Always listen to the Elders in the Rez...TRUE SKINWALKER STORIES & Cryptids

remember your roots and rules that was her favorite saying before I got married then moved out the rest into the city I remember my grandma telling me during my wedding which was the last time we spoke she said no matter where you go sweetie always respect the Traditions remember your roots and the rules and well one of the rules that she told me the one that I forgot and let it slip out of my head was whatever you do never open the door at night if you hear knocking and never going to a house where

someone has died so the story that I'm going to tell you it's an experience that I'll never forget and after seeing what happened I hope you can learn from my own mistake so I did keep the traditions and rules in my mind for a long time and trust me I still strong on these beliefs when me and my husband were house hunting in the city there were a few houses that we actually like but I stood my ground and refused to move into those places because of the background of them mainly because someone had died

there we eventually did find a house and after about a decade with life moving so fast technology advancing so quick and everything else going on my traditional beliefs started to slip away people do let you down and life is isn't what you expect it to be I ended up getting divorced and moving back to the rest after I split up with him he ended up staying in the city he wasn't actually Navajo well actually he was but he was born in the city and so that's where he stayed I ended up moving back to the

rest by this time I had three beautiful children I was lucky and found the house it was a two-story house with the master bedroom upstairs and the other two rooms downstairs so it was a pretty big house I mean at least for me I'm sure some of you listening to this might think that's not a big house but over here in the rest everybody is poor at least in the area that I was in including myself so anyways I ended up meeting my neighbors and we started hanging out because they also had kids that were

the same age as mine and we became pretty close then one day randomly we were hanging out and my neighbor asked me how how I could stay there I asked her why she was asking that and she told me that the person who used to live there had died in the house that's when it clicked as to why she wouldn't come over and why it was always us going to her place to visit I did end up asking how the man died and she said that he dranked a lot and died from alcohol he was

the only person who lived in this big house so no one knew he was dead and he had apparently been dead for a while until his family asked for a welfare check when they found him his body was decomposing she asked if anything strange has happened and I told her no nothing really I asked her why she would ask that she said that a lot of people come and go but never stay too long there and that she's also heard stories I didn't ask because I didn't want to get scared and she didn't offer to

tell me the stories we just left it at that so one day it was getting late and I was getting tired so we walked back to our place and we were getting ready for bed that's when I heard a knock on the door so I went to answer it and when I opened the door there was nobody there this happened a few times I just thought it was kids playing around then one night it wasn't really night time yet but it was starting to get dark I heard the same thing I was too tired to

play this game so I just laid in bed without answering the door and the next thing you know somebody was B hanging their fist on the door really loud I got worried thinking it's an emergency so I jumped out of bed and ran to the door it was my friend and also her husband they were telling me to get the kids and that I would stay the night with them I asked them what was going on and she said I'll tell you when you come with us so I got the kids and a few of

our things and left with them when we got to her place and put the kids to bed she and her husband sat me down and said that I would stay there with with them until I could get someone to smudge and bless the house I asked why and she said that they were outside and they said that they saw the man that had died there come up to the door and walk in they said they saw the lights upstairs turn on and he was walking around I thought they were just trying to scare me so

I went outside to look at my house and sure enough the lights were on and in the distance it did look like somebody was walking I told him that I was going to call the police just to make sure it wasn't somebody actually breaking in they did end up showing up and I told him what was going on they ended up going inside to check the house as I was outside looking I noticed that the officer stopped right before going in and they quickly smudged themselves and that's when it hit me what my neighbors were

telling me was true see I watched the house the whole time and never saw anyone leave so I know the person who was there still had to be in the house but that's when the officers told me that they went through the whole place and it was empty then one of the officers told me that they always got calls like this from the same address they also advised me to get a medicine man to smudge the entire home and even perform a ceremony if needed especially since my kids and I had been living inside I

was scared and I asked my friend if I could stay with them for a few days until I got something figured out out of course they said yes I did end up talking to my family specifically my mom of course she knew a medicine man and in the next day towards the evening the medicine man came out to perform a ceremony out in the field behind the house he included me and my children in the ceremony I won't go too much into detail because ceremonies are sacred however I will say this the medicine man also

went in inside the house he was in there for a few hours when he finally came out he told me something that I will never forget I had broken two very important rules of the rest the same rules that my grandmother had reminded me of one never move into a place where someone has died the spirit or the CH still dwells there all the bad unclean energy stays in that place and that's dangerous and two never open the door at night when you hear knocking if you do you're inviting Spirits inside might be something trying

to make contact that was my mistake one that I will never forget again this happened a while back I consider myself a little bit more grown now going back to my tradition so you can say my great uncle James or Jim for short and my grandpa were best friends since they were little kids this was mostly on account of them being identical twins and spending nearly every day of their lives together until they were about 18 it was the 50s and tensions were high in Tucker County after the cold mines that had opened near the

surface after the huge fires in the 1910s had mostly dried up up larger coal companies moved in to take advantage of the area's natural resources and make deeper coal mines nobody local could really do this due to the lack of industrial drilling technology so Jim and my grandpa went to work in one of these new super deep Co mines now keep in mind that the Appalachian Mountains are some of the oldest mountains on Earth than have existed for 500 million years they have been more or less undrilled until these large companies came in it was

profitable enough my grandpa and Jim finally found a steady job but the mountains themselves didn't seem to like it Jim tells me it was about 1953 when things started happening first it was just a couple of Cavin but then everything started dying almost immediately after entering the mines birds and small animals around the entrances would just drop dead frequently silicosis cases skyrocketed but the nation needed coal and 500 million years worth of compressed carbon based life could power anything just about everything at that time so the mining continue until it couldn't one day a big

saw that was used to actually obtain the co was found shattered broken this was attributed to a sudden change in temperature people thought that the Fanning system used to circulate the oxygen had Mal function but until the saw was fixed all the mining had to stop after two weeks the pay the workers were receiving had also dried up and my grandpa and Jim decided to take things into their own hands with six other men in toe they descended into the mine under the disguise that they were mechanics saying they were mechanics higher to fix the

saw once they got down to the lowest level it was chaos the crow that was brought in since smaller birds were dying so quickly Crow started going crazy and Not only was the all broken the conveyor belts were ripped to shreds huge holes were made into the walls the floor and the roof of the tunnels and all the Machinery was broken this couldn't have been attributed to the work of a malfunctioning fan system obviously the party ends up leaving the mine and comes back a day later with pickaxes guns and other stuff that could end

up being useful and trying to figure out or get rid of whatever was doing this to the equipment however on the the way down the elevator got stuck a few feet short of the entrance to the lowest level climbing out the group noticed that the Elevator Shaft was now blocked off with huge rocks nearly all the lights were off and broken and the equipment was even further mangle they noticed a set of humanlike footprints the group began to follow them to figure out how these people could have possibly gotten in when somebody pointed out that

their own boots were making much more shadow indentations in the Rocky mud it was at that point when they realized that no common person could have possibly lifted those huge rocks torn up the conveyor belts and broke in the saw that weighed hundreds of pounds they also began to notice that there were very large handprints to the side of the tunnel outside the range of their lamps something large and not human was in the mine they turned back to returned to the surface afraid of whatever was in there with them but as they ran the

tunnel began to shap and the four men jumped back as a wall rocks and gravel fell from the roof separating them from the two others plus Jim and my grandpa one of them had his leg seriously injured under a large Rock and he had to be carried by the other three around to where the other tunnel led to the now blocked off area and that tunnel which was longer than most of the others strip mines led to narrow areas one of which apparently LED out to a crack through which the group could actually get to

the Trap man while entering this tunnel one of the men became aware of a low rumbling that was gradually increasing in sound thinking it was another cave in they quickly moved away from the source back towards the elevator but it seemed to be following them and just then something big white and hairy bools around the corner and starts charging at them the three uninjured men whip out their guns and start firing at it seconds later the thing is dead it had the thumbs of a human but that's basically where any features of human ended it

looked more like a huge bear than anything it had two deformed eyes that took up almost half of its face and it was clearly some kind of mutated animal because it was covering bony almost tumorous like things it was at least 10 ft tall its K9 teeth were too long almost about a foot long its fur was patchy and light gray and its pupils were red all of its limbs were long and stocky and it seemed to rely on its arms as a second pair of legs my grandpa and Jim both of them who were

Hunters thought that it was incredible to see something like this whatever it was he took its head and one of its arms as a price to present to the local police station as evidence that the mine could finally be reopened over the course of a few hours the eight men were all able to get back back to the elevator and eventually returned to the surface my grandfather and Jim showed their kill to the state police who then quickly confiscated as scientific evidence which was enough to satisfy them at the time remember they were young and

didn't finish high school so they were pretty much not educated the only evidence that this thing ever existed is a black and white photo of my grandpa and Jim grinning like idiots holding some kind of tusk with the misspelled word behemoth that was written on the bottom I'm not sure if people will believe this but if I were you I wouldn't go anywhere close to the Appalachian Mountains the trail or any small towns around there you never know what else was down there that has came out to the surface when my uncle was younger he

used to attend many ceremonies he was always curious and wanted to learn a lot if you didn't know the spirits or the Skin Walkers depending what your tribe is they might be known as a different name well he said that during the ceremonies that's when they show up the most especially in ceremonies that are held out in the open some of these things are drawn to those gatherings to the energy that is going on when so many people are praying for healing or guidance he told me that whenever you attend one of the ceremonies you

must be ready for anything evil can sneak in even if everyone has the best intentions one thing that he stressed over and over was that you should only go to meetings ceremonies held for people that you know the tradition teaches us to be careful if you go to a stranger meting meeting you should always go with a group of people that you trust you need the help because you never know what might happen it's really easy for something to go wrong especially when you're not familiar with anything and when you're alone you're even more open

for these things to happen so he said that back then when he was young he didn't believe in too much of these things so he was curious trying to experience as much as he could that curiosity would get the better of him one night when he said that he attended a meeting he wasn't invited to it's not that he wasn't invited he didn't really know anybody there it was an all night NAC ceremony out in the middle of nowhere he didn't know the people there too well but had been encouraged by a friend to join

the ceremony was held in a teee and by the time they started it was pretty much filled up before the fire stick was lit an older woman walked up to the door and asked if she she could come in the family of the patient didn't know who she was but as it was custom they went ahead and made room for her she brought in her gourd box and sat in her Spa without much fuss as the praying began my uncle noticed that the man next to him started moving around they started to whisper among themselves

about a strange raw funky smell coming from the direction of the old woman it wasn't the smell of sage or Mountain tobacco but it was something else something that didn't just sit right with them they were hoping that the smoke from the tobacco would block out the smell but it just lingered despite the discomfort the surface carried on into the night mongle was trying to ignore it focusing instead on the songs and prayers but as the hours passed something about the old woman started to seem off she couldn't sit still she was just moving her

body from side to side at one point my uncle said that he saw her leg twist unnaturally almost like a pretzel my uncle blink thinking that maybe it was the medicine that was affecting him but then it happened again and he knew it was the woman by around 3:00 in the morning the singing was going on and the prayers grew more intense that's when the old woman started acting really strange as the road man began a powerful song The Old Woman raised her arm in in the air calling out praises to Jesus and God but

she was doing it in a mocking way something you don't ready to here at one of these ceremonies then she began hopping up and down no longer looking like the fragile old woman who had entered the tepee the songs did continue and as they did the old woman's Behavior became more weird she started making weird noises hand movements and shouting that the devil was outside laughing waiting to ruin the family of the patient fear swept through the teepee as she was shouting the people kept their heads down praying even more my uncle then said that

the strangest thing happened the old woman suddenly Stood Still she perked up like she had heard something that no one else could a few seconds later the sound of a coyote echoed in the distance that's when she hopped to her feet shouting something in the language that no one could understand her eyes became wide open and with a strange gate she dragged her body out of the teepee my uncle said that she literally did that she basically crawled backwards out of the teepee he then said as soon as she stepped outside that there was a

loud bush like something with wings had flown away into the night everyone inside was frozen shaken by what had just happened and no one dared to even say anything not until the ceremony was over my uncle didn't tell me what happened for the rest of the ceremony he said that he's not allowed to tell me well after that my uncle said that he learned the lesson the hard way never attend a ceremony for people that you don't know and always be cautious you never know who or what might show up at the ceremony ever since

that day he said he's never gone to a ceremony that he's not familiar with always listen to your elders and the rest Wyatt was on duty that first week when the cinema closed due for the quarantine you know the one that we're all dealing with right now for better or worse he didn't want to go back for the second week I guess being paid the minimum to sit around all day doing nothing is worse than sitting around all day serving customers it makes sense there's no distractions so the clock does move slower every minute Jamie

and Patricia they rotated on the second week the managers took care of week three and I guess I was beneath them because I was assigned week four I guess I should be thankful so many people are without work right now and I was getting pay to sit on my ass all day you might be wondering why the hell they were Staffing a close cinema in the first place well welcome to 2020 where we pay 19-year-olds to babysit the concession stands of empty Cinemas on the off chance in Uber eat order comes through because apparently somebody

couldn't go on another day without a $15 bag of popcorn and a $10 bar of candy I'm not kidding load up the app they're open for deliveries it's crazy I guess the bosses fell guilty because we were given the green light to do whatever we wanted while waiting for the orders to come through and sometimes they came in very often I had ignored the text from Wyatt the text that he sent our group after his week on duty as nothing a simple don't go into theater 15 with no explanation as to why I didn't exactly

ring any alarm bells that theater had the gaming setup we ran out to to party groups I figured he had logged into his account and was trying to protect his data why don't you come to work and log out if it matters to you so much so my first day back on the job was freaky my manager stopped by to show me how to work the hot dog stand she left about an hour in I had been at the cinema after closing a few times so it's not like I wasn't used to a mostly empty

building but it was different without my other co-workers it was Eerie quiet quiet you could hear a pin drop and it was also dark half of all the lights were off to conserve electricity I wasn't sure how many orders to expect so I spent the first evening just around the large Lobby using my employee pass to play arcade games for free browsing the internet on my phone and eating so much popcorn I was there from 3 to 10 p.m. 7 hours and I only received one order small popcorn extra butter wow imagine having that much

disposable income I had to clean the machines an hour or so after use bringing the grand total work related task accomplished that night to a high number of two I definitely earned my paycheck huh it really felt like babysitting once the kids have gone too bad and the parents left you junk food the second night I felt more comfortable wandering off I kept the work tablet on me so that I would know when in order came in I grabbed the newest releases that arrived right before the official shutdown and I settle into theater 1 to

watch movies all night we didn't get any orders that evening so that was great someone did call asking if we were open Which lady did you not hear the pre-recorded message saying that we were close at the start of the call she was like hi are you open and I was like wham bam no ma'am some people I swear the third night the manager had put a list of things for me to do on the bulletin board it was spring cleaning kind of organize the uniforms by size take inventory and and deep clean the hallways

I cranked up the music on my phone and had myself a cleaning moment interrupted once or twice for stuff that people would order Popcorn and honestly I can't wrap my head around this nachos and cheese who the orders chosen cheese for delivery I'm honestly throwing up in my mouth just thinking about it moving on I don't know if the boss expected me to complete this with a few shifts but I finished them all in one night nothing new showed up on the bulletin board so on the fourth night I got my gaming on the Glorious

theater 15 with all the latest gaming consoles and a little library of games to play and I had it all to myself have you ever thought about exploring the lands of Hyrule on the big screen because let me tell you it's the best everything was fine at first but after maybe half an hour I started getting this weird creepy crawling feeling over my shoulders that I'm feeling watch feeling you know I knew I was alone so it was completely irrational but I couldn't shake it no matter how hard I tried I had to get up

and move to the last row so that I would have the wall behind me it helped a lot but that fi never left and then the blood moon started rising in the game and I was like yep this I closed the game and went for a little power walk to shake off the Oogie boogies that flipping Blood Moon Music Man why is it so Eerie I went back after a bit and put on everyone's favorite red and blue plumber because there's nothing creepy about that it was fine everything was fine nothing weird was happening and

suddenly that feeling came back I swept the room and my stomach dropped when I saw someone sitting in the front row I went through a roller coaster of instant Panic like holy who is that oh it must be the manager wait no the manager would call First tense I paed around for my flashlight I locked on this person I aimed it right at them the seat was empty I didn't see the movement of someone ducking down or anything the seat was just empty I panned the light around and it was still empty nothing I had

to walk down there and check row by row just to make sure I convinced myself it was a shadow maybe a bug on the projector but at that point I was done with this for the night I put the things away and headed back to the lobby telling myself everything that I was doing in a sing song voice because that's how I coat with my nerves are right just as I arrived I nearly had a heart attack because the phone rang I picked up and hi are you guys open the rest of the shift was

uneventful though every now and again paranoia would hit and I would find myself looking over my shoulder thinking that one of my co-workers was playing a trick on me I would then announce what I was doing and where I was going and say I know you're watching me to try and keep them from jumping out at me but yeah no I was okay on the fifth night I had given myself a good old pep talk there was nothing weird about theater 15 whyatt got into my head everything is fine there's nothing scary at all go

play your video games I got an already order of popcorn so there was plenty left over for me to take into theater 15 I chewed very loud and bravely announced to the room that I wasn't afraid and that I was going to have fun this evening but despite my new found courage and conviction I still sat in the very back row I started exploring hyu again I survived another Blood Moon I finished my popcorn everything was well and then near the last row of the first set of Rose I saw it again I saw it

with my own two eyes it was on the sea it was a person I could see the outline of a male haircut I could see a neck and shoulders I could see some movement granted not a lot I stood up knocking over my empty bag of popcorn flashlight out being right at the chair and nothing not a damn thing in the distance I heard the phone ring and I hurried out of the room without checking every row so I could answer the phone another person asking if we were open bro I massaged my temples and

paced back and forth in the lobby it was crazy being afraid of a theater room was crazy but I couldn't do it I couldn't go back I left my trash there and I moved to the other side of the building watching the movie in theater 1 instead where I felt nice and safe there's nothing like the light of day and a good night's sleep 300 p.m. on my sixth day at work I showed up bright eye and bushy tailed I headed to theater 15 to clean up yesterday's mess I had the lights on too you

know to see better yeah we'll go with that I climbed up the stairs all the way to the back of the theater and scooped up my trash into a dust bin as I turned around to go back down I swear I saw someone standing halfway up the middle rows I did a double take and there was no one there so I thought all right buddy you're losing it I so badly wanted not to be afraid of that room you have no idea badly enough that I actually went in with the last of the movies I

hadn't watched yet I kept the habit of me talking to myself wow what a great movie I'm sitting here watching in a perfectly normal room there's no ghost here nope everything is fine and dandy idiot I could hear my voice cracking I had nothing to prove to anyone nothing so why was I subjecting myself to this situation if you guess that things weren't fine and dandy you're right at some point while watching the movie I got that feeling again my chest got tight now started to feel lightheaded I could sense him there I didn't even

have to look he was just a handful of rolls down for me and I could smell his rancid breath like something died in my granny's at it Goosebumps formed on my arms it wasn't just my imagination I could see my breath hanging in the air I shiver as I glue my eyes to the screen trying not to look as fear paralyzed me I saw the form from the corner of my eye it shuffled from one seat to the next lining himself up as though purposely trying to put himself in my direct line of sight the

lights were on the movie was playing I had my hand on my phone I had every opportunity to run or call for help but I couldn't I held my breath as he suddenly seemed to phase into the next row now only two maybe three rows away from me it's hard to tell without looking directly I try not to make a peep as if I could go invisible if I was motionless and quiet when I saw him phas into an even closer row I lost it finally able to move I threw my popcorn at him and

ran down the stairs screaming like a banshee I don't even know if my popcorn hit anything I didn't look I couldn't I ran back to the lobby the only place I felt safe and I called my manager saying someone had broken in she told me to wait outside and said she was on her way she and another manager got there and we swept the building room by room but no one was there no it was a damn ghost not that I was going to tell them that she actually had the nerve to ask me if

