Your True Tales
October 2004 – Page 8

Chased By Something
by Scott

This actually happened to my brother and his friend about 20 or so years ago, but to this day I can see the fear on his face when he tells the story. It was about 1-1:30 a.m. when my brother (Rob) and his then best friend (Jeff) decided to take a bike ride on a warm summer night, doing what teenagers do. He tells me they were on a paved back road about a half mile from our house. The road is pretty full of houses now, but there were only a few on it back then.

They were riding along on their ten-speeds when they passed a few very tall trees when, as my brother describes it, something jumped from the tree and landed with a loud thud. It was a dark night with no moon and they were both pretty scared at that time, but nowhere near as scared as they became when he says whatever jumped from the tree then started chasing them. He says they were so scared they could'nt bring themselves to look over their shoulders, but could hear the loud steps of something chasing them down the road. My brother says they never peddeled so hard in their lives and finally lost whatever was chasing them only after they peddeled about two miles as fast as they could, and only then could they look back down that long dark road and wonder what it could have been.

They took a different way home that night. When the next day rolled around, he took me to the trees where they had heard this thing jump, and the nearest branches were easily 20 feet from the ground!

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