After numerous articles all around Missouri citing strange bulk throw-away phone purchases, and then a report of stolen propane tanks, a trail-cam catches a picture of a strangely behaving man in the woods and social media erupts.

MADISON COUNTY, MO (KFVS) A picture from a trail camera in Madison County, Mo. is spreading like wildfire in the Heartland.

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The picture shows a man walking in the woods near rural Fredericktown.

There wouldn’t be anything too unusual about it, but it has some people concerned. In light of recent cell phone purchases in the area that are being investigated by the FBI as suspicious, they are jumping to conclusions.

Many people are talking about it because they don’t know who the man is.

“I didn’t know who the guy was, but I didn’t think anything too bad, I thought it just a guy on the side of the highway,” John Wooldridge said.

Wooldridge said he believes he had an encounter with the man caught on this trail camera outside of Fredericktown.

“I was just leaving the house and seen a man cross the highway, so I kind of watched him because I figured he was an hitchhiker,” he said.

That’s when Wooldridge said the man ran across the highway and into the woods headed towards his house. Wooldridge said he went to go figure out why

“He came out of the woods, screaming arms wailing, making a fist just screaming,” he said.

Wooldridge called police who patrolled the area, but didn’t see him again. (read more)

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