Terrifying Tales: Minecraft’s Entropic Society

A Romanian film I consider myself a rather big fan of silent movies my father had a couple of reals of old grimy yet still elegant Productions like Phantom of the Opera greed and the cat in the canary every couple of months or so me and the rest of my family would all sit

Down and watch one of them with an old projector as nice relaxed movie night they were always very fun and many of my core memories Center on those nights the Scream Of Terror I had when the Phantom’s true face was shown the happiness when the menacing cat was

First arrested the initial confusion of attempting to follow many of these plot lines and misplaced joy and anger as I followed the story My juvenile mind created as I watched as I have grown up I have taken other interests and hobbies but my love for classical silent era films have never gone

Away I have made friends who collect film rails just like my father I have touched held and seen incredibly rare movies that if listed online would easily go for hundreds if not thousands of dollars I preface the story with all the background because it is integral to how

I have come across something so bizarre a a few months back one of my friends gave me a contact of his in Europe Serbia specifically and told me that he had a film that he said I would be fascinated by which also happened to be something he’d be glad to loan off

Himself for 200 Serbian Dinars interested I asked and received his contact information and later that day I sent him an email introducing myself and inquiring about the movie asking basic facts about when it was made and if any other copies had surfaced his response confirmed the film was as prophesied by my

Acquaintance and slightly broken yet understandable English he claimed the movie was filmed all the way back in 1907 and was of a Romanian origin also noting that he had not seen the film listed anywhere else which indicated it had not only been lost but was so obscure absolutely nobody even knew of

Its existence besides me him and his family along with anyone else he happened to tell about it according to him his grandfather had bought it off a Wandering salesman near the Serbian Romanian border he never spoke much about it but the seller recalled his father telling him to watch

Out for roaming fences citing that he himself had seen a man without a tongue babbling about some movie trying to sell it it had been kept in the family ever since although he couldn’t say whether or not he hadd ever watched it at all and he certainly knew he never did

Because he would either not want to sell it or there wouldn’t even be a film to sell he remembered his father telling him about how it was about some man meeting a demon but the details were fuzzy in his head and he couldn’t remember entirely the name of the movie omu

Dii or homage for the devil in Romanian certainly supported this with my interest peaked I wired him the pain he sent me one more email thinking me profusely in retrospect I should have seen the warning signs starting here it was three entire pages of the phrase thank you thank you so much repeated

Over and over and over again and then a few more weeks later a packaged arrived in the mail opening it up it was a Dusty oxidized movie reel with the film wrapped around the center I took out my old projector and screen and carefully inserted The Reel turning

It on and starting the movie I had a strange uneasiness as I watched the film move it started with just a black screen for a couple of minutes before coming to an establishing shot of the small town the picture Clarity was unnaturally high for a movie so old and it was clear that

The town wasn’t a model nor a set but a real one people moved in and out of shops and restaurants and talked to each other on the pathways horses were seen carrying cargo on the Cobblestone roads after a couple of minutes of this shot it cuts to a balding man writing

Something in a study of some sort the room is dingy and dark the only light being from a couple of candles at the table where the man is sat down he’s wearing a disheveled suit with a plaid shirt and his pants half holes and cut off just around his ankles

I can’t see issues but I can infer that they’re in similar bad condition after a few minutes or so of just riding he gets up and walks to the door opens it and walks through we cut to another room very small and connecting to some sort of

Dining room there’s a bed at the back where we see an emaciated woman and a young girl lying the girl has black hair while the woman wears a night cap both wear white gowns and are under blankets that cover their lower bodies the girl sways back and forth a

Bit and seemingly tries to keep away from the woman on her right who is perfectly still almost like a corpse when the camera Cuts again it answers why it’s a close-up but the woman who stares directly ahead with large unnaturally wide open eyes her pupils look like that of a GS a long

Thick horizontal line going across the eye West to East notably there is a dent on her forehead not a hole a dent as if her head was metal and a hammer had been taken to it like a nail it cuts again and the man is walking out of the house

He walks along the road the camera cutting to show his walk in entirety from all different sorts of angles across the street from a second story of a building right in front of him Etc he walks inside a building along the way and it cuts again the man is now in

An office pleading with what seems to be some sort of an executive of a company an old fat man in a suit and beard the man starts off the conversation quite normally but as it goes on he increasingly gets more and more unhinged he starts screaming acting out exaggerated gestures and appearing

To shed real tears by the end of his tiate the fat man just laughs in his face as response and in return the man slaps him across the face and storms off an anger it cuts again after what appears to be sometime later the man stands before an altar in

A similarly dark room as before a jagged dagger in one hand and a thick book in the other he places the book on the Altar and lifs his free hand above it brandishing his dagger as if to slice his palm and Rain the book in

Blood the spine of the book had a cross on it indicating it is a Bible the man’s demeanor is also quite off his face cannot be seen but his dagger hand is shaking he turns it over in his hand constantly as if he is anxious and Afraid after a minute or so of

Deliberation his free hand wraps around the blade it cuts without showing the Slash and the man is seen with a bandage on his hand he is standing before a leg appearing to wait for someone it is obviously night the only light being from the candles seemingly

Provided by the film crew and half the moon reflecting off the surface of the lake after a couple of minutes the movie abruptly cuts to Black before cutting again to the lake scene with one huge difference a horrifying creature now stands before the man almost looking like it hovers above the

Lake the Abomination carries a human figure a terrifyingly skinny one with long and spitty arms and legs despite the black and white nature of the movie I can certainly deduce that the creature is pale glowing in the night almost fluorescently there’s a man of dark feathers around its neck going down its

Back and its face oh goodness its face it’s an ugly wrinkled inhumane mess punctuated by a large nose that appears almost like a pig snout and huge bulging eyes with bloodshot vessels you could see from miles away around it tendril like limbs Sprout and orbit the thing loose flesh and

Fibers flowing in the apparent wind there is no conception in my mind as to how these most likely dirt poor Romanians were able to construct such a lifelike complex organic prop or even a costume in 190 seven the most likely thing is that they didn’t The Entity reaches out to the man

It stares at the man for a second and before it cuts away I swear I can see it move towards him if only just for a millisecond the next shot is back in the bedroom with the woman and girl this time the man is standing before them in

His own night gown his expression is lifeless one of Despair and it cuts to Black again for a few seconds and the creature appears again tendrils flowing and everything it reaches a lanky arm out to the man and his attention is grabbed he then just stares at it for a second

Before the film cuts to Black again and goes back to the scene for a final time the creature is gone the man is still standing at where the creature was and abruptly starts walking out ending the scene the next scene is not for the faint of

Heart so I will spare the Gory details and give a brief summary the man walks into the altar room with a small bundled thing the camera starts to zoom in from afar on a particular part of the bundle the man slowly turns it and it reveals a screaming balling baby the

Camera zooms out again and the man tries to shush it to no avail finally he takes the dagger out again pointing the blade at the baby the next scene is the man returning home and the scene is disproportionately Happy compared to the horrors in the last one the woman his apparent wife

Greets him at the door with a hug and a kiss while the girl who appears to be his daughter jumps into his arms his wife’s head notably doesn’t have the dent anymore the man himself has an odd air about him his beaming smile and jubilant attitude are infected

By his shame and Dread something that’s not immediately noticeable but can be easily seen once you do his eyes are Shifty and the hand he held the dagger in shakes just a little bit enough to be noticeable the scene Fades doesn’t cut into the next scene the camera Fades into the same

Bedroom the wife and daughter were in except the man is laid there instead on all of the furnishings and such are taken out of the room leaving such a plain white room with the bed the man coughs and turns around in the bed in agony his bald head shines with sweat

From his sickness and he is clearly in a lot of real pain just when the man is laid still the scene appears to have run its course a sudden pentagram appears on his chest the lines of the star in circle burst into flames igniting the man and

The blanket soon everything is on fire the man can’t be seen very well but I can only imagine how fast he burns into a human puddle it is a clear repentance for his previous deal and sin the last scene is a small funeral for the dead

Man the coffin is already in the grave and the grav Digger is on standby for when it is over only one figure is shown up and it’s not the man’s wife nor his kid it is a tall figure who face cannot be seen due to the wide brimmed hat it’s

Wearing a priest comes into the frame with a Bible quickly giving the man his last rides before leaving the tall figure steps forward slowly and offers a single unknown flower before the camera cuts to a backshot of the figure walking away as the figure takes its hat off I audibly

Gasp as it reveals two large dark horns as it walks away the movie ends with no credits I have no idea what to make of this movie it is bizarre in a way I cannot hope to be seen replicated anywhere else the Frantic editing tells me it’s a movie

But the lack of said designs and appearance of real emotion and the entity tells me it is not I am so bewildered and confused I fear I have stumbled across something that no man was ever supposed to see and I hope this does not make its way out of

My possession the knowledge of its existence and contents within could paint a Target on my back and lead to the destruction of my life and potentially the backbone of many others lives ever since I saw it on that fateful day around 3 months ago there’s been an aura around my house I cannot

Shake like something is always watching me observing me and it follows me everywhere I go around the house whether or not it’s the effects of the movie taking its toll on my mind even all this time later or if it’s something more than just paranoia I’m not so sure considering the

Nature of the things I saw in the film I cannot rule out the possibility that some Spirit or remnant of the man entity or someone else followed me all the way from Serbia latched onto the film like a postal stamp to finally greet me once I

Exposed my eyes to that wretched tape in spite of everything I have but one question and if the devil was only at the funeral what in the heck was that thing that the man Saw the cave credited to Arch feared part one there were originally nine of us scheduled for the spelunking Expedition but Murphy’s Law dictated that two of the group had to pull out duee to various issues it was a disappointment having fewer members to share in the experience but then again there were

Benefits less logistical problems more space and so on I personally wasn’t affected by it while most of us were all close friends I hadn’t known these two very well our Ronde view was the cave entrance at the crack of dawn I was the first one there as usual those who often

Know me remark and my attention to punctuality slowly the rest of the group arrived parking their cars and unloading the equipment that we had organized between us as the Expedition leader I had the emergency provisions on me first aid kit flare gun GPS locator it seems quite odd that a flare

Gun would be taken into an underground location but I’d rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it we assembled at the Cave’s entrance there was Jason Alex Karen Samantha Vincent Ashley and of course myself Alex and I were experienced spunkers while the rest had varying

Skill levels moderate were Karen Vincent and Samantha poor Jason and a first- timer Ashley normally it was against my instinct to take a first- timer in into an unexplored cave and in such large group but he had promised to obey every command I gave him and he agreed to

Carry the most cumbersome equipment on the safe parts of the track the cave loomed in front of us it was typically dark and rather for booding not for the first time I wondered why it was according to every available record of local geological sites unexplored perhaps it was the isolated

Location or the fact that until recently there had been no way for vehicles to access it through the surrounding Forest are you sure it’s all right Ashley nervously asked shifting from foot to foot his earlier bravado had deserted him yes you can’t change your mind once

We’re in so decide now I said flatly turning around without waiting for an answer he’d make his own mind up without any further input from me the rest of the group followed me after a few minutes of apparent indecision Ashley hurried in after the rest of us Soon the Darkness swallowed us

Whole inside the cave was quite larger than it appeared it proceeded inwards for about 200 M and then sloped down quite quickly as per usual I ordered the group members to Buddy up a system in which the group divided into Pairs and three and were responsible for keeping

Together Ashley and I were Partners given that I was the most experienced and that he was the least it wasn’t as fun splunking when you had to care for somebody else but it was a necessary evil besides he was a quick learner soon the sunlight from the Cave’s mouth faded flares out everybody

I ordered one by one the Expedition members cracked their flares as per local guidelines each member carried two packs of 30 handheld flares it may have been excessive but the flares weren’t very strong and only provided enough light for the immediate area around the user I took a glow stick from my pack

And wedged it into the Rock beside me only I carried these and they were quite stronger than the flares able to last up to 12 hours with diminishing light after8 I would use them to Mark our Trail back back up slowly we continued down the handheld flares lasted for 15 minutes on average

And soon we reached an edge I ordered the group to stop 5 ft from the precipice where the ground leveled out as you may have noticed I am a stickler for safety measures but not without good reason I didn’t want a death on my hands Ashley crack a flare and throw it

Down I said watching to see how he did it it Ashley withdrew a flare from his backpack and lit it then without moving he tossed It Forward down the hole I nodded in approval he hadn’t moved forward from the 5 meter guideline I crept forward to the precipice and looked into the

Abyss then I saw it descending Into Darkness barely half a meter from the Cliff’s Edge was what appeared to be a staircase part two the light of the flare made one thing quite clear it wasn’t a man-made staircase at least it didn’t look like one it appeared to be HED out of a

Descending Rock meaning that the original Cliff would have extended further into the cave the stairs were rough and uneven but it was close enough for government work as The Scene goes what is it one of the group members asked from behind me looks like a natural staircase of sorts I answered

Distracted I withdrew another glow stick from my bag and planted it at the top of the stairs let’s go we descended cautiously for caves are notoriously deceptive ahead of me the darkness grew thicker it seemed palpable almost physical as if my thoughts were true the flares we held seemed to diminish in the

Face of the Abyss after 50 or steps I reached the bottom that’s when I heard the crack it sounded like a gunshot loud and sharp I spun at the foot of the stairs behind me Jason was tumbling down at the last few steps straight towards

Me I spun out of the way and he crashed onto the floor moaning in agony the rest of the group hurried towards me concerned as I bent to inspect the injury it was obvious his ankle was twisted Twisted at an unnatural angle clearly broken Jason’s face had rapidly lost

Color Karen Vince it grab him by the arms careful I said quietly unwilling to exasperate the situation by panicking they picked him up slowly his ankle dangling grotesquely beneath him something glinted under the Crimson light at the flares I knew it was his bone I reached into my pack taking

Taking out two small batons and a white bandage this is going to hurt I warned the caution was wasted on Jason anyways he was half unconscious I grabbed his ankle and twisted his ankle cracked again that roused Jason from his stuer he screamed piercingly loud enough to hurt my

Ears quickly try not to prolong his Agony I wound the bandages around the batons which BRAC either side of his leg the screaming stopped but not because of the pain had faded he was unconscious take him up to the entrance of the cave and go to the hospital if he

Wakes give him these painkillers I told his helpers and Karen and Vincent nodded and began the arduous climb up to the surface holding their unconscious Ward shouldn’t we go with him I mean his ankle was Ashley began but I cut him off no we came this far and we’re not going

To stop now I want to investigate this cave to the end remember I told you that you couldn’t change your mind I said sharply taking out my anger at letting the accident happen under my leadership on him Ashley known as Ash to his friends but I never used that fell

Silent I felt a fleeting sense of guilt at my attitude I brushed it off and spun around already Jason and the others were out of view around the group The Darkness surrounded us like a malevolent entity The Landing that we were on Led Out further into the cave for quite a

While and we proceeded incident free thankfully I marked our progress with the glow sticks at various intervals strangely like the flares they gave off less light the deeper we progressed it began to unnerve me and I could tell that the others noticed it too Alex and Samantha who were

Incidentally brother and sister fell a few steps behind us Ashley to my right was silent finally as the flares grew even dimmer I saw something in the wall to my right I called the diminished group over and cracked a few new flares to provide extra light it appeared to be some sort of

Carving in the wall I studied it carefully the scene depicted a few humanoid forms on the ground a few scratches of red seemed seemed to indicate wounds various pillars around them Rose to the roof of the cavern but that wasn’t nearly the worst part in front of the people the victims

I now corrected myself was a large figure it may have been detailed in the past but only the outline remained the body was scratched out it was a disturbing scene then I looked beneath the scene and my eyes widened it had a message part three the strange thing about the

Message was that it was in English the carving looked entirely authentic meaning that a caveman if you pardon the pun had created it I found it in possible that the same person could have scrolled the five words below the picture behind me Alex read it out loud The Jackal in the

Cave how strange he said indeed that was the message written entirely in capitals I dismissed the painting and turned back to the main path it was obviously a hoax there was no way a caveman could have write in any scripts let alone in English probably just some kid mucking around and days long

P but it still made me uneasy regardless of what I assumed it to be if it was a hoax then why does it look so freaking authentic eventually the four of us had her fill of the Jackal in the cave and after Ashley had snapped a photo of it for a

Keep sake we continued in the cave I was forced to light two flares off at a time now to ward off the choking Darkness the diminishing effects of the flares puzzled me in all my time splunking I had never encountered anything like it I wondered whether it was a defective

Bunch or some other reason it had to have a logical r rational reason behind me Alex and Samantha were still locked in conversation I picked up snatches of the heated debate as they walked they like me were still pondering the origin of the admittedly ominous cave drong I wish they dropped it

Already or at least quiet to down I looked to my right saw nothing but a sloping cave wall and looked away back to the trail I froze and turned there among the rock I had just glanced at was another carving I felt sick as I hurried over to it the Red glove the

Flares flickered on the walls dancing over the picture making it look demonic under the sparse light it depicted a scene much like the last except there were only two bodies on the floor the third was midair seemingly held by an appendage not quite an arm not quite a tentacle from the supposed

Jackal The Pillars around the scene appeared again except with small and distinct etchings on them like before only the faint outline of the Jackal appeared the rest of it having been scribbled out or scratched I couldn’t tell which underneath it was another five-word message one that I read quickly and immediately wish I

Hadn’t go back the Jackal Waits it said I turned from The Carving as the others moved in to get a good look at it and try not to panic the air felt thin and dry much like the air in the Andes I’d gone climb there a few years

Ago and terrible things had happened which explained my preference for underground rocks as opposed to Aerial ones but that’s a story for another day and another time around me the darkness was thick I could no longer see without the flares in ag suddenly irrationally I knew if I stayed

In this underground Labyrinth for much longer I would lose my sanity but that was the mind of an irrational man talking I leaned against the opposing wall breathing deeply and slowly to regulate my rapid heartbeat spots danc in front of my eyes momentarily as I oxygenated my blood

Rapidly slowly the Panic faded to be replaced by a sense of calm I didn’t get overworked often but when I did I tend to Edge towards hysteria taking one last deep breath I straightened and looked around that’s when I realized that Ashley was gone part four slowly I stood scanning the passage

For any sign of Ashley Samantha and Alex were still arguing over the cave carving they were typically argumentative of identical twins as Alex drew breath to continue his opinion I stepped between them holding my hands up in peace have either of you seen Ashley he’s gone I said

Stepping back once I saw that they’ ceased fighting and listened to what I said no they said in unison I sighed in frustration and looked around the cavern there was no trace of Ashley anywhere he couldn’t have gone far not with that massive packing get trapped to him Alex said reasonably possibly

Sensing the Panic that I felt the entire Expedition had had its problems from the start first the dropouts then Jason now this it was like we were cursed or some other type of superstitious nonsense I was born a skeptic and proud of it he could have only gone forward or

Back said Samantha walking forward to the edge of the light and looking around we should split up and no I said Resolute we are not going to split up under any circumstances if Ashley went back he’ll eventually get out of the cave by himself so we’ll go forward and hope

That that stupid dude doesn’t do anything Reckless I interjected flatly turning away from the duo and proceeding into the darkness after a shared glance the meaning of which was undecipherable to at least me they followed and so we went as we progressed I felt the path

LED down W it was a marginal slope undetected by the naked eye but I felt myself pushing hard into the Rock with each step thanks to the extra gravity of The Descent it wasn’t of any concern to me such natural formations were common we proceeded even further into the depths

Of the cave calling out Ashley’s name as we went then I saw it it was over to the right like the others it was of course another carving I I felt sick as I scanned it the Tyler Jackal had increased in size yet again the tentacle appendage hybrid was shorter as if the

Beast had pulled it back the previously held corpse was ominously absent from the scene I tried not to think about what had happened to it the pillars with carvings on them also appeared as before the jagle had the majority of its details erased making it a little more

Than an outline however there was details on the edge of the Beast this time I knew the short lines represented skin apparently leathery and cracked then I read the message it was again 5 words long and my eyes widened in the flash of shock and fear this is your last chance it

Read I stumbled back from the carving in fear raising my hands in front of me as if it was alive and coming for me as I hit the back wall I saw Alex and Samantha close in to study the carving they seemed unaffected by the ominous

Message as I had been I gasped for breath winded by the sudden impact of the wall against me I tried to clear my mind to cut through the mix of panic and fear I now felt at having read The Carving The Carving which I no longer thought was the work of

Pranksters I turned to my left hoping to see Ashley instead I saw the Gateway it appeared to be a Stone Arch HED from black granite it followed the Contour of the cave precisely creating a strange effect carvings of various things symbols letters and pictures covered the Gateway which appeared to be

Seamless without join or cut I approached it almost unwillingly feeling my heart rise in my throat as I stared at the ground immediately before the Gateway and onwards the walls floor and roof of the cave from the Gateway onwards were covered in fine white dust Alex and

Samantha joined me at the edge of the Gateway we were silent studying the Gateway I looked the top and saw yet another felet message carved there the gateway to the Jackal read the message and the heck with it I thought then I heard the scream it was

Ashley screaming we have to get to him Alex yelled turning to me with every fiber of my body I resisted stepping through the Gateway I knew if we did terrible things would happen if I stepped through I knew sooner or later I would meet the Jackal but I had to know

About Ashley the carvings everything I had to so with a deep breath and trying to steal my hands I made my choice together we stepped through the gateway to Ashley and the dark Beast Beyond part five the first change I noticed was the ground the fine white dust was coated on

