A listener writes “I had a strange experience about a year ago and thought I would share it with you. At first, I wasn’t really sure what I saw but after listening to your podcast, some things have lined up with some stories I’ve heard.
Not really sure what I saw but was hoping you could shed some light. So, I live in upstate New York and travel to the salmon river which is in Pulaski, North of Syracuse.
Probably Made the trip 100 times or so. The town is small and located near Lake Ontario. The river runs inland and becomes less and less populated the further you go.
Anyway, my father and I were out fishing one day and around two in the afternoon we decided to head home because it’s about a 2 1/2 hour drive. We were headed East and the river was on our left hand side. The distance to the river fluctuated from 20-40 yards as we drive but clearly visible. To our right, there are mostly open fields, maybe 100 yards or so to the fat tree lines.
As we were driving back we talked about fish we caught, fish we didn’t and what a great time we had. I would always glance to the river from time to time to see if I could see anyone fishing in the river. I was driving so it was always a quick look over. At one point, I looked over and as my eyes were returning to the road, I thought I caught a glimpse of what I thought was a large carved statue of either a bear standing on its hind legs or a bushy tree maybe about 8 to 10 feet tall. At this point I saw movement which was this “thing“ crouching down and exploding towards the road. If I had to guess, I would say it was possibly 50 to 60 feet out in front of me and 30 to 40 feet off to the left.
The best way to describe it was massive jet black creature that was running on all four legs. The crazy thing about it was the length of each stride and the speed at which this thing moved. I would say it took one or two strides before it hit the road about 15-20 feet in front of me. I thought it might be a wolf or something like that but once it was in front of me I realized it was way too big. But it was fully extended, legs from front to back almost completely extended both lanes of the road I was traveling.
It was jet black long hair, almost oily in appearance and just one giant beast of muscle. I never saw a face but the thing I did notice which, which caught my attention was that there wasn’t a tail. I kind of freaked out, hit the brakes and pulled over to the right. But by the time I got out of the car to take a better look, it had cleared the 100 yards of field and disappeared into the tree line. I thought about it and if I had to guess, it probably took me 8 to 10 seconds to pull over, get out of the car to take a look and it was gone.
So the details I remember that freaked me out was the massive size, 8-10 feet tall, muscle on this thing that I could see even though it was covered with this strange jet black oily hair, no tail and the speed and the ground this thing covered in the blink of an eye. There was another car behind me that pulled over as well and once I was out of the car and couldn’t see the creature, I looked to the other guy who was also out of his vehicle at this point. He looked straight at me and said, “what the f@ck was that?!??” I thought I was seeing things or just exaggerating what I saw until I had that confirmation. Also, the look on my fathers face told me the story in an instant. Just complete disbelief.
We tried rationalizing the whole ride home trying to make sense of what we saw but the reality was that we have never seen anything like we did that day.
Once home I tried to research what I saw and after a few hours, I found one story of a hunter in Pennsylvania that saw a similar creature from his deer blind. He said a deer was eating in a recently harvested corn field and this creature seemed to come out of the woods to attack the deer but missed him and then darted back into the trees. The Hunter had mentioned that the creature was massive, removed with incredible speed and had long, jet black, oily hair from head to toe.
I decided to share the story because I’m not quite sure what it was. I’ve been listening to your podcast for some time and have picked pieces and different sections of stories that kind of fit the agenda of what my father and I experienced.”