Urban Legend Becomes Reality

Urban Legend Becomes Reality
recorded by
Brian Barnett
My Uncle Roy told me this one a couple times now. It creeped me out both times I heard it. It’s almost like as if the “high beams” urban legend came to life.
Apparently Papaw and Roy were fishing in Benson Creek one night. They decided to move further upstream, so they were heading to the car. Roy saw a guy who looked kind of strange. He thought, in fact, that he saw the guy carrying a knife. When the guy saw Roy, he crossed the road almost as if to avoid him.
When Papaw came up the hill to his car, the guy asked him for a ride. Papaw, being the humanitarian that he was, was obliged to. Roy didn’t like the way the guy looked. He still thought it looked like the guy was carrying a knife, tucked into his jacket sleeve.
When they left to head up the road a bit, Roy road right on Papaws bumper so that his headlights would shine bright on Papaw and the hitchhiker. Eventually they came to a stop so that Papaw and Roy could continue fishing and the hitchhiker walked on up the road. Roy told Papaw that he drove so close so that he could keep an eye on the guy.
They never encountered the guy again, but within a couple of days they saw in the newspaper that the guy had apparently slept in a nearby barn. The next day he stabbed someone in the back and robbed them.
Of course Roy joked that “Blackie probably would’ve throttled him if he had tried any of that with him”, but it remains a scary “near-miss” memory for him.
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