For months, my friend Sam and I have seen crazy things in the woods surrounding our ATV club. A few days ago, another one of my friends, Ashley, has spotted one too. Sam and I thought we were just batshit crazy, but Ashley is levelheaded and not paranoid schitzophrenic at all... It began in June, with Sam and I sitting by the fire at about ten PM near a field with woods on either side. We were shooting the shit when Sam just shut up and looked at the field, eyes wide open in fear. If you knew Sam at all, you'd know two things: One, he never shuts up. Two, he's a fearless little bastard. So I quickly looked up to the field. Unless he was afraid of a few little fireflies and grass, there was nothing there.

 

"Sam? What's wrong?" He shook his head, like he was trying to clear something out from in between his ears, and he explained what he thought he saw. I was sitting with my back to the field before this, so I went to the other side of the fire. The down side was I was waiting to see some schizo thing that probably didn't exist. The plus side; I got to sit by him. We talked a little more, and I got him to stop freaking out a little. Just as he was beginning to calm down, I saw this flash of gray and a little streak of yellow. I looked over to him at the same time he looked at me.

 

"That was it." He muttered. We sat quietly and tensely, waiting for another. Not a half and hour later, the streak of gray and yellow ran to the middle of the field, stopped, and looked at us. It was light gray, with large, buglike yellow eyes. Sam and I didn't get to finish watching. We simultainiously screamed and ran to our camper.

 

Since that night, we have been seeing more of these things, in different shapes. We named the first one Gray Matter, and the next one we saw Lizard Man for the express purpose that he looks much like Randal from Monsters Inc, except black, more reptilian with scales and spikes, and purple jewel-tone eyes. The third, and possibly the most creepy, is the Dark Man. He is the only humanoid creature, and has never moved or walked while we were watching. He has pale, pale skin, and a long leather coat. He also wears a hat and boots. The first time I saw him, he was standing in the shadow just beyond the one street light we have at the camp. I turned to tell Sam that I was seeing something, and as we turned back to look, he was gone. Another I have seen, but I'm not sure if the others have seen it, strongly resembled the thing from Darkness Falls. (I watch a lot of movies... Good refrence points, I guess...?) It will fly past the street lights, blocking the light for a split second, and you'll look up and see just a tattered, tulle-like cloaked creature flying away. There have been tonnes of others, but they are just shadows in the night and not really describable.

 

Ashley's first sighting of these creepy critters was two days ago. We went up near her camper, and in the middle of the little camper cul-de-sac they have going on up there is a port-a-shitter. We were about a foot behind it, and Ashley pointed behind it and said that she saw something moving. I saw yellow eyes, and even though they have never tried to hurt us, I flicked open my knife and forcibly placed Ashley behind me. We made like this to her camper, and she did what she had to do. She kept asking me what that was, and I kept saying "Lets just get back to the pavilion." The pavilion is a closed-in cafeteria type building that we hang out in. We got to the pavilion, where Sam and another boy, Gaylen were. Gaylen hasn't really seen the creatures, I don't think, he just likes to go with what everyone else is saying. I made sure Ashley was in the pavilion, in the light, and safe before we sat her down and told her what the hell she just saw.

 

"Sam, tell Ashley about Gray Matter." Sam blinked.

 

"Why?"

 

"He was just standing three feet away from us..." They never got that close before, either, so Sam was freaked out and intrigued all at once. For the rest of the night, we saw them following us and watching us everywhere. Sam and I went to take Ashley back to her camper, and as she went to open her door, Lizard Man's hand snaked out from underneath the camper, reaching for her. She shat a brick, and Sam had my knife pointed at the general area as I had her. We took her to our camper for the night.

 

They seem to be more active near the full moon, and during the full moon they are absolutely bat shit crazy.... Tomorrow night is the full moon... and Sam is there by himself...