Three Of Us Heard It. Only One Of Us Remembers It The Same Way.
61% BELIEVED
CASE FILE #324
FILED: Mar 31, 2026
CLASSIFICATION: Cryptid Encounters
WITNESS ON RECORD: akavak
JURY OF 318 READERS HEARD THIS CASE: 194 believed it, 56 had doubts, 68 weren't buying it.
We were camped at the top of a valley, three of us, all in our thirties, all sober, all boring.
Something came through the camp at about 03:30. We all woke. We all heard it. It went between the two tents, and it took, I would say, twenty seconds to pass.
In the morning we did the sensible thing, which was to argue for an hour and then do something clever: we each wrote down what we remembered, sealed it in an envelope, and agreed not to talk about it for a year.
We opened them last month.
Mine says: heavy, bipedal, breathing like a man carrying a fridge upstairs. It stopped by my tent. It smelled like a wet dog and hot brakes.
Tom's says: four-legged, cantering, sounded like a horse got loose. He says it did not stop. He says the smell was "nothing, just tent".
Ellie's is one line, and it is the reason I am posting this. It says: "It said Tom's name and Tom answered."
Tom does not remember answering. Tom does not remember it saying anything. Tom, when he read that line, put the paper down and went and stood outside the pub for ten minutes.
Something came through the camp at about 03:30. We all woke. We all heard it. It went between the two tents, and it took, I would say, twenty seconds to pass.
In the morning we did the sensible thing, which was to argue for an hour and then do something clever: we each wrote down what we remembered, sealed it in an envelope, and agreed not to talk about it for a year.
We opened them last month.
Mine says: heavy, bipedal, breathing like a man carrying a fridge upstairs. It stopped by my tent. It smelled like a wet dog and hot brakes.
Tom's says: four-legged, cantering, sounded like a horse got loose. He says it did not stop. He says the smell was "nothing, just tent".
Ellie's is one line, and it is the reason I am posting this. It says: "It said Tom's name and Tom answered."
Tom does not remember answering. Tom does not remember it saying anything. Tom, when he read that line, put the paper down and went and stood outside the pub for ten minutes.
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Votes on record: 194 believed · 56 unsure · 68 didn't · 61% of readers believe this story