5 Real WEREWOLF Encounters (Horror Stories from the Outdoors)

When a US Marine and his team are sent to a cave to do some reconnaissance on an enemy faction they realize that the dark recesses are harboring something much worse than enemy combatants something much much worse welcome to outdoor Terrors the show where I regil you with real people's supposedly true stories of the terrifying things they've encountered out Beyond Civilization if you have a story of your own to share send it to me at dark stories.org and stop by east.com if you want to hear more scary stories from our team if you like what you

hear leave outdoor Terror as a rating and review on Spotify and apple thank you now get warn by the fire and try to ignore the twig that s behind you as we're about to begin the first story is titled Bambi and Thumper versus the big bad wolf by 19 Delta Scout does anyone remember watching one of the final scenes of The Lord of the Rings trilogy where Frodo and his fellow Hobbits Sam wiise Mary and Pippen not sure about those last two are just sitting at the table in the middle of the festivities all of

the other Hobbits were celebrating the near impossible Victory against the forces of evil whil Frodo and his buddies which are sitting there stunned and shocked that they're Still alive this short scene which only lasts a few seconds is my favorite scene of the whole trilogy because that one scene shows exactly what happens when soldiers return from a year of War we would oft times meet at drinking establishments and sit in stun silence amazed that we were still alive after all the horrors we' experienced this was the case not too long ago when I was with

a few Buddies We were sitting in an unnamed Gentleman's Club out in the middle of the El Paso desert weird as it may sound after coming home from a year serving in the Middle East we felt comfortable in that lonely out of theeway drinking establishment out in the South Texas desert this is not my story but the Story of My Buddy Eduardo my name is a wardo acosto Bambino and I was born in Costa Rica when I was 10 my family immigrated To the United States and moved to Northern New York state where my father

worked one full-time job and two parttime jobs to support the family my mother was going to school to become a nurse so that's why my father was working so hard he did not want my mother to have to get a part-time job so that she could concentrate on becoming a nurse I helped that as well getting my six-year-old sister ready for school in the morning and picking her up in the Evenings once I was done with the school day we were renting a modest three-bedroom two-story house within walking distance to the hospital where my mother

was working as an intern my father drove to and from his many jobs in an old red and rust color Dodge pickup truck looking back at the time we were by no means wealthy but we were happy and we never lacked for food family Support and love one thing about our family was that we all felt in immensely privileged and blessed to be Americans and living in the greatest country in the world my father always said that we would not take one dime of government assistance or support as receiving supposedly free things from the government

actually enslaved you to the government we had seen it all too often in South America what the government Gives the government will take away leaving you no choice but to think act and vote the way the government wants we saw that mentality here in America as well but like I said my father was determined that our family would be a success without any government handouts America was the land of opportunity but success wasn't an entitlement success was there for those willing to work hard and apply their god-given gifts and talents and that is What my

family did for many years Flash Forward 8 years and my family was able to move to the suburbs and was even able to purchase a bigger house my mother was now a full-fledged charge nurse at the hospital where she worked caring for newborn babies and infants my father was able to purchase the grocery store which he had worked in so many years from the kindly Old Gentleman who owned it as he was ready to Retire after only 2 years we were ready to expand to two stores my parents persistence and determination had paid off and

although we weren't what most folks would call Filthy Rich we weren't exactly hurting for money either my mother's salary paid for the mortgage on our house and the profits from our family business paid the bills and the upkeep of my father's new Dodge truck and my mother's Hunter SUV everything else went into savings And the college fund for me and my sister when I turned 18 it was a very proud day for my family and I dad always said from now on it will be a tradition our family that we serve this great country which

has blessed us so much before our kids leave for college they must serve a few years in the armed forces of the United States there you'll meet other people of other nationalities and Customs you will serve together and become a team together you Will adapt and overcome many challenges together and when you leave the military you will see how America is such a great melting bot of people cultures and ideas when you take that experience to college you'll be all the more better experienced and mature than your peers I was proud to still the day

that I graduated from the US Marine cor boot camp in Paris Island South Carolina the training was tough but the training had to be tough if you wanted to earn The right to be one of the few and the proud I'm only 5'5 but I was also a fast runner and could navigate any obstacle course with ease so the drill sergeants gave me the nickname Bambi I'd lost about 15 during my time there but it was replaced with rock hard muscle and the confidence to know that I was the deadliest weapon on the battlefield standing

there sharp and lean in my dress blues with my fellow platoon of Marines I still remember the Look of immense pride in the faces of my father and my mother and my little sister those looks turned to complete horror on that terrible and tragic morning my father said that it was looking for locations to open a third store in New York City when we saw the smoke rising from the island as the buildings collapsed in the United States my country the one which had taken care of my family and protected us with freedoms That are

not enjoyed by so many others had been attacked we were at War I was attending the mountain Warfare training center in Bridgeport California when I got word that my unit back at 29 Palms was going to war to hit back at the bastards who had killed thousands of innocent people to tell you the truth I think at the time we all wanted to go to war we were Marines damn it you attack our Country we'll blow yours to hell on my last phone call home before leaving for Afghanistan my mother was sobbing telling me to

