(Hoax) Virginia Waterway Picture

June 2014

The pics come from Virginia resident Randy O'Neal, who said he photographed the creature lurking on the shore of the Intercoastal Waterway in Virginia. Unfortunately, these are just pictures of a burn mark on the side of a stump near the water that is in the general shape of a two legged figure.

Randy claims he was fishing with his father and a buddy when it supposedly caught their eye.

He uploaded two fuzzy cellphone snaps to YouTube, along with a tale about a similar supernatural encounter in the same spot 25 years ago.

Back then, O'Neal claimed, he was camping with his father and the same friend when he saw "red eyes" watching them from the woods just beyond their campfire.

He opened fire with a shotgun, and he heard something scream and go crashing through the trees.

"When this 'Thing' hit the water, it sounded like a volkswagon had been dropped into the water," O'Neal wrote.

"The following morning we went to where we heard the creature and we were shocked," he wrote.

"The path that the creature cleared through the woods as it headed for the water was cleared as if a skid steer had gone through the woods," he said, referring to a construction loader vehicle.

The trio never figured out what it was.

He mused whether the same figure he allegedly saw Saturday was the beast he encountered as a 15-year-old.

"We are not claiming that his is a 'BigFoot,' but I promise you that whatever I shot was something that I have never seen or heard before nor again in my life," O'Neal said.

He added, "I can honestly say that these are the clearest, most 'Non Blurred' images I personally have ever seen. Let forensics do their work."