1 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:11,759 When this encounter occurred, I was eighteen years old. The year was nineteen 2 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:17,640 seventy eight. It was the strangest and most exciting thing that has ever happened 3 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:23,039 to me. After the event, I told everyone I knew. I was 4 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:28,000 excited to tell everyone what happened to me. I spent two days looking up 5 00:00:28,079 --> 00:00:32,960 anyone and everyone I knew to tell them the story. And I actually thought 6 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:37,159 that they would believe me. How could I have been so wrong and so 7 00:00:37,399 --> 00:00:42,960 stupid to think anyone would believe the story. I was laughed at and ridiculed 8 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,320 by my friends, and I was put off by family. It was humiliating. 9 00:00:48,119 --> 00:00:53,280 My parents even tried to get me to see a psychiatrist. I'm now 10 00:00:53,359 --> 00:00:57,759 fifty eight years old. My wife knows about the encounter, and so do 11 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,640 my four children, who are now grown. But it was not I who 12 00:01:00,759 --> 00:01:06,519 told them. They found out by hearing it from others in my family so 13 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:10,439 they could get a laugh at me. It has been a joke since I 14 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:15,719 was eighteen. I just smile and act like it's an everyday thing. They 15 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,200 ask me about it now, but I will not say a word. I 16 00:01:19,359 --> 00:01:22,599 just tell my kids and my wife that it's an old joke, and it's 17 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,760 not really that funny. Within three days of trying my best to tell this 18 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:34,439 story, I stopped and have never mentioned it again until now. Why now, 19 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,719 Because I like the way you run this website, Cam. It's the 20 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,120 way you treat people. No one in my family or circle of friends then 21 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:47,959 and now will ever hear this. They don't follow this topic on the internet. 22 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,159 I have to follow these encounter stories in secret, by the way, 23 00:01:53,079 --> 00:01:57,920 in a way, it's my shameful, adulterous affair with the unknown. I'm 24 00:01:57,959 --> 00:02:02,359 telling it again now also that the world knows that these creatures are very much 25 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:08,400 real and alive in our world. Every word I write here is real. 26 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:15,080 It all happened exactly as I'm about to tell it. A friend invited me 27 00:02:15,159 --> 00:02:22,240 to deer hunt on his property his family owned in Chester County and West Tennessee. 28 00:02:22,319 --> 00:02:27,159 At the time, I had a Chrysler built Jeep CJ five with all 29 00:02:27,199 --> 00:02:30,800 the cool lift kits and upgrades available to off roaders. At the time, 30 00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:37,120 I had the meanest tires you could buy mounted on that jeep. They were 31 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:42,560 Buckshot Q seventy eight's. I thought I could go anywhere in this vehicle. 32 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,400 I had run the jeep mostly in muddy terrain, and had never gotten stuck 33 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:51,960 other than the one time down at the old Allen steam plant on the Mississippi 34 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:57,319 River close to Memphis. The caked, dry looking gumbo mud of the low 35 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:01,520 river bottom had fooled me and I actually almost lost the whole jeep. If 36 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,639 I had not been lucky to get it pulled out, it would have been 37 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:10,360 swallowed in the gumbo forever, like Quickstand was portrayed in the old Tarzan movies. 38 00:03:12,439 --> 00:03:16,400 I'm spending a little time describing my jeep because my overconfidence in this jeep 39 00:03:16,759 --> 00:03:22,439 is what put me in the most harrowing experience of my life. I was 40 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,759 young and dumb, and I thought I could do anything and go anywhere in 41 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,840 that vehicle. Maybe some of the men who hear this will remember how we 42 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:37,360 were pretty much a bulletproof if you can remember back that far. We met 43 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,360 at the gate on the farm early that cold December morning, and we made 44 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:45,719 a plan. There were three of us in the fellow whose family who owned 45 00:03:45,879 --> 00:03:50,520 the property, showed us on a scribbled map onto a sheet of notebook paper 46 00:03:50,639 --> 00:03:54,719 where the stands were that we could use off. We went into the darkness 47 00:03:54,719 --> 00:03:59,719 of the winter morning. I got to my stand just as the sun was 48 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:04,199 like the eastern sky. I climbed in and settled down with great anticipation of 49 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,439 killing a good buck. I'd never killed a buck at this point in my 50 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:13,159 young life, so I was ready and I was in the right place to 51 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,839 kill one. The morning creeped by, and soon it was close to noon. 52 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,000 I had not even seen a doe, and it was a bit discouraging. 