I could still come in the next day can you believe that I said no and she offered to review the security cameras for some reason that actually made me feel a little bit better we looked at the tapes and confirmed no one had come in or out of that room we went through a whole week's worth of video just to be sure by the way there's no video of the room itself the studios don't allow it even if the cameras aren't aimed at the screens she said she would get someone else to come after tomorrow

but she needed me one last night she said she couldn't get anyone else on short noticed blah blah blah all right as long as I don't go into that room I should be fine on the last night I was a nervous rack every shadow made me Flinch every stupid arcade game coming to life gave me a heart attack every first pop of the popcorn made me think I was going to die I didn't go into a single room not number 15 not any of them I was like a tiger in a cage pacing around watching

and just waiting I also didn't get a single order to come in I felt like I was wasting my time the hours were so long then around 8:00 the phone rang I wanted to scream at this idiot who couldn't get this damn message that we're in a pandemic and the cinema is closed AMC Cinema how can I help you I said through gred teeth I heard breathing slow and shallow it lasted for a few long uncomfortable seconds before the voice of an old man spoke what's playing in theater 15 I know I must have come

from the phone I had the receiver up against my ear after all but I swear I heard the voice behind me I left then and there this shift my replacement I left the machine with popcorn still in it I didn't even tell anyone I was going I just left corporate did send an email out because of staffing issues our Cinema is going to close from now on this happened about 2 years ago I remember it was late around 11:00 p.m. when I decided to call up an old friend that I hadn't spoken to in a

while I dialed her number but when someone picked up it wasn't her instead a lady with a strong southern accent answered I asked for my friend and she told me that she didn't know anyone by that name and as she had just recently gotten this number we started talking crazy huh just m talk at first and she was actually really friendly I asked where she was from and she told me she had moved from Tennessee to Rama New Mexico where she worked as a teacher as we kept talking I just started teasing her asking her

if she had seen any Skin Walkers out there you know just joking around but then in a serious voice she said is that what they are that threw me off I was like what do you mean by that she told me the story that gave me chills she said she lived in a mobile home one of those that sits a little high off the ground and one night she got up to use the bathroom she didn't bother turning on the light because you know why would you anyways she's sitting there when she starts hearing this

noise outside right near the bathroom window she looked over towards the sound and there in the window was the shadow of a Man At first she thought it was just someone snooping around but as she stared at it the shadow started changing she said she watched as the face began to stretch growing a long snout like a dog and its ears got longer too she told me this thing must have been at least 7 or 9 ft tall easily towering over the window she said that the worst part was that she felt Frozen in place

like she couldn't move she said it was almost like she was under some kind of a spell that was controlling her finally after what felt like forever the shadow disappeared and as soon as it was gone she could move again she ended up running straight to the bedroom freaking out and hiding underneath the covers telling herself that it was just a nightmare after that night she kept hearing things outside she was able to get one of her teacher friends to come spend a few days with her just so that she could feel more safe of

course her friend didn't believe her saying that it was most likely just a bad dream but she knew what she saw after that she kept hearing things outside the night but she wasn't telling her friend anything until one night she experience something weird too and that's when she finally believed her before we got off the phone she asked me how to get rid of it I told her to go up to the mountain find some clean Cedar try it out and burn it or better yet ignore that and find a native friend who could ask

a medicine man to bless her and her friend as well she told me that she had never seen anything like that before in her life and right before we hung up on the phone she said something like we're going to finish our teaching contracts and get out of here and move back to the city I'm not sure if they ever did leave I forgot about the whole thing for a while but for some reason it's been on my mind again 4 years ago I was married to a man who was more of a monster than

a loving husband one night he had been drinking and started an argument with me I tried calling my mom but he tore the phone out of the wall crying I packed up a small bag and decided to walk the 1/4 of a mile to his parents house with every intention to make that phone call it was Pitch Black and there wasn't a moon so it was extremely dark we lived in a small village on the rest between upper and lower red light there is very little traffic normally but at night it becomes completely empty I

stumbled down the driveway and made it to the pavement it was very quiet and I quickly felt like someone was watching me I continue on my away walking as quickly as I could for some odd reason as soon as my feet started to move the underbrush in the ditch came alive I heard twig snapping and leaves crunching I stopped and so did the noise I looked around but could only see darkness and shadows I slowly started walking again and so did the noises the faster I walk whatever it was though scared the out of me

but not bad enough to turn around I was almost to my in-laws and could see their yard light the noises in the ditch was right along beside me and now I could make out the lower brush moving towards me I froze in fear right then I heard my old man's car and saw the headlights coming my way that's when I noticed that the Wheats in the ditch stopped moving as my husband's car pulled up behind me I stood there staring into the darkness that was most likely the only time I was ever happy to see

him and never told anyone this story but I do know that on that side of the road drivers have said that they see little people crossing the road right between our house and his parents house maybe it was a group of little people maybe they heard me and my husband arguing and decided to be nosy or maybe they were wondering who's dumb enough to walk around and Pitch Black some people from different tribes have told me that the little people there are actually good but if that was the case here then he should have jumped

in the car and beat his ass to see if he liked it I've seen so much in my life that I'm beginning to believe that there are things out there that we don't know about and darkness is the perfect cover my husband did tell me around the time when I was still there that he found the tiny skull outside of our house a while back and people in the rest have said that they seen him crossing the road and back by the shore and if you hike a little bit you will find Tiny Steps going

up the hill where as they do their ceremonies a long time ago I was living in the boonies alone I decided to chop some wood for the night every time that I swung the axe I heard a whistle so I would stop and look around this went on for maybe about one load of a wheelbarrow before I chose to quit I was getting the This creepy feeling I buil my fire and stood at the window looking out into the woods wondering who was lurking around so as I'm standing I hear the whistle again except this

time it's very close I steady my breathing I stay quiet for a few seconds it turns out my nose was whistling at me when I was 20 I was out of a job and didn't have any University or plans on going to one I was basically lost in limbo without knowing where to turn next I was living at home and spent hours on the internet staying up all night and sleeping all day do you know what that's like well I always been a bit of an introvert that prefer the company of Me Myself and I

staying up through the night and ignoring the day was a way out of the norm and avoiding people all together at that then I got the classic talk from my dad the one that all kids get when they're being useless sitting at home and doing nothing I was tired of hearing it so I decided to move out and continue my antisocial behavior and I have a family way up North and sticks there's nothing around except a couple of Sawmills and a couple of nickel mines my grandfather has a piece of property that is over 350

acres of unexplored land just a big section of the woods streams ponds and rocks my grandfather has a time share in Florida so he was gone for the rest of the year I called him and asked if I could go up there to live and exchange I would do some lumberjacking for wood to sell and use I remember his comments exactly yeah I don't really give a you're wasting your time up there no no work no school no people no internet but if that's what you want go ahead and knock yourself out just don't burn

down my house by this point my backs were already packed I knew he wouldn't mind I told Dad what I was doing and he was pretty much speechless and he also had a look of concern he then told me I was wasting my life when I should just go to school I told him that this is what I wanted and that I needed to do it at this point in time so I got into my 93 Civic hatchback that had a shot suspension and bald tires and took the 14-hour car ride into No Man's Land

I made myself good and comfy when I eventually got to the house it was given to my grandfather by an Irish man that had passed on he built a house when he was very young with his young family around the 1800s and it had just been there ever since and then he passed it to my grandfather if you ever seen the am Veil horror it looks just like that house but a little bit smaller and it also had an old stove in it that was this old black Hast iron beast and if you can remember

using those you might be as old as I am it was the kind that you wouldn't really see in a house anymore it was something like you would see in the movies or like an old historic village tour there was a large barn full of tools and an old John Deere tractor there was a Smoke House for Meats there was a large veggie garden garden and there was an ouse and a chicken cpop that wasn't really in use anymore after unpacking and relaxing the distance and the fact that I was alone began to set in

there wasn't TV internet or a video game inside my grandfather had two snowmobiles a four-wheeler a gator and a dirt bike and lots of hunting rifles and shotguns I figur most of my time would be spent Outdoors anyway which was fine but I was a little bit nervous the next day I drove into town if you could really even call it that I stocked up on caned goods and cutboard foods that could survive a nuclear Holocaust I came back and got to lumberjacking it was slow effort to remember the stuff that my grandpa had shown

me as a kid when I was around 8 to 12 years old but after about 4 or 5 hours I kind of was starting to get it again I would take the tractor chains and hooks and a Jerry can and Chainsaw into the bush I would find a cedar or a spruce tree and cut it down I would then chain it up to the Tractor and drag it off into the main trail where I had a normal flatbed trailer waiting I would then cut it up into two or 3T sections and stack it once the

trailer was full I would tow it to the barn and at the back of this Barn there was a big hydraulic wood splitter I would split it into four to six sections depending on the diameter of the piece PE once I had to cut it all I stacked it all this was the routine it was long and hard work but it gave me purpose and it gave me joy I thought of myself as something like a Pioneer I was in The Great Outdoors alone taking down trees and supplying villagers with something that they needed to

survive I felt proud of myself and I also made some cash doing it I wasn't getting rich but I had enough for all the things that were needed to survive in such a place like this I kept this routine for months and months and the locals began to come to me for w because it was cheap and I was a Youngster as they say looking after my grandfather's home who was well thought of in town then the winter came and everything went to winter on the farm was one of the most depressing times of my

life not being able to do much work and having no interest in human contacts or Internet Radio brought me down I reflected on my life and the fact that I had no friends anymore because I just abandoned them with no warning why did I do this but I had some type of mental feeling that I had to leave everyone behind and never speak to them again I even began having some Suicidal Thoughts the more I thought about it the more I accepted it as being okay I wasn't that religious so I didn't have the thought

of going to hell or anything I viewed it more as if a a goldfish were to die where do you think it would go it doesn't really go anywhere I think it's just that Blackness no more thoughts like turning off a car for the last time I thought about how my family would miss me and how it would hurt them but I was so depressed unhappy about the progress in my life and the fact that I had no one after a few weeks ofus 30° weather and brutal snow I decided to get on on snowmobile

load up my snowshoes take my rifle and go deep into the woods to end my mental suffering I had given up on everything I jumped on the sled at 800 in the morning the sun was brighter than ever you couldn't even look anywhere without squinting your eyes the sun reflected off the snowy landscape as if it were like a mirror with a full tank and a Jerry can as a backup I could go a long way I let the thing idle and get warmed up I was thinking to myself that I may actually go through

with this I kept going over the wh ifs and butts in my head as if I was trying to tuck myself out of it but I said it out loud and jumped on it and let it rip I took the tractor Trail as far as it would go into the bush it ends after a solid 45-minute drive and then it turns into a four-wheeler and Gator Trails I took the trail deeper and deeper into the woods after a solid 2 and 1/2 hours of writing the trail stopped and did a u-turn it was the end

of the track I then grabbed my rifle put on my snowshoes and quickly realized something I hadn't wrote a note for anyone to find my body or even know what I had done I knew that if my parents had no idea what happened to me they would wander for the rest of their life and it would tear them apart I yelled out and cursed and I threw my rifle I faced towards my sled and did it again I started to turn and remember that I literally just threw my rifle I cursed again got off my

sled and walked towards my rifle that was on the ground I bent down to grab it and I stood up a burst of adrenaline was injected throughout my entire body and I turned my Cold Frame into a steel oven there was a black figure in the distance hiding behind a tree and watching me it wasn't an animal it looked like the shape of a man but it wasn't a man I ran to my sled and hit the throttle I RI back home and didn't look back to get back home it only took maybe two and

2 and 1/2 hours or something I rode fast I got inside the house put on coffee and ate some beans and toast as I picked out I kept having this image in my head and I was wondering what this was how did it get there for how long has it been there does does it know that I'm still here how could it survive out here is it coming for me can it follow my tracks and does my grandpa know about it I then decided to call my grandfather in Florida unfortunately he didn't answer his phone

he was most likely relaxing on the beach somewhere drinking beers and then cursed myself again I called my dad just to call my nerves he could then sense something was off about me and ask what was up I told him I was out hunting and I had seen something I describ what I had seen and he went silent he took a breath and said son when I was a kid living on the farm me and a girl went back to the lake for a swim we got there on our bikes in August I had my

rifle with me because of all the Bears that would pass through their land back then after me and the girl were swimming around and laughing and doing our thing she screamed and pointed across I looked across the Pond and there it stood it looked like a burned up human being he was all charred and stuff and he also had a little bit of hair on the top of his head his eyes were as bright blue as I had ever seen its arms were so long and its hands nearly came to its knees it then screamed

at us and the birds flew to the trees I ran out of the pond grabbed my rifle and shot at it it ran to the trees and me and the girl jumped on our bikes and got out of there this was the first and final time I had ever seen that thing or anything like it I actually hadn't even thought about it in years until you told me that you need to be careful in fact why don't you just come home son it's boring up there anyways I told him I was staying and enjoyed it

here but that was definitely a lie I got off the phone with him feeling no better the only difference was that I could think a little bit more clear I thought if this thing is coming for me it's going to take a while by foot so I figure I got time I got the guns and put a loaded one in every room some had slugs some had shells I also had a hatchet that I sharpened to a very fine thickness with a stone grinder in the barn if it was to swing at your wrist with

one motion it would most likely cut it off eventually I made one final meal turned on all the lights and left all the blinds open for good visibility and to make it harder for what whatever it is out there to see me inside I then went upstairs which had two bedrooms and large Windows one with a walk out balcony I thought this would be an accident spot to watch and snipe as I settled in to see if this thing would come I began thinking about what I was going to do earlier I was still depressed

but because I was active and keeping my mind on something I didn't want to kill myself anymore maybe that was it I thought keeping active busy and productive and maybe with a bit of excitement thrown in it helps to keep your mind off doing something yet that doesn't really matter anyways just as I was having a bit of a personal Milestone I heard heavy Footsteps in the snow I looked out the window and before my eyes was that thing that I had seen earlier but now it was a complete view I got a strong feeling

of nervousness it was exactly how my dad described it to me the Moonlight reflected off of them like the cover of the Dark Side of the Moon if I had to guess it was about 6' three or so it had like a longer face and a large overbite it looked human but like not human if that makes sense I ran out on the porch to get a shot off it darted around the house before I could even lift my weapon and I thought oh that thing's fast I ran inside again ran to the other window

and I could see it again just standing there like an idiot watching me I turned the crank and the window opened up and that's when I said who are you there was no reply it just stared at me and I repeated tell me who you are or I'm going to blow your head off and then it spoke it said its name in a slow drawn out harsh voice it said something like sure that my name I then said what do you want with me I'm minding my own business out here leave me alone and then

it walked closer to the house and it looked up at me my nose was filled with a very pungent smell it then said If you won't I will and that exact same drawn out voice that can almost not be described unless I was mimicking it with some type of computer sound program I then said do what it said kill yourself you fa my heart froze and then stretched its arms out from the wall of the house and then tried climbing up the wall like it was freaking Spider-Man or something I yelled and panicked from the

