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We were about to stop and help him.

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That's the part I keep thinking about, even now.

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Because at first, there wasn't anything about it that didn't look like a man.

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Just someone standing there at the edge of the road, right where the trees begin, in

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a place nobody should have been.

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But we slowed down.

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We were already thinking they might need help, and we were deciding whether or not to

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pull over.

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And then, right before we got close enough to see the face clearly, he dropped.

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I'm not meaning like a person crouching, or like someone slipping and falling.

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He dropped down onto all fours in one smooth motion.

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And when he ran, well, there was no doubt left for us.

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That was no man.

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That was Bigfoot.

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Looking back, I think both of us knew.

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Something wasn't right before we ever got close to it.

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We just didn't want to say it out loud.

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Me and my friend Aaron had been fishing all day.

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Nothing unusual about the day itself.

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In place we'd gone to for years.

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Way out past the county line where the roads get narrow, and you hardly ever see another

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person.

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The day had been sunny and calm.

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We'd just enough breeze to keep things cool and comfortable.

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We packed up late, much later than we should have.

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By the time we got on to the main road, the sun was already dropping behind the hills,

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and everything had that dim gray look to it, where shapes start to blur, and distances

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get harder to judge.

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Now that's stretch of road.

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I've driven it more times than I can count.

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Two lanes, woods on both sides, no houses for miles.

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It's a nice, if boring, stretch of road.

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In all the times I've been down that road, I have never seen a person walking.

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It's just too remote.

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And maybe that's why it hits so hard when we did see someone out there.

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We were still fifteen minutes away from town when Aaron pointed and said, "Hey, you see that?"

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At first I didn't.

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But then I looked where he was pointing, and the headlights reached just far enough ahead.

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I saw it.

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I saw someone standing on the right side of the road.

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At first glance.

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I was sure it was a person, probably because, well, that's what I expected to see.

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Tall and standing on two legs, just inside the tree line, like it had just stepped back

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from the road when it heard our car coming.

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And then I thought about how odd that was.

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We hadn't passed any broke down cars.

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There was no car parked nearby.

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There was no trailhead for miles that I knew of.

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Nearst housing was still several miles down the road.

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No reason on earth for someone to be out there at that time of night.

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Aaron slowed down just a little, not stopping, but still easing forward.

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And the closer we got, the more something about it all felt wrong.

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The person or the shape that we saw.

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It wasn't moving.

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I mean, not even a little.

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I had a quick thought go across my mind.

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Maybe it was one of those great big stumps that people carve up with chain saws.

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I don't know why it would be out there, but it was the first thing that came to mind because

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it was so still.

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But at the same time, I knew that wasn't right either.

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It stood so still.

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No swaying.

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No weight shifting from foot to foot.

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It didn't turn its head, didn't roll its shoulders, didn't pivot at the waist.

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Nothing.

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It stood there still as a statue.

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The closer we got, the bigger I realized it was.

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Not just tall, but broad.

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Thick through the shoulders.

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And a wide beefy chest that had to be heavily muscled from the look I had of it.

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Isn't that big?

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That isn't fat.

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Has to have a lot of muscle just to move.

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At that second, I was still going with the idea.

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It was a person, a really big person out there walking.

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So I said, "When do you think he's doing out here?"

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Aaron didn't answer.

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He just kept easing the car forward.

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We were both trying to figure it out without saying what we were actually thinking because

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by then, well, everything was really off and we both knew it.

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When we got closer, within about twenty yards, the headlights hit it clear and bright.

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And that's when everything changed and we knew.

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We knew.

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There was no clothing, no outline of a jacket.

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No color differentiation, no baggy parts, and no texture we could see that was anything

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cloth related.

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Just a lot of dark hair covering it everywhere we could see.

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And it was thick and matted in places.

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The arms we saw hung low, much lower than they would have been on a person.

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I hadn't noticed that until we got closer.

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And it's head.

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The shape of it wasn't right.

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It was like a big melon, someone plopped down on the shoulders.

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Much too large for a human.

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And I knew it when I got close enough to see it.

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I got a look at the face.

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Heavy brow.

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Wide face with a flat nose.

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Wide mouth.

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And then the eyes.

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When its eyes caught the headlights, they reflected back at us in a day.

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It all amber glow.

