Your True Tales
August 2004 – Page 9

Mothman in Maryland
by Derik

When I was 18, I was walking home from my girlfriend's house at about 12:45 a.m. I had walked this way home many nights and had never had any problems before. I walked threw a field of chest-high wild grass and then out across a highway next to my house. Instead of going the long way around to my house, I decided to take a shortcut through a side street that was tightly lined with cedar trees. I got almost to the end of the street when I started to feel strange.

I looked up, and about 20 feet in front of me and about 15 above the ground I saw this big black thing hovering in the air that was about 8 feet tall. I remember it having a body like a big pre-historic bird, but it looked completely black. I couldn't make out its shape except for its outline. It had ears or something that were like spikes that came straight up, kind of like the ones on Batman's suit. Its eyes glowed like when you shine a flash light at an animal's eyes, and I could hear this prolonged pulse sound in my head that was more like a vibration.

When I saw it, I put my hand over my face and crouched to the ground in fear. It had wings, but they were only moving slow like a jelly fish would move. It was there for about five seconds, and then it turned its head to the side to look at a tree that was right next to it. When it did this, I saw the outline of its face, and it looked like a dog's face. It let out a shriek that was kind of like a woman's scream and an animal's mixed, and then it flew into the tree like a Mack truck – and vanished.

I ran home and had trouble sleeping that night. I went to the cedar tree the next day with my little brother and the side of it was destroyed. I've had many experiences with things like this, and so have a lot of the women in my family. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and that pulse is in my head, accompanied by fear and disorientation. This happened in Maryland.

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