The writing ahead may not be the highest quality; I'm writing this to generally try and get my writing juices flowing again.

24/11/17

My name was Marcus.

I'm leaving this story here so people know what happened around Chad Mountain; mainly so other people don't make our mistakes.

It started 2 months ago; me and my friend Daniel decided to go camping in the woods for the week; far outside our home town of Sink Wood to get away from everything; our jobs, our wives, you get the idea.

Thing is; we have gone camping before; me and Daniel have been doing it for years.

But this time was different; we decided to go very far out; much further than we normally would; why I don't know but it may have be due to his wife supposedly cheating on him at the time and the stress it caused him.

Anyway, that's not too important.
Point is; we went way far out and ended up near to but not too far from that damn mountain.

Took us a while; around 12 to 13-ish hours of near constant driving to reach that spot too.

Once we got there; we parked up by the side of the road; looked around and eventually found a nice spot near a river; we had also brought fishing gear with us and 2 rifles for hunting deer.

For the first 2 days everything was fine; me and Daniel had a good time; fishing, hunting deer; drinking; talking and generally just having fun.

But it was around 11pm on day 2 that things started to go wrong.

I had fallen asleep that night around 7pm; mainly due to the alcohol from quite the drinking session we had; but I was awoken at around 11pm in my tent by the sound of something I could not recognise moving around near the camp site.

A sort of clicking or tapping sound.

Not sure what it was; I shook myself awake; grabbed my shotgun I had taken into in my tent earlier in case any bears came to our camp during the night; and slowly opened the tent door to see what was outside.

I looked outside and for a brief moment all I saw was a grey blur retreat into the dark woods; whatever it was must have heard me coming out of my tent and decided to make a run for it.

Not sure what it was I had just seen; I decided to go and check on Daniel; mainly to see if he had heard it too.

I left my tent; made my way over to Daniel's tent and went in; only to find him still asleep; meaning there was no way he heard whatever it was.

So I decided to just go back to my tent and tell him in the morning.

The next day I brought it up around breakfast; what I had seen and heard; only for Daniel to brush it off as me seeing ♥♥♥♥ from how drunk I was; which made sense at the time.

After that; everything till night 4 was fine.

Night 4 is when ♥♥♥♥ really hit the fan.

Me and Daniel were both awoken by the sounds of something loud in our camp; something moving around and going though our stuff; so we got out of our tents and used our flashlights to get a look at what was going on; guns ready.

For a brief moment we saw only part of what was making the sounds; we saw several insect like grey limbs as whatever it was ran back into the woods too fast for us to fully see what it was.

Both of us had no idea what we had just seen; we looked at one another with confusion.

I asked him if he knew what the hell it was; he didn't.
But for some reason; instead of just leaving; I needed to know what the hell I had just seen.

So I asked Daniel if he wanted to go after it and see what it was; he agreed; he too needed to know just what on Gods grey Clitoris we had just seen.

So we checked our guns; picked up some extra ammo, packed some extra batteries for our flashlights and set out to see if we could find out what it was.

Once we were ready; Me and Daniel set off into the woods in the same direction we saw it go; we immediately found strange tracks we didn't recognise as we started.

The tracks were like something pointed and round had stuck into the ground a few inches; only to pull itself out; easily 5 inches deep and 2 wide.

Anyway; me and Daniel started following the tracks into the woods; we followed them for a good while before we came across something strange.

Me and Daniel found some sort of strange plant; I think at least it was a plant, or maybe a mushroom of some kind.

Thing was probably around 3 to 4-ish feet tall; dark red and brown in colour with a shrivelled texture to it; the shape of it was wider at the bottom than the top, shaped almost like an almond; shape was also twisted all the way towards the top; and tipped with 2 outwards curved points.

It also stunk to high hell; smelt like rotting fish.

We had no idea what it was so I used my shotgun to poke it a bit; I honestly don't know what I expected but the thing was hard as a rock; didn't budge in the slightest either.

We had no idea what we were looking at; but we quickly decided that we should probably just leave it alone and keep following the track; that and the smell was starting to make us feel sick.