be safe and come home when it was all over my sister was also crying but I told her to be brave and assured her that what I was doing was to keep her safe but what really broke my heart was my father's voice he'd always been so confident and strong he always knew exactly what to say to give me Confidence however in a shaky voice he could only say I love you son it cannot be underestimated the horrors and atrocities that the enemy had inflicted upon the people of Afghanistan men women children babies whole families

and even entire Villages were wiped out by the Taliban so I had absolutely zero sympathy for them when we called in a tactical air strike and our ah1 Viper attack helicopters reigned Brimstone and hellfire on them in combat the Taliban were complete cowards hiding behind the very same women and children that they'd been brutalizing I was part of a reconnaissance Squad in my battalion's reconnaissance platoon the squad usually operated in a six-man team under command of a sergeant and all four of the teams were under command of a lieutenant we were operating in heavily mountainous

terrain just east of Bagram Airb base in pan Province patrolling the Steep Rises the jagged hilltops and valleys and the numerous cave systems relentlessly looking for The elusive enemy at least two or three Taliban mol positions had been shelling by grase at night so we were being sent out to find them my six-man Recon team consisted of our team leader staff sergeant Perez a short stocky by the book Marine with a permanent buzzcut who was Orin from Mexico City Mexico completely fearless And a natural leader Sergeant Perez was a former drill sergeant who volunteered to

deploy to Afghanistan our radio operator was a young Filipino private first class named lampas who was originally from Deva in the Philippines because he was the newest member of the team lampas had to hump the radio the team's M249 squad automatic weapon Gunner was big Lance called Corporal delene a young black Marine from Brooklyn Illinois we had what is called a lav 25 attached to our Squad a lav or light armored vehicle is an 8-wheel armored reconnaissance vehicle that mounted a 25mm chain gun and two smaller machine guns mounted on turret the LA's Commander was

Sergeant Big Mac mcaren the only Marine in the squad who was shorter than I was but the White Marine from claron Michigan was built like a brick wall he' been preparing to become a wrestler on our US Olympic team but put that aside to come to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban terrorists Corporal Pinkerton was the only other white Marine in the squad it was from the small town of Weed California and yes he was a stoner before he joined the Corp and found that he had a knack to fix just about anything that had gears

and wheels I was the squad's Grenadier my M4 rifle had what was called an m203 grenade launcher slug under the barrel Of the rifle which could launch a variety of 40 mm grenades at the enemy over my vest which carried my rifle ammunition I also wore a second vest which had small compartments for my grenades I had H high explosive grenade rounds incendiary rounds smoke rounds and even CS tier gas grenades I was like the squads mini artillery the M23 was breach loaded meaning that you had to break the M23 and half load a Single

grenade into the rear of the launcher then closed the launcher again when firing the M23 it gave off a soft but satisfying thump noise as such the m203 was effectually known as the thumper and because I still retain my nickname from basic training my weapon and I were known collectively as Bambi and Thumper our Recon Squad could lay down a tremendous amount of Firepower and we collectively piled into our lab 25 and Left Bagram just before midnight headed into enemy territory Guided by the Moonlight and his night vision goggles Corporal Pinkerton drove us over the

rocky terrain as we rumbled roughly Due West towards the jagged Stone mountains about 4 mil distant we had another Recon team which was operating north of us whilst several other teams were airlifted and dropped on the ridge line so we weren't alone on This operation but at this time the US was still in the process of bringing in more Marines and army grunts into the theater so we were pretty spread thin our objective was to observe a trail that our drones discovered which wound up in the narrow Trails into the mountains which ended at the

mouth of a large cave hidden under a rocky overhang the cave was located about 300 ft F feet above the valley floor and Pinkerton was able to get us up a narrow Goat Trail for about 200 ft before he had to pull off the trail the Goat Trail was too narrow for the lav to go any further Sergeant mcaren guided the lav back into a crevice about 100 ft and facing back down the trail we had just gone up inside that little rocky crevice our giant lav was swallowed up in darkness even if the Taliban

had night vision devices they would have been hardpressed to see Armored Transport staff sergeant Perez had lampus delene and me quietly Dismount from the back ramp of the LA as we would have to climb the rest of the way to our objective he told Sergeant mccon and Corporal Pinkerton to stay with the LA and keep the gun turret pointed down the trail since the radio on the lav had a greater range than our Man portable radio the lav would also act as a communication relay between our Squad and Bagram Using our night vision devices staff

sergeant Perez led us slowly and cautiously up the Rocky Trail carefully looking for signs of booby traps and cautioning US whenever the trail became so narrow that a wrong step would send one of us tumbling over the edge staff sergeant Perez moved stealthily as if he had owned the entire mountain and spoke with a confidence that made us all believe that we were the master of this Valley of Death we moved slowly less than an arms length from the Marine in front of us private lampus was behind Perez with the radio and delene was behind

lampus with the squad automatic weapon while me and my trusty Thumper brought up the rear we finally got to a somewhat level Plateau on the Ridge and wisely staff sergeant Perez decided to move us off of the trail which leads to the mouth of the cave he had his former typ perimeter As we scann our objective the cave was about 25 ft from us it was actually at the end of a culdesac where the Goat Trail ended at a steep drop the cave was surrounded on two sides by sheer rock walls with the Steep drop

