Rake. United States

I live on the East coast in Central Virginia, County of Hanover. Our family has a plot of land measuring 10 acres with fields and forests, where more than a hundred years ago, it was one of the battles of the Civil war, namely the battle at Metadesign Creek.

And my friends and I regularly saw in these places, ghostly soldiers, and near my house had an anomalous phenomenon. Sometimes my friends and I camp somewhere on the field or in the woods and this story is one such case.

When we camp in the woods, take a gun and ammunition, but rarely charge them, it's more likely to scare away unwanted guests. Here and in the times in April 2020, we went to a camp and sat around a campfire chatting and drinking coffee.

It was about 23:30 when I and one of friends went for a walk nearby in the dark. We didn't bring flashlights and just stood at the edge of the field, where it was clearly visible stars. I took the gun and some cartridges.

We softly talked, and then suddenly heard the next loud noise, as if something was walking through the grass, stepping on dry twigs. We are alert, but not frightened, however, after a few moments, I saw what was making this noise and immediately yell "Oh shit!" lightning loaded his gun and aimed it at the object. It was dark, but even in the dark I could see IT.

It was something light, pale and large that moved on all fours, crawling off the road on the hill. It did not seem particularly terrible, but it looked very strange. His body in motion was twitching as the head of the chicken and was very thin. When I better look at him, I told this to a friend, and then we shouted our other two friends to come here.

When the creature approached us, we again cried, though rather not from fear, but from dislike or feeling of something incomprehensible. The creature hid behind a tree and stopped, then a few times stuck his head out from behind the trunk. Then it tried to crawl in our direction, but again came back for the tree and it happened several times.

It was moving slowly, but sharp movements. We watched it for about two minutes, after which it disappeared and we never saw him again. I assumed it disappeared into the depths of the forest. Our two friends who came later and saw the creature less time than we assumed it was some very careful hunter. So I pulled a bullet from a gun and we all went to camp.

But the next day we returned to this place and found unusual marks on rotten leaves and soil where it is being moved. One of my friends is a good tracker and he could not tell what kind of creature left the tracks. We followed them into the forest, but not gone, because I lost the tracks. By the way, in the woods we found lying on the leaves gnawed skull of a goat without a body.

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