2010 Missouri

I live surrounded by large fields some of which have been in set aside programs for many years. Land that is enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program is planted to warm season grasses and left out of production. It is never mowed. It develops into huge swathes of head high weeds, briars and saplings. Predator populations have exploded in my life time because of this. In the summer of 2010 I was driving a tractor down the dirt road adjacent to one such field when an animal crossed the road in front of me perhaps 100 yards away. It was hair covered and black, it was at least man high and it crossed the road in two big strides. It appeared to be bipedal but it knuckle walked like a chimp. It took one step, put down a knuckle and was across the road in a seconds time. I saw it's profile well enough that I could tell it's skin was almost white. It's armpit shone in the sun as it reached out to place its hand down. I drove the tractor where I saw the creature enter the field and stopped. There was a clear trail where it had entered. I followed the trail cautiously for a short distance. I hadn't gotten far when I heard brush crashing and something snorting and making a sound sort of like a hog barking. I just froze but it sounded like it was coming back down the trail towards me. Eventually it even made a charge back my direction. At no point though did I get a look at it. I headed backward to the road and the tractor. I was pretty shaken up. I've never seen it again but I always have that in the back of my mind whenever strange events happen around the farm. It changed my outlook on things.