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SIGHTING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
When I was in high school, my parents and I lived in
southwestern Wisconsin near the Illinois border. One weekend
afternoon we were driving along the historic Stagecoach Trail
to Warren, Illinois to visit my stepfather's grandparents.
The route of the Stagecoach Trail hasn't changed since it was
established long ago, although it has been paved; it's a
narrow country highway, old but well-maintained.
As we crested a hill I noticed a man walking toward us along
the opposite shoulder, the direction from which oncoming
traffic would approach. I saw that he wore weathered blue
clothing, and he looked like he had been working (or even
living) outside for an extended time. He was covered in
yellow-gray dust--mostly on the front, as if he had been
walking into a dust storm--and his brown hair fell past his
collar and blew in the breeze. He looked exhausted, and
didn't acknowledge our passing car in the slightest, it's
like we weren't even there.
I glanced over at Mom, and her eyebrows were raised--I said
"We should give that man a ride! He's so tired." Mom agreed,
and we looked to my stepfather for his decision--he was
irritated at what he thought was a ruse, and finally stated
there had been no man, he had seen no one. The road was so
narrow it would have been impossible for Dad to miss someone
walking on the other side. Just to be sure, we turned around
and in less than five minutes we returned to where we had
seen the man; he was gone. There were hayfields nearby but
they had been recently cut, and were no more than 6" high.
There were no buildings the man could have reached on foot in
so short a time. My stepfather maintains to this day that he
saw no man, and my mother and I know we did.
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