The Cabin--Erick

I’m going to tell you the story on why I will never go back to the Rocky Mountains. Some of my friends and I reserved a cabin for 2 weeks in June. We have been planning this trip since February. The cabin was right next to a river and we were the only ones around the river for about 10 miles, so we could fish wherever we wanted. It should’ve been a memorable summer break that turned into a nightmare.

When we arrived at the cabin, we started picking our rooms and settling in. Afterwards, we went down the river to find some good fishing spots. We did find a little cliff directly over the river. It started to get dark so we started to head back to the cabin. On our way back though, it felt like someone or something was watching me. I didn’t want to scare my friends so I didn’t say anything to them. We get back to the cabin and all go to bed.

The next day, we head to the fishing spot. I realized I forgot my bait so I told my friends I was going back to the cabin to get my bait. I start walking back and I can hear my friends for a couple dozen yards. But as soon as they went out of sight and sound, the path grew dark. I start to get scared so I run to the cabin and once I get inside, I start laughing for how much of a scaredy cat I am. I get my bait and start walking back. When I get about halfway in between the cabin and cliff, I hear something in the bushes nearby. I look over and there's the goat poking its head out of a bush. I froze in my tracks. It had human eyes?!?! I couldn’t move, I wanted to run but my body wasn’t listening to me. This overwhelming feeling of dread came over me. When a fish jumped out the water and splashed back in, it took me out of my trance and I dropped the granola bar and began to run towards the cliff for my friends. Right before I got to them I turned around towards the bush and the goat was gone. Either way I wasn’t about to stop running. When I got about 10-15 yards from my friends, I stopped running and began walking. I didn’t tell them because I don’t know how to explain what I saw and felt.

We get to the cabin and put our stuff away and begin to clean and cook the fish we caught for the day. After we ate them, we go start a campfire in back and make smores. Everything was going good. I had almost forgotten about my incident with the goat earlier that day. We begin to put the fire out and take everything inside. I was the last one outside making sure the fire was out and putting dirt over it. It goes out and I begin to walk to the cabin when I hear footsteps from around the corner of the cabin. I thought it was one of my friends taking the trash out or bringing something else in. I go around the corner expecting to see my friend when I see nobody. I was dumbfounded, but I just thought it was my imagination, until I see some tracks on the ground. I take a closer look at them and I see that they’re hooves.

Something was wrong with them though. They were bigger than a size 13 shoe leaving a footprint on the ground. That wasn’t even the worst of it. The tracks though only had 2 hooves, like a human walking.

I go inside immediately and lock all the doors and windows. I cleaned up a little bit before I went to bed. I somehow was able to fall asleep to only wake up at 3 in the morning. I know it was 3 because when I woke up, I looked at the alarm clock next to my bed. After I looked at the clock, I heard a knocking on the window. Once I heard that, my body began to shake, every hair on my neck began to stand up. I looked over and it was the goat with human eyes. If that wasn’t already terrifying enough, it began to stand straight up. When it stopped, its head was at the top of the window, it had to be at least 7ft tall. The goat had long human arms, and once more with one of those arms, it tapped on the window. I jumped straight up and turned on the light. When I turned around to see if it was still there, it had disappeared.

Then I hear a scream from down the hall. I run to my friends room and swing open the door. That goat was climbing in the window and trying to grab my friend.  He got up and ran right by me, I turned around to follow when I saw all my friends running. Apparently they heard the scream too and came to see what was going on and saw the creature. Before I start running, I close the door and lock it then began to run out the front door. We all jump in the car as my friend starts the car, we hear a blood curdling scream from inside the cabin. That thing rammed the front door and came flying at us as we pulled away. As we speed down the road, I look back at the cabin and the creature is just standing there staring at us. Before it turns around and runs into the forest, it lets out one more scream before vanishing. Since then, I’ve never been back to those mountains. For those who are planning to go to those mountains, just beware what’s in the forest.