Okay, so I was a senior in high school. In Biology 2 we had a wild flower project where we had to collect 50 different wild flowers (no blooming trees) in our county, document where we found them and press them. So our lake didn’t have lillies but the lake up the road did. I took the four wheeler, drove across our 113, crossed the fence line and got to the two lakes. None of the lillies close to the shore were blooming (of course) so I had to put on mud boots and start wading out there. I commanded my little sister to watch to be sure I didn’t flood them from behind while I was walking. I also had a really, really weird feeling. Like I have a weird sixth sense about snakes and it was worse than that. Heart pounding, sweating uncontrollably, shallow breaths, literally panicking for no reason I could see. I make it to the closest one and get a few and a pad to make a pretty piece and turned around to see my sister had wandered off and wasn’t watching me at all. All of a sudden the feeling got so strong I had to fight the urge to literally just teleport to the shore. I moved out of the water as quickly as I could and started screeching for the glamour gremlin to get over here immediately and how dare she walk off when I specifically told her not too. She’s a moron. We could go out and she’d think we were lost. Like did we drive through a barn wire fence? No? Okay then we are still on our property. Anyway, once I was back on dry land I felt immensely better. Snagged a water hyacinth and went back to the house. Later at school I told a friend (who’s grandparents’ lake I’d been raiding for the project) and he told me I was crazy, they’d seen a huge gator out there almost every day. Literally the next week my cousin and his friend caught it on a fishing line. So yeah. For some reason unknown to me a 95 pound scrawny teen didn’t appear to be tasty, but somehow my spidey senses were tingling, well more like vibrating uncontrollably. I guarantee the dinosaur lizard was right there watching me the whole time, I just didn’t see it.