53 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,279 There were not as many deer then as there are now, so that 54 00:04:26,399 --> 00:04:30,920 was not unexpected. This was the time we had all agreed that we would 55 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:34,399 meet back at the vehicles and have some lunch. I climbed down and walked 56 00:04:34,439 --> 00:04:39,199 a mile or so back, and I met with my buddies. We ate 57 00:04:39,319 --> 00:04:42,639 and drank and talked about the morning, and I was ready to get back 58 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,839 out in the woods. The other two guys with me were bored. It 59 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:50,079 was easy to see. They acted like they wanted to get back home to 60 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,680 watch a bowl game, but I knew they just wanted to go home. 61 00:04:55,639 --> 00:05:00,000 I asked if I could hang around and hunt the afternoon. Killing a good 62 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:03,040 was on my mind. They both said that was fine, and they gave 63 00:05:03,079 --> 00:05:08,319 me directions on how to get back out to the highway, which was different 64 00:05:08,399 --> 00:05:11,800 than the way that we had come in. They told me it would cut 65 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,800 fifteen or twenty minutes off my time back home. No big deal. I 66 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,360 memorized the route. We said goodbye, and I marched back to the stand 67 00:05:20,439 --> 00:05:27,319 I had occupied earlier. I distinctly remember the sound of their truck fading away 68 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,160 in the distance in the woods getting quiet. It was perfect. I had 69 00:05:31,199 --> 00:05:36,279 this whole place to myself, and being somewhat of an introvert, I loved 70 00:05:36,319 --> 00:05:42,639 the feeling of being alone, especially in the woods. I climbed back into 71 00:05:42,639 --> 00:05:46,839 the stand with the same anticipation that I had had earlier. Even if I 72 00:05:46,879 --> 00:05:53,120 didn't kill I was just happy to be there. The afternoon crept by. 73 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,839 I think I fell asleep once or twice. Later in the day, two 74 00:05:58,879 --> 00:06:02,560 small doughes stepped into the clearing that I was overlooking, but I didn't kill 75 00:06:02,639 --> 00:06:06,600 one. It was late, I didn't really know where I was, and 76 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:12,519 dragging an eighty pound deer back to my jeep would take two hours. I 77 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,360 wanted to get out of there before the sun went out completely, so I 78 00:06:15,439 --> 00:06:20,480 passed on the dos and I just watched them munch on some grass. The 79 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:25,000 day was a bust, and I figured I had thirty minutes to get started 80 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,079 home before it was completely dark. When I got to the jeep, it 81 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,319 was dark, no matter. I had directions to get out of there a 82 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:39,079 faster way. I cranked the jeep and headed in that direction. My friend, 83 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,240 who had hunted this place since he was a kid, acted like he 84 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:46,800 knew these roads well. I made all the turns that he described to me, 85 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,519 and things were going good. I felt like I would hit the main 86 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:56,720 two lane highway anytime. The last rite I was to take looked fine as 87 00:06:56,759 --> 00:07:00,839 I started down the last gravel road, but soon it became hard to drive 88 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,360 on. It narrowed down to just the width of my tread and I could 89 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:10,399 see banks on each side of the road coming up. Some people call them 90 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:15,199 sunken roads. What they are is old logging roads that are sometimes abandoned after 91 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:20,959 the timber is extracted. These roads are not maintained by the counties. In 92 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,639 heavy rains, they wash out even deeper, and I was navigating deep ruts 93 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,399 and my jeep was tilting over more than I was comfortable with, but still 94 00:07:30,519 --> 00:07:34,839 I was moving forward. It was not a big deal. Just fall this 95 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:40,759 road five or six miles and I would hit the blacktop. Of course, 96 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,959 I hit a stretch in the road that I knew I could not get past. 97 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,879 The ruts and washed out sections were too deep. I stopped, and 98 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,560 I thought I would just turn around and go back, but I was between 99 00:07:51,639 --> 00:07:55,639 two banks on each side of the road, and there was no way to 100 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:59,439 turn the jeep around. I could have tried to back out the road, 101 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,079 but it was hot hard enough to get where I now sat going forward. 