The entire cave right past the Gateway I didn’t know the origin it didn’t appear to be from any sort of mineral or Rock I had encountered before it was strange but then given the nature of the rest of the cave that almost made it normal the darkness grew progressively

Thicker as we Advanced I noticed we were running low on flares about only 20 each it was a problem but not one I was particularly concerned with considering the current predicament that we were in Ashley hadn’t made any noises besides his original scream it concerned me far more than if

He had kept screaming there could be a logical reason for him not screaming perhaps he ran deeper into the cave maybe he was conserving his voice I thought but I was throwing up unprobable answers to cover my fear my true thought Rose unbid to my mind what if whatever

Made him scream stopped him from doing so again I felt sick ahead of us not even 100 met from the Gateway was a Crossroads the first such divide in the otherwise linear path I had appreciated the lack of Divergent paths so far because it meant that we

Didn’t have to divide our group stunted as it was appearing now as it had seemed like extraordinary really bad luck on our part seemed like that’s the key Point nothing in this God Forsaken Cave had been left to chance lost in my Grim thoughts as I was I didn’t notice the

Object ahead of us until Alex exclaimed and ran towards it startled I looked up Alex blocked my direct view of it all I knew of it apparently was that it was quite large I ran towards it it was was Ashley’s pack ripped and torn blood covered it and the immediate area and irregular

Patterns beside me Alex stepped back tentatively lost for words something attacked him tore the pack right from his back with Incredible force it must have injured him as well judging by the blood I said quietly surprised at how clinical and calm my assessment of the scene had been that’s it I’m out I’m

Going Alex said turning away quickly but not before I saw the fear in his eyes he was terrified Samantha nodded in agreement turning to leave as well I didn’t try to stop either of them they would be back you won’t get a foot past the Gateway I called to them certain that it

Would prevent them from leaving I turned back to Ashley’s pack slowly and began searching through it quickly taking only a few items I hesitated when my hand landed on the flare gun but I took it and kept it in my hand I knew from experience against various types of wildlife that it made

An effective weapon if I met anything anything that was an Ashley I would fire without Mercy I stood and chose the right-handed passageway I didn’t feel scared anymore in fact I didn’t feel a thing adrenaline was coursing through my system leaving no room for fear or anything else it grew progressively darker the

Darkness was thick and clo as a lifetime asthma sufferer it reminded me of the time I needed my inhaler I knew the flares would be soon useless regardless of whether this should be effective beside me I noticed scrawling in the dust apparently of human origin that at least was no mystery I glanced

At each in turn almost mechanically knowing that it couldn’t be any worse it appeared that they weren’t the first people to stumble into this place I have seen it and it Blinded Me This is its domain taller than any human suddenly I stopped the last was different from the others in lowercase

And appeared to be freshly written it cut me I’m running for my life Ashley’s writing and then as if by Magic I heard two things a scream and a roar Ashley the jackal they were close I ran forward part six I felt rather than sense that I had

Breached into a massive Cavern to prove my theory I impulsively punched the air to my right if I was still in that claustrophobic cave my hand would have surely been shattered on the wall as I expected I hit nothing but the stagnant air of the Cave the flares provided

Nothing more than a dim glove I looked at it in horror as the glow faded slowly The Fading light represented my last defense against the virtual darkness of the cave or cave as I felt it should be called and its sole inhabitant the inhabitant some call The Jackal The Light faded

Completely I was alone the moment I was I heard the voice it was flat and terrible and loud it reverberated around me seemingly without a source or Direction I spun in the darkness the clo the constructing darkness and felt my heart in my throat I knew that if I walked backwards I

Would no longer find the passageway that had led me to the layer of the Jackle once you entered the central Cavern there’s no leaving it just like the carvings promised I thought this is my cave it bowed I screamed and ran it was a futile gesture The Voice boomed

Around me terrifying in its alienness and its flat expressionless quality The Jackal was not human nor was it even some Revenant or ghost of a forgotten culture it was something that had no place in the universe and something I wish I could never see my heart thundered in my chest and my eyes

Vibrated I could no longer even control my own body I am a prisoner in my own body the other one screamed before I took him boomed the Jackal interrupting my thoughts forget you I screamed hysterically into the darkness around me it was a petty Rebellion I doubted The

Jackal even knew what it meant but I felt better for it all the same around me the darkness Coes it’s alive I thought I tried to stifle a scream as an image popped into my head thousands of M millions of bikes crawling over me in the darkness biting scratching and

Running and was banished Moments Later by the jackal’s next terrible oration you will remain here forever it howled I know that voice I thought vaguely after the voice came the footsteps I sensed I could feel both the Tremors and hear the footsteps hundreds of them around me pounding the floor in

A rapid and ter terrifying Rhythm Rolling Thunder I thought crazily and laughed what little sanity I possessed was rapidly being eroded away by the darkness millions of bugs Rolling Thunder The Jackal and its influence over the cave and consequently those inside it I doubted if Ashley was still

Alive that Samantha and Alex had escaped I didn’t even think that Karen Vincent and Jason had escaped alive even as I considered this The Jackal howled again the flat voice echoing throughout my dark prison they all died as you will the Jackle roared in its expressionless tone creating a queer wavering effect that

Hurt my ears my throat burned from the lack of moisture a headache pounded in my head and my ears throbbed strangely in time with the footsteps I’m just Rolling Thunder I thought and laughed crazily then as I considered what the jacked said it can read my thoughts it was not such a Fantastical

Idea The Jackal had only ever spoken after I had a thought a coincidence I think not pardon the pun I considered the mental connection and idea began to form I stopped running and emptied my thoughts Vanishing the sensory manipulation The Jackal used on me the footsteps around me intensified

But I heard none of it as I shut down my senses and opened my mind mind then exposed without the cloak of my previous Panic thoughts I felt it the jackal’s mind it was a colossal alien thing like a structure too gargantuan for the human mind to comprehend it would dwarf me

Swallow my mind whole and leave me a gibbering wag if I considered it for too long it wasn’t even natural let alone human thoughts and ideas seemed to be constructed in a fashion that was incomprehensible to the human human mind in a word the jackal’s presence was

Dark as I felt its presence wash over me I stealed myself and sprung the Trap instantly before the Beast could Retreat I thought of light a blinding Supernova more light than any human had ever witnessed a bright Inferno of light I let that mental image expanded my mind

And over onto the jackal’s Colossal presence I guessed that that such a creature had never seen light or if it had it had spent so long underground bathed in the darkness which it controlled such light even as imagined would do tremendous harm to it considering that the jackal’s mental abilities far outclassed my

Own I was right the instant the Supernova image touched the jackal’s presence a tremendous shriek filled the chamber immediately overtaking all the Phantom footsteps that had so tormented me I grinned savagely despite the pain the high-pitch squeal caus my ears that at least sounded vaguely human it felt

Empowering to know that I had heard the jagle probably badly I heard rushing noises around me and opened my eyes and possibly the virulent Darkness was retracting around me I spun wildly in the grip of the receding Darkness as I moved I glanced around me

I was in in a huge chamber one that extended far into the distance I saw columns and pillars and carvings and realized that this really was the jackal’s feeding ground layer that had been the subject of the ominous cave paintings I had no time to consider that however as the final Darkness

Receded the cave that was lit by the light that had no Source my mental light I thought exposed it only occupant and the occupant slave just like that I saw them Ashley The Jackal part seven I could never truly describe the Beast before me it wasn’t because I

Didn’t know the right way to articulate it I knew exactly what to call it I simply could not comprehend The Jackal it was as if I was viewing it from the extremities of my peripheral vision it was blurry and soft and weak weak because it had no heart angles or edges

No matter matter how hard I looked how much I stared The Jackal remained hidden to me a formless shape hidden under a veil of unreality the cave paintings carvings whatever adjective I attached to them were truer than I had thought even after the Jackal had turned out to be real

They depicted a blurry formless Jackal and so it was yes I knew exactly what it was indistinct Ashley however was not I looked at him in horror his body was covered in blood flesh and other less identifiable materials I could count at least eight visible wounds and more red lines than I

Couldn’t distinguish from the gore saturated his form a gaping wound cut across his stomach revealing intestines pink and rubbery blood flowed from multiple slashes on his arms and legs he was probably dead certainly unconscious but that wasn’t was n’t the worst of it his right ear had been torn off clean from

His head bow rose on my throat as I stared at his prostrate form horrified the jagle had done this to him as I thought of the Beast before me I realized that the cavern around me was silent The Jackal Screech so loud to begin with had been cut off instantly

Some moments previous unlike the gradual decline that was characteristic in humans then again it isn’t and has never resembled anything close to human I would wager every possession I own it has no similarity to any creature of this Dimension I can’t even begin to consider its true form as I watched it

Got infinitely worse until Ashley began to move through the air I hadn’t even noticed that he had been Airborne so enthralled I had been by his ravaged body slowly never wavering at speed Ashley began to recede towards the blurry shape that represent presented The Jackal I thought back to

The carvings and horror with every sacrifice it gains form and so a greater foothold in this Dimension I wanted to rush forward and tear Ashley from the draal’s thall but to come within reach of the creature would mean an unspeakable end one that I would have

Already faced had I not wounded it with the psychic Supernova suddenly Ashley stopped moving mere meters from The Jackal and I realized with a shock how the Jackal had previously communicated through Ashley now I know why I recognized that voice even distorted as it had been Ashley’s mouth opened and from it

Roared The Jackal you will suffer from using the glow against me suffer as he did roared the grotesque Ashley sjal hybrid evidently it only knew the light that hurt it so bad as the glow it didn’t matter the important thing was that it had been hurt and badly I probed

My mind no trace of the jackal’s presence remained apparently that part of it physically manifested in the virtu Into Darkness had either been destroyed or banished by my mental Counterattack even if I meant my death here Beast I will do my utmost to bring you with me I responded bravely the

Saturating fear and accompanying thoughts which had so crippled me both mentally and physically was gone now I could see the Jackal regardless of how well I comprehended it much of that Terror that I had felt at the hands of it was gone just like the virtual L Darkness even the voice was less

Intimidating now that it had a definitive Source it spoke again I have consumed many this one is the last I will be free from my prison The Jackal bellowed drawing Ashley towards him no I would whispered I sprinted towards them no matter the cost

Even if it were my life or my sanity I could not allow the Jackal to consume Ashley and Escape whatever prison it was incarcerated in such a beast would wreck unimaginable destruction on the surface I pulled a silver piece of equipment the last thing I had taken from Ashley’s

Pack the flare gun as the Jackal and Ashley came together I drew and fired the world exploded around me And Cave children no author on November 22nd a rescue party led by Dr marine and Sierra into the do Aro caves of Pompei discovered a damaged tape recorder tied up in a piece of white guideline and none of the four excursions were the missing parties in question found nor any of their supplies

Save for the length of the guideline and the tape recorder attached to it it serves as the only record of the events which the parties in question experienced 17 entries of substantial length were recorded as well as several shorter entries that appear to have been recorded by mistake as no speech is

Audible for the duration what follows is a transcript of the audio which appears in those 17 entries this is Dr Mason Perry September 12th 1996 aircraft over the Pacific Ocean 4:41 p.m. Pacific Standard Time in the D AO caves of the small micronesian state of Pompei there’s a breed of lizard with

One of the most remarkable defense mechanisms known amongst the reptiles it has developed the ability to hurl rocks from the cave floor where it dwells with lethal velocity and targets dozens of feet overhead nobody is quite sure why it has developed this ability as the few specimens currently available were found

Wandering around the outside of their natural cavernous habitats my colleagues and I are traveling to Pompei to study the lizard in its natural environment on the first trip of its kind to attempt to discover the purpose for which this unique Behavior has been adapted the reason no such Expedition

Has yet been attempted despite knowledge of the lizard’s existence within the scientific community some 60 odd years are the various local reports of the danger of the caves the folklore of the indigenous tenan people native to this area for thousands of years tells the progyny of

The earth demon ban do dwells within the caves guarding the entrance to the Subterranean Kingdom these demon children are said to slay any who attempt to make Passage through the caves which were sealed off until roughly a thousand years ago when the heavy rocks which covered the mouths

Of the cave range were moved to construct ancient buildings by foolish men folklore is simply folklore of course the tenanan are not an isolated tribe they are a perfectly modern people and seldom take the old myths and legends of their culture as literal fact however on two separate occasions within

The last 70 years young men have set out into the caves to prove their bravery and return with terrifying Tales of having seen creatures exactly like those described in the old Legends they told of large four-legged animals with pale translucent skin characteristic of cave albinism these creatures had severely

Arched Backs from each of the four corners of which they protrude spinley limbs bisected by single outward facing joints and at the bottom tips which were flat feet they lumbered about like awkward spiders with wringling left to right motions of their bodies which appeared flexible they had two large

Immobile protrusions on their back which were thought to conceal Wings though they were never seen to fly jutting out from beneath her two front legs was a round head and a single enormous red eye which blinked rapidly both young men having seen them only at a great distance and from safely

High above describe them as living in a group of perhaps 30 or 40 consistently murmuring in a low buzz when this group group spotted the young Intruders they suddenly let out a high pitch shriek which in both cases frightened off their visitors the latter young men claims that the initial immobilization with

Utter Terror and was able to summon the strength to run only after they darted towards him with terrifying speed because of these sightings belief in the children of balth has persisted amongst the tenin and they refused to go into the caves my colleagues and I suspect what the young men believe they

Experienced was heavily colored by the local Legend however we appreciate that some sort of large crustation may live within the caves all the same and as such has taken certain safety precautions we have brought binoculars and night vision capabilities so that we can make our observations at a safe

Distance from any cave life and without the need for artificial life sources which might alert it to our presence to the latter end I am also taking research notes verbally and with ADD dict the phone to avoid the need for light by which to write should our

Headlamps need to be turned off because no guides for the caves exist we brought several thousand feet of Highly durable cord which to Mark our paths as we Traverse the caves each of the four of us also has semi-automatic handguns with 15 rounds hopefully we won’t have to use these

Last this is Dr Mason Perry September 14th 1996 mouth of do oral minor 3:18 a.m. green witch meantime plus 11 hours we are preparing our descent into the do oral minor the smaller of the two largest caves in the do oral range we would have preferred to select

A cave other than the ones in which the children of balth had been purportedly cited but this was the one of the only six caves in the range that the local tan guides were able to or willing to lead us to we have suited up with all of

Our necessary gear for the scientific spelunking Adventure including a 3-day supply of water and food our aim is to remain in the caves for a maximum of 18 hours on this trimp if it should happen that we would need more time to find the rock tail lizard on a single Expedition

We will return better prepared for a longer stay still one can never be too cautious I am joined on this trip by Dr Janette bricks and William canade Dr marcine and na fell ill After ignoring our group’s admonitions and sampling a rather exotic local dish upon landing

And so will’ll not be joining us on this initial Expedition a woman’s voice can be heard in the background he’s going to miss all the fun should it happen that we discover a new species of crustation Within These caves we will make an informal note of the benefit of our colleagues back in

The States the woman okay Mason the lines are tied off we’re ready to go this is Dr Mason Perry September 14th 1996 inside the do AAL Miner 436 a.m. green witch mean time plus 11 hours a periodic echoing Clank can be heard in the background I’m currently watching a

Mature rocktail lizard specimen lift in s rocks when the lizard lifts a rock he will turn it over several times in his prehensile tail then set it back where he found it if he comes upon on a flaw on the Rock he tosses it up and out of the way of the K

Floor it seems as though the lizard spends some amount of its spare time making sure that its rock supply is more usable in the event of an emergency a man’s voice also hushed can be heard nearby look Mason a bat just flew into the ceiling there’s a long

Silence then a sudden squeak followed by a th whoa did you guys see that goodness that was freaking fast the lizard picked up a rock and then the bat fell off the ceiling it happened so fast I didn’t even see the throw the lizard is just currently eating the bat it just killed

You know Janette we thought that this was a self-defense mechanism but it looks like it’s hunting be a series of extremely rapid clanks are heard holy cats what was that the woman breathless goodness Mason did you see it the lizard was trying to hit it I think it scared it

Off Dr Mason Perry September 14th 1996 inside the do AAL Miner 4:45 a.m. Dr BR saw one of the children we now suspect that this is some type of an arachnet or possibly some sort of insect rather than a crustation it was climbing on the ceiling when it appeared we

Didn’t notice it but the rock tail lizard sure did it whipped up a series of rocks at it with shocking speed Dr bricks was one of the only three of us to follow the trajectory of the Rocks quickly enough to catch a glimpse of it according to Dr Briggs it was probably

Close to 5 ft in total length and perhaps 2 ft High she didn’t get a good look at the crustation but she did confirm a single blinking red eye in the center of its head the woman I’m not sure about this Mason you didn’t see

What I saw I don’t want to be anywhere near that thing I say we head back Dr BRS has shook up about the whole thing Dr Dr kenid and I however are anxious to press on perhaps it’s just because we want to get a good look at these children

Ourselves the young men who visited these caves reported that they spent approximately an hour wandering inside them when they discovered the nest so given the time spent observing the first rocktail lizard specimen I figured it’s maybe 20 minutes more into the cave until we see it Dr kin had been trying

To assuage Dr briggs’ fear by noting that we’ll be safely high off the the ground and unlike the young men who visited before us we will be armed the woman stop talking to your ding tape for a second I’m right here don’t you freaking narrate over me I

Want to head back that thing was so freaking fast don’t you understand you saw how fast those lizards through rocks and it got out of the way of all of them these things are quick when they want to be Mason I do not want to be here to find out when they see

Us okay Janette how about this what it make make you feel better if we use the night visions from here on in that way they won’t be able to see us so they’ve got nothing to worry about Janette you’ve seen animals on Expeditions that we know can kill humans

Easily what’s the first thing you learn about those animals what did you say the whole way here the woman that if you leave them alone and stay out of their way they won’t bother you exactly look Janette these things are cave spiders right spiders aren’t aggressive

Creatures if we leave them be we stay out of their way they can’t even see us we’ll be fine the woman I guess okay I’ll go but I want this to go on the record on the record that you keep recording that I think that this is a mistake duly

Noted Dr Mason Perry September 14th 1996 inside the do AAL minor I think it’s about 5:15 a.m. but I don’t want to turn on my watch light we can’t see them I don’t think that this is The Nest that the locals describe though there only about four of them here everything they

Said about these things is true the big eye the spendly legs I can’t speak of its gray skin or the eyes redness though through the goggles but Dr bricks confirmed that earlier I was expecting the wings to be larger though the rigid coverings only seem to go about halfway

Down the back we are still at a pretty substantial distance and even with these binoculars I Can’t Get Enough Clarity to make out a lot of the details but I don’t see a mouth on these creatures they have two vertical slits just below the eye it looks like I think

These are nostrils of some kind which is leading me to doubt that these creatures are any sort of arachnet or insect and actually hey Bill does that look like a tail to you where the one closest to us look carefully it sort of follows the arch of

Its back but it’s just hanging there is that a tail yeah yeah I think it is are these things reptiles I don’t think so the back curves down and the tail follows it lizard spines don’t Arc like that I think these things are mammals they look hairess that’s not unheard of of

Subterranean mammals and it could be short fur right I can’t tell at this distance okay you’ve seen them can we go now please yeah we probably should maren is going to want to see these things for himself anyways ah shoot this is Dr Mason Perry September 14th 5:43 a.m. we’ve retraced

Our steps back to the area where we first observe the rocktail lizard in action and something’s wrong we followed the lineup ahead about 300 ft and saw that at L us across a shallow pool of water we could easily cross it but none of us remember crossing any water everything past this

Point feels extremely unfamiliar to all of us the woman can be heard heard sobbing she then says this is what he does this is what he does this is how he punishes trespasser this is what he does Janette is taking it pretty hard the woman upset and angry this is what they

Said they said that bandul imprisons people in these caves didn’t you listen this is what he does he’s getting us lost trying to confuse us trying to draw Us in deeper his children have seen us they know that we’re here and we gave them time we gave them time

To retire lines on a new path that leads us farther into the cave try to calm down Janette no cave demons trying to get us okay this is what he does I wanted to turn back I wanted to turn back a long time ago we could have turned back but you

Wanted to do your freaking research and now we’re all dead we’re dead do you understand me dead we’re going to follow the lines Janette doesn’t want want to but she’s more afraid of staying here alone it’s possible that Falling Rocks or Rising water could have changed the

Terrain and we didn’t realize it if we get to the end of the line and it turns out that something did bite through it at least we’ll know the way I figure it it’ll be Dawn soon daylight should be an easy source for us to follow and exit to if worst comes to

Worst what the heck are these things we’ve been following the line for about an hour and about 20 minutes ago we saw two or more of them they were standing rear to rear with their hind quarters touching and lurching back and forthing into each other grunting and buzzing

With their eyes wide opened and fixed on nothing it looked like meting I know insects will sometimes breed end to end like this so now I’m doubting my suspicion that they were mammals I don’t believe they saw us but we’ve turned off our headlamps just in case we’re currently proceeding with night vision

From here on in this uh sorry this is uh Mason Perry Dr Kade is gone he he slipped off an edge and hit his head before falling I don’t know where he went I presume he’s unconscious as soon as he fell Janette started running she says that one of the

Children grabbed his ankle and dragged him down I went to go back for him but she refuses and I don’t have the gear or skill necessary to climb down that edge by myself we’re leaving him I guess hopefully we can get back here in some time and try to save him oh

No Dr Mason Perry September 14th 1996 inside the DOL oral Miner 7:27 a.m. our line was definitely cut the line led us directly to a ridge above the nest so I suspect it was a prank by Young locals naturally Janette insists that it was bandal’s children trying to punish

