April 20, 2021
You have had a long day at work and cannot wait to get home. As you pull up onto your street and see your house, you see something odd. The door to your house is wide open. You know you were the last one to leave the house this morning and had made sure to shut and lock the door behind you before you left for work. You also know that you will be the first one to arrive home as you work shorter hours than either of your roommates.
You slowly pull up into the driveway and see strange muddy footprints leading up to your front door. You park your vehicle and get out to take a closer look. You find that the footprints do not look like they belong to a person. They look like they belong to some kind of animal but you cannot discern which kind as the footprints have become distorted due to the light rain coming down from the sky. You look around your front yard to see where the footprints came from. You find your front garden has been torn up. You at least know how the animal came to have muddy footprints.
You continue up to the door and see that not only is it open but that it looks like it has been broken down. You begin to wonder what sort of animal would be able to do that and if you should be worried. You think maybe you should maybe call the police, go to one of your neighbours, or phone one of your roommates.
You decide the best move is to go to your neighbours first. You know the neighbours to the right and left of your home are not usually home till late in the evening. However, you know that one of your neighbours across the street will be home as they are a stay at home mom. She is usually home around this time as her kids will get home from school soon.
You walk across the street making sure to look both ways before you cross. You notice as you cross that most of the driveways along your street are devoid of cars. This is unusual as you know that some of your neighbours further down the street arrive home around the same time that you do. You continue the walk up to your neighbours door and notice that their front yard also looks like someone tore through it. You see all the flowers in the flowerbeds have been torn out of the ground and thrown everywhere across the lawn. You also see the same strange muddy footprints along their driveway zig zagging back and forth. They look like they were going from one neighbour's yard to another then coming back then going back to their neighbours yard. You also see that their mailbox has been pulled up from the ground and tossed up onto their porch.
You decide to continue to the door and knock on it to see if your neighbour is okay and to see if they know what is going on. You knock but no one answers the door. You knock again but still nobody answers the door. You knock a final time but still no one answers. You also do not hear anybody moving around inside.
You notice out of the corner of your eye the blinds that are usually pulled down are up. You go towards the window and peer inside. What you see leaves you even more confused. Everything looks perfectly fine until you notice that the dining room, the room you are looking into, still has food on the table that is pushed up against the far right corner of the room. This would not be unusual if you did not know your neighbour so well. You know they are very Obsessive Compulsive about food not being put away before leaving the house or going to do anything else. You figure something weird is definitely going on.
Since your neighbours are obviously not home you decide to head back to your house. You cross the street back to your house and stand beside your car. You now decide it would be a good idea to call your roommates to see if they have any idea about what is going on. You pull your cell phone out of your back pocket and enter the passcode. You see that you have no missed notifications, missed calls, or text messages. You try to phone your roommates but neither are picking up their phones, all you get is their voicemails. You decide to leave a message for both of them to call you back. You then try to phone emergency services but the odd thing is no one picks up the phone.
You decide the next best thing to do is to see if you can find any information on the internet. However, as you go to open your internet app your phone dies on you. You do not have a charger in your car as your car is an older model that does not have a place to plug one into. You however do have a baseball bat in the trunk of your car for whatever reason. You get it out of your trunk and head towards the door of the house. You stop next to the fallen down door to examine it more closely. It looks like something impacted it in the middle and it cracked and splintered down the middle and exploded inward. You also see weird scratches on the door on the areas that are still intact. You take a deep breath and step inside your house.
You know that this is not a bright idea but all your other options were dead ends. You are in the front hallway of your house and see that the footprints look like they have headed into your living room through the doorway to your left. The doorway to our right leads to your dining room. You see that another set comes back out of the living room and back into the hallway and heads straight towards the stairs to the second floor of your house. The stairs are located near the end of the entryway hallway to the left of a hallway that leads towards your kitchen at the back of your house. You head towards your living room before going to look upstairs.
You tightly grip the baseball bat you have in your hand and step through the threshold of the living room. It is a mess. Your couch and chairs that are usually set up against the far wall from the door have looked like they have been mauled. There is fluff everywhere, it covers almost all of the living room floor by an inch. There is also broken glass and wood everywhere from other broken objects in the room such as flower vases, the table in the corner, and the coffee table that sat in front of the couch. Pictures have fallen down off the wall and have shattered glass everywhere. Your entertainment centre where your TV sits have also been torn apart and your TV is smashed. The entertainment centre was against the wall from the couch next to the left of the doorway from the entryway hallway. The TV had sat atop it.
