For as long as I live, I will never forget what I saw. I know that seems dramatic but it's a truth that I've come to accept, and since I cannot forget I may as well share. I should make clear that it's not just what I saw but what I heard.

I was 13-14 years old when it happened, I was leaving school on a cold winter day. It was later then when I usually got out so it was already getting dark outside and I had to walk a few miles to get home as everyone at home was busy. I've walked this path many times before and quite a few after this happened but I stopped and walked a different longer way Because it unsettled me too much to be so near to where this nightmare happened.

I was about a mile and a half down the path and near some heavily wooded areas around some houses, it was normally a very quiet and peaceful place to walk by and you could occasionally see a deer or two. It was unusually silent that day, the kind of silence that you only hear in a soundproofed room. Then suddenly the silence was broken by a man looking for his child, a little girl who had escaped his vision while she way playing. He was clearly dismayed by her disappearance. I can understand why but after what I heard and saw next I dont think I'll ever worry about a lost child in the same way. Shortly after I spoke to him we both heard an ominous yet vaguely familiar voice say "daddy I'm stuck". So naturally he runs after it, I however stay on my path, stationary to see this happy reunion and help if its needed. I couldn't quite see the little girl but something didnt feel right, and soon I realized that nothing was right with her. As the dad neared her, a spike or tendril of some kind erupted from her body and shot toward the father. I could first hear her bones crack the the fathers, it looked like it broke his ribs and I could see bits of bone flying through the air. Then a distinct groan crept from him, and even worse a quite laugh from the girl, though it didn't match her size or age more the laugh of hyena after catching its meal. As the laugh continued I could hear more bones cracking but I didn't see any more damage done to the man, but I saw the little girls mouth stretch unnaturally wide. The skin on the side of her mouth tears and spurts blood to the side and her teeth seemed like sharpened spikes, like what vlad would use to impale his enemies, yellow and jagged. The tendril pulls the father closer, I had ideas as to what I was about to see but I couldn't pull my eyes away. So I watched like a child watching a horror film. Her jaw opened like a snake and expanded over her father's head and chomped around his neck, removing his head and splattering blood around the surrounding leaves and foliage. A loud gulp followed then more cracking as her mouth opened even wider. Wide enough to fit a baseball bat, but also wide enough to fit a full grown mans shoulders. She swallowed the rest of his body whole, I've only seen Something like it on documentaries about snakes, it was like an anaconda swallowing a alligator. I was helpless and silent with shock. After his feet disappeared I looked away, I started to run to get home faster and away from this monster. As I started my sprint I was stopped dead by a familiar voice, I look back to see that in the place of the little girl was my younger sister. It was a perfect replication, down to every last freckle. I heard her say "Bubby, im stuck in the mud can you help". In shock my eyes widened, and I turned on my heels and ran as fast I as I could hearing different family members voices cry out for my help.