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The Doclopedia #3,251
New Cryptids: Giant Tumbleweed
Although tumbleweeds often clump up, sometimes in the hundreds, during periods of high winds, this cryptid is a whole different item.
The tumbleweed in question was first sighted by Roger Casey and his cousin, Fred Gibbs, on Ramsey Mine Road, about a mile south of Interstate 10, in Arizona. They had been out rock hounding when, around 2:30 pm on May 5th, 2022, they saw “the biggest damned tumbleweed in the world.”
According to Casey, it was a good 20 feet across and much darker colored than an ordinary tumbleweed. In fact, he said it was nearly impossible to see daylight through. He and Gibbs watched it from about 200 yards away as it rolled slowly toward them. After a few seconds, Gibbs realized that it was moving against the wind, which was blowing at about 7 miles an hour from the north that day.
Getting “a little spooked”, the two men started walking back to their pickup. As Casey looked back, he saw the tumbleweed picking up speed. Breaking into a run, the men got into the truck with the weed only a couple of feet behind them. They took off, but the weed followed them nearly back to I-10. When they slowed to get on the highway, they noticed the tumbleweed rolling off at a fast pace toward the south.
An investigation by law enforcement found that while both men had a low level of blood alcohol, neither was legally impaired. A search of the area turned up nothing aside from the skeleton of a coyote.
The only other sighting so far of the Giant Tumbleweed came in February of 2023, near the town of Gila Bend. Vacationers from Oklahoma reported seeing a huge tumbleweed
south of Interstate 8. They reported that it looked darker than other tumbleweeds and may have had a person inside it. An aerial search of the area found nothing, but two months later, the skeleton of a man was found a few miles from the sighting area. His bones were strewn in a 1.5 mile line heading due south.
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