So I’ve been contemplating putting this on here for a couple of years now. Only my family and close friends know my story, and I wanted to explain it fully without someone belittling my experience with the TLDR crap, thinking they’re funny.
It was 1997, I was 28 and my then bf and I lived in a remote village in Lincolnshire, England. He had a job where he worked from 6pm to 6am and I was working in a bar so I would take him to and from work so I could get myself to work with the one car we shared. Its probably worth mentioning that the car was brand new, it had something crazy like 18 miles on the clock when we got it, I wanted something newer than the car we had before because I didn’t like the idea of being stranded down a dark country lane if the old car decided to shit itself when I was driving alone.
I don’t know how many people know Lincolnshire, but most of it is rural with thin winding roads, and the place is so flat you can see for miles. I used to drive to pick my ex up and the views in spring when the mornings were getting lighter was and still are breathtaking. So, imagine farmers fields all around you with a basic little road snaking along the edges. The fields themselves were separated in rows by not quite saplings but trees that would be a couple of years old, still thin and gangly and at this particular time of year were just starting to show hints of new leaves on their skinny branches. An absolutely beautiful drive in the lighter mornings, mainly because I was usually the only person on the road, so I could drive as slow as I liked to watch the sun coming up over the horizon.
Ok so I hope I’ve described the place enough to paint an image… Here’s where the story starts. So one morning I was driving along the little road, it was about 5.30am and the sun was just peaking out on the horizon and the sky was completely cloudless. I slowed down to watch it as I often did, not paying much attention to the trees as they were in a row that ran down the side of the field so they were never in the way of the view… In my peripheral I thought I saw something move amongst the skinny trees, so I stopped the car completely thinking it might be a deer or something interesting like that.
I waited for a few seconds and nothing happened, so I was just about to restart the car when I saw two of the ‘trees’ walking out of the line up. I say trees, but I don’t have a clue what they actually were. Remember this is a long time before the internet and the slenderman and all the tales and superstition etc… I was literally frozen to the spot with fear. Two tall ‘things’ walked out of the line of trees and started walking over to me. I was about 50-60 yards away from them and the only thing I could describe them as were oversized stick insects. They had two long legs and two long arms that almost touched the ground, and I’d say the tallest one must have been easily 12 feet tall, the smaller one maybe 10. They walked in a fluid motion, as if they were wading through treacle, like long hair would glide through water… it was just slow and graceful.
When my brain finally kicked into flight mode I started my car and glanced over to see how close they had gotten, all the while I was putting my car into gear and started it moving. The tallest one slowly lifted his arm up, like a silk scarf gliding through light wind and pointed it at me. My car instantly stalled, the dashboard warning lights were all on, all of them lit up and at the same time I got the WORST pain in my face… mainly my jaw but it made me scream out in agony and I almost blacked out. With the pain debilitating me I knew I needed to get away - fast. I was so terrified that the car wouldn’t start again because all the lights were still on, so I turned the engine entirely off and thankfully it started again and I drove like a madwoman to get out of sight, all the time my face/jaw was burning and when I got to my ex’s work he gave me a bottle of water to cool me down but it didn’t do much to help, and for weeks my mouth felt like I had chewed on poison ivy, my jaw feeling like I had an abscess under each molar.
I needed to see a dentist and I knew that but explaining what happened would have made me feel stupid so I put it off. I had three amalgam fillings, all in my lower molars and once the worst of the pain had gone - a couple of months later - I couldn’t put anything metal in my mouth without getting a shock… like licking a battery shock, so I was eating with plastic cutlery all the time and decided to give in and see if the dentist would change the fillings to ceramic ones. The dentist looked in my mouth and asked what had happened to my teeth, I played it off casually and asked why. My fillings looked like little balls of mercury, so I explained the car ride etc and he said that my fillings looked like they had melted and pooled in to smooth rounded metal balls.
Every word of this is true, I don’t mind banter or questions but please don’t be mean, it’s taken a lot for me to tell my story to you all. Thanks 😊
