My name is Carl and the story that I’m about to tell you still haunts me to this day and I warn you that if you ever encounter this “thing”, please run as fast as you can.
It was almost a year ago that I went on a trip to a very calm and peaceful village. A couple of friends of mine gave me good feedback on it, and I really needed a break from the loud, crowded and stressing environment of the city. It was summer time and I had a couple of weeks of vacation, so I decided to just pack some clothes and go visit this small village.
I prefer to drive at night, since there is considerably less traffic and it is more relaxing for longer trips, although I always have to have my radio on, so that I don’t fall asleep. It was almost 11 p.m. and I was at half way to my destination point when I got to a roadblock which made me take a very rural and out of the main road path. I went several miles without seeing a single vehicle, there was only this dense forest on the side of the road, and it was poorly illuminated so it was a very stressful experience to drive in such conditions.
According to the GPS I was only 40 minutes away from my destination, when my car broke down. I spent almost 15 mins trying to get it started when I saw a light in the forest, on the side of the road. At first glance it seemed like a man with a lantern, but it wasn’t clear. I was literally in the middle of the night in a road where, until now, I had only seen a car since I was “forced“ to take this path, due to the roadblock. Part of me had a really bad feeling about some random person walking in the middle of the forest, so I just continued to try to bring my car back to “life”.
I continued my effortless battle to restart the engine of my car, when I noticed the shadowy figure getting closer and closer. This really freaked me out, and just pressured me to get the damn car working. After some attempts I looked again and I couldn’t find any shadow figure or any light around. I was starting to think that I was either too tired or just imagining stuff due to the stress, when something suddenly catches my eye as I look to the review mirror…
There was a tall, creepy man with the most sadistic and evil smile that I ever saw in my life, twisting his head and looking at me… but the worse part was what he had in his hand. It was in fact a lantern… but not a typical lantern… it was a head of a human being… with light coming from inside its mouth…
I panicked so much that I just started to hit the car’s dashboard, rapidly turning the key on and off… but as I was doing this, the man started to laugh in this twisted and creepy way, getting closer, and closer to the car’s back doors. Finally, after an ungodly number of attempts, I got the engine restarted and drove as fast as I could, escaping this demented and hellish figure.
Up until this day I still can sleep without thinking about the man’s devilish smile…
