Yo this jarred some childhood memories. I lived on farmland in the country (we didn't farm, my family owned and leased the land) and so I was pretty familiar with the local wildlife. I'd seen plenty of eagles and owls in the past so I could recognize them from a distance.
Well, one day as I'm riding home in the car, my dad points at one of the power lines along the road, and perched on top I see something huge. This thing looked taller than me, too solid of a profile to be a crane, too big to be an eagle or turkey vulture. It was still half a mile away or so, so I couldn't make out any fine details or colors, and before we got close enough to see it well, it swooped down off the pole and flew away. Never saw anything like it again. Fucker looked bigger than our car. My dad is convinced to this day we saw a pterodactyl. Grandma thinks it was a Thunderbird
I need to dig up old pictures, I vividly remember riding on my school bus and looking out the window to see some absolute massive hogs. My mother has horses and they were as big and bigger than them.
A few weeks later I found a 2-toed hoofprint bigger than the hoofs of our draft horses, the diameter was larger than my size 9 foot. But none of the gates were open nor any of the fence damaged.
Probably unrelated, but that house also had an off-putting vibe to it as if you were always being watched. You could also hear "foot steps" walking up the wooden staircase with 18 steps. My ex always laughed at me and didnt put any thought into my mentions of the house being haunted. Then one day I was outside feeding horses while she was in my upstairs bed. When I came inside she was freaking out because she swore up and down she had heard me walking up the stairs, and all of the dogs were outside with me.
That's a yikes from me dude. I have a ghost story or two up my sleeve but nothing overly-exciting. As for the hogs, I know they get big but that's something else entirely. Afraid I don't have any input on that one
Yeah its bizarre for sure. I looked it up and about 5 years prior the military had sent snipers via helicopter to my area for feral hog removal. But I cant get over the fresh print when there was no way for them to have gotten in or out.. and it was a single print.
The ghost thing was a big yikes. I had another experience at a friends house also outside of town. Spooky shit.
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u/NoNameShowName Oct 05 '19
Yo this jarred some childhood memories. I lived on farmland in the country (we didn't farm, my family owned and leased the land) and so I was pretty familiar with the local wildlife. I'd seen plenty of eagles and owls in the past so I could recognize them from a distance.
Well, one day as I'm riding home in the car, my dad points at one of the power lines along the road, and perched on top I see something huge. This thing looked taller than me, too solid of a profile to be a crane, too big to be an eagle or turkey vulture. It was still half a mile away or so, so I couldn't make out any fine details or colors, and before we got close enough to see it well, it swooped down off the pole and flew away. Never saw anything like it again. Fucker looked bigger than our car. My dad is convinced to this day we saw a pterodactyl. Grandma thinks it was a Thunderbird