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potato_headSorry I haven't been around much, guys. Not been very sociable lately. But thought y'all might like to hear about this thing that happened last night...
I was driving home from school, late-ish, I left around 7:30 and it's a 1-1.5 hour drive. The drive was fine until I missed the last exit - my GPS didn't say anything and I had zoned out a bit and not been watching the exit signs (which is why I always have the GPS). So, no biggy, I got off on the next exit and figured the GPS would un-confuse itself and tell me how to get home; which it promptly started doing.
So I was driving around, basically, back roads through dark woods for awhile, interspersed with houses and things. Which is basically what you get if you go from one town to another around here, or even just drive around in our town, I swear to god there are sections of the town that are practically in Underhill 6 u 9
So I'm driving around places like this and I feel a little alert when in especially dark, woodsy areas, but mostly I'm confident. Even though I still don't seem to be getting any closer to anywhere I know. And then...I come out into a little spot with some houses and streetlights and, well, basically it's an intersection in the middle of one of these neighborhoods-in-the-woods, which tend to give the impression of emerging into civilization when you aren't. I even saw another car! And then I saw something in the road.
At first I thought it was just some kind of trash, but it drew my eye, and as I went past/probably over it I saw that it was 1) road kill and 2) had to have been some fucking huge animal. I'm talking like...a really, really big dog. The fur was way too long for it to have been a deer, and all white as well. Looking at it gave me a real feeling of wrongness, so much so that it made me nauseous for a few seconds. And I'm not someone usually disturbed by roadkill, I actually usually find it reassuring. (I couldn't see a head or foot or anything else to easily identify the animal, it was either fairly decomposed or...just a bloody pelt. It was very flat.)
So I keep driving, figure everything's fine, I'm putting the weird dead road thing behind me. I'm back in somewhat dark areas, but there's occasional streetlights! Yay! As I approach one light, an animal runs out into the road; I slow down, still a distance from it, but I'm able to see it pretty clearly (in retrospect, this in and of itself seems strange; even with my glasses on). It was a cat, very dark in color, running across the road. I noticed it was kind of odd that it was moving at such a high speed, but walking rather than galloping...it looked strange.
And then I got close enough to see that it had six legs.
TBH it wasn't too alarming of an experience, since the centi-cat just kept undulating its way across the road and didn't stop or anything, and by the time I reached the spot it was gone. It's not the first time I've seen one of these varieties of 'strange animals' - there's one that lives in a rock wall in a heavily-wooded street near here, that I used to walk by on my way home from school, and I would see it fairly frequently - but it was rather unexpected, and startling after the weird roadkill.
Then the GPS decided to up the ante and insist we had reached my house when we were only a few miles down that road and obviously NOWHERE NEAR my house. I kept driving for a bit before pulling over to investigate xD turns out it was taking me to the wrong address entirely...one I would have never put in, and had somehow been saved under 'home' in between last week and this week. My GPS is on my phone, so it's not like anybody else used it. Not sure how that happened. My phone has been doing all kinds of weird shit lately though, I'm hoping to get a new one this weekend.
I was driving home from school, late-ish, I left around 7:30 and it's a 1-1.5 hour drive. The drive was fine until I missed the last exit - my GPS didn't say anything and I had zoned out a bit and not been watching the exit signs (which is why I always have the GPS). So, no biggy, I got off on the next exit and figured the GPS would un-confuse itself and tell me how to get home; which it promptly started doing.
So I was driving around, basically, back roads through dark woods for awhile, interspersed with houses and things. Which is basically what you get if you go from one town to another around here, or even just drive around in our town, I swear to god there are sections of the town that are practically in Underhill 6 u 9
So I'm driving around places like this and I feel a little alert when in especially dark, woodsy areas, but mostly I'm confident. Even though I still don't seem to be getting any closer to anywhere I know. And then...I come out into a little spot with some houses and streetlights and, well, basically it's an intersection in the middle of one of these neighborhoods-in-the-woods, which tend to give the impression of emerging into civilization when you aren't. I even saw another car! And then I saw something in the road.
At first I thought it was just some kind of trash, but it drew my eye, and as I went past/probably over it I saw that it was 1) road kill and 2) had to have been some fucking huge animal. I'm talking like...a really, really big dog. The fur was way too long for it to have been a deer, and all white as well. Looking at it gave me a real feeling of wrongness, so much so that it made me nauseous for a few seconds. And I'm not someone usually disturbed by roadkill, I actually usually find it reassuring. (I couldn't see a head or foot or anything else to easily identify the animal, it was either fairly decomposed or...just a bloody pelt. It was very flat.)
So I keep driving, figure everything's fine, I'm putting the weird dead road thing behind me. I'm back in somewhat dark areas, but there's occasional streetlights! Yay! As I approach one light, an animal runs out into the road; I slow down, still a distance from it, but I'm able to see it pretty clearly (in retrospect, this in and of itself seems strange; even with my glasses on). It was a cat, very dark in color, running across the road. I noticed it was kind of odd that it was moving at such a high speed, but walking rather than galloping...it looked strange.
And then I got close enough to see that it had six legs.