Us what we saw was grotesque one of the creatures hung off the wall about 20 ft from the ground with its head facing the ceiling it gave birth like that six or seven Offspring fell directly down onto the ground the youngest died on impact and a few more were killed when several

Other the adults mauled them the three that survived only did so by viciously slaughtering their attackers we saw them feasting on one of the slain corpses and we ran at this point we were exhausted so we set up camp I’m taking first watch while Janette sleeps if she’s able

I killed one it came up to the camp and I shot it we were wrong about these animals they’re simeons they look disturbingly human I suspect to hear to for unknown strain of hominid they have no eyes they’re totally blind what we thought was an eye was actually a mouth

Opening and shutting they don’t have wings either it’s a rib cage the creature looks like a human that walks upside down with its stomach pointing upwards the mouth appears to be on top of it head because of its inversion what I thought was the tail was actually the animals

Genitals they’re extremely skinny and their legs appear substantially longer than ordinary human legs they lack the much appreciable muscle mass however which is odd considering the speed at which they move and their tendency to climb they have opposable digits on all four pedal extremities though it’s apparent that the ones that should be

Feat are underdeveloped I suspect the lack of muscle mass is owed to the creature is lightweight there’s no way that this thing weighs more than 90 lb it’s definitely hairless covered completely in translucent white skin Janette freaked out when she saw it but she’s calmed down considerably since

Then in fact she’s calmer now than she has been since she first saw the creature it could be that she knows what it is now but I suspect it has more to do with the knowledge that these children can be killed she agreed to take a second watch and let me catch a

Few hours of sleep sleep this is Janette bricks daughter of Samuel bricks human child of the land man God Christ I Now understand my duty I’m going to return to the nest of the children of bandol to offer myself as a servant to the Earth

God I shall never escape the cave so I will make myself a new home in do Elena his kingdom beneath the Earth I’m leaving this message for Mason Perry that he might join me crap Janette disappeared crap she left me a message on my machine saying

That she went back to the nest obviously she’s panicking worse than I realized I have to go after her if I don’t make it back whoever finds this please tell my kids that I love them and get out get out now if you’re still in the caves

Listening to this press stop and run listen later oh no oh no oh no this is Mason Perry crap I don’t know what time it is I think it’s uh 9:30 30 maybe Janette is dead when I got to the nest Janette was standing in the middle of it taking off

Her clothes the children they they watched this they were in a circle around her just watching and Janette she bent over backwards like one of them and they came to her oh no there were two one on each end of her and they started to they were violating

Her and another came up and tried to get in but the other between her legs wouldn’t stop thrusting and got out of the way so the third one it grabbed her by the Torso just started pulling it ripped off these huge chunks of her skin of her muscle she just ripped open and

Then they all went for it and then the two more did this on the other sides and then Mo started ripping holes and pretty soon she was just a pile of wet meat oh my gosh I don’t there was nothing left but they and they just started eating it

She never screamed scream she didn’t even make a sound at all I think that I think that she wanted to die it’s been two weeks since I came into these godforsaken caves I have long since ran out of food and my efforts to catch rocktail lizards have netted me

Nothing but injuries I’ve used the first aid kit in my pack to disinfect them and bandage them up as best I could but I’m concerned about my ability to treat further injuries I found some water which looks clear enough to supplement my water supply hopefully the rocks have done a

Passable job filtering it I’ve seen several children since janette’s death but they don’t come near me I think it’s the corpse of one of their own in my campsite that scares them off I have a theory about the origin of these creatures I think that they were once a

Group of early hominids who were trapped in these caves when a rock slide closed the Cav mouth I think they clung to the ceiling as much as possible to stay away from the rock lizards or perhaps to get the drop on it when they were hungry I suspect they developed their

Upside down hang to give them better visibility of the tiny lizards on the cave floor and help them see incoming rocks over time their bodies changed to accommodate this lifestyle they were a formidable enough Predator to walk on the ground again when outside of the nest they seemed to come down to the

Keave floors only to mate by the times the Rocks were finally cleared away from the mouth of the cave they had become so dependent on the Cave’s Darkness they never ventured outside again I’m out of options I need food I’m going to eat what meat I can salvage

From the carcass at my campsite hopefully it’ll give me enough strength to I don’t know get out of here I suspect I think it’s been a week since I ate from that carcass I I didn’t get any immediate indigestion or signs of food poisoning but since yesterday I’ve felt

Very ill lately I’ve come to wonder whether Janette was right about the children at first I thought they might be primitive hominids but I can’t explain the guide wire how could they have been smart enough to cut through it and Lead our line to their nest I don’t

Think it was a prank anymore I don’t think anyone who knew the story of these creatures would attempt to strand another human being to its dark hell I thought that the children might have cut through the lines out of curiosity and carried it with them as far as they

Could to their nest but today I realized that it had been tied up at our campsite how could theyve known to not it that way I think that they’re intentionally trying to trick us is this the thing the tanan call the band Deluth responsible is there some Superior intelligence or power guiding these

Creatures and and does it build its Army of the children from the humans that traps in these caves are the children of bandul ancient hominids or disfigured humans I can barely separate fact from fantasy in my mind my watch slipped off my wrist to days ago and shattered I’ve lost all

Sense of time in the interim I’m losing weight too quickly and I expect to die soon my eyes feel gummy and infected yesterday I decided to start a fire to cook some of the carcass I couldn’t risk any further infection and no other food has been available there

Was no wood so I burned some of my clothes once I’d eaten all the meat on the carcass I realized that I had lost the only thing keeping the children away from the camp I tried keeping the fire going throughout the night in hopes that it’ scare them away I’m naked now and

The fire is gone I’ve considered trying to burn anything in this dictaphone that seems flammable but I’ve since thought better of it I’ll be tying this recorder to the guideline in hopes that any rescue attempts might find it though given how long I’ve waited I doubt anyone is coming my back is killing

Me the tape ends here according to the testimony of Dr Ena The Rescuer spotted several of the creatures mentioned in the tapes during their second trips into the cave on their fourth trip when this tape was found they open fired on one which approached their party scaring it

Away they described this last as stouti than the others and with what appeared to be bandages wrapped around its Arms before we get into this video I wanted to give a quick shout out to M writer Chris for submitting the story the story is titled I don’t want to go down to the basement there’s something down there the apartment my family me my parents and my little sister spent my

Childhood and teenage years in was a big red briak monster it had a basement three stories below our apartment that was stifling in the summertime and Brigid in the winter if I’d had my way I would have had a drum kit down there to jam on but the

Neighbors would have killed us even though we got along just fine with them except for the people who Liv downstairs from us a mother and daughter the mother had to have been in her 60s the daughter was grown but still living at home the daughter was nice my sister and I got

Along with her it was the mother who was the problem it was always something with her mother who was loud seemingly always angry sort we often heard their vicious arguments coming up in angry metallic ghost whispers through our radiator pipes at night we couldn’t usually make

Out what they were saying but boy were they mad about something it always got back to us that she talked trash about us behind her backs and she always gave us stink eyes whenever we met in person both our parents worked and we kids were usually left to ourselves but we were

Always told one thing very firmly by both our parents do not go into the basement unsupervised we just looked at them nodded and smiled and left it at that something about how the old lady downstairs didn’t want us in there and given how mean she was we listened we

Didn’t like her either so it worked for us the summer I turned 18 however I got into my head that I was grown and I could do whatever I wanted to besides who cared what an old bad downstairs thought anyway she was obviously crazy I decided I was going to

See what the big deal was about one hbid summer Friday in mid July when the folks were off at work and my sister was out with her friends I went for it I slowly unlocked the kitchen’s back door that led downstairs to the basement pausing only to stifle the years of conditioning

In the back of my mind I took in the worn and Faded black and white kitchen floor the sunlight streaming through the window the natural white appliance es around me I hung on these prosaic images for some odd reason it was like something was telling me to enjoy these

Things while I still could because something huge was about to happen something life-altering even after a couple of moments I shook my head and scoffed as though the Metallica t-shirt I had worn would protect me from whatever might be down there needless to say I wasn’t thinking

Deeply I slowly descended the old wooden stairs to the basement moving quietly with my hand on the banister apprehension slowly built in my gut as I got lower and closer to the wooden basement door it had cracking old white paint a dead bolt a wired window in the

Top half and slightly rusted hinges a really determined attacker would have likely kicked it in with moderate effort I paused feeling my body hair tingle then I ever so gently undid the dead bolt and eased it open open the basement had a concrete floor with a series of

Wood slat storage cubicles along the walls sunlight from outside dappled the slats with mellow gold as dust and musty scent of concrete tickled my nose there wasn’t much here other than a couple of 10-speed bicycles that looked like they’d not been used in some time without warning I let one rip with a

Whopper of a sneeze from all the dust my sneezes are not quite and I usually muffled them but since I was by myself myself I let rip a faint shuffling noise came from nearby and my heart nearly stopped as I spun to see who it was but

There was no one there with me nobody that I could see anyway I thought I heard a soft hissing and that was enough for me to get out of there quickly I quietly slunk upstairs to the safety of our apartment and retreated to my room to crank my

Stereo a good dose of Motorhead always cured what ailed me and Dr Rock soon had me headbanging joyfully when my sister got home she stuck her head into my room and rolled her eyes at her hopelessly uncool Big Brother Antics it wasn’t until I flagged her

Down that she stopped she knew I was serious when I actually stopped the record player to talk to her the look on her face when I told her what I was doing was priceless because it was such a perfect look of shock mind you we got

Along well enough she was however at the age where it was mandated she acted otherwise in public naturally she had a clean-cut jock boyfriend with a bright future in football never mind that a deaf man could hear how fake he was when sucking up to her parents of course he

Thought I was a loser with questionable sexuality at age 16 she was their Bright Star of Hope and I’d be lying if I said she didn’t work that angle at times to her full advantage unlike me who aspired to be the next limie kiler to conquer the

World armed with a bass guitar slung around my neck never mind the fact that I was a Straight Arrow whose worst traits were his long hair and bant t-shirt collection never mind that I used music as a means of staying out of trouble and I was effectively straight

Edge never mind that I had good grades and was considering music College to my parents dismay my being helplessly unpopular with the girls didn’t help matters I was the screw up in their eyes but that’s neither here nor there my sister stared at me in shock then sputtered out are you serious

You actually went down there what did you see I told her and she seemed disappointed at first inevitably it came down to you’re not going down there again are you I want tell on you but come on you don’t know what’s down there it could be anything when I told her I

Was going to she sighed and said I don’t know nothing I still think you need to stay out of there but she trailed off and left my room shaking her hand I went to bed that night with my mind whirling I was Keen to see how much further I

Could push it my youthful arrogance totally shut down anything resembling common sounds as soon as our parents were out grocery shopping and my sister was out with the boyfriend I quietly headed down to the basement again I was doing my best to ignore the raymon song

Playing in the back of my head about how I didn’t want to go down there all the while once again I silently walked into the huge Sunny open area of the basement I felt my tension in my nervousness Ratched up as I heard a soft shuffling

Nearby I traced it to one of the storage closets which had a large heavy new padlock on the door was there something or even someone in there screwing up my courage to the max I took a peek through the slats I could have sworn I saw something moving there I drew back with

A stifled gasp and hurried out to safety light a normal life Sunday the day after I had to stay around due to everyone being home but I swore that the following day i’ try to take things even further if there was someone living down there what the heck

Were they doing there what was up with the lock on the door why was that person locked in there did I want to know my diet of cheesy gory horror movies made all kinds of ideas Brew in my mind as to who or what it could be all of which I

Thought were alternatively crazy or totally awesome at the same time do we have a very owned Suburban equivalent of steuart Gordon’s Castle freak down in our basement Sunday dragged on a new amount of playing records or playing the base helped time go by I went to Bed full of anticipation excitement and increasing

Confidence I could do this I kept telling myself I could take a closer look at the basement’s weird inhabitant with nobody the wiser right right when I finally fell asleep I had creepy dreams all night that ultimately woke me up with a stifled cry I barely remembered

That particular dream but what jerked me awake was a creepy high pitched distorted voice saying something like Mommy for some reason I couldn’t tell you why that woke me up shivering I don’t scare easily too at least not from horror movies I can handle that because

I know that they’re not real I could handle Gore effects for days in movies because they were so over the top I could laugh about them afterwards and say dude that was sick but something about this dream made me stay frozen in bed even though I had to pee badly there

Was something especially freaky and out of place about it it seemed like someone had been right by my ear saying it finally my aching bladder forced me up and after taking care of business it took me some time to get back to sleep by the time I woke up again it was

Nearly 11:00 a.m. the parents were at work of course my sister always kept her doors closed but but I didn’t hear her snoring after a minute of listening the dream was only a faint memory as I unlocked and opened the back door to head downstairs only this time I was

Surprised to see the door to the basement itself was unlocked that’s weird I thought as I slowly opened it and slipped into the area only to be greeted by the downstairs crazy neighbor lady it would have to be her right almost as soon as I turned around she

Was in my face Ed all over me what are you doing here get out you didn’t see anything her voice was its usual harsh angry Bray but was desperation I also heard she was tall thin had bushy copper colored hair that was obviously dyed and big thick glasses she wore ugly

Floorlength house dresses most of the time and was not the prettiest woman out there then again she was always glaring and frowning as we stood there me standing in shog and her snarling at me I noticed two things one she had a sack in her hand that had spots of red on it

Wet red spots two I suddenly heard a sound from the corner of the room it was a wordless whimper that made my hair stand on end a frantic banging noise started up from where the closets were as that happened she had a brief moment of panic very brief then she stepped up

To me and snarled you don’t know nothing got it at that point my teenage flash left me I gave a quick nod turned and rushed out as she closed the door behind me but just because I didn’t sass her didn’t mean I went away immediately I

Crept up to the door and put my ear to it and heard her doing something I’d never heard before she was talking to somebody in something other than a working tone of a voice she actually sounded sweet and loving of all things I couldn’t make out all what she was

Saying but it sounded something like I’m I’m so sorry sweetie the bad boy is gone now it’s just you and me now sweetie mommy loves you what made me pull away with a shudder was the noise that greeted her that same weird voice that made me

Shiver it sounded like a really big cat or even worse in this case a person imitating a cat what the heck was going on in there involving her and whoever whatever it was and what had been in that sack I knew blood stains when I saw them believe me the thoughts that raced

Through my mind were hysterical as I quickly tiptoed back into the kitchen and retreated to my room again this had to be something that her neighbor had kept hidden for a really long time because this had been going on for as long as we’d live there as in since my

Sister and I were in singled digigit ages she must have had some serious pull with the landlord to keep this a secret for this long why else would she have been scared of letting anybody else know about whatever was down there but my limited real life experience was soon

Eclipsed by me being a horror movie buff I was soon coming up with all kinds of ideas as to water who was in our apartment building basement all of which were cast off as fast as I thought them up I flopped down on my bed with an

Exasperated sigh as my brain achd from it I needed to see more I had to find out once and for all just what was in that closet no matter what the crazy old BT had to say about it she couldn’t be home all the time right unless maybe she

Never left home for just this reason one way to find out I firmly decided even after another night of scary dreams that woke me often I went back downstairs to the basement once I was alone that following day I was deranged from a lack of sleep and driven

By something in my mind compelling me into who knows what the next thing I knew I was making my my way to the little closet in the corner I didn’t hear anything this time but I still slowed down as I got closer and closer to it my heart was pounding hard enough

That I thought whatever was in there could probably hear it clearly I paused in front of the door breath catching in my throat my ribs vibrating with every heartbeat as I peered between the slats I glimpsed something pale lying still and I also smelled feces and urine it

Smelled like something had crawled up some ‘s butt and died I saw what looked like someone’s back turned towards me with vertebrae poking through to an unhealthy degree someone’s Skin and Bones I gasped and the next thing I knew a pair of johnis eyes were staring into

Mine my Terror was intense as I heard the same weird voice I’d been hearing in my dreams but I didn’t run this time it sounded both puzzled and sad as it said hello friend I thought I’d known what loneliness was being an outcast was but I heard more loneliness and sadness in

Those two words than I’d ever known in my Young Sad life something in the voice of this poor guy thing whatever it was awakened sympathy in my heart I finally found my own voice after a few seconds stammering uh yeah friend I was nearly whispering and a what was happening yeah

Friend good need friend I even felt tears stinging my eyes as it said what it said next I like friend something in that voice just made me realize just how Petty my feelings of being left out by my peers were and the grand scheme of things here I was with a

Good life in comparison I got to come and go as I pleased I had food and clothes records a base guitar a room of my own and a roof over my head that wasn’t a musty bare concrete this poor guy I thought it was a guy anyways

Didn’t have any of that I thought of Mary Shell’s creature and it hit me that this guy was a real Outsider and an outcast some things just put life into perspective hey man what’s your name I spoke quietly and gently and took a moment to introduce myself properly name it sounded

UNC uh yeah you have a name right everybody has a name I was surprised when he repeated the same word as though it was new for him did this guy not have a name I thought for a second then said hey can I call you Frank short for

Frankenstein of course knowing full well as a movie buff that that was the doctor’s name not the creature hey it was the first thing that came to my mind Frank yes I like Frank that weird voice came through the wood I found myself smiling in spite of myself because

Whoever this guy was he didn’t seem all bad he just wanted someone to talk to I knew how that felt and found myself feeling sorry for him it hit me right then though that I best get back upstairs before I was caught again listen Frank I got to go now but want me

To come back and visit you again is that okay Frank’s voice cracked with emotion as he replied to me yes please come back I forced a lump out of my throat before I could speak I will man see you again soon Frank don’t tell anybody I was here

Okay I’m kind of not supposed to be here okay Frank said sounding happy I quietly left the groomy interior and listened a moment to make sure that that crazy lady wasn’t approaching I made it back upstairs with no incident this time back in my room it hit me that this was

Something big I I knew that this was something I had to keep to myself even if it meant that poor Frank only had one friend in the world and was stuck in there I didn’t want anybody else to know about this heck I was surprised that the

Crazy old bat hadn’t gone stomping to my parents to scream at them about me so much as I wanted to dangle this on my sister’s face I decided to stay quiet about this development the next couple of weeks were interesting to say the least the days I got to spend time with

Frank were remarked by me being amazed at how naive about the real world he really was talking to him was like talking to an overgrown toddler sometimes but he was eager to listen so I cut him all the slack I told him about music about girls about pretty much

Everything I could think of he eagerly listened to me and it was gratifying I had a couple of close calls with the crazy lady but on both occasions I had legitimate reasons to be down there as in taking out the trash stuff she threw me the stink eye in both occasions and I

Threw attitude back at her because I was getting pretty ticked off you see apparently she was his mother and judging from what little Frank told me about her she was crappy to him mind you he had no idea about you know birds and the bees he just knew that she was his

Mother he implied that she talked down to him and kept him in the state of Arrested Development for God only knew the reasons on her end he also said often slapped him around and screamed at him and he couldn’t fathom why I started getting angri about it over time because

Us young Headbangers are rebellious and we hate the idea of our freedom being infringed on which means we don’t want that to happen to our friends and our loved ones either he had no idea who his father was but he mentioned having awful dreams about something watching him that

Scared him badly something that didn’t sound normal or natural at all based on what little he told me this this made me think God Only Knows Why was his father even human part of me thought he’d had to have been because who would want to get with her as soon as the thought

Crossed my mind a shiver went up and down my spine and I put it aside instantly but it kept coming back to haunt me at the worst times it made me feel like I knew something that I was never meant to know about every time I

Thought about it I gave up in short order because of how creeped out and Jitter it made me feel then nightmares grew worse and more frequent over time too I didn’t let it get in the way of my regular visits with Frank though I was

Able to lose myself and how happy he was to know that I was there I had no idea what I could do to help him but I had to do something but what exactly that drove me nuts I had no idea of what was about to hit the fan that one particular morning

I woke up from one of my worst nightmares yet that involved sharp teeth blood everywhere and frame screeching and rid as usual I went downstairs when I was alone on the way down there Mayhem broke out in the basement I heard the crazy lady ranting and blow Landing when

I got to the door I shuddered when I heard a heartbreaking whimpering responding to her angry voice Frank I then heard the part that made me see red you weren’t even supposed to exist you don’t even have friends who the heck would want to be your friend you sorry

Freak I eat you enough as it is that was it I heard enough the next thing I knew I was running across the basement I saw her standing in the doorway of the cubicle beating on Frank and I went berserk I was able to grab her arm and violently drag her away I

Was yelling at her to leave him alone and the look of shock on her face was satisfying At first she was off balance and I pulled her away but then she was screaming back then she started wailing on me she could hit too unfortunately for her I wasn’t having it I fought back

Dragging her further away from the cubicle and weathering her blows as best as I could this was satisfying because it showed me that she wasn’t so frightening after all when someone was fighting back just like the bullies I dealt with in high school until something came up and clocked me on the

Side of the head hard I didn’t see what it was but my head exploded and my vision was blurring I struggled on blindly until whatever Hit me hard hit me again harder I staggered and she beat me down cursing me with every blow it was one of those times I wish dad hadn’t

Been so thorough about teaching me to never hit a woman an inhuman Screech sounded in the background cutting through my days leave him alone suddenly she had something else to worry about as she began screaming in pain not ow I hit my head either I heard Frank snarling like an angry animal as

She babbled incoherently over the sounds of violent struggling I then heard wet ripping noises that made my stomach turn her screams reached a frenzy Pinnacle and were cut off by a final tearing noise I threw up hearing the sickening burble which followed that noise when that died out and a final thud sounded

