no animal made them. Then Jace found a little tuft of hair caught on a tree. That’s when we thought, ‘This is it! We have physical evidence of bigfoot!’”

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