102 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,959 No place to go now but straight ahead. I squeezed out of the door, 103 00:08:09,079 --> 00:08:13,600 with barely enough room between my jeep and the red clay bank to get 104 00:08:13,639 --> 00:08:16,560 to the front hubs, and I locked them in. I dropped the transfer 105 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:22,879 case into low gear and I started creeping along. Within one hundred yards, 106 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:26,040 there was a washed out spot that I knew that I could not make, 107 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,519 but I had no choice, so I creeped into the dry gullies, hoping 108 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:35,840 for the best. One spot was so washed out that the jeep was almost 109 00:08:35,879 --> 00:08:39,759 at a forty five degree angle, and I felt the vehicle tump over onto 110 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:45,480 my side and then it stopped. Had the bank not been there to catch 111 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:50,200 the roll bar, I would have tipped over on the side I was stuck. 112 00:08:50,799 --> 00:08:54,039 It was now around eight pm. It was dark and cold, and 113 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,480 I was stuck in the middle of where I don't know. I had no 114 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:03,039 idea where I was, but I did know that the highway was ahead. 115 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,960 I climbed out of the passenger side with my heavy maglight and I started walking. 116 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:11,840 At this point, I had no idea how I was going to get 117 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:16,720 my jeep out of there, but I would worry about that later. I 118 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:18,919 just needed to get to the highway, catch a ride, and get to 119 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,639 a phone and call for some help. The night was cold and clear, 120 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,960 the moon was full, and if I had been up above these sunken banks, 121 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,960 I could have seen for several yards in the woods with no light. 122 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:39,840 The moon was to my left like a torch in the sky. The bank 123 00:09:39,039 --> 00:09:43,559 and the trees on the right side of the road were lit well, and 124 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,759 on the left side and ahead of me was shadowed by the deep bank on 125 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:52,200 the left. I'm glad I had that big mag light. I would not 126 00:09:52,279 --> 00:09:54,519 have known where I was stepping, and I could have broken a leg or 127 00:09:54,559 --> 00:10:00,240 something. High up on the left, all the trees were silhouettes, the 128 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:05,559 moon behind them to my left. I heard something walking in the leaves. 129 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,279 It was loud. It scared the hell out of me, because who expects 130 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:15,000 to hear that on a cold, frosty night in the woods. I stopped 131 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,120 and listened to the footfalls. They were heavy and deliberate, so I shouted 132 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,840 out, Hey, Hey, my truck is stuck back there. Can you 133 00:10:22,919 --> 00:10:26,759 help me? I assumed it was a man walking in the woods. The 134 00:10:26,799 --> 00:10:31,600 footsteps stopped, and I could hear something breathing like a horse just above the 135 00:10:31,639 --> 00:10:37,320 bank. It was right there. My rifle was strapped to my back and 136 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:41,440 I fumbled with the flashlight and I dropped it trying to get my rifle in 137 00:10:41,519 --> 00:10:46,759 my hands. The flashlight tumbled down the hill that I was descending at the 138 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:50,320 time and landed in a position so that the beam of the light was pointing 139 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:56,279 straight at me. I was illuminated in the darkness, and just my luck, 140 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,679 whoever was up there would it at least see that I had a rifle 141 00:11:01,799 --> 00:11:07,240 pointed in his direction. But then nothing happened. All went quiet. My 142 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:11,559 mind went to the movie Deliverance, and I wondered if some locals were messing 143 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:16,360 with me, or maybe they had other plans for me. My fear went 144 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:22,159 sky high. I have a big imagination and it was getting the best of 145 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,399 me. A minute or two passed with no noise, so I walked down 146 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:31,360 the hill a few steps and I picked up my maglight and I started walking 147 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:35,399 again, with my light scanning the top of the banks on both sides. 