User:TheDubstepSkull

The Thing That Haunts the Woods

I'd like to inform the reader and or listener that everything I'm about to tell you is %100 truthful.
I live in Canyondam CA, and I go to a High School about seven miles away in a town called Chester. One day I came home from school with one thing on my mind, getting my homework done so I may play video games. On my way inside, I looked into the forest and at the trees as I took in some fresh air.



I thought about how much I loved the forest and how I couldn't invision living in some murky poluted city like L.A. or San Fransisco. Thinking of this allowed me to walk through my door with a smile.

My mother greeted me with fresh coffee and a bowl of soup, I ate the soup and drank half the cofee before giving the rest to my mother. I then went up to my room to complete my algebra assignments. After this I played video games for an hour or so, set my alarm clock to 6:00 and went to sleep early.

I woke up later that night, I checked my alarm clock and it said about 11:30. I tried to go back to sleep but just couldn't do it. I sat up for a few minutes just examining my dark room. I then heard a loud bang on my sliding glass door, startled I jumped a little but quickly pulled myself back together. I tried squinting through the darkness to spot what caused the noise. I quickly saw what looked to be a person, at the time I was too tired to care or come to any possible conclusions to who or what it could be. I was also very eager to go back to sleep so I stupidly shrugged it off as my father taking a midnight walk. What was I thinking?

As I was slowly closing my eyes I barely noticed what I thought was my dad look directly at me with glowing green eyes, but I couldn't recall it until the next morning. When I woke not only did I realize that couldn't have been my dad for the eyes, but I recalled it's figure. That thing was tall, with long thin arms and legs. I managed to  convince myself it wasn't human and went to tell my parents. After I told them about it they both glared at me like I was crazy, then they looked at eachother, then back at me. They both told me I was just tired, and that I must've been seeing things, then they sent me off to school.

I thought about it on the bikeride to school, and I once again shrugged it off as nothing. At school I thought again about how I was in denial, and then again about how my parents were right, and my mind was going back and forth all day. One thing was certain at this point, it's all very strange. I came back home eight hours later to do my regular afternoon rutine, and without hesitation, went to sleep. As I feared, I awoke once more around midnight, I didn't want to believe that if I looked outside my sliding glass door I'd see that thing again.

My curiosity quickly got the best of me and I got out of bed to see if it was outside. When I opened the curtain I was frozen with suprise and fear to see it right up against the door, looking in. Frightened and totaly shocked, I just looked at it. It was about seven feet tall with dark grey wrinkley skin. some black fur covered its arms, which were around five or six feet long. All I can say on that is he or she had to bend it's arms to keep them off the ground. It's fingers must've been half the length of it's arms and the sharp fingernails half the length of the fingers. It's head was about normal size and was conected to its body by a long thin neck. Its body was normal sizes and its legs were about the same as its arm in the sense of length.

Those eyes, those horrible eyes... even as I write this I quiver from the sheer memory of the sight, just as I quivered then. It didn't even have a mouth, nose or ears, just those deep terrible green eyes that glowed bright enough to almost blind me. After locking eye contact with the creature for what seemed like forever, It turned around and dashed away with intense speed. I was scared out of my sanity, I ran back to my bed like a child scared of the dark, and buried myself under the blankets as quick as I could. I didn't get any sleep that night, I was kept awake by the thought of that huge, scrawney grey body... and those eyes.

Wide eyed for the past five hours, I got up when I heard my alarm go off. I got up slowly, my mind still haunted by those green eyes. I walked into living room to see nobody eating or watching television. I thought this was odd but I just decided to check upstairs to see is my parents had overslept. I was halfway up the staircase when I heard a screem, as if someone was in agony. I didn't recognize the voice but it still worried me, I ran up as fast as my legs would allow me to. *UNFINISHED*