Aaron Mahnke

As the ambulance sped alongside the winding coastline of Highway 101, a rock slide poured into the road, burying the ambulance in the rubble.

Emergency workers fought tirelessly to dig it out, but when they finally did, they found the ambulance driver dead, and the poor logger, all wrapped in bandages?

Well, he had vanished without a trace.

But not for long, because soon, the sightings began.

In one story, a young couple had parked off the 101 for a little alone time, so to speak.

Which, look, if you've ever heard an urban legend or seen a horror movie, you already know it's a bad idea.

Soon, the couple peeked out the back window and were terrified to see a looming man banging on the glass.

Oh, and his most notable feature?

He was entirely wrapped in bloody bandages.

In another story, a man was driving down 101 on a long, lonely night when he caught a glimpse of something in the corner of his eye.

Turning to look over his shoulder, he saw a figure hunched in the back of his pickup bed, all wrapped in bandages like a mummy.

In the words of Mike Helm, who published the most thorough account of this story in his book Oregon Ghosts and Legends,

His eyes were just little holes in the bandages with nothing inside, and his mouth was punctuated by red lips dripping with something, saliva or rain or blood.

Startled though he was, the driver figured that he would be safe enough.

After all, the mummy was outside the cab and he was inside, with a hearty piece of safety glass between them.

Which, of course, is when Bandage Man began to punch through the back windshield.

With horror, the driver realized that the attacker was going to make his way inside.

The man drove faster, hoping to shake the interloper loose, and eventually, as he neared town, Bandage Man dropped off, vanishing into the dark.

In yet another account, also from Mike Helm's book, Bandage Man snatches up a hitchhiker, folding him under his arm like, and I quote, "...a loaf of bread," and then vanishes into the woods.

In another, he starts snacking on neighborhood dogs.