A 53-year-old delivery driver claimed to have had a terrifying encounter with Australia’s Bigfoot—known colloquially as the Yowie—in November of 2018, according to the Gold Coast Bulletin.

The driver, identified only as Gary, said that he encountered the Yowie while driving in a remote area of Gold Coast’s hinterland.

The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the extreme southeast corner of Queensland, Australia. Queensland has long been a hotbed of Yowie sightings, with 76 sightings recorded by Australian Yowie Research dating back to 1932, and four sightings reported to the organization in 2018.

Gary said that he was forced to slam on his brakes when the hairy hominid suddenly appeared from out of the bush. The truck driver said the beast stood well over 6' tall, had brown eyes, and was covered in fur. He said it struck the hood of his truck before disappearing back into the dense forest.

“Underneath the hair you could see pecs and abs and all sorts of stuff,” he said. “I was shocked.”

The encounter was a decidedly unpleasant event for the man.

“It was the worst thing that has ever happened to me,” Gary said. “I tried to push it [to] the back of my head, and think ‘that was freaky, it just can’t be real’. I just couldn’t get it out of my mind. I was having trouble sleeping at night.”