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Texas Backroads
I was driving home late one night, north Texas, rural backroad. Not late, maybe 8pm. It’s was around late September, early October. The weather was pleasant so I had the windows down. I was just cruising, keeping a careful eye for deer, meaning I’m looking wayyyyy down the road to make sure I’m not gonna be caught off guard.
I start squinting because I see something light, reflective. I realize where I am on this road (grew up on it, very familiar with it) and realize it’s a speed limit sign, but something is in front of it, obscuring it. At this point I’m maybe 80 yards away.
I slow wayyyyy down. I’m thinking some one has leaned some planks against it or something, so I’m planning to hop out and move it, so someone doesn’t get hurt. It’s a curvy road so if you go much faster than posted speed you WILL wreck. By this point I’m 50 yards out.
I start to realize that whatever is in front of the sign has a strange texture. Almost furry but not really. Just looks wrong. My mind starts running down the list of hairy things that are this big in the area. I’m coming up blank. Nothing should be tall enough except a MASSIVE deer or bear on its hind legs. There’s been no bears in the area for probably 70 years, no mountain lions for about the same time and besides- this thing is black. In fact, by this point I’m realizing it’s the blackest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s in my headlights and it’s blacker than the black surrounding it. Just this black amorphous blob. Still my brain can’t make sense of what it is. Until ally it occurred to me that some jackass could’ve put up an early EARLY Halloween prop just in an illegal and unfortunate spot.
Then it stands up. It had been leaning against the sign, but it stood up. And it turned its head towards me, that weird undulating texture starting to become more evident. It wasn’t fur, but it was LIKE fur. It was like millions of tiny black needles. It just looked sharp. Everything felt sharp. The air felt prickly, kinda like before an electrical thunder storm. I felt extremely uneasy.
It’s head turned to face me and the only feature I could make out were two eyes that were red hot. Not read like LEDs, red like a piece of metal, right out of a blacksmiths forge. Like hot glowing red. At this point I’m maybe 8 yards out, and I’m frantically rolling up my window. It looks at me (or at least at the car) as it stalks off into the brush.
I book it, pedal to the floor. I’m wracking my brain trying to figure out what the hell I just saw but my brain is refusing to process it. I call my sighting in to Monsters Among Us podcast immediately, trying to think of what I should even do.
Then, I decide to loop around. I wanna make damn dead double sure that I didn’t make it all up. That it wasn’t just a Halloween prop or a tree or a person playing a trick or xyz. So I loop around and everything was normal. Just that innocent little sign posted “40mph”.
I later found out that all road signs MUST be posted at a standard 7ft height, and this thing was a head and shoulders taller than that. For it to have been a prankster in a ghiley suit or something he would’ve had to been on those stilts that Uncle Sam characters wear at the state fair, and let me tell you that where I’m from, there are plenty of gun toters with an itchy trigger finger that would shoot a demonic cryptid on site, so people don’t do that kind of stupid stuff.
I still have no idea what I saw. I’ve drawn it several times, from what I remember but I only saw it for maybe a total of 9 or 10 seconds and I only realized it was something weird and alive for maybe 6. And before you ask, yes, I went for my camera on my phone, and I couldn’t get it to open before it was gone.
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