Big Cypress Bayou

Bigfoot hunter trusts his nose to find creature.

Big Cypress Bayou near Jefferson, Texas.

The motor sputtered, then died, and as the canoe drifted deeper into the swamp, gray tangles of bearded Spanish moss gave way to murky water and black cypress.

Knuckles whitened as Charles DeVore ripped the pull cord.

There wasn't time to fix the propeller, and there wasn't time for precaution.

The party pressed further into the swamp because that's where Bigfoot was.

Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, that elusive creature more often associated with the Pacific Northwest, lives among these knobby trees of the Big Cypress Bayou, DeVore will tell you.

While other people have seen the creature, DeVore, well, he has smelled it.