148 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:41,240 I heard the leaves rustling again to my left and behind me, swinging my 149 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:45,320 light in that direction, quickly, I caught the outline of a figure of 150 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,799 a man peering over the top. But as my light swung, shaking to 151 00:11:48,879 --> 00:11:54,720 lock onto that spot, I saw it withdraw and vanish. There was more 152 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:58,879 activity above and it was moving ahead of me. Now they were going to 153 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:03,399 wait on me to walk and kill me, or so I thought. I 154 00:12:03,519 --> 00:12:07,759 was terrified, and so far this had been the scariest thing that I had 155 00:12:07,799 --> 00:12:11,240 gone through. I know it scary because I was there. But what I'm 156 00:12:11,279 --> 00:12:16,919 about to tell you creeps into the unbelievable. I heard and I felt a 157 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:24,559 strange hum come from above me, like a hum from an electrical transformer at 158 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,320 your house, but it was much deeper. And then my light went out, 159 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,320 and I swear I felt the hairs on my head get static, and 160 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,080 the pores on my face began to open, and I began to sweat. 161 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:43,519 I cannot remember ever having this sensation before or since. I stopped and just 162 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:48,919 stood still in the middle of that narrow road. In a minute, my 163 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,840 eyes had adjusted to the darkness and my surroundings began to clear up. I 164 00:12:52,879 --> 00:12:58,240 could see what the moonlight. By now, the moon had crested the left 165 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:03,399 bank, and it was shining right in my face. Standing ten feet above 166 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:07,000 me on that bank and a little to my forward, was the silhouette of 167 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:13,440 the biggest monster I have ever seen. No details were clear with the moon 168 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:18,080 at its back, but I could clearly see and hear its heavy breathing and 169 00:13:18,159 --> 00:13:22,120 its size and shape. I started walking. What else could I do? 170 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:28,000 Every step I took towards that highway got me closer to safety. I wish 171 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:33,200 I had known how close I really was. I think it would have given 172 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:37,559 me a bit of hope. As things stood now, In my mind, 173 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,200 I was a walking dead man. Whatever this thing was, it would soon 174 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:46,000 descend into the hole and it would kill me. But it didn't do that. 175 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,919 It walked with me, stride for stride. My eyes were locked onto 176 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,559 this thing. As I moved down the road, so much so that I 177 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,679 fell once walking over one of the ruts in the road, dropping my useless 178 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:03,440 life. I could not find it, and so I just kept walking. 179 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,360 My rifle was back in his position on my back, and I never reached 180 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:11,600 for it. I don't know why, maybe because this thing was so big 181 00:14:11,639 --> 00:14:18,639 that I doubted my little thirty thirty lever action would do the thing any damage. 182 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,600 If that wasn't enough, a second creature the same size stepped on the 183 00:14:22,639 --> 00:14:26,679 bank to my right, and it watched as I passed, and then it 184 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:31,720 started tracking with me, but in the rear. Then another in front of 185 00:14:31,759 --> 00:14:37,399 me on my right, then another to my left, and soon there were 186 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:43,080 six creatures that I could see clearly in the moonlit night. They never made 187 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,360 a sound, sands their footsteps in the leaves, and their heavy, horse 188 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:52,559 tight breathing. At one point on the left, I could see steam coming 189 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:58,039 off the largest monsters back and shoulders. Again, I could not see details 190 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,960 of their appearance, only outlines for the ones on the left, and a 191 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,200 little more detail of the escorts on my right. They were covered in thick 192 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:13,759 hair. My neck was strained. I kept looking back and forth, then 193 00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:16,919 rear to front, trying my best to keep an eye on all six. 194 00:15:18,799 --> 00:15:22,919 The road ahead appeared to get more shallow. The banks were receding, and 195 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,879 soon I would be level with the forest floor and one way. It was 196 00:15:28,919 --> 00:15:33,360 a relief. It gave me options on a way to escape, but on 197 00:15:33,399 --> 00:15:35,399 the other hand, I didn't feel like I was going to get out of 198 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:41,279 this. So elated with feelings of this thing being over one way or another, 199 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,879 I hurried my steps towards the place where the road was not sunken. 