We continued to follow the tracks left behind by whatever that thing was for a short while; the track leading towards that damn mountain; we also passed a few more of those plant things too.

But after a while; I stopped, I would say less than 500 meters from the mountain itself to check on Daniel; ask him if we should keep going.

But once I turned to talk to him; I saw that he was gone.

Confused; I called out for Daniel; only to get no reply.

I had no idea what had happened to Daniel; or how long we had probably been separated; hell I thought that maybe he had fallen behind and got lost; so I decided to walk back the way we came and call out for him.

A moment later I found a hat on the floor; Daniel's hat.

Thing is Daniel always wore the same red cap; I had got it for him a few years back for his birthday and he would always wear it no matter what.

So; confused; I picked up the hat and I felt something warm on my hand; it felt like fluid; I looked, only to see blood had came off the hat and onto my hand.

And that there was a trail of it; fresh blood; leading off via a different path.

My mind immediately jumped to a cougar attack; maybe one had grabbed Daniel and took off with him while I was ahead; so I followed the trail of fresh blood to see if I could find him.

I followed the trail for a while; the blood trail slowly got thinner and harder to see as I followed it deep into the woods.

The trail by that point was pretty thin; but it later lead me up the mountain path.

Along the way towards the mountain and even while going up it I saw a few more of those strange plants; they seemed to become more and more frequent the closer I got to the mountain.

I got around; 2/3 the way up when I heard something moving around on the rocks; not sure what it was I turned to look; only to get blind sided and knocked to the floor by something.

I was downed by the impact; knocking my gun out of my hand.

Confused; I had no idea what had just happened; that was until I was snapped out of it by a stabbing pain in my lower back and several grey insect like limbs held me down against the floor; the stabbing pain changing; it felt like something was now sucking the blood out of me.

In retaliation I managed to just about reach for and grab my shotgun; turn it around; aim it at whatever was pinning me down and unload on it.

The shot blew whatever it was back; causing it to screech with pain and let go.
When it came off; I felt it rip out whatever it had stuck in me.

Once it was off; I flipped myself over; aimed my gun and prepared to fire at whatever the ♥♥♥♥ was just on me.

What I saw I don't think I will ever understand.

I didn't see the full thing as it ♥♥♥♥♥♥ off up the mountain; but all I saw was a set of around 12 grey insect like legs; and the face of this thing.

The face; head; ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ whatever you call it; it was like a mosquito but not; and grey; it had the pointed nose thing and the head shape; but not the eyes, no; instead it had a cluster of thin tentacles that seemed to be... I would say antenna maybe?

I don't know; but this thing; it fled up the side of the mountain with ease; vanishing from sight quicker than I could process what I had just seen.

After that; I decided that it was best to just leave; I had no idea where Daniel had gone; that thing had probably killed him for all I know.

So I ran back; scared and bleeding; got in the car; drove a good few miles away as fast as I could and stopped after a while to patch my wound up.

The wound itself was strange; like a round stab wound but not bleeding as bad as one should.
It also looked strange too; slight grey colour to it.

Anyway; after that I drove home; told the cops and they started looking for Daniel.
2 months later they gave up; they never found him or even a body anywhere near or on Chad Mountain.

Hell; they didn't even find any tracks or any of those plants.

Also; I visited a doctor about my injury; he said it had an infection but nothing to worry about.
But recently its been getting worse; hell I can feel something moving around inside me now.

Doctors keep saying theirs nothing wrong with me; but I know something is living inside me now; I know that... thing... it took blood from me... or hell maybe it put something in me.

I've been losing weight too; always hungry, no matter how much I eat.
I've lost 40 pounds in the last month.

I know for a fact something is inside me; how else would I be losing weight like this?

Hell; maybe it did the same thing to Daniel too; maybe whatever it put in him ate whatever was left of him.

I don't know, but I can't take the risk of something eating me from the inside and risk it killing someone.

So; I'm going to end this here.
I've got the gasoline already set up; a few explosives; I even have a few strapped to me.

If i'm going to die; I'm taking this abomination with me.
By the time this is found; I'm already long gone.

But before I go; remember this.

Do not go anywhere near Chad Mountain.

Goodbye.