sheer shock and fumbled my rifle it fell right out of the window and by this time it was feet away from the window it reached its weird go awful hand into the window and it cut my arm with its fingernail I grabbed my Hatchet and buried it into its forearm it then made the sound the bear makes when you shoot at it it fell to the ground on its side and I ran for the spare gun in the room I came back to the window and it was running for the barn I took a shot

and hit it but it didn't do much this gun had a shell and it isn't really ideal for the range that I fire at I pushed my dresser into the hall and pushed it downstairs I then pushed the few end tables into the staircase I essentially clogged it up so I couldn't get up there from the main floor I know I can climb now but I prefer to have cover from one side and multiple sides I locked the door and just kept my eyes and ears open I didn't see it again Daybreak came quick I

could see its blood droplets in the snow I climbed over and pulled stuff out of the stairwell and investigate it it was nowhere to be found I grabbed my rifle and follow the droplets it went down the tractor Trail I walked for about 10 minutes following this Trail I could see it go off even further in its foot tracks as well I decided it wasn't worth it to go ahead and try to hunt it that's when I decided it was time to leave this place for good I went inside grabbed my clothes got into my

car and drove off I never told my dad or my grandpa I still have nightmares about this thing and I wonder how I knew what I was thinking to do I've been trying to research other sightings and descriptions of it but I can't find anything I don't want to say it's demonic because I really don't know and I'm not really religious like I said I still don't know what it is no idea all I know is that in the last8 years since it happened I've been having a bunch of health problems and bad luck I

have night terrors of this thinging almost 95% of my sleep I do got to take medication just to stay asleep I think it may have been the nail that caught me when it reached into the window I often do wonder if it's still up there and I would like to go back up there and try to go hunting for it if I got a death wish but my grandpa passed away four years ago the property was sold to clear Cutters by my dad and his sisters as far as I know the house was knocked down

and they put up a small office and living quarters for The Lumberjacks who clearcut there if you're wondering where this is it's near shapo Ontario in Canada something awful happened to me when I was 16 I was living in an isolated area in the middle of nowhere to go to my grandparents house I had to go all the way down a forest area with the cliff some really narrow trails and various dirt paths on the side and then follow a river till you get to the large chunk of land that he owns it's basically a

death trap but back then when me and my friends were young we were Reckless thinking we were invincible so of course we did really stupid things like run through these narrow dirt paths it took about 30 minutes sometimes 20 if we were running to go from the small town where my dad and I lived at the the time to get there and again this is depending on how fast you go my GRS being super stubborn and old refused to leave his land and move into town with Dad and me now I had two close friends

back then Tom who was 18 and always instigated whatever stupid thing got us into trouble that week and Shawn who was the same age as me and was pretty much the butt of all the pranks he became a bit of a grump and had a huge angry outburst every now and then looking back on the whole situation I don't think that we were all actually good friends but there was no one else to hang out with so we just made it happen the story happened on a rainy afternoon when Tom and I were watching TV

at my place my dad had been working like always he worked at a farm and was always processing meat and he got home with a big piece of hand for my grandpa I was told to take it to him but that said that I should wait until tomorrow tomorrow because the rain makes the path dangerous regardless of how mad Grandpa would be about not getting his ham that night and I thought it's less work for me tonight so I went along with it that day Tom was just joking and picking on sea to the point

where I actually had to sit in between them to avoid a full on fist fight after a little longer my dad got shitfaced this was nothing new to us even though it never happened with my friends here and it never happened during the week like this so he most likely had a hard day at work us being loud teens eventually as you can imagine made him a little less than happy he came in screaming this made everything very awkward and it was a pretty bad Outburst after a few minutes of silence with only the TV

breaking it up I got up and grabbed the H from the fridge I asked the guys to come outside with me because I really didn't want to sit with this in the house I explained to them that I would take the ham to my grandpa and spend the night there by this point the sun was starting to set but Tom insisted that we all go Shawn didn't want to he didn't want to walk the entire way back in the dark especially since he was a little unfamiliar with the trails but of course we were teenagers

so we called him all sorts of names like well you can imagine and so we eventually convinced them to go or more like we ended up peer pressuring him to come so off we went into the forest Tom ran into his house to get a flashlight beforehand it wasn't dark enough to need it yet but we were going to need it I was carrying the stupid ham which meant that my hands were full but Tom and Shawn were just jumping around the overground roots until we reached the cliff area then everything went downhill very bad

needless to say Tom was just messing with Shawn the whole way it was starting to get on my nerves too and it was starting to get dark as well I was feeling pretty shitty at this point the mud was getting annoying everything was then Tom did it he called Shawn over to the edge he said um what's down there Shawn was having none of it and said he was going to go back I would have called bs2 but Tom actually seemed concerned he also called me over as well and he said guys I'm serious you

got to come see this Shawn mumbling under his breath went and when he was right next to Tom Tom acted like he was going to push him off the cliff and then pulled him back by his shirt at this point Tom is laughing his ass off sea on the other hand fell on his ass he went crazy he started throwing punches and kicks at Tom who was not paying attention and still actually looking at something over the cliff The Laughing stop when Shawn hit Tom in the face I could didn't do anything but tell him

to stop because I was carrying the stupid ham the fight didn't last it was so quick my heart stopped beating for a second Tom moved out the way Sean slipped off the edge of the cliff and down into the forest the whole scene sent chills down my spine it still does I dropped the hammer and was about to run to town to get some help but Tom stopped me he was rambling about how there was no timing that we had to go get him them or that he could die but I knew damn well that

he was more scared of the police finding out that his prank led to Shan going over the side of the cliff regardless we both ran down the path as fast as we could almost falling over more than once we were screaming for Shawn the whole way but after the initial scream there was nothing but silence once we got down there we ended up in a very thick part of the forest this was in the opposite direction from the way to my grandpa's place and the thing is despite living there in the area of my whole

life I had never been down in that thick area of the forest my grandpa was always very serious about never going there my dad as well they said it was very dangerous that there were so many wild animals and quote other things that you should be worried about and by this point it was dark the sun had completely set everything was damp our only means of navigation was the flashlight that Tom had but that's when I noticed something else was off the forest itself in this area was very quiet nothing compared to the path that

I always took which always had Birds even in the rain but here on this side there was nothing like idiots we ran deeper and deeper screaming for Shawn as hard as our lungs would let us suddenly we heard it a very scratchy voice I remember Tom taking a breath because he thought Shawn was alive thinking that maybe he just got really screwed up by the Fall maybe he broke bones or something and got the wind knocked out of him I said we ran towards the voice but Tom was the one running I got stuck by

the branches the whole way through it's impressive how far adrenaline can take you but we were completely confused we didn't even know where we were going we only heard the voice the one time and we we had already lost away we ended up getting to a swampy area in the forest and that's where we saw it the mud was up to our ankles and got deeper and deeper as he went branches reaching off everywhere and like I said that's when I noticed it I swear I could see something in the trees some of those things

that I thought were weird branches looked like arms Tom was still calling for Shawn but he eventually went silent as he was looking down then he turned and ran off in the other way I Tri Tred to ask what was going on I tried to follow him but then something pulled me back by my jeans I swear I could feel my jeans RI something had a grip on me I fell face first into the mud I try to do my best to get up quickly find my feet and then just barely noticeable at a distance

I saw two eyes and what honestly honest to God looked like a mouth giving me a smile right there in the darkness I couldn't make out anything else nothing not even a head just eyes and a mouth I got up and tried to run in the same direction from where we came but then I got tripped up backwards by branches that seemed to appear out of nowhere I thought I was going to have a heart attack I started breathing really heavy panicking that's when I saw another face but I thought it couldn't be the same

one from here on my memories are a little bit blurry I remember getting up I remember running I remember being chased I remember the only noise I could hear was my own footsteps my heartbeat and myself crying eventually I must have reached the river because my grandpa told me that I got to his home late at night he checked on me and said that I didn't have any severe damage outside of bruises cuts and scratches he told me he locked down the house and didn't sleep a wink watching over me with his hunting rifle the

next day I told him everything he didn't know what it was but he did go to town and report it all Shawn was found he was stuck on the top of a tree in between branches he had snapped a bunch of bones but he was alive Tom was found miles away in the clearing unconscious barely alive full of cuts and bruises dehydrated and apparently when he came to he just rambl for days about eyes in the darkness branches coming up from the swamp and tripping him like hands grabbing at him needless to say is put

an end to Tom and Sean's friendship and to be honest I moved away shortly after this I'm kind of glad that I'm now far away from that place this story takes place on my res The Walker River payou res in Western Nevada at a tribal Elders house those from my res will know who I'm talking about this tribal Elder was the oldest member of the tribe when he passed two years ago well into his 9s when he passed on his house and property were being disputed between nieces and nephews and his common-law wife who was

from another rest her grandson fresh out of prison ended up staying there he was a big party person and he brought his tweaker white girlfriend down to stay in the house with him none of them had any income so they started selling off the elders belongings they didn't realize that some of what they were getting rid of wasn't just old stuff it was sacred the Elder had medicine bundles for protection and healing that was never supposed to be disturbed but they didn't care they sld it off like it was nothing now who would buy stuff

like this you'll learn living on the rest that there are things you shouldn't do items that shouldn't be touched or messed with however there are evil people with evil intentions that want items that belong to the dead so that they can do their witchcraft ways or maybe some people just buy these items out of ignorance anyways soon after the grandson kicked his girlfriend out and he moved in a girl from the local rest another tweaker just 18 that kept selling off the elders things and eventually the guy got thrown in jail our Tribal Council voted

to kick him off the r and he left the hous keys with the girl now one of my close friends went out there with her one night to hang out and get high but when he came back he was shaken he told me some messed up stuff went down at the house and my friend knew better better than to go hang around inside this house because of who it belonged to the whole situation about the grandson being thrown in jail and kicked out was known around the r everybody knew to stay away from this place

there were quite a few rumors and stories so he told me they were sitting in the living room watching TV he said they started hearing footsteps on the roof at first they thought it might be an animal but the steps were too heavy like someone pacing back and forth above them then out of nowhere they heard a low voice coming from one of the windows it wasn't speaking the American language it sounded different but guttural like someone was chanting some spell or something wrong then my friend said they looked out the window to see what

the noise was and that's when they saw them the figures four of them at first he thought they were just people walking around but he realized something wasn't right these figures weren't fully human they were gray like Shadows but their shapes were all twisted and wrong shifting around they moved in a slow unnatural way circling the ground outside he said they were tall Too Tall and hunched over like something was crawling beneath their skin their limbs look weird bending at all angles and their heads would twitch unnaturally like their were struggling to keep a human

form as he moved closer to the house he saw their eyes black pits that seemed to draw in all the light around them terrified they pulled the curtains back trying to ignore the sounds but when he peaked out again one of the figures was right there standing at the window staring in its face was twisted the skin was stretched tight over sharp bones and the mouth was pulled into a grin but it was was the eyes the empty eyes black soulless as he described them that made him freeze he swore the thing was looking straight

into his soul like it was putting some curse on him they didn't know what to do running outside seemed like a death sentence but staying inside felt no better so they went into the kitchen going down onto the floor trying to stay outside of the windows he whispered that they need to stay silent he said that every Creek of the house every bit of wind outside sent their hearts racing then the scratching sounds began it got worse it sounded like someone or something was digging not just outside but right underneath them my friend grabbed the

kitchen knife as if that would do anything but what else could he do the noise continued growing louder almost like whatever was down there was trying to Tunnel its way in they stayed like that for hours crawled up on on the kitchen floor trying to figure out what to do every now and then they would hear footsteps again on the roof around the sides or pacing back and forth just beyond the windows he said it felt like they were being surrounded as Dawn was starting to creep up the noises stopped no more digging no more

footsteps just an eerie silence that's when the girl finally told him everything the truth about the house and what happened ever since the Elder passed she explained how they started selling items that were in a medicine bundle items that should have never been moved let alone be sold but they had and in doing so they had invited something into the home hearing that made my friend sick to his stomach he realized that whatever had been watching them whatever had been trying to get inside was in just some sort of spirit he knew they couldn't stay

any longer this he said under his breath and with his heart pounding he finally decided that they would run to the door as they scramble outside expecting one of these things to come rushing at them however the yard was empty or at least it looked like it he said that when they got to his truck his stomach dropped the door was open like someone was inside all his stuff was everywhere on the front was a stick tight up and twisted and wrapped in something my friend knew what it was a witching stick something used in

dark ceremonies that's when it hit them these things weren't just Spirits they were Skin Walkers and they must have been doing some sort of ceremony or curse on the house he then told me that Panic surged through him as he grabbed the stick and threw it as far as he could into the brush he didn't care where it landed he just knew he couldn't let it stay with him they jumped into the truck and peeled out of there dirt kicking up behind them as they sped away from the house away from whatever had been lurking

there hoping that it wouldn't follow them back into town over the next few days my friend felt like something was after him he would see someone moving just out of the corner of his eye always watching at night he would wake up to the sound of scratching out his window and when he would look outside he said he would see those same figure standing just beyond the tree line waiting he knew he couldn't keep living like that in fear as everybody knows that these things these Skin Walkers Thrive off of fear so he went to

go see a medicine man the medicine man listened to everything his face getting more serious as he told him everything when my friend finished the Elder just sat in silence and then spoke to him he said this was happening because of what had been done in the 's house sacred things have been Disturbed sold off and in doing so they had invited something evil not specifically him but the people who live there you should never never touch a medicine bundle also the moment you laid hands on that stick it was like you accepted what it

was meant for he explained that these items done in dark ceremonies carry a power that's not easily understood they aren't just items they're beyond your understanding tossing head aside didn't do anything by touching it you accepted the curse you can say the curse it carried the medicine man's words scare my friend as he was finally starting to understand the gravity of what happened the Elder went on to explain that this was not something to take lightly especially in the home of a medicine man who had passed on when a medicine man walks off into to

the spirit side you must leave their things alone the medicine man warned you don't go inside their home and you never touch what belong to them those items are tied to their Spirit to the work that they done and disturbing these items is like opening a door that you can't close the medicine man made it clear that some of these items are sacred part of the owner once that person has passed on those items are not just left behind for nothing to disturb them is to disturb the dead it's like pulling them back and in

doing so you allow other things to enter the place my friends sat Frozen realizing that by simply being in the house by even being a witness about what happened there he had become part of this whole theme the medicine man performed the cleansing ceremony using herbs and chants to sing smoke from burning sage and sweet grass fill the air my friend said that he could feel the heaviness lifting but the Elder warned him that some things once Disturbed leave scars that never fully healed and that there would be people out there evil people using this

as an opportunity for their witchcraft ways after the ceremony my friend said that he stopped seeing things and feeling like something was after him he didn't see the figures anymore but the medicine man told him to stay far away from that house it was a place that had been tainted and anyone who set foot in there risk being drawn into something they couldn't escaped as for the girl she was never seen again she stopped coming around and no one seemed to know what happened to her maybe she left the reservation or maybe the Skin Walkers

had gotten into her first all I know is that after that night my friend never set foot near that house again one last thing that my friend told me never enter the home of someone who has passed on and what belongs to them must stay with them so my parents were big outdoor Buffs my father was an ex-champion boat racer and my mom was an Alabama race country girl so they always wanted to go camping fishing and do all that stuff when I was little they went on a trip with some of their friends when

I was about 10 which would be about 16 years ago since then they refused to go camping anymore ever my dad told me the story sometime after I turned 18 it still makes me wonder considering the following my parents moved along lot and they only had one set of friends that they really kept in touch with at all times Danny and Lisa Danny and Lisa were not ready outdoor nuts like my parents but they were for friends and it's fun to go camping with your friends right so they all planned a 5-day trip to La

Lake which was south of where we live with a creek that was on Danny's father's property so they could camp out on that property and fish all they wanted to they could then go to the lakes and everything else I'm going to tell the rest of the story from my dad's point of view well from his account the first two days were quite normal just camping drinking sharing stories while fishing going on on a boat and water skiing it was pretty much Heaven it was just young adult parents having fun on the second night everyone

kept hearing these weird noises and Barks like two dogs were in a fight but they were both heard and just yeling the whole time they figur it was coyotes and they slept the next day they continue on their Adventures but at night they kept hearing these noises but they were extremely close to the camp so my father and Danny went out to see if they could scare them off while my mom and Lisa stayed behind they were scared hiding inside a tent most likely reading the Bible anyways my dad and Danny went out to look

for these fighting coyotes searching by following the sound my dad had a shotgun and Danny had a machete they were hoping to scare these coyotes or whatever it was with a gunshot they then got to a clearing and they could hear the noise Extremely Loud but it seemed to be coming from everywhere as if the sounds were kind of distant from each other now my dad isn't really scared of anything and he swears he saw Bigfoot when he was 14 but this was different randomly he just started telling Danny to go back no questions no

explanation just Danny we need to go back so they did but the sounds didn't fade away this time Danny nervously asked my dad what was going on but my dad wouldn't tell him he just kept shushing him Danny's a bit of a goofball which is why I got along with uncle Danny so he thought my dad was getting him back for a prank he kept nudging my dad trying to get him to say you fell for it but my dad never said anything finally they got close to the creek a ways up from the camp

and that's when my dad told Danny to run fast like run away right now and that's when my dad took off Danny apparently followed but tripped and called for my dad but my dad who tears up and chokes up at this part which is also uncharacteristic of him refused to go back for him even though Danny started calling for help Dany was yelling that his leg was broken it hurt but my dad just kept running then my dad my mom and Lisa all said that they heard what sounded like a really really loud mountain lion

growl almost like two lions going at it Amplified by 70 times that's how loud it was it made my dad's ears ring after this noise Danny stopped screaming for help my dad got back to camp and the ladies asked what the hell was going on but my dad just said something was out there my mom being the Practical woman that she is said what was it but my dad wouldn't answer Lisa was freaking out asking where Danny was my dad just kept saying he'll be here in a few minutes but it wasn't a few minutes

a few hours passed and the ladies were extremely worry about Danny my dad apparently would cringe whenever they said something eventually from the opposite side that my dad had arriv from came Dany walking up just fine to the camp not saying anything something my mom says that she won't forget because this is what tipped her off that something was very wrong Danny first walked up and nudged his way next to my mom but after the weird look and deaf stare for my father he moved closer to Lisa who had been nagging at him for about

