The Thing on the Lake true scary story

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My first story is part of a
series of stories, though I read today

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they're not connected by the people at
all. But there is a very similar

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thing, and like I said,
it was a bit of a rabbit hole

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I went down. The title of
this story is The Thing on the Lake.

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I live in Michigan, about forty
minutes away from any large town or

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neighborhood. I like it that way. I enjoyed the solitude. I like

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to go camping, and I have
a truck at a small rowboat that I

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use for fishing. I can take
it anywhere because it fits in my truck,

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but I leave the hatch open and
strap it down slide up from a

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handle on my ounce. That's really
nice to bring a cooler of beers my

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fishing gear to local lakes and use
my boat. I'm very careful to wash

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my boat between lakes because I know
about the basis and fishing parasites. It's

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not clean and wax about every time
I use it and get to the lake.

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I'm added two today and it's a
very overgrown, horribly so I had

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to clear big sticks for the path
that had been there for a while.

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It looked like they had till I
reached the lake. As I fulled up,

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there was a small clearing, a
decent sized lake, about the size

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I could row across the ten minutes
or less if I tried. I pulled

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in, I loaded my boat,
my beer. I was off on the

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lake in under twenty minutes. I
brought my beer cooler on the boat right

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because I can't and nothing better than
boats and beers of solitude. I was

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on the lake and I noticed that
staring at my boat from the shore,

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it was a tall skiddy and an
intelligent looking animal that was standing on its

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hind legs. The creature had long
stick like arms and long thick legs.

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It was a little bit far see
very well, but it may have had

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large brown eyes. It had to
bed my imagine, I thought, so

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I tried to stink myself out of
it. I couldn't believe my eyes when

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I realized I wasn't hallucinating. From
my view, I guess it would have

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been about eight feet tall. Considered
how tall I looked next to my truck.

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He was looking at me. I
felt petrified. There's nothing at all

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that could made me feel safe in
that moment. If I thought to shoot

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at it, I had left my
gun in the car. I reached my

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oars. After I was startled.
It seemed to notice and stop looking my

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direction, which made me feel more
upset because that meant had been watched me,

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probably for a while before I looked
over towards it. The animal that

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went and started to expect my truck
tapping on it, and it looked like

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he was checking out his reflection.
I couldn't do anything but to watch it

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horror while it made some shrieking noises
and ran in the woods on all fours.

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It disappeared into the forest almost instantly. I can't describe how difficult it

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was to roll back to shore ever
seen that our urs felt like jelly,

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and my heart was out of control. It felt like my whole body was

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dunked at ice water, and it
was uneasy until I got home. When

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I got to shore, I consider
leaving my boat behind, but instead I

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ran to my car to get my
side arm and it loaded up the boat.

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Went on to say, I had
a comment that he still goes out

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in nature, but this was a
once in a lifetime occurrence that makes him

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now practice sharp shooting, and it
makes him keep his gut with it at

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all times, is it a side
arm? If it's not on you,

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that's a good question. I would
say. No, that's the first thing

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I thought. How inconvenient it just
was not on you. So this is,

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like I said, the first and
three different stories of this very similar

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creature. After I read these stories, and in fact, once we get

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to the end, I'll tell you
what my thought process on this possibly be,

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because these get progressively weirder. I'll
tell you my thought process of what

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it seems like now to me if
I had to guess, yeah, sounds

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like a death clall from Paul out
right. Now, that's just where That's

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just where I've got. Somebody said, remind me to never go fishing.

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The creature just wanted to check out
his truck. Yeah, there you go.

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Yeah, maybe you just like this
truck. Yeah, you never know.

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The first day that came to my
mind was possibly a bear with mange.

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I don't know if you ever seeing
a hairless bear? Yeah, yeah,

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night mare? Right, So that
was the first thing I thought.

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But then I kind of dug into
these stories and they are everywhere, and

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they get graze eight foot tall,
you said, right, eight foot tall.

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Yeah, that's pretty scary. Yeah, so it was like twice the

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height of his truck with a b
or something like that. Or well,

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I mean, I guess the bear
could stand on its back legs. Where

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I be that tall? Yeah,
Grizzli, let's get real tall. Where

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was this out again? In Michigan? He said, you know, on

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a lake in Michigan. Yeah,
that's a pretty deep one. So it's

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going to progres the stories you have
the rest of this nightder guy progress off

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of that. Yeah, they're not
even by the same person. They're just

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all over the place. So what
happened was he ended up into the water,

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right, Yeah, he was on
he was on his boat out there,

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and so he got out their ways
and he kind of looked around and

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he saw this thing staring at him
in the water, and at first it

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didn't know that he saw it until
he started rowing back. And then the

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fact that it was like he acknowledged
it that he was coming back put him

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off even more. And I agree
that would be absolutely insane. He was

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a run anywhere too fast? Was
he? He even debated if he wasn't

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even he was just going to give
up that boat? Yeah, well it's

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even worth it. It was just
a rogot after all. I mean,

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he said it was small enough to
take a fit in the back of his

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truck, and the man had a
little it at himself. I don't think

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that's worth saving. Yeah, that
these whites are the times you just wish

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you had a real damn boat.
If you can't get away as fast as

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something swimming, then that's not the
kind of boat. I screw the boat,

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Someboddy said. Somebody said, the
hell at the boat. Jeff Townsend

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media sees you good night, and
the question is do I stay here?

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Will you be back? Are you
gonna come back? Will you be back?

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Are you coming back?