The witness, his friend, father, and brother are fishing in a canal near Los Banos, CA when he and his friend observe the eyeshine of an unknown creature raised 7 feet above the ground.
I received the following account:
"Hi, Lon. This event took place about 3 1/2 years ago, in September 2020 near the small town of Los Banos, California. This town is between Modesto and Sacramento and is surrounded by hills and mountains. It was my birthday and I decided that I wanted to go night fishing with my dad, older brother, and friend since it was a warm night. There is a back road canal called Madera Rd. This canal is surrounded by orchards of orange trees.
It was around 12:15 AM when we first arrived at this fishing spot, but when we first got there, my friend and I had this feeling that we shouldn’t be there. It was a feeling that is hard to explain but you know something is off. We ignored it and decided to set up our fishing poles for the night (Some background of this spot. There are 2 canals one on the left and one on the right that are separated by a little ravine. We were fishing on the right side, so the ravine and other canal were facing our backs).
While we were setting up our fishing poles I heard what seemed to be a high-pitched scream that sounded like it was in the ravine. As I heard it I looked at my friend who had also heard it but the weird part was my dad and older brother were right next to us but they didn’t hear anything. It scared us but we brushed it off as us just hearing things. I was looking at my fishing pole when I had this overwhelming urge to look behind me, so I turned my flashlight on and I saw what looked to be 2 greenish-yellowish eyes looking at me on the other side of the ravine. I instantly froze in place. I was able to see these eyes blink like how a human blinks. But these eyes were only 2 feet off the ground. But after staring at it for what felt like minutes, which was only a couple of seconds, these eyes started to get taller as if whatever it was had been crouched as if it didn’t want to be seen. These eyes grew to be close to 7 feet!
After these eyes raised higher I was able to see the outline of whatever this thing was. It’s arms hung low to the ground and it seemed to have bad posture. I was completely frozen but in the corner of my eye I could see my friend turn around and I saw he froze instantly at what he saw. We both looked at this thing frozen with fear for no more than 3 seconds you could see this thing starting to turn around and take a step out of reach from my light. As it did this I was unfrozen and was able to move again. I instantly looked at my friend who had his eyes widened and told me he saw what I had seen.
This encounter only lasted a minute or two and within those minutes my dad or brother didn’t see anything so they were shocked when me and my friend started to pack up everything in a hurry. I remember saying, “We need to leave!”, over and over as we packed everything up.
Once we got into the truck my friend and I screamed at my dad to leave which he did but since it was a dirt road next to the canal we couldn’t speed off. Within the time it took us to get onto the main road, I felt this fear that I would never feel again. This canal is only 3 miles behind my house and I was terrified and didn’t sleep for 3 days. This whole experience is weird because I always watched scary videos about cryptids and never really thought they were real till now. I fully believe things like that exist." L
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