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“We hear this thing crash through the brush. And then we hear this thing start crashing, just crash! Crash! Crash! Crash,” Germer said. “And you can hear it walking and you can hear it breaking branches as it’s going.”
At first he said he was upset that one of his team members was making such a racket, and thought it strange that someone would try to navigate without a light. But quickly he noticed the faint glow of the lights far away and all of his team gathered in the distance. Garrett announced: this forest creature wasn’t one of them.
Then the giant bolted off, and plowed fiercely through the dense brush with astonishing speed.
“This thing moved so fast, it probably covered 100, 150 yards like nothing,” Germer said.
The commotion settled, and Germer estimated the creature was just 30 or 40 feet beyond the tree line of the campsite, but the thicket obscured it entirely. Garrett, a seasoned East Texas tracker, loaded his gun and ducked into the brush to catch a glimpse of the monster. Germer followed, but a glimpse would never come.
Because as the two men neared the spot where they heard the beast lurking, a noise grew in the air, like the beating of helicopter blades coming straight for them.
“And I knew what it was. It was a log coming, and it was a big log, and you could hear it being thrown,” Germer said. “And I ducked down because I thought for sure it was going to hit one of us in the head.”
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