>be me, out in the rural ass end of western New York, close enough to a little suburb to be civilized and not totally redneck
>got two things out my way: farmlands and forests, usually right on top of each other (huge ass field to the east of my house, thickish forests both in front of and behind it to the north and south)
>stay up late during my high school years, 2-3am, parents are deep sleepers
>one night I hear some god-awful noise in the woods behind my house.
>cross between an angry howl and the most guttural, primal deep scream any normal animal could make
>most we get out here in the way of big animals is coyotes, we've had exactly one bear sighting in the last 5 years, so fuck was noise?
>Freak the hell out quietly, don't want to wake the rents.
>Don't sleep all night, absolutely dead at school following day
>Two days after fuckwasnoise, hear dad say something about a missing person in the area, the next week they find a human arm in the woods.
Fast forward a year or so
>up late again, Friday night, watchin animu n shit
>hear fuckwasnoise again
>Fuck that shit, go downstairs and wake dad, tell him what I heard and what happened last time I heard it
>He tries to brush it off, but I insist he calls the police or something
>Hear gunshots from the woods
>Both of us nope the fuck out, he calls police, tells them about weird animal sound and gunshots
>They say there's not much that can be done, they'll send someone out as soon as they can though
>No school next day, so I'm home when cops stop by. They ask me and my dad a few questions
>Go out in woods to look around, we follow
>meat smell a half mile or so in, not rotten, smells fresh
>Officer Friendly spots something off in a clearing off the trail
>Blood smears on trees, what looks like a chewed up arm
>In the dead center of the clearing there's a head
>Human. Pretty cleanly severed. With a 9mm pistol jammed in its mouth
>FUCK THAT SHIT
>bolt back to the house