10 minutes he would either just say yes or no and just stare into the fire my dad finally asked Dany what happened to his leg Dany looked up confused my dad told him I thought you said it was broken Danny then looked at him and replied broken and then as if on Quee he just started yelling my leg my leg I think it's broken the ladies then grabbed the medkits and first aid in water saying that it was him going into shock but upon getting his jeans off he actually refused to help them and made

it hard for them to remove them there was no obvious break there was no blood just bruises up and down his side Lisa kept asking what happened but he would just grind and wave her hands away from him my dad then said he's fine just let him sleep they then went into their tents they said that they heard Lisa nagging on one side arguing with Danny because he would never reply when she would ask him questions so she finally said she was just going to go to the bathroom and pee Danny asked if he could

come with her since there there were animals out there and not so many words she said okay and they left my dad woke up around 10: in the morning and started making breakfast Danny and Lisa were gone my mom asked where they were but my dad wouldn't reply after a little while they both came back without saying anything they weren't even holding hands in each other's arms or even with their arms over the shoulder or anything like they always wor were they were just standing next to each other they refused food and Danny would randomly

yell out my leg my leg as Lisa kept complaining of feeling sick my mom suggested that they should go home and call off the whole trip on account of Danny's leg which now was not limping at all to my mom's horrified recollection the two nodded and my father just kind of looked at them they all agreed so Danny and Lisa got into my parents' car not theirs and they just waited they didn't even pack up their tents food coolers bag or anything my mom then came over and asked if they were going to grab their

things and they shook their heads my dad then asked why don't you take your own car and they both sat at the same time broken almost like in a creepy practice way my dad's side packed up the car and they drove off Danny and Lisa stayed quiet the whole way back except for the random mumblings with each other my parents then took them home and came and got me and we could tell something was wrong besides them coming home days early they said that Danny got hurt and that's why they came home a few days

later I asked if we could go see them but my dad replied no a little too quickly so I thought he was just mad at me so I left to go play in my room a few weeks later I asked about Uncle Danny again and my dad said that we weren't going to go see them no more I wasn't mad but I was curious so I asked why and he told me something about his dad being sick and I was pretty sad about it so I eventually just forgot about it and life moved on so

about 5 years later I'm at a supermarket where I used to live when all of this happened it was also right by where Danny and Lisa lived only on the other side of the road when I was 10 I was never allowed to go over but now that I was driving I decided to go see the old house and check out Danny and Lisa's house I'm driving down slowly almost creeping down the street when I spot Danny walking down so I'm ready to excited and I flag him down I pull over and I start talking

to him he seemed a little stiff to me kind of robotic I guess you could say especially when he gave me a hug but it was way too tight I had asked Danny how he's been and he said he's been okay I asked him where Lisa was and he said at home so I asked him if I could go say hi to her and he agreed I walk with him and I ask him about all kinds of people and try to catch up with him but he didn't seem to remember or care about 90% of

it which seemed kind of strange because Danny was always my awesome involved in everything uncle Dany so I asked him a couple obvious trick questions and he failed them now I'm a little bit nervous but I just brush it off as I was excited to see both of them and I hadn't talked to them in a long time so we get to his door and he opens it and that's when the smell of a rotten meat locker pours out a horrible smell just hits my nostrils the place is a wag there's stuff everywhere everything is

coated in dust and nothing looks clean laundry is everywhere there are no lights on and and it's just a mess I asked what happened here and he just grunted a already weird almost gut roll grunt so I asked after Lisa and she yelled from the kitchen she was just behind a wall facing the room but the wall was in a full wall like with the top touching the ceiling so I could smell something cooking I walked into the kitchen expecting to see Lisa making some normal food and I planned on asking Lisa why Danny was

acting weird but instead what I saw is Unforgettable she was standing in the kitchen naked cover in blood cooking some kind of mangled mess surrounded by thousands of Bones I was just smart enough to notice a pile of collars in the corner like actual pet collars I screamed and that's when Danny lunched at me I kind of side step away from him and ran out the door Danny gave chase after me and I I got to the car and kned out as fast as I could I got home called the police and gave the address

then I went straight to my dad he punched me in the face and overheard the conversation with the police especially when I gave the address I tried to apologize and he just yelled at me he then hit me again and then hugged me and said he was so sorry I tried to ask him but he rather strongly told me to shut up about it and forget about it the police then came to my house and told me they didn't find anyone living there but my story matched the description of an absolute nightmare they told me

that they suspected that the previous owners left and that a mixture of wild animals and homeless people had been living there my dad being the genius that he is asked why the house hadn't been closed off or why the bill payments hadn't been an issue the police will stammer and said that they would look into it apparently that and's father had still been paying for it all as per some agreement when they got married I still hadn't seen them since then and my dad has only told me the story once beforehand my meeting up with

Danny was pure coincidence and only made the story much worse a couple of years after all that happened me and my dad got very drunk together then in a drunken State he told me the story and what happened to Danny he said he knew what they were but in my opinion better Danny than my dad don't play with the fire the locals in Romania used to say I didn't understand it at first even though I knew they are very superstitious people I'm a construction engineer and have been recently sent to Romania with the company for

a big contract that we won the construction of a 27 floors building of business offices I arrived at Bucharest Friday and the project was set to begin Monday so I had the weekend for myself I wanted to visit the city have some fun since it was my first time in Romania but I didn't know anyone my colleague Kevin was going to get here on Saturday and the other members of the team had had the flights booked on Sunday it was 6:00 p.m. I was in my hotel room when the phone rang it was Kevin hey

man how is it there tell me the first impression hey Kev uh I don't really know yet I mean the city looks nice but I haven't been anywhere yet I'm still in the room I wish I knew someone to go out tonight with have a couple of beers but I guess I'll have to wait for you tomorrow I don't like going out alone why don't you try to hang out with some locals Kevin asked and how do you expect me to do that go to random strangers and ask them to hang out with me I

laugh try the local write it Go and create a post just say that you're new in town and if there's anyone who would want to go out for a beer or something you know what I think I'll do that I'll test a beer for you and tomorrow when we go out I'll know which one is good well I got to go see you tomorrow I got off the phone opened my laptop and headed on to Red it I created a post hey everyone I just arrived for the first time in Bucharest and I was wondering

if there's someone willing to show me around go out for a beer by the way I don't speak Romanian so it would be nice if you spoke English too a few replies came welcoming me to the city wishing me a pleasant stay and stuff like that and then the following reply came hey man we're a bunch Cal R of friends who frequently go out for beer and we actually have scheduled a meeting tonight you can join us if you like DM me for more details I clicked on the account I reviewed it a bit and

I found out that this guy was mostly interested in cats technology and cooking I sent him a DM telling him that I would like to join them and to give me some details about where we would be going and when to meet he responded with the name of a bar which you look pretty nice from the pictures on Google and to be there outside at 9:00 p.m. then he sent me his phone number it was already 7:30 p.m. by now so I jumped in the shower got dressed and C an Uber I got to the

location 10 minutes earlier and I saw about five guys around their 20s waiting outside I took my phone out and called the number that he sent me then I saw one of the guys picking up his phone and answering I'm here I think I see you I said a bit confused because this could also just been a coincidence of timing and phone calls he looked around fixed his eyes on me and said yeah that's us man come on over I always been an extrovert however meeting a new group of foreign guys made me a bit

nervous I walked to them hey guys I'm Ross nice to meet you hey Ross I'm Andre the guy that I spoke on the phone with said then he pointed to the other guys and said this is this Mii Dan Angelo and Bogdan we headed inside got ourselves a table and ordered some beers the guy seemed curious about me and made me feel like the center of attention but not in a weird or awkward way I found out that they are all students on different colleges and they all met on the local Reddit some years ago

and became friends Angelo was studying to become a doctor Mii was passionate about music and he also had to rap songs already Bogdan was a very dedicated gamer which made him skip most of his classes and had to repeat the last year of college this actually made me laugh D was trying to become a bodybuilder and that was a visible thing I told him about myself what I do for a living about the project that we're about to start and about my passion for the Paranormal well if you like Paranormal we have a haunted lake

here it's close by it's called The Witches pond Angelo said after a short pause he continued it's also said that at night witches are casting spells and if you go there bad things will happen not even the animals are drinking from it really I always been excited about stories with haunted places but I never got the chance to visit one so where is it at exactly I asked you want to go there Bogan asked Andre just chuckled put his beer on the table and sad it's about 15 km outside of Bucharest located in the middle

of a forest if I think about it we lived our whole lives here but never thought about going there what do you guys think should we go there after we finish the beers my first thought was not to go into a forest outside of Bucharest with some guys that I just met 2 hours ago but after a bit of consideration these guys look nice and harmless this and I didn't feel any threat around them plus I always wanted to visit a haunted place well let's do it I said firmly the alcohol is starting to kick

in by this moment should we call an Uber or how do we get there let's pay the bill and call for an Uber we PID for the beers went outside while Bogan was on the Uber app trying to set the destination point to the witch's pond close as possible he had to do it manually since it was no EX address the Uber will be here in 3 minutes guys I requested for two cars since it's six of us Bogdan said it was dark and I felt so excited for what I was going to do my

whole life was just playing work home occasional nights out but for the first time in my life I was going to do something like this something I always wanted I could feel the adrenaline rushing through my body the cars arrived and I got into a car with Andre and Angelo while Bogdan Mii and Dan got into the second car the Uber driver looked a bit suspicious and even with fear when he saw the destination point and while noticing this Andre assured him were only some drunk guys trying to have some fun and also visit the

said haunted place and that he doesn't need to worry about it we arrived after 20 minutes and got out of the car it was Pitch Black and the headlights were the only source of light out there the second car arrived about 1 minute later being delayed due to catching a red light behind us we all gathered together and turned on the flashlights of our phone Mii then said we should enter the forest from the other side of the road and walk straight for 2 minutes then we should reach the witch's pond at least that's what

it says on Google it was caught outside in a very deep silence the type of Silence that doesn't feel right Mii went first we followed we climbed a small cliff and entered the forest we made our way to the witches Pond walking over dead branches and the leaves brought a bit of sound in the silence that we were surrounded of after about 1 minute of walking through the forest the wind started to blow and all of a sudden Mii starts screaming holy guys stop it's a dead deer over here a strong rotten smell hit me

I wanted to puke the wind was now blowing the smell right towards us we bypassed it holding our breath and while I got next to it I took a glance at the deer something was off it didn't look like she died from an animal attack or being shot by some Hunter it had no visible wounds and even though it smelled so bad it didn't look like it was in the decomposing stage yet I got down to my knees and saw her eyes wide open and marks of blood pouring out from her eyes I put my

hand on her neck and that's what shocked me it was still warm her whole body was still warm I couldn't understand why there was already the smell present if the deer had just died I thought it should be another dead body around and that the smell was not coming from this deer so I took a breath of air the previous smell was 10 times stronger now and I cannot explain what I felt I can only say that it was the most awful feeling I had ever felt at the beginning I felt a very strong wave

of fear going through my body I wanted to leave but now my legs were weak and I felt like I couldn't stand up my vision started to get blurry and before I knew it Andre grabbed my arm and helped me to stand up what are you still doing here I had to come back for you we didn't even notice when you were left behind how can you stay in the smell he asked there's something very wrong with this deer I said even if it smells like it was decomposing for a few days it just died

I just put my hand on its body and it's still warm that's impossible Your Mind is Playing Tricks there's no way that her body is still warm you felt that rotten smell it has at least 3 days since she died Andre replied let's go the boys are waiting for us he continued we headed back to the group and kept going the air started to feel heavy and the cold was getting colder with how much we Advanced towards the pond we got to a Zone where the tree stopped and we found ourselves in a small circular

area with a pond in the center the vegetation seemed Dead all over the place the pond had a greenish color the color of a sick water the whole place looked so unnatural I turned off the light of my phone opened the camera and took a picture of it it was my first official visit to a haunted place so I had to have a memory of it all right then there's no witches here Angelo said Mii take a picture of me in front of the lake Angelo headed towards the lake and turned his back towards it

you're too close go a bit more near the lake Mii said Angelo took a few steps behind and he ended up stepping AUM on a moist piece of mud that it scared him that he jumped a few steps behind and landed in the water now my feet are not only muddy but also wet anido had a mad expression on his face while getting out of the pond shaking his feet which were pouring out water and by the look of that water you're going to stink as well all I know is that I'm not sharing the

Uber with you on the way back I said semi chuckling by that time he didn't even want to take the photo anymore and he came back back to us Dan being amused by the whole situation said why don't we sing something in case there are some nearby animals will scare them and leave the area I nodded it felt like a good idea to keep us safe from any straight dogs or possibly even a wolf yeah that's a good idea we could do that for a minute then go back to the main road and call for

a cab I said I don't know any Romanian songs but I can be the judge to see who the best singer the guys agreed on the song and they all started singing all at once they were a terrible bunch of untalented drunk guys singing and it was hilarious I listened carefully holding on to my promise and nominate One winner when all of a sudden I started hearing a great singing voice the voice was pure it was music to my ears and that's when it hit me it was a girl voice a few second seconds later

my new friends heard it too and they stopped singing as they noticed it was starting now to accelerate and change the tone from the sweet one to an angry and fast-paced flow and it seemed like it was coming from all around us then the forest was hit by a hard wind waving on the trees and the voice was starting to sound louder and louder the song now was changed to what sounded like a Latin language if anything like an incantation the bushes around us started to move more the leaves were flying in the wind the

wind was blowing so hard now but the voice was still clear as before that's when Angelo fell on his knees with the head against his chest and started shouting a strong smell of Rod appear just like the one I sense on the deer and it smelled like it was coming from him the voice now started to shout the same thing as Angelo and I needed no invitation to get the out of there I ran as fast as I could in the same direction that I thought we came from barely seeing in front of me and

hoping that I wouldn't run into a tree the guys follow us I heard them running and screaming behind me a feeling of cold and a deep sleepiness took over me but I had to fight it to remain focused and get the out of that Forest as fast as POS possible the voice was still everywhere as loud as before but the wind started to blow even more I was practically running as fast as my body could and I was jumping over dead tree trunks looking left and right to see if there's anything in the woods but

there was nothing nothing that can be seen at least I saw in front of me about 50 m or so the tree line ending and I knew I headed the right way and I'm almost out I looked behind me and saw me high around 5 m behind me and Dan and Bogan around 30 m behind us still running towards us we're almost out I screamed to the boys a very loud crack sounded in front of us the sound scared me and I tripped I got back up a few seconds and kept running that's when a

big tree fell in front of me and just missed me by a few meters it was an old tree at least 300 years old and it just broke in half by this moment Dan and B stand got to us and we continue to run we're practically seeing the road by now a few more seconds passed and we left the woods reaching the main road the voice was gone by now and the wind was not blowing any longer the air started to feel normal as well I sat down on the road breathing real heavy I looked

at the guys everyone was terrified no one could say anything Mii took out his phone open open the cab app enable his location and got us a car we sat in silence waiting and after about 20 minutes the cab finally got there we went inside and sat quietly the whole ride I wanted to say something but I couldn't I just didn't know what to say when we arrived in town we headed straight to the police and told them what happened and we also told him that Angelo was left behind of course they didn't believe us

but they went to investigate on the second day I saw it on the news 23-year-old guy found on the witch's Pawn the cause of death a heart attack that's when our phone rang it was Kevin I answered hey Kev I just landed here I'm waiting for a c to get me to the hotel can you send me the address again I somehow lost it I'll send you a share location right away cev by the way I almost forgot the you the phone exploded with static I looked at my screen and it now showed the phone

number that I didn't recognize after a few seconds of static I heard a very low voice but I couldn't understand anything I put my phone on speaker mode and pressed the volume up to the max when I heard it I froze it's sad nextal [Music] my great-grandparents they were never forced to go to residential boarding schools you know don't that took so many others away from their traditions and because of this they were able to hold on to a lot of their old ways a lot of their traditions and that's how they grew up they

live deep in the mountains far from the influence of outside beliefs or cultures and that's why our family believes that their connection to these teachings these Traditions actually protected a lot of our family so I got a story to tell you one that's been passed down for my mom and others about something they experienced a long time ago my mom when she was just a girl she lived with my grandparents in a whole gone way out in the middle of nowhere life on the rest back then was so tough and lonely they didn't have the

things that we have now no electricity no running water and definitely not a single road if you wanted to get somewhere you travel by horse or wagon and even then it took a whole day just to reach the nearest trading post some of the winters were long and everyone had to work together to survive each day was a routine hurting the Sheep gathering firewood and making sure that the Hogan stayed warm my grandpa was well known across the reservation as a traditional Medicine Man people from all over would seek him to perform ceremonies he actually

taught my mom a lot about our traditions and she always felt a sense of security around them like he always had the right words to say to make you feel protected my grandma was even more practical she was strong and she was never scared so easy even though she was blind from scarlet fever she never let that slow her down she knew how to take care of her family and her presence actually made my mom feel safe no matter what one day my mom and her uncle were told to her the Sheep like always they

