C'mon Gatehouse....tell us your story
We were camped out with 12 kids as part of the camp program "under the stars" i.e. no tents just sleeping bags and mats. All the kids had gone to sleep and myself and two other counselors were awake telling jokes etc. keeping an eye on the kids. Just after 1am we heared a splashing noise from the creek below(we were about 3 0 feet above and 20 feet across from the creek bed) All 3 of us heard it and immediately quietened down, hoping to figure out what it was and maybe see what it was.
There had been reports of a mountain lion in the area so we thought we might get lucky and see it. The splashing then began to sound like someone splashing around and walking through the water, it didn't sound like an animal. Initially we thought it might be someone messing around with us, but there was no other way of getting down to the creek, and then the sounds started; horrible grunt and a throaty groan and a couple of sounds which sounded like a Japanese sumo. We threw a big rock down into the creek in the general direction of the sounds , shined our flashlights and heard and saw nothing.
We went back to our sleeping bags , nobody said a word. About ten minutes later we heard the splashing again, briefly and then no-more. At around 4 am I awoke and saw something looking over me I was lying down and in my sleeping ba g and thought I was dreaming seeing some shape above me. I awoke about a minute later and realized that something really had been looking at me, I looked all around but couldn't see anything, just the sound of some creature moving in the forest. It took me a while to process what had happened that night, and I thought maybe I was just imagining it all, until one of the other guys woke up and began talking about the sounds from there creek and how he wouldn't be doing the camp out again.
Also I was the last to sleep that night, the sounds had freaked me out, and i had a candy bar near my head when I went to sleep, it wasn't there in the morning!! True story.....IT STOLE MY CHOCOLATE BAR!!