Usually I have no fear whatsoever of the outdoors. There is something in the
swamp staring at me. It was extreme fear and doubt, and I'm in
trouble. Dad hip a cart. What's going on? I gotta get out
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Lady. My wife and I really enjoy camping. Ever since we met,
we had always gone camping. We decided we would check out the Owner Banks
with North Carolina. We had never been there. It was unusually warm weather
for that year, and so we decided we wanted to take advantage and go
stout the inner state highways. They're sort of bypassing everything and once you get
off of the highway onto the local roads, you get more of a feel
of the communities. So we got off of the main road and we headed
south toward Pettigrew State Park, and the whole place had a creepy, creepy
feeling. We went by this one house and they were these people standing out
in their yard and they all turned and looked at us go by with our
truck and our camper. I just didn't get a good feeling, like like,
first of all, why were they out there standing in the door,
And then they were looking at us, like, where are the world are
they going? The drive to the state park from Cresswell, it was pretty
dark, it got very creepy. We got to Pettigrew, it was completely
open. There were no trees around the campsites. This is the reality,
he was We were going to be camping in the middle of a swamp.
So yeah, I had a little bit of trepidation about it. The ranger
pulled over, he looked worried. The park ranger said that's a nice park,
and he thought about it for a second and he quickly said, yeah,
I'm head and whole, but I'll be back in the morning. And
when he said that, we thought, why is he leaving? I just
didn't want to stay there. We were tired, it's dark, and we
just wanted to get out of there and find a safe place to stay.
We drove away from Pettigrew and my wife and I looked at each other and
said, well, that was weird. I think we made the right decision.
We needed to find a decent sized town so that we could stay the
night in a shopping center parking lot. The only thing we could find was
a decent sized town in the middle of Roanoke Island. Found somewhere. Yeah,
but it's two hours from you. It's not like we have a choice,
you know. I remember rowan Ok. Yeah. Roanoke was the site
of the Lost Colony, the first settlers to land in the New World from
England. They set up a colony on Roanoke Island and were there roughly a
year. And when the next boat came to supply the town that they had
established, they found no one. I think we just hid something. You
want to take a look. I really didn't want to stop and investigate it
in this place. I felt this was a little too remote for me to
get out of the truck. Well, if we hid something in its line
there injured, Okay, I'll go see. I pulled over and stopped the
truck. The area where we are seems very desolate, has a very lonely
feeling about it. On my way out the door, I thought about it
and grabbed the three fifty seven. If anything else was out there, I
wanted to be able to protect myself. I walk along the driver's side of
the vehicle. I checked the truck, I checked the tires, I checked
the hitch area, I checked the trailer, and I walk around to the
back. Damn it, I'm staring at the tail light and the hair on
the back of my neck stands straight out, and all the insect noises stopped.
Been in the woods enough to know what that meant. Usually I have
no fear of whatsoever of the outdoors. In that instant, I think there
is something in the swamp staring at me. I slowly turn to see if
I can spot it, and I see nothing. I don't hear anything For
maybe a minute. I didn't see any movement outside the windows. It's just
still and I don't see anything. And then I listen and I start to
hear scrabbling noises coming from my leg. The animal is about twenty yards away.
It was dog like, wolf like. This was a large animal about
four feet tall, large forward facing ears like a German shepherd, seemed to
be tups of hair sticking up from the tops of the ears, and yellow
glowing eyes. When I looked into this animal's eyes, I saw the look
of a hunter. It was not the look of the dogs that I had
trained in the past. It was the look of a predator hunting. And
as I looked at him, he did something that was so alien and so
strange that it haunts me to this day. And I hear two distinct popping
sounds. He pushes off the rock with his front feet and he settles in
on two legs. I was shocked. Now this dog like, wolf like
creature is standing on two legs. It's now taller than any dog that I
had come in contact with. I really got a good look at him at
that point. He was at least seven feet tall. He was very muscular
from the waist up. It was a dark fur hair like a mane around
his shoulders, and his paws weren't where paws. They were were like hands
claws sticking out of the end. Lower half was a bit skinnier, and
he couldn't see his feet, but it looked like there was a short tail,
and took a step forward and made a low growling noise. Then he
showed his teeth. I can still see that they were glinting in the moonlight.
I could see it. I could still see it. After the growl,
I saw another one, and I looked at him for no more than
two or three seconds, and turned back, and the first animal had moved
ten yards in my direction. It strikes him in the shoulder, and he
didn't react like I thought three fifty seven shot would have done to anything.
He looked at me just like I punched him. I thought I just made
him mad. I don't think I was going to be able to damage this
guy. I gotta get out of here, David. And I heard him
running through the gravel towards the car door. Get the cart, get the
car. He put it in gear, and so let's get out of here.
She just stared at me, wide eyed and said nothing. She was
shocked. I could tell she was in shock. In the six years i'd
knew David, I'd never seen him in that state. He was shaking.
I had never felt that scared before in my life. If I could feel
my heart beating in my chest, I felt scared. I felt scared because
he was so upset, and I still didn't know what kind of happened.
I didn't say anything. I mean, I know Lisa was staring at me.
She's looking at me like I didn't say anything. I probably didn't say
anything until we got all the way on to growing up. As we approached
civilization, I could see he was calling down and I knew he was about
ready to tell me. I decided that I wasn't going to tell her everything.
He said, I don't know what it was. I said, well,
what did it look like? He said, well, it kind of
looked like a wolf. I didn't want to tell her exactly what I had
seen because I think if I told her that it would scare her beyond anything
that she could think of. That we got our act together and decided to
go into the market and get a few things. Is this truck in the
parking lot and he's a guy in there. He's just staring at me.
He had this menacing look on his face like he was ready to kill him.
I thought, I don't know what this is about. And Dave said,
who the heck is that? I never saw this guy before? Did
I take that said, go to talk to him. How are you doing
there? How can I help you? And he immediately started apologizing and said,
oh, I am so sorry. I thought you were a friend of
mine. You look exactly like a friend of mine, and I just thought
I was giving him a hard time. Really sorry, that's our It happens
all the time. That's okay. He had a pretty scary look on you
though. As he was telling me that, I'm looking in his truck and
I noticed there were two rifles behind him and a rack on the window.
So did you ever do any hunting around here? And he looked at me
and he said, oh yeah. I said, you do any hunting in
the swamp? And answered me. He just stared at me. He said,
is he anything strange in the woods? He stopped. If he could
have dropped his jaw, he would have. He looked at me and he
and then he looked down and he looked back up. He said, I
thought I was the only one. A couple of years back, I did
see something weird out in the swamp. First I thought it was a wolf,
but it did something strange. It stood up. I've never seen anything
to do that before. I was thinking, I'm not crazy. It wasn't
just me having it. He didn't tell me until after we got home because
he didn't want to spoil the trip for me. I was shocked is that
all about? But on the other hand, it's sort of made more sense
about the whole creepiness of the place and that lost colony on Roanoke Island,
and I thought, maybe that's what happened to that colony. I think there's
things out there, and I think if you got a creepy feel about a
place, it's you know, especially if you're camping, but like if you're
hiking or just anywhere where you feel I just got a creepy feeling. I
think you should listen to your instincts and get the heck out of there.
There may be creatures that we don't know about out there that can do his horn