I used to live in very rural Georgia - out the back door I had a neighbor several acres away - out the front the next neighbor was a couple miles away.

The land was on an old saw mill which shut down in the 40s and we had a lake in the front yard. We cleared the land and moved in a new double wide with an open floor plan (the kitchen open to the living room).

One day I was sitting at the table paying bills when a man with a sack on his back walked through the living room. At first I thought it was my son wearing his back pack, but then I realized my son was at his father's. As that notion dawned on me, the man disappeared.

And then one day sitting by the lake fishing I saw a turtle head pop up in the center of the lake - biggest damned thing I'd ever seen - like dog size - and the ripples covered the entire lake. Musta been the biggest snapping turtle ever and explained where my missing ducks had gone. The turtle had prolly been in that lake since the saw mill was built in the 1800s. Needless to say, the kids were no longer allowed to play in the water, lol.