One More Story,
Contemporary Seneca Tales of the Supernatural
(As told by DuWayne Leslie Bowen)One time a young
guy told me this story. One night he had come
home from visiting his girlfriend. He was just
old enough to start anything out late at night.
When he got home this night, everybody was
already asleep. He wanted to listen to the radio
so he turned it on and kept the sound down. After
he had been listening for a while, he thought
that he heard a noise outdoors. It sounded like
chains being dragged on the ground. So he got up
and went to look outside but he didn't see
anything. So he went back to listen to the radio
some more. A few minutes later he heard a tapping
sound at the window so he got up to go and look
again. When he opened the curtain he jumped back
real fast. There was something standing there
looking in at him. It had a real furry face and
there were horns sticking out of its forehead.
Just then it took off running because there was a
car coming down the road. It ran across the lawn
and onto the road. The guy could see by the car
lights that this thing had big furry legs and it
had a long pointed tail. He could also see sparks
when its hooves struck the pavement. It could run
real fast and it ran over the bank and went
toward the river.
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