Skinwalker

Skinwalker

It was late at night and Daniel just finished watching hours of scary stories, ranging from home invasions to satanic activity. His favorite stories though were about Skinwalkers, he didn’t know why he enjoyed them so much he just liked it. HE was getting ready for bed when he looked out his bedroom window and saw two red eyes starring at him. They starred at each other then it walked into the light, it looked like a coyote but, it was off, the ears were in the wrong place on its head, it was too big, and its face was flat. He knows what a coyote looks like because he has seen some walking around his small town. After, a few minutes of watching each other the coyote turned and ran off, but it ran unnaturally fast for a coyote. Daniel closed and locked all the windows in his room and closed all the curtains in his room. Once they were all closed he felt a wave of dread come off him that he hadn’t noticed he had.

The next day was a Saturday and he didn’t tell his grandparents what he had seen the night before. He ate his breakfast and went out with his friends to their favorite spot in the desert. They messed around there all day and it started to get around 9 pm and they started to walk home because the spot wasn’t far from where they all lived. As they were walking home, they all felt a wave of dread come over them. They looked around and just saw empty desert, then they smelt something that smelled like rotting flesh. They looked for the smell till they got to a rock not far from them, as they started to look at the rock, they noticed on top they saw a coyote the size of a wolf, when Daniel saw it he realized it was the same one as the night before. Not too long after they saw the coyote it bared its teeth and snarled at them, as it did, they were paralyzed with fear. Then the coyote jumped off the rock then Daniel instinctively started running as fast as their legs could carry them. They ran till they got to the door of a 24-hour convenience store and got inside and the door behind them closed before the coyote got there. After they got in, they waited a little bit to catch their breath. As they waited they heard bones breaking outside the door, they look out the door and they see the coyote standing on it’s hind legs like a human and morph into a tall man with a coyote skin tied around his neck with its front paws.

They stood there in awe as they saw the man starting to reach to open the door, as they saw this, they started to hold the door closed. After a while of holding the door shut the man walked a way from the convenience store and walked back into the desert. After, waiting a while they all ran back to there homes and had uneventful the next day.

Then after Daniel’s dad took him home on Sunday to California. Daniel had an uneventful at school, then after he got home and finished his homework at about 6 pm he decided to go on a walk. As he walked, he saw the man, so he turned and ran away in the opposite direction but, the man was faster and caught Daniel and ran off with him. Then he was reported missing and wasn’t found till 10 days later when a bloody body was found in a store parking lot, when a blood test was done on the body, they found out that it was Daniel, who was skinned alive. Later that day at Daniel’s father’s house, Daniel’s father heard a knock at the door. So, he opened it and Daniel was at the door so he let him in. Once, he let Daniel in the phone rang, So, he answered it and was told that his son was found skinned alive in a parking lot. After he heard that he looked at his son who was staring at him with red eyes and a smile that went from ear to ear.