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“It was about 9:35PM, Me and my sister were watching TV, “We should probably go to bed, Mum and dad will be home in the morning and we need to be up early to let them in.” My sister said. “Yeah…” I replied. She stood up turned off the TV and starting walking up the stairs, I followed her. We both went to our rooms “Goodnight!” She yelled from her room “Goodnight.” I yelled back. I got in my bed and after a few minutes I had fallen asleep.
I can’t remember when, But at some point later that night I woke up after having a strange dream, I tried to get back to sleep but after a while I heard something, It sounded like someone walking bare foot on the wooden floors.
It sounded like it was just down the hall, Whatever it was it was going to walk past my room and my door was open. Not all the way but enough for me to get a good view of whatever it was, The noise grew closer and closer, Until I saw what was making it. It walked past my room, It was a huge tall creature with a long fluffy tail, It was dark but I could see that it had stripes on it.
It didn’t notice me looking at it as it slowly walked past my room. I started to calm down, But I could hear it walking towards my sisters room, I got out of bed as quietly as I could and grabbed the baseball bat from under my bed, Then I tip toed to my sisters room.
Her door was wide open and I could see the creature sitting on the end of her bed watching her, I knew it could see me but It didn’t even care that I was there. I stepped closer to the creature, Then it turned to look at me. It had huge colourful glowing eyes, And it didn’t seem to have a nose or a snout. It had a rather serious expression on its face, It didn’t look threatened by me at all.
It turned its attention back to my sister who was still sleeping, It reached out with it’s long arm and started to caress her face. At the ends of each of it’s fingers it had long sharp colourful claws, They looked like tiny knives.
While it was focused on my sister I got closer to it, And hit it as hard as I could over the head with my baseball bat, The baseball bat broke. It looked at me and stood up, It towered over me. The creature stomped it’s foot on the floor angrily, “What do you think you’re doing?!” It said loudly.
My sister woke up and jumped out of bed, She grabbed me by the arm and dragged me out of the room and down the stairs, We ran out of the house and she called the police and our parents. We waited outside until the police arrived, Some of the police went inside the house to search for the intruder, And the others stayed outside to question us, After a while our parents got home, My dad cried he was so happy to see that we were okay, We all hugged eachother. The police came out of the house and said they couldn’t find anything exept the broken baseball bat,
They said they would be on the look out for whoever broke into our house and asked for a discription of the intruder, I drew them a picture of what the creature looked like as best as I could, My sister is better at drawing than me but she didn’t get to see the creature as good as I did.
It’s been a few weeks since that happened, I started going to therapy because I was loosing sleep and I’m paranoid alot of the time now, I don’t think me and my sister will ever forget this. But I’m worried the creature will be back, It did say it was going to take alot more than a baseball bat to the head to get rid of it. I’ll always be watching and waiting, If it returns I will make sure it doesn’t ever come near my family again.”