Originally posted by glowpole
Well since its getting closer to haloween i thoguht A thread with everyons scariest moment would be cool.....ok i'll start it off
Ok 4 years ago down in mississippi me and my cousin were going down to our lake to get drunk and have a campfire. Our farm is way out in the woods and their is alto of deer,turkey and what not their...anyways I was driving my 4-wheeler while my cousin was driving the truck and eveyron else was following when i came around a corner and saw these bright eyes glaring in my headlights.....well i stopped and ask my cousin ashley what it was....he said it looked lie ka deer and i agreed with him but the wierdest thing about it was that it seems to have a rounder face and ears liek acat........being the redneck my cousin is he was i am gonan shoot it...so he pulled out his gun and when the whatever it was saw the gun it stood straight up and his 2 hind legs and took off running on two legs.......i shit you not this is a true story and i got 10 witness's.......I get the chills everytime i think about whatever this thing is but bout 2 years later around hallwoween i was telling this story and he said he saw somthing on the interenet that sounded liek what i described.....well he printed it off and showed it to me and it was liek a perfect describtion....apprently thier is an old indian legend about this demon that was howling and scaring this indain tribe until this womeans husband decided to go out and rid the tribe of this beast.....and it was 3 weeks and he never returned well one night she heard it roaring and she decided to avenge her husband and she went out into the woods and when she saw the demon it was down on all fours drinking from a stream well she was wearing the mask of a cat and was going to try and scare it off...so as she started to move she step on a twig and the dmeon spun around and the women saw it hidous face and screamed at the top of her lungs and the dmeon did also...and forget how the rest of it goes but someone how the dmeon possed her and now she still wanders the southern continent looking for her husband and is said to have the head of a cat and the body of a small dear and walks on two legs....is this a conwincidence or not??? i'll never know..
but post your scairest things you've encounter i would really liek to read them and see what other people saw.....
sorry bout my bad typing you guysd know why
when i get more time i'll go find the legend and psot it here for you guys to read it...its cool
K well i found the article...apprently what i saw was a wumpus cat.....here's the story....at least i have some proof of what i saw....:shocked
Mysterious Wampas Cat
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Of all the fabulous creatures in East Tennessee folklore, nothing stirs the imagination like the so-called Wampas Cat -- a giant feline said to walk on its hind legs.
There is, for instance, the account of a Knoxville man. He heard a commotion in his garden late one night. Thinking that a raccoon was after his vegetables, the man stormed out the back door determined to shoot the intruder. Halfway to the garden he noticed two glowing yellow eyes staring at him from behind the pole beans. They stood about four feet off the ground and were unblinking. A cold shiver went up the man's spine. He dropped his shotgun and ran back into the house, locking the door behind him. He thought that a lion had escaped from the Knoxville Zoo. On another occasion and man and his wife were staying at the Martha Washington Inn in Abingdon, Virginia. The first night they decided to take a moonlit stroll around the historic town. Just as they were crossing the lawn in front of the Martha Washington, they noticed something stirring under the metal fire escape of the Barter Theater across the street. The thing, whatever it was, must have seen the couple coming because it scurried away. The man and woman looked at each other in amazement. Both of them had just seen a large cat running away on its hind legs. Another time a fourteen year old girl was retiring for bed. Just as she turned off the lights, she had the uneasy feeling that something was watching her. She looked toward her bedroom window. A pair of eyes stared into the room. It looked like a huge tom cat. She screamed in terror and the eyes disappeared. The occasion was especially hair-raising because the girl's bedroom was on the second floor of the house. There was no porch roof outside on which to stand and look in a window. Who, or what, is the Wampas Cat? There are several theories about this elusive animal. One is that the cat is a demon that terrorizes the countryside. Another, and my favorite, is that the cat is the ghost of an young Cherokee woman who, hundreds of years ago, chased a demon away from her home village. In life this woman was married to a great warrior. One day, a demon appeared just outside of the village, where the couple lived, and made itself known by hideous howling in the woods. At the urging of the rest of the villagers, the husband went into the woods to slay the demon. He returned a few hours later, but something was terribly wrong. The warrior was totally insane and the demon could still be heard howling. The demon had surprised him -- taken him unaware -- and the sudden sight of the terrible monster had driven this great warrior completely out of his mind. The warrior's wife then claimed her right of revenge against the demon. She consulted the medicine man who gave her some sound advice. "You must see the demon before it sees you," he said. He gave her the sacred "black drink" to cleanse her body and soul. Then he gave her a mask to wear. It was made from the face of a large wildcat. Hopefully, the mask would scare the demon. Late that night the woman ventured out into the woods to hunt the demon. She could hear it howling in the distance and followed the sound, walking slowly and carefully, daring not to make the slightest noise. Finally, after an hour, she peered around some bushes and spied a great hulk of fur, sitting beside a steam in the moonlight, face turned away. It was the demon. Luckily it hadn't spotted her first. The woman in the mask reached out and grabbed a twig from the ground. Then she broke it with a loud snap. Startled, the creature whirled around. It's face was the most horrible thing that the woman had ever seen and she screamed so loudly that the entire woods reverberated with the sound of her terror. But the demon had been caught off-guard. The sight of the "screaming cat" so unnerved it that it leaped to its feet and ran away. The demon was never seen in those parts again. A description of the Wampas Cat roughly fits that of a small woman wearing the mask of a cat. Could this legendary creature, then, actually be the ghost of that Cherokee woman, still wandering the woods, and still looking for more demons to exorcize? Might be. You'll have to admit one thing. You seldom hear demons howling in the woods around here anymore.