Family witness a 7-8 foot tall creature, covered with hair, standing in the middle of the road witnessed in Pulaski County, Missouri

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I am not sure of the date. My daughter was 1-2 years old, so it would have had to have been in 1988 or 1989. We were going from Crocker, MO. to Waynesville/St. Robert, MO. to Wal-Mart. We crossed the Waynesville/Crocker bridge on Hwy. 17 (North of Waynesville, South of Crocker) and were almost out of the "Waynesville Corners" --this highway has several corners and curves after the bridge because it has a bluff on one side and the Roubidoux Creek/Gasconade River on the other. When we were almost through the corners and coming up on the "40 MPH Speed Limit Sign" which means that we are getting close to entering the Waynesville, MO. city limits. It was a winter night, about 7:00 pm and had been dark for about 2 hours . We rounded a corner and were meeting a car--both of us had our headlights on -- and there in the middle of the road--standing right on the yellow line which separates the two lanes--is this "thing." It was about 7-8 feet tall and covered with hair. It was almost "frozen,...