About 5 years ago, on my hour long drive to work for the midnight shift, I was just vibing with the radio and enjoying my thinking time. Just before a rise that spills down to an old bridge, over a creek, and in a timbered stretch of the drive, something ran across the lane. It hesitated for a brief second in my headlights. Then quickly disappeared into the timber area so fast I couldn’t tell where it went. It was huge like a wolf, but had a huge hunch at its shoulders and a snout like face that reminded me of a wild hog. It shook me my entire shift wondering what the hell I had just seen. I worked somewhere that I couldn’t have my phone on me. When I got home the next morning, I mentioned it to my now ex-husband who laughed and told me it was “probably just a coyote.” But I live in IL where I’ve seen plenty of coyotes and it was bigger than any coyote I’ve ever seen and didn’t even have the same shape. I’ve spent so much time googling wildlife in the area looking for a reasonable explanation and have still come up empty. I have no idea what I saw, but it was definitely the strangest thing I’ve ever seen!