The Experiment

Prologue

An old, dusty video started loading, beeping the numbers as it counted down... three, two, one — a male voice started to talk in some sort of commercial as the T.V. screen played with its dim light.

"Welcome to our O'Shadow Woods Camp. Here, we are open at special times of the seasons, especially in winter and summer. Here, we have "hit the target" camps for you to practice gunshots. We have ice skating lakes, and many hiking places for you to explore! We also have a spa with a hot bathtub, lonely shacks for lovely couples to have some time alone, and places to interact with wild animals; mines to take pictures, cable cars to get in the mountains and enjoy with your friends, and so much more!" The screen became static along with the horrible sounds as the old dusty video tape played. Distorted channel noises mixed with the commercial's for a whole minute until a new channel showed up... it was the news report.

"Good morning, today at 04:30 AM we got news and reports about wild attacks... We found four teenagers and two kids aged about 13 and 14 years old. Everyone was completely injured," said the news man as he pointed to the people in the background. Blue and red neon lights flashed in the distance. While the ambulance service did their best to help, the cameraman focused for a second on the people extremely injured in the background, all full of bruises and scratches. The news man clenched his mic as he stared at the camera man and then resumed in a more calm tone.

During the news, one of the girls of the group was crying hard — her tears wouldn't stop falling from her eyes. She started to sob trying to recover her posture, while the people asked about what had happened. You could see her shocked expression as if she saw death itself before her very eyes.

She opened her mouth and started, "W-we...w..were an...g-g-group of eight teenagers and four kids. The kids were our younger siblings... We were having fun, u-until t-that THING... came and started to attack us..." she spoke in a mournful tone. The news man leaned his mic as he asked her name and asked about the siblings.

"M-my name is... Sarah... a-a-and my... brother... is gone.... he.... is one of the victims that was found dead..." The screen of the video showed the kid's body completely mangled in pieces, but no details could be shown, most of his body was blurred out due to the censorship on the screen, but we could imagine that the poor kid was dead. He probably had a very painful death...

There were some strange bite marks that could be seen through the blurred censor. If it wasn't for how big the damage was, we would've assumed some other human had bitten them.

Sarah broke into tears as she shook in fear. The news man started to explain that, "The police and search party has only found three injured teenagers, two kids alive and injured, and only three dead teenagers' and one kid's dead body." It Was confirmed that the rest of the victims are missing, not even the other bodies were found... he also confirmed that the common thing between each death was they all had bite or claw marks all over.

"Police first believed it could've been a bear, but there's no concrete proof. The way it has killed its victims, it was not just any ordinary predator. No animal could have such behavior... yet... no human could leave claw and bite marks like that," stated the news man. He stared at the camera for a second before hearing a commotion in the background... He turned around and stared at whatever was going on.

Suddenly, the camera focused on Sarah, who was getting kind of agitated. She kept yelling as she was being taken to the ambulance van. "THAT THING TOOK CARLOS AWAY FROM ME! IT WAS NO HUMAN, IT LOOKED AT ME AND IT TOOK MY BROTHER AWAY! IT HAD ANTLERS AND WIDE MOUTH AND WHITE EYES! IT WAS NO HUMAN NOR ANIMAL! IT WAS A MONSTER!"

The T.V. screen had interrupted the rest of the news report. The screen had gone static, letting out a screeching and distorted tape sounds as it restarted and resumed. The T.V.'s channel started to play more and more reports about the "wild winter" attacks that ended with the same results... Someone would end up in a body bag, IF their body was ever found at all... Something was not right. The T.V. soon was shut down, ending the videotape short.

"It felt cold, it felt empty, and I couldn't feel my weight. I was very light — almost like floating. I don't know who I am or what I am... but... all I know and feel... is... Hunger"