Nov 26

I saw a creature in the water

A listener writes “Hey Wes me and two other buddies went duck hunting 4 days ago in the darbonne refuge in Louisiana there were certain events that lead up to this encounter.

OK so on Wednesday we left my buddies house at about 2 am we got to the refuge and we laid down in his 2 door truck and waited we were gong to wait till around 4 am to go leave to the hole. I was sitting in the passenger seat and my buddy Nate was in the driver seat and my other buddy Jake was in the back.

He was all cramped up from our guns being back there we played music and set an an alarm for us to leave. I was awoken when my buddy Jake said “Boys wake up I can’t sleep lets go to the hole and just sit down and go to sleep” We agreed and we walked down to the hole and I sat down in the water with my waiters on and when I sat down I shined my flashlight behind me and saw my two friends behind me about 15 yards away so I shined my flashlight and right beside about 12 yards away was a beaver hut I looked at my watch and saw it was 3:30 am. I knew it was going to be along three hours shooting hours was at 6:20 am (the reason I said that it would be long is because if a beaver comes out of his hut and sees you are in his territory he will flap his tail against the water and it will make a loud sound. so really he can’t hurt you he can just annoy you) so at around 4:00 am I was nearly asleep when I heard BOWW!!

I quickly got up and knew exactly what it was I shined my flashlight and it was a big beaver I just told myself in my head “You are luck it isn’t shooting hours or I would blow your head off.” My buddy Jake said ” He scared you didn’t he ” “Ya” I said right when I said that I started walking back because I knew that it wouldn’t stop flapping it’s tail so we moved about 50 yards away on to the bank and we stayed there for about 45 minutes and about then we heard the beaver slapping its tail. I looked to my friend Nate and said “that thing cant be slapping its tail at us we far enough away”. This went on for about ten minutes and I started getting more curious until then I heard it slap and in mid slap I heard a way bigger slap and then I Heard what sounded like a baby crying so then I dashed through the woods and my friends followed and I turned on my flashlight and then I saw a creature squatted down in the water eating the beaver I was frozen in fear not knowing what to do I then quickly reached into the front part and grabbed 3 shells and I dropped my flashlight I saw my friends still shining there flashlight on him then once I loaded it I saw it stand up water dropping from the hair on its body I quickly fired three rounds to the center of its chest (trying to hit the heart) and it knocked it back and it fell in the water but then it just got back up and let out a roar my friend had a head lamp on and it was just bouncing off the creature then I couldn’t see him so I yelled “Keep it on em”. I then quickly loaded my gun again and saw it wasn’t going to damage him and for some reason I thought if I shot him in his arm that I could get him to slow down while we ran then I aimed at his right arm and fired. Then it was just like it totally just incapacitated it. The creature then just crawled up the bank and then just crouched down and ran. Me and my friends have not talked about that event. Thank you for your time”

6 Responses to “I saw a creature in the water”

  1. Trent M

    I can understand duck loads not doing much to the chest of such a large creature and it is interesting that he decided to change target to it’s arm. I’m sure not judging him or his actions, especially after seeing a “monster” that close, but I can’t help but feel sorry for the creature as he may be disabled for a long time and he was just trying to eat.

  2. John

    Wes you gotta get this guy on the show, i wann hear more details, that was pretty suspenseful story,
    If that man had some supreme rifled shotgun slugs ole booger there would of been on a slab an history made,
    Thats why i always keep a high powered magnum rifle an hand cannon pistols on or near when im out there cause ya never know

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