off directly to the left of the Cav mouth this meant that there was only one route in and one route out of the cave a rocky overhang extended about 8 ft from the ceiling of the mouth of the cave meaning that it would have been Difficult to have spotted to the cave entrance from the air we need to get into a position above the cave on the Rocks opposite where we can observe staff sergeant Perez whispered I'll go Sergeant I said having just gone to the mountain Ware course okay Bambi said Perez hand me your

weapon so it won't hinder you and be careful I handed my weapon off to delene and backtracked about 10 ft down the Trail where I remember seeing a path which led up to the side of a trail this side path was even narrower than the one we were on and the footing was even more precarious as the loose gravel and stance rent to twist feet and ankles finally however I came to a rock ledge about 5 ft high and HED myself up and over hugging the ground once I had gotten up I discovered that I

was on a relatively flat surface roughly 10 ft long by 4 ft wide and surrounded on Three sides by Rock outcroppings that were between 3 to 4 ft High about 15 ft below me and about 100 ft away was the mouth of the cave this couldn't have been a more perfect spot to observe what Captain Taliban and his band of Merry lunatics were up to I climbed back off the spot and carefully made my way back down to the squad where I reported to staff sergeant Perez what I had found good work Bambi staff sergeant

Perez said stay close behind me and let's go check it out I guided him up the same narrow path that I took with lampus and lean following close behind until we finally made it up the Rock Ledge Perez holded himself up and staying low pulled all of us up the ledge this will do fine he whispered Bambi you hunger down on the far left and scan everything forward and to our left delene get in the middle and train Your saw at the mouth of the cave lampus I need you to keep an eye on the

trail and make sure nobody can get behind us here let me have the radio it had taken us almost an hour to get into position and staff sergeant Perez called Sergeant mcon back at the lav telling him that we were set mcen reported that one of our Recon squads to the north of us had spotted suspected enemy movement in a shallow Ravine between two low Hills good copy said Perez keep was Informed of any movement coming up that trail out we hunk it down on the hard Rocky Plateau trying to get as comfortable as we

could whilst making as little noise as possible it was a cold night on that Ridge and winds would periodically whip up making the night air even colder at first I thought they were crazy to issue Generation 3 cold weather gear for the desert but now I knew why but even with Thermal under clothes fleece jacket a wool B of clava and our uniforms it was still rather chilly we were all lying prone on the cold ground peering over the rocks and looking down at nothing but an empty Cav mouth at the end of a lonely

Trail whilst our brothers in another Squad were in contact with possible enemy forces it was about 2: in the morning and my eyes were getting crossed looking through my nvgs into the dark I could Feel my myself dozing off when suddenly behind us about 2 miles from our location a bright light followed by white smoke seemed to loom out of the ground and Ascend into the air headed towards bam the talibans fired a Chinese 122 mm surfac to surface rocket at the airbase whispered Sergeant Perez we watched helplessly as the unguided rocket looped and descended

towards our base seconds later four Bright orange flares blossomed in in the sky above the Taliban launch site as the Americans marked the enemy position in the clear night we could see flashes of weapon fire in the distance and the noise of a firefight going on all this was soon drowned out as red lights resembling laser-like Fingers of Death reached out of the sky and struck the taliban's position the noise like a buzz s ripped the air and even we could feel the slight vibrations on the ground as Thousands of rounds of of hot lead

rained down on the Taliban looks like Spectre is up tonight said Sergeant Perez grinning Spectre is the code name for one of our ac130 transport planes modified to carry an astonishing array of weaponry and Firepower which the US Air Force Reigns down on the bad guys soon however the brief light show was over and just as quickly as it had started the valley was now deathly quiet Again again mtin called Perez from the left saying that the Taliban had gotten off one of the three missiles that they intended to fire at the base and that

some of Captain taliban's merry lunatics were headed eastwards in our general direction Perez said that was a good copy and instructed MC Aon to keep us updated before turning to us and saying head up Marines we may have hostiles approaching Soon all of a sudden all thoughts of getting a few minutes of sleep went right out of the window our weapons were all locked and loaded and my Thumper had a 40 mm H high explosive grenade already loaded into the bridge I thought for a moment and decided to Sly eject that H round from my

grenade launcher and placed it back into one of the pouches I reached into another pouch and pulled out an incendiary round and loaded into my Thumer if the Taliban were hiding 122 mm rockets in that cave an incendiary round would ignite the propellant causing the Rockets to explode we lay there motionless for another 3 hours as no further action had been taking place anywhere in the area it was just after 5: in the morning and the Darkness around us was ever so slightly lightening into a dark purple sky we got movement to our direct front

whispered sergeant mccartin from the Laugh I count five six seven at least a dozen Personnel moving up the trail towards your position they seem to be armed with AKs looks like they've been wounded Roger Perez whispered into the handmic relay to headquarters what we have and maintain observation Perez handed the mic back to lampus and said stay alert Marines we have movement coming up the trail it was still too dark to see without our night vision goggles and the Suspected Taliban approaching the cave entrance were lighting their way using cheap flashlights sure enough there was