were young and like to mess around playing with the sheep dog while they were supposed to be working the some was already starting to S as they headed back home and the cold air began to settle in the land was quiet almost too quiet and something about it felt strange as my mom said as they were walking they started hearing this noise behind them sounded like a horse that was following them but every time they turned around there was nothing just trees swaying a little bit in the wind and the bushes rustling but they couldn't

shake the feeling that something was there lurking just out of sight the further they walked the more the air felt heavy everything was quiet almost like something was going to happen my mom then said that she felt a coldness creeping up her spine and even the Sheep seemed to get nervous almost like they were sensing something the sound of their Footsteps in the light snow seemed too loud echoing through all the silence it was starting to get dark fast as they neared the Corral the smell hit them a thick rotting stench like something was dead

they hurried up to close up the Corral and rushed back inside the Hogan but my grandma noticed right away that a few sheep were missing she then came inside the Hogan and handed my mom and her uncle flashlights and she sent them back out to find the stragglers I guess my grandma knew that since they like to play with the sheep dog and be distracted she figured they lost him on the way here so she came inside the Hogan and handed my mom and her uncle flashlights and sent them back out to find the stragglers

the snow started falling again and the wind was picking up making it difficult to see my mom was actually good at seeing in the dark but her uncle wasn't so lucky as they walked through the snow they kept hearing it again that same sound almost like a horse Galloping behind them staying just out of sight the smell was back as well but stronger now as if whatever was following them was getting closer the co stung their faces and the snow muffled everything else making the sound of that horse even louder they did end up finding

the missing sheep along with a newborn lamb and so they headed back my mom and her uncle took turns carrying it and on the way back the smell was getting worse her uncle was too scared to say anything and again every time they looked back nothing was there they hurried back to the Corral hurting the remaining sheep inside but as they were closing up my mom said that they felt like somebody was watching them when they got back to the Hogan my grandma was waiting for them but she knew something was wrong the sheep dog

were nowhere to be found which was strange they always stayed close by and my mom figured her Grandpa was still out doing a ceremony since he often got called away for his medicine work when they got back to the Hogan my grandma was waiting for them the sheep dog were nowhere to be found and even my grandpa wasn't there now the sheep dog situation was strange they always stayed close by after dinner my grandma asked my mom and her uncle to take some extra milk out to the Lambs the snow had already stopped falling and

it was still quiet outside but not in a peaceful way it was too quiet as they walked towards the Corral they opened up the door and when they did that's when they saw two big animals sitting in between the Sheep they weren't acting like animals though they were just there sitting talking speaking my mom simply described them as big dogs that were just sitting across from each other my mom's Uncle froze too terrified to move he just stood there there staring at these animals back in shock my mom sensing something was very wrong pulled them

away and they ran back to the Hogan when they got inside she told my grandma what they had seen her uncle still couldn't speak too shaken by what he had just witnessed my grandma who wasn't one to back down from anything she wasn't about to let something mess with her sheep or her family my mom followed her back to the Coral moving carefully through the snow the two dogs were still there still sitting among the sheep and still talking my grandma aimed the rifle at them and the moment that they heard the click of the

gun they started moving my grandma was able to Fire and hit one of them and they let out this awful scream they were still able to get away through the back door running away on all fours y glossies my grand grandma said her voice steady but Grim my mom couldn't believe it this was the first time she saw one of them her family had told her about them but she had never seen one of them before later that night in the Hogan they started hearing the same sound as earlier the sound of horses running outside

when my grandpa finally got home we told him everything the next morning he decided to track these dogs himself he followed the tracks for most of the day carefully analyzing all the signs and tracks they left behind he saw that the tracks were strange like part human part animal leading him through a snow cover land along the way he noticed that some of the things were off Ravens were circling in the sky making all sorts of noises he said that these were signs from the land itself that something natural had passed through almost like a

warning the tracks eventually LED them to a small town when I say town I don't mean like a populated city or anything just a close Community with a few hogun and St stores and stuff he was stopping at Every Hogan and vendor well every stand and talking to the people there he said that at one specific stand there was a man that was sitting behind it the man man who lived there was old and knew my grandpa when my grandpa got there the man was sitting in the corner barely moving with his leg wrapped up

his wife who was actually the one selling things said that he had been injured recently but she didn't say how my grandpa didn't ask any questions he already knew the talk was that the old man got better for a while but he eventually died a year later while sleeping sleeping as far as the other dog goes he was never found to this day we're told that if you ever find out who the skin walker is that person is supposed to die right away or within a year from the same date of the event it's creepy

but my mom has so many other stories like this and you have to be on the reservation to experience them you heard the rule of don't whistle at night and the rest my tribe actually stays the same however do you know the other rules as well the ones about keeping your curtains closed at night no running around walking on roads when there's a recent death always cover your food at night and no eating in the dark no looking outside at night don't answer the door if if you don't see anyone there especially if it's three

knocks no loud music at night or any time during a recent death well my grandma always shut the curtains tightly before it got dark and she kept them that way till morning now before I tell you the story this of course is aside from all the other rules like don't whistle at night don't comb your hair at night don't cut your fingernails at night or don't don't look at mirrors at night so this happened a number of years ago when I was a kid my grandma took me to a North reservation in North Alberta Canada

we were sitting in the kitchen with a group of relatives all different ages from children to Elders I remember seeing that everyone was a little freaked out there was this calm hush in the living room where the children were silently playing with some toys as a kid I overheard my grandmother talking with the group of people about the night before I noticed everybody was afraid to go to sleep and they had asked my grandma to say a prayer before they sent the kids to bed apparently the night before it was raining very heavy and a

group of three teenagers were walking from the reservation store to their home because it started raining really heavy they started moving as fast as they could with their hoodies over their heads to try and block out some of the rain as they briskly jog about 2 miles to get home it was it was around 10:00 at night and the skies were cloudy from the rain it was quite dark and hard to see through the night and Rain suddenly they started hearing someone running behind them they turned around and that's when they saw something a hooded

figure running towards them and suddenly disappear they immediately got scared and started running towards their house but it was really hard to see because it was so dark that's when the lightning started and every time that the lightning would light up the Sky they would see dozens of hooded figures all over the ditch roads and by the trees at this point they started screaming as they approached their home they ran inside screaming getting the attention of all the adults inside nobody believed them and they were trying to calm them down telling them that they were

just seeing things but that's when everybody went towards the living room window and there outside was the hooded figure everybody inside the house was freaking out they shut the blinds and got together in the corner and they all contacted my grandma by phone for prayer a day later there I was with my grandma listening to her pray for the home and the community I remember being scared at that moment not wanting to look outside I never did that night and to this very day I always remember the fear and the look of dread on the

faces of all those adults and the teenagers in that kitchen and this is why one of the rules in the res is to not go outside at night and to always close the curtains and blinds at nighttime my friend shared the following story with me a few days before he passed away he was a police officer in the Navajo res we were just hanging out on his off day and he said he wanted to tell me something that he had experienced he said that one night they got a call about a disturbing as some NH

housing for those who don't know that's the Navajo Housing Authority it took them about 30 minutes to arrive and check out what was going on they wanted to catch whoever was making all the commotion so they parked the vehicle at a distance and walked very quiet to the housing complex he said he could hear someone going through the metal trash cans and no one was around they started walking quietly towards the noise and they split up to catch them as they walk closer he said the person had a terrible stench like roadkill he then flashes

him with a flashlight and told him to turn around slowly he said it looked like he was ready to run but the other officer came around the corner and they ended up boxing him in he said the person was an old man but he had white pain on his body even his long hair was painted white and he also had a small pouch around his waist and a coyote pel with the head attached and tied to his own head my friend told me that he didn't want to touch him and so I know this sounds

bad but I guess it comes with the job he told the other officer who was the rookie to check him out while he kept the light on him the rookie started patting him down and he said out of nowhere he just started gagging and throwing up that's when my friend requested backup and so then the rookie officer just backed away he said that they told him to stay still and to lay down on the ground when the other officers got there they were all debating about what to do with him nobody wanted to take him

to the police station but that's when my friend pulled Rank and he ended up telling one of the sergeants to take him back to the police station my friend and his partner the rookie officer they stayed around to try to find out what he was doing but they didn't find anything so they ended up going back to the police station to fill out the necessary paperwork when they got there they talked to the other officers that brought the man in and they said that while they were transporting him he was singing songs that pertain to

evil when they were taking his personal belongings they took the pouch that he had emptied it and recorded what they found they said the bag contained some diapers sanitary pads baby bones hair and everything that had to do with human waste personal items like bits of clothing and a bunch of other things at this point they kind of know what he was doing but nobody wanted to say it over here in the res people cast evil spells on the person they want to harm either by death or Misfortune by using some of these items that

belong to them as they were talking everybody at the police station tried to get his name but he wouldn't talk instead all he did was just keep on sinking eventually they just put him in one of the cells just trying to figure out who he was as the night went on the officer started hearing singing in the distance and it also sounded like it kept getting closer while the officers were starting to feel uncomfortable and the policeman said that a female employee was so scared that she even started crying now the police station was a

little bit distant from everybody and that night some of the officers eventually went home as there wasn't that many people needed during the night so the only people there was my friend the rookie officer the dispatcher and the Jailer who was working they ended up calling the captain who was on call that week and when he arrived he walked into the station all scared desperate telling everybody to turn off the lights inside he said there were about three or four of them outside out a distance they had a discussion about the situation and so they

all decided to let the man go my friend said that this was because the captain had gone through a similar situation a while back and even the judge didn't want to see this person and they just ended up dismissing any possible charges they opened the cell door and he said that the old man just walked past them and just reached out his hand and said my bag please they ended up giving him the bag and just like that he walked out the door after he left my friend said at the environment the whole station everything

just felt different there was also no more singing throughout the night that's when the captain told him that if they come across this guy again to not arrest him as the days went on my friend said that they got a lot of calls similar to this situation and he said they have to go check out all calls and report them however he said he didn't like going out to them because of the evil that they impart on you I do sometimes wonder if this was the cause of my friend suicide rest in peace my friend

my parents own some land that's been passed down to them from my great-grandfather my great-grandfather bought the land as part of a deer leas around the time of World War I and later on my grandfather ended up building a log cabin right there on the land in the late 40s he continued to expand until the80s and now the log cabin is the size of a small house with an upper story and everything my dad ended up renovating it with a septic tank solar panels and even paid to run an internet and phone line since the

neighbor had service about 1 mile from there downstairs is the living room TV room a kitchen bathroom and a small study with shelves full of books on Hunting Fishing trapping and more as a kid I used to spend hours reading books on African safaris hunting and the fox fire series upstairs there are two bedrooms and a utility closet the phone line and the batteries for the solar panels are inside the closet the place is pretty old school and cozy as hell I love going up there in the summer and especially during deer season in the

fall my dad was always nervous about me walking around the woods alone and always Mak sure I took a dog and a gun even when I was just about 10 years old he told me to come back to the cabin immediately if I ever saw anything weird I never saw anything but sometimes I would get a creepy feeling like if somebody was watching me sometimes I would hear a twig snap in the distance and whenever that would happen my dog would just look after whatever it was and I would keep playing or head back so

now jumping ahead to being an adult I realized that college wasn't for me my parents couldn't pay it and I sure as hell couldn't pay for it on my own all of my grades while decent weren't good enough to give me a scholarship so I dropped out in my sophomore year my plan was to take classes when I at the time at the local Community College until I earned enough credits for a degree that worked for about a semester and then I said screw it and ended up working in construction for about a year I

saved up all my money since I was living with my parents and didn't have any expenses then I got an idea I approached my dad and said I haven't been to the cabin in a while I saved up nearly 10 grand so what if I move out to the cabin I'll pay for everything do some upkeep and sort of rough it for a while what do you think my dad was all for it thinking it would teach me self-sufficiency my mom on the other hand was scared that I would end up hurting myself whenever I

would chop firewood and that I would end up bleeding to death out in the woods where nobody would find me we ended up overriding my mom's concerns and I packed all my stuff into my old ass Chevy Blazer it was an Army Surplus one with rattle can camel no air conditioning but it ran like a champ at least until I ruined it by driving on ice one winter just before I left Dad pulled me aside and reminded me to always keep a gun with me and take both dogs I was going to take Kaiser my

young German Shepherd but he insisted I also take Baxter his old Australian Shepherd backer was half the size of Kaiser but definitely top dog that warned me against that there were dangerous things in the woods and told me not to be a macho if you get scared or something happens come home right away he said and then asked dangerous like what bears bears were not that common around the cabin but they sometimes did wander through he replied sure just like Bears have fun stay safe and call us when you get there I arrived at the

cabin the scenery was beautiful both dogs were glad to be out of the truck I unlocked the cabin aired it out and brought my stuff inside I called my parents to let them know I arrived even though I had to use the cabin's phone because my cell phone had no service I replaced the old TV with my flat screen which used less power and had a better picture after settling in I grabbed my rifle and went outside with the dogs to patrol the property there was nothing unusual just some bushes that needed clearing some weats

that needed to be removed and a wasp nest on one side afterwards I cooked dinner and watched my favorite film The thinge with my dogs flanking me on the couch made way through the movie I noticed the dogs perking their ears up as if they heard something but they settled down after a few seconds right at the part in the movie where the creature eats a guy's hands there was a loud bang from the kitchen the dogs tore into the kitchen kitchen barking and growling I followed them to find a pot of chili I had

cooked on the floor and a couple of pants knocked off the counter I wonder how the hell that happened until I noticed the screen on the window next to the stove was missing the dogs then ran outside barking and I assumed it was just a raccoon trying to get at the chil I replaced the screen cleaned up the MK and called the dogs back inside they ended up returning I finished watching my movie and decided to go to bed both dogs follow me and lay at the foot of the bed I lay there in the

dark listening to the breeze rustling in the trees I woke up around 3:00 a.m. to a weird warbl noise it sounded like a bird but not really it was like something or someone trying to copy a bird call I looked out the window but I didn't see anything just pitch black I rode over thinking I was just half asleep and drifted off again then next day I took my rifle and the dogs with me to Chase any spiders and ants and any other insects out of the deer blinds I clear some brush from the trails

and started repairing a wooden foot bridge over a small Creek about 5 minutes in I thought I got a couple of months to do this screw it and decided to stop Kaiser one of the dogs kept staring off into the distance just growling backster didn't seem to car and just chilled at my feet I headed back back to the cabin ate lunch and then went out again to walk the trails and see where the deer were moving Kaiser ran off barking into the woods and I followed we stumbled across what looked like a giant bird's

nest made of sticks leaves and some other things it was big enough that I could put a bed in it both dogs were going crazy sniffing everywhere I then found a pile of nuts under a nearby Bush and some small bones most likely from a rabbit there was also a little musty smell but I Shrugged it off as Forest smells I figured that whatever animal had been beding down there wouldn't come back now that the dogs had stomped all through it I finally pried the dogs away and headed back to the cabin I spent the

next hour or two looking through books in the study my grandpa used to keep anything and everything as a bookmark press flowers leaves old dollar bills you name it I got hungry and decided to cook some beef stew for dinner as I was stirring the stew on the stove I suddenly Got This creepy feeling I looked up and there was something staring at me through the window not 2 ft away I literally yelled oh and dropped my spin as I backed away whatever it was it was huge and Shaggy with reddish brown hair and deep

set black eyes under a caveman looking forehead it had a nose and it kind of looked like a gorilla both dogs and came in to investigate the disturbance whatever it was they caught the smell of that thing and they went crazy barking and growling towards the window this thing I assumed not happy slammed its fist against the side of the cabin knocking the frying pant off the wall my dogs didn't back down they kept growling I moved into the living room grabbed my rifle and try to keep my eye on it just as I reached

for the gun it stood up I was eye level with it through the window and when it stood it was at least 7even or 8 ft tall I ran to the window and it was walking away into the trees I turned on the outside light and opened the door both dogs took off after it as they screeched like a banshee and I fire a shot into the air to scare it off the dogs didn't come back for over an hour and when they did they were covered in mud I got the dogs inside cleaned them

up and topped off my rifle I sat there trying to figure figure out what just happened in my head I thought it was a prank a guy in a costume or the for Bear whatever it was between the dogs and the gunshot I was hoping it wouldn't come back I ate my stew and cleaned up so that the smell wouldn't attracted again I double checked all the windows and doors and went upstairs taking the rifle with me the dog stayed glue to me the entire time there was no way I was going to stay downstairs

where that thing would watch me through the window I finally fell asleep figuring that whatever it was had most likely left I woke up later with no idea of what time it was then that warbling chirping noise was back something hit the side of the cabin both dogs started whimpering or growling I shot my flashlight out the window but I didn't see anything I turned off the light and waited about 30 seconds this time I saw a rock bounce off the side of the cabin right below my window some guy must be in the trees

throwing rocks at my cabin I yelled out this is my cabin I got a gun get the hell out before I call the sheriff there was silence for a long minute then a rock hit the window frame just a foot from my head I thought okay you want to play games huh I stuck my rifle out the window and Fir a shot in the general direction of where the Rocks were coming from that's when I heard that weird noise again and that's when something something big went tearing through the brush nope this I closed all

the upstairs Windows tossed my rifle on the bed and grabb my pistol it was time for the heavy ones now I grabbed my rifle from the closet slapped in a 20 round mag and chambered around I put on a headlamp grabbed both dogs and headed out the back door into the woods I was thinking you're not going to get away this time I'll teach you to screw with me in my cabin the dogs ran off into the dark bar parking and I follow right behind them about a half a mile from the cabin I started

to rethink this whole situation of running into the woods at night behind some unknown creature I couldn't see the dogs but I could hear them they were definitely chasing something then I heard that loud Screech from before I ran to catch up with the dogs but tripped on a rock and face Planet adrenaline kicked in and I got right back up barely noticing the fall suddenly I heard one of the dogs Yelp in pain but I couldn't tell which one I ran even faster shouting for the dogs that's when I saw something looming on the

trail ahead of me it was Baxter he was limping and his left hip was bleeding it looked like he got hit with a rock now I was pissed I kept heading down the trail to catch up with Kaiser and Backer limped along beside me I heard screeching and Kaiser barking as if he had whatever it was was corner or up a tree I was almost there when something whis through the air and nearly hit me it came from a different direction than the screeching and barking I then said oh there's two of them a fire

shot in the general direction of where the rock came from and called for Kaiser Baxter wouldn't leave my side then a big stick flew through the air and landed at my feet I couldn't tell where it came from with just my headlamp I fired another shot and thought this I'm heading back to the cabin I kept firing shots occasionally to keep whatever it was that bay I could hear it crashing through the trees and brush Kaiser was still barking and wouldn't come when called I was nearly back to the cabin when I heard Kaiser yel

again I called his name for what seemed to be the 15th time and I heard something crashing through the brush I ate my rifle at the noise Kaiser appeared running at marck 2 and soon right past me me he kept going and I thought oh yeah thanks just leave me here for dead huh every now and then I would fire another shot to try and discourage Pursuit I kept hauling ass back towards the cabin with Baxter right on my heels Kaiser was already waiting for me at the door whining and scratching to be let in

