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CHAPTER
3: September 15, 1976; The Incident Part 2
- It was 12:20 AM on Sunday, September 15, 1976.
Only 12 hours away from karate testing and there I was driving back into
Creve Coeur Park.
-
This time I drove all the way down
by the falls. I parked sort of catty corner to the falls, killed
my lights and turned off the engine. Dennis and I both cracked our
windows an inch o so and sat quietly, waiting for any noise or sound of
approach.
- Moments went by. More moments went
by. Dennis and I both shifted in our seats.
-
Another moment. "Dennis
..." I started in a whisper. "Shhhh!" Dennis issued, looking
out his window.
- "What are you ..." I started, annoyed.
"Shhhh!" he gestured this time with his hand for me to shut up.
-
"what?" I quietly asked.
Dennis was focused. He carefully and cautiously pointed in
a direction towards the falls.
- "There's somethin' over there.
By the path off from the falls." he whispered.
-
I looked but was
unable to penetrate the blackness of our surroundings.
"Can't see anything." I said.
- Dennis' was locked on target
as his head and pointing finger from his left arm drawn
across his chest slowly moved along. "Whatever it
is, it's moving along the tree line." he whispered.
-
Whatever "it"
is? "What do you see?" I asked.
-
- "It looks like a person.
Walking. Moving a bit, stopping, moving some
more. It's stopped over by those trees."
"What trees?"
"Those
trees."
"I can't see
anything."
Dennis finally
looked back at me in frustration and gestured hard with
his finger.
"Right over
there!" he whispered loudly. He looked back and
grunted a sigh as he lowered his head to rub his eyes
with his right hand.
- I leaned over slight
to use his pointer as an aim on a rifle.
In the blink of an eye, I saw something huge ...
massive body, swinging limbs, no neck and large
conical shaped head, all with what appeared to
be a harsh hairy outline to it. The
motion would be best described as lumbering
between two trees against the partially moonlit
and very overcast midnight sky.
-
My mind
raced. I was at an angle looking upward.
Couldn't have been a bear, no person that
massive, not ... no ... and never mind that I'm
about to test for green belt and Dennis was
Golden Gloves. I reached for the car keys
and fired up the engine.
- Dennis snapped to
and asked me to wait. "We need to get
a better look."
-
Something inside me wanted to get a better
look and yet my self defense training was
screaming for me to get the hell out of
there. My human nature desiring
adventure rationalized. We're in a
car. All I have to do is drop it in
gear and go. Whatever it is won't be
able to keep up with the car.
- "Okay." I
finally said. Dennis looked back
out the window and found the target.
"It's
standing right over there. It's ...
like ... it's swaying a little back and
forth ... like it's looking at us." Dennis
observed.
"It's
looking at us? At my car?" I said.
Then I thought "If something that big is
looking at my car, I want to see where it's
at." Without a word to Dennis, I
reached up and pulled the headlights on.
The
lights came on, reflecting off the part of
the falls that had accumulated some early
morning dew and suddenly the whole area
glowed.
"OH MY
GOD, GO, JOE GO!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Dennis
as he frantically moved all around in his
seat, his seatbelt keeping him in one place
and making him feel trapped in dangers way.
- That was
my cue. I nodded as I shifted
into drive and floored the
accelerator.
-
The station
wagon lurched forward swinging hard
to the left to complete the gravel
circular drive and spew rocks behind
us.
- As I
drove, Dennis finally loosens
his seatbelt and the wagon
started to fishtail and began
sending me into the tree line to
the right. I had to stop
to gain control. As I
throw it in reverse, Dennis is
watching through the back and
still screaming for me to get us
the f--- out of there.
We hit Marine
Ave. and headed east up the winding
road.
Keeping my
bearings, I maintained a watch to
our right hoping whatever it was
didn't cut through the woods to meet
us on the road. We reached
Dorsett Road. I pumped the
brakes briefly and then tore left
down Dorsett. All light at
this time were blinking yellow and I
took us all the way to the Steak 'N
Shake at McKelvey and swung into the
parking lot, grabbing the first
parking space I could maneuver into
safely.
- I turned the
engine off and we sat there in
silence. I looked back
at the restaurant, noticed the
patrons inside going about there
midnight dining experience, then a
police cruiser parked close to the
building, then I looked back to the
road. My breathing began
slowing down to normal. That
was the operative word.
Everything was normal again.
I
finally asked Dennis what had
happened. He told me that
when the headlights came on,
whatever it was raised up to
full height and started moving
towards the car. It was so
fast it was almost on us when I
hit the gas.
-
- The truth of
the matter was that nothing
was normal again. My life had
been changed forever.
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