Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26705150-20150902190729

I had decided to volunteer at a manned lighthouse for a couple of weeks. I figured it would be a good life experience for me and I always enjoyed being around the water, so it was the perfect deal for me. This particular lighthouse was built upon on a massive lake which connected to the ocean, so it was quite the view.

   I began using my volunteer time to do some fishing every now and then, to enjoy the view and with the added bonus of putting a little extra food on the table. It took me a few days to get settled in and to adapt to my surroundings, but once I did I was confident I could start fishing right away. I obtained a rowing boat from a local fishing store and I prepared myself for all the basic night time fishing necessities.

Then one night I went out into the water a few yards away from the lighthouse. The area was very quiet and dark during that time, but this came as no surprise considering the hour of the day. But I was getting worried about the fact that I hadn’t seen or heard any movement or fish in the water. I had expected there to be something at least, but I wasn’t having any luck so far. After all I usually was able to catch something within the first thirty minutes to an hour of fishing on a late night. But this time I ended up spending a few hours, just sitting there waiting for something to bite my hook, but it was like all the fish had just vanished. I had all but given up on the hopes of catching anything that night and I was just about to leave when something in the water caught my attention.

I noticed movement near my boat and I had nearly gotten excited until I realized the sheer size of the thing. It was truly massive and it was too dark to identify whatever it was. I thought maybe it was a shark or something like that, but this was a lake. I figured it was highly unlikely that anything of that size would ever be in a lake, but there it was anyways. I was truly lost for words as to what it was and I couldn’t help but feel the eeriness of it all getting to me.

It was about that time when I finally decided that this was the final straw. I turned my boat around and headed back for the lighthouse, not only out of frustration but also out of fear and concern.

Later on I made a few more attempts at fishing in the lake, all of which were met with failure to catch anything. On some occasions I even spotted the same movement from that large creature, underneath the surface, but I still couldn’t make out what it was. It never popped up out of the water so I couldn’t even see the thing.. It was pretty much restricted to just swimming around gently through the various parts of the lake. But as I far as I could see it wasn’t violent or threatening, unless you counted its size.

By that point I had pretty much given up entirely on fishing there and I usually stayed away from the lake. I spent the rest of my time staying inside the lighthouse or doing whatever errands I needed to get done.

But I started noticing something else in the lake area. It was a strange looking thing in the sky that I’d occasionally see outside my window. Every once in a while I’d catch a glimpse of this aircraft, covered in blue lights, passing through the sky. It didn’t make any noise and the only thing that it really ever did, was circle around the lake. But just like the thing in the water, I had never seen anything like it before and I had no idea of it was doing.

Its blue lights would sometimes reflect into my window brightly and it was often distracting. However, I had no idea of how to deal with it other than to ignore it for the time being.

It wasn’t until one night when I was sleeping, that I made a decision to leave the lighthouse for good. I had been awoken by a bright red light coming from my bedroom window. It was a bit bothersome and I, once again, was curious to know it was. I reached over for my glasses and stumbled out of bed, towards the window.

There yards away was a large sphere of red light beaming down onto the surface of the lake. The source of the light was that same thing I had been seeing in the sky for so long. In the water I could see large amounts of movement and splashing.

This lasted a few moments before something terribly large came out of the water and somehow floated up into the sphere of light. It had the appearance of an amphibian creature, like a fish, but it also had legs and arms like that of a land animal. I was both stunned at the sight and terrified.

After the thing reached the top of the sphere, it simply vanished and so did the light. The aircraft took off and there was no trace of anything left behind.

I had been frozen in place prior to the thing’s exit but now I was in a hurry, rushing through my bedroom, ready to leave as soon as possible.

When I finally left that place, I tried to tell the owners of the lighthouse and many others in the area about what happened. They of course, assumed that what I had seen was nothing more than a hallucination but they did corroborate the part about the fish in the lake. They said that it was true that there were no fish in the water anymore. But they had no idea of how or why they disappeared.

But regardless of their beliefs, I think I know where those fish went. It seems that it’s most possible that the fish had either fled towards the ocean, away from that thing in the water or worse, they had all been consumed by it. If the latter is true, then I’m amazed that I hadn’t fallen victim to it.

<p class="MsoNormal">To this day, I’ve never seen any of it or anything like it again and I hope that I never do. <ac_metadata title="The Lighthouse Sightings (Unreviewed)"> </ac_metadata>