200 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,879 As we all approached this spot in the road, the creature started fanning out 201 00:15:52,039 --> 00:15:56,799 and moving away from the edge of the banks that would soon be gone. 202 00:15:56,639 --> 00:16:00,360 When I could see into the woods on both sides, they had moved a 203 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:06,559 distance away from me, I could still see them surrounding me. They just 204 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:11,159 stood there, watching what was next. I looked at every one of them 205 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:15,840 over about a minute, maybe to make sure that one was not rushing me. 206 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,679 I don't really know, but I looked at every one of them. 207 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:26,840 My fear was subsiding, and my fascination was beginning to grow. I felt 208 00:16:26,879 --> 00:16:32,360 strangely calm in that place. In that time. It was a calmness I 209 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:37,039 had never felt the thirty degree weather wasn't on my mind. I felt a 210 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:42,039 warmth that was not physical, but rather it was emotional. It was really 211 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:47,559 strange. I should have been running like a maniac, screaming for help, 212 00:16:47,799 --> 00:16:51,799 but I didn't. I just stood there in their presence, and I took 213 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:56,120 it all in while I could. From behind one of the creatures walked a 214 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:02,320 small one. It walked up to and stood at the road's edge, and 215 00:17:02,399 --> 00:17:06,519 it looked at me. It began to fidget with its own fingers like it 216 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:11,759 was nervous, like it was doing something mischievous. Soon, an adult walked 217 00:17:11,759 --> 00:17:17,279 in behind this smaller one and gave a shallow grunt, at which time it 218 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,960 leaned over slightly, and the small one climbed onto the back of the mother. 219 00:17:22,039 --> 00:17:26,440 It had to be at some mother. I don't know why I think 220 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,720 it was, but it makes the most sense. They slowly walked back and 221 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:37,079 crunched through the leaves into the woods, leaving me with the other five creatures. 222 00:17:37,799 --> 00:17:41,240 The only other sounds I heard them make was when a strange howl that 223 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:47,240 I will never be able to replicate came from way back where my jeep laid 224 00:17:47,279 --> 00:17:52,400 on its side. The others responded by moving from their statue type poses and 225 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:57,960 making slow and almost gentle grunting noises to each other, before they all at 226 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,400 the same time started moving back from whence we had all just walked, and 227 00:18:03,519 --> 00:18:10,599 I never saw them again. I walked another mile and I heard a car 228 00:18:10,759 --> 00:18:15,440 on the road ahead, then another, and then another, and I knew 229 00:18:15,599 --> 00:18:19,160 I was home free. I stashed my rifle in some weeds while off the 230 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:23,359 highway, and I flagged down a car that stopped and gave me a ride 231 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:29,200 to a gas station only a short distance down the road. I made the 232 00:18:29,279 --> 00:18:34,440 necessary phone calls, and I was home in bed by one am. Apparently 233 00:18:34,519 --> 00:18:38,559 my father knew some people in the area, and we drove to meet them 234 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:42,759 so that I could guide a man with a tractor up the sunken road to 235 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:48,759 my jeep. I just needed it, tilted back on all four tires and 236 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:52,559 pulled one hundred yards or so. I gathered my rifle up, threw it 237 00:18:52,599 --> 00:18:56,480 in my dad's car, and then I jumped onto the grater. The man 238 00:18:56,559 --> 00:19:00,839 had hitched behind his tractor, and he and I began the ride up the 239 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:06,519 narrow logging road to my jeep. I figured that it was at least three 240 00:19:06,599 --> 00:19:11,319 or four miles before we would see it. As we came around a slight 241 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,960 corner in the road, I asked the man to stop. I saw my 242 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,480 mag light laying in the road, and I retrieved it. As I walked 243 00:19:18,519 --> 00:19:22,799 back to jump on the grater, I looked up the road and there was 244 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,920 my gray jeep setting on all four tires on the level stretch of the road 245 00:19:27,079 --> 00:19:33,160 where the banks had receded. It was the spot where the bank leveled out, 246 00:19:33,279 --> 00:19:37,279 at least a mile maybe more from where I had tumped over. I 247 00:19:37,319 --> 00:19:41,839 could see drag marks as if the jeep had not been rolled, but dragged 248 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:47,160 with the transmission engage to this spot. I know those creatures did that for 249 00:19:47,319 --> 00:19:51,599 me, or maybe they did it for themselves so that we would not come 250 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:56,640 back. I think I was the last thing on their mind. I cranked 251 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,759 it and we drove home that afternoon, at which point I began telling everyone 252 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,759 what happened to me. But you already know how that turned out.