foreign [Music] Cheryl and I own a farm in Buckingham Iowa where we mainly grow corn this was in August of 2018 on a slightly Rainy Night Cheryl and I have both spent our entire lives in the farm life it's really all we know of course Farm Life in Iowa means lots of space and very few people our closest neighbors George and Kenny were each about half a mile away in opposite directions also farmers with not much else going on around here it's easy to become friends with your neighbors we often have George and Kenny and
their wives over and vice versa on this one otherwise normal weekend night we had George and his wife over for drinks we all got pretty drunk while playing board games they left around 11. luckily it's a 30-second straight line of a drive home we continued to drink some wine as we watched one of our favorite movies we were starting to get tired we were definitely feeling the effects of the wine we were most likely just gonna fall asleep on the couch cuddled up together when there was a knock at the front door a knock at
the door at this hour was unusual in fact it never happened before but accompanied with the knocks we thought we could hear a voice say something I lowered the volume of the TV we waited for it to happen again like 20 seconds later another set of knocks at the door followed by a muffled voice saying we need help I was about to get up and open the door when Cheryl shook my arm and I looked at her and she made a face and shook her head no I whispered I'm just going to ask who it
is she replied I shouldn't let them know we're home but odds are they already knew we were home I went over to the door and asked who is it the voice on the other side said through the door oh thank God can you open up we're lost I said who's we the voice said back my wife and I I replied can your wife say something there was a silence for a few seconds I followed it up with did you hear me the same voice said back yeah but she's not next to me right now is
where red flags started going off in my head and I started to realize the voice sounded a little off like a man trying to make his voice sound a little higher I laughed and said George is that you George is a big goof and him being drunk it wouldn't be unheard of for him to do something like this the voice said back yeah in a slightly deeper voice now I almost felt relief believing that it was actually George but I didn't want to open the door just yet before confirming having someone knock on your door
out here late at night claiming to be lost doesn't happen it's not a thing and it's an immediate cause for alarm I set through the door prove it what's your wife's name a now unfamiliar voice said back that's a trick question my smile disappeared I went to get my phone and call George Cheryl was watching the whole thing telling me we should call the police I said hold on the phone rang like three times before George picked up right away I said are you at my front door right now and he said no why I
told him there's someone at our front door trying to trick me into opening it he said he'll hurry right over and we hung up keep in mind all of us were still drunk during this there were knocks again at the door I yelled I have a shotgun waiting for you if you don't leave here now the voice said back we're just trying to use a phone that's all we need Cheryl called 9-1-1 which out here it takes an extremely long time for an officer to arrive on scene we heard footsteps walking around our wooden deck
that wraps around the house a couple sets of footsteps actually they stopped at one of our Windows which had the blinds closed and we heard one of them attempting to lift the window open this caused Cheryl who was still on the phone with 9-1-1 to scream leave us alone I followed suit and screamed at the top of my lungs to get the [ __ ] out of here or I'll shoot you it took me that long to think to run upstairs to grab my shotgun from the closet literally a few seconds later there were more
pounds at the door and this time it was actually George's voice yelling open up I let George in who also brought his shotgun he said he didn't see anything or anyone as he pulled up he stayed with us until a police officer came to the house he did a quick little scan of the property with us then left we took heat of his advice in installing a camera on the front and back surprisingly something we never thought of until this incident still gives me chills that all that was keeping out whoever was on our front
deck that night was a wooden door [Music] this story takes place at my grandparents Farm in the summer of 2018. I was alone one night since my grandparents were away I was getting paid to watch the farm for a couple nights on the last night I was watching TV in the living room when I started to hear a strange noise coming from outside in the cornfield at first I Shrugged it off because I figured it was most likely a deer that was until I heard all the cows start mooing at the same time usually you
would hear maybe one cow moo at a time but when every single cow starts mooing then something is wrong something or someone would have to startle them to make all the cows freak out like that I was the only one at the farm so it was of course my job to see what was going on so I went to the closet to get a coat on and go outside but just as I was about to go outside I heard a very high pitched cow scream Stood Still for a while shaking in my boots something terribly
wrong was going on with the cows I quickly ran upstairs to my grandpa's room under his bed he always keeps a few guns I loaded his hunting rifle and went outside the cow still would not stop mooing so I went into the barn to check there was nothing out of the ordinary all the cows were still here that was until I walked further down and noticed that one cow was missing from his stall it didn't make sense I was sure he was tied up to the stall the last time I saw him then I thought
I could hear a cow make a high-pitched moose sound for the cornfield outside the barn so I went outside but while I was walking to the field I swear I heard what sounded like people talking I finally had enough of this I fired two rounds into the air everything went silent the cows were quiet and I couldn't hear anything from the field that was until I heard the Footsteps in the field I didn't know if I had the balls to go inside the cornfield but I had to do it anyway this is the exact reason
farmers have guns and I couldn't just hide inside the house with trespassers in the field I started to walk into the crops and I could hear many pairs of footsteps all beside me I was getting even more freaked out as I continued to walk deeper into the field and then I froze down one of the rows of corn there was a person in All Blacks standing a few feet away from me I Rose my gun up telling him to get out of my field I wasn't bluffing I was ready to shoot but he never moved
so I fired another round into the air to scare him off but he still didn't move an inch then he actually started walking towards me with his arms slightly out as if telling me to lower my weapon I aims my gun at him again screaming at him to go away that's when I made the horrible realization that I was surrounded by people dressed in dark clothing like at least six or seven other people that was only the people I could see who knows if there were more and as the one guy got closer I realized