Kaiser is a big dog one that's taking down a coyote that got into our yard one time I couldn't help but think what the hell has him so scared all three of us pile into the cabin I reloaded my rifle and started checking the dogs over Baxter had a nasty bruise from where the rock had hit him but only a little bleeding Kaiser seemed unharmed but something has scared the absolute out of him I ran upstairs barricaded the door behind me and opened the window so I could shoot at anything approaching the property I thought

about calling my dad or the sheriff but then I remember that the phone was downstairs that's when I heard rustling in the tree line and more of that weird noise but nothing came out at least I didn't see any more rocks or Sticks being thrown at the cabin I finally started to relax and feel safe around Dawn but with no sleep and the adrenaline wearing off all I could do was hang my gun up before passing out on the bed I woke up around noon made a sandwich for lunch and thought about my situation whatever

these things were maybe some Escape circus gorillas Bigfoot Bears there were at least two of them and they were big they also didn't seem too friendly but I got the impression that they weren't as much of a threat as they could be they could have been more malaci if they wanted to I felt like they were harassing me in Revenge for scaring them off with the dogs and gunshots when one of them tried to reach through the window and steal my food I decided to set up a trap I empty an old musty can of

deer corn into to the ground sprad it around a leaf pile where I could aim perfectly from the bedroom window I also poured a can of soup onto the pile as additional bait I went back inside hoping that they would take the bait and I would finally get a good shot at one of them I kept my gun Bell on and my rifle within Arms Reach all day long just in case they came back during the day I spent the day watching movies checking the bay pile every few minutes both dogs were nervous but they

didn't seem to pick up anything that would set them off they stuck to me like felc girl all day the night came and I double checked all the downstairs doors and windows to make sure they were locked I set up at the bedroom window with a perfect view of the bait pile ready to Ambush about an hour into my vigil I noticed the outside lights were getting dim I thought why is this happening I suddenly realized that I had left the cabin lights on all last night night and all day today it had been cloudy

and overcast meaning that the solar panels hadn't charged the batteries well with the lights and TV running I drained them even if I turned off all the lights except for the two outside they wouldn't last long I thought well that's what the generator is for the noise might scare the creatures away or it might not I had a try I headed downstairs turned off all the lights as I went and I braced myself myself the generator was in a little enclosure on the front porch so nobody could steal it but I had to go outside

to start it I took the dogs with me outside and they indicated that nothing was around at the moment I set my rifle down unlocked the generator and closure I flipped all the right switches and yanked the core the generator hadn't been used to started in months so it took six tries before it finally came to life I grabbed my rifle the dogs and went back inside I went into the kitchen flipped the switch from solar batteries to generator power and the outside lights went from ready DM to full power I turned to the kitchen

window it was dark something was blocking the light I realized one of the creatures was hunched over peering through the window trying to see inside I started to aim my rifle at its face and fire five or six rounds as fast as I could I must have jerked the trigger because the window exploded in a spray of glass and the thing started howling like I hit it but instead of dying from a gunshot wound to the face it just turned and walked off into the woods I ran to the window but I didn't see anything

I could still hear some noises and what sounded like a person moaning in pain and even some sobbing coming from the tree line screw this I'm out I grabbed the dogs ran to the front door locked the cabin behind me jumped into the Blazer and went towards town where I could get some cell reception I immediately called my dad and told him everything he said he was coming out to meet me and told me to stay put about 2 hours later he showed up at the truck stop where I had been waiting and had me

repeat the story to him again then he followed me back out to the cabin when we got there the generator was still running and the outside lights were still on WE cleared the cabin and there were no Intruders we sent the dogs outside and they just walked around normally even went to the bait pile but they didn't seem to think anything was around dad did find some blood underneath the window and he followed the trail of it to the tree line obviously he was smarter than me and he didn't go into the woods in the

dark we cleaned up the broken glass and boarded up the window dad swapped his shotgun for my rifle that I had left upstairs and we talked about what the hell was going on he mentioned to me that he had seen him twice before the first time he saw a small one when he was a kid he was running around playing like I did and came across one of them drinking from the creek I saw him it made a noise like a monkey and then it ran off he wasn't sure if he had just imagined it

or if he really saw it but regardless it wasn't much bigger than he was at the time and it didn't seem dangerous is he changed his mind years later when he was an adult he was sitting in a tree blind waiting for a deer when a full grown one stepped out of the trees and started eating his deer corn he debated shooting at it but it noticed him and walked over to the tree then it reached up and nearly touched his foot it was that tall dad panicked and threw a full can of beer at

it but missed the thing reached for him again chattering like a bird or something he grabbed the second beer from his Mei cooler and this time he beamed it right on top of its head it made some noise and ran off into the trees where he couldn't see it then it started throwing handfuls of rocks and sticks at him he fired a shot to scare it off flamed down from the Blind and ran back to the cabin he never saw it again the knowing it was out there always freaked them out which is why he

had always made me take the dog and the gun with me as a kid he never told anyone about what he saw because he didn't want people thinking he was crazy or saying that he was drunk and seeing things now two of us have seen the same DN thing that night it didn't come back we went into town the next morning to get a replacement window and make sure the cabin was secured I put all my stuff in the Blazer and we ended up driving home we didn't go back until deer season there was no

sign that the things had tried breaking into the cabin since we left and I haven't seen or heard anything we never try to follow the blood trail in daylight so I have no idea if I seriously wounded it or if it was just a flesh wound or something now here's what I saw and heard the thing was about 7 or 8 ft tall wide and muscular like a gorilla but it stood up right like a person its head was bullet shaped and it had deep set black eyes with a heavy brow like a stereotypical caveman

or gorilla it had a flat nose and its mouth stuck out like that of an eight I never saw its teeth it also had small ears that stuck out from the sides of its head it was covering head to toe in some rust colored reddish brown hair long and coarse looking it didn't seem to have hair on its face or hands but it was really dark and I was scared so I can't say for sure it smelled like a wet animal a very musty smell they were definite signs of intelligence or tool usage when it

threw rocks and sticks at us the vocals that sounded like a chirpy noise almost like a bird trying to imitate a call I knew there were two of them even though I never saw more than one if you live next to a forested area stay safe another day another dollar towards beer money I thought as I pulled into my company's parking lot as I walked into the office I heard the deep voice of my manager Jerry say hey Bub you're going out of the area today out of area meaning I was going to be driving

to the middle of nowhere maybe get one job completed then have to be back here by sundown as I was pondering the Shady situation Jerry walked up to me and slapped me on the back like an alcoholic dad who doesn't know the meaning of too hard and sad Bobby you hear me yeah I'm making less money for the good of the company right Jerry frowned the sarcasm in my voice was almost Beyond his grasp but eventually he got it listen here you little ass clown the company's going to pay double for your gas WI take

the drive into account for your bonus and give you free service for your truck they treat us good if you do good by them and Jerry a balding middle-age manager who would always give the same speech and the same tone to everyone who had ever complained about doing anything extra of course I had to ask him why I was the one doing it well because of Roger Jerry said referring to the guy that worked the northmost tip of our area he decided that he hates you and he called off this morning but why am I

the one who has to take his work I asked because you're an who needs to learn his work ethics and don't go talking about how you served in the Marines and how much you work of falling the gulf under General Norman swov and I know what hard work is people like you turn the corpse into a bunch of lazies Jerry if you didn't notice was a marine like myself but he served the Marines in the time before the quote unquote lazy generation as he dubbed the Millennials but to be honest he was a warehouse manager

like he is now when I was in the Marines I was busy dodging pissed off Taliban snipers and IEDs so screw him I know Jerry I'm scared because I actually wore my body armor but anywh who before we start this where the hell am I going I ended up at asking trying to avoid any normal arguments Jerry Sid and said out in the Ozarks near Grand cap Grand cab literally a post office in a general store smack dab in the middle of a massive Forest that goes for about 2 mies off of AR7 the customer

needs two rooms done and a satellite set up as well Jerry finished he sounded like he may have felt bad because he knew how much I hated setting up those dishes is the chance of us actually getting a signal for the satellite was little to none so I'm driving 120 mies out to the mountains so I can tell some Backwoods inbre that he can't get his TV because of the trees I must have been a killer in the past life I complained and yes Jerry I know I'm going to be compensated a couple of minutes

later I loaded up my truck and started the long trip North into the mountains I knew the drive was going to take over an hour and a half on empty roads so I started to let my mind Wonder I've been with cable satellites and more for about 2 years now and it still amazes me I haven't quit or killed myself yet the hour suck the pay is all right and all the upper management just spend most of their time kissing the big cable companies begging for scraps now you may be asking yourself how the hell

did a combat veteran with access to the GI Bill and four years of leadership training end up installing Cable in Arkansas the best way to answer that is instead of taking classes and getting a skilled labor job I wanted to be a badass at 18 I only wanted one gig the Infantry it gives you the ability to act under pressure and learn how to lead man into combat but when you get out most jobs won want people with applicable skills so I try College a state school filled with former professionals turn professors expansive libraries brimming

with information companies from all over the nation recruiting to get the pick of the best candidates happens and I got this gig while I was directionless speaking of that that's the word used to describe me by my court appointed therapist I'm going to leave most of the details out but some little punk decided to tell me a few things and I decided that him eating my fist would be the best solution one thing led to another and I have to go see a shrink for my quote unquote PTSD PTSD my ass I like what I

did over there get up go on patrol shoot a few guns then go back but now now life is complicated I got to pay rent I have to be politically correct act well whatever maybe I'll be lucky and whoever this customer is we'll be a super hot student staying at her parents' cabin for winter break maybe when she answers the door she'll look me in the eyes and fall in love with me looking back I really wish that was the case as I got closer to the address the GPS on my phone started acting a

bit strange but it was able to steer me to the right driveway well driveway was the word it was more more or less a dirt path shrouded by old as hell White Oak and caught in Wood I heard leaves and Pines crinkle under the weight of my truck as I steered down the narrow track as I drove deeper I noticed that this part of the forest was dense and it barely looked touched see I went camping in the oarks every year with my dad up until I was 17 almost everywhere we went you could tell

the woods had been affected by people in some way you know random piece of trash carved initials of young lovers tire and human tracks and all that stuff but these trees this path and everything it seemed to have remained untouched even though someone apparently lived out here it was weird to say the least especially because there seemed to be no tire tracks going up the driveway the path continued on and on to the point where I didn't think I could fit my truck on it much longer then I saw an open area about 200 yard

ahead of me I silently than the man upstairs that I wouldn't have to drag all my equipment through the woods as I approached the opening I caught my first glimpse of the house or better yet ship pile that I would be working on today it stood well it slumped at around two stories with rwood sighting and maybe two out of 10 Windows not smashed in the front lawn was just dirt leaves and Pines everywhere I couldn't believe my eyes how am I supposed to install TV boxes when there is no power I thought this is

probably some redneck with some sort of custom wind turbine strapped to a tree he's most likely going to ask why he can't get his Nascar I scan for the front door and I saw a big plane covering the larges of The house's openings I decided that was my best beted as a front door at this point I was just hoping no one was home there was no car everything was overrun and there couldn't possibly be a decent source of power anywhere on this property but I know God was definitely not on my side that day

as I approached the front door I saw some movement Beyond one of the nun smashed them windows I may have seen some crazy stuff overseas but someone actually living out here in this busted house couldn't be someone I wanted to be alone with but if I I didn't at least try to complete the job I wasn't going to get paid any bonus as I arrived to this front door plank looking thing I slowly reached my hand to knock but before I could it swung open behind the door was a person this guy stood at 6

ft tall no more than 120 LB White as a ghost and seem to be made of only bones and thinly stretched skin he looked like someone has sucked all the fat out of his body but the creepiest part was his eyes they seemed empty the pupil so expansive that I couldn't make out the color and barely see the whites I realized I had been staring and looked down at the papers that I had good morning sir this is the residence of Mr vider I barely got it out before he opened the black hole that was

his mouth why have you come his words rolled off his tongue with a th Scandinavian accent I could barely respond why have you come here I was trying to install satellite for Count Dracula and he doesn't ask me what I want or who I am but why have I come who the hell says that I'm your cable technician here to get your TV set up it was all I could get out with his pitch black eye staring right through me he continued to stare for what felt like an hour until he opened up his mouth

again come forth into my home I will show you where you will be working but be warned I don't like anything in my home touch your business here is the TV's only is that understood this guy looked like a skor and sounds like a James Bond villain I thought yes sir I won't touch any of your stuff or knickknacks or personals just want to set up the TVs and head back to Little Rock he stared at me for a second and turned towards the dark house beckoning for me to follow as I follow behind them

into the ramshackle house I couldn't help but notice the smell of decaying meat mixed with some sort of rusted copper it was almost like a wander into an abandoned slaughter house and I could smell the ears of blood of animal parts don't think like that this guy is most likely a hunter who lives off the grid and finally decided that he missed the ESPN and called the up I thought but the smell wasn't the only offputting characteristic of Mr vid's home it was the decor or the lack of the front door opened directly into what

can barely be described as a living room the only sign that an actual human lith here was a rocking chair the wood was badly scorched and the only parts that weren't burned were heavily frayed I felt like if I sat down in it I would be pulling 1 thousand splinters out of my ass I took my eyes off the chair and I finally saw the TV that I would be connecting to the receiver I say TV sarcastically because I'm pretty sure the set that I grew up with 29 years ago was even more advanced than

whatever this thing was I saw that this old thing still had the original wood paneling and everything I hope to God that I had some sort of adapter in the truck because there's no way I was going to tell Dr Frank Frankenstein that I didn't have the parts this is the first TV it's from 1949 I was told your company specialized in connecting New Age media to these type of TV sets am I correct Mr Vitter turned and looked at me with his empty eyes as he asked yes sir it should be I can always

figure this out a li the oldest TV I set up was from the 9s I'm so I thought I'm gonna punch Roger in the throat as soon as I see him you better buy me a beer for calling in good I would be very disappointed if I don't have my shows Vader said as he smiled and put this emphasis on very GL me paused in the living room to assess the back of the TV One Look told me I was screwed this TV didn't have a single connection I recognized but I had an idea the

job this description I received from Mr vter stated that he didn't want the satellite on the roof he wanted the satellite on a pole and from my experiences with these type of mounts there is a high chance that this guy won't get a signal or even that the ground ain't right for a amount all I had to do was take my satellite reader and pretend there wasn't a trace of a signal oh and I forgot to mention explained to this guy that he wasn't getting his shows until my manager came out and verified eh it

