On Thursday, April 8, 2004, at approximately 1:30 a.m.,
due to caffeine-overload, I was the only one awake,out of
our family of six(two adults-four children).
We live on a blacktop road approximately five to six
miles from any town,and although we do have a few
neighbors,they are not suffocatingly close.
Our home is a 104-year-old farmhouse with a paranormal
history of its own( a murder committed on this site long
ago,ghostly footsteps in the back hall late at night,strange
specters appearing at the foot of my daughters' beds,etc.)
however,that fact has nothing to do with my experience on
this particular morning.
We own two very spoiled female collies, who are as
different in personality as any two people you know. The
oldest, named Twilight is a tricolor attention sponge who
accepts and loves EVERYONE, no matter who they are. She is
five. The younger (two years old) sable collie named Sunlight
is her exact opposite in almost every way. She is very
suspicious of strangers (has been known to nip a few
ankles) and when faced in her "guard-dog mode" is a menace
that I believe the devil himself would think twice before
crossing. Despite this, she is a very family-oriented dog,
absolutely loves all children and is quite intelligent.
Now, these dogs sleep in the house with the family at
night and on this night (morning), I heard Sunlight having an
absolute conniption out in the side yard, snarling and
barking at someone/something that I thought must have been
just an inebriated neighbor walking down the road. So I
walked into the kitchen and hung my head out the door to
keep from awakening my husband and children and called to
Sunlight who was running through our front ditch. She was so
focused that she didn't hear me. It wasn't until the third
time I called her name that three things happened...
1. Sunlight heard my voice
2. I noticed WHAT she was chasing and
3. IT NOTICED ME!
My eyes didn't want to believe
what they saw but this is the best description I can give:
It was ENORMOUS--my husband is 6'4" and it was far taller
, blacker than the night, scrambling along on the backtop on
all fours. Its feet or nails(?) were making a sort of clacking
noise on the pavement. It was not a moose, a bear, a horse,
a deer, a buffalo, or any known animal I have ever seen! The
closest thing I can compare it to would be a HUGE
gorilla. The third time I called to Sunlight, this creature
turned its head toward me and emitted a very
horrendous, screeching sort of shriek, which I immediately
interpreted as a threat to my life. At this point, all I
could think of was getting the dog into the house and
locking the door, and since Sunlight was more than willing to
oblige, racing into the kitchen at top speed, I accomplished
this in a few seconds.
She was bristled up, hackles raised and she leaned into my
leg for comfort with worry in her eyes. I assured her that
she was a good girl for chasing that thing out of here and
as I was beginning to calm down I got that feeling that you
get when you know you just experienced something
supernatural and that when you tell people about it they'll
either think you made it all up or tag you as a nut case.
I never had any qualms or fears before about going out in
the dark to feed my horses or do night time chores but I now
know that we can never be sure about what lurks out there in
this world in the dark when few people are awake to witness
the unexplainable creatures few of us ever have the
displeasure of seeing creeping through the shadows in the
wee hours of early morning...
Contact me here: april_b_48768@hotmail.com
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