TBH it wasn't too alarming of an experience, since the centi-cat just kept undulating its way across the road and didn't stop or anything, and by the time I reached the spot it was gone. It's not the first time I've seen one of these varieties of 'strange animals' - there's one that lives in a rock wall in a heavily-wooded street near here, that I used to walk by on my way home from school, and I would see it fairly frequently - but it was rather unexpected, and startling after the weird roadkill.
Then the GPS decided to up the ante and insist we had reached my house when we were only a few miles down that road and obviously NOWHERE NEAR my house. I kept driving for a bit before pulling over to investigate xD turns out it was taking me to the wrong address entirely...one I would have never put in, and had somehow been saved under 'home' in between last week and this week. My GPS is on my phone, so it's not like anybody else used it. Not sure how that happened. My phone has been doing all kinds of weird shit lately though, I'm hoping to get a new one this weekend.
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Date: 2012-10-12 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 06:35 pm (UTC)Oh and you saw a weird, white thing! I, too, have seen a weird white thing. The one I saw was alive and I've no idea where you're located in relation to Bumfuck Nowhere, Louisiana, but yeah. It was a couple years ago and I was driving home from work. Since it was the time of year (fall here) when deer are really active (read: apt to run out into the road and hit your car) I was hyper-alert, looking for eye-shine or their heads, etc. It was while doing that I happened to glance up at this relatively tall (7-8 feet) clay bluff and sitting on that bluff was a white... thing. It was huge, too big to be a dog in my opinion and like your white thing; it gave off this feeling of wrongness. What got me, oddly enough, was that it was so damned still and I swear I could feel it watching me. I sped up a bit, but not much, which is a good thing since in the bend of the curve right after that, about six deer ran across the highway in front of me. Definitely was a weird experience and so oddly unsettling in this hard to explain way.
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Date: 2012-10-12 06:46 pm (UTC)I'm up in MA, so not that close :P but now that you say that, I actually remember an incident where I saw - what I thought was some hugeass white coydog - outside our yard once. It did the same thing, it just sat right on the edge of the road and stared and didn't move at all. I didn't get a good look at it, though, because I didn't really want to take my eyes off it to go get my glasses, and when I finally did, it was gone when I got back.
It's strange...large, black animals are something there's a lot of information on (hellhounds/black shucks, most 'alien big cats' are black, etc.) but I've only heard of a strange, huge white animal one other time, and that was from someone in ontdcreepy who had been followed by an all-white big cat over the span of a few years, similar to reported behavior in some black shucks.
Another thing that was really strange about the dead one was that it was at an intersection, and must have been there for awhile, to be so large and so flat...but big roadkill like that is usually cleared away around here pretty quickly.
Also, deer are assholes. I'm always watching for them when I'm driving through wooded areas, so of course the one time I've had one jump in front of my car, it came out of a McDonald's parking lot in one of the areas of our town that actually looks like people live there.
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Date: 2012-10-12 07:28 pm (UTC)That is definitely freaky! D: Do you think it was some kind of thing-not-all-people-can-see? You say "we"; did the other person in the car see anything?
I keep considering writing about "Sam", but I have enough crazy going on in my journal right now. xD
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Date: 2012-10-12 07:34 pm (UTC)DO IT. And I'm going to try to be on LJ more often again. It'll be kind of difficult though...there's stuff going on in my life that I'm not exactly comfortable talking about here, which isn't something I'm used to working around.
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Date: 2012-10-12 07:36 pm (UTC)LOL. I've talked about him before but I just DON'T KNOW. haha. And having to work around LJ stuff stinks :( You can always PM me if you wanna talk! (Or PM me and I can give you my email address because, lbr, LJ's PM system sucks). Hope things get better, bb!
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Date: 2012-10-12 07:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 07:40 pm (UTC)hahahaha xD
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Date: 2012-10-12 07:42 pm (UTC)WHY WOULD I EVER WANT TO TALK TO YOU.
fdmska sorry I just realized how that sounded xDDD I'M TIRED. And have therapy in like ten minutes. I think I'll tell him I'm not sleeping well so he can give me another uninvited lecture on his personal interpretation of dreams.
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Date: 2012-10-12 07:43 pm (UTC)LOL hit enter too fast. I'm just fucking with you, bb xD
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Date: 2012-10-12 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-13 12:27 am (UTC)they crawl around on the road and wander over the shoulders and bounce into traffic just to fuck with you, i swear to motherfucking god
large rly white probably not actually dogs are the inverse of the black shuck or hellhound or w/e. they're called fairy dogs. apparently they are slightly less inclined to following around dying people or killing people or dragging people to hell or whatever it is the black ones tend to do.
tho imo they're both just different shades of the same thing from the wild hunt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ big white dog in the dark is less scary than big black dog in the dark
(my fey oracle cards use the fairy/shuck as a card. it says the fairy is ok 2 summon & just don't son w/ the shuck. i lolled.)
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE Cù-Sìth which is a fairy dog but worse bad news than either a shuck of any color. it can kill w/ barks and kidnap ladies and children for reasons.
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Date: 2012-10-13 04:04 pm (UTC)I saw the comments about GPS. I used to call mine bad names before I stopped using it.