Jerry can die for the company he loves I'll get over it that's my spirit starting to light in and my mood turned from depressed and terrified to less depressed and slightly hopeful that's when my customer decided that I was staring at his TV for too long I will lead you to the next TV hopefully this next one will not take long for you to study he sounded mad so I gave him the goahead to bring me further into his creepy ass house so I I saw the power outlet behind the TV but no power lines

to the house is there a generator connected somewhere I had to ask because I didn't hear the loud hum of a generator nor did I see any sign of power being run to the house my host turned to look at me with his eyes and hissed how my homework shouldn't concern you as he said this I could see what little blood this guy had rushed to his face he was angry and he seemed like he was barely able to contain it he turned back around and started heading further and faster towards the back of the

house I was about to apologize as I fought to keep up with him but that's when I caught something with my eye it was a picture on the wall one of those old timey pictures the ones that you see in people's grandparents house I could only take a quick look but from what I could tell even in black and white one of the men in the picture looked exactly like Mr vidder the only difference was the guy in the picture had normal eyes it couldn't be him this picture had to be from the 1880s or

something VI then stopped and before I could finished studying the picture he pointed towards an open doorway to our right he then said this is where the last TV is and it's exactly like the first one do you need to stare at it for some time or will the information I have given you be enough as he asked me I could feel sarcasm and frustration pouring out of him what the is this guy's problem I thought then out loud with a force smile I said just knowing the type of TV and where it's at will

be enough for me the weirdo seemed satisfied with my answer and took me a bit further to the back door flanked by two more busted out windows he opened the door and walked through them to the backyard which was exactly the same as the front everything a mess this is where the last TV is and it's exactly like the first one do you also need to stare at it or will the information that I given you be enough okay sir I know you want the satellite somewhere in the yard so I'm going to go ahead

and try to find the signal I'll come knock on the door when I do he looked at me and said I'm going to stay outside you seem young and I generally don't trust young people people like you how the are you supposed to respond to that I looked over at Mr Creepy and said uh all right it's kind of boring but feel free to watch no other way to follow someone telling you he doesn't trust you well who could blame him I was planning on saying there was no signal even if there was one and

going home as I started wondering around the yard hitting random buttons on my signal finder to further help my go of pretending to find the signal I was able to take in more of my customer his eyes and ugly ass face kept me from looking at what he was wearing his clothing looked as worn as he did his long black coat was covered this guy's just all sorts of up I thought as I was wandering around the yard I also noticed something else that was a bit suspect every 3 to five yards or so there

seemed to be little host recently covered up it looked like he was planting the garden or maybe some trees I would have asked but he was obviously not wanting a conversation after about 10 minutes of drifting around and acting like I was doing something by the way his eyes never left me that's when I decided it was now or never to tell him that I had no signal sir I hate to say this but due to the trees in the area I have no ly to your provider satellite the only option would be to remove

some of the trees I was barely able to continue before the anger flashed in his big dead eyes and the blood started rushing to his face again you're not going to touch any of my trees they are precious to me as he screamed this he closed the 10 yard gap between us in three steps and you will give me my shows he was so close to me by his point that the lifeless holes on his face were mere cenm away okay this was my final straw with the psycho but I know I would lose my

gig if I blew up one more customer I took a deep breath and said in my best customer service voice sir I understand you're upset I think the best way to fix this situation is to try to get my manager out here to myself I thought Jerry let's see how tough he really is when he meets this crazy guy as I said this VI seemed to settle down and the blood stop filling in its face very well but you must know I care very deeply about my Forest don't harm it in any way he said

still containing some of his anger what needs to be done next well I need to go get the proper forms for you to sign that we can go ahead and call Jerry my manager and don't worry about the trees we won't touch them I said trying not to smart is this Jerry as insulin as you and is uncaring about my Forest he asked I looked up at him trying with all my might to not look pissed and sad only slightly sarcastically I might add not at all he's a perfect gentleman and he loves trees I

mean the guy has at least 12 in his backyard somehow to satisfy the tree loving psycho so I'm going to run over to my truck and get the forms do you want me to meet you inside I asked hoping he would say no and that I wouldn't have to go back into that terrifying place no I'll be out here waiting as he said this he seemed to root himself on the spot he was standing like his trees and remained unmoving I took this as my sign to get the back to my truck and get Jerry's

fat ass out here not wanting to go through that house I took the long way around the side and back to the safety of my waiting truck as I passed the side of the house I saw something that caught my attention a massive painting was hung on the wall possibly being the only object did not completely destroyed well a mass but still very creepy the painting was that of a big tree but it looked like all the branches ended with a human head with no eyes and dripping out blood but the trunk of the tree

decided it had to outdo the branches in the most up contest ever the trunk was shaped like a man whose legs were firmly rooted into the ground its body was straight as an arrow and its arms held high in the air turning into the most creepiest branches but the face of a trunk man took the cake for the challenge the mouth was locked in a permanent scream spewing blood that pulled up at the trees Roots the eyes were wide open fixed on the branches above as if it was in a trans with the gore stained

scene going on above its head what the I mumbled to myself if you were smart Bobby you will leave so I decided to ignore the massive evidence that this place was probably not safe and continue on to my truck as I approached my truck I couldn't help but notice that it looked lower now before you have to ask yes my truck was lifted and I may or may not be compensating for something but anyways as I got closer I saw that my two front tires had gone flat I then said out loud to myself me

I nearly yelled out but I kept it down so I wouldn't have to deal with this crazy psycho I walked over to to my now useless vehicle and inspected the tires and when I realized what happened I cursed myself since I was so busy trying to avoid pulling equipment around I didn't notice I park directly on top of an upred tree route now I had to not only make Jerry come here but I'll need him to pick me up some spares he was most definitely going to be pissed I took one more look at the

depressing sight which was my lifted 24-in custom tires and open the front cab I started fumbling around with my little folder filled with different paperwork until I found the right documents thankfully I had one copy left the first good news of this day the shitty part of this no signal process is that you need a customer to verbally confirmed with the manager that they want the site issue confirmed don't ask me why most likely some legal I started making my way back to the yard but this time I took the other side that didn't have

the creepy ass painting on on it as I arrived again to the backyard I couldn't help but notice the absence of Mr vidder I muttered to myself I headed towards where he was last standing maybe he was taking a leak behind one of his precious trees and God knows there was no Plumbing in that horror show of a house I made my way towards the end of the yard carefully avoiding the little mountains and started scanning the tree line after about 30 seconds I started to turn away and make the walk to the front door

hoping that he didn't want me to come inside but as I was turning I caught a glimpse of something black billowing about 100 yard away in the woods I moved a bit closer and further away from the house and could sort of make out the object it was his jacket as I took a closer look I then saw a black boot only a few feet from where I was standing and another one roughly 30 yards past that did this guy just stripped down and wander into the woods well this was it it the weirdest day

of my life now you may be thinking why didn't I book it and flag down the first car I saw and get the hell out of here the answer is I'm an idiot and I'm curious by Nature also I couldn't just leave a job it would apparently jeopardize the trust between my small company and the big ones that we contract for my next step would be to call Jerry and figure out what the hell I need to do I pulled up my phone and hit Jerry's number as I waited for the familiar voice to ask

what the do you want the phone cut off I looked down at my screen and saw the dreaded call was lost tag pop in front of my screen I tried it again and this time it wouldn't even ring once I started wandering around the backyard hoping there was a stronger signal somewhere when finally I gave up it was pointless it dawned on me that Jerry was with one of our new guys today up near Mountain View about 100 Mil east of where I was and a good 2hour drive on top of that the cell service

may have been even worse out there no other manager was in today even if I could get service they wouldn't pick up my only option was to call the dispatch office for the satellite company the folks over there have zero sympathy for us not completing a job that was given to us but having someone at least be aware of my situation may stop me from being canned I made my way to the front yard and thankfully found a single bar of service this just in case I tried Jerry again but there was nothing n that

I started scrolling through my contacts list and found the number I was looking for it started ringing thank God for small miracles I waited for a moment and I heard the lady sigh these heartless bastards I just needed some small assistance but it was too much of a problem to take a call I heard it 150 times before I wanted to say I barely got this call going but instead I tried a more diplomatic approach ma'am I apologize I know this isn't standard but I can't reach my boss he's actually out of service I waited

praying that she would just have some sympathy in her heart and just like that I was sitting there in the middle of nowhere listening to the soft tunes of Loggins while I was waiting for my dispatcher the music abruptly stopped and I heard an equally Pleasant male voice on the other end this is Jack I heard you got a problem out there in Little Rock thank God this guy wasn't a dick hey Jack I got some weird stuff going on out here I'm in the oarks Leep down into some backwood stuck with an MIA customer

I said the job number here it's 30 6742 I heard Jack typing away at his keyboard and a few Mouse clicks later he said okay uh Mr bidder oh yeah yeah he's totally out of your work area how'd you even end up out there call out man I said realizing that these phone calls may be reviewed and I should ease up on the language okay so you said he's like Mia like he's not at home no Jack I went to my truck to grab some I mean some stuff and I came back and this guy

was just gone the weirdest part though I saw a trail of his close leading out into the forest like his clothes yeah man his clothes from what I could see it was his jacket and both of his boots even I was starting to think that this was made up there was no way this guy was going to believe me I'm looking through all my notes here and there's not a single sop explaining what to do if a customer wanders off into the woods but I am pulling up some satellite images of the area and I

do see a small Palm formation a small distance from his house maybe he went swiming I me as he said this I could hear that he wanted to laugh look man I know this sounds crazy but there's a whole bunch of creepy ass stuff going on around here the guy looks terrifying the house is all messed up for an almost 70y old TV and a rat ass rocking chair and not to mention the painting I replied hearing my own frustration in my own voice painting Jack said either moved by everything that I said or trying

to avoid a confrontation with a crazy person I couldn't tell but he definitely sounded less light-hearted after he asked this I gave him a brief description of the picture that I saw what the guy looked like and even the whole area itself and for a fleeting moment he was silent I'm not sure how to tell you this but as long as he is in a danger to you or under the influence of alcohol you're going to need the paperwork sign Jack stated but to me that would be crazy this whole situation sound sounds crazier than

a group of house rats and I think you should just call it a day I mean I wouldn't want to be there and I'm sure your company will let a slide if you said you felt uncomfortable I like this guy he didn't just State the guidelines and hang up he reacted in a logical Manner and he also said something a non-office robot would say never thought I would meet a company man who thinks like an actual person I would say that solution would cover the rest of my problems but I got got another issue my

two front tires are blown and I only got one spare I said hearing the defeat in my own voice don't worry about it man I'll contact the local as Jack was about to offer me my salvation from this Mass I heard the high-pitched scream of a woman coming from out in the forest the last time I heard a scream like that was some person in Afghanistan Bobby you all right what was that I could hear Jack but my senses were dial up to 10 and I could feel Goose flesh forming on my skin Bobby did

you hear me what the was that Jack said again but this time I answered some lady screaming bloody murder towards the same area where that psycho walked to I whisper trying to keep myself unnoticeable Jack my mind's telling me to run down this driveway and don't look back but if I leave some woman out here to some horrible fate I would hate myself for it Bobby everything about this place sounds horrifying but they had to be a neighbor or something I cut Jack short man he got the images from the satellite there ain't a single

person around except for crazy eyes out there he had an upstairs could have been keeping a chick up there for all we know and the minute I left he grabbed her and took her to the woods too I couldn't finish the sentence I was already all nerves and thinking of someone getting killed I think I need to go out there there I couldn't hear Jack on the other end he was thinking about what I just said if your dead sat on wandering off into the woods and confronting whatever's out there go grab your Bluetooth and

bring me along for the ride I'll try to call the local PD on the other line Jack said I honestly thought he was going to try to stop me all right jack let me just get some stuff for my truck I responded thankful I wouldn't be fully alone I made my way against my truck and reached under the seat to grab my piece I put the gun in the front seat and put my Bluetooth in my ear Jack can you hear me I asked those Bluetooth pieces were not the best and I didn't want to

lose my only companion yeah I got you are you sure you want to do this some poor lady might be getting hurt out there it's my Civic duty I said trying my best not to reveal how terrified I was I grabbed the magazine from the toolbox and started pushing 40 caliber rounds into it I slammed that bad boy into the pistol and pulled the slide back with a click uh you have a gun Jack said you bet your sweet ass I do I'm in Arkansas and we actually have the right to defend ourselves out here

I'm not judging just glad you have some protection I mean theop dictates I Havey fire but the situation seems to call for a gun thanks Jack a smile formed on my face as a question came to my mind hey Jack yeah are you in a cubicle right now I asked thinking of the irony of a guy wrapped up in his pre- coffin listening to me embark on some Adventure or quite possibly my death is that really what you're going to ask me not like hey Jack can you call the cops or hey Jack can you

convince me not to walk into the scary woods towards the screaming person or why are you condoning this Jack he said sounding a bit exasperated let me answered the last I spent 8 years in the Army and my old lady wanted me to take a desk job when we had a kid now I'm stuck riding away in a desk hoping for just a taste of something interesting I fell for the guy I mean I rather be in a temperature controlled office building not even worry about monsters or whatever the was out there but still I

would much rather die than have to make small talk with a bunch of office drones every day so I guess I was on the fence about who was in the worst situation oh and no I'm actually in management I just took over for one of my guys who is sick so I'm not in a cubicle you prick I'm in my own office I have a window Jack said I couldn't help but laugh a little bit it looks like this guy got screwed by a call out too the walk from my truck to the edge of

the forest was less than a football field but every step felt like a mile I could feel my heart beating in my throat and my stomach was turning to knots the sweat on my forehead started to drip into my eyes as I made my way towards the tree line I decided that maybe talking while I still could would help some of the fear that was building up I wiped the sweat away from my eyes as I said the first thing that came to my mind hey Jack so what you do in the Army I heard

a sigh on the other end of the line and then after OCS I went straight to job training and civil affairs then Airborne then aerosol and lastly Ranger school after 4 years I made Captain went to Cops and transfer over to First Special Forces command another strange question to ask at a time like this Bobby the first part sounded rehearsed he was probably used to being asked just trying to build up some courage here and scops huh passing out flyers or doing some shady I asked hoping I didn't sound too judgmental he then stated shady

all my experiences with anyone even support personnel and Special Forces was generally Negative they were always trying to be mysterious and act like whatever they did was secretive in reality there was most likely a 23-year-old NSA intern with a pimple face and thick Rim glasses that had more security clearance than these super soldiers but I like Jack and I know scops guys probably do some weird besides y in that Taliban on a loud speaker so I was going to give him the benefit of a doubt but I definitely passed out my fair share of flyers

on my first tour with scops you seem to know a thing or two about the military did you serve yeah man the Marines I said I heard another sign and Jack stated well if you survive I'll buy you dinner I let out a laugh some of the fear did die down but I had just reached the edge of the forest and the humor that I felt moments ago disappeared and was replaced by that stomach nodding fear all right Jack I just made it to the again another earpiercing scream came from further into the woods but

unlike the last this one didn't finish it seemed to be cut off at the last second it was go time and I started running full tail into the unknown Bobby quit running whatever is out there is going to hear you coming and besides whoever was screaming doesn't sound like they made it Jack whisper in my ear see that's the difference between a guy like me and a guy like Jack I think differently than shortterm Jack obviously a strategy thinker decided that there was no point risking me or the chance to stop whatever was out there

for someone who was most likely dead I don't hear you slowing down Bobby yeah that's because I'm a crayon eating marine and I want to kick some another scream I heated Jack's advice and slow my were into a walk I got down and started low crawling to where I thought the screams came from as I got closer I could feel the roots and sticks making small cuts on my stomach it was almost like this whole forest floor had turned against me but the pain subsided when I smell something familiar rusted copper blood I saw a

big tree in my path and could make out a clearing Beyond its massive base I inched behind the tree and took a quick glance into the clearing and I felt a whole bunch of biole reach the back of my throat Mr vter had his back to me as he was lifting up an Axe and bringing it down on the body of a dead woman he kept bringing the axe down over and over again on this lady blood missing everywhere about 3 ft away from her body it looked as if her stomach was torn out and

all of her insights were spilled onto the ground it was a huge mass of kidneys and other organs all leaking blood and other fluids the smell of the blood half digested food and everything else filled the air it was so strong I felt as if I could almost taste it Jack I whisper as quietly as I could into the Bluetooth this guy dis owed the chick and is chopping her to Pieces Jack didn't respond for what felt like 10 years until I heard a quiet munching sorry didn't catch that got Bor waiting on grab the

snack Snickers ready do help hunger pains you know Jack I'm out here watching some woman get butchered by a psychopath and you're eating a d Snickers trying to keep my hardest to keep the psychopath unaware of my presence sorry Bobby you weren't saying much and I needed a snack you're still alive so nothing too crazy happened Jack stated avoiding the topic of this whole show in front of me he then continue also I think I'm on to something I did some research while you were around in the woods and I think I may know what

you're dealing with but you ain't going to like it brother I was getting impatient and trying not to retaste my D Egg McMuffin so I said as quietly as I could while expressing being annoyed just tell me I doubt I can be more creeped out than what I already am well between the tree the mountains and Mr T dark and terrifying I think you're dealing with the evil Danish god of the forest Jack said without any sort of humor what the are you talking about I asked and possibly a bit too loud because the psychopath

suddenly stopped hacking away oh this is it this is how I died I thought but the footsteps and sudden death never came and the hacking resumed Jack then spoke up that was a close one so anywh who I'll explain what I found I went into some weird Google search engine about codes but basically you type in in the description of a monster or whatever you're dealing with and it tells you exactly what it is and I'm pretty positive from what you told me that you're dealing with a Danish Forest God who happens to be an

evil prick like super evil he requires pieces of a thousand bodies to build his army of humanoid tree monsters so for example if you were to dig up those little mountains you saw you would be finding fingers toes ears and other human parts used as the seeds to grow his Forest friends as Jack was speaking I poked at a m near my foot as I did the loose pile of dirt revealed the piece of a human ear or tongue or something I don't know I'm not a doctor Jack continued next up is what he looks

like see his body isn't a tree but it's a tree with a face screaming his commands and looking to the heavens and yeah there's sever heads on the tips of its branches that spout blood to help his tree babies grow does any of this sound familiar Jack stated sounding almost amused I whisper out loud so Vader is some sort of nut serial killer trying to complete its Masterpiece of the God he worships after asking I took another Peak beyond the tree and saw him bend over and pick up the lady's head he then walked over

to the other side of the clearing and pulled out a massive ladder while balancing the blood soaked head on his arm every time I looked out for my little cover it seemed as if there was more and more blood I would say it was just from that chick's cut open body but it seemed as if the whole clearing was covering fresh undisturbed pools of blood and that's when I realized that I had hidden behind the wrong tree I looked up and saw the backs of hundreds of sever heads if I didn't see that painting I

