Bigfoot Photographed in East Texas?

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on February 23rd, 2013

Bigfoot sighting along Neches River?

PORT NECHES — Chill bumps rise on David Arceneaux’s arms as he looked across Block Bayou at a line of trees about 100 yards away.

David Arceneaux of Nederland points to an area in Port Neches where he said he saw two of the legendary Bigfoot creatures.
David Arceneaux of Nederland points to an area in Port Neches where he said he saw two of the legendary Bigfoot creatures.

“I’m not crazy. I don’t do drugs and I’m not a drinker,” Arceneaux said before telling his tale of seeing not one but two Bigfoot-like creatures huddled together one December morning.

The Nederland native visits Oak Bluff Cemetery about once a month to clean the graves of a friend and a cousin, something he has done for years without incident. But on an overcast, windless day Arceneaux got the fright of his life.

“I heard a blood curdling scream and a lady nearby asked me if I was OK. I told her it wasn’t me,” Arceneaux said as he stood, uneasily, at roughly the same spot where he saw the creatures. “We walked over to the water and looked to the left then straight ahead.”

What he saw next amazed him. Two Bigfoot-like creatures who had been throwing rocks in the water looked across at him and the unknown female. One was standing next to a tree, arms around the trunk and the other was squatted down. As the second creature rose from the crouching position Arceneaux estimated the creature was about eight-foot tall. So he snapped a photo with his phone, he said.

“All of a sudden they started walking then running through the woods,” he said of the bipedal creatures. “When they began to run, the lady said ‘I’m leaving’ and left. I stayed a few more seconds and then thought there may be a way for them to cross here so I left, scared.”

Arceneaux said he could see the face of the creature “clear as day.” There was hair from the mouth down like a man and when the creature turned he could see hair hanging down its arm.

Disturbed by what he saw, Arceneaux went home and watched an episode of “Finding Bigfoot” but had to change the channel when they played an audio recording of Bigfoot — it was too real.

“This is my first time back here since December,” he said.

Arceneaux said he spoke to a game warden, describing the situation, and was told there had been other sightings along the Neches River. Calls placed to a local game warden was not returned by Tuesday afternoon.

There are a number of organizations throughout the state that researches and documents Bigfoot sightings. Groups such as Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy and Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization. These groups strive to find evidence to scientifically prove the existence of the creature.

Jerry Hestand of Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy said there have been reports of sightings in the Big Thicket area and he has had personal experiences at the Lance Rosier Unit in the Thicket.

Hestand said one of the creatures entered his camp and growled at one of the dogs. The dog, he said, growled back but by the time the men jumped up from their tents the creature was gone. Hestand said the group was part of an episode of a Travel Channel show called Weird Travels in which Bigfoot vocalizations were played.

“There is a sound on the Internet called the Ohio howl,” Hestand said. “That’s exactly what we heard clearly and distinctly.”

Arceneaux said he did not come forward with his story sooner because he worried about what others would think of him. He has shown this photographic evidence — which was taken at a far distance with a cell phone — to friends and family and only had one person scoff. He will continue to research Bigfoot, he said, but remains wary of returning to the spot where the encounter occurred.

This is a cell phone photo taken by David Arceneaux of what he believes are Bigfoot-like creatures near Oak Bluff Cemetery in Port Neches.
This is a cell phone photo taken by David Arceneaux of what he believes are Bigfoot-like creatures near Oak Bluff Cemetery in Port Neches.

Source: The Port Arthur News

About Craig Woolheater
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005. I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films: OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.


8 Responses to “Bigfoot Photographed in East Texas?”

  1. edsbigfoot responds:

    Wow, very interesting. Maybe there is a way to enhance the photo for a closer look at what’s there?

  2. Matthew Pfeifer via Facebook responds:

    Kinda looks like guys in ghillie suits

  3. PoeticsOfBigfoot responds:

    Yawn.

  4. DWA responds:

    OK. Um.

    Not saying this guy didn’t see something legitimate.

    (He saw a face “clear as day” and nowhere is there Jot One of what he saw? The one thing I have wished for more than anything else from the bigfoot field is better followup.)

    But when I submit a photograph that allegedly contains something difficult to explain (which I have done), YOU CAN SEE THE THING IN THE PICTURE.

    Just sayin’.

  5. PoeticsOfBigfoot responds:

    My first thought was the same as Matthew’s. Duck hunters maybe?

  6. dconstrukt responds:

    blurry photo… i tried enhancing with photoshop but its just blurry as hell….

    looks like it was shot on a cell phone by the orientation of the photo….

    but in all honesty, theres no way on earth you can sit there and tell me that photo is bigfoot… or 2 of them…. no way.

  7. Bill Moss responds:

    There is something there though, what about the sounds?

  8. dconstrukt responds:

    DWA – amen brotha!

    thats what i keep saying on here!

    if you’re gonna tell us you’ve seen a creature thats not known to exist, at least make sure you can clearly see the damn thing!

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