The trucker came upon it shortly before dawn, thirteen miles out of Ayres City, on a stretch of road that goes narrow and tricky, with state forest crowding close on both sides, and he thought he’d hit a deer. He hiked back with a flashlight.
But it wasn’t a deer. “Nor like to be anything else I’ve seen,” he told the ranger who showed up forty minutes later in response to the trucker’s call on the CB. Between them they got the thing into the back of the ranger’s pickup truck.
That was about 6:30 a.m.
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