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I'm not sure what to think about this one, folks.
Disclaimer: This might freak a few of you out. I suggest that you refrain from reading this thread if you are easily spooked by the notion of aliens, monsters, etc. I experienced all of this first-hand just short of an hour ago. I do not know what to make of it at this point, and neither does the guy who was with me throughout the course of this evening's events. You have been warned.
I was out with a friend earlier tonight, driving around. No real aim. Just enjoying my new car stereo... listening to some trance, looking for something to do. We decided that it would be fun to head up to an old highway through the woods in the hills to the west of here. There is just short of nothing up there, except the road and trees. I've been there a few times, before, and it's always a fun place to drive.
So, we jumped on the freeway... took an exit... jumped on another road, and ten minutes later we had reached our destination. My friend thought it'd be a good idea to head north instead of south, because we always go south. (It leads back to the freeway, which takes us back home.) I thought this was a decent idea, too, so we were off like a shot into the darkness. (Not that it's pertinent, but we were listening to Paul Van Dyk @ Nature One 2004. Great set to listen to in the car.)
It turned out to be a lot curvier of a road to the north, not to mention the fact that there were just about zero sources of light in the area. Other than what was directly in front of my high-beams, we couldn't see shit. I was starting to think that this wasn't such a great idea, but the road is guardrailed in on either side, so you can't really turn around out there. I kept driving, hoping for a break in the rails that would give me enough room to pull a u-turn.
No such luck.
We went on for another ten to fifteen minutes, at which point we were pretty much out in the middle of nowhere. No houses. No side roads. No lights. Just woods. The moon wasn't even out. A few stars here and there, but otherwise, just my headlights. (I reiterate this point for a reason... keep reading.)
As tends to be the case out in the woods on summer nights around here, we soon found ourselves in the midst of a nasty bit of fog. I really wanted to turn around at this point, because it was 11:30 and I had no idea where this road was heading. I wanted to get home at a decent hour, and the combination of the fog and darkness was starting to creep me out a bit. (Mostly the thought of car troubles in a situation like this.)
Just as I was about to stop the car and do an inch by inch maneuver to get the car turned around, the fog started to clear, and we could see a bend in the road up ahead.
In retrospect, I cannot emphasize how much I wished we had turned back before this point.
I hit the curve a little fast, not realizing that this was actually the start of a series of s-curves in the road. I was pretty much driving down the middle of the road, because there were no other cars and I wanted to be sure to keep away from the sides of the road. (I have no idea where any ditches or drop-offs are out there. Better safe than sorry.)
After a minute or two of the s-curves, we were back on a straight road, heading in generally the same direction (north) as we had been. It was now that I first realized that we hadn't passed a single car, yet. Not one. I thought it a bit odd, but nothing unheard of.
I was just about to say something to my friend (who was riding shotgun) about this, when I saw something in the road up ahead of us. I dropped my speed down from 50MPH to about 30, hoping that it was just an animal or something and it would get out of the road when it saw my headlights. As we got closer, I saw that I was correct. It was an animal.
A deer.
A dead deer.
A dead deer that looked like something had taken an enormous bite out of its midsection.
I stopped the car. We both just sat there and stared for a second, not really knowing what to make of it.
It was laying right in the middle of the road. There was really no way around it. I was going to have to roll over it no matter what we did, so I decided now was as good a time as any to back up and start the slow process of turning the car around. There was something about this situation that just didn't seem right to me, and my friend felt the same way. There was NOTHING else wrong with this animal, other than the strange chunk missing from the middle.
"Dude... What the hell happened to that deer?" he asked me.
"Dunno," I said. "Looks like something ripped the shit out of it, though."
"Yeah. Could a bear do that?"
"That'd have to be a big fucking bear, man. Like, bigger than anyone has ever seen around here."
We kept talking for a minute as I tried to get the car turned around. It was just as we were pretty much sideways on the road that perhaps one of the freakiest things imagineable happened.
My headlights flickered, then died.
Immediately, I'm like, "Oh, FUCK THIS." I was NOT about to get out of my car to see what was wrong. No. Not in the middle of the woods in the middle of the night. Not happening.
I fumbled around for a second, and, thank God, there was a flashlight under the passenger seat from my roadside kit. (The kit is in the trunk, which we could have gotten to from inside the car via the back seats, anyway, so it wasn't a big deal.)
I clicked it on, turned off the car, and popped open the fuse box. I popped the fuse out for the headlights, snapped a replacement (also inside the fuse box, luckily) into place, and turned the car back on. The headlights kicked back on...
...and my friend and I found ourselves staring at something in the woods ahead of us. Something strange looking. A dark, strange something standing between some trees about twenty feet in front of us.
It didn't move at first. I couldn't make out what the hell it was, so I kicked the high beams on. For a second, it almost looked like a person. A very large person, hunched over in a position almost as though it was prepared to run.
We sat in silence for a moment, frozen. Eventually, I found words.
"Oh my God..."
"What the fuck IS that?" was my friend's reply.
There was so much racing through my head at the moment, I didn't really know what to do. I just stared... and whatever was in front of us seemed to be staring right back.
And then it fucking moved. Stood straight up and took a step or two toward us. On two legs. It had to be two legs. Otherwise, it would have been the biggest animal anyone has ever reported in this area.
It was at least six feet tall, probably more. The way the light was hitting it, I couldn't make out any features... and to tell the truth, I didn't really want to.
I hit the horn. Hard. It stopped for a minute, and sort of crouched down like it was trying to hide or something. I decided that I was going to make as much noise as possible. I hit the volume on the stereo, pumped up the bass, revved the engine, and even went so far as to hit the panic button on my car alarm's keychain remote.
Nothing phased the thing. It sat there, still seeming to be staring right at us.
"FUCKING FLOOR IT, MAN!"
The next minute or so are sort of a blur. I slammed down on the brake, pulled the e-brake up a bit, yanked the steering wheel to the left and gunned it as hard as I could. Peeled out, dropped the e-brake, gunned it again, and hauled ass in the opposite direction. (I hit the s-curves on the way back so fast, in fact, that we actually drifted around two of them.)
It took us about half the time to get back to the freeway that it did to get us out to where we saw... whatever the fuck it was we saw. All I know is that I think it killed that deer, wasn't afraid of us, and obviously wanted to get a much closer look at my car.
We stopped at a gas station once we got back into town, got the number for the police, and waited for them to show up. Neither of the officers who came to meet us seemed to think we were joking. I was shaking like a mofo, and my friend looked like he was going to cry. I'm 20 years old. He's 21. Neither of us is, by any means, a chicken.
It takes a lot to scare me. This shit scared me almost to the point where I was about to wet my pants out there in the woods.
We gave the officers the best directions we could manage, given the hour. Their first question, of course, was what we were doing out on the old highway in the middle of the night. We told them the truth; just out for a ride. We hung out and did our best to answer the rest of their questions, and then got back in my car and went home.
And now I'm sitting here posting this all for you to read. Wanted to get it down before I forgot any of the details. I'm really tired, confused, and still a bit freaked.
This was one of the worst nights of my life.
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1. Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness (Oliver Lieb's Main Mix)
2. Klea - Tic Toc (Paul Van Dyk's Re-Edit)
3. Alibi - Eternity (Inner City Mix)
4. Cirque de Soleil - Pokinoi (Sasha Mix)
5. Chris & Kai vs. Levin - Gone to Heaven
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