People say nothing ever happens in our town, but they're wrong!
A couple of years ago my son and I were returning from a shopping spree at an
outlet store in a nearby town. It had gotten dark by the time we were heading home, but it was a
clear night and traffic was light. We were both in a good mood, feeling as we had amassed
bargains galore on our excursion. We were traveling on a short-cut road that runs by a major river
in our area and by this time were only three or four miles from home.
As we came to a part of the road where an old bridge used to be, suddenly a
shadowy figure of
a man (as far as could be told in shadow) dashed across the road just at the
point where my
low -
light headlight beams reached. As soon as the figure had made it across the
road to the other
side it was just "gone", because in the 2-3 seconds it took for my car to "catch
up" to where the
figure ran to there was nothing, and the area was open and clear--no bushes or
anything to
hide
in, just an open, cleared-out field.
My son and I both looked at each other and said, nearly simultaneously, "Did you
see what I
saw?" and the answer was an unequivocal yes! We both had seen what looked like
a man's
shadow, running faster than we had ever seen a human run, and as it got to the
adjacent side
of the road it simply was no longer anywhere in sight.
My son and I have discussed this event at length and have yet to come up with a
rational
explanation for what we both clearly saw that night. The area where this
occured is in a
somewhat "seedy" section of town and a lot of crime has transpired there,
everything from
prostitution to murder. As I commented earlier, this road runs right by a
river, and I know that
for some reason "unexplainable" things seem to often occur near bodies of water.
Also, a
bridge was there long ago and there seems to be something about bridges and
strange
manifestations.
I often travel that road and whenever I pass near where we saw the "shadow man",
I slow down
a bit and look intently, just in case he feels a need to streak across the road
in front of my
headlights again..
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