It got really quiet I smelled a raw coppery stench in the air that hit me in the back of my sinuses I had a bad feeling I knew what it was I didn’t want to know unfortunately for me my vision cleared up at that moment I wish it hadn’t

I looked up and saw it it was crouching by the body of the crazy lady who looked like she’d been through a meat grinder she lay in a widening pool of thick sticky red from her torn throat her house dress ripped to shreds her face was frozen in Terror staring at the

Ceiling blankly this wasn’t a slasher movie this was reality it was no coincidence that I lost my taste for that kind of thing after this incident but believe it or not that’s what Terri ified me the most I heard a girl scream from nearby was that my sister it looked

Up and let out a guttural hiss that sent whoever it was fleeing upstairs it then turned a John’s bulging yellow eyes onto me eyes I knew in a face only vely human it had an unnaturally wide mouth that was now slathered with Gore a mouth full

Of way too many sharp teeth there were prominent cheekbones Flappy lips and a weak chin all of it framed by long long greasy straggly dark hair everything about its lanky bony body was just off the eyes were too round the mouth too wide the arms too long and there were

Looked like withered fins on its arms and legs there was even atrophied webbing between its long fingers and toes both of which were tipped with long nails that looked too much like claws its skin was a pale white on the bottom fading to an unhealthy yellow on

Its back and sides what what was this thing I thought as it stood up outlined in the sunlight from outside even worse it smiled at me or tried to anyways seeing that mouth trying to smile was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen even worse friend I like

Friend goodness gracious I knew that voice Frank seemed happy to see me for the first time until he realized his only friend was frightened of him a second later the most intense look of hatred I’ve ever seen on anyone’s face took over a look that made me scramble

Away from him as fast as I could he glared down at the dead body of the crazy neighbor lady gave an inhumanely high pitched snarl and started vigorously ripping into it after what Frank had told me about the past treatment of him and seeing it firsthand myself this was definitely Vengeance of

A Sort I had to turn away my head as the smell of methane choked me I could hear him growling and and hissing as he proceeded to angerly tear her body apart Lin from limb this was the lonely Outsider that I reached out to over these last few months this thing that

Was tearing apart and maybe even eating the body of his mother leave at me to befriend something that looked and acted like Gilman’s long lost cousin what was I thinking I dry heaved as I heard a car pull up quickly outside I heard my sister’s voice frantically greeting

Whoever it was as heavy footsteps charged downstairs to the basement door they stopped there and I heard a man’s voice declare oh my goodness Frank looked up and snarled with blood dripping from that inhumane mouth a second later he was drowned by gunfire that was deafening in the enclosed space

I scrambled out of the way like a sensible person would for once in my life after what seemed like forever the newcomers finally stopped shooting I heard them swiftly reloading heard slow dragging and slithering I looked up to see Frank Shot full of holes crawling towards me sorry

Friend I was overcome with grief for some reason when he said that I’ll never forget the sad look he gave me as a policeman moved in to finish him off with a point blank head shot everything then became a blur as I went to shock or was I already there and finally noticing

It at that time an overdue and merciful blackout hit me I came to in a hospital bed with a headache from hell and feeling eerily calm sedatives and really good painkillers probably I thought as I looked around and saw my family by my side my parents were scared and worried

And even my sister’s facade of snottiness was absent they asked me what had happened down there but I couldn’t find the words to answer them I just found myself staring at the ceiling in a days at that point someone entered the room and a man’s voice quietly addressed

My family I heard them file out of the hospital room and close the door after a moment’s silence the man addressed me I’m agent Hopkins from the FBI for all intents and purposes that subject you saw down there does not exist you did not see anything second you were not to

Discuss it with anybody not even your family if you say you saw something to anybody will know about it and there will be damage control do you understand what I just told you his voice was flat hard in a matter of fact the pauses in that Spiel said all I needed to hear

About how my life would be if if I disregarded anything he said maybe it was the drugs of my system but I just nodded I let his words wash over me without any sarcasm or a wise guy demeanor on my end because who would believe me anyway people thought I was

Crazy and stupid already since I was a headbanger and a horror film fan they’d probably just laugh in my face the way they always did if I told them anything about this incident I finally took a look at him before he left he was middle-aged ordinary gray hair dark suit

Pretty generic really but something about his eyes made me shiver and I immediately turned away after a couple of seconds of looking at him he walked silently out of the hospital room without Fan Fair and the dead silence that followed was more deafening than any concert I’ve ever been to in the

Past the sense of hopelessness I felt at his words were overpowering as a good little headbanger kid thinking that I was anti-establishment this day was what rammed it home for me about how pointless that attitude was when the establishment was like this the people who could just casually swoop in and

Take away your life your family everything that mattered to you if you stepped out of line here this suit and thae guy was just expecting me just to get over it in a blink of an eye no way man but the worst part of it was even

Being young and stupid I lost a friend weird and creepy though he’d been if it hadn’t been for his looks that had gotten him cooped up for his good he might have had a chance at a normal life my life was perfect in comparison and this incident made me painfully aware

How accurate that was I knew that I’d never feel exactly the same about my life from now on I was in the hospital overnight then they released me with painkiller prescription and not much else I couldn’t help but feel that I was being shunted away home life wasn’t much

Different except my parents must have thought what happened had been punishment enough for me but it also felt like they were walking on eggshells around me between that and the FBI guy verbally slapping me down the way he had I was not a happy camper it took me

Months to wrap my head around what had happened even then I had a hard time dealing with it after I got past the anger over the whole thing I was seriously depressed for some time after that that stupid therapist I had to go to didn’t help at all all he did was

Talk down to me and that sucked hard I didn’t tell him about Jack either mom and dad must have gotten a talking to from the FBI guy as well because all they did was back off of me with their hands in the air pretty much and so it

Went then came the day when the crazy lady’s daughter came to see me and she told me she didn’t hold anything against me I heard her out since I had no problems with her she told me that she’d argue with her mother numerous times about putting the poor guy out of his

Misery since he was so deformed but her mother always vehemently denied that option something about how it was her responsibility to take care of him and immediately the memory of the way she’d been assaulting and screaming at Frank that day reoccurred I told her what had happened and it didn’t exactly qualify

As taking care of Frank I know she said then she dropped the bomb her father had died when she was little and she never knew who Frank’s father really was only that her mother had gotten pregnant again after going away on several occasions with a group of creepy old

People in dark clothing she she didn’t remember much about them but she did remember the night Frank was born she remembered that her mother had given birth at home after a rough pregnancy with the people in Black overseeing the delivery the screaming she’d heard from the bedroom that she’d been ejected from

Had scared her half to death the noises of her little brother taking his first breath had made her blood freeze and she’ never forgotten her mother sobbing in horror as she screamed oh my goodness what have I done Frank had always been imprisoned in his room from day one the first time

She’ sneaked into his room to peek at him she stopped at the Cradle side stunned at what she saw her mother had tanned her hide for this and she’d never done so again afterwards it was so strange haunting time her childhood had always been and she’ left as soon as she

Came of age but the creepy folks and black suddenly appeared made it very clear that she was staying there like it or not for otherwise she’d be shrinking her Duty as they put it she lacked the courage to stand up to these Sinister strangers and she was frightened that

They’d come for her now for telling me anything I blur it out wouldn’t they do that anyways now that Frank was dead that was usually how it happened in the movies anyways that the bad guys would waste no time in eliminating those who outlived their utility oh it will happen

They have ways of knowing Things She Said with a shutter before excusing herself I just sat there staring at my Metallica and Slayer poster for a while after that to think that the CTS like that existed in the real world HP Lovecraft had been on to something I

Thought his implication sank into my brain then it hit me like a Breck was that guy in the suit really FBI I abruptly recall that he didn’t flash a badge of any kind was he one of those men in black I’d heard about on the

Internet I went to Bed full of tears and laying staring at the ceiling the way I had a habit of doing sleep what was that that was for normal Al people with families who actually loved and communicated with each other at around 2: a.m. as I still laid there Stark

Awake I suddenly heard through the radiator pipes oh no oh goodness no leave me alone she started screaming and crying hysterically I laid there shocked at what I was hearing trying and failing to get up my body felt numb sluggish but my brain was racing a mile a minute I

Couldn’t budge an especially blood curling shriek through the radiator pipes as bad as the crazy lady’s final scream had been broke the spell on me at last I charged to her front door and unlocked it as fast as I could then I hauled tail downstairs to the neighbor’s

Doorstep it didn’t occur to me why my parents didn’t even try to stop me and I didn’t care I saw that her door was a jar and I banged through it into the living room of her apartment the street lights outside were just bright enough to illuminate the room what I could make

Out in the dim of her living room rooted me to the spot terrified the then the stench hit me like a speeding truck a stench of rotting fish and a human waste combined my jaw dropped and my stomach churned as I took in everything before me several large figures were

Surrounding the crazy lady’s daughter whose pajamas had been partly torn off she was on her knees staring up at the people around her the people surrounding her were tall and gangly and something wasn’t right about them as they turned to face me I noticed their clumsy movements and the way their clothes were

Bulging as they looked my way way unfortunately my eyes had adjusted to the gloom and holy crap those faces looked more like fish than people I saw wide mouth bulging eyes shark teeth stringy hair just like Franks the Deep croaks they let out at the sight of me

Made me shudder as I stood there staring I felt something hard pressed against the back of my skull a familiar voice spoke from behind me you should have stayed in bed kid the Men in Black sounded even colder and more businesslike than he had in my hospital

Room my heart jumped into my throat as the crazy lady’s daughter let out a soft whne that said she had been long since checked out from this scene we’ll have to change the story we’ve given the police and the media to accommodate for you that’s not important the issue right

Now is how did you manage to break the spell we’ve cast on this building he sounded a tiny bit baffled at that thought but that didn’t help my legs were quivering and my brain was working overtime to try to figure out what what I was going to do he didn’t give me time

To come up with anything turn and look at me it won’t hurt much that was all it took to turn my bowels to water something crept in his voice that told me that his looking as ordinary as he did was for a reason don’t be a hero Mr

Glog would have something to say about that just look at me so was that it all I had to do to get out of this was to look at his face couldn’t be too bad I thought in desperation of course I was terrified over what might happen darn my

Overactive imagination but if I could avoid catching a bolt in the head I was all for it right right okay okay I’ll do that I said I wasn’t able to keep my voice from quivering and the sounding too high pitched I slowly turned and heard a soft menacing chuckle coming

From him which scared me even more I sounded downright cruel I thought I heard a noise and even though I didn’t know what it was I had no choice so I kept going only to see something that shut my brain down instantly and hard I came to in a feetal position I was

Perfectly happy where I was on the floor safe and sound then a memory jolted me to my feet shooting a frightening glance all over oh my goodness was that still here a flickering of undulating black tentacles whis past my mind’s eye and my brain reeled on its legs the sun was up

Lighting the living room on what would normally be a pretty Autumn morning normally was the key word because right away I saw something that made me freeze again eyes widening and widening and horror the crazy lady’s daughter was sitting on the sofa grinning idiotically her eyes were glassy and staring past me

I looked behind me and saw nothing then slowly back at her when we made eye contact she twitched and I about jumped out of my skin she looked right at me and a hideous this giggle came spilling from her mouth a giggle that I found myself joining in with because we both

Seen something not for human eyes our minds to comprehend I found it just as funny as she did all of the sudden then it hit me hard an image of writhing tentacles where a man’s face should be that were so black that stood out in the deadness of that rooms assaulted my

Mind’s eye we kept giggling which then turned into shrill laughter I sat on the floor on the other side of the coffee table pointing at her and laughing non-stop at some point it turned into both of us shrieking terribly I’m not sure when but that’s how the guy in the

White and the police found us when they arrived I didn’t resist when they carted me off I was too busy laughing sobbing and trying to tell them what I’d seen But the wor just wouldn’t come the reason you’re getting this story at all is because I’m writing it down on my

Cell here at the institution I have mechanical pencils and I have snapped and gone through numerous leads committing to this paper papers I have kept well hidden since someone might get cute and swipe them the doctors were able to restore my mind mostly but even with the meds I’ve been

Given I can’t unsee what I saw I can’t remember the last time my family visited and maybe that’s for the better I have a sneaking suspicion that maybe the Men in Black visited my family after he was done with me I don’t want to know what might have happened to the crazy lady’s

Daughter did I mention I can’t unsee the things I saw at the apartment complex even with the sleeping meds the dreams come and they won’t stop I keep hearing the evil chuckle in that cold flat voice telling me that I saw something I wasn’t meant to see no joke Sherlock it made me

Realize that yes there really are things out there that we humans aren’t meant to see or know about we are better off being oblivious about them I was no longer oblivious about this now I sped the other things and the things I saw in my dreams I was all too aware about

Their all to real world now that lurks at the outskirts of the world we humans think is safe good and solid heck no the world we need to worry about is the one that we conveniently ignore even though it’s right under our noses the world full of unspeakable things that will

Strike us raving mad if even a glimpse of them is caught by one of us humans the dreams happen every night and the worst part is these sleeping meds are so strong that I can only wake when they they finally wear off after the eternity

Of every night on them I can’t not take them either they make sure that I take them no matter what here even though these people mean well they just don’t get it they nod smile and Pat me on the head but I can tell that they don’t believe me they’re too busy thinking

That I’m too crazy to know what I’m talking about but I know better I can’t take it anymore there’s only one thing that will end this I hope though the Men in Black disagrees with me in the Dreamscapes he opens up for me every night so he can torment me from wherever

He is he says it’s a feudal idea I smuggled a spoon from the dining hall and I’ve ground an impeccable point to the handle as soon as I finish writing this that point is getting rammed into my ear and into my brain so I can finally end this torture will I really

Be tormented by the Men in Black only one way to find out if there’s an afterlife let’s hope that it’s well away from this world that they inhabit it’s bedtime now now good night World good night my life here’s the hoping that I’m right about this wish me luck something

Tells me I’m going to need It I found a dark and lonely road written by Shadow swimmer 77 I try to live my life without too many regrets I have had highs and lows like everyone else sure but I do what I can not to worry too much about what could have happened if I made a

Different choice if I maybe hadn’t taken the road last traveled I figure everyone’s going to make the best decisions they can with the information that they have available to them at the time going through all the wh ifs is ridiculous because the only way you would have made a different choice is if

You had some other detail which of course you didn’t hindsight is perfect and even then you can never be sure exactly what the sequence of events might have looked like if you gone right instead of left and yet there’s one choice I made one road I took that I just couldn’t

Help but wonder how things might have turned out if I done something different my job has me move around pretty regularly I’m not going to get into what I do that has no bearing on the story but a couple years ago I was working in Philadelphia

And living on the other side of the Delaware River in Cherry Hill New Jersey I am originally from Northwestern Pennsylvania and since this was the closest I’d been to home since I moved out of college I took the chance to see my parents whenever I could I knew I’d be moving again before

Long and my folks aren’t getting any younger so I try to find a week weekend every month or so to make the 7-hour trip to visit them if I’d been thinking about it when I was looking for places to rent I would have probably tried to live on the west

Side of Philadelphia instead of in New Jersey to avoid the traffic during rush hour but by the time I realized it the lease was signed and there wasn’t much I could do the drive to my hometown was pretty boring honestly I take the Ben Franklin Bridge

Across the river head up I 476 for an hour or so then a long slog across basically the entire expanse of Pennsylvania on I80 before another hour north on i79 to Erie Pennsylvania where I’m from the only variance in the drive was how long it would take to get me

Through Philly because once I got on the 476 extension I could typically predict my ETA within 5 or 10 minutes my second summer in Jersey I’d taken two weeks off and planned on spending the second week in Eerie things changed the first Wednesday though because a big storm blew through and

Knocked out power in a good part of the area where I was living dealing with 90° heat with no air conditioning wasn’t something I particularly felt like spending the first half of my vacation doing so after one uncomfortable sweaty night I let my parents know I’d be heading over a few days

Early in retrospect I should have left first thing in the morning but because I had a couple things to take care of before heading out by the time I finally got on the road that Thursday it was past lunch and getting towards midafternoon for whatever reason the traffic in

Philly was particularly heavy and by the time I finally got through town I was a good hour behind schedule still based on my normal timeline I figured I’d still be able to make it in time early enough to grab a dinner into beer with my dad and brother

Before crashing in for the night two things I hadn’t taken into consider consideration where the number of other folk that apparently had the same idea to get out of town that I did and the road construction that must have sprung up in the time since my last trip

Home the interstate highway system is a heck of a thing being able to zip along at 65 or 70 or in some remote places like West Texas even faster than that making cross country automobile travel take a fraction of the hours it would take otherwise I can’t tell you the

Number of times my folks have reminisced about the days before the interstate when going to see friends outside of DC would take almost twice as long as it does now what’s truly remarkable to me though is that even though the entire system of Highways was built start to finish in

Merely 35 years it sure seems like when parts of it go under construction they stay that way forever traffic was uncharacteristically heavy but moving and I was making decent time until I saw the first orange warning sign letting me know that four other lanes were reducing to three and then two and then

One hundreds of cones stretched down the road as far as the eye could see and see I certainly could as the cars in front of me reached a complete and total standstill it was one of the worst Deadlocks I’d ever been in seriously I think I moved a mile an hour after about

3 hours my stomach started grumbling with an exit just ahead and no end to the traffic jam inside I got off and found a diner to grab some dinner even if traffic miraculously picked up I still had a Solid 5 hours of driving ahead of me so at that point I knew for

Sure it was going to be pretty late that I was getting in after finishing eating I got back on the road things looked like they were picking up for a couple of miles but then I came back to the back of the end of the traffic jam and was right back to

Waiting we were moving a little bit bit better I think averaging about 5 m an hour at this point but as the sun started edging towards the horizon I pulled out my phone and started to see if Google Maps could clue me in on any kind of workaround it’s a funny thing about

Human nature most of us don’t like to sit still studies at airport showed that people would rather walk farther to baggage claim to get their luggage even if the total time would been less if they’d have a slightly longer wait at PL side while the power of the internet

Appeared to be in my favor although I80 still showed his dark red bands for another 50 Mi or so there was a southbound country road coming up in a few miles and a Northbound a couple after that either of which looked like they’d let me pass the worst of the

Traffic since I spent the better time of the day sitting on the road my patience was about worn out and I opted to take the southbound Road even though the app told me it would ultimately take me 30 minutes longer to get to my parents house I I just wanted to get moving

Again and the reason at this rate is it might take me more than 30 minutes difference to get to the northbound route anyways and that is a choice that will haunt me until the day I die I made the turn off and immediately felt my mood improve the signs

Alternated limiting my speeds between 35 and 40 m hour but even that seemed like flying compared to the Log Jam I’d spent the last several hours in the drive was interesting the road started a little twisty with plenty of elevation changes as it curved up and around the hills of central

Pennsylvania it took me on a general Southwest diagonal but turned and doubled back on itself enough that for the first 30 minutes or so I got regular views of the stalled traffic on I80 pretty soon after that though just about the time that the sun was just

Dipping beneath a couple of hills in my rearview mirror the road took a long curving Tack and carried me back down down and a way out of side of the interstate now something that a lot of people don’t realize is how big of a state Pennsylvania is sure there’s

Plenty of bigger ones but Pennsylvania is deceptively big and it is remote isolated heck the translation of it means pens Woods After All The Blair Witch Project didn’t have to embellish the aspect of the state the fact that you could head into the woods and walk for dozens of miles in any direction

Without seeing anything like another human being it’s got a decent number of big cities Pittsburgh and Philly both have enough of population to support major sports teams but away from those centers of development the harrisburg’s and the Pottsville and the Scranton and what have you there’s a whole lot of nothing

Nothing and trees and a dark and lonely road such was the road I was traveling that night winding through the twists and turns of the appach and foot Hills I moved around a lot I mentioned traveling through most of the Continental States anyways I sometimes used to wonder when

I’d be driving along a patch of asphalt surrounded by Untamed Wilderness what it must have been like to construct such a road what had it been like before men had intruded with our civilization and our machines what it live there I don’t wonder anymore not since that night when

I went left instead of right the way continued to twist back and forth up and down as I would wound deeper into the Foothills the trees grew thicker branches from either sides of the road reaching over and almost touching forming a natural canopy 20 ft

Up that blocked out much of the sky and the stars above I drove with my high beams on because the idea of the street lights had never entered the minds of whoever built this road the painon lines were old and not well cared for and I found myself gradually straddling The Faded

Double Lin partially running down the middle of the two lanes to keep some distance between myself and the trees that increasingly encroached on the pavement Edge I’ve never been a particularly good Navigator my parents used to say it was because I spent my childhood with my nose pushed into books during car rides

But I personally just think it’s because I’m bad at it so it was that despite there are no possible way I could be lost as there were no other roads that I could have possibly turned off to and gotten off track that I more and more frequently found myself checking my

Phone to ensure I was still on the right path which is how I almost ran into the other car my mind was wandering thinking about the fact that my signal bar had dropped and remained at zero for the last 20 minutes and what kind of implication

Would that mean if I should have some kind of emergency I raised my eyes back to the road after Google Maps confirmed for probably the 20th time that I was still good on my route choice and after my brain took a beat to process that I was rapidly approaching was a vehicle

Stopped in the middle of the lane slammed my foot on The Brak I stopped in time but not by much with maybe 5 ft separating My Hood from the other car’s rear bumper my heart was pounding in my chest as adrenaline coursed through my body but my fear

