Posted on 08/08/2014 7:47:16 PM PDT by SolidRedState
So here's a story and you can tell me if I am bat s*** crazy or you can laugh or whatever.
My wife and I walk along a rural paved road in the evening about a half mile and turn around and come back. We have corn and bean fields on each side and nice wide ditches.
One evening about 2 weeks ago on a Monday we were walking back and noticed a dead deer in the ditch on the far side. At first we thought it must have been hut by a car. The strange thing was that it looked like it had its neck broke from the way it was laying and most of the hide was gone from its head. Its rib cage was exposed and a large hole was in its body cavity just ahead of the rib cage. We just figured varmints had been at it already. But realized it wasn't there the evening before and thought it strange it had been so devoured so quickly. So we figured we just must have not noticed it.
The next evening we went further than normal and stopped at the neighbors to drop off something he needed signed and discuss crops. We mentioned it to him and he thought it was odd also.
On our way back we were almost home and realized the deer had disappeared. This aroused our curiosity and we walked back to where we thought the seer should be and it wasn't there.
The next evening we took greater care to search the ditch on our way back to see if we could see signs of where it had been. No luck. We know we did not hallucinate this deer. We are not into drugs or alcohol or any other thing that give us visions.
A week later we were talking to our neighbor again and discussed this with him. He came to the same conclusion I had but my wife is still skeptical.
He and I decided we had never heard of coyotes leaving a kill and then coming back and dragging it off, especially one as large as a deer. This was a good size doe. They would pretty much have to work in concert and besides they usually don't dig out the chest cavity, they just start eating on it.
This morning on the way to work I saw a critter cross the road ahead of me and it was not a dog nor a coyote nor any other critter we are used to seeing. It was about 5 to 6 feet from snout to butt and a tail about as long as its body. It stood about 2 feet at the shoulders or a bit more or less.
Unfortunately it disappeared into the corn before I could get a really good look at it.
So I thought I would post up and see if anyone has an alternate explanation than the one my neighbor and I came up with.
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