Farmersville, Collin County, Texas, early May 1914, 10:00 AM — brothers Silbie, Sid, and Clyde Latham followed their dogs Bob and Fox to a fencerow where an 18-inch green entity stood motionless and staring north. The dogs attacked and killed it. The blood was red. The anatomy appeared normal. The entity made no response at any point. Source: Ted Bloecher. Case status: Unexplained.
THINK ABOUTIT ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT
1914: FARMERSVILLE, TEXAS — THE GREEN ENTITY IN THE FENCEROW
On a morning in early May 1914, Silbie J. Latham was thirteen or fourteen years old, chopping cotton with his two older brothers Sid and Clyde on a farm two and a half miles west of Farmersville, Texas, when two dogs named Bob and Fox set up a deathly howl. The brothers followed the sound to a fencerow where the dogs had something cornered. Clyde got there first and said: Boys, there’s something in there. It must be something kinda bad. Then he said: Boys, it’s a little man. What they found was an eighteen-inch figure standing still, staring north. It was green all over — either naked or wearing a frogman-type outfit of the same color, impossible to distinguish. A hat with a wide brim sat on the back of its head, but the hat was of one piece with the rest of the body. It said nothing. It made no move to flee or engage. The dogs worked themselves into a frenzy and then attacked it. The entity was torn limb from limb. The blood was red. The internal anatomy was normal-looking. We were all just country as hell and didn’t know what to do. They went back to hoeing. Ted Bloecher documented it. The archive holds it — not because it is comfortable, but because it happened and the biological evidence is in the record.
Date: Early May 1914 — exact date not recorded; Silbie J. Latham was 13 or 14 at time of encounter
Sighting Time: 10:00 AM
Day/Night: Day
Location: 2.5 miles west of Farmersville, Collin County, Texas, USA — cotton field, fencerow
Urban or Rural: Rural — cotton farm
No. of Entity(‘s): 1
Entity Type: Unknown small humanoid — 18 inches in height; green coloration; biological entity confirmed by red blood and normal internal anatomy observed after death
Entity Description: Approximately 18 inches in height. Green all over — the witnesses could not determine whether the green was bare skin or a frogman-type one-piece suit of the same color. A wide-brimmed hat on the back of the head — but the hat was of one piece with the rest of the body, suggesting either a physical feature or an integrated garment. Stood still and stared toward the north. Did not acknowledge the two dogs despite their frenzy. Did not attempt to flee, communicate, or defend itself. Made no sound before or during the attack. When killed by the dogs: blood was red, internal anatomy was described by the witnesses as looking like guts look — normal biological tissue. The entity was literally torn limb from limb by the dogs.
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) — close observation of an animate non-human entity at very close range; physical contact between the entity and the dogs; biological evidence from the entity’s death. Note: no associated craft was observed or reported. CE-III is applied as the closest standard classification for a close-range entity encounter. High strangeness classification is additionally retained — the entity’s morphology does not correspond to any known terrestrial species.
Duration: From the dogs’ initial howling to the entity’s death — minutes; the entity remained stationary throughout
No. of Object(s): None — no craft observed
Distance to Object(s): The witnesses were at the fencerow — direct proximity; the entity was within the dogs’ reach
Height & Speed: Ground level — standing stationary; no movement recorded
Number of Witnesses: 3 — Silbie J. Latham (primary named witness, 13-14 years old); Sid Latham (older brother); Clyde Latham (older brother, first to reach the fencerow)
Special Features/Characteristics: Hat or cranial structure of one piece with the body — either an integrated biological feature or an inseparable garment, suggesting either a non-standard anatomy or a perfectly form-fitted environmental suit; green coloration throughout — no visible color variation between hat and body; absolute stillness — the entity did not react to the dogs’ frenzy or the brothers’ approach; red blood confirmed — ruling out non-biological mechanical construction; normal-appearing internal anatomy — confirmed biological entity of unknown species; the dogs’ deathly howl was the pre-encounter alert, consistent with the animal response pattern documented across multiple archive cases; three named sibling witnesses with no apparent motive for fabrication; the Latham family told their parents and were not believed; the brothers returned to the site multiple times that day but did not return after; Ted Bloecher documented the account specifically for his humanoid entity research
Case Status: Unexplained — biological entity of unknown species killed by dogs and physically examined by three witnesses; red blood and normal internal anatomy confirmed; no known terrestrial species matches the description; no craft associated; case stands as the only pre-war entity case in the archive involving biological confirmation of an unknown entity
Source: Ted Bloecher, humanoid entity researcher
Summary/Description: In early May 1914, three brothers chopping cotton west of Farmersville, Texas followed their two dogs to a fencerow where they found an 18-inch green entity standing motionless and staring north. The entity made no response to the dogs. The dogs attacked and killed it. The brothers observed red blood and normal-appearing internal anatomy. They told their parents and were not believed. Ted Bloecher documented the account. The entity has never been identified. Case status: Unexplained.
