Have you ever had a paranormal/extraterrestrial encounter?
As a child, I used to spend my summers at the house of a family friend’s elderly grandmother with my cousin. She had a yard that stretched on seemingly forever, which we would wander through for hours, catching fireflies, tossing leeches at each other in the creek, chasing crawdads, and driving “the jeep” through a muddy trail someone had carved through the woods. However, we were always warned to stay away from the old barn that sat in the corner of her field on the edge of the woods. Despite being an elderly German woman in Appalachia, Oma firmly believed that there was a chupacabra that lived in the rafters. Neither us kids or our parents were allowed near the barn, which seemingly had not been touched in decades.
One night when catching fireflies, my cousin and I were sent to the barn on a dare. I will never forget the terror I felt when I pointed my flashlight upward and saw a hunched, hairless grey figure with sunken eyes sitting on the loft amidst a sea of garden hoses and wire coils. I don’t believe it was a chupacabra, there was something distinctly alien about it. I had waking nightmares for years after, always convinced I’d turn around to see it running after me. Though it never did chase me that night I saw it. Oma passed soon after so I never went back to her house again, and my cousin moved to Oregon around the same time. I’ve not talked to him in years. I’ve heard his dad recently committed suicide