A listener writes “I live in northeast Oklahoma. I was deer hunting in October 2006. It was about 430 am. I was walking to my tree stand and noticed a coyote running right at me.
It was dark but I had a flashlight. I got scared and froze up but it ran right passed me like I didn’t even see me standing there. I watched it run off and was thinking about how strange that situation was. That’s when I heard some sticks breaking and a crashing through the woods, I spun around and it was three deer running right at me. I’m freaking out by this point. They ran passed me as well. I wondered if a bear had spooked all of them. I was closer to my tree stand than I was to my truck. I decided to get down there and get up in the tree to figure out what my next step was.
I never smelled anything but up ahead of me like 75 yards down the trail I caught some eye shine. Kind of a greenish glow. I froze and my body went numb because these eyes weren’t at my level or like something on all fours. These had to be from something at least 7 ft tall. And it was swaying slightly back and forth but looking right at me. I did t know what to do but run. So I turned around and ran back up the trail. That’s when I heard a very large growl/grunt I’m not sure.
As I was running I heard it running kind of off to my left and keeping pace for a short while. As I approached a clearing near My truck I heard a big crash of some dead trees or some fallen timber. I didn’t stop to check it out. Got to my truck and left. Never have been back there. Sorry for the long email. I tried to give you the highlights.”