Unidentified figure on the Bodmin Moor - Halloween night 2023

I'm posting this a few weeks late because honestly I wasn't sure if I should say anything, but several people have asked me about it and I think it's worth getting on the record.

Last Halloween night (31st Oct 2023), I was driving through Bodmin Moor around 11pm - I know, not the smartest choice. Visibility was terrible, heavy fog, visibility maybe 20 metres. About two miles past Jamaica Inn, my headlights caught something in the road ahead.

At first I thought it was a person - the shape was definitely humanoid, roughly 6 foot tall. But it was... wrong. The proportions were off. The movement was jerky, not fluid like a person walking. I slowed down and it turned to look at me, and I swear the head movement was too fast, kind of snapped around. When my lights hit it fully, it bolted into the fog on the right side of the road, which shouldn't be possible - there's a steep drop there.

I kept going obviously. Bit shaken. Could've been someone in a costume - it was Halloween. But the movement just wasn't right. The speed, the jerky gait. Has anyone else seen anything similar on Bodmin? There's the Beast of Bodmin legend but I'm not sure that fits what I saw.

Could've been a deer or large animal spooked by your car, seen through fog and darkness which distorts everything. Your brain would then pattern-match it into something more human because that's what we do. Probably nothing sinister.

The Bodmin Beast sightings from the 80s were mostly big cats, possibly escaped exotics. But your description sounds different. The jerky movement you mention is interesting - that's been reported in connection with some cryptid sightings. Possibly something genuinely unusual, or possibly your adrenaline making you misinterpret what you saw.

Bodmin Moor at night in fog is exactly the kind of place where you'd have genuine encounters. There's loads of old mine workings, isolation, folklore goes back centuries. Your sighting fits the pattern of reports from that area. Not saying it's definitely anything but the location is significant.

The speed, the jerky gait

I'd love to write this up properly for the location database if you're willing to share more details - your route, exact time, weather conditions, etc. Bodmin's under-reported in terms of cryptid sightings.