Quickly gave way to anger seriously what the heck was this guy doing Not only was he stopped in the middle of the road but all his lights were off if I hadn’t had my high beams on there was a good chance that I wouldn’t have seen him before I

Was practically on top of them even if I haven’t been checking my phone I could feel my pulse beating in my veins on the side of my neck I’m not somebody particularly quick to road rage and after a couple quick breaths I managed to get a hold of

Myself not wanting to outright alarm anyone that might still be in the vehicle I shifted revers and backed up about 20 ft popping on my hazards that’s when I started noticing a few odd things about the stopped car more than just the fact that the lights were

Out of course it was halted directly in the middle of the road but that wasn’t unreasonable since there wasn’t any shoulder to speak of that the driver could have moved on to the strange thing though was that the doors were open those on the driver’s side even seemed

To cross slightly into the oncoming Lane and on further observation I saw an item drop out onto the road by the rear driver’s side door something that appeared to be a child stuffed animal I considered my options and after a few seconds decided that I would have

To go against my better judgment just to keep going on my Merry way and head outside to get a better idea of what was going on I said earlier my job doesn’t have anything to do with the story which is mostly true but before you judge my decisions too harshly it Bears

Mentioning that I spent some time in the military an obligation to help people has been drilled into me over the years and I’ve seen enough things while deployed to feel I could handle myself and so I got out of my car but kept it running I popped the trunk to

Grab the flashlight I kept there and left my headlights on so I could see what I was doing I looked up and down the road hoping to spy any signs of cars approaching but no lack hello I called to the other car as I cautiously started my Approach

Circling around to the left towards the middle of the road so I’d be able to get a look inside before I got too close anyone there no answer the beams from my headlights helped some but there was still enough Shadow to still obscure the car’s interior shining my flashlight though

Easily determined that there was no one inside I moved closer stooping down near the road to pick up the Fallen object off the ground it was a child’s toy just as I suspected a stuffed rabbit with welln patches showing signs of fre frequent love I frowned if the folks traveling in the

Car had to hitch a ride with a passer by they would have taken the rabbit or the kid would have thrown a conion I shut the rear door and moved up to the front I put my hands on the hood and found it was still warm to the touch that meant

It couldn’t have been there for very long I slid into the driver’s seat to try and figure out if there were some kind of mechanical issue that would have forced the car to stop and was startled to find that a set of keys was still dangling from the ignition pressing the

Brake I turned the key and the ignition started right up headlights and the dome lights on the roof sprang the life fuel oil temperature battery all the GES looked good not even a check engine light curious sir and curious sir then I saw the person in the passenger seat I

Picked it up a normal Brown shoulder back and briefly rummaged around before finding a wallet inside everything appeared to be intact about 4 $40 in cash a couple of credit cards gym membership Sam’s Club card the driver’s license named the owner as Mary Walker a pretty blonde that just turned 30 a

Month before a couple of pictures showed Mary in staged poses sitting on a blanket under a tree whose leaves were turning red and yellow captured in the thrall of autumn a huge bearded Lumberjack of a man hugged her from behind a small ponytail girl with a goofy OV exaggerated smile on her lap

I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up a shiver ran down the base of my spine something was very wrong with this situation I put everything back in the purse and returned it to the seat turned off the car and got out shutting the

Driver’s door behind me I pulled my phone out of my pocket and dialed 911 holding it over my head to try to get a connection with no luck cursing softly I jammed the redend call button and moved around to the passenger side of the car I played my flashlight around and

Noticed that some of the foliage at the end of the road was bent and trampled like someone have been walking through it I didn’t have enough Woodcraft to be able to judge how long ago they might have passed but even then I couldn’t imagine any scenario for why they would

Have gone wandering shining my light into the woods the beam only extended maybe 30 ft through the trees before effectively being swallowed up by the greedy Blackness looking at the flattened foliage at the stuff rabbit in my hand then at the dark trees crowding maliciously my thoughts teetered back

And forth between what I should do I made up my mind I’d been trained to help people it was hardwired into my system there was a child somewhere in those woods I raised my foot to take a step into the beaten path and that’s when a white flicker of movement entered

The very edge of my flashlight beam it was Mary Walker she was naked and walking stiffly unnaturally her arm swayed out of sink with the rest of her body like a marionette manipulated by an inexperienced Puppeteer hello her voice called out anyone there more shapes came into view

Behind her shambling along here the bearded man who must have been Mary’s husband their little daughter owner of the well-loved rabbit both naked both moving as oddly as their wife and mother and now I could tell that there were more many more their forms indistinct out of

The direct light but so many they caused the darkness to pitch and swell with their odd staggering passage their voices A Chorus hello they called anyone there paring back the questions ID asked only a few short minutes ago when I had approached the abandoned car I took a

Stumbling step back away from the woods and the approaching automatrons tripping into the Walker’s car catching ing my balance I involuntarily shown my flashlight up into the pitch recesses of the branches and in so doing I could just make out barely a sort of Darkness crouched hidden in the upper limits a

Void even darker than the trees wasn’t my imagination those lines of pure Blackness that extended from the concealed mass and seemed to pierce the Flesh of Mary Walker and her kin and the countless other shapes moving in concert with them hello anyone there I sprinted back to my car engine mercifully still

Running headlights and Hazards flashing welcomely hello I shifted to reverse miraculously keeping enough of my head to avoid running off the road as I completed a three-point turn anyone there I chanced a glance in my rearview mirror the pale form of Mary Walker stood halt just at the edge of the

Forest where the trees met the road one hand was raised beckoning me to return or perhaps waving goodbye her face a mask of confused sadness I pressed the gas and drove back the way I came I did not look back again the rest of the trip was a fog at

Some point I made it back to the interstate I called my parents just to let them know I wouldn’t be getting in until late I drove on autopilot the traffic jam had cleared up while I was off I thought about calling 911 but didn’t what would I have told them

And to what end there was no one left to be helped I try not to go through life with too many regrets wondering about what ifs but this one this Choice what if I had left earlier in the day what if I hadn’t stopped for dinner maybe I

Would have still gone left maybe I would have been right there in time to help the Walkers maybe I would have been taken by that black thing fishing in the dark what if I gone right would I still be ignorantly going through through life unknowing that there are other things

Out there I try not to think of it too often but every now and then my thoughts turn to that stuffed rabbit it wasn’t until I reached my parents house that night that I realized I still had it clutched in my hand I used to wonder before men brought their roads and

Civilizations what was the Wilderness like what lived there I don’t wonder anymore I can’t afford to at least if I don’t want to wake up screaming and no matter how bad the traffic I always stick to the Interstate demon or Poulter I ghost in my duplex submitted by 420 Stoner Bape I live in Arkansas lived here the majority if not all my life I had experienced in all forms UFO sightings ghosts demons including the hman and the occational sleep paralysis or a dream in another

Dream that I couldn’t wake from either those are other stories though I want to tell you about the current duplex I’ve been living in for almost a year now my lease ends at the end of the month thank God the events aren’t in any particular order because I didn’t keep

Up with the dates or times it all happened the first time I moved in till I moved out they say when a place looks appealing and draws you close is because of an entity although I’m not bothered by them I simply ignore them I still decide I want to live in this duplex

It’s a nice three-bedroom two bath after signing on the paperwork I came by the first week of July I always clean my place with doors open I’m just superstitious well I was completely alone when I started hearing loud banging on my hallway walls kids soon to be bedroom and closet this happened in

Complete daylight again I just ignored it cuz I had a feeling another time I’d say a good month later after I moved everything into my new place and my kids were home including their dad or divorc but he helped me move he was on the couch sleeping while I was organizing stuff in

My bedroom when the doorbell rang which I thought was odd because I knew I wasn’t expecting any company my son and I heard it and we were both confused so I went to open the door and nobody was outside I instantly closed it cuz I do

Believe an entity can enter your home if the door is open during the time living here I heard up to three entities a woman and two men I think it’s a demon since it can be one only they are in my attic mostly or on the other side I hear footsteps all over

Day and night there was a time my neighbor was gone for 2 or 3 months I could even hear music and these opening and closing doors talking laughing after even turning on showers and turning the neighbors porch lights on and off which I took pictures of and might have to

Find them I’ve recorded before it’s too hard to hear but with earbuds it’s clear as day you hear the entity I was so scared one time I asked my best friend I’ll call her Maya to come and stay the night with me that night it seemed like it was going to be

Peaceful oh how wrong we were we both heard doors closing banging and like the neighbor was throwing apart Maya said when we all went to bed she heard banging on the windows in the guest room AKA toy room across the living room and mine I was dead asleep I

Didn’t hear anything that night other than the earlier noises before bedtime afterwards fast forwarding I’d come home from work and instantly hear footsteps or banging in the Attic while in my room and closet or I hear it in my kids room I didn’t mention but the

Duplex is all brick so I know I shouldn’t hear anything in the Kid’s Closet or mine the banging is all around I sometimes stay alone here too since I co-parent one night I heard some banging extremely hard on the back of my door my room has access to the porch

Outside the door is glass so you can imagine how loud it was I stayed frozen before checking with nobody outside I also heard footsteps on my porch with nobody outside when I would check I’ve told my kid’s father who didn’t believe it until he heard the

Banging one night around 9: or 10 p.m. when we were in my bedroom fast forward a bit again around February my brother said I should Sage the place I didn’t think it would work which it didn’t because during the time I started saging with prayers in Spanish the entity just

Followed me I felt the presence just mocking me he doesn’t want to leave this place I’ve saged my place four times and the banging continues my name my neighbor finally did come back at one point and the entity is here still and I hear it dragging something heavy as if something

Might have been murdered and put away in a box to be discarded when I hear my neighbor snoring the walls are pretty thin so not my fault I would hear the entity dragging something heavy again or even the loud footsteps SL banging in the Attic area so I know it’s definitely not

The neighbor in the Attic or doing all the other stuff The Entity follows me around when I’m alone it’ll follow me all the way from the kitchen to the back bedroom one night alone I experienced almost sleep paralysis I felt the energy of two entities one was a female I heard

Her speaking to me but since I just kept fighting them I really couldn’t make out what she was trying to tell me but I would feel the heaviness of sleep paralysis trying to overcome me so I fought much harder that urge and to Fallen Captive into their presence till

I broke free and everything disappeared and I could breathe again and felt less sweaty during spring break my kids’s father took them on a trip to Florida for a week I’m not sure why but I had woken up from a deep sleep till I looked over at the time 3:40 a.m. I instantly

Knew what woken me up while I laid awake trying to get back to sleep I could hear my laundry door close the laundry room is in the middle of my place so in the hallway I got goosebumps I told my little sister about it and she said could have been the wind

I totally disagreed and said girl this thing’s in the hallway with everything sealed back in September I think during my niece’s birthday weekends I had my older sister I’ll called her Cynthia she came over and stayed the night she heard nothing which is fine so At first she

Didn’t believe me fast forward to this month I keep telling Cynthia about my place and I would ask her she’s sure if she didn’t sense anything we’re all pretty sensitive to the Paranormal and my sister has the ability to see spirits she says no of course so

Yesterday June 2nd Cynthia came over to hang out all day I decided to tell her more about what’s been happening here I refused to speak in English or inside and we both step out on the porch while outside I was smoking my bull just talking away till she got Goosebumps all

Over her body she said that she felt the entity EXT extremely cold and that she believes me now the entity wouldn’t leave her alone and kept touching her arms and legs she would then get goosebumps wherever this thing would touch her she confirmed it was a man who

Seems evil and like I said before she said that he’d been mocking me and will not leave I best move out ASAP because he is a demon The Wanderer written by no author back in the 1990s a girl committed suicide after viewing an image posted in an old news group the image

Was of a figure which some identified as a woman standing in the middle of a Lonely Road the figure is transparent to the point of its legs and is barely visible and is illuminated by an unknown light source coming from the direction of the camera whether it’s headlights a

Handheld flashlight or the light of the camera itself isn’t itself actually known for sure as the actual source of the image has never been identified no facial features can be made out but the figure is most easily identified by its long bony appendages which partly resemble a spider’s

Legs those who have seen the image or no of its existence have come to known the figure as The Wanderer the first known Wanderer account occurred in 1996 Jane a college girl who was visiting her family during the holiday season had an interest in the Paranormal

She saw The Wanderer image on a News Group along with the message reading do you see me I can see you too dozens of other users saw the same post most didn’t think much of it just that it was just somehow funny some actually complained that they have experienced headaches while looking

At the image and similar claims have been made by others since according to James family she suffered from nightmares in the nights after seeing the image she claimed that she would wake up and see The Wanderer outside her window sometimes it would scrape the glass with its spider-like limbs but

Usually it would just stand there and stare at her she would find herself unable to move while in its presence as if many unseen hands were holding her down even if she closed her eyes she would still see it her family was sure that she’ just been frightened by an online image and

Was having nightmares as a result until Jane complained of seeing The Wanderer in her Waking Life as well she was convinced it would follow her she would see it even while she was in a room full of people or out in public even though no one else even saw

Anything Jane’s family feared for her sanity but only assured her that The Wanderer wasn’t real Jane however only got worse she began to go extreme links to stay awake at night it started out just with caffeine and staying active but quickly graduated to cutting herself and screaming all through the night before

Long she wasn’t sleeping at all she was convinced that if she slept Again The Wanderer would take her her family knew that they just couldn’t wait and hope for the best Jane needed help but when Jane’s mother knocked on her daughter’s bedroom door she received no answer she carefully

Opened the door not wanting to disturb or startle Jane but she still heard nothing Jane was an in her bed she wasn’t sitting at her computer she didn’t appear to be in her room at all until her mother checked the closet there Jane was found curled in

The corner blood readed in the front of her body having drained from the long slit across her throat she was clutching a blunt stain note which read it can’t have me now Jane’s case is not isolated through the rest of the 90s dozens of others went missing or committed suicide after viewing the

Image of The Wanderer since the turn of the century despite my best efforts of locating the image it seems to have disappeared recently though I posted on a News Group asking if anyone had heard of The Wanderer I’ve done this many times before and usually there’s one or

Two people that have heard of the story but no one has seen the image this time was different shortly after posting I received an email in my box the subject of the email was I can see you the body only read do you see me I can see you

Too there was an image attached with the message I can’t verify whether it’s the real Wanderer image or not but I must warn you that if you choose to view the image you do so at your own Risk the creature in your mind no author ever tried to figure out that thing that always lurks inside your mind was Haunting your dreams eating you in your nightmares now you can finally face him talk to him but be careful who knows what can happen to you it must be a new

Moon night in December when it’s exactly 1:28 in the morning you must go to bed wearing plain white clothes the same rules apply to your bed sheets if you don’t have any white bed sheets don’t put them on your bed or the ritual won’t work lay down act like you’re sleeping but I

Suggest you not sleep on your back because it might be more painful close your eyes and wait until you start to hear Whispering coming from behind your door when you start to hear those frightful Whispers say in a low voice come to me I want to talk if done correctly the door will

Open and you will suddenly fall asleep otherwise you’ll just sleep normally while sleeping you will instantly wake up in a small room with two windows in the opposite walls outside the windows there are endless night skies Raining Blood both up and down there’s nothing but a table two chairs and blood blood

Everywhere act like you don’t mind that not at all just get the closest chair and sit down say confidently I’m here the door on the other side of the room will open and it will come a creature that will have an unspe speakable appearance will appear but somehow

You’ll feel like you’re just facing the thing you’re just the most afraid of whether it’s a person an object or a place just stare at the creature as it approaches and sits down don’t panic it won’t hurt you at least not physically the creature will start to

Talk its voice will give you Shivers that even your soul will feel but act like you don’t mind just listen it will talk about the secrets of your life your future and will speak about the scary truth of existence you still have to avoid reacting despite how unsettling and

Utterly frightening it is otherwise it will attack you and you will die in your sleep once he stops talking you will know he will lean his head on his right fist you shall say at this time I understand am I worthy to know he will ask to see your hand show

It do not disobey if you do correct directly he will put something in your hand you can’t tell what it is at this moment but when that happens you will wake up and it will be exactly 7 in the morning you will notice something in your hand it will be closed open it

Don’t worry yet you will see what the Monster placed in your hand it can be one of the four possibilities if you see a quarter in your hand every night you will be given a pleasant dream if you see a little rubber duck your dreams will be memories

Of your childhood if it’s a little key you’ll be able to see your friend Secrets through your dreams but if there’s nothing at all the next time you sleep you will never wake again the effects of the objects last exactly 6 days after that your nights will go back

To normal but I shall tell you during these six days never never get rid of those objects always take them with you all the time the creature knows what you’re Doing Dark Woods demon by Johnny and Elijah Henderson author note this story is based on actual events Jacob cursed as he pushed through the thick underbrush trying to make his way to the tree stand he had built earlier in the summer he was certain that this location would give him an

Optimal line of sight to the neighboring field in which he frequently saw large herds of deer this was going to be his year and he was sure of it this is the year that I bring home my trophy Buck he thought as he recalled the events of the

Day so far he had awakened at 4:30 a.m. he began to prepare for the long day in the woods on the backside of his farm his first order of business had been to locate and rescue his gloves and camouflage hunting gear from whatever undisclosed area of his home that his

Wife had hidden them he would most assuredly need them this morning to protect him from the bitter cold November morning how could it be this cold this early in the year he wondered as he started to work on his second task of the day which was to prepare a

Breakfast that would stick to his ribs long enough into the day he wasn’t entirely sure what he wanted this morning but he finally settled on toast country ham and scrambled eggs that were just a little too runny he topped it all off with a large cup ofe coffee that left a bitter taste

In his tongue in fact he could still taste it after accomplishing task one and two he packaged himself a baloni and cheese sandwich for lunch grabbed his Remington 30 out6 hunting rifle a thermos of coffee and headed out the door he loaded his gear into his truck

And pulled out into the driveway and turned right into the one lane Black Top Road that led to the backside of his property after about 2 and a/4 Miles he turned right again off the black top onto a dirt road that was gouged with deep deep mud filled rots he had

Traveled about another half mile down that pitiful rut filled excuse for a road when he came to his desired location he got out of his truck and loaded his gun and sauntered off into the woods Jacob had gone little more than 500 yard into the densely wooded tree

Line when he began to wish that he had put on an extra layer of clothing to Shield him against the Chile morning Air 10 minutes out of the truck and he was already cold and it was made worse by a cloudy overcast day and the wind that was blowing steadily through the trees

Making the Autumn Leaves rattle like dry bones oh well he thought it’s going to be a good day anyways especially if I bring home a big one Jacob took about 10 more steps with an uneasy feeling began to creep over him he felt as though someone had stepped over his grave he

Got a distinct feeling that he was being watched but by whom this was his property and it was posted no one had permission to be on his land he had to be alone but if he was alone why couldn’t he shake the Eerie feeling that was scratching in the base of his

Skull something was off today there was a deafening silence there in the forest no birds or insects only the sound of the wind in the trees convincing himself that it was nothing more than the case of nures he continued to press on until he came to a clearing not far from his

Tree stand stepping into the clearing Jacob saw the remains of what appeared to be a large deer he wasn’t quite able to make out what he was seeing from the distance because the sun wasn’t completely up yet and the forest was still enveloped in Shadows Jacob walked

Closer to get a better look and found that he’d been correct it was a deer a large AO buck in fact looking at the remains he felt a sense of dread come over him and icy fingers dance along his spine something about this kill just doesn’t seem right the throat was

Completely torn out and the stomach was ripped open plus several of the internal organs were missing it was the most gristly thing he’d ever seen this definitely wasn’t a coyote kill and no Hunter would have done this they would have taken the head to have it mounted

What could have done this he wondered a fear like nothing he’d ever experienced before began to wash over him in waves what is going on he thought at nearly 225 lb and well over 6t he wasn’t one to give into fear but now he couldn’t seem to calm down

And his heart was beating like a trip Hammer the feeling that he was being watched was getting stronger by the minute and he couldn’t shake the feeling that he was moments away from a bad situation he slowly started to back away from the mangle carcass and head back to

His truck and back to safety no more than six steps into his journey his blood turned to ice in his veins as a deep gutter a wailing scream shattered the Eerie silence and what was left of his courage he had grown up on the farm all his life and had been an experienced

Haunter since childhood he was familiar with every animal in this part of the state not even a cougar Bobcat or bear could have produced the scream that had torn through the early morning forest and filled him with such bone chilling apprehension Primal Fear now gave way to

Stark Terror as he chambered around into his 30 o 6 and turned around only to find there was nothing behind him his mind raised with confusion and he was confronted with a million thoughts at once what should I do what could it be should I run am I going to die his

Survival senses kicking into overdrive Jacob decided to continue on his previously contrived plan which was to go to the truck and get out of there while the get was good slowly and cautiously he made his way towards the perceived salvation of his vehicle silently praying every step of the way

With 300 yard separating him from his only Avenue Escape Jacob began to hear heavy footfalls off to his left he could hear the crunching of withered leaves sticks and debris that littered the forest floor summoning every ounce of courage that remained within him he forced himself to look to that direction

And that’s when he saw the dark silhouette that followed him through the densely Tangled Forest quickening his Pace he redoubled his efforts to reach the truck and get to a phone and call the Sheriff the game warden or anyone that would listen he couldn’t tell what

It was that was stalking him but he could clearly see that it towered more than 7 ft and was incredibly massive Jacob couldn’t help but think that he was about to become a national statistic a person who left home under normal circumstances and just disappeared Without a Trace how many

People he wondered go into the woods and just vanish and the authorities just assumed that he’ just become lost or injured or even become the victim of animal attacks with their bodies never being recovered please God don’t let this happen to me he thought as he drew

