Man tells of a possible nighttime encounter while burning garbage near Long Prairie witnessed in Todd County, Minnesota

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Around 1989, I was home from college for a weekend in the Spring--April or May--with my best friend, and since we were looking for a little cash to earn, my parents hired us to clean out the garage of boxes, paper, etc. We decided to get my dad's tractor and hook the wagon up to it, throw the garbage in and haul to a burning pile we used to burn brush, and now the contents of the garage--this burn pile is about 200-250 yards from the house next to a woods that my parents owned. Next to the woods has always been a farm field, usually grown with alfalfa and around 150 acres; leading up to the brush pile is long, tall grass with sparse trees here and there with an old barn and old house nearby (both abandoned). We worked through the afternoon cleaning the garage, getting a sizable load on the wagon until it over flowing. We decided to finally go down to the pile, dump off what we had and leave the remaining garbage for another trip once we got the fire going. It was beginning to get d...