Sam Houston National Forest

WMAs in the National Forest and Grasslands in Texas include Alabama Creek WMA, Davy Crockett, Bannister, Angelina National Forest, Caddo National Grassland, and the Moore Plantation WMA in the Sabine National Forest.

The entire Sam Houston National Forest also is a WMA.

And then it goes on from there.

But that's the place you want to go.

They come from the piney woods.

They come from the Sulphur River and Caddo Lake and the Sam Houston National Forest.

And they go back a long way, long before anybody in Fort Worth was talking about a goat.

Earl worked the Trinity River bottoms below Dallas as a game warden for 26 years, and the morning he tells about was in November of 1982, about 40 miles downstream of the city, in a tract of bottomland hardwood between the river and an oxbow lake that the state had just taken on as a wildlife management area.

The camp burned in 2008, and nobody rebuilt it.

Marisol is 41, and she's a schoolteacher in Beaumont, and she said she's told her own kids the old stories the way they were told to her.

Gene was running a dozer for a pipeline contractor in the Sam Houston National Forest in March of 2001, clearing right of way through a section of pine and hardwood north of Lake Conroe.

And he was the last man on the job that evening because the foreman had sent the rest of the crew back to the yard and asked him to finish pushing a slash pile before dark.

Are you ready for the fourth and final story? Eyes in the Dark.

One day my husband and I were doing a day hike in the Sam Houston National Forest, north of Houston.

As usual, we got out there too late for the hike I'd planned.

I think we were doing some kind of loop that joined up with the Lone Star Trail at some point.

Settle in, get warm, and prepare yourself for a collection of eyewitness encounters that may make you think twice about venturing into the woods alone.

This encounter occurred in the Sam Houston National Forest near Double Lake in Cold Spring, Texas, in September 2024, shortly before the opening of bow season.

I went camping with two friends because we planned to spend the night in the woods and get up early the next morning to hunt deer.

I had watched a few Bigfoot programs when I was younger, but I have never spent much time researching the subject, and I had no reason to expect anything unusual during our trip.

an odd time of year that was that was weird um but i think what's interesting is the i think the most dangerous place to be in america maybe than other than some of our worst neighborhoods of gang activity or something are forested areas nearby large urban centers because it gives the bad guys a place to go operate with less cameras, security, body dumps.

And we see that stuff in places like the Sam Houston National Forest.

My number... one dark outdoors episodes on the same Houston National Forest, which has had wild stuff happen.

Everything from human trafficking to bodies dumped and drug activity because it's close to Houston, right? It's close to two major highways.

no i mean that's just such a common thing that you hear in these experiences which is why i would if you would ask me i'd be more in the camp of you know whatever sasquatch is it is this uh other right i guess i'll just call it that but that's interesting is this the only time that you've had an experience regarding sasquatch that had to do with things like orbs

So the next one was in the Sam Houston National Forest in Texas.

Okay.

And we were investigating there, and it was kind of interesting, that one, because there was a camp that we were supposed to investigate.

The land where she was found is now part of the Blinn College campus in Bryan.

On the same day Candy's body was discovered, law enforcement tracked Earhart to Sam Houston National Forest.

They found him asleep in a car he had recently traded for.

A .22 caliber pistol sat on the front seat beside him.

We've had a couple of rains.

I don't think they're still there." And he said, "Well, the hands are, their hands are pretty greasy, so why don't we go take a look?" So we walked over to my truck, and this was in the Sam Houston National Forest when we had this event over by Kelly Springs.

And, uh, Kelly, Kelly Springs, I think that's what it's called.

So we walked over to the truck, and when you're looking at the truck straight on, like you're standing and the side of it is facing you, you don't see anything.

Right.

My friend, like I said, my friend Joe up in the same Houston National Forest was telling me that, watch out, they throw trees.

So this

one just ripped the tree up as a show.

Yeah.

Haven't gotten this tested yet, but...

Where did you find that? This was in Sam Houston.

Sam Houston National Forest.