The
Batman - The Strange
While going through the mail the other day,
I came upon an email from a person named Cindy. At first
I thought it was a ghost story, then I thought it was a
Goatman Story. After reading the account several times I
decided that it was neither.I finally decided to give the creature a
name: The Batman. Below is Cindy's account of her dealings
with this real life monster.
Our story
begins early July of 2000. A friend and I returned to my
parents camper,
located on a
secluded lake Greene County, IN, on hilly grounds. There was a
string of
colored lights,
running from the camper to the lake, they were roughly 7 foot
high in the
trees. Upon
returning to the site, we noticed the lights had been torn,
chairs were flipped
over and one was
broken. We exited the truck and noticed something running into
the
woods, away from the
camper. At first, we thought it was a joke. We then grabbed a
spotlight, and got
into a boat. There was a lot of commotion along the side of
the lake.
We proceeded to
chase whatever it was down by the noise. Although we sat out
to see
what it was, we only
caught a few glimpses. We eventually caught up to it in a
corner of
the woods that was
scattered with pine and weeds, that was when we finally got
the light
on it and saw the
whitish shimmery hair, bat-like ears and fiery red eyes. It
sat and
stared at us until
we decided to go back to the camper. At this time it was
traveling on all
four legs. The rest
of the night consisted on strange noises until near dawn.
Thinking it
was over, my cousin
and I spotted it near the dock in front of the camper, once
again on
all fours, this time
we saw it had a large man-like torso. On this night, nothing
was heard
or seen. After a
week, we decided maybe it was a prank. In about another week,
my
girlfriend, a friend
and I, were making fun of theses occurrences. We were yelling,
jumping
up and down on the
dock. I walked to the right of the camper toward the woods in
the
darkness, and there
was a loud rumbling growl. It was then we all ran into the
camper,
thinking nothing of
the past occurrences, we thought it was a coyote or dog. After
waiting
for 20 minutes we
walked out to the truck to leave. We circled the camper once
to see if
anything could be
seen, in the midst of our second revolution before the lights
were onto
it, we saw the image
of a 7 foot tall creature walking casually towards the truck
on its
back legs. Once
again, it had a large torso, but its legs were small in
proportion top the
body, it had the
same large head and red eyes. Its arms and chest were rather
muscular. After
seeing this again, I decided to tell my dad, he seemed to be
the only one
who believed the
story. The reason he did was because he saw something that
looked
similar across the
lake. We then set out to look for it in the woods. We decided
to walk
to where it was
first seen, and there was a bunch of logs knocked over and
crushed. A
footprint was
spotted by the two of us, it looked like an unusually large
hoof-print. We are
not the only people
who have seen it, my dad was talking to some people that have
a
campsite a mile
away, in the same woods. It has also showed up there, and once
it ran
through their
campsite. Now that fall is approaching we have seen nothing of
the
creature.
Batman
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