Closer and closer to his truck 75 yards became 50 and 50 became 30 and 30 became 10 like a miracle he was back and opening his door throwing his rifle inside he pulled himself up into the cab and started the engine and hit the gas but the trunk went nowhere he had parked

In a large mud puddle and now the tire simply spun slinging mud 30 ft behind him oh no not now he thought I can’t be stuck not now allowing himself a moment to think Jacob remembered that his truck is a four-wheel drive there’s no way I

Can be stuck reaching down he locked his truck into four-wheel drive and was prepared to punch the gas and leave this nightmare behind unfortunately for Jacob some nightmares are not so easily left behind and there’s nothing worse than a nightmare you can’t wake from and Jacob

Was about to learn that the hard way hearing something to his right he instinctively turned and immediately wished that he had not it took him maybe half a second to turn his head but he would have given anything in the world to have that half second back because it

Was the last moment that his world would ever seem normal again in that Split Second his world changed it was no longer a place where the world was light and safe where he was just a husband and a father and a guy that liked to hunt and watch football on the weekends that

Reality had evaporated away like the early morning fog and all that was left was a world where monsters existed and things really went bump in the night and now an ambassador from that nightmare realm was just standing outside his passenger door a visible reminder that his world had been turned upside

Down Jacob screamed as he stared transfixed on this Escape E from a horror movie in the most terrifying fever dream he could ever imagined that such thing could ever exist it was hideously ugly standing 8 ft tall with a thick muscular body it looked very apish in appearance but then again it didn’t

There was just something about the face that was just wrong almost like an obscene algam of man and animal that had gone horribly array it was the most terrifying thing he’d ever seen it was completely covered with thick Shaggy black hair that was matted in areas with God only knows what and it

Walked on two legs not four like you would expect from some kind of animal what was this thing that had shattered his perception of reality was it a demon a werewolf it can’t be he thought those things don’t exist maybe it was some kind of reject from the

Island of Dr morau whatever it was it was staring at him and it did didn’t look happy the menacing Juggernaut threw its enormous head back and let out a blood curdling scream that resonated throughout the surrounding area and seemed to vibrate him to his very core shocked back into action Jacob

Threw his truck into gear and took off as though he was being chased by the very hounds of Hell Jacob mind racing wondered what he was going to do how will I ever feel safe on this Farm again he thought are my wife and children in danger where did this thing come from

And will anyone believe me the Whirlwind of thoughts that swirled through Jacob’s mind came to an immediate stopped as he slammed on his braks nearly slid off the road in a state of disbelief Jacob sat staring at the large hackberry tree that laid across the dirt road and blocked

His path preventing him from reaching the blacktop and guaranteed safety how is this even possible he thought I just came down this road not even 30 minutes ago and the path was clear however this tree came to be a cross the road it was painfully obvious

To Jacob that he had to get out and move the tree if he was going to make it home since he had neither chain to pull the tree out of the road nor did he have a saw which he could cut out this unexpected barricade he was left with

Few viable options one of which was walking which he discounted almost immediately the most logical course of action that he could come up with was to call for help his best friend Kenny Patterson owned the farm just over for from his if he were home he could bring

A saw and cut the tree up for him Jacob with his nerves still frazzled and frayed reached into his glove box and pulled out his cell phone and clumsily dialed Kenny’s number the phone rang six times and Jacob was about to give up when Kenny answered the phone and said

Hey ugly what do you want this early in the morning as quickly as he could he related the recent events to Kenny and said man please hurry I’m not kidding there’s something out here Kenny hearing the shakiness in his friend’s voice assured him that he would be there in a

Matter of minutes Jacob thanked him and hang up the phone embraced himself for what he assured to be the longest few minutes of his life sitting there motionless with baited breath there in the truck every sound made his imagination run with fear and expectance even though little more than 3 minutes

Had passed since he had spoken to Kenny it felt as if hours had passed each tick of the clock seemed to be an eternity Jacob frequently checked in all directions for any sign that that nightmareish monstrosity had pursued him in every shadow that the forest in this irritatingly cloudy day produced he

Thought he saw the shape of the black beast that followed him out of the woods and he was afraid that he would lose his sanity long before Kenny arrived to clear the tree out of his pathway after what seemed like a lifetime Jacob heard the sound of Kenny’s old truck

Sputtering up the road and in just moments he was able to see the old red chevolet as it made its way closer to him Jacob’s spirits lifted when he he saw his old friend and a sense of relief wash over him as he realized he was no

Longer alone stepping out of his truck Jacob said man what took you so long I asked you to hurry Kenny with an indignant look on his face said what are you talking about you only called me 11 minutes ago I think I made pretty good time Jacob could hardly believe that

Only 11 minutes had passed it seemed so much longer after apologizing to his friend and telling him exactly how happy he was to see him both men walked over to the fallen tree and made a discovery that startled them both the tree had not broken it had not been cut it had been

Pushed over and completely uprooted all around the tree were large bipedal footprints that had a somewhat human appearance to them but if they were human the owner would require a size 28 shoe Jacob and Kenny looked at each other and then without a word went to

Work on the tree Kenny took a chainsaw from the bed of his truck and began to cut the Fallen blockade meanwhile Jacob pulled the logs and debris from the road note mission accomplished Kenny put away his saw and he and Jacob were about to get in their vehicles and leave but

Before either man had even open their doors an earsplitting scream that would have filled a Banshee with paralyzing fear erupted from the woods behind them weily Jacob walked over to Kenny and whispered that’s what I was telling you about I don’t know what that thing is

Man but it looks like some kind of monster I think we need to get out of here no Kenny who looked as though the blood had drained completely out of his face became very pale as he said to Jacob Jacob man I’ve never mentioned this to anyone before now but over the

Last few months that thing has been killing off a few of my cows their throats are usually torn out and the bodies are mangled and broken I didn’t want anyone to accuse me of being crazy and making stuff up so I never said anything about it but that’s the reason

I rushed over when you called I’ve heard the sounds a few times off in the distance at night but never this close so I think you’re right old buddy it is time to go cautiously and with a sense of urgency Jacob and Kenny climbed into their vehicles and expeditiously made

Their way back to the blacktop turning left both vehicles began the 2 and 1/2 Mile Trek that led back to Jacob’s house so they could decide what course of action they should take Jacob could feel the temperature drop as snow began to fall gently he reached over and turned

His wipers on as the snow began to pel the windshield harder as he passed his neighbor William Springer’s farm he noticed a herd of deer grazing in the field that bordered his property having put a bit of distance between himself and the nightmare he had just encountered Jacob felt A Renewed sense

Of security as his fatigued nerves began to calm not willing to let this opportunity pass by Jacob turned on his hazard lights and pulled to the shoulder off the road and Signal Kenny to do the same Kenny instinctively knew what Jacob was thinking as he pulled in behind him

And turned his ignition on off getting out of his truck Kenny said what are you doing man we need to get out of here now Jacob said I know I know and we will just a minute man I can’t just turn this down I have to take the shot that is a

Sixpoint Buck over there it’s not the trophy that I wanted but at least I won’t go home empty-handed and after the morning I think we’ve had I think we deserved a little something good all right just take the shot so we can go I still don’t feel right about this Kenny

Said stading his rifle across the hood of his truck Jacob zeroed in on the buck and prepared to fire that’s when he heard Kenny making gasping noise and whispered oh my God what is it man what’s wrong with you raise your scope 3 in he said raising the scope 3 in Jacob

Immediately saw what had been the cause of Kenny’s alarm standing just outside of the tree line in the edge of the field was the creature that they had left behind not even 5 minutes was this thing following them was it after the deer what was it doing Jacob watched the

Creature through the scope for full 30 seconds before it ever moved and when it did it ignored him and the deer and started to L off towards William’s Barn that was just 500 yards away from where the Woodland demon had just been standing Jacob called out to Kenny and

Said Kenny call William and tell him that there’s something trying to get into his barn I know he has at least two Mayors with fos in there and if that thing gets in it will kill all of them in an attempt to be rid of this monster

Werewolf sad squash windo or whatever it was Jacob fired a shot but missed the creature turned to their Direction and glared at them through red heedful eyes and then began to run towards them at Full Steam Kenny who was still on the phone with William screened at Jacob to

Get in his truck and go Jacob did as he was told and Kenny followed suit starting their trucks Jacob and Kenny both raced to Jacob’s house as though they were driving on the NASCAR Sur circuit arriving at home Jacob gun in hand ran inside and get the phone book

So he could call the game warden and the police and get some kind of animal control out here to get rid of this thing Jacob had just stepped out of his front porch when they heard gunfire coming from over Williams Place dropping the foam book and running back inside

Jacob grabbed the 12 gauge pump shotgun and some shells and handed them to Kenny who took a little time in loading it Jacob and Kenny now locked and loaded walked together to Kenny’s truck preparing to mount up rescue for neighbor William simultaneously both of them stopped in their tracks as an

Uneasy but familiar feeling crept over them and Jacob’s Rott riler and two German Shepherds began to whipper and ran under the front porch to hide Kenny whose throat had suddenly gone dry as a bone whispered to Jacob and said I have a really bad feeling about this no

Sooner had the words escaped his lips they heard a deafening scream erupt from the forest off to the right and the creature exploded from the trees in front of to them until now neither man had been able to fully appreciate the Colossal size and scope of the beast but

Standing less than 30 ft away they were almost overcome by the sheer magnitude of it Jacob had seen it up close earlier from his truck while sitting down and had guessed the height may be 8 ft but now standing there looking up he could

Tell that this fell was 8 and 1 half or 9 ft tall and would tip the scales around 1,000 lb it had inhumane long arms that bulged with thick ropey muscle that were easily seen beneath its long shaggy black hair which covered it from head to tail the chest was larger than a

55 gallon drum and there is little doubt that it could pull the arms off an A and now it cleared at them with malevolent intent Jacob and Kenny both opened fire without hesitation the creature screamed with rage as the bullets tore its massive body knocking it to the ground

But not killing it or seriously injuring it Jacob and Kenny W watched speechless as it crawled into the tree line struggling to its feet and limped Away Jacob ran back to the porch and grabbed the phone book and called the local game warden nearly 2 hours later Jean trer

The local Warden showed up to take their statements and told them that he had been called out to answer numerous such reports in the area but he wasn’t sure what to make of all of the reports guys he said I don’t know what to tell you

There is no such animal in this area or in any area for that matter that fits your description I’m not saying I don’t believe you I just don’t know what it is Jacobs whose face was rened with anger said come here here’s the blood from where we shot it and here are the

Footprints a look of complete confusion washed over Jean’s face and he asked if they would care to go with him as he tried to track it Jacob and Kenny agreed but they said that they weren’t going anywhere without their guns Jean stated that he planned to take his gun as well

All three men loaded their guns and set out following the deeply impressed tracks and drop like of blood that had fallen on withered leaves they followed the trail for about a mile until arriving at a creek that was located deep in Jacob’s Woods where the tracks that they were following were joined by

Others just like them some were smaller but at least one set was larger deciding that the safest course of action would be to return home they all went back to Jacob’s none of them relished the idea of staying out in the woods longer since there is now apparently more than one

Creature and the Cloudy overcast Day made the forest seem even dark darker than it would normally be this time of day back at Jacob’s gened informed them that there was nothing left that he could do but file it under an unknown animal sighting which made both Kenny

And Jacob anything but happy Jacob and Kenny spent the next couple of days trying to warn their neighbors to use caution when they were out in the forest most of their friends just laughed at them and said that they probably seen a bear or something no one believed them

Except William who had seen it himself the same day they had they had even taken a shot at it but missed Jacob William and Kenny knew what they had seen and they knew that it was still out there and they didn’t care who believed him and who didn’t over the

Next few weeks more and more neighbors began to take the stories a little bit more seriously as family pets began to disappear and others were found brutally mingled other farms in the area begin to find their cows and other livestock torn open with their throes ripped out just a

Few weeks after shooting the creature in his yard Jacob’s own Rottweiler was found dead with his throat torn out hanging across a limb in the tree in his front yard it almost seemed like a Revenge killing a few days later one of Williams new fos died the same way the

F’s mother had to be put to sleep because she had gone into shock over whatever she would witness in the barn when her fo was killed some people in the area still don’t believe they think the whole story was made up but Jacob and Kenny know that there’s still

Something out there in the forest they still occasionally find tracks or a slaughtered cow or a goat they still hear the blood curling screams off in the woods at night they know that there is still something out there watching and waiting biting its time something cold and cunning and cruel something not

Human with a taste for blood and Revenge rabbits in the creek I’m writing this because my family won’t talk about it anymore I’m the only one who can’t seem to forget I was raised on the outskirts of Preston a small town in Southern Idaho with a population of around 5,000 my more immediate Community was

Isolated dead in dirt road called Bear Creek less than 20 families lived on Bear Creek I didn’t mind being so isolated I grew up in the comfort of wide fields and Clos neighbors that only rural people know we were a Mormon community very Church centered very Community centered all the young girls

Myself included were part of the young woman’s group all the boys were members of the local Boy Scout trip which doubled as a church group in our area we had Fourth of July parties at the local Ballpark and swam in the nearby Reservoir it was a good quiet community

My house a 92-year-old Farmhouse built by my great great grandfather was situated on a small hill surrounded by a wide grass field on one side and a snake dirt road on the other across the road was the creek bottoms Southern Idaho is categorized in a desert climate so not

Much grows in the irrigated Fields besides Sage Brush and Burrs the creek bottoms were the exception the creek fed the growth of the thick tangle of [ __ ] willow bushes in the late fall we’d used to go down there in the bottoms and pick the white cottony [ __ ] willow seeds to

Decorate the fences of our driveway being so isolated it wasn’t uncommon for animals to come down from the mountains we had a female moose who brought down her calf and lived in our other Orchard every winter and the occasional line wasn’t unheard of either this summer when I turned eight I remembered because

It was the same year as my baptism a smaller Mountain line was spotted several times in our area we weren’t worried the big cats stayed away from the farms and usually moved on when the area didn’t yield enough food the same summer my neighbor Payton was working on

His Eagle Scout project he loved National Geographic and thought it’d be pretty tool to try putting together a National Geographics mission on our little creek bottoms the young line that happened to be in our area at the same time made him especially excited he decided he wanted to try and get

Pictures of the line and emailed the National Geographic team for advice they recommended setting up an automatic camera that takes shots every couple of seconds in the area that the line was known to visit they also recommended setting up some kind of bait so the line was more likely to come by

No one in the the creek liked the idea of live bait or carrying so we came up with a different kind of bait we decided to set up an audio recording of a Dying rabbit and played on Loop through a set of speakers hidden in the Willows I

Remembered when everyone was down in the bottoms testing the speakers and I heard the noise for the first time the sound of the dying rabbit is horrible it’s described as being almost identical to the sound of a screaming child if you never heard it yourself there’s plenty of recordings available online it’s

Worth to listen the camera was set up the speakers were set up everything was perfect Payton explained that he would allow the camera in the recording to play uninterrupted for a week and then he would go check on it this would give time for our scent to fade from the

Bottoms and encouraged the line to come closer at first I was worried about the noise it was a truly horrible noise and our house was the closest to the situp point in the bottoms my father assured me that the noise wouldn’t reach us as far as our house and I was relieved when

We arrived at home that night and he was correct the bottoms were far enough away that I couldn’t hear anything I remember Payton the next day in church he was fidgety and excited to check on the equipment but he had to wait a week which everyone kept reminding him he

Couldn’t risk going down there too early and scaring the line away for good that night I woke up to an awful noise I sat ramrod straight up in bed with my eyes wide in the dark hands clutched so hard my Palms bore the indents of my fingernails for hours

After I knew that noise it was the recording of the rabbit it sounded faint and far off like it really could have been coming from the bottoms but that was impossible because the recording been going all night the previous day and I hadn’t heard a thing I didn’t

Sleep that night I was too scared to get out of my bed and wake my parents the recording played over and over again I had the loop memorized in the morning I stumbled into the kitchen for breakfast my mom and dad were sitting at the kitchen table They too had dark Rings

Under their eyes I hadn’t been the only one who’d heard it Mom was convinced that the equipment must have been broken she wanted to go down into the bottoms to check it out dad refused he was a kind gentl man and didn’t want to stir up any unnecessary drama he was sure

That there had been a strong wind last night and the wind carried the noise farther than its natural reach he told us to listen we did he was right we couldn’t hear it now we forgot about it and went about our daily goings the next night it happened again I stayed up

In bed with my back to the wall the screaming was even louder than before but this time something was different it was lower pitch than I remembered and parts of the loop were slowed down as if the recording were warped in places at times the loop did not Loop naturally

And instead picked up at random places in the middle my mom didn’t mention anything at the breakfast table but both her and my dad seemed tense the third night I mustered the courage to stand beside my bedroom window and look out into the yard for a moment I stood

Rooted to the spot my hand shaking no matter how hard I clenched them the noise slid in through the cracks in the window I watched the outline of the trees in the yard perfectly still not even the slightest Breeze stirred the branches my mom announced that she’d be

Going to visit her sister in the town the next day and would probably spend the night there she invited me to come along but I was daddy’s little girl at heart and I chose to stay at the farm I took mom’s place beside dad in their bed

That night but even that didn’t help I don’t think my dad was asleep either for he was unnaturally still the whole night we began to hear the noise during the day too I was drawing with chalk on the sidewalk when it happened my shoulders tense and the hair on the back of my

Neck prickled there was only one scream a short high-pitched one and then the recording fell silent it happened again several times though throughout the day but never the whole Loop just clips from it later that evening Payton’s dad came up the driveway on his four-wheeler he

Said he was looking for their dog a sweet yellow lab who had been missing since that morning Dad said he was sorry and that he hadn’t seen her I stared at him silently begging him to mention the recording but he didn’t he was a quiet

Man after all he didn’t want to bring up any unnecessary drama mom stayed away the whole week dad and I didn’t sleep by Saturday the screaming could be heard constantly though it seemed to have deviated from this familiar Loop entirely I didn’t recognize any of it sometimes the screams were thin and long

Other times they were hardly more than growls once while my dad had been heating up meatloaf for lunch the noise Rose in such a rancorous St that he dropped the plate and it shattered I pressed my hand over my ears when I sat at the table and I squeezed my eyes shut

But it didn’t help the noise forced its way through the cracks on my fingers pinched my throat and rattled to my rib cage the didn’t lasted for a whole minute then fell silent dad was shaking that was the last we heard of the noise that day Payton came by Saturday evening

To ask permission to cross our road to collect the equipment he was so excited I watched him disappear into the creek bottoms with a sense of tired relief after the equipment was gone it would all stop I couldn’t wait to get a full night’s sleep not a minute later I

Spotted pton coming back up the creek I was confused it had taken as so much longer to set up the cameras and the speakers so I’d only assumed it would take as long to collect them my breast stilled when Payton came closer he didn’t look right his eyes were wide and

His face pale something wet dribbled from his chin and onto his shirt I later realized it was vomit my dad caught him before he fell and demanded to know what had happened Payton couldn’t speak he just cried we called his dad and I looked after Payton as both my dad and

His dad went into the bottoms they were gone for a long time when they returned their faces were grim and they smelled funny I noticed red on my dad’s hands I asked what was wrong but they brushed right past me and immediately called the police nobody would tell me what had

Happened I sat on the couch as a blur of neighbors and police officers swirled around me at one point an officer placed something on the kitchen table and left I looked into the kitchen curiously it was the camera from the bottoms I wish I hadn’t looked the camera was a little

Banged up tiny scratches and dents covered the plastic casing when I lifted it my hand stuck to the plastic something tacky and odorous covered the screen but it turned on fine the first set of photos were normal just the [ __ ] willow cast Green in the glow of the

Night setting as I continued to click through them they quickly became strange at one point the camera angle changed as if the camera had been knocked from its post grass now obscured most the frame Flex of red appeared on the lens and remained for the rest of the sets one

Photo made me pause there was a figure in this one or half a figure as most of the upper torso hadn’t me it into the frame I thought it could be human but it didn’t look like it should be standing upright its legs were twisted like an

Animal and it seemed to be having difficulty supporting itself in an upright position beside the legs a long thin arm hung whatever it was it must have been stooping over for its fingertips hung below its correct knees the next set was different it was as if

The camera had been picked up and was now being held the first photo was of the bottoms at night the neck startled me I had looked too closely before deciding what it was a rabbit had been laid in the bushes but its ears and most of its scalp had been peeled away the

Next was of the same rabbit but a thin dark hand was holding it up against the sky its limp body hung like something from a nightmare in the following photos more rabbits joined the one each with their ears and scalps removed then a cat then more cats then a dog the yellow lab

Then the lion the following photo was of seven rabbits three cats one dog and the lion all laid out in a row facing the same way their arms and legs have been arranged as if they were marching like some parade all of their scalps have been removed and tiny white glint of

Their skull could be seen the last photo was overly bright like the photo had been taken too close with the flash on an eye dominated the frame but it was yellowed and crusted and had a bar pupil like a horse in the bottom corner of the

Edge a mouth could be seen no lips just teeth sharp and little with little wide gaps of red gums between them I wish I hadn’t looked I heard my dad talking to the police outside they said the speakers had malfunctioned the recording and only played the first night gurgles and

Bugman after my last experience my parents reminded me of another story from my childhood when you’re five your mind lacks the experience to make informed judgments or connect things that aren’t obvious over the years the details get fuzzy and forgotten speaking with my parents the other day they cleared the cobwebs burying this