about a dozen men armed with AK-47s approaching the cave two of them lying on makeshift stretchers none of the men were carrying anything larger than AK-47 they had no mortars or Rockets now the rules of engagement at the time were pretty sketchy since it was legal to own AK-47s we couldn't just assume that these were the Taliban we had to actually see them commit a criminal act before we could do anything for all we knew these could have just been local farmers who got caught up in the fighting and were just trying to get away

maybe this cave was where they hid from the Taliban despite everything that was going on despite the fact that thousands of Innocents died on American soil we still insisted on giving Everyone here the benefit of the doubt everyone was considered innocent until they were utterly shown that they intended to commit a hostile Act the armed men seemed to show no concern about being tactically silent and weren't worried at all when they may have been under observation by US Marines the heavily bearded young man who seemed to be the leader of the group tried to Usher

the men carrying the two stretches into the Cave strangely however some of the men seemed reluctant to enter the safety of the cave and had in fact dropped the two wounded men on the ground the leader loudly clambered around around into his AK-47 yelling in pton and pointing towards the cave entrance the yelling went on for several seconds before the men who refused to go into the cave finally relented and they all disappeared into the entrance what you make it that Sergeant Whispered delene different families different factions different tribes said Perez all these people know

is conflict and strife do you think they're Taliban said lampus maybe said pess or maybe not they are friendly we're obliged to help their wounded stay calm for now about another 5 minutes pass when a loud barking Roar something like a dog's bark combined with a bear's growl boomed From the cave several men screamed and we could hear the Frantic undisciplined sounds of AK-47 rifle Fire coming from inside of the cave followed by the flashes of muzzle fire the earlier argument had seemingly reached a boiling point and the two factions of the same group turned

violent against each other but instead of us hearing voices of Rage it seemed like all of the men shooting inside the cave were filled with voices of Fear this lasted for several seconds as the sounds of men fighting and apparently dying abruptly ceased along with the rifle fire then there was silence there something big big but unseen seemed to be stirring inside of the cave shorten perz are you in contact it was Sergeant mcus calling from the L negative replied Perez we're fine apparently there's some kind of altercation inside the cave and a lot of

Shooting call us into Bagram Roger white one several minutes passed as mcon reported the incident back to base meanwhile we kept our eyes laser are focused on the cave whatever was moving around in there perhaps a wounded men had stopped headquarters wants us to maintain observation and secure the position radioed mtin from the laugh compy Commander is sending up a relief Platoon later in the morning once it gets lighter seems like they're still clearing the area from last night's attack we sat for an undetermined amount of time as the sky slowly went from a dark

purple to a dark blue with hints of red as the sun began crawling its way into the sky still everything was silent inside the cave we need to get in and see what's going on said pess there may be injured people that need assistance Bambi take Point moving Sergeant I said happy to be able to get up and stretch my aching back and leg muscles delene said pess take slack moving sergeant said delene as he hafted to his saw and followed me soon we were all down from our elevated perch and moving back down the

Narrow Path towards the main trail it was lighter now so the going was smoother and faster though no less precarious we no longer needed our nvgs to see the path ahead of us Sergeant Perez stopped us at the point where we stepped into the trail D take up a second firing position here and watch your backs maybe coming out of the there in a hurry I'm on it sergeant said delene as he scooted a few feet back up the path to where he was in some cover and could watch the cave let's move instructed Sergeant

Perez as all three of us combat rushed across the trail and stacked on the right side of the cave entrance even standing outside We could smell the scent of blood and Carnage wafting from inside the cave like a Slaughter housee of raw flesh I was in front with Perez directly behind me and lampus behind him Perez said nothing simply holding up three fingers two fingers one go just as we trained I went in first swiftly covering everything to my front and to the left with my weapon simultaneously Perez came in behind me and swept right

whil lampus immediately Followed and swept front to rear all of a sudden behind me I heard lampus wretching as he stepped back oh my God he whispered horrified that he had stepped into a pile of human entrails my eyes began adjusting to the darkness inside of the cave and I heaved as I saw the bodies and pieces of bodies stacked up like cordwood next to a wall deeper inside the cave while all around us piles of inid and guts had been strewn across the floor and the Walls there was blood and streaks of blood everywhere

without realizing it I had lowered my weapon and was walking deeper into the cave hold your positions hsed Sergeant Perez take a knee and scan yourself something seemed to fall from the heights of the cave ceiling something big and hairy that smelled of wet and moldy fur it landed directly behind me and I felt something slam into my back and ribs like a baseball bat I went flying into the side of the cave Wall and slumped down with my ears ringing and the wind knocked out of me I turned around and propped my back against

the wall my head spinning whatever this thing was had its back towards me now it was covered in short fur and easily stood above 8 ft tall from behind I could see that it had canine like ears and legs like a dog or a wolf and arms that were hideously long and muscular the thing was facing Sergeant Perez who tried to raise his M4 to fire but the thing backhanded Perez so hard that he was sent tumbling out of the cave I watched in horror as sergeant Perez's body tumbled over the Ravine and fell from

