My wife, Laura Gail, is a very practical person. She isn’t one to exaggerate, and she doesn’t scare easily. I kidded her a lot when she told me this story, years ago, but her tale has never wavered. I like to think that there’s always an explanation for everything, but there are some things in this life that cannot be explained. In her own words, Laura Gail presents one of those today.
I saw something back in or about 1998. It was truly frightening and when Kevin asked me to tell this story I hesitated. I’m afraid that I will see it again just because I talked about it.
First let me say I’m not one of those people who sees ghosts or demons. This was a one-time thing and I hope to never see it again.
My ex-husband and I were at his mother’s house. We pretty much had a 2-hour bible lesson while we were there. This was a common occurrence when we visited her. It was about 9pm when we decided to go home. We lived between Humboldt and Medina. We turned onto Hwy 152 going toward Medina. There isn’t much in the area but houses and fields. It was very dark. I was in the passenger seat just kind of staring out into the darkness. It was Fall and the crops had been cleared already. The moon lit the eerie landscape. We were in the middle of a curve with an empty field on my right when I saw movement out in the field. There was something standing in the middle of the recently cut field. This thing looked to be 7 feet tall, and it suddenly crouched down and sprang into the air. It had wings that were at least 5 ft long that I didn’t notice until it left the ground. When it was standing in the field its wings were kind of wrapped around it like a person would do with a blanket. It was black. I can’t remember a face or feet, but it seemed at least part human. It flew towards me and over the car. I made a noise and sucked my breath in and at the same time my ex and I asked each other, “Did you see that?” He said “I’m turning around to see what that was”. I was terrified. This thing felt evil. I begged him not to go back but he did anyway. It was gone, thankfully. We turned around again and headed home. We didn’t speak the rest of the way. We were busy watching the fields for this thing. Once we were home and, in the house, we talked about it, and both described it the same way.
Through the years there have been movies that came out after we saw this thing. We have compared it to Jeepers Creepers. This thing lifted off the ground the same way. We compared it to Mothman. Its shape was similar. We searched for it on the Internet and the best I found close to it was a Jersey Devil except this was more human than it.
I tried again last night to search the Internet for what we saw but couldn’t find anything. I got scared just trying to find it and slept with the light on. I felt like I was opening a door just by researching it, so I quit. So, the next time you drive on Hwy 152 between Humboldt and Medina keep an eye out for it. I have passed that way many times and a small part of me still cringes when I think of it.
“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know.”
Sherman Alexie
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