Man recalls strange encounter while searching for his father near Jackson witnessed in Crockett County, Tennessee

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It was late April, 1994, my dad borrowed my fishing boat and went down Cypress Creek to his favorite fishing hole to try to catch a few fish. It had been a long winter and it was the first time since he had broken his hip during the ice storm that he felt like being out in nature. My dad was very comfortable in the woods and on the water for he spent all his free time there. He had lived in this area all his life. Later that evening around 9 pm my mother called she was worried that my dad hadn't come home yet. It was not unusual for him to stay out late in the woods or on the water, on numerous occasions in the past, I have had to go find him to tell him supper's ready to get him home, but on this night I to had a bad feeling about him not being home yet. I got one of my friends to go with me to look for him. It was windy and dark so we took our flashlights and headed out. Dad's favorite fishing spot was about a mile off of the highway right before Cypress Creek dumped into the For...