view lampus was to the creature's left and he opened up with his M4 at this close range lampus couldn't miss as he put at least five to six rounds Center mass of the creature however the creature only Looked annoyed as it swept out at lampus lampus jumped back and slipped on the same pile of entrails he had stepped in earlier with lampus now on his back the creature stalked towards him I reached for my weapon and found that I didn't have it anymore looking around I saw that I dropped it right where the creature had

hit me my Thumper was laying at the creature's feet or Paws or whatever those massive things Were still groggy from the blow I took I drunkly ran towards the creature and died for my weapon and fell far short the creature closed in on lampus as lampus struggled to pull his kabar from its sheath suddenly the entrance to the cave darkened as another figure entered son of a yelled delen as he lifted his saw and put an eight round burst directly into the creatur's guts then another then another the creature let out a pained howl and

jumped nearly 15 ft towards delene knocking the saw out of Del's hands and slamming him to the ground Del's distraction gave me the second I needed to get up and grab my thumer charging at the creature from behind and to its left I screamed a Battle Cry as I rammed him as hard as I could with the entire right side of my body to my surprise the creature went off balance but so did I I was now lying about 8 ft in front of the creature with Delina lampus standing behind me near the mouth of

the cave I was again on my back lying in a pile of human Gore as I leveled my weapon up at the creature I can now get a look at its face it definitely had canine features with a short snout wide jaws and horrifically sharp and bloodstained teeth get down get down get down I yelled at lampus and delene what are you said delene oh yelled lampus the creature opened its more wide in an angry growl just as my Weapon went thump it was late in the afternoon when we were all finally piled into the

back of the LA Corporal pingon driving his old back to Bagram after this long Patrol a platoon of Marines and some Army EOD guys had arrived later on in the morning and together we estimated that there were the bodies of at least 10 to 12 Taliban fighters inside of the cave we knew they were Taliban because The EOD guys also found fragments of at least two Chinese 22 mm rockets and three Russian 82 mm mortars as well as Sun destroyed RPGs they also found the rear hindquarters of what had to be a huge dog which

they assumed the Taliban were using as a watchdog to guard their stash of high explosives when I fired my 40mm incendiary grenade at the Taliban fighters who were shooting at us it set Off their Munitions and pretty much blew them all to hell at least that's what Sergeant Perez told the Intel guys when they question us about the engagement and the rest of us backed up Sergeant Perez's story I really don't know how long I was unconscious after I force fed that creature an incendiary grenade I only remember waking up and being dragged across the

ground and out into the sunlight by lampus and delene Delene came running when he saw Sergeant Perez being tossed out of the cave like a ragd doll and over the side of the ravine fortunately Perez fell on a Ledge just 6 ft below the Ravine and was groggy and woozy when we finally pulled him back up onto the trail since it was likely that the Taliban would use the cave again after we left Perez suggested that our EOD guys blow the living crap out of the cave and the EOD guys were more than Happy to

oblige they wired C4 all over the unexploded Taliban ordinance inside the cave and wired the overhang of the cave entrance and detonated the charges in a booming explosion that knocked my lungs into my skull it was beautiful and When the Smoke cleared there was just a pile of rocks where the Cave used to be the four of us were sitting in the back of the laugh as we rumbled towards the base Sergeant Perez's arm was in a sling from His fall and I had a nice big bandage on my head from where I was hit

delene was scooping spaghetti and meatballs from an M into to his mouth and lampus nearly threw up again man how can you eat that lampus said I'm hungry mad leene always told me that fighting werewolves is hard work so eat as much as you can when you can I shook my head and leaned back closing my eyes and letting the rumble of the LA's engines rock me to Sleep I think the sun coming up weaken the creature said lampus that's why we were able to hurt it what do you think it was Sergeant asked delene

staff sergeant Perez as pragmatic as he was stoic simply Shrugged I don't know I don't care if you're some mythical bulletproof where whatever the hell you are if a marine thumps an incendiary grenade down your throat you're a rug baby I've since been promoted to the Rank of staff sergeant and because of that I'm required to surrender my beloved thump for a regular M4 rifle I haven't though I've kept my same Thumper through one combat tour of Afghanistan and three to aaq so sleep well Bambi and Thumper got your back the dog man in the

window by Anonymous 2008 I believe I saw something resembling an alleged Dogman or maybe it Was a skinwalker either way I know I saw something out of my window on a nearby abandoned house on my street for anonymity sake I'll refer to myself as D and my dad will be J my uncle be a and my grandparents will be T and L we live on a semi- Rural Street in Virginia and there's only about four houses on this said Street we're the type of neighborhood That everyone knows everybody and our neighbors are our relatives I

live with my dad and my grand parents in the house at the very end of the street with my uncle a living closest to the top of the road we're very lucky to live in this house because we're the closest to the woods we saw lots of deer while turkeys rabbits even a few Bears unfortunately I think that's what attracted this thing to our Neighborhood or maybe it was because I own a lot of books and items that are associated with occultism yeah I admit it wasn't the best type of thing to own especially when