Related Cases: 1893: Fayette County Pennsylvania Monster — Seltzer’s Hole | 1912: Australian Humanoid Sighting, Currockbilly Range | Texas Sightings Archive | Small Entity Cases Archive
Detailed Report
The Green Entity in the Fencerow — Farmersville, Texas, Early May 1914 Source: Ted Bloecher, humanoid entity researcher
Silbie J. Latham, then 13 or 14 years old, had gone to the fields with his two older brothers Sid and Clyde. Two dogs, Bob and Fox, accompanied them. They were chopping cotton when the two dogs set up a deathly howl.
The three boys walked about 75 feet to a fencerow where the dogs had something cornered. Clyde got there first and turned to the other two and said: Boys, there’s something in there. It must be something kinda bad. Then he said: Boys, it’s a little man.
Silbie looked and saw a little man some 18 inches high, just standing still, staring toward the north. He was green all over and either naked or with a frogman’s type outfit on, green in color. There was a hat with a wide brim on the back of his head, but it was all of one piece with the rest of the body. He said nothing and did not even acknowledge the dogs, by now worked up to a frenzy.
Right after the three boys arrived the dogs finally attacked the being, literally tearing it limb from limb. Blood and guts went everywhere. The blood was red and the guts looked like guts look. We were all just country as hell and didn’t know what to do. The dogs just chewed him to pieces. After they killed him we just went back to hoeing.
They told their folks but no one believed them. They went back to the site several times that day but after that they never returned.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
The Green Entity in the Fencerow — Farmersville Texas 1914 and the Biological Evidence Encounter
- Red Blood and Normal Anatomy — The Archive’s Only Pre-War Biological Confirmation: Every other entity encounter in the pre-war archive describes entities that depart, vanish, or are never physically contacted beyond brief touch. The Farmersville case is unique: the entity was killed and its body physically examined by three witnesses. The biological details — red blood and normal-appearing internal anatomy — rule out several categories of explanation simultaneously. The entity was not mechanical. It was not an hallucination. It was not a misidentified animal whose anatomy would have been recognizable to three farm boys from Collin County, Texas who had killed and processed animals their entire lives. What they observed was biological tissue of a type they recognized as biological but did not recognize as belonging to any animal they had ever seen. The archive holds this as the strongest physical evidence of an unknown biological entity in the pre-war record.
- The Hat of One Piece — Integrated Biology or Integrated Garment: The detail that the wide-brimmed hat was of one piece with the rest of the body is among the most analytically unusual morphological observations in any small entity account in the archive. It can be interpreted two ways: either the hat-like structure was a biological cranial feature — a flange, ridge, or extension of the entity’s skull — making it physically inseparable from the head; or it was an environmental suit or covering so perfectly form-fitted as to be indistinguishable from the body at the seams. Either interpretation produces a conclusion outside known terrestrial biology. The same ambiguity applies to the green coloration — skin or suit, the witnesses could not determine which, and the inability to determine which at close physical range in full daylight argues for either extreme biological camouflage or an extremely advanced covering material.
- Absolute Passivity — The Most Disturbing Behavioral Detail: The entity was cornered by two dogs in a frenzy and did not move. It stood still and stared north. It said nothing. It did not acknowledge the dogs at all. It made no attempt to defend itself, flee, communicate, or respond to any stimulus before the attack began. This passivity is not cowardice — a biological entity with normal survival instincts would have attempted flight or defense in the face of two attacking dogs. The entity’s absolute stillness in the face of the attack suggests either a physiological state that prevented response — shock, dysfunction, injury from a prior event — or a deliberate behavioral protocol of non-engagement that the entity maintained even at the cost of its own life. The archive notes both possibilities without resolving them.
- Three Named Sibling Witnesses — Family Corroboration Structure: Silbie, Sid, and Clyde Latham were brothers, working together in a field with two known dogs, on a specific farm at a specific location. Their family was told and did not believe them. The brothers returned to the site multiple times that day — they were not so traumatized they refused to go back, which argues against pure fabrication. They then never returned after that day — which argues for a genuine encounter they preferred not to revisit. Ted Bloecher, one of the most rigorous humanoid entity researchers of the 20th century, documented the account specifically — the archive notes his inclusion as a credibility signal. Bloecher did not include accounts he considered unreliable.
Three Texas farm boys in 1914 found something in a fencerow that their dogs killed and they stood there with it and the blood was red and it looked like something alive that had been torn apart. They did not know what it was. They went back to hoeing. They told their parents. Their parents did not believe them. They went back to look at it several times that day and then they left it alone and Ted Bloecher found the account fifty years later and the archive holds it now. The entity was biological. The blood was red. The archive holds the record.