Story I remember now much too clearly the story of gurgles and bugman I just started kindergarten that year everyone’s a friend when you’re five so I had no shortage of classmates but coming from a poor family I didn’t get to see much of them outside of school my parents spent all their waking

Hours trying to make ends meet and didn’t have time to Ferry me from from house to house so I kept my early years mostly keeping to myself playing with the random assortments of knickknacks from the Shelf in my room being short of money gave my family

A habit of hoarding so they hated to throw anything out one particular item on the Shelf was a small old-fashioned TV set a wooden veneer Box about 2 feet wide by a foot tall it had a curved glass screen that took up half the front panel beside the screen was a large Chrome

Dial used to switch channels at the top sat an antenna formed by two terribly Twisted wires when my boredom made me turn it on I’d usually just get static and snow on the glowing black and white screen I twisted the heavy clicking dial hoping to pick up some local broadcast mostly it would

Be some ghostly images and incoherent sound fragments but one channel was always crystal clear it was the gurgles and bugman show gurgles was a clown but not a common one he wore a thin black sup that draped his tall skinny body with a matching tie and an oversized novelty clown shoes to

Complete his distinctive outfit his pupils were completely black likeed polish ebony marbles with no trays of white around them black face paint around those eyes and across his cheeks and mouth made him look like a manic grinning skeleton it was only the crazy crop of curly hair sprouting off the sides of

His head that gave him more of a human look as much as gurgles freaks me out bugman scared me more he was short and round like a hunchbacked dwarf with a dark cape he had a prosthetic covering his eyes to make him look like a fly in

A mouth that was rotated 90° and opened from side to side the show itself was was like candid camera with pranks played on unsuspecting people it would always start with gurgles and bugman hidden away at someone’s home gurgles would face the camera staring at you his bony finger touching his lips when the

Unsuspecting star of the show came into view a laugh track would begin to play you’d see them go about their nightly routines oblivious to the conspiracy that gurgles and bugman had evolved Us in we’d see them making dinner or on the lounge watching TV with their family or

Quietly doing their homework then watch as gurgles and bugman stole their pen or moved their glass or made things disappear behind their backs the camera angles would change as gurgles and bugman shifted their hiding places from the dark corners of the room to the cupboards or to the ceiling or

Under the furniture all the while looking back at you winking the closer they got the louder and more laughter from the soundtrack eventually everyone went to sleep and a victim would be chosen forther prank waiting in the closet or under the bed once their victims fell asleep bugman would crawl out and gently

Climb in beside them his jaw would open sideways and out would come a sharp straw that he’d stick on the person’s neck this always paralyzed their victim because sometimes you could see them struggle if they woke and saw gurgles and bugman on top of them the laugh

Track would be extra loud and upro those few times the victims awoke gurgles would make faces at the camera while the audience laughed and bugman would use his straw to drink from the person’s neck when the victim stopped struggling after a few minutes and the laughter would turn to claps and

Cheering with bugman finished gle’s face would fill the whole screen with his impossibly wide sharp tooth grin then he’d whisper see you again soon the way those all black eyes pierced through the screen always gave me the chills I hated the showell but would always be too afraid to go near the TV

While I was running one day the TV mysteriously disappeared from my room my parents told my 5-year-old self that they’d sold it to pay some bills I accepted that without question I was kind of glad it was gone but yesterday when I asked them about the TV again they exchanged nervous glances

Then filled in some missing gaps from my childhood halfway through that year Derek a classmate I didn’t know very well had died in horrific circumstances he was murdered in his bed with a stab wound to the neck no evidence of a break-in was ever found so his distraught parents were taken into

Custody as the primary suspects they denied all the allegations against them at the time Mrs Nolan my teacher told her class I’d apparently explained to her that Derek couldn’t be dead because I just saw him and his family on the gurgles and bugman show the day before

When Mrs Nolan mentioned it to my parents what I’d said they had immediately taken the TV from my room driven it to a junkyard and had it burn to nothing but ashes and molten metal that TV was in my room because it had always been broken it was never plugged

In the whole time it sat on my shelf so that’s my story of gurgles and bugman but I’m not sure if that’s really the end though after all do gurgles and bugman still perform their nightly shows for some unsuspecting viewer somewhere in this world and if so who will be their next star

All of these stories were submitted to me whether through email or previous comments on older videos as far as I know all of these stories are indeed true story one submitted by fined to make this as long as possible honestly Skinwalker scare me more than anything like I can’t breathe

I’m frozen scared tears rolling down my face face backstory I was homeless 2 years ago and living with two other homeless teens as far as being homeless went we were well off we had each other and previous survival skills as we came from horrible homes we befriended another homeless group and they showed

Us their rag tag Camp which in a way was kind of magical it was in the woods and actually had an actual bed carved from a tree and a tarp as shelter with battery powered fairy lights inside my late Grandpa was Native American and that was

Kind of what got me into urban legends around native history and such anyways the homeless group we befriended took pity on us and lent us the campsite for a few weeks and we were able to get work setting up things the way we wanted them we had two dogs pepper who was severely

Abused and actually liked homelessness and Autumn who was a demon in dog form who was also abused pepper was overly sensitive cautious and scared of her own shadow and Autumn was the complete opposite we set them under the tarp and a makeshift bed right above our heads

And for a few nights everything was okay then it changed we didn’t feel safe there we were up late telling stories and I mentioned the Skin Walkers and how talking about them attracted them halfway into the stories our dogs go insane i’ never seen the type of raw

Fear from either one of of the dogs pepper was almost unrecognizable she was so afraid but ready to protect us we were horrified at first Frozen with anxiety and fear but it wore down as soon as we realized how silly we were being then we heard it not quite a human

And not quite an animal nothing will ever scare me as much to this day I have a bad heart condition and this scare almost killed me we couldn’t move it was walking around the camp and the only thing protecting us was a cheap plastic tarp and some duct tape I don’t remember

Much from that night only woke up to see the guys were still awake part of the camp was destroyed we were too afraid to sleep there again so it became a storage place all but one of us made it out of Homelessness story two submitted by dead ghost I’ve actually seen something of the antler Man twice in my life while driving late at night through the back roads while on road trips meaning I’ve actually got a good look two times standing up on two legs first one was passing through Ohio into

2015 the second was in Maine in 2017 there might have been a third occasion while heading through New York a bit east of Buffalo heading towards the Canadian border in 2018 but it was only a of something running through the trees alongside the highway I was on I

Was the only car on the road driving through that night it actually managed to keep up with me side by side running through and behind the trees mind you at 60 or 70 M hour I took out my gun opened the passenger window and shot off four

Rounds and just booked it up to 100 m an hour and didn’t let up for over a good half hour I have a radar detector but even if there was a a trooper setting off on pulling me over that night I would not have stopped don’t care if you

Believe me or not just know that there are things out there that the government has special departments made just to conceal to cover up or to shut people up to make sure no one exposes Things That Go Bump in the night to the general public and it’s not just Skin Walkers or

Skinnies or whatever you want to call them out there if those of you that still believe that these nasty things are just a little of crap or that Bigfoot is just a joke gear up and go hike into the deep forest of the North America for a full seven days and seven

Nights bring a good weapon and if you manage to come back in one pieace and still alive and sane then God seems to favor you Story three submitted by an active user I think I encountered a skin walker once as a kid because years ago when I was

Like 10 or something I saw my friend I’ll call her Jay in this weird position that didn’t look possible to be in the post Jay was in looked like a sideways cartwheel but paused then it looked like it was forming into a deer because the

Head kind of morphed into a deer head so I just scream and ran away as any child would later I found Jay with my brother and another friend I’m not sure if my eyes and brain were just making things spooky because I was in the dark but I’m

Not sure to be honest I do know that I’ll never be walking alone after that experience I didn’t want to see that happen again I did feel watched after that though Story 4 submitted by L monster quick little story time of a skinwalker type thing so me and my my

Older sister were home alone as our parents were out somewhere we had two dogs at the time a many Aussie named fancy and an Aussie blue healer named Jasper now where we lived wasn’t in the woods but rather somewhat out of town in a small neighborhood we let out our dogs

In a small fence area my dad made for them there was a way in if you knew how it was put together a tall teen or a man could climb over the fence we lit them in after a few minutes because Jasper was barking which we had no neighbors

Facing the fence so we thought it was just a cat fancy and Jasper come in but fancy seems off she would normally go lay down in her kennel or go to the food bowl she was shaking and hacking a lot then there was more scratching at the

Door and my sister opened it this time fancy came in and did the actual thing she did and the one from before disappeared later that night I had a long SC scratched down my back from somewhere and none of my dogs did it going back a couple months before when

School was going I went to the bus stop in the morning around 6:30 it was still pitch black out I had seen this huge shadow that looked like a humanoid on all fours but with the face of an animal the legs were weirdly bent and the back arked I knew this wasn’t a

Dog because when a car drove by it seemed as if it was walking towards me but as soon as the light hit it it Ran Story five submitted by cw3 bz as somebody who owns property right by Walker Ranch I can’t confirm that there’s something going on up there I have a story of my own when I was about 13 we were camping up at my property and me and my two brothers decided to go

Hike keep in mind it was at at Sunset and that’s when things start getting weird up there anyways we started hiking and eventually reached the top of the mountain slh hill we were on that was relatively small we stayed up there for a while and explored rock formations

Caught lizards and tracked animals we were having a good time but it was getting dark pretty quickly so we decided to head back down my younger brother was in front about 30 ft in front of me my older brother was a little bit behind him and

I was at the back still taking in the scenery this whole time i’ had been hearing coyotes howling and Twig snapping but thought nothing of it because it was normal but I got this weird feeling like someone was watching us I picked up the pace and told them to

Go a little faster just in case I felt my stomach flip and I heard a growl from an animal that didn’t sound right it was almost like a gurgle I didn’t take my time and I told them to run the whole time I heard branches snapping behind me

We made it down safe and didn’t see anything but the encounter still has its hold on me I am way more careful and respectful of that land now story six submitted by Mia Amore my personal experience when I was younger I went camping with my friends

There were three of us and we were all teens we were walking to our campsite at like 40000 p.m. and it was starting to get dark we heard something large nearby my friend pulled out his father’s gun thinking it could be a wild pig we all

Heard a growl it was loud and it sounded like it was coming from behind us we just stood there not daring to look behind us I screamed to run and we all ran back towards where we entered the forest we got home safely we still don’t know for sure what it was

Story seven submitted by my May Flicka I have two very scary stories this all happened when we moved to a small neighborhood in Arizona where everyone had about an acre of land so we had just moved in and me and my two sisters were sharing a room for the

Night and in the middle of the night we hear growling outside our window not like any other growling we’ve heard so at this point we are terrified and we are trying to comprehend what this animal is and then all we hear is screaming we don’t know from what but

It’s so distinct it has been 5 years since that incident and we’ve now moved to a different state but I will never forget that moment when the hairs on the back of my neck stood up I should also say that we weren’t City kids we were

Used to wild animals like coyotes in our neighborhood now here is a more recent one and the the same house this was when our house was for sale the rest of our family was out of state checking out the other house and I was staying there

Because I had to take care of my horse that day my sister forgot to pick me up so we had no curtains at the living room window and I am in my old bedroom I start hearing knocking into a little growl I am thinking about my horse that it is possibly exposed to

This creature and I’m also thinking what growls and is at human level I eventually felt asleep and in the morning my precious horse was okay I found that the grass was matted down like something was pacing around but that was about 7 months ago I was able

To bring my horse across the state and I miss Arizona I’m also Christian and for my friends from our old church believe it was a skin walker by the way becoming a skinwalker you basically have to kill certain people as a sacrifice to the devil which is believable stay safe and God bless Story eight submitted by Mick skrunky I know that this isn’t important but here is my story with skinwalkers or my experience summer 2020 bored in my house excited to go out in the woods with my friends I hadn’t seen in a long time we got there at least 400 p.m. my friend

Smoke cigarettes while I just walk around till we hear a faint sound it was footsteps my friend was alert but my other friend Alex said it was quote nothing serious probably a random bug or something falling the time turned around 8 the sun went down and then they were

Back my friend Alex was now fearful believing me he made a joke about it being a skinwalker and when he said that it started sprinting all three of us bolted to the exit of the forest while Alex tried grabbing a hatchet out of his bag inherently causing his bag to fall

But ran away instead of trying to pick it up we were out of the forest when we realized that it was no human we heard this earpiercing shriek after we escaped that thing I live in Suburban New York nothing like this has ever happened my friends and I moved near the

City in a suburban area it’s safe to say that I’m never going back back into the woods after this video story n submitted by native lightning this recently happened to me it was 12:00 a.m. and my mother was going outside for a smoke and as she is

Smoking she is talking to my auntie and as she was talking she heard a human scream then turned into coyote Giggles she explained to me that she told me and my brother to go downstairs and lock the windows and the doors downstairs as we did I feared that we

Would see that thing standing outside waiting for us but we did not thankfully and we barely got any sleep that night all we thought about was that thing that screamed in the woods it’s currently the next day and I’m writing this thing if anyone has any idea what it was or

Anything please tell me as I am freaking out story 10 submitted by Vault dweller I have a memory of when I was younger and I was going to my father’s house down the road that only had one side street full of houses and when passing by one of the houses I saw some

Type of giant dog horse thing but only barely we stopped going down that road for some reason and one day me and my brothers and my brother’s wife went fishing and told ghost stories I’m not a huge fan of them I told them done the

Same thing I just told you and they said it could have been a skinwalker if it was I’m happy I made it without it seeing Me story 11 submitted by Nocturnal wee I had a cabin on Old Indian Land some pretty terrible things had happened in the creek nearby there had a little girl get murdered or rather brutally missing only gruesome traces left many many years ago the Indians to this day

Refused to travel that part of the land and you can hear her footsteps and brush moving on windless nights almost as if wars were fought hundreds of years ago were being reenacted one time my stepmother recollected a night she was there when it was foggy she said she heard a scream pierce

The night and a terrible smell of death like those off a fresh Kill from a successful hunt nobody ever traveled alone at dark and I remembered the door to the cabin having the most overly bulky deadbolt and one of the other sliding ones to boot thankfully we

Finally sold it out of the family about 8 years ago story 12 submitted by nenny yiro now that I think of it I remember this one time seeing a skin walker one time I was invited to my friend sleepover party so everyone who was staying the night was me Mary and Hannah

Who was the birthday girl so this was about the time when clowns were going around I was good at Art so they wanted me to play a prank on Hannah’s cousin who lived right down the road when we were done we started to walk along the road to their cousin’s

House who was all there was Mary Hannah me and Hannah’s older brother when we were walking I thought I heard a Grumble clicking noise behind us so when I turned around I see this huge animal staring at us it was super dark out so I couldn’t make the face out but I could

See the glowing glimmering eyes it looked too huge to be a coyote or a mountain line so I did something not super smart now that I think about it I grabbed the older brother’s knife from his waist and had everyone back up behind me the creature started to walk

Towards us and I walked like if you’re going to try to have your shoulder blades pop out but when I was backing everyone up I held the knife to my chest ready to jump at it when I was backing them up a huge growl like Roar came out of my throat scaring

Not only me but the rest of us too including the creature the creature just turned around and ran back into the woods when we had the adults come pick us up I saw the glimmering glowing eyes in the forest but they were way above the ground now

Lesson learned do not go prank people near the woods story 13 submitted by kiwi’s life I don’t know who wants to hear this or who needs to hear this who just wants to share my story but when I was about 7 my family had just moved into an

Apartment right in front of the forest the forest spread for miles and miles with no stop but it just so happened that my window faced the forest one night about a week after we moved in my bed was placed under the window because I got hot when I slept and needed the

Cold air from the window when I was getting ready for bed I was looking out my window at the stars and then I saw it a goat-like creature standing on two legs just standing there its cream colored teeth were out and glossy just staring at me I looked at my

Sister and asked her to come over to see what I was seeing but when she got there the thing had gone she left my bed and I went out of my room while my back was turned I heard a ear piercing scream followed by knocks on my window I

Screamed and ran to my mom’s room she asked what was wrong and when I told her she grabbed me in my sister and took us to her room and told my stepdad to get his gun as we waited in our tiny apartment we heard it another loud scream and a

Stomp on the roof I lived on the top floor we left that night leaving everything in the house and didn’t come back till a couple weeks later the thing that I saw was a skin walker and I was lucky I wasn’t on the balcony and that I

Was inside my room that my mom listened to me and that my mom not only believed me but she knew what I saw I am part of a demolition team on the east coast of the United States I’m I am often hired to inspect old and decrepit buildings that pose possible

Health hazards to people and other structures nearby most of what I do is conducted on the outskirts of town where the old city lines used to be as time passed and the city grew much of the older buildings became too small and forc people to relocate to the newer part of town it’s

Kind of neat seeing all of these old buildings abandoned by Society in their own little realm of a forgotten time but it’s also kind of sad these old buildings were often built with an outdated design that I found beautiful thus making my job somewhat Bittersweet I worked with a close crew that I’ve

Known for some time and we all get along very well it’s like working with some of your closest friends which makes the time go by very fast there was this one time we were offered to do a bit on an inspection and demo of this old beautiful church that was no longer

Structurally sound for people to visit it would be cheaper to demo and rebuild with cheaper materials rather than try to restore the building to its former glory a big part of demolition that most people do not consider is that there’s a science in bringing down a structure

That isn’t meant to fall over not only that but also to contain the demolition as much as possible this old church was known throughout town as being haunted by old Spirits or something I’m not superstitious but I have seen things that I’ve yet to explain needless to say

When I heard this offer to take up the crippy old church building I only saw it as a nice easy paycheck when I broke the news to my team I got a mixed reaction apparently I was out of the loop in terms of gossip and some Satanist group

Has been coming in and out of that building over the years as odd as that is this is something that shouldn’t be new to my team we often come across squatters that take residents in the old abandoned buildings they are either too high on drugs to move or just as scared

As we are when we find them nothing that a group of six strong demolition guys couldn’t handle we pull up to the church site and most of the building has been boarded up by these old tattered boards that could easily be removed my job upon inspection is to look at the structural

Integrity and document the current condition I exited my work truck with half of my crew while the other half pulled behind us in another track on the right over they kept going on and on and how they wanted nothing to do with the basement of this church I guess that’s

Where the majority of the Satanist rituals were performed or something being indifferent to the Paranormal I rolled my eyes and offered to do the basement inspection by myself however that would make the process twice as long if someone simply would just man up and do it with me we would be out of

There in half the time my team finally entered through a a decaying board that was partially destroyed that was covering a doorway my team and I were able to see that the main floor of the church was covered with trash it looked like five or so crazy

Parties were hosted here and no one ever cleaned up from the previous one it made walking on the floor quite difficult before I was able to accept the offer on the church I first needed to go in the basement and check out the foundation see how difficult it would be

If the foundation was reinforced I could then renegotiate the offer for a higher bid like I said before my crew wasn’t exactly volunteering to go in the basement with me I had to assign someone I selected a random crewmate to come down on the basement with me and off we

Went the current church that we were in had not had electricity for about 15 years so we had to use our flashlights as we were descending the stairs into darkness I started to realize how deep this basement was most basements are about 15 ft underground while this one was more like

40 the deeper we went into the basement the last graffiti that we saw even I was second guessing coming down here we finally reached the bottom of the basement and we entered what appeared to be a large open room the large open room had these large castle looking pillars

Holding up the structure each pillar was about 5 ft wide and oddly enough had these large looking chains hanging off of them the chains seemed to be connecting from pillar to pillar but oddly enough didn’t seem to be supporting the structure in any way the chains were used for something

Else I shine my flashlight around the basement in hopes to see the back wall but unfortunately I didn’t see it the floor of the basement was this gravel mixture that made sounds when you stepped on it I took a couple steps into the basement starting to count the

Pillars that supported the church when I started to hear the rustling of chains in the back of the basement for a brief moment I thought it was the coworker that I brought down in the basement with me but after a quick search of my flashlight that wasn’t the case he was

Standing behind me I shined my flashlight in the direction of the noise but I didn’t see anything I called out to see if anyone was there but no one responded I figured that it was probably some type of small animal or even a rest of wind so I continued pressing forward

Into the dark basement if there was someone down here with me me and my coworker would be able to take care of the situation we continued pressing forward until we reached the back of the basement it was much further than I anticipated we started inspecting the foundation that was holding up the

Church a few minutes in I heard a sound that was both unexpected and horrifying coming from my right in the corner of the basement I heard heard what sounded like a little girl crying for help my coworker and I immediately shined our flashlights all around the basement for

A few seconds we couldn’t see anything that is until my co-worker’s flashlight rested on something peering behind a pillar we were able to catch a glimpse of what appeared to be a hand and half of a face the hand had fingers that were incredibly long and the face was pale

With very dark eyes neither of which looked to be human we only saw it for a brief moment before it retracted behind the pillar that brief moment was all I needed to see before I started sprinting back to the stairs thankfully my coworker and I were on the same page and he was

Sprinting with me whatever the thing was that we saw didn’t chase us however it did start to scream we could hear the chains being rattled where the creature was we made it to the stairs and we sprinted up them our co-workers were startled to see us running up the stairs

It didn’t take much convincing to get everyone out of there once everyone was out at the church we told them what we saw in the basement the crew looked horrified when we told them what we saw obviously no one wanted to work on this project thankfully I was in a position

That I could still decline this project which I did this was one of the few times that I’ve declined an offer but obviously I think it was for a good reason I’m not sure what to make of what was in the basement I’m not completely sure if it

