Monsters are Real!

While researching the recent San Antonio Sasquatch incident, it occurred to me that the Alamo City has a notable history of mysterious hominid reports. Beginning in November of 1974, when a man named John Martinez sighted a Bigfoot creature while hunting rabbits with his friend Rick on the outskirts of the city. The following year, Sasquatch expert Dr. Grover Krantz received a letter from a gentleman who was fishing at a secluded lake thirty miles north of San Antonio. The man wrote about how he had heard a loud splash and when he glanced across the lake, he spotted an eight or nine foot tall creature on top of a limestone cliff. When the eyewitness looked through his rifle scope, he could observe that the man-like being was covered in long, gray fur and had a cat-like head. The next day, the man investigated the location where he had seen the thing and found trampled brush, broken branches and an overturned boulder. There were some highly publicized reports which emanated from Kelly Air Force Base on the south side of San Antonio, during the summer of 1976. First, a telephone worker named El Olivarri saw a seven foot, hairy Bigfoot lurking in his backyard one morning. A week later, his next door neighbor Rose Medina heard her dog barking and when she looked out her back door, she was horrified to see a three-foot tall, furry animal sitting on her back porch. Rose estimated that the being was about as big as a nine year old child and had an apelike appearance. The creature became startled when someone opened up a window and it ran off on two legs. There were other reports of activity in the area for a couple of weeks and then the hysteria seemed to die down. Very recently, I spoke to a young man who confided in me that he encountered a white colored, eight-foot tall Bigfoot about a decade ago, while riding his dirt bike at the intersection of Loop 1604 and Guilbeau Road on the City’s west side. The witness also noticed a dead pig nearby. In addition, there is a documented report from 2005, from a couple who were cleaning a trailer in a newly developing, residential area at Interstate 10 and Bandera Road. At first, they heard something banging on the walls of the trailer. When the woman looked outside, she spotted a tall, hairy, manlike figure leering at her from behind a tree. The woman was able to observe that the creature had a pointy, conical-shaped head. All things considered, it would appear that San Antonio must be counted among the places where Bigfoot is said to roam.

A newspaper clipping from 1976, describing Bigfoot reports in the Alamo City