Great stories. Had one really strange incident in the 80's that I could never figure out. Was rifle hunting in the noxubee river bottoms of Mississippi. These are really big hardwoods and visibility was real good between the trunks, out to 100 - 150 yards all around. Saw something coming straight towards me from a ways off and watched. Kept coming right at me and saw it was a coyote. At about 10 yards I fired. It vanished. Never saw it run away. No hide, no hair, no nothing! Almost as if the ground just swallowed him up.