| INDIAN BRANCH AND BUFFALO CREEK When I was a young boy, my grandmother on my dad's side lived with us. My dad was working the 3 to 11 shift and had just been home for a short time. My grandmother said he'd awakened her as he came in from work. When he got up the next morning, she ask him if he had heard anything just before he went to bed. He said no. She explained that she had heard something screaming and obviously on the run on the hill behind our house. She was in her 80's and having grown up in the real country, had heard and seen about all there was to see in hill country. She said that this was like nothing she'd ever heard before in her life. Dad just passed it off as a deer or grandmother going back to sleep and dreaming. That same day a neighbor from up the road came and ask us if we'd heard the sound the night before. It woke up his teenage daughter, who in terror could not go back to sleep and sat with the light on in her room the rest of the night. This took place in West Virginia in what is known as Indian Branch and Buffalo Creek. This was a prime hunting area for the Native Americans. A farm near here has produced a lot of Native American artifacts to prove this fact. ________________________________________________________ _ NOW..A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO..IN THE SAME AREA.. In the Spring of 1998 my mom and dad were coming back from church. It was about 9:00 p.m. Their house sits next to a lake in what we would call a hollow. They were driving up the driveway, which is located on the right side of the dam to the lake. The headlights shone up into a stand of large White Pines along the hill in back of the house. Because of the denseness of the woods, lights did not always penetrate far. They saw a pair of glowing red eyes looking back at them from behind a large Pine Tree. They did not give any indication of how high up on the tree it was and couldn't really tell because of the angle of the lights. The angle of the headlights also deterred them from seeing much more than the red glowing eyes, and the relative shape which they said was big. They sat there for some time watching this thing look back at them from around the tree. They could not tell how it was positioned on two or four legs. They said it would go from side to side as if it were trying to figure them out. Then they seen what they described was a large black creature walk away and up the hill into the woods. Mom and dad have a Cur and a Black Lab. As recently as last fall, mom was awakened by the sound of the Cur whining on the porch. She tried to get my dad to check it out but could not get him up. She got up and checked out all the windows. She saw the Cur backed into a corner shaking violently. She could not see anything in the open areas around the house. Knowing this dog and his temperament, this behavior was very unlike him. Normally, he will bark or growl at anything out of the ordinary. Mom said nothing of the Lab or his whereabouts. Dan P. |
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