Once grounded, she shone the light on the water again. There
was a slight disturbance on the surface and both Thomas and Katie strained to
see what was moving below. Almost in tandem, they both jumped backward. Katie
lost her foothold and her tennis shoes made a sudden splash. The things in the
water responded to the disturbance with a blood curdling scream and splashed
aggressively as they made a hasty retreat further away from the bank. Katie
regained her balance and more composure than Thomas would have thought possible
and shone the light out on water but there was nothing there to see.
Thomas couldn’t believe what he had just seen. They were close enough to the surface to be
seen clearly. There in the marshes of
Bear Willow State Park were pale, grey faces in the water. Based on their
fierce reaction to light, they were probably not apparitions or living people
but whatever they were, they had human facial features and made human-like
sounds and their cries sounded more like shrieks of pain than from fear as if
the light could somehow injure them.
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