Sometimes I really dis-like where I live.
It's not often, but every so often, something happens that makes me stop and think.
It's not the house itself. It's not the area. Although, a lot can be said by the high crime rate and the less than stellar police presence that exists here. No, it's something else.
You'd have to see the area to understand. See the lay-out of the land. The geography.



Basically, all the woods that remain from what was once a huge forest and landscape are in a tiny sliver of land that separates my side of the property from the neighbors. It's a curved meadow of trees that rounds the property line. It's not very thick. There is a small brook that runs in the middle, which is probably why the trees still exist. No human in there right mind would go in there. It's dense, it's dark, no light can penatrate it, and if you make one false step you'll fall down a hill and straight into the water. It's this area that makes living here so unbearable at times.



I could probably count the number of odd things that have happened in this area in the 11 years that I've lived around here. That is, if I tried. Things so bizarre that they couldn't have possibly have occurred, but I know they did. Tonight another one got added to the list.

In all fairness, events occur so seldom that I should be able to brush them off. But......they are just so odd that it's hard to forget about them. I guess that's what bothers me so much about them.



Tonight, I took my dog out for a walk around 3:00am. Not a walk, just a quick in and out so she could do her business. But when we got outside, the second we got out there, I could sense SOMETHING in the woods. Normally I'd say it was an animal. But because of all the strange things I've seen/heard/experienced around those trees in the past, I can't think that anymore. Whatever was out there tonight, was either the largest animal since Bigfoot, or something else entirely. I could hear it's footsteps cracking the branches as it walked. No animal can make that sound. I've heard deer in those woods plenty of times, and I'm familiar with the sounds a deer makes when it walks. There are no animals in those woods larger than deer, and what I heard walking was BIG. It even shaked the branches as it walked. Branches 10 feet off the ground! I don't know how such a thing is possible, but it did.  I got back to my home quickly, locked the door, and said a prayer.

You'd really have to see the entire layout of the woods to understand what it's like in there. All I can say as a description of it is that it's a whole lot of trees covering a hill, then a brook, then another hill and more trees. It's not large, in winter you can see through them to the other property. But in the summertime the growth is so dense that's not possible.

As I've said, other things have happened in those woods. I won't get into that tonight. But those stories make tonights seem like nothing. Those were SO BIZARRE, so out of this world, that nobody would believe me if I told them. They are just really, really, really strange. Perhaps one day I'll tell them. But not tonight.