Youth's presence startles unknown animal witnessed in Onslow County, North Carolina

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I experienced this incident while living on a military base in North Carolina. I was approximately 14 or 15 years old at the time, I am fifty now, however the incident is still fresh in my mind. At that time there was nothing for a young boy to do so my favorite pastime was wandering the military reservation and search for discarded C rations as we never had enough to eat in the house.There was 8 people in my family. One day I had skipped school to go C ration hunting. I never will forget that day, it was very warm and sunny, which for North Carolina is not unusual for a fall day. We used to call it indian summer. I had been wandering the deeper recesses of the reservation and was quite proud of the fact that not only had I stumbled across old farmsteads that the Marine corps had condemed in order to take the land but had a pretty good supply of discarded C rations. Realizing it was getting late and I had better get home, I hit a tank trail made by the marines for thier vehicles to use...