In the Woods

True Stories | Dec 30, 2013 | 2 min read
4 Votes, average: 3 out of 5
There is this thing I remember that happened to my friend and I in our hometown in Florida.Where my friend lived there was a patch of woods that went about five miles until it hit the town. Well all I know is when we were about eight I managed to convince her to go into them as soon as her father left for work because we weren't actually supposed to.So we hopped over the fence that cut off the woods and her house.At first we had a blast exploring them because it was only about six and still light out and we walked around goofing off and being brave.But then we came across this mound of dirt and around it was a dirty T-shirt and a shoe and a stained blanket,that was fine and we didn't make much of it because I don't know we were innocent and laughed at the thought someone was running naked around here a long time ago.So we walked on and came across another pile except this time it was made of rocks and was like a cave,like you'd think for a wolf or a cougar to live in and it had an old bike outside of it,I wanted to explore it.I dont know why,I think I thought I find treasure or something but she convinced me it was time to go back and I agreed because it was getting darker and didn't want her dad to catch us.Well when you go out of the woods there's a strip of cleared land and we heard this gnawing or chewing noise or something.So we turned and we saw what we imagined could've been in that cave except it was wrong and weird.It was bigger then a wolf and thicker then a cougar,it was black and had no fur and it hunched over a deer eating it.For some reason we watched it even though we were scared because it hadn't noticed us yet, until it started lifting its head then we ran and scrambled over the fence and hid in her house.Her brother came back first and we told him about the clothes and the cave but not about the thing that we saw.Its been eleven years and we still haven't gone back into those woods.I didnt even think what I had seen was real as I got older because I had a big imagination until she mentioned in front of her boyfriend and asked me if I still remember running from it a couple years ago.We hadn't talked about it since it had happened and I don't know I guess it scares me that she who's cautious and grounded believed it and told the story like it was a normal thing to other people.

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