A truck driver has taken to the internet to report an alarming glimpse of a creature some describe as bigfoot.
USPS truck driver Gary Rutherford Jr. was operating his bos truck along his regular route on Highway 24 south of Glasford, Illinois on October 5th just before 6 a.m. when he encountered an alleged bigfoot on the side of the road.
Rutherford says he drives the same route six days a week, but this was the first time his headlights lit up a hairy, tall figure standing on the side of the road.
“I’m not calling it Bigfoot, the investigators have concluded that’s what it was, and I accept that,” Rutherford said. “All I know is, it scared the absolute hell out of me. I can’t get it out of my mind. I thought about it for days and felt like I needed to tell someone, report it. That’s how I ended up online.”
“I spoke with witness Gary Rutherford at length. He works as a truck driver and was not shy to let his name be published with his report. He knows what he saw,” said Matthew Moneymaker, a Bigfoot investigator.
“He drives this same route four times per day, six days per week. He drives for a private trucking company contracted to the US Postal Service. The trucking company transports loads of mail between postal centers in various nearby towns. He rises at 4am to begin work early.
“The exact time of the incident was closer to 5:50AM. On weekdays he says there is a lot more vehicles on this highway compared to Saturday morning at this same time. This incident occurred on a Saturday morning. He says the Bigfoot was very close to the edge of the road on the south side of Hwy 24. The nearby woods borders some protected marshland between the highway and the Illinois River.”
“The Bigfoot was facing across the highway as if preparing to cross there. The headlights from the truck lit up only the lower half of the figure as he passed by, but he could still see the rest of figure. It had very dark fur. He says it must have stood roughly 8 feet tall because its head was at the same height as his own head as he sat in the cab of a big truck. He described what he thought was bright eye reflection — ‘yellow-ish orange eyes.’ When I said other people have described ‘amber colored eyes,’ he said that it is exactly what he was trying to describe.”
Historically, there have been at least 25 bigfoot sightings in that area of Illinois.