It Used My Sister's Voice And It Got The Wrong Word
62% BELIEVED
CASE FILE #317
FILED: Mar 24, 2026
CLASSIFICATION: Cryptid Encounters
WITNESS ON RECORD: alex
JURY OF 272 READERS HEARD THIS CASE: 168 believed it, 49 had doubts, 55 weren't buying it.
We grew up on the last house before the road turns to gravel, and my sister and I had a whole language of shouted words, because our mother would not buy us phones.
On the night this happened I was seventeen and she was at her boyfriend's, twelve miles away, which I knew, because I had watched her leave and been furious about it.
At about half nine, from the treeline, I heard her voice call my name.
It was her voice. I have thought about this for a decade and I will not soften it: it was her voice, the exact one, including the way she goes up at the end when she is winding me up.
She said my name twice. Then she said, "Come out here."
And that is the sentence that saved me. Because my sister does not say "out here". Nobody in our family says "out here". We say "come out", or "get out here", and she would have said "get out here, you idiot", because that is who she is, and the thing at the treeline did not know that.
On the night this happened I was seventeen and she was at her boyfriend's, twelve miles away, which I knew, because I had watched her leave and been furious about it.
At about half nine, from the treeline, I heard her voice call my name.
It was her voice. I have thought about this for a decade and I will not soften it: it was her voice, the exact one, including the way she goes up at the end when she is winding me up.
She said my name twice. Then she said, "Come out here."
And that is the sentence that saved me. Because my sister does not say "out here". Nobody in our family says "out here". We say "come out", or "get out here", and she would have said "get out here, you idiot", because that is who she is, and the thing at the treeline did not know that.
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Votes on record: 168 believed · 49 unsure · 55 didn't · 62% of readers believe this story