I was 19 years old and still living at home. My dog Cooper, a pit bull, always slept with me. He would never wake up at night, let alone bark or whine. This is one of the reasons I was so unnerved when I was awoken around 3 am one dark night. When I was awake enough to know what was happening, I noticed that Cooper was standing over me. All the fur on his back was standing on end and he was making a noise that I had never heard him make before. It sounded like a mix between a growl and a cry. I was more worried about him than about what had frightened him at that point. That is, until I noticed what he was looking at.
Cooper was staring straight at the window right next to my bed. He had such anger and fear in his eyes. I didn’t even know such emotion could be displayed by a dog’s eyes. As soon as I looked at the window, Cooper turned around and sprinted out of my room. I sat completely still for a minute before I gained the courage to look at the window again. I slowly turned my head towards the window. The dread began to gather but I knew I had to. I finally turned my head the last couple inches and forced my eyes to look, but I didn’t see anything. But I definitely heard something.
I sat completely still in my bed, suppressing the childish urge to cover my face with blankets and hope whatever was out there went away. But my curiosity held me in my place. I had to know. Suddenly I heard heavy and slow footsteps outside my window. The rocks outside made them sound too loud and too close. The footsteps were too heavy to belong to any animal that might be innocently scurrying past my window. They were most definitely human, or humanlike.
Completely still, I sat and waited. The footsteps stopped for a few seconds and then they seemed to go back the way they came from. That just happened to be towards the back door of my house. A sound from outside my room in the hall drew my attention away from the window. It sounded like Cooper running down the hall. Before I could react, the back door opened and closed. Someone had let Cooper out.
My legs seemed to know what to do before I did. I was in the hall and at the back door in seconds. I just stood there with my hand hovering above the doorknob for what seemed like minutes. Paralyzing fear was preventing me from actually turning the knob, but I knew Cooper was out there and I needed to save him from whatever was there. With that thought, I turned the knob and threw the door open.
I don’t know what I was expecting, but complete and utter silence was not it. The countryside is usually much more lively at night with crickets and all. As for lighting, there wasn’t any. I took one hesitant step out of the doorway. That was when I heard it. It was the same noise I had heard Cooper make earlier. I felt a hand on my shoulder and whipped around. It was my father wondering what on earth I was doing and telling me to get inside. I frantically tried to explain that Cooper was out there with something that walked past my window a few minutes before. My father looked at me like I was insane. Apparently Cooper was sleeping on his bed. He had been there all night.
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I think what’s going on is that the monster or entity outside of the window created some kind of hallucination of Cooper, trying to use it to lure the main character outside so it could eat them or whatever.
If you look at it this way, it turns a bizzare, lukewarm ending into something a lot more interesting.
It was based off a true story so the some of the events could be altered still…
this is scary just really really odd…. I would love to know more… If you are going to keep this ending might I suggest adding more detail… the ending would be perfect if the story was flushed out more… Now I am not a spooky writer I write romance and the like but still.
EHHHHH, CREEPY INDEED. But let’s get serious for a moment, sinister entity’s will some times feel the nee to lure their prey away from any possible blockades from their ultimate prize, a human body. These entity’s are the more intelligent, and they exist for one reason, to possess a living object, through trickery, if need be,and if you encounter any likely spectral situations, contact the proper people, the ones who help with these occurrences, wether they be part of a church, or part of a not-scamming group, to gain control, and ultimately, banish said entity.
Good story.
I have a miniature schnauzer. He sometimes stares out the window by the front door and makes a similar noise to the one you described your dog making
I guess that the monster (or whatever it was) was trying to make you go outside or in a specific place attracting you with your dog
Now don’t you open up dat window!
Had you have changed the ending from, “Cooper not really there” to something along the lines of, “The very next morning, as soon as I was fully awake, I headed outside to investigate. Nothing seemed to have changed and there were no tracks alongside my window in the stones. I returned to the front deck and was met by something I hadn’t noticed before. Cooper’s collar was lying directly in the middle of our welcome mat, ripped as though it were torn from his neck, but placed so precise that I felt someone, or something, wanted us to see it. It was covered in traces of what looked like blood. I showed my father and surprise enveloped his face; he didn’t know what to make of it. He told me I shouldn’t worry, that we’ll just keep an eye out and wait for him to turn home. So we waited. Weeks had passed since that night and Cooper never returned home, but some nights, I think I can still hear that awful, pitiful sound I heard coming from his mouth and those bone-chilling footsteps outside my window.” Something a little more was what I was hoping for from this story.
Eh
Disappointed by the ending, not a good story at all
….weird lightning reference?
Lighting
HAHA I get it…
I was confused by this at first, but I guess the monster (or whatever it was) was trying to lure them outside?
This was terrible.
That… was stupid. That was a horrible break in tension.