Written Confession: Hairy Leaping Creature May Have Been a Dogman

The following written confession was submitted via email:

I have a story where I saw something very unusual as a teen with my parents while driving on our country road. It was only a few seconds but I’ve never forgotten it. My dad was driving and I was in the back seat, my mom in passenger seat. We saw an animal on the side of the road as we’re driving and we were used to seeing animals as we were driving on our road but this animal seemed unusual. The longish hair made me think it was a large dog but then it leaped into the forest on its hind legs. The vertical leap was so high that it almost went into a standing position. It was huge but the face had the snout of a dog. We would see strays on our road ALL THE TIME but this was sooo big. I was able to turn around and see it leap into the woods from the back window but both my parents saw it too as we drove by. We were all amazed not knowing what it was. It was as if it was leaping to walk away. We thought it might be a very skinny bear but it didn’t have the same hair texture as a bear and the hair was longer than a bear. All these years (30 years probably) and I just learned about dogman last year. I believe we saw dogman.