Your True Tales
November 2003 – Page 15

The Black Swamp Creature
by M. Dave N.

I was showing my friend around this swamp where I had found a lot of cool minerals, including black quartz. This was at night. First, while we were walking down the muddy banks, suddenly I heard something faint somewhere above us. I told my friend to shut up and told him to listen. Then we looked up to see something big and dark swoop into a tree and hit something or get something. We heard a weird sound like a mouse mixed with a crocodile - shrieky but low-pitched. He was about to offer to leave (as I found out later) when he suddenly told me to stop pushing him. I reminded him that I was in front of him, meaning that if I pushed him, I'd slip down the steep bank. Suddenly I felt a shove on my left shoulder from a hand about two and a half times as big as his. I almost fell before I grabbed a branch that my hand passed by. That's when my friend asked me where I was and said we should switch on my flashlight now. I did so then got back to my feet.

Again I felt that big hand on my shoulder. This time, I thought it was my friend. I spun around, lost my footing for a second. I was awed by two huge red circles staring at me, so I shined the flashlight at it. My friend and I saw a huge black creature with metal like claws covering its eyes from the flashlight; it had an odd human appearance to it, but with scales. It gave a shriek like the one we heard before before me friend grabbed its arm. It spun around flinging him about two feet back with one of its claws. It then swiftly ran forward, hopped onto a tree, and like nothing we'd ever seen before, it jumped from tree to tree. Later we found out that its claw had actually left a scar about two to three inches.

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