I was raised to be a Christian but it was a guilty pleasure of mine anyway right next to A's house there is an abandoned house now this house used to belong to my great grandparents my grandparents parents but the house has been abandoned Since they passed away this is where the creature usually shows up I first heard about this dog man from my grandma when she used to tell me stories about mysterious creatures and entities much to the dismay of my dad M stop filling de's head with that nonsense she's still a kid she'll get

nightmares he'd always say then my grandma shot back it's not nonsense Jay they're real yeah that was my grandma for you She and my grandpa grew up in ryal Virginia back in the day so it wasn't surprising they had a few tales and encounters to share my dad however didn't like them telling me scary stories and it was always worried that I'll start believing in that stuff too some of the stories I believed but they didn't scare me not like my dad thought they would but I remember one story in particular that still sends Chills

down my spine to this day this particular story was told by my grandpa and grandma and it was about a Native American curse The Story Goes that a Sharman possessed the power to transform into into a werewolflike creature that's the way my grandparents described it and he slaughtered many innocent people not just in his tribe but of neighboring tribes and European settlers too my grandparents described this part to me In great detail eventually his powers in Black Magic were discovered by the tribe and he was banished soon the trib's Warriors tracked him down and killed

him whilst he was in his wolf State then in his last dying breath he put a curse on the land and said he would come back for their lives my grandparents say that when his spirit is near all of the wildlife disappears and goes quiet the presence of death itself can be felt in the air And he can be seen as something half man and half wolf I laughed it off as I usually did saying that there's no such thing as werewolves but my grandpa leaned down and said it isn't a werewolf something else something

evil with me being only 6 years old when I first heard this I was chilled to the Bone but it definitely made me more cautious about being out in the Woods now I'll stop boring you with all the extra lengthy prologue and I'll get straight to the encounter I remember the first encounter with that thing like it happened yesterday I was 12 years old at the time and I was in the nearby Field looking for deer tracks I was in that field all afternoon and I had already found a deer antler by the time I

was almost to the end of the field it was already Sunset I decided to finish up and come Back in the morning but first I wanted to show my uncle the deer antler that I had found as I walked up the street I noticed a strong smell of what I could only describe as a mix of wet dog a dead bear rotting in the Summer sun and coyote to urine I ignored it and kept on walking up the street when I was getting close to the abandoned house something big in the Window caught my eye

the odor was strongest here and only then did I notice that all of the sounds of the forest were silent I felt an odd Indescribable chill that went down my spine and I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand up I slowly turned my head more slowly than I'd ever turned before towards the window when I saw what was in the window I froze like a deer in the headlights And I felt like I was having a heart attack with how fast it was racing the thing in the window was bent down

allowing its ugly deformed face to be seen outside as with many other descriptions of similar creatures this thing was tall otherwise it wouldn't be bent down to look at me I could see a lot of detail but it was getting dark and there was little to no light in the house but what I could see Was the silhouette of a large wolf manlike Abomination and two glowing red eyes its front paws were more like raccoon hands and they were resting on the window sill we stared at each other for what felt like an eternity before

its lips curled back to form a sick malicious smile like some psychotic men I froze still gripping the Dear Antler and I was too afraid to move I Considered using the antet to defend myself but then I realized how big that thing was I realized that this little bucks antler was not going to do any good against this creature I wanted to scream I wanted to run back home to my dad and grandparents but I was paralized with fear just then the creature moved towards the broken down door and stood in the threshold suddenly my

uncle a dashed to My side with his gun and Holster on he screamed at me to get behind him he shot at it and it let out a horrible distorted almost humanlike scream Uncle a kept shooting at it and it ran off into the woods there was a small moment of silence then he turned to me and asked what I was doing outside after dark I told him that I was looking for deer tracks and I saw the thing looking at me through the window He looked at me not saying a word then he looked

down as if to think then he looked at me again and said in a serious tone don't go out at night and stay out of the woods after that he walked me back home he also told me not to speak about this I wasn't sure why he told me this part but I never spoke about this particular encounter again about 2 years later the first encounter had just turned into a Repressed memory I didn't think about it often but when I did I felt the same fear I felt as if I were reliving it all

over again now my second encounter was somehow worse than the first it was a few days after my 14th birthday and it was after dark I tended to have a habit of staying UPL so this led to me staying up until around 2:00 a.m. on this particular night around 3:30 a.m. I was getting ready for bed when I heard a tap On the window I turned towards it only to see nothing I assumed it was just a bug flying into the window and I resumed my bedtime routine soon I turned the lights out and climbed

into bed but of course I couldn't sleep so I started scrolling through tick Tok YouTube and Tumblr I know it's not the best thing to do when you're trying to sleep but I Didn't care just when I was about to click on another video I heard that tapping noise again annoyed I turned towards the window now the window I'm talking about is right in front of the foot of my bed when I looked at the window I saw a familiar Eerie silhouette at once I knew that the thing was back once again its poor hands

