I live in the Texas hill country by a river in a small town, and I had some coworkers over tonight. One of them hadn't seen my river yet, and I'd been telling her how awesome it was, but it was raining when they got here. It just stopped raining a little while ago, so we all walked down to the river in the moonlight to check it out. You have to walk down this tree-lined path off the road, which takes a turn and goes downhill to the river. There's a bank on the other side covered with trees, it goes back maybe 15 yards from the edge of the water until it reaches a cliff wall that goes up maybe 10 yards, and is pretty steep. It's dark but the moon is giving us some light,We brought a couple beers with us, and we're sitting on the rocks talking, my buddy, Jarrett, is sitting across from me with his girlfriend, and this new girl is sitting next to me. He's in the middle of a sentence, looking between me and the girl next to me, when he looks back over both of our shoulders, widens his eyes and cuts off what he was saying with "Holy crap" in this really quiet voice.
We turn around and I barely have time to register what I'm seeing because it was dark. There was something black about half as tall as the cliff, 15 feet tall-ish, on these extremely spindly legs noiselessly sprinting through the trees on the opposite bank. I couldn't make out the shape too well, but my impression was that it was covered in long hair, and its body and head were kind of like a dog looking down, but stretched longer. Most of its height was in its legs, which were really thin. Jarrett turned on the flashlight, and shone it across the water at the thing, and it stopped moving and turned to look at us. It had humongous eyes that reflected the light from the flashlight. After a split second of this, it turned away from us and just scaled the cliff as easily as it was striding across the ground and disappeared from sight.
We stared for a second and then we just ran back to my house. We shat bricks over what we saw, and then they all just went home.
All four of us saw the thing, and we all seemed to be in agreement on what it looked like. I think my heart rate finally went back to normal just before I started writing this, and now it's back up. What happens now? Do I call animal control or something? I don't know what this thing is, if it's dangerous, or what. I don't want to go outside or even look out my window at the trees. Also I didn't score with the new girl and we left like 5 unopened beers on the bank of the river. What the fuck.