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And that's when I knew for sure that wasn't a man or a person of any kind.

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That's a big foot.

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And before either of us could react, it moved.

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And when it did, it took all doubt that we might have had about it being something not human

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and pushed it out the window.

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It didn't turn or step away.

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It dropped down onto all fours and one clean, controlled motion.

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Like it had been waiting for just the right moment to do exactly that.

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Then it ran.

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And I mean it ran in a way that I've never seen anything in real life move like that before.

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It didn't go crashing through things or even bounding like a deer.

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It sort of flowed with long, powerful strides.

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Its arms and legs working together, flawlessly.

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This was a movement that was born of natural fitness.

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It had been doing it its whole life.

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It covered the distance from the roadside into the trees in maybe two seconds.

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And as it ran, I got one more clear look at it, this time from the back.

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Its back was wide and muscular.

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I saw the muscles in the headlights moving under the hair.

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Everything I saw was a testament.

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This creature was made of pure power.

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And right before it disappeared into the woods, it made a strange sound.

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Low, deep.

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Not exactly loud, but heavy and resonating.

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It was something that seemed to come from deep within its chest.

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A growling grunt is the best way I can describe it.

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I was going to tell Aaron to get us the heck out of there, but he was already hitting the

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gas pedal hard.

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We'd gone down the road maybe a mile or two with neither of us speaking.

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Finally, I blurted out in the darkness.

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That was a big foot.

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Aaron nodded, still staring straight ahead.

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There are a couple of seconds he said, "Yeah, I know.

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That was a big foot."

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He looked over at me for just a second, and that was that.

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No debate, no big talk about it, no trying to explain it away.

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We both had seen it clearly.

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And well, once you've seen something like that, there's no mistaking it.

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Now what sticks with me the most isn't even how it moved or how fast it moved.

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It's how it stood there still, like it was waiting for us to slow down and stop.

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Like it knew we would do that right there.

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And you know, we almost did.

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For just a second, we almost did stop and pull over.

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And God only knows what would have happened if we had.

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My truck died in the worst place it could have.

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Middle and nowhere.

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Corn fields on both sides, no lights, no houses.

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At first, I was just irritated.

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Then I saw the corn moving.

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At first, I told myself, "It's just the wind."

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The air outside was completely still.

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And then I saw the shape of it, pushing through the field fast.

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And right then I knew.

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Whatever it was coming through that corn, it was coming straight for me.

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I used to take that road every night without thinking about it.

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Same drive, same stretch of farmland, same routine.

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After a while, you don't think about it being isolated or lonely.

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It's just part of your nightly drive.

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That night started no different than any other.

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I got off work around 11.30 pm, tired, just wanting to get home.

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There was a stretcher road about halfway back home where the fields opened up on both sides.

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This night was late in August.

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And those fields on both sides were full of corn.

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Nice and high.

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Eight, maybe nine feet tall.

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So thick, you couldn't see through them, and so tall you couldn't see over them.

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Driving through there at night, with the headlights lighting up the corn along the road, it

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felt like you were driving through a tunnel.

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The corn there was so thick and tall on either side.

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You had to bend over a little and look up straight through the windshield if you wanted to see

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any stars above.

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One night I was about halfway through that stretcher corn fields when my truck suddenly

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stalled.

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My only warning was a light sputter, and it just shut down.

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I coasted to a stop and I sat there on the side of the road for a second.

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I was looking at all the dash gauges trying to figure out what just happened.

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I still had electrical.

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My headlights still worked, so it wasn't the battery.

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I had plenty of gas.

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I had no clue.

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This truck was barely a year old.

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I figured, well, let me try to turn the key, and let's see what I get.

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Nothing.

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That's what I got.

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I tried a few more times, hoping.

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Same thing.

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Nothing.

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I leaned back, frustrated and tired.

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That's when I noticed the movement.

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At first it was subtle and often the distance, just something way off to the right.

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I thought it was the wind, but then I realized, nothing else out there was moving.

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The rest of the corn was standing perfectly still.

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The air wasn't moving out there.

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The rows were being pushed aside in a V-shaped pattern, two lines, and both lines were aiming

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straight toward the road, straight at me.

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I sat there watching it, trying to make sense of it.

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I thought it might be wild hogs there on the corn.

