Witnesses claim seeing 'creature' near I-65's Exit 128 on the night of July 23

Witnesses claim seeing 'creature' near Exit 128 in Butler County.

I received an interesting “Bigfoot” report the other day, and the witness asked me to pass it along to readers of The Courant because he thinks that what he saw could be dangerous.

The witness in this case asked that I not release his name because he doesn’t “want to get labeled as a crazy person.” With that said, you can take it from me that this person is a very reliable witness. He is an upstanding member of the community and would be widely known if I were to use his name.

According to this witness, he and his son were traveling from Greenville to Belleville on Tues., July 23, around 10 p.m. They had just gotten on Interstate Highway 65 at the Greenville-Pine Apple Exit (Exit 128) and were headed south towards Conecuh County. A short distance south of the exit, the witness and his son saw something very strange.

“We had probably gone one or 1-1/2 miles when we saw something on the side of the road,” the witness said. “As we approached, we could see it was darker than the night.”

The witness noted that there are no lights along this stretch of the interstate, and there were no other cars nearby when this incident occurred.

The witness went on to describe seeing a tall creature with “long, stringy, black hair that covered its face.” Its body was black and covered in hair, the witness said. Only its fingers were visible, he noted.

“Whatever it was, it was as tall as a speed limit sign,” the witness said. “It stood right by the road, toeing or almost toeing the white line, staring at the ground. As we passed by it in our van, it never looked up. It never moved. It just stood there.”

At first, the man couldn’t believe what he’d seen, so he asked his son, “Did you see that?” The son said that he had but didn’t want to talk about it. The father asked the son to describe what he’d seen, and his description matched what the father had seen.

When the pair arrived in Belleville, the man texted his wife and told her what he’d seen. She told him about newspaper reports she’d read about Bigfoot-type creatures in The Courant and encouraged the man to notify the newspaper. Initially, the man didn’t want to go public with his story, but finally decided that he should let someone know.

“This thing could be violent and could possibly hurt someone or their animals,” the man said. “Also, there are a lot of wrecks on this particular stretch of interstate between Greenville and Georgiana. I just wonder if this thing could be the cause of some of them.”

Stories of strange creatures being seen along I-65 are not unheard of. In fact, just last year – on July 7, 2018 – a woman from Birmingham reported seeing a Bigfoot-like creature emerge from the tree line on I-65, near the Murder Creek Bridge sign at Exit 93 in Evergreen. The woman and her two daughters were traveling south on I-65 and saw the creature, which was covered from head to toe with reddish-brown hair, walk towards the interstate in broad daylight.

As many readers will also remember, the 40-mile stretch of interstate between Evergreen and Greenville was designated “The Haunted Highway” in the book, “Haunted Places: The National Directory” by Dennis William Hauck. This book claims that this section of the highway is haunted by the spirits of displaced Creek Indians and has resulted in an “accident rate that is well above average.”

In the end, I’d like to hear from anyone in the reading audience who has seen anything out of the ordinary on I-65, especially if you saw something strange on the night of July 23. Chances are, with as much traffic that goes up and down the interstate, someone else may have seen the same “creature” described above.