A family vacation took a terrifying turn when Walter, Bernice, and their adult son Michael were towing a 16-foot toy hauler up the remote Taylor Highway. Approaching the bridge over the Mosquito Fork of the 40-Mile River, they spotted three massive figures crossing the road ahead. Initially mistaking them for fly fishermen dragging rod tubes, the family was shocked to realize the figures were nearly nine feet tall—and appeared to have thick, four-foot-long tails.
Pulling across the bridge to get a better vantage point, the family spotted one of the pitch-black figures peering out from the brush below. The massive entity suddenly stood up in full view of the truck, assumed a squatting position, and began making a bizarre, mocking "rock-a-bye baby" motion with its arms while smiling. The surreal sight caused Bernice to break down and Michael to begin crying in shock. Desperate for proof, they grabbed their digital cameras and cell phones, only to discover that every fully charged device in the truck had inexplicably and simultaneously died.
As Michael stepped out to look over the opposite side of the bridge, he suddenly bolted back to the truck screaming for his dad to drive. A violent barrage of heavy rocks began pelting the toy hauler. Walter froze at the wheel, transfixed by a massive, tailed entity standing just off the road holding a boulder, aggressively glaring at them as if daring them to move. Michael finally broke the terrifying trance by firing a warning shot out the truck window, causing the creature to drop into the brush and allowing Walter to gun the truck up the highway to safety.
