SHACK 4076 DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

Courtesy Roll Stroll

The night was clear and a chill in the air, two 'old timers' met in the clearing in a forested area, they were strong and wilderness savvy, they lived in log cabins some two miles from each over and met often instinctively, tonight they were out checking on birds eggs, they did not disturb them and a possibility of a small game hunting, they did not hunt for fun, they hunted for food.

As they were inspecting a birds nest to see that poachers had not taken these eggs, they became aware of a glow in the sky and the clearing became brighter, then they saw a creature which one of them described as a strange critter and both of them felt it 'spoke inside their heads', help me.

They felt sympathetic and they saw a helicopter in the distance and military big vehicle 'they called a 'Hummer' and they had been hounded by these vehicles over the years so they pushed the critter into a bush and covered with foul smelling dung and kept on walking away.  

A military person came and barked and shouted at them 'have you seen a deer, bear or anything pass here? 'No sir' 'Are you sure because if your lying or covering you will go to prison for life' ' No sir we are sure' The dogs came and the old timers dogs barked and there was commotion between the dogs, the military dog handlers dogs and the old timers dogs. They searched for about an hour and then they all went away.

The old timers stayed out for three or four hours and then went back to the stinking bush, they let the critter out and apologised to it for the smell and indignity. The critter looked as though he grinned and said in their heads. 'Ok thank you' then about a half after after they cleaned up the critter, a glow came in the sky and the critter moved into the middle of the clearing and this circle thing came near and the critter and was lifted into the circle which went away at massive speed.

In the morning after the old timers were walking back, just as they parted one said my asthma gone and the other said, that's funny my bad hip don't hurt no more. They reached their homes and never felt better for as long as their old age came in. They often wondered if this was because of the critter, bye the way the critter looked like the image at the header with spindly legs and arms.

They often talked about the critter and all, but to nobody else as they thought the military would get to hear and they also wondered was this real or had they dreamt this up. I guess I will never know, what do you think?

SHACK  aka Geoff