I was in the car with my mom, my younger brother, and his friend. It was a late, foggy night and my mom was driving us to TP a friend's house. We saw a creature about the size of a coyote (which are very common out here in the country, Middle TN) but it was running sideways, almost crab-like, and had a long snout that was flopping like an elephant's nose as it ran. It looked straight at us as it ran in front of our headlights, and then it was out of sight.

We all four looked at each other in disbelief, and said "What the heck was that?" This was about 10 years ago, but we still talk about the creepy coyote/crab/elephant, lol. Our best guess was that it was maybe a coyote that had been hit by a car, or attacked by another animal and was disfigured, but it was unlike any animal we'd seen before or have seen since.