There was a doctor who worked in a small town in South Africa. He enjoyed helping the locals of the town. He became friends with them, and he genuinely enjoyed helping them. He stayed there for a few years.
On his third year there, a stranger walked into the town. The person was a man but there was something wrong with him. His clothes were tattered and bloody, and his face was filthy and scratched.
"Hahaha........ Haha......... Haha!"
But the worst thing was, he was laughing hysterically. He fell on the ground in front of the town, laughing.
The doctor tried to get him to stop laughing, but he wouldn't. So he gave him some food and water and sedated him. The next day, the man wasn't laughing anymore.
"What happened to you." The doctor asked. Then, the man went on to explain:
"My friend and i went on a hunting expedition. His name was Jack Crawley. We decided to hunt these monkeys..... These were special monkeys. Some said that they were as smart as a person."
"And you still wanted to catch one?" The doctor said, frowning.
The man shrugged, "we would've been set for life. Anyway, we tried to get one of the locals to take us, but they were too scared. That didn't stop Crawley. We ourselves and set up camp, but we didn't see any special apes.
We decided to catch one. We dug a big pit in the ground and put sharp wooden spikes in the bottom of it. To disguise it, we put leaves on the top. Then, we waited.
In the middle of the night, we heard a terrible scream. And in the morning when we checked, there was a dead ape in the pit. I was fascinated and happy- we could prove the existence- but Crawley wasn't satisfied. He wanted a live one. "
"Very brave." The doctor said
"Or very stupid." The man deadpanned. "He decided that we were going to trick the apes. After all, we were humans and they were Apes. We were obviously smarter no matter what the rumours said. So, Crawley skinned the Ape and put the skin on. I tried to tell him that it was too dangerous....."
"..... But he wouldn't listen?" The doctor asked. The man nodded.
"He wouldn't at all." The man agreed. "He put on the skin and told me he'd be back with a living Ape to take back to England. Then he headed off into the forest, and I waited for him."the man shuddered as he continued. "I waited, and waited. A whole entire day. After that, I started to think he was dead." Oddly the mans face split into a large smile.
The doctor frowned, but motioned for the man to keep going. And go on, he did.
"At the end of the second day without him- the third day we had been there altogether- I was prepared to go home without Crawley. That was when I saw him again. He was smiling, kind of creepy and maniacal. He was standing by the edge of the forest, and naked. I called out to him, a relieved greeting. And then-- haha, and th-then--" he started to laugh hysterically.
"Sir!" The doctor tried to say, but the man finished anyway
"And th-then-- haha, then the Ape pulled off Crawley's skin, just like Crawley had done! Turns out-- hee hee-- turns out they're just as smart as us after all!"