would have thought that they looked like coconuts but I knew better and to make sure that what I was seeing was real a huge glob of blood spewed out of one of the heads and landed in the clearing so here I was in the middle of the Ozarks leaning against some crazy forgotten god with a cycle no more than 15 ft away from me playing around with somebody's head this is within the top five of the worst situations I ever been in Jack then spoke up on the headset hey so here's something else in case

your day wasn't already ruined apparently be stook that's the God has a psychi that he grants imortality for their service the servant is described as being of great height little girth and eyes as black as coold does that describe Mr Vitter I then took a glimpse into the clearing and Mr Vitter was fing at his Balancing Act and trying with great intensity to hold on to the ladder and to the head I took his moment of distraction and slowly made my way back towards where I came from to get to a safer Point Jack I

made it back about 20 yards can you do me a favor and call the police I don't think I can do much for that lady I whisper still trying to keep quiet yeah let me just ruin your day a little bit more I have tried about five times each time I try reaching the town that you're in the call goes dead I tried calling the police out here to see if they could do anything they laughed and told me that they can't do much for somebody in the middle of the oarks I think you may

be on your own well except for me buddy if it's any consolation and you get killed by a crazy devil worshipper or his pet tree God I will avenge you okay Jack was either the most calm dude on the planet or he was truly enjoying all of this so what the hell should I do Jack and why the are you so calm Jack took a deep breath and spelled calmly put two rounds in his chest and one in his head I highly doubt that this guy or that tree of his or actually anything Supernatural just

a nut job who's obsessed with Danish folklore and to answer your question I spent a large amount of my life fighting some of the most violent despicable terrorists on the planet some lady getting her guts Spilled Out and a skinny weirdo serial killer cutting people's heads off isn't too far from the that I seen damn this dude is tough I thought probably the best dispatcher I could have had today I then ask okay but what if they are you know Supernatural and once again in that cold voice Jack spoke up for the article on these

guys you will need to set a flame the old God bear sto and the serving will again be mortal so set bear stook on fire before he comes alive and then shoot Mr vider Easy Peasy I bet this army man wouldn't be so tough if he was the one facing this thing alone but he sounds pretty confident I got to have some faith I thought I closed my eyes and came my back to my new cover are you going to going to do this kid just go up there tell him to freeze put a few

rounds in him and when the cops finally show up just say that he charged that you by the way I should mention this call isn't being recorded and you shouldn't mention parts of this conversation happening Jack said okay I'm ready to put this down and get the hell out of here I said hoping I sounded less terrified than I fell you got this buddy Jack said trying to motivate me I started going back towards the clearing as I got closer I could see Mr Vader on his ladder fumbling to place the head on top of

a branch if it wasn't so horrifying to look at you would think he was a normal guy just messing around in the backyard not a psychopath hanging parts of dead bodies I gathered upws of my shot nerves and yelled hey dick back Mr vadder turned his head towards me as I snuck up behind them get down off the ladder slowly one as you hit the ground turn around and put your hands up I fell and sounded like a testosterone fuel policeman it was almost as cool as being a testosterone fieled Marine but instead of listening

to me Mr vter hopped down off the top of the ladder and turned to face me with an evil smirk he said is my TV ready cable boy he laughed at my perplexed look what you think I should fear you and your mortal weapons as he was speaking he started walking towards me with the axe that was resting between us Lord be stook granted me The Gift of Life As Long As I facilitated his rebirth into our world and assisted him in becoming the ruler of the forest once more he was no less than 5

ft from the axe when I yelled I'm warning you don't take one more step I will spray your goddamn tree puppet with your brain matter in my ear Jack shouted nice line where'd you hear that from the movie ignoring the psycho in my ear canal and keeping focused on the psycho reaching for the axe in front of me I took a few steps back so to avoid any ax Wings if Mr Vader reached for it you're a fool boy I've been rebuilding the garden of bear stook for over a century many Mortals have tried to

stop me but their bodies and their glorious lifeblood belong to my Lord and soon be sto's Revival will be completed but you you will never bask in the glory of my lord for I shall bring down his Justice and let his children bathe in your blood as he said this he ran towards me reaching for the axe I warned him not to move but he made his choice I felt the welcome feeling of the gun recoiling in my hand and the vibrations that had sent up my arm my aim was a bit off but all

three rounds found the home the first two ripped in into his stomach fing the already stinking clearing with the smell of rotted meat the dir snapped his head back as it buried its way between those black ass Night Eyes fulfilling my promise of spraying his precious tree with his brain matter and skull fragments Mr vter then crumbling a heap on the ground adjacent to the leftover pieces of the girl that he had killed earlier and then heard a crackling on the Bluetooth is he dead Jack was asking I started walking over to make sure that

I was going to face manslaughter charges in my near future I was just a foot away when Mr vitter's Hand bolted out and grabbed my ankle pain then shot up my leg his grip like a bear trap I then put two more rounds in his skull which caused his head to once again violently flail backwards smashing into the ground but his hand stood strong I reached down and grabbed the axe and took a powerful downward swing saing his bony arm and and releasing the pressure on my ankle not sure if it was the adrenaline or

the fear but one thing I finally noticed was that he wasn't bleeding five bullets and a detached hand but barely any blood just a small trickle from the ax wound I swear I saw brain and skull fly out when I popped them in the head jack he's not bleeding I put five rounds in his and chopped off his hand just a few drops I said desperately from what I can read the servant will drain all his blood to feed the early parts of be sto's development I think this might be the real thing as Jack

spoke the last word Mr vitter's eyes turned towards me as the holes in his face healed themselves he let out a gutural laugh and said I have already proclaimed I've been given this gift of eternal life by the great Lord be sto and there's not a single weapon that can hurt me do something and get the out of there Jack yelled through the headset and he was right I picked up the axe before Mr vider could make a move and brought it down onto his skull splitting it almost clean in half I saw what was

left of his brain matter Spilled Out onto the forest he shouldn't be getting up from that anytime soon I said onto the mic I cut that fucker's head clean in half instead of admiring your morbid handiwork why don't you get the out of there already Jack yelled into my ear he was right and I started booking it through the woods hopefully towards my truck in the large can of gasoline I keep in the bed even though I was at 200 yard away from my truck my swollen ankle kept me from getting there quickly Mr vter

was most likely already healed up and about to feed me to the tree lucky for me I had Jack to help me keep my mind straight As I made my way back to my waiting Ram 1500 when I made it to the yard I went around the side with a painting and made sure to give be stook the bird and said I'm I'm going to burn you down and all your little tree babies and your servant Mr vider I'm going to gut him slow just you wa Bobby you talking to a painting Jack chirped in

my ear you actually may need some therapy when this is all said and done way ahead of you apparently I have PTSD I responded don't all of us do Jack said with a bit of humor in its voice while we were talking I made it back to the RAM and started sifting through all my junk looking for my gas can I found it I said and my lucky lighter is in the dash Jack I may actually not die today you should set your standards a bit higher but let's hold off from celebrating until you ice

the tree monster and a sidekick Jack said yes sir I responded slightly annoyed he wouldn't let me have at least a second to chill but then I grin to myself as I pulled out the lighter that I had since I was 18 it was the last birthday gift I got for my pops all right jack I'm taking the long walk back hopefully I don't run into the psycho if you do just put a few bullets in him and keep moving Jack said started my way back towards that god- aful scene in the woods doing my

best to remain quiet and unseen the pain in my ankle went away or my mind gave up on trying to tell me to lay off of it for a while so I was able to move a bit quicker My ultimate goal was to get back there and find Mr vter still split open like a Piata I made it about 10 ft out when I saw a familiar sem my nude man standing in the clearing as if he was waiting for me I guess no luck on him still spilling my guts on the dirt Jack face

is standing again I'm going to pop a few more rounds in him maybe even hack off one of his feet don't waste any time man who knows what time bear stook is coming back put a around in Mr vitter's head and set that Tree on fire Jack commanded he was right I ran ahead and before Mr Vader could react I placed another round between that little shit's eyes he crumpled back to the ground and just for shits and giggles I grabbed the axe and swung it right back into his skull I turned around to face

the nightmare tree and try to figure out how to go without burning this monster Bobby from what I can tell all you got to do is set the trunk on fire that should take care of it Jack said from the headset also it say something in the article you should hear do not speak to the old God because he can and will bend you to his purpose so whatever you do don't talk to the tree and that's when I saw this thing's face it was just like the painting The more expressive angrier I started pouring

the gas on the base of the tree trunk which added another wonderful smell to this already shitty F clearing as I poured the last of the gas onto be sto he decided that he was going to speak up hello Robert why do you attack me why have you hurt my faithful servant we mean no harm to you all we want to do is bless the world with my glory I looked at the old God's face while he was talking but not once did I see his mouth move it was almost like he was speaking in

my mind Robert you have accomplished nothing since leaving your warrior class I can grant you eternal life a new woman every day Limitless gold and power over everybody take my root and drink deeply from the life of my blood and your every desire will be fulfilled as he said this the spig it formed on his trunk directly in front of my face Jack the tree it's talking I said Don't listen Bobby Jack yelled from the headset he doesn't need two slaves think about it as Jack was yelling I felt myself drawn to the bigot shaped

route don't become a window licker for some reason being accused of licking Windows pulled me back to reality and it was almost too late Mr Vitter was sneaking up behind me with the same axe that I split his skull with twice at the last second I dodged his swing by jumping backwards into bear sto as I dodged the attack I dropped my lighter into a tangle of bear st's roots I was able to lift up my 40 and pull the trigger four times but only three rounds came out the barrel the last one got jammed

in the chamber I watched as one of the bullets struck right where his heart should be but this time he didn't go down he stumbled slightly and moved closer laughing the whole time you fool bear stook is close to be Inc completed and his power has given me great strength now be still and I will end this quick Mr vter proclaimed okay all right do me a favor and just answer two questions and I won't fight no more I said in my most defeated voice Mr vad seemed to ignore my request until let him speak

my faithful servant bear stook said this weapon has ceased to be useful and he can do us no harm his begging for life will amuse me I heard in my ear what are you doing run he can't be that fast Jack begged ignoring Jack I got into my knees and discreetly grabed my lighter while acting like I was injured look at you boy dying on your knees how pathetic Mr Vitter mocked ask away and be done with it I looked at him in his dead eyes and asked why would you ever let me distract you

as I I asked him this question I hit the starter on the lighter and Dove ahead as I felt my ass being scorched from the burning gasoline fumes an Unholy scream erupted in my head causing my ears to ache and my head to spin I will tear you limb from limb I will come back and take your head as my first be still couldn't finish his sentence because the Flames reached his face I saw as the bark that was his flesh charred and burned the whole time he was screaming in my head I was able

to shake off the shock and turn turn my attention to the psycho hopefully he was no longer Immortal he just stood there staring at his master with tears welding up in his eyes why have you done this you could have been part of the Great Lord bear sto but now you have slain him Mr Vader cried my last act as his servant will be to avenge him and take the life up before I let this finish his sentence I unjammed my glock and shot him in the stomach just so I would get the chance to

watch him die slowly I looked down at him and it seemed the spell or whatever it was had begun to wear off because he looked like he was in pain his intestines were spilling out and I finally saw the right amount of blood starting to pull in the dirt in a weak voice he said my whole life serving my Lord ended by a low man as he spoke I saw blood trickle out the side of his mouth I guess a bullet fragment ended up in his lungs I now was the right time to ask my

last question before I forget and before you die why the did you order satellite TV I asked hoping that I would find out why I was out here in the first place Mr ver then smiled a bloody smile looked me in my eyes and said softly I I missed I missed the show The View The Raven girl she's my type I thought my opinion of this pathetic couldn't get any lower but when he said the view was the reason my ass was out here I empty the rest of my magazine into his skull spraying his

brains for the last time onto the forest floor jack it's over the tree is burning up and Mr vidder empty his insights on the ground if it wasn't for you buddy I would have never made it I'm going to owe you a drink brother I said onto the mik so an ancient God and His undying servant killed by an out of shaped former Marine turn cable technician who the hell would have thought Jack said I'm glad you're okay buddy but it looks like the local PD finally noticed they called me on the other line and

the down chief of police gave me a serious tongue lashing yelling about the crazy nut that was blasting off rounds in the woods I'm about 85% positive I just saved the world and I'm most likely going to be arrested for this murder I complained if it makes you feel better I'll most likely get popped for helping your ass out so it looks like we'll be going to prison together Jack said with a bit of humor I grunted in response as I sorry to hear the distant Sirens of the police well at least I won't have

to install cable anymore I never really knew my grandma's brother well all I can remember is that he was a real energetic man who lived down the hill where my grandparents resided in the Navajo res not far from the choco wash my grandma's brother used to reside a couple of miles north of my grandparents place his dwell more like a shack sat on the outskirts of the bad lands When We Were Young we were instructed to steer clear of this place because it was considered evil I never questioned why I just accepted the warning and

avoided the area as time went by my grandma's brother passed away under strange circumstances he was found dead in his house even though he would occasionally visit my my grandparents his absence for a few days was unusual my older Uncle went to his house and discovered his lifeless body what was strange was the Hasty funeral arrangements that followed normally in Navajo tradition funerals are held on the fourth day after the person's passing but in this case the funeral was conducted immediately without even informing the family curiosity led me to sneak over to his house to

see what it looked like inside before it was torn down as per my grandmother's request the inside of the house fell Eerie it was a one room shed-like structure with faded and some bleach wooden boards for walls the boards didn't fit tightly allowing sunlight to filter in Illuminating the floating dust particles the bed was modest adorned with a green Army blanket there weren't that many decorations mostly old shearing tools and knives with no photographs in sight an old wood stove and a small table occupied the space alongside two crates at the far end of the

room one wooden crate laid open revealing its contents while the other made of metal was locked after my brief exploration I left the house noting its fanc Point overlooking the Badlands to the West several years passed and my older Uncle decided to build his Dreamhouse on the exact side where my grandmother's brother had lived despite my grandmother's concerns about the location my uncle was determined to proceed with the construction he envisioned a single story ranch style house equipped with all modern stuff which was actually very rare on the rest the construction began and everything seemed

to progress easy at first however strange occurrences soon began to fall on the workers tools would go missing and they said that there would be shadows moving within the house and blood was discovered smeared on the walls even stranger were the tracks found in the sand around the house leading from the West towards the bad lands my uncle an experienced Hunter couldn't identify these cacks so he looked for help with my grandpa who also found him perplexing eventually my grandma intervene recognizing the signs of a skin walker she instructed my uncle on the necessary precautions

and work on the house stopped until this issue could be resolved despite being careful strange events continue to happen in the house but my uncle pressed on he eventually completed the house and even yet the disturbances persisted driving his family to discomfort and fear even my grandmother's attempts to calm the spirit seemed futile against whatever forces were at play on one specific evening my cousins and I stayed over and we experien firsthand the strange nature of this house the generator was shut off and then strange noises echoed through the darkness and it almost felt like

some presents seemed to stalk us from the Shadows only the intervention of my grandparents armed with traditional remedies and fierce determination brought us relief from all of this another incident involved my younger cousin she was alone in the truck outside and she said as she looked to the west side of the house she saw a pale humanoid figure peering down at her with dark soulless eyes her screaming alerted the family to come outside but this creature had vanished before they could confront it even with my grandmother a woman of great stength she had vowed to

confront whatever was there and expelled it from the house my grandma was very traditional and practiced native medicine she also used sacred crystals to find and heal people while looking into her crystals she would also practice reading people's hands there's been a few instances where she has been used to locate missing people and also found the circumstances of the way the person died she also had knowledge of the evil way the dark practice of Witchcraft in need of medicine my Grandma had acquire a few secret items and would seek help from another medicine man they

both went into the house and began a ceremony to expel whatever was in it they went into each room blessing them with sage and sealing them with Ash when they finally went into the master bedroom the medicine man started to vomit and bleed from the nose my grandma said that she had a nauseous feeling and felt dizzy almost figing they both retreated from the room and closed the door sealing it with Ash the medicine man said the room was the source of evil attracting evil spirits including Skin Walkers he said he would try to pinpoint

where the evil was coming from but would need to go in alone he began by lighting up a medicine bundle taking Bitter Root and marking his forehead with Ash before entering the room he described the room as very cold feeling the presence of numerous spirits in the closet upon opening the closet he saw a black mist on the floor swirling like the eye of a black hurricane he began the ceremony to close the portal but was met with resistance the medicine man Heard a Voice from the swirling Mass telling him that only the one who

summoned the evil could close the portal however he continued the ceremony and the master started to diminish and eventually disappeared blessing the room with sage and corn pollen he attached the burnt log to the top of the interior of the closet and sealed the door with Ash he warned my grandma that whatever was summoned was evil and too strong to keep under control and so his recommendation was that my uncle abandoned the house despite the warnings my aunt her boyfriend and her three-year-old son moved into the house believing it to be a perfectly good place

to save money on rent payments however they soon encountered paranormal experiences one evening my aunt heard footsteps walking down the hallway followed by something crawling into bed with her and her son whatever it was quickly got out of bed threw off the covers and stepped on her boyfriend's neck causing him to choke for air they then decided to leave the house immediately leaving their belongings behind later my younger Uncle Max and his friend Leo decided to spend the night at the house to investigate while they were there they experienced a terrifying encounter with different Spirits

including that of a little girl and a faceless figure making them flee the house in fear even after these encounters the house has remained vacant with strange occurrences continuing to happen such as lights turning on despite the lack of electricity despite the warnings and strange events the house stands abandoned with its curtains drawing open as if someone is still inside watching