Submitted Story from Oklahoma
When
I was 14, (I am now 37), I was riding home from church with a friend (who was
16) in his dad's small 1987 Ford Ranger truck. The church that we
attended is known as the Country Tabernacle PCG, located on Cheek Road in Lone Grove, OK.
This road runs South, perpendicular to Highway 70 just a couple of miles west
of town. The night was slightly foggy and misty, but visibility wasn't
compromised. We left the church as soon as it was over that Sunday night
around 8:00pm. The church is 7 miles South of Highway 70. We were
traveling north towards my home across town. 
We were both chatting and
listening to the radio, but my friend was a very responsible driver and wasn't
that distracted. As we came to the intersection with the highway, there
were no other cars or pedestrians around. I made a mental note of how
little traffic there was on the highway and dismissed it as due to the fact
that it was a rainy Sunday night. We made a rolling stop at the
stop sign and was in mid-right turn when for some unknown reason, I was
compelled to look out the back window over my left shoulder. What I saw
when I looked out the window was a human figure walking northbound across the
highway. I only saw the profile and back of the figure for the few
seconds that I viewed it. It was tall and skinny, wearing a khaki trench
coat, cinched tight around the waist. The hands were shoved into the coat
pockets, shoulders hunched. The head was looking at the ground and had a
gray fedora (gangster/Indiana Jones style hat) pulled down over the eyes.
I saw no recognizable features of the face. Gray slacks were noticeable
at the bottom of the calf-length coat. I did not notice any feet.
The figure's legs were moving but its motion was more of a smooth glide.
It covered the ground very quickly. I thought it strange and asked
my friend if he saw it, for I thought at first that he had almost run over a
pedestrian. He looked in his mirrors and said no. It was then that
I realized that it wasn't humanly possible for a physical being to be
there. For it to have been where I saw it when I did, the figure would
have had to be walking right behind the truck at the same speed as the truck
and then continue moving northbound as we turned eastbound. We were
probably going over 5 mph at the time and the figure looked as if it was just
traveling at a leisurely pace. A normal person would have had to be
jogging at least to make that time and then they would have had to run right
through the bed of the truck to be where they were when I saw them. I
have gone over the physics of this many times in my head and I still come up
with the same conclusion. It could not have been a physical person.
Even if it was, why did I not see any feet when I saw enough to get such an
accurate description of everything else? About 9 years ago I was telling
this story to the girlfriend of another friend of mine and she freaked
out. This is what she said. When she was in high school, a story
circulated that if you went to that intersection and waited in your car, the
figure (dressed exactly as I saw) would come and knock on your window. If
you rolled your window down, it would ask you a question, (I can't for the life
of me remember the question). If you answered it the apparition would
disappear. Supposedly the police got wind of this and went to check out
who was pranking people. A couple of officers waited in their patrol car
at the intersection. Right on cue the figure appeared, knocked, the
officers rolled the window down and answered the question. 
The figure
disappeared and the officers sped back to town with lights and sirens
blaring. Whether or not this happened, or it is a legend, I don't
know. But I know what I saw that night when I was 14. And I will
never forget it. - By : Kelly
McDaniels
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