Was my eyes playing tricks on me or if there was actually some kind of creature down there that was chained up needless to say it’s something that I hopefully never have to see again my one friend told me this story about how his father was almost killed

Out in the middle of the woods when my friends father was younger he and his family would stay in this cabin that was out in the middle of the woods the cabin was situated next to a lake that was fairly secluded technically they shared the lake with a neighbor that they were

Actually really good friends with the neighbors were this older couple and they would only come out during the summer other than the neighbors they wouldn’t see anyone else out there they basically had the lake to themselves when my friend’s father was 15 he thought it would be fun to take

Him and his buddies out to the cabin and spend the weekend out on the lake this would be the first time that my friend’s father would be out at the cabin without an adult this took place during the80s so there were no cell phones my friend’s father is named Tim so Tim’s parents

Dropped him and his friends off at the cabin Tim wouldn’t have any communication with the parents until the weekend was over the first thing the boys did when they got to the cabin was to get into their swimsuits and run down to the lake the lake had a floating dock

As well as a canoe that the boys would use when the boys first got to the lake they realized that the old couple next store were not home so they had the entire Lake to themselves after playing on the lake for a couple of hours one of

The boys noticed a figure coming out of the neighbor’s house the figure was tall unlike the neighbors that live there and his face was very pale when they first saw him they were standing on the floating dock which was a good distance away from the shore Tim almost

Immediately knew that whoever this man was it was certainly not his neighbor a chill ran down his spine when he finally realized why the figure looked like he had a pale face the figure was wearing a mask the boys not knowing what what to do just stood on the floating dock after

10 minutes of staring at the figure and the figure staring back the man walked off into the woods out of their sight with it getting dark soon and them not knowing what to do they decided to jump off the dock swim to Shore and run back

To the cabin from there they’d be able to wait it out through the weekend until the parents came back on Sunday the group of boys were able to make it back to the cabin without any sign of the masked man however upon arriving to the cabin

They noticed that the back door was ever so slightly left a jar Tim having grown up in this cabin knew that you really had to pull the door shot in order to close it if you didn’t close it all the way the door would slowly open thankfully him and his

Friends were at a distance that they could still turn around without alerting the person inside Tim didn’t didn’t have absolute proof that there was someone inside there were no Footprints leading to the door the door being left open could have very well been Tim or one of

His friends instead of going inside Tim recommended that they’d stay the night in the treehouse that wasn’t too far away the Treehouse was very well concealed it was a good Midway point between the lake and the cabin by staying there they would be somewhat safe for the most part and be able to

Keep an eye on the lake and the cabin at the same time how ever staying in the treehouse would have its obvious downsides for one none of the boys had packed a flashlight by the time they went to the lake it was still early afternoon another downside to The

Treehouse is that it had no food a busy day on the lake with a bunch of teenage boys is sure to rack up an appetite the boys were pretty hungry but they were more afraid than anything the boys quietly made their way to the Treehouse and climbed up by this time the

Visibility was incredibly low since it was dark out Tim and his friends waited in the treehouse for a couple of hours nothing really happened all of the boys were getting annoyed since they were so hungry right before the boys were about to climb down the ladder to the Treehouse they noticed something the

Light to the cabin turned on a wave of fear washed over the boys as their suspicions were now confirmed not only did the cabin light turn on but they were also seeing movement from inside the Treehouse was about 70 yards from the cabin so their visibility wasn’t great but they were fairly

Certain the man inside was the same man earlier that was wearing a mask the man inside rummaged around for about 20 minutes or so before coming outside with a flashlight the man shined the flashlight all around as if he was looking for something the man would Pace back and forth frantically his movement

With the light was sporadic the man started making his way back to the lake which was bad news The Treehouse was directly in the path to the lake the man would have to walk directly next to the tree the boys were hiding in if the man would shine his

Flashlight upwards the boys would be done for somehow the boys were able to keep their crying down just enough that the man couldn’t hear them when the man walked past they could hear him talking to himself they’re out here somewhere the man continued walking to the lake

Not noticing the Treehouse full of boys above him the man continued walking until he was out of sight the boys took this opportunity to climb down the ladder and run inside once inside they were able to lock all the doors and windows like I said earlier the cabin

Didn’t have a telephone their best option was to wait it out all weekend which they did thankfully they didn’t see the man after that when Tim parents came to pick them up he told them what had happened the parents were obviously upset at the situation and never let Tim

Do that ever again which for Tim he was actually quite thankful for a couple of years ago we went house hunting on the east coast of the United States we were generally looking for some good deals on houses that typically includes older homes although some homes

Are out of date that doesn’t mean that they can’t be beautiful our plan was to buy an older home fix it up and make it look new we spent the full Saturday house hunting the houses were either out of our budget or simply too small the

Last and final house that we looked at seemed to be perfect it was built in the’ 70s had plenty of space and it was incredibly cheap we did a quick tour with the real estate agent she was a very bubbly personality and extremely excited that we were interested in this

Home the house wasn’t exactly what we were looking for but it was very close the money that we would be saving on this house would be enough for us to remodel it the house was two stories in the basement we did a quick walk around

At the house the house seemed to be in pretty good condition the last thing for us to look at was the basement I opened the door to the basement and peered down the basement looked unfinished finished the real estate agent’s personality abruptly changed she went from being

Bubbly and happy to very anxious and uneasy I asked her if she could show us the basement to which she refused she told us that we could look at it ourselves but for personal reasons she wouldn’t be joining us this obviously made me feel uneasy

About the basement but if I was going to buy this home I definitely had to look at the basement my wife and I both went down the stairs and did a quick inspection of the basement it honestly looked like your average unfinished basement to be honest nothing looked to

Be out of place however I did notice in one of the corners of the basement there appeared to be Char all over the wall and floor in that area I figured that perhaps there used to be an old fireplace in this corner and I didn’t think anything of it we went back

Upstairs to the real estate agent to which he seemed to be fine things seemed to work out and we eventually bought the house we moved in and everything seemed to be fine that is until we started to remodel a couple of months later we started with the basement the

Contractors that we hired to finish the basement for us reported smells of something burning I would go down into the basement to smell for myself and I didn’t smell anything our washer and dryer were in the basement so I was down there about 2 or three times a week the

More I would go down there the more uneasy I started to feel I remember one night I went down there to dry a blanket that I accidentally spilled something on while I was down there I could finally smell it I smelled something burning the smell only lasted

For a few seconds but the smell was horrendous it was as if I was walking by something that was on fire the smell immediately went away I figured that the smell was somehow associated with my dryer I went back upstairs and thought nothing of it

A couple of days later I was working in my garage by myself I was putting boxes away when out of the corner of my eye I saw something red walk out of the garage for a brief second I thought it was perhaps a contractor that had gotten

Lost and made his way out into my garage I quickly went away I saw the person walking to my surprise I didn’t see anyone I did a quick walkth through of my house and oddly enough I was by myself I was fairly certain I saw someone but

Then again I couldn’t find who it was so I just went back to what I was doing back inside the garage a couple of weeks later I get a call from my wife I’m at work and she’s at home by herself she’s in the basement doing laundry and she

Says she smells something burning I told her that I smelled the same thing and not to worry about it I get a call a little bit later in the day she’s crying I guess she went out to get the mail and when she was returning she saw a man in

The Second Story window it was only briefly but it was enough to startle her and for her to call the police thankfully the police weren’t too far away and they were able to inspect the house no one was inside my wife and I started to piece together that the smell

Was associated with whatever was going on inside whenever we smelled that burning smell we would always see an apparition of something yesterday I was by myself in my house when I was walking by the basement I smelt that burning smell again I was beginning to prepare

Myself for what I was about to see later on in the day I thought I heard something in the basement knowing that I was probably going to see something I decided not to go down being the frightened child that I am I decided to place some furniture in front of the

Basement door this should solve my ghost problem at least for the night later that evening when I was getting ready for bed upstairs I could hear the furniture that I placed in front of the basement door being moved I knew very well that it wasn’t a burglar but I

Still had to check I peered down from the Second Story down the staircase into the living room I could see that part of the furniture had been moved and the basement door was wide open I went down the stairs and over to the basement door I mistakenly looked down the stairs at

The bottom of the stairs slowly crawling upward words was the Red Man at first I thought he was on fire but after adjusting I could finally see that his skin was actually melting off of them I immediately closed the door grabbed my keys and ran out of that house I didn’t

Even bother turning off any of the lights or even locking the doors I stayed in a hotel that night and I called my wife explaining what it happened we both agreed right then and there that we need to sell this house My friend John invited me and my friends Charles Bren and Kyle to stay the weekend up at his Cabin in the Woods it was his uncle’s cabin and it needed to be used a few times through the year just so things would stay maintained and squatters wouldn’t live there John was

Reluctant to invite us up he had told us many times how haunted this cabin was and he was afraid that we would say no me and most of my friends were skeptical about the Paranormal we didn’t see it as anything threatening we saw the invitation as basically a party up in

The cabin I wasn’t even remotely afraid the cabin was an hour’s drive and then a 40-minute hike deep in the woods so deep in fact I am surprised that it got electricity the last 10 minutes of driving is almost always in the fog since it was a good bit ways up in the

Mountains this weekend was no exception and we drove deep into the dense fog turning the current day into a dull dusk despite it only being 4:30 the hike is all uphill which felt longer since we retired and weighed down with more stuff we were coming to the

Close of our hike when we noticed a dull glow coming from the cabin we thought that there might be a squatter or so we approached the cabin with John leading the group we finally reached the cabin and John tried the front door and it was still locked he unlocked it and briefly

Checked the cabin but no one was there right then and there I wanted to leave but it took us so long to get here and it was almost night I decided against it we speculated that either John or his family forgot to turn off the light or

Somehow it just turned on while they were away the cabin itself was actually quite impressive it was two stories had a nice fire pedal back and a Hots up the living room was very large and spacious it had a big TV and many deer mounts

Hanging on the wall I felt uneasy as if there was some dark energy in the air but I couldn’t help to be more than willing to stay seeing how nice it was inside we started to unpack and get situated when things began to get weird

I had one of the rooms on the second floor in the room I was staying in there was this old rotary phone that looked like it was not able to place a call it didn’t even seem to be connected to anything I only noticed it because it

Stuck out like a sore thumb compared to all the nice stuff in the cabin I picked up the phone to try to hear a dial tone but I didn’t hear anything I put the phone down on the receiver and began to put my clothes away when the phone rang

It was loud and surprising since I didn’t think it was able to work I answered the phone hesitantly since I was staying in someone else’s house I couldn’t hear anything and I asked hello but no response I put the phone down and went to put my clothes away

Again once I did that I went downstairs and mostly everyone was eating food or watching TV which I gladly joined the other two people were still putting their stuff away upstairs everyone but two people got their own rooms we gave that room to the two brothers in our group Braden and

Charles we joked with them saying that that’s what they were used to Growing Up when in actuality they never shared a room before they were only a great apart despite being 2 years apart in age and being completely different personalities the brothers came down from putting their stuff away the overall atmosphere

Was great and we almost forgot about what had happened earlier it was around 10:00 when we started a fire outside in the fire pit we were enjoying ourselves when John had an idea to play a game called Dead Man the group fell silent John explained that Deadman is where one

Person hides in the cabin with all the lights off and we each got three matches as light sources to try to find them if you wanted to play the hard way you can get a Ouija board involved and summone Spirits to throw off the people searching for you you obviously win when

You find the person hiding or if anyone turns the lights on because they’re too afraid the person hiding then wins I simply didn’t want to play not even a little bit I was already pretty afraid with what had happened earlier everyone’s eyes widen with excitement and wanted to play they were all horror

Junkies and loved to be afraid all the time I tried to think about this rationally and pro to myself that there were no such thing as ghosts I was somewhat intrigued about the concept growing up but never found anything to support ghosts or anything else that

Bumps in the night we finally agreed to play John then remembered that we had to stop playing by 3:15 a.m. because if we didn’t we couldn’t get the spirits to leave 3:15 was when they were the most powerful and they could stay in our world longer I rolled my eyes since I

Knew nothing was going to happen we drew straws to see who went first and Charles was the dead man John then went around the cabin and turned off all the lights we waited outside by the fire and we took her three matches John then took out a Ouija board and told Charles to

Summon some spirits to help him hide they were allowed to play with us as long as they didn’t hurt anyone and they left when they were asked Charles repeated what he said said but nothing happened I was expecting that nothing would happen Charles then got up and hid

In the darkness of The Cabin John then counted to 30 after which we slowly entered the Eerie darkness of the cabin Shadows scattered across the floors and walls painting this horrific silhouettes of potential monsters and ghouls we separated and I lit one of my matches to

Have a dull orange glow shine a light in a 5- foot radius which lasted about 5 Seconds before I waved it out no sign of Trials I then slowly worked myself into my room upstairs using another match to make sure I didn’t fall down the stairs

I got to my room when the room felt cold it was cold enough that I could see my breath I lit my last match but right before I blew it out the phone rang I felt around for the phone and I picked it up a woman spoke softly he’s under

The bunk bed in the other room the line went dead and my body began to shake with fear I left the room and went straight to the other room with the bunk beds and looked under there was a dark figure hiding under the bed I reached

Out and said got you Charles you’re the dead man he didn’t move I nudged him again and felt his soft body okay well you lose and we’re going to do another round I left the room and went downstairs and back outside everyone was outside including Charles I started to shake and freak out

John there’s someone in your cabin upstairs he’s under the bunk bed Charles said that he was hiding there so it might have been him but I insisted that I just left there we stopped the game and went inside and turned on all the lights we checked the cabin and no one

Else was inside other than us that was it for me I was done with this game and I didn’t even care what anyone else thought I told everyone about what had happened about who was under the the bed and the woman on the phone telling me about the man everyone’s eyes were wide

With disbelief everyone agreed to stop playing since they were all freaked out we all decided to go to bed and talk about leaving in the morning we were planning on staying two nights but considering the circumstances we debated on cutting it short since we cut the

Game short we forgot to close the Ouija board or in other words we forgot to say goodbye I went to my room by myself and I went to bed when I fell asleep I dreamt about everything that had happened that night with oddly accurate details I dreamed I was watching us from

Third person perspective while John was explaining the game from earlier I wasn’t the only one watching there seemed to be a woman in a man wearing a cloak watching the group next to me in my dream John and Charles just used the Ouija board to ask the spirits to help

Play the game the people watching my dreams started to walk over to the board John started to count to 30 and soon went inside the two entities of my dream began to move the planet on the Ouija board they spelled out two words which made my heart sink into my stomach they

Spelled out not Spirits The Entity that looked like a woman walked up to me and whispered you forgot to say goodbye I shot up in my bed and I was sweating I glanced at the clock and the clock read 3:21 a.m. I rubbed my eyes and tried to remember

What my dream was about I got up to use the bathroom when I looked down the long dark hallway I saw that the bathroom at the end was completely dark I left my room’s light on and took a deep breath and began to make my way down the

Hallway when I began to remember everything I froze halfway down the hallway and debated on turning back but I felt my bladder on the verge of bursting I continued to the bathroom and felt around for a light switch to turn on I found found it and turned the light

On and closed the door behind me I went to the bathroom and felt absolute dread from behind the shower curtain I didn’t even look at it but I could feel this electric energy directing my thoughts to open the shower I hurried to try to use the bathroom quickly when I heard the

Curtain rings shift ever so slowly I then heard the curtains move and I could see from the side view that the curtains were expanding towards me I immediately turned and ran not washing my hands or turning off the lights I heard the curtain snap open and footsteps approach

Me I began to cry when I was halfway down the hallway when the light in my room turned off I was so scared of what was following me that I kept running until I entered the room and slammed the door shut the footsteps behind me

Stopped at my door I could see under the door since the light in the bathroom was still on I could see someone standing in front of my door the light in the bathroom turned off and the knob to my door began to shake frantically I had no idea what to do I

Was considering calling one of my friends to help but I wasn’t sure who was able to help me I just sat in front of my door in case whatever it was was able to get in I tried to call John but when I pulled my phone out the thing

Trying to get into my room stopped I looked up in disbelief wondering what to do next right then my phone rang in my hand scaring me I looked down to see it was John calling me I answered and he told me to stay calm and not to come outside there was something waiting

Outside my door I asked what it was and he said he wasn’t sure but it was tall and it was dark too tall to be human I began to panic and I remembered about my dream I whispered like I did in my dream not Spirit John asked me where I heard

That and I told him about my dream and he let out a surprised gasp we forgot to say goodbye John said John called everyone and told him what was happening he told them that by not saying goodbye that these things didn’t have to leave and more importantly they could possibly hurt Us Stephen searches the job wanted page on the newspaper hopefully to land a new job it had been several months since he’d been laid off from his programming job due to downsizing after a few minutes of searching he finds a security position that pays 4 $ an hour at a

Manufacturing warehouse across town this job seemed amazing and the qualifications appeared to be minimal Steven was above average height a solid build with a thick mustache that people often complimented him on he chuckled to himself thinking that he fit the stereotypical tough guy even though he

Was more of a nerd than anything stepen called the number on the newspaper to which an old man answered after discussing the details of the position the old man asked St how soon he could start Steven being funny said he could start right now to which the old man

Said all right you start tonight at 7:00 Steven drove to the location of business half an hour before his shift started the address led him to a warehouse that was near a railroad on the outskirts of town he parked his car and entered the building to see a small lobby with a

Lady and an older gentleman with a big gut wearing a gold chain he assumed that the man was the person he was talking to earlier are you Steven the old man said yes yes I am that’s wonderful let me show you around wow this guy’s to the point

Steven thought the old man walked him into an office with 12 monitors on wall that all projected images from a large warehouse this is what you got to do at 700 p.m. when everyone leaves you watch these monitors and make sure no one goes in or out of the room do you understand

He looked on the screens to see that the warehouse was full of these mannequins hundreds of them all organized in these very specific lines the old man gestured to the door come here I want to show you the rim he followed the old man to the

Door that was heavily locked he used a key on two different locks and slid the sliding door open and they walked inside this Warehouse had hundreds of these mannequins as creepy as they were they were also equally impressive they were so organized but no two mannequins were

The same the body features were in different positions and the faces had unique features all of them normally mannequins all look similar or mass produced Steven followed the old man out of the warehouse and watched him lock the warehouse door the old man then gave

Him keys to the door and walked to the exit of the building the old man handed him cash up front in an envelope and told him the Only Rule here is to never open the warehouse door the old man then left and went outside a few seconds

Later he heard a click on the door the old man just left out of the door was now locked the old man had locked Steven inside Steven figured that the keys that he was given would have access to this door so he didn’t pay any mind on the

Way back to the security room he heard a loud bang on the warehouse door hey new guy Carl locked me in here on accident can you open up Steve jumped at first thinking that he was the only one here I was told to never open this door Steve

Said the voice on the other side said wow you must be new you obviously can’t leave me in here all night I need to go home Steven hesitated for a few seconds but then unlocked the locks on the door and opened it to Steven’s surprise there

Was no one behind the door just the vast number of mannequins all facing away all but one it was in the back of the warehouse and it was out of line facing towards the door Steven went inside and checked all the sign sides of the warehouse looking for a door that

Someone could have entered through not only could he not find a door but he wasn’t able to find a window or anything this has got to be some kind of hazing for the new guy Steven thought spook the new guy Steven then walked to the mannequin that was out of position

And inspected it to see that it was unique and had these piercing eyes Steven then moved the mannequin back in line so it was in line with the others he slowly made his way out of the warehouse locking the door behind him he went into the security room and looked

At the video to see if he could find the prankster coworker hiding amongst the mannequins sure enough upon reviewing the tape he saw one of the mannequins move the mannequins were so many and so well made that he thought that this would be perfect for any person to blend

In as Steven watched the tape he saw about five mannequins sneak out of the warehouse what how many people are in on this Steven bursted out of the security room not feeling amused and found five mannequins in weird positions in the lobby he walked up to one of them

Inspected it closely and picked it up confirming that it was indeed a mannequin Steven inspected the lobby and the other offices in the building and couldn’t find anyone else nor another exit for anyone to leave from he then made his way to the front door pressed on it and quickly remembered that the

Old man had locked it Steven was concerned but figured that the set of keys that he was given had a key on it that could unlock the door he tried all the keys but none of them worked at that moment he heard banging on the warehouse door again Steven was

Beyond spooked and was even a bit mad he hurried to open the warehouse door hoping to catch them in the ACT he slid the door open quickly while the pounding was still going on and to his surprise all of the mannequins were facing the door his heart sunk and he felt all of

Their eyes looking into his soul he couldn’t even think what to do he was so scared suddenly he felt multiple hands grab him from behind and force him into the warehouse Steven tried to struggle but the five mannequins behind him were too much for him to handle the whole Warehouse erupted with

Voices and all the mannequins began to move some walked towards him while others went out to the lobby the mannequins pinned him on the floor and he tried his best to Break Free the mannequins weren’t very strong but there were just so many of them after after a

Few minutes of trying to fight them he was out of breath suddenly the mannequins that had left had now returned with the big machine the machine was loud and let out a smell of burnt plastic St was exhausted but he still tried to break free the mannequins

Then placed the machine over him and he could feel the heat coming off of it the mannequins then pressed a button on the machine it began to lower onto him completely and he couldn’t move at all the next morning at 7:00 a.m. the old man entered the building to find

Every everything in place he found the envelope full of money and the set of keys on his desk he shook his head in disappointment the warehouse was clean and it looked the same as when he left it later that day a young woman in her late 20s came in she was asking about

The new security job position that had just opened the old man then smiled and said yes let me show you around