were resting on the bottom of the window and it was staring at me only this time it Had a small dead animal in its toothy jaws and it had blood on its muzzle still staring at me it tilted its head back and opened its jaws to eat the small creature this thing swallowed it whole without even chewing I swear to God I was panicking after watching it eat the entire animal fun fact about me at the time I recently found out I have severe anxiety and I'm extremely prone to panic Attacks and unfortunately this encounter

and Trauma from my past encounter triggered a massive panic attack if you've ever experienced a panic attack you'll know that the symptoms are similar to a heart attack rapid heartbeat sweating heavy breathing feeling dizzy and it feels like you're about to die so there I was lying in bed while having a god- awful panic attack and a wolf demon staring at me through the Window I gripped my chest and I felt my heart drumming in it I tried to calm down and I tried to control my breathing but I was panicking and I couldn't stop

as I looked back at this wolf creature it had its blood covered poor hand on the glass then everything went black when I woke up it was 10:30 in the morning I shot right out of bed reached for the baseball bat I kept next to my bed gripping in my hands but there was Nothing at the window all that remained of the Creature from the night before was a bloody porw print this was my last encounter with the creature but I still see glimpses of it by the tree line to this day I have many

questions what was this creature where did it come from Why didn't it break into my house when it was fully capable of doing so and why didn't it kill me when it had The chance all I know is that this creature wasn't normal ever since the last close encounter with that thing my little Chihuahua dog always goes crazy at night there haven't been any deer or small animals around it knows where we live and I haven't been able to sleep at night since a dog's body with human hands and feet by Avery 999 it was

August and my cousin's ages ranged from 10 to 15 and I was the youngest being 10 I was staying with an 11 13 and 14year old we stayed up telling scary stories often but one night in a few weeks in we decided to make a campfire at back my grandma's house is in a rural suburb the neighbors aren't too far when you're driving down the road to her house but in the backyard it's thick Forest with man-made p paths through it each house is on a hill so only part of the basement was actually underground

that isn't important until later though so we towards the east side of her yard in a smallish patch of open land you couldn't see the neighbors yards from here and there was probably 3/4 of a mile to each side of us that belonged to my grandma it was maybe 11: at night and we were playing truth or Dare after telling scary stories and my 14-year-old cousin dared me in the third 1-year-old to go for a walk through the paths for 10 minutes or so I said yes right away I wasn't easily scared and rather level-headed

for my age but my older cousin was a bit more hesitant we didn't bring a flashlight because it wasn't pitch dark yet and we could see enough to not die we were walking through the paths for about 5 minutes and could barely see The fire through the trees when we decided to turn in the middle of the path was a large likee creature hunched over with its front hands an inch from the ground what I remember the most was how its eyes were so bright white it was humanoid dog shaped with a humanlike head but

a doglike body human hands and feet it looked right at us and I know I was paralyzed with fear as it dashed Away the opposite direction from us towards the creek that ran through the yard eventually my cousin and I screamed bloody effing murder and the other cousin and my grandma ran to us I don't remember much here because I was really disoriented and I couldn't think properly but I did wake up in bed so I assume I was brought to the house all the kids slept in the basement in the big room with sliding

glass doors to the outside as the room was on the Side that wasn't underground my bed was pressed against the big glass window and I could see my cousins playing outside down below the house is in Michigan so it gets slightly chilly even in the end of August and there was a slight breeze so I put my jacket on and ran to join them outside skipping breakfast not wanting to miss out on anything fun when I got down I could tell they weren't playing but rather running to Get my grandma her dogs both of them

were dead ripped up that night we went to bed early I I woke up at maybe 2: in the morning because I felt like something hit my head my cousins were all sitting on the double bed opposite me on the other side of the room there was one bunk bed and two double beds the double beds for me and my 14-year-old cousin they were being quiet and staring at me the 13-year-old nodded his head towards the Window I froze they all looked afraid I turned my head slightly to the side and I saw a really

messed up looking face pressed against the window with gaping eyes looking down at me I screamed so loud and it bolted my grandma called the police after I told her what had happened and they found nothing I went home after that and I've never been there during the night again something kept staring at me every Night by snow isn't great I know I'm going to sound crazy for this but I know what I saw I was in 7th or sixth grade standing at the slider door waiting for my dog moose to come back to the

door when suddenly I saw something in the far end of the backyard behind the pool my dad had set up during the summer there was a growling wolf-like creature it seemed like it was running in place but the thing was I don't live around Woods Where a wolf would live I live in a town where there are lots of people and there shouldn't have been any wolves maybe a wolf dog but no actual wolves once I let moose in I went to my room and curled up with my dog Gabby who was a small chaa

