Two eyewitness accounts, united by the children's observation of unidentified creatures that were somehow associated with trees.
White figure hiding in oak
Narrated by Harold from Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA).
“It happened when I was 11-12 years old, while I was living in Louisville, Kentucky. Our family lived in a trailer in a trailer park. Our father was a military man and we often moved from place to place. That day, only my mother was at home, and I went outside to play.
It was a bright and sunny day and I was just fiddling with some sticks and enjoying the good weather. Then something attracted me and I went in the direction where a group of trees grew. The path became narrower, and the bushes and trees grew thicker and thicker. I turned a couple of times and found myself in front of a large tree, it was an oak tree.
It was a large, thick and apparently very old oak tree, and it amazed me. But when I began to examine him, suddenly something white protruded from the trunk of a tree. It was something that looked like a man, but I saw only his head and part of his shoulder, the rest went into the trunk.
I stood and looked at him for a few seconds, and he looked at me, and then … he stirred and suddenly began to crawl out of the tree trunk entirely! It shocked and scared me terribly. I immediately ran away, ran to my trailer and sat down on my couch.
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I sat and continued to think about what I saw. Mom came up to me and asked, “What's wrong with you? You look like you saw something terrible. And I told her that I saw something in the forest, but I don't know what it is. In response, she said that maybe I just dreamed something.
But that was different. From that day on, the sight of this creature has forever settled somewhere in my subconscious. I still remember this incident and then told my mother and brother about it more than once."
Monster in a night thunderstorm
An anonymous eyewitness says:
“When I was little, I lived in a private two-story house with my parents and four brothers and sisters. One night it was raining heavily, which made my brother and I could not sleep and stood at the window, watching the thunderstorm and lightning.
We did not talk, we just stood there, as if we were hypnotized by this riot of the elements outside the window. But most of all, our attention was attracted by a tree standing next to the house, very close to our wall.
This tree was the only one on our site, and it was half rotten and without leaves. On that night, a strong wind violently ruffled his branches and they twitched violently under the pressure, turning the tree into a spindle-shaped object.
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Suddenly a whole series of lightning bolts responded to the exact darkness and for several moments a strange and somehow deformed creature was seen in the branches of the tree, the likes of which we have never seen. It was determined by the material and bipedal, with its feet firmly standing on the branch. And it definitely saw us, because it looked at me and my brother.
Both my brother and I saw this creature, I remember how round my brother's eyes became at that moment. Outwardly, the creature looked so grotesque and caricatured, as if it were a cartoon character. At the same time, it looked like a farmer, he was wearing a plaid shirt and overalls, and in one hand it held something like a pitchfork.
However, as it turned out later, only I saw such a creature, my brother said that he saw a skeleton with thick bones and empty eye sockets in the skull. But both my brother and I saw this creation only for a few moments during the flash of lightning. Then darkness fell and after a couple of seconds there was a new flash and there was no one on the tree branches.
Then my brother and I almost never talked about this incident or mentioned it. I was 6 or 7 years old at the time. brother was a little older. In subsequent years, I have never seen anything like this on a tree, even at night and in a thunderstorm.
However, interestingly, our father soon cut down this tree. We do not know why, maybe because of his dead appearance or his father also saw something. We never told him about that creature."