Something in the bushes...
by Jake
(Elk River, MN, US)
:::True Story:::
Last summer, in July I believe, I was having dinner with my family in Minnesota when one of my good friends Lindsey calls. I immediately tell her I cannot talk as I'm eating dinner, but she interrupts me in a very freaked out voice, noticeably crying. She said she was cooking dinner alone in her house when all of a sudden her cat was sitting downstairs looking outside and began hissing and growling at something, and then she heard a loud smack against the window. My initial impression was that some jackass was pulling a prank or something so I grabbed my keys and headed over to scare them off. I brought a bat just in case and pulled into her driveway. She came running outside, still weary of what had just happened. I told her to stay in the driveway, and began walking around the house hoping to scare the hooligan out of hiding. I made it all the way around the yard and was walking toward the driveway when something caught the corner of my eye. In one of the bushes just below the retaining wall, I noticed a dark figure shuffling sideways into the bushes. What really scared me was that as it shuffledd, the bushes did not move whatsoever. It was too small to be an adult, but there was enough light to see that it wasn't necessarily a child given the posture.
As I got closer to the bush, it shuffled some more and I heard a strange, oscillating growl unlike any I've heard before. I thought maybe it was an animal of some sort, but the shadowly outline was humanlike. I began yelling and banging the bat against the ground hoping to scare whatever it was off, but to no avail. I backed away to the driveway telling Lindsey to grab a flashlight from inside. After a minute or two, she returned and I walked toward the bush. I should mention as she was inside, I kept my eye on the bush the entire time, just in case somebody decided to run off. She returned with a flashlight, and I aimed it toward the bush but saw nothing. We stood around until her parents arrived, as well as a few of our friends, and we told them what had happened. Many of them thought I was pulling a prank by saying I saw something. I think Lindsey may have thought that too, but I know what I saw/heard. Nothing has happended at her house since, but I still think about the shadowy figure from time to time. If it was a person, I would've seen the bush move, or the person run off when Lindsey went inside to go grab a flashlight. I'm not a big believer in ghosts or demons, but that night made me question some of my judgment...