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We do have them, and they do like corn.

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But hogs don't move through the corn like that.

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The stalks weren't shaking or swaying like they would if an animal was down-lug going

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through the bottom of the stalks.

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The stalks were forcefully being pushed aside in uniform lines.

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And whatever was doing it was moving fast, continually correcting its course, so it stayed

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on vector with me.

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And it was moving faster than anything should have been able to move through that heavy

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thick corn at night.

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I was hearing a steady crashing sound in the corn.

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Heavy and rhythmic, and getting closer.

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I turned the key again, but the engine still would not turn over.

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I could see just the tops of the stalks shaking now, parting in that narrowing V-shaped as

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it closed in on the road and me.

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And that's when I knew for sure.

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I saw it, change its course just one row of corn stalks, so it would be dead-centered

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on me.

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I knew whatever it was, it knew right where I was, and I was the target.

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I set a prayer and cranked the key one more time.

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The engine turned, coughed, and started.

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I was putting the truck in gear when it burst out of the corn.

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I could hardly believe my eyes.

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I think my heart skipped a beat.

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You know, people always say they don't know what it was when they see it.

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I want to ask them, "How could you not know?"

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Maybe 50 years ago I could believe you wouldn't know, but not in today's world.

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Bigfoot has been all over the media, the TV, everywhere.

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If you live in North America, you have to have some kind of knowledge of Bigfoot.

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I sure did, and I wasn't a Bigfoot believer kind of person.

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I didn't watch the shows, I didn't read the books, I never even, I don't think, sat

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for a documentary.

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It just wasn't an interest, but I knew what one was.

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So I saw it, and that was the only word that I knew could come to mind.

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Bigfoot, incredibly tall, massive, huge, gargantuan, all of those fit, but none of them are accurate.

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None of them can be, it's real size.

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It was incredibly scary looking, and it was covered everywhere in a dark brown hair.

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I had no questions at all about what I was seeing.

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That was definitely a Bigfoot.

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I had the truck in gear, and I was hitting the gas.

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I looked over to see that it was running right alongside my truck, and it kept matching my

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speed as the truck sped up.

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When I hit 40 miles an hour, I looked over, and it was still right there with me.

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It's arm swinging wide and long.

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I looked over, and it looked over through the window at me, and our eyes locked for a long

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heartbeat.

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You know, there was something in that look.

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Some might call it intelligence.

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I call it awareness.

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I'm not sure, but there was something there.

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That was no dumb animal looking at me.

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As I passed the 40 mile an hour mark, it slowly began to drop away.

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As I went forward and knit fell backwards, I felt a hard slap on the back passenger side

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of the truck bed.

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I mean, it hit it hard.

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I looked up into the rear view mirror, just as I saw it slowing down to a jog, like it was

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going to stop running.

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The red taillights lit it up for just another moment, before it all faded into the darkness

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as I drove away.

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I kept driving.

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White neckling the steering wheel.

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My heart pounding so hard, I thought I was going to have a heart attack.

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I made it home, and I was still very shook up.

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I was almost too scared to get out of my truck.

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I pulled into my garage, checked on my mirrors, and put the garage door down the whole time

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checking the mirrors, then and only then would I get out when the garage door was closed.

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That experience has stayed with me.

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If I think about it, the adrenaline and all the feelings come rushing back to me.

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They did so as I was writing this email.

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I had to stop twice and go calm myself down before I could come back and finish.

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And I'm going to tell you one other weird thing.

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I took my truck back to the dealership, and I had them go over it with a fine tooth comb.

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They could not find a single thing wrong with it, not so much as a fuse was blown.

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That truck was barely a year old, but brand new off that lot.

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It's been two years since that night, and my truck has never faltered again.

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So tell me, am I crazy to think the big fit somehow caused my truck to stop like it did

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right there?

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I mean, I think it's a crazy thought myself.

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But you know, it's just too coincidental for me.

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I also don't drive that road once the corn gets more than two or three feet high.

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Before then, I will drive it during the day, as long as I can see across the top of the

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corn all the way across the field.

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But once it's high enough to hide something, I won't drive it at all, and never at night.

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I think about that night a lot, even all this time later.

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Because I have to tell you, once you've seen something like a big fit, you don't ever

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forget it.

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