You try to look for any clues to see if you can figure out what did this but turn up nothing. You turn around and leave the living room, and come back out into the hallway and head towards the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs you see that the footprints continue up to the second floor. You notice some strange fibres on the floor here that do not match any colour of fibre you or your roommates have in the house. You kneel down to get a closer look to see that they look like hair and the colour is a bright neon orange. You pick up one of the hairs to get a closer look at it. It feels very coarse in your hand and is only a few inches long. You let it go and it floats slowly back down to the ground.
You continue up the stairs slowly listening for any noise you can hear. You do not hear anything even when you get onto the landing on the second floor. You look to see where the tracks are going and see that they go down the hallway to your left and it looks like they go into and out of multiple rooms. Then they come back and do the same to the hallway on your right. You decide to check out the rooms on your left to see if you can find more clues as to what has invaded your neighbourhood and home.
There are three rooms down the hallway to the left. A bathroom on the left side of the hallway from where you are facing it and a bedroom on the right. There is also a storage closet at the end of the hallway where extra linens and bathroom and cleaning supplies are stored.
You go into the bathroom first and it looks just as bad a mess as the living room. The toilet seat has been torn off the toilet, the toilet itself is cracked and water is leaking everywhere. The only part of the bathroom that has not been touched is the sink area with the mirror cabinet above it. You look over to the tub/shower to see the shower curtains have been torn off its rod and shredded to pieces. You walk closer to see that there is mud all over the sides of the tub and in it. You do see in one corner a very clear paw print. You get closer and examine it. It is definitely not a human footprint and some sort of animal print. However, it is not like any animal paw prints you have seen before. It looks like it would be some sort of canine paw print but are way too large to belong to any sort of dog breed you know about. You get out of the tub and notice all the leaking water has started to soak the floor and has crept out of the door into the hallway. You exit the bathroom and head to the closet at the end of the hallway.
The door to the closet is ajar and you see that everything inside has been either shredded or been broken. You continue onto the only other room in this hallway. This room belongs to one of your two roommates. You enter and it seems as if the paw prints enter and just stand at the threshold of the room and turn and leave as if there is nothing of interest or something stopping whatever is in your home from entering the room. You notice that the silver jewelry that our roommates like to make for her store she has online is scattered everywhere. You think she must have to be working on an order as there seems to be some sort of organization to the scattered chaos. You back out of the room and continue back down the hallway towards the stairs and continue past the landing and to the other end of the hallway.
On this side there are only two rooms: yours and your other roommate’s room. You see that the muddy paw prints continue down this hallway and they seem more wet than the ones downstairs and the ones leading inside your house. They also seem to be fresher which makes you think you are getting closer to finding out whatever has caused all the damage you have found. You see that the footprints lead to your room first and then to your roommates.
Your door is wide open so you go and peer around the corner of the door and look into our room. Your room is also a mess like the living room and bathroom. You step into the room when you do not see anything inside. Your bed has been shredded by what looks to be huge claws from the slash marks that are left in it. The clothes from your closet and dresser have been pulled out and tossed everywhere and shredded till they look like confetti. Your bedside table looks like it was tossed at the wall with a lot of strength as there is now a dent in your bedroom wall. It is also broken from the impact. You see something sticking out of your mattress. You go over to it and pull it out. You find in your hand a very large claw that definitely belongs to a canine. You put it in your jacket pocket and exit your room.
You head over to your roommate's room. It looks like the door to their room has been smashed open like your front door was. You enter and see that their room is also a mess like yours with shredded and broken furniture and clothes everywhere. There are also muddy paw prints that lead out onto your roommates balcony. It is the only room in the house that has a balcony on the second floor. You see that something broke through the glass trying to exit the house. There are patches of fur and blood where the animal cut itself on the glass. You carefully exit the house onto the balcony being careful to avoid the glass. You go over to the railing and look out into your backyard but do not see anything. It looks the same as it did when you left your house for work this morning. You turn back around to enter the house but stop when you see something standing on your roof.
It is definitely some sort of animal but not an ordinary one. It is as tall as a man and stands on two legs. It is completely covered in fur. The colour of its paws, limbs, tail and ears are the same bright neon orange hair that you found earlier. The rest of its fur is completely white. The head looks like it got stuck halfway between transforming between a man and wolf’s head. The ears on top of its head are wolf like. The paws look like huge wolf paws. However the rest of its body looks like it belongs to some sort of feline as it is definitely more cat like. You notice its sharp piercing yellow gaze on you, it also has its lips pulled back and is snarling at you. It crouches down as if it is getting ready to pounce at you. You have just enough time to duck as it leaps from the roof and then soars over where you were standing into your backyard. Just missing you with its extended claws. You quickly stand back up and look over the railing to see nothing there as if the creature vanished into thin air. You decide not to stick around and run back through your house and out to your car. You turn it on and pull out of your driveway. You decide to head to the police station to see if they know what is going on.
To be continued….
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