This is the story of a monster that may have moved across Texas.

The Hawley Him

This is one of the realest sounding encounters with a bigfoot like creature and it happened in 1977 in Hawley, Texas. Two kids were clearing brush at the Abilene Boys Ranch when the started getting pelted with small rocks. The started to flee the area and when they looked behind them they saw what looked to be a "brown-haired giant ape".

The Encounter

The teens ran to the nearest house where a teen girl hooked them up with her dads deer rifle and then joined as the boys went to go find their attacker. The went back to the area and tried raising a ruckus to attract the monster. To their suprise, it worked. A flat-faced creature they claimed was over 7 feet tall with arms that hung down below it's knees appeared. One of the boys took his shot, missed and the monster fled.

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The Hunt
The boys encounter should have been the end of this strangeness, but four-months later in nearby Merkel a bunch of animals were reported missing with only carcasses found in some cases. The last report from Merkel was that someone saw the creature running down the road then jumping over a fence.

Was It Just A Story?

As for local officials, they accused the young trio of making the story up for attention. The movie "The Legend Of Boggy Creek" was released in 1972 and the country was still in the middle of a bigfoot obsession, so that may have played a part. There seem to be no further reports of monsters in the area, even though a $5000 bounty brought in monster hunters from all over for a short time.

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