Where's Izzy!!
Posted by beedlegewce
Date Posted: 06/20/2005

First I would like to say I was not a believer in supernatural events, until I was given proof...

From early on in my life I loved horror movies. I was never scared by Freddy, Jason, or any grotesque monsters. I could usually watch these movies in a pitch black room alone. I never got nightmares, I would say if that’s was me I wouldn’t get caught I’d let' em have it. It wasn’t until my freshman year in college that all that changed. I attended school in the mystic state of Louisiana. All through high school I’ve wanted to go to Mardi gras and now I finally had my chance. Me and 4 of my friends rented a truck and traveled from northern LA to New Orleans. My buddy Flip drove, I rode shotgun, Joker and Izzy were in the middle, and Breeze had the back seat. LA has stretches of highways were on both sides of the road there is nothing but trees, thick dark ominous looking trees. About 2 1/2 hrs into our trip we got a flat tire. Flip pulled over to change the tire and Breeze helped him, while I and Joker went to piss. Iz decided to go smoke a bowl in the woods. Joker and I were gone only a few minutes before returning to the truck. Standing by the truck staring at the wall of trees I saw a few flicks of light off in the darkness. I figured it was Iz because I smelled the faint smell of smoke, but on a second whiff, I noticed it wasn’t the smell of herb but more like burnt hair. No one thought much of it until Flip was done with the tire and Iz still didn’t return from smoking. We thought he was either smoking a lot or he was going to try and scare us. so we clowning him for taking so long, but after 10 more minutes and Iz still didn’t come back we got worried. The first thing that came to mind was the Blair witch project. Iz was our friend but we all felt a little spooked, so we played rock, paper, scissors to see who would go look. Me, breeze and joker had to go look while flip stayed w/ the truck. We were not prepared for a search and rescue mission, we didn’t have flashlights or road flares. We did however have a cell phone and a couple of cameras. Joker used his camcorder’s light and I had my camera's flash. Breeze couldn’t do much with cell phone light so he walked in-between us. We called Izzy's name as we searched the area I saw him go into. Joker's light was dull in comparison to the darkness, plus the battery was dying (not a good sign). My flash only illuminated the area for a quick second. The first time I did it we heard rustling of to the right of us. We called out again to Iz, this time with more animosity in our voices. Still no answer, so we moved in that direction as you could hear my flash recharging. BOOMF! I flashed again, breeze said he saw something run up the tree to his left. Joker aimed his camera up the tree and zoomed to the branches, I flashed again, BOOMF! Breeze and I didn’t see anything, but, Joker looking through his camera yelled in fright claiming he saw a face on the tree and it winked at him. We tried to convince him to dismiss it of as bark lines and shadows, because we all know trees don’t have faces, right! As we continued to search the vast darkness w/ a dim camera light and split second flash we kept hearing movement all around us just outside of our lit little area. Me trying to be cleaver flashed in an awkward direction and caught a glimpse of a pair of the most menacing yellow eyes I have ever seen in real life or in the movies. At first I thought it was a wolf, coyote, or something to that nature, but when have you ever seen a 6ft wolf (in real life). Now I'm like to hell with Izzy and started back towards the truck. Joker still convinced a tree winked at him, used the last of his battery filming the darkness. We still were hearing movement all around and now it seemed it was right next to us. I continued flashing as much as I could until we reached the edge of the woods, and that’s when it grabbed my leg. I pulled and pulled, in a panic I pulled my foot out of my shoe and fell against in the truck. Not to our amusement Izzy was in the truck sleep. Needless to say I didn’t go back for my shoe and we all gave Iz the silent treatment until we got to Madi Gras.

Later in our hotel room Joker played back the whole event for Iz and Flip. And on close review we all saw a face on the tree and it winked. During the end of the recording you could hear voices rambling. They seemed to all talk at once, the only thing we could make out clearly was "no home". Another weird thing was my jeans had a permanent yellowish stain at the bottom where I felt that thing grab me.

True Story! A word of advice, if you don’t believe me and you happen to be on a two lane highway boarderd by thick trees, DONT GO IN. or then you just might believe me.

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