BFRO #3550: Midnight traveler watches upright creature cross road

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📝 Description

At approximately midnight I was traveling home from my parents, I got about 3 or 4 tenths of a mile, going slowly up a steep grade, I saw something out of the corner of my eye, assuming it was a deer about to cross the road in front of me I stopped. Well it wasn't a deer, when I first looked at it I thought maybe it was a bear walking upright, but when "it" got directly in front of my headlights I couldn't believe my eyes! It was NOT a bear! It walked ever so slowly across the road like the car wasn't even there, did not even look my direction.I was so scared, (my little girl was sleeping in the back seat) I thought I should just step on the gas and try to hit it, all kinds of ideas were racing through my head, but I decided not to try to run over it cause I thought if I just hurt it and make it mad it might hurt me and my daughter.I'm sure it was probably only a minute but it seemed like a lifetime until it crossed the road and was gone.It made no sound. It resembled very much the pictures at this site. I have never spoken of this publicly, and have only told very close relatives. I had nightmares for years afterwards. A few years later my mother and my daughter were walking through an old strip mine just a short distance from where it had crossed the road years before, there were fresh footprints in the mud! I believe my brother made a plaster cast of the print. (We don't speak any longer so I'm not sure if he still has it). I originally saw this thing in 1977, my mom saw the prints about 5 years later. So obviously it was still around the area.My parents have passed away, and the area is now much more populated.

🔍 Circumstances

I had just dropped my mom off at her home, we had been out for the evening. NO ALCOHOL INVOLVED.

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