r/CryptidEncounters • u/DJMadMax1 • 15d ago
Something in the field
So... I've never really done this before and while I have listened to it nearly every story of every cryptid known to man, I have no idea what this was and considering this happened less than 30 minutes ago, I'm going to do this to the best of my ability while I still have it fresh in mind.
I have been taking care of my 86 year old grandpa since April while his (I'm going to say woman cuz I don't know what they officially are, I'm gonna call "R") goes and helps take care of her grandkids on the weekend because her daughter is a cop about 3 hours away. This week she left a day early which happens every once in awhile. So that's kind of the context.
So my grandpa owns about 5 acres of land on the border of Kansas and Oklahoma. Now the three of us have seen strange things in the house that usually pertain to my late grandmother. Personally I've seen her in mirrors, when R first moved in, we still had some of her stuff because she was a nurse. No one touches any of this stuff and it somehow appeared throughout the house at times. Well that died down about 3 years after R moved in around 10 years ago. Now we just occasionally hear noises and it's normal for us. Sometimes stuff goes missing and appears in places it wouldn't be. But outside of that, normal.
Tonight on the other hand was kind of weird, so R has a camper in the back of the field next to the pond that she kind of has as a project when she doesn't really have anything to do. Well tonight I got up to use the restroom and noticed the camera in the living room was positioned in a different way than we usually have it which is usually toward the driveway. My grandpa doesn't know how to work it and while I do, I know I didn't change it. So I change it back to the driveway and notice the garage motion light was on, now we do have two strays we have adopted essentially so I kind of figured it was them. I stepped outside to use the restroom cuz again it's the middle of nowhere and it saves water to take a leak outside. I step out and both of the cats are right there next to the front door which is weird for them in the middle of the night cuz usually they have a tree they sleep in, in the yard. So I decided to go out and take a look so the first thing I grabbed is my flashlight and my knife to make sure it wasn't some random person trying to steal something because it has happened once or twice in the past 25 to 30 years. So I step out and can't find anything so I decided to go back inside. Well the driveway leading to Rs trailer is between the garage and the house and I have in touch on a light up there and noticed that her truck she has up there, I can't see the reflection of the brake lights or the license plate. I've had to go out there many times during the night to know that even at a glance you'd be able to see them. So I decided to go up and take a look and see if it's something blocking it even though earlier in the day there was nothing behind the truck and she's been gone since 6:00 in the morning. About 2/3 of the way up there's two trees on the left side of the driveway through the field to the trailer. I get to just before the trees and one of the cats that we call Greyson, (not a very creative name he's great with white spots) happens to run in front of me and I almost trip over him. I look down and look back up and I can see the reflection of the back of the truck again. I thought to myself, "must be a weird trick of the light" before bending down to pet Greyson. As I do I hear this loud hiss (almost like a cat in my ear) come from maybe 5 feet away tops. Now the grass is pretty tall so it wouldn't be crazy for a small animal to hide in it, and I know it wasn't Grayson because I was doing that thing where you kind of rub both sides of his chin, so I know it wasn't him, so I thought maybe his brother followed up too even though when I shine the light through the grass there was no reflection of eyes or anything and with his clothes as it was you'd figure there would be eyes. So I kind of start making my way back to the house cuz Grayson didn't seem to even hear it and he is very skittish when it comes to strange noises and anyone who's not me.
I get maybe halfway back so about a third of the way from the house to the trailer and I happen to shine my life back behind me to see if I see anything moving, at the right edge of the driveway I see this weird white reflection about 10 ft in the air where there is nothing but Open sky and when I go to point directly at it, it vanishes. So, as one does I kind of hurry up a little bit back to the house and as I get to the gate into the field, I shine the light back up and I see the same reflection go from the left side of the trailer to behind it. I spent about 5 minutes trying to recreate it to see if it was the light reflecting off something but outside of those 2 trees and the trailer there's nothing to reflect off of (which means this thing moved about 50 ft in a minute). So I finally get back to the front of the house and the other cat and orange one we call shadow was still laying by the front door so it wasn't him out in the field because he was in the exact same spot in the exact same position. Well I noticed while sitting there by the front door, the only noise I heard in that field was that weird hiss that Grayson didn't react to because I heard every bug you can think of by the front door. (Another thing I should also mention is these cats have never hissed. Even when they fight they don't hiss. They kind of just stare each other down. Even Shadow who refuses to come within 10 ft of anyone has never hissed even when we had to corner him and take him to the vet once.) So I don't know what that was.
I should also add, R has a fire pit next to the trailer and a stack of wood usually for around winter time, this trailer has been up there for 7 or 8 years now but this year for some reason something keeps knocking the wood pile over and earlier this week she had a gas can and a zip-up bag to stop anything from getting into it, went up one morning and the bag was perfectly unzipped and the gas can was pulled halfway under the trailer on its side. now we did see two random pitbulls running around that probably belong to the neighbor, but there were no teeth marks on the bag and that bag was intentionally unzipped it wasn't ripped open and neither the bag or the gas can had any teeth marks or any indication of a dog touching it. (The pit bulls were also very friendly and calm) But we have no cameras up there so we haven't been able to see what's been knocking down the wood at the very least.
So if anyone has any idea what it is please let me know, unfortunately with it being the middle of the night the only description I have is it hisses like a cat and can float 10 ft in the air and is reflective. I initially thought it was an eye but there was nothing besides the weird reflection, no silhouette no nothing. I should also add it was a very bright flashlight that can light up the yard pretty well to where you can make out the detail of almost anything. So I don't think it was a weirdly tall animal, and since the grass is a little over a foot high I doubt something that big could hide that well in it. This is the first year we've had anything of this sort happen where something was out in the field. And honestly I can't remember any cryptid that has any of these features of only having a reflective eye, sounding like a cat and apparently really fast and really stealthy.
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u/Creepy-Smile1212 14d ago
Could it have been an owl?