YEAR: 2024

SEASON: Summer

MONTH: June

DATE: 25th

STATE: Oklahoma

COUNTY: McCurtain County

LOCATION DETAILS: We were parked in mountain view RV park, Watson, Oklahoma. It's right on the state line or Arkansas in the mountains.

[Investigator (MM) Notes:

GPS coordinates for the RV campground:
34.437712, -94.546502 ]

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NEAREST TOWN: Watson, Oklahoma

NEAREST ROAD: Our camper was at mountain view RV park I cannot remember the closest road

OBSERVED: On June 25th, 2024 my wife, my two children and I were outside our camper in Watson, Oklahoma cooking over our campfire. It was late evening and we were listening to music and talking, while our kids played in their small spiderman pool.

We had our cattle dog outside with us on her leash. Out of nowhere we hear a huge wood knock. It honestly sounded like somebody broke a small tree in half from the tree line about 50 yards from our camper. Immediately all our heads turned in the direction of the treeline, indicating to me that we all heard it. Our dog then began to growl and stare in the direction of the treeline. She attempted to wind whatever it was.

After about 15 minutes we kind of forgot about it. I had a VA appointment down in Austin, Texas the next day. At the time we were travelling the country in our camper. We left and stayed in Texas for a night leaving our camper behind. When we returned to Watson, Oklahoma where our camper was on the 27th something or someone had drug our dog food container out in the open and successfully opened it. You would have to have thumbs to do this.

Also when we walked into our camper, something had shaken our camper hard enough to knock our shelves off the wall, which were held up by a strong adhesive. Perhaps the most mysterious part of the whole thing is that whatever it was ripped one of our solar panels off the top of the camper and was strong enough to break the welds which the bolts where bolted into.

A person could have simply unbolted the bolts if they wanted a solar panel, and the solar panel wasn't even stolen on top of that. I have pictures on my iCloud account of the broken welds and the solar panel hanging on by a sliver of metal.

This was right before a big thunderstorm and the ground was very dry, so unfortunately I was unable to find prints and at the time I was a bit of a sceptic. I first thought maybe a person had done this, but my fishing poles and tackle where unsecured outside the camper and nothing was stolen. I do not know who would do this just for fun, I'm not saying it was bigfoot, but I've never seen a human who could be strong enough to break actual metal welds like that which secured our solar panel. I only wish I had definitely seen this creature, but when you put the pieces together in an active county like this it has to be bigfoot or something similar.

ALSO NOTICED: The wood knocks and tree break were unusual and there were no claw marks on our camper, so I ruled out black bear. Plus our camper is about 9ft up, I don't think a bear would climb the camper and rip off a solar panel for no reason while nobody was in there.

OTHER WITNESSES: My wife and I were hanging out by our campfire when the first incident occurred, we left on June 26th and arrived back on June 27th and noticed the camper damage and we put two and two together.

OTHER STORIES: No

TIME AND CONDITIONS: It was late afternoon in the summer time, the sun was begining to set but it was still very daylight.

ENVIRONMENT: We had a clear view of the Ridgeline of the mountains, surrounded by forest and ponds. There was a national park about 10 miles away and a lot of running streams in the area.

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:

This location is 5 miles west of the Arkansas border. It is definitely a bigfoot area.

About BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:

Matthew Moneymaker is originally from the Los Feliz District of Los Angeles, California.

- Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

- Juris Doctorate (Law degree) from University of Akron School of Law

- Founder of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization,1995.

- Writer and co-producer of the Discovery Channel documentary "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science", 2001.

- Co-producer of the TV Series "Mysterious Encounters" for the Outdoor Life Network (OLN Channel), 2002.

- Producer of the "2003 International Bigfoot Symposium" (Willow Creek Symposium) DVD set, 2004.

- Co-host of "Finding Bigfoot" on Animal Planet Channel, 2010 - 2017.

- Current Director of the BFRO

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