I couldn't shake the feeling there was actually a wolf outside when I opened the slider before going to bed the wolf was still there so I knew it wasn't just a trick of the Light we weeks went by and I was still seeing it I kept telling my mom but she said I was just seeing things as a trick of the light so one day I grew tired of being told this took out my phone to take a picture of it turned off the flash and everything and looked up from my phone to ensure it

was still there but when I looked at my phone it wasn't there a week later or maybe the same week I woke up for school looking for my dog Gabby I found her by the door she died of old age I was devastated because of this but kept seeing this glowing wolf for a few weeks longer then it had a form of comfort towards me only when it left there was another wolf-like figure only this one it was like it was made of Shadows it had brighter red glowing eyes to this day even 2 years

later I've no idea what those things Were maybe an omen of death and life but I'm not really sure Dogman battle by Achilles 57 this is from a while ago my cousin Mark he called me and told me that one of his buddies had been hurt on a hunting trip in Michigan he asked me to come out and watch him whilst he and the rest went out to try and find the animal that actually hurt him I drove out to his Hunter cabin on the Northern tip of Michigan when I arrived he was waiting for

me on the front yard completely decked out in Kevlar a 50 caliber hunting rifle and two 45 caliber pistols three Bowie knives a boot knife in each of his boots a riot shield and a riot helmet two of his other bodies the ones that weren't hurt were decked out in full riot gear with old M4 rifles that they got from a military surplus store I grabbed my old M4 grenade rifle that I had gotten from my Great-grandfather before he passed away and his old medic bag I went inside the house into the living room and

sat down in a recliner on the deck next to Andy who had been hurt he was wrapped completely head to toe in white wrap as well as a stretchy kind of bandage I could tell it was really hurt I just couldn't tell how badly as the three of the men ran into the woods I leaned back and put my old M4 grenade rifle across my lap put my Feet on the railing and waited soon I started to hear weird sounds there was a gutal roar coming from the woods what looked like a giant black shape

was ghosting in between the trees then out of nowhere come the shouts I heard Mark and his two other buddies scream in Terror and that's when I heard their gun start to go off it sounded like a war zone I knew Andy could easily defend himself if I moved him inside so I grabbed him put him in a Wheelchair and rolled him in inside I handed him one of my old 45s ran up onto the deck and jumped over the railing running into the woods loading my M4 and getting ready for a fight I ran

until I entered a clearing there in the clearing was one of Mark's bodies on the ground bleeding badly I ran up to him sliding down beside him and started to patch what wounds I could with what medicine I had all around me were gunshots screams Howls and Roars I couldn't tell tell which way Mark and the other one of his buddies had gone I tried to find him as soon as I could I ran straight left once I was sure that the wounded body was safe and high enough up in a tree instead of finding

Mark I found his other body had torn clean off of his shoulders I knew there was nothing I could do so I just covered him up with branches and covered him with a blanket to try and keep the animals from seeing Him and smelling him that's when I heard the Ping of marks M1 I ran to the direction of the Ping pulling out my 45 as I was pretty sure it was going to be a very close fight meaning I wasn't going to be able to use my rifle I burst out of the trees and

right in front of me was a hulking black shape and looked like a werewolf from all those old TV movies I'd watched I took aim and fired four rounds Right into its back it gave a grunt turned and growled at me that's when I saw the teeth stained rest I looked behind it and saw Mark crawling away one of his legs broken I knew this fight could probably be my last but if I could give Mark even a little bit of time to get to his wounded body and get out of the forest to Andy

call the authorities and get out of there I was going to take it I readied my pistol aimed and let loose a hail of bullets The Beast gave a terrifying howl straight up into the night sky all I could see was its eyes as they glowed red in the night I charged still firing as I fired my last bullet I dropped my gun and Drew one of my knives I slashed as I spun to the right and I could feel blood leap from the beast's chest onto my face I spun back around jumped and stabbed

the knife down as hard as I could I felt the knife go into something I couldn't see anything due to the blood And how dark it was but I knew that I'd hit it it let out another terrifying Screech of pain and rage it threw me from its back and ran deep into the woods I drew my M1 and started firing as it retreated upon hearing the ping of my M1 Mark opened fire with his own I reloaded my pistol grabbed Mark and started dragging him backwards as he fired when his weapon pinged I started

firing with my pistol we made it back to his wounded Body I put my pistol away grabbed him and started pulling him back we got back to the house where Andy had already called the police and the park rangers when I I pulled them out of the forest still firing their weapons the police ran up and started firing their own weapons into the night they obviously knew what we were both shooting at I didn't know then and there if that thing was gone for good but as we went Back to civilization I was driving my

Humvee down the road following the ambulance all the way to the hospital when all of a sudden bursting out of the woods and onto the road in front of me was the very same black creature most people say slam on the brakes but I did the opposite I slammed on the gas and ran that thing over when I knocked it over and I turned around I parked my car right on top of it I got out pulled out my pistol and unloaded Four magazines straight into its skull Point Blank a police car pulled up beside

me saw me shooting at its head aimed his shotgun and blew the thing's head clean off point blank with a 12gauge shotgun filled with Buckshot we hold the thing off to the vet the vet then cut it open to find out what it had been eating that's when we noticed dog Tanks they're old dog tags that were covered in Rust when we traced the dog tags we found out that they'd come from a cemetery near the hospital we later returned the dog tags to the families of the people that had lost them that's my story

I've sworn to avenge my cousin's dead friend no matter what the the next time I see one of those dog men in Michigan I'm going to Kill it I'm going to make sure that it serves as a message to all others that if you mess with humans you unlock our true rage and we can be truly terrifying when we want to be thanks for taking the time to join us for a few true Tales this evening I do ever so hope you enjoyed them if you have a story of your own to share send them

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