For a few years in the early 2000's I took a part-time night job delivering pizzas. Wow, the stories I could tell from that job; however, none really meets the purpose of this blog, except this one story. This encounter occurred on a cold, clear, November late evening after midnight in 2001.
It was a standard late evening on the job delivering pizzas. I was the closing driver and worked until 2am during the weekdays. After 10pm at night when the stores are closed and people are home relaxing, the roads and neighborhoods get very quiet, dark and lonely. I lived in this community, so I was quite familiar with the lay of land, the wildlife, and people.
I left this evening after mid-night to make a late night delivery to a rural, mixed farm and large single family home region. This area backs up to a very large state park and large river which runs west 40 miles and east 15 miles. As I turned onto a long straight narrow back road, I turned on my high beams. The road along one side is lined with large single family homes on tree filled, 1/2 & 1 acre lots; the opposite side of the road is a series of small farms which start at the roadside and run back against the state park (as mentioned above). I see these farms all the time and noticed that they had been harvested of corn that week. The fields were flat with some small stalks of corn left.
As I drove down the road I noticed a large hump at the roadside a few feet into one of the cleared cornfields. It stood out, because harvested fields are quite flat and I never remembered a large hump in that location on the corner of this field. As I approached I slowed down a lot to get a better view. The large hump when about 40 yards off was very dark and slightly rounded at the top. When I got to around 15 yards off, I could clearly see it was covered in dark, long, matted fur. I slowed down even more and put the window down. I was thinking at this point it may be a dead animal. When less than 10 yards off I realized it was way bigger then I thought. The hump was about 5 ft tall. Next thing I noticed was it was moving slowly upwards. As I got directly next to it, I honestly got freaked out and stunned. All at once I got a strong whiff of a rotten garbage type smell and I put the window up. As I looked back out of my rear side window I saw it stand fully up and quickly it started to move off into the field.
The next day I returned to the area during the daytime. Unfortunately there is nowhere to park to check out the area. So I slowly approached the spot and noticed two things: 1) the field being slightly elevated above the road it was hard to see where it had been crouched down 2) the farmer was out turning his field so I was not about to trespass 3) if there was any evidence it would be erased by the turning of the field.
The creature was tall, very tall and bulky. It quickly disappeared off
into the dark field towards the state park. With my best opinion, it was
a bigfoot. Possibly it was feasting on the left over ears of corn in
the field. During this period of time many sightings of bigfoot were reported in that area. Since then, the small farms have been developed into housing and no bigfoot reports have been made since.
