[RKDinOKC]

Have flash memories from before i was 2. Taking a trip with mom, dad, and grandma when 1st neice was born two days before my 2nd birthday. And moving to a new house right after we got back.

Also remember riding my tricycle in the driveway of that new house when I was 3, seeing a huge brownish black bird fly across the opposite end of the block, ran into the house and refused to go outside by myself for 2 weeks. That end of the block our street ends with a street going across to make a T. The big brownish bird made one slow flap of it's huge wings as it went across the end of our street. There were telephone lines and a car parked across the end of the street. It was about 15 ft above the phone lines and as long as the car parked under them. I am convinced it was big enough to catch, cart off, and eat me.

After a couple of days the marine recruiter that lived across the street tried to convince me his son shot it with a bb gun, and they buried it in a grave that was the size of a trash can lid, they had a trash can lid on the grave with a brick on top so it couldn't get out. Told them the bird as long as a car from nose to tail and would not fit in the grave, and there was no way a bb gun would kill it. And ran back to our house.

Nobody believed me, and I never saw one again. Later learned about thunderbirds and that is the closest description I've read or heard about.