A veteran truck driver with nearly 50 years of the road, see something in a Texas

field that defies everything he thought he knew about the natural world.

I'm Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news.

There are moments in life when everything you think you know gets thrown out the window.

For most of us, those moments involve discovering our parents were right about something,

or finding out that our favorite childhood cereal has been discontinued.

But for one long-haul truck driver in East Texas,

that moment came on a clear, sunny afternoon in November 2025 when he glanced out his window

and saw something that would challenge his understanding of what can and cannot exist in the Texas

countryside. Wayne Yerian has been driving trucks for nearly 50 years.

That's five decades of highways, rest stops, weather delays, and the kind of monotonous

miles that would make most people question their life choices by year three. He's been a volunteer

firefighter. He was an Eagle Scout in his youth. This is not, in other words, a guy prone to flights

of fancy or tall tails. When you spent half a century behind the wheel of a semi, you've

seen just about everything the road has to offer, or at least that's what Wayne probably

thought, before November 18, 2025. On that particular Tuesday afternoon, somewhere between 2 and 2.30 p.m., Wayne was hauling

his belly-dumped trailer down Texas Farm to Market Road, 1253, heading toward the small community

of Garden Valley, about 20 miles northwest of Tyler. The day was clear and sunny, the kind of

weather that makes East Texas actually pleasant,

and Wayne was cruising along at about 50 to 55 miles per hour.

That sounds like a perfectly ordinary workday, and it was, except for what happened next.

As Wayne passed an open field along the west side of the highway, he looked over and spotted

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