Nick doesn't believe in Bigfoot
Nick is a bundle hauler for the Times-Standard. Five nights (early, early mornings actually) a week, Nick drives a van from Eureka to Crescent City, transporting Times-Standards to home-delivery carriers and single-copy machines in Del Norte County. (Apparently, the Times-Standard still sells well up there.)
One night last week, Nick was driving north past the Trees of Mystery on Highway 101 when he spotted what he described as "someone about seven feet tall wearing all black" walking along the side of the highway. This would have been between 1 and 2 a.m. Nick said it appeared it to be wearing something slick, like rain slicks. Whoever or whatever it was, was extremely large, Nick said.
Nick drove a bit further, but was so unnerved by what he saw that he pulled over and waited for someone else to drive by -- he sees a lot of the same truck drivers on this run -- to ask if the driver had seen what he saw. But nobody came, and after several minutes Nick decided to double back and see if he could espy the creature again. But it there was no sign of it.
Nick is a 60ish Vietnam-era veteran of the Navy's submarine corps. I can personally vouch for his sobriety on the job, as I work with him several nights (mornings actually, shifts start at 12 a.m.). Nick says he doesn't believe Bigfoot exists. In fact, he claims he knows some people who helped perpetuate the hoax. But he has no idea what it was he saw on the highway last week.