CRYPTOLINK: East Texas home to majority of Bigfoot sightings

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(TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH) - East Texas is home to a variety of animals, but some people claim there is a creature lurking under the canopy of pines and hardwoods, in the swampy areas and in some cases not far from major populated areas such as Tyler.

The creature has various names, such as the Woolybooger, Saquatch, the Old Man and of course Bigfoot.

As a movie crew wraps up filming in the Mineola area on a movie titled "The Bigfoot Wars," the tales of the elusive creature start to creep back into our minds.

What was that snap in the woods? Could it have been a Sasquatch?

Former Texas Park and Wildlife Game Warden Chris Green chuckled and said he had talked to many people who had claimed they had seen something they believed could have been the creature.

"You go into the deer camps and you'll hear stories about how someone saw one of them. There are a lot of people that swear they have seen something, but a lot of it is just old folklore," he said.

But believers point to the hundreds of sightings across the nation over the past decade — and the Tyler area is not immune to the sightings.

The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy (TBRC), claims East Texas is home to the majority of reported sightings, partly due to the vast amounts of forested land and ample water supply.

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