An Almost Close Encounter
“My wife and I were camping on the Oregon coast and jogged through a guy’s campsite that he’d set up on the trail down to the beach. On the way back to our campsite, I jogged a little bit ahead of my wife and she was really upset that I didn’t stay with her. She said the guy looked really creepy. We got back to Eugene and got a call from the state police asking if we saw anything strange …
… We gave an update about the guy camping above the beach and asked why they were calling. They said someone had drowned an off-duty policewoman in a tidal pool, cut their tent lines and stolen her car. Turned out to be a serial killer who’d been killing people while traveling across the country. They caught him in southern California a few weeks later. We definitely got the “dodged a bullet” feeling.”