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Scary true story in the Arizona Desert

Let me preface this by saying I'm not claiming this was any particular phenomenon. I am telling you what happened exactly how it happened. No exaggeration or lying of any kind. On to what happened..

20 years ago my older brother and I (19 and 15 at the time) were working a landscaping job in northern AZ. We had gotten off work at the site around 7pm, hopped into his truck and started the 45 minute commute home. On the way back there is a dirt road that leads about 20 miles into the middle of the desert. It's there mainly to take dirt bikes out or go 4 wheelie ect. But we would use it as a good spot to stop and smoke weed while avoiding prying eyes. So we drive a few miles in and park in between these two hills that hide the truck and us pretty well. We've done this about 30 times up to that point though never again after that night.

We stop and I commence the ritual of breaking it up to roll. He was talking about something but I wasn't really listening until I heard his voice change. "did you hear that?" he asked. We both listen and I heard a strange high pitched tinny sound for a split second And then suddenly complete silence. The desert is actually a pretty loud place at night. I remember realizing that when the sound was gone. As we sat there for maybe 5 more seconds my brother gasps starts the truck and floors it in rapid succession. We're flying out of the desert now and I'm bouncing like a ball from his reckless driving. i'm asking him "wtf man?" as we go but he says nothing. We hit the street and the lights of a passing car show his face. He is pale and completely wide eyed with his mouth open. I got scared at seeing so much fear from him and just sat there waiting for him to stop.

He finally stopped at a McDonald parking lot when we got back in town. He started crying. I just pat him on the shoulder and waited. After a few minutes he asked me if I remember. "remember what man? we were in the desert for like 5 minutes before you went flying out like a crazy asshole" He looked at me and started sobbing. He said it had me and he couldn't do anything. He said it took me.

At this point I started putting some things together. It was quiet out, no cars. Looked at one of those billboard clocks and seen it was 11:11pm. My brother told me something had grabbed me through my closed passenger window. He had went for his pistol when he suddenly was froze and couldn't move because the thing "told" him that if he didn't stay right where he was and wait that I would die and he would be next. He said he felt it in his heart to be true. The thing that had me was very tall and thin with huge black eyes. He says he doesn't remember anything else about it, just tall and thin with huge black eyes. He sat frozen in absolute terror for hours while the thing disappeared with me into the desert. Then suddenly I appeared in the truck and he gunned it out of there.

Over the years I've talked to him about it twice. He hates to even mention it. He is ashamed I think and still very afraid of it. He changed after this, always seeming to be less energetic and a little withdrawn. I wish it wasn't like that. Wish I could help. I told him he is blameless and I thanked him for getting us out of there. That's all I could do.

I had considered multiple times to get hypnotized to see if I could recover some memories like I've heard other people apparently have. But whenever I think about it I remember the light flashing over his face and the sheer terror I seen there. Better not to know I think.

anyways.. this is sort of a fuck you to whatever it was. I told the story. Eat me.

Posted by u/Lokain22