WEBVTT 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.