The following is a former winner of the Amazing but Incredibly True Story Contest.
Copyright Muse Enterprises for the author, 1997
Years ago my boyfriend and I decided to make a trip from Marquette, where we attended college, to lower Michigan. We left at about 10 p.m. on our 12 hour journey. It was cold, and had been dumping freezing rain all day. We were just past Gaylord on I-75 when we went off the road going 70 mph. All I could feel was the pickup truck twisting and spinning, and I remember thinking it was odd that I couldn't even see lights, it was just black everywhere. We came to a stop suddenly, but the stop seemed to be strangely gentle considering we'd been going 70 mph. We were fine, but the passenger side window had shattered and covered us both in glass.
We got out of the truck still in a daze, and a passerby picked us up and took us to the state police station in Gaylord. The officers took a report and drove us back to the scene of the accident. The officer said, "Okay, I see the truck, I see where you went off the road, I see where you hit the speed limit sign. But I do NOT see how your truck ended up where it is!" We looked and saw that the truck was about 20 feet BEHIND where we went off the road, with only our footprints surrounding the big pickup, which was nestled nicely in a snowbank. The officer showed us the tracks we made with the truck. They led off the road, through hitting the sign, and then the tracks went RIGHT OFF THE EDGE OF A RAVINE!!!! When the officer shone his light down, we could see a trail of our things that had been in the bed of the truck scattered all the way down. All we could do was thank the powers that be and wait until morning for our stuff to be retrieved so we could go home! It was a really powerful experiece that led us both to KNOW that there is more out there than meets the eye!
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