something he along with the rest were all wearing these creepy masks the man stopped approaching me as I started stepping backwards they all stood in silence for a moment I cannot explain the fear that I was experiencing I thought I was about to be killed that was when they all started chanting something I couldn't understand it it sounded like a different language but the chance almost sounded like a song and I started wondering if they were about to perform some kind of sick ritual on me that was when I took the opportunity to run as
fast as I could down a few rows of corn when I was out of breath I stopped and fired about six rounds in their Direction I heard a bunch of footsteps and rustling crops going in the opposite direction I finally scared them off I ran back towards the direction of The Farmhouse stopped saw something on the ground and what I saw has stuck with me scarred me there was a cow head sitting in the middle of a circle of candles I wanted to yak and as soon as I got back to the Farmhouse I did
I grabbed the house phone and called the police I told the operator everything to the best of my ability she said that an officer would be there soon after I got off the phone with the police I called my parents explaining the situation and asked them to come pick me up my dad said he'd be there in an hour I sat upstairs in my grandpa's room shaking and crying at the same time waiting for what felt like an eternity until I finally heard a police car outside I ran outside to the officer and never felt
happier in my life I told everything to the officer he searched the barn and then a little bit of the cornfield and he found the cow head he called up a search team after that as this was now an active crime scene when my parents arrived I along with the first officer had a talk with them about everything that happened thankfully my parents took me home after that my grandparents took this very seriously of course and installed the high-tech security camera system all over the farm who knows what kind of group that was but clearly
they were doing some kind of animal sacrifice ritual or something I just happened to be the Unlucky One Home Alone on the farm they chose to do it at [Music] my name is Howard I'm 25 years old and I live on my family's Farm I helped take care of it when my parents are out of town it's just a little family farm not a commercial Farm or anything like that my parents want me to take it over when they're too old to take care of it anymore as I'm the oldest of three and the only
son but honestly I don't really want to I don't see myself staying in the middle of Arkansas my whole life and especially not after something really weird that happened only last July my parents were on a romantic trip for a week and so it was my two sisters Crystal and Morgan and I taking care of the property while they were gone there's not much around here lots of privacy and such a little too much in my opinion except for this one night it started later on in the night as it was approaching time to go
to bed my sisters do College online Crystal takes summer courses and so she was in her room on her laptop doing work Morgan and I were just hanging out watching some dumb show in the living room all three of us kind of want to get out of the farm lifestyle me especially since I'm oldest and in the prime of my 20s one dreaded part of farm life is the Predators though not just the animals that come and eat your produce but the people that come and steal from you believe it or not it happens it
hasn't happened many times to us but it does happen we have a few guns in the house for this exact reason our two dogs outside suddenly started going crazy in the backyard something spooked them for sure my first thing went outside to the yard to see what they were barking at they both were looking in the direction of the crops going crazy I yelled at them to shut up and they went quiet I stepped right in front of the crops and listened I heard a whistling from inside of the cornfield it was undoubtedly a human's
whistling this was the first time I was experiencing a trespasser on the property with my dad not here I had to hurry inside to get one of the guns the dog started barking again I told my sisters that someone's outside in the cornfield and I had to go chase them away they both said that was a terrible idea to go run into the cornfield in the dark and they knocked some sense into me when I realized they were right I also realized how downright terrifying that would be so instead I went out back to the
dogs once more going crazy barking in the direction of the crops I aimed the gun into the air and fired off a shot which echoed into the night silencing the dogs I also was on some kind of Power Trip in the moment and screamed out to get off our land as loud as I could I felt that would have done the trick and went back inside my sisters were both laughing which caused me to laugh too but our little laugh amongst each other didn't last long because the dog started going crazy again even crazier this
time I went back outside ready to do the same thing again but I felt my heart skip a beat when I saw the guy standing about 20 feet from the dogs right in front of the cornfield he looked at me and I screamed hey at which point he ran into the cornfield I started running over and fired another shot into the air I stopped by the dogs there was no chance in hell I was going in there I wasn't about to leave the dogs out here either I unclamped their chains from the hooks and brought
them inside the house I told my sister someone was sneaking around in the cornfield so what did we do we called our dad he told me I had to be the man of the house and protect my sisters he recommended I fire another warning shot outside if whoever it was came back after this we all just gradually went to our respective rooms my sisters each brought one of the dogs in their rooms and I brought the gun in my room just because we were all a little spooked by this I had the window open and
as I was laying in bed watching a movie on my laptop I heard a whistling from outside I hurried to the window and looked out to see someone slowly walking the grass then like he had some Sixth Sense he stopped walking and turned to look at my window still whistling this jerk was obviously trying to mess with us and scare us a very stupid idea when I already made it clear I had a gun I ran to grab the gun off the bed and aimed it out the window I shot at the grass a few
feet away from him purposely missing of course this cut his little horror movie Act short and he ran out of view of my window towards the front of the house this time he didn't come back he'd have to be a fool to come back after that I obviously told my sisters why I shot and I assured them he would not be coming back we never found out who it was or why it could have been some teen or multiple teens just trying to scare some innocent Farmers for fun or it could have been an actually
dangerous person
