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Thursday, June 19, 2025

'MINI T-REX' Encounter Near Midland, Texas

In October 2014, during JC Johnson's appearance on 'Coast to Coast AM,' a caller described a 'mini T-Rex' encounter in west Texas. I have been reporting on the small dinosaur-like cryptid sightings in South Texas over the years.

Dan in Bakersfield in California, called in to tell of something strange he observed as a child:

“I want to tell you about something that happened to me when I was about 13 or 14. I was living in Midland, Texas, at the time, and we would ride our motorcycles in the desert outside of town. We encountered, I don't know how to describe. You guys were talking about a mini T-Rex? Is it from West Texas? (speaking to host Dave Schrader and guest JC Johnson).

I remember seeing this thing, and it was probably about two feet high. It stood up on its back legs. It didn't have, like, fingers or like you'd normally see a T-Rex in the movies with three or four fingers. It only had one claw. We were running our motorcycles around and scared it off, I guess. It was greenish-yellow, I think, in color, and I never really thought about it. I just assumed it was some weird, you know, lizard, but I remember. It was about 2 or 2 and a half, maybe 2 or 2 and a half feet high when it stood up. When it stood up, it had this egg-shaped dome. The only thing I can say is that it did look like a T Rex. It had an egg-shaped face or head. (The caller talks about an old Art Bell show where a caller described an encounter with a T-Rex.)

There were four of us. We were about 13 or 14 years old at the time. We saw it was crawling along on all fours, and as we rode up on it, it reared back, and it had these little tiny arms. It looked like a little T Rex. So I honestly thought I missed it, or it was standing, or I didn't see it right, until years later when I heard that call on Art's show. It was angry. It wasn't happy that, and my friends were riding our dirt-bikes in that area.”

Source: Coast To Coast Radio - October 26, 2014.

NOTE: Other T-Rex sightings and encounters in Texas - Small Living 'T-Rex' Dinosaur Sightings in South Texas. Lon

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