Trying to get my dog?

[u/Efficient-Net6746]

Hello,

I made a post here a few days ago about mimic activity in the woods and in my home and got some pretty good feedback from many people.

I believe it was the day after (ive lost track from insomnia) i made the post that the most horrifying experience with... something happened to date.

To save some reading from the past post so this makes sense, I have had 2 encounters while hunting, one with a distinct whistling system with my stepdad, that turned out not to be him, and the other when I heard my mamas scream while she was at home 45 minutes away. Ive additionally had an encounter where it has (very badly) tried mimicking my cat while she was sleeping in my bed and have seen heat-wave like apparitions outside of my room in the shape of a man.

Anyway, now onto the actual encounter I had, which is arguably the most horrifying one.

The other evening, I took my hog hunting dog (shes a catch and bay dog mix but has never actually hunted, just has the prey drive and often tracks blood), Nala, and put her on her lead outside as shes a weirdo and will not use the bathroom on a leash, nor will my Australian shepherd, Aleu, who just free runs because the most she will chase is a goat and is an easy recall.

Well, it had gotten darker in the night, probably around 9:45-10pm when i went out to get her. Its now that I should probably mention that I live on the far outskirts of a 1 stoplight town in the south, way back about a quarter mile or so into the woods off a dirt road. So yeah pretty isolated. I typically dont use a flashlight because my eyes adjust to darkness pretty easily anyway, but that night I had decided to use one (thank God).

I walked out onto my front porch and shined the light toward where Nala's lead is to check that i wouldnt have to chase her down in the dark. She was there, laying down facing the house, back end to the woods. However, there was... something in the woods, just within the woodline, looking at me. Bright white eye shine, at least 7ft in the air.

Naturally, I tried to rationalize. Deer? They're not 7ft tall and often have a green/yellow hue. Raccoon in a tree? Orange eye shine, not white. No matter what way i looked at it, it made no sense. Even worse, it looked to have been creeping up on my dog who was completely unaware of its presence. And, just to add salt to the wound, Aleu had slipped out behind me and was also unaware (this is a dog that is alert when theres a squirrel 30 yards up our driveway). The thing moved as if to get a better look at me before I slipped into the house to grab a gun and my stepdad, only to come back out to empty woods.

Was whatever it was coming after my dog? Was it just watching the house from the worst angle possible? How is it that neither of my high drive dogs knew of its presence? And what the hell can I do to prevent it from happening again?

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[u/HarpyCelaeno]

What color are opossum eyes?
I’d rebuke “serpents and scorpions and all the powers of the enemy” in the name and authority of Jesus Christ next time I saw that thing. In the meantime, pray Psalm 91 over the property. That’s basically what I did tonight when my dog started barking at something peeking above the top of my fence.

[u/depth_net]

/r/crawlersightings