Motorist has nighttime sighting of animal near Smyrna witnessed in Rutherford County, Tennessee

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I was coming home from work one night in the summer of 1988 or 1989. It was about 8:50 PM, dark and there was a heavy fog on the ground. I had my low-beams on be better see through this ground fog which was about 1 to 2' deep in most places. This area around Percy Priest lake was sparsely populated at that time. There were no homes and no street lights. It's 6 miles from the nearest town. My place was one of a few homes along this stretch of road. As I turned down my road, going around 35 mph in this fog I saw something move on the right hand side of the road, about (I'm guessing here) 150' from my driveway, which was on the left. The area this movement was seen was by a fresh clearing in the woods where a new home was to be built later that year. Having seen deer cross this road at night I thought it was a deer about to cross so slowed down and prepared to stop. When I was perhaps (guessing again) 100' to 125' from it I hit the brakes hard - terrified to see a Bigfoot / Sasquatch ...