A dead body was found in the woods that stood in the back of our neighborhood last Tuesday morning. Our neighbors had reported seeing an unfamiliar creature lurking about that's why we were told to be vigilant in case it decides to wander in our yards.

The woman was identified as a drifter who got unlucky and met her end in that place. The claim about the creature being the perpetrator was called to be a bluff but when the days passed and no sounds of birds or crickets rang from the woods, the skeptics started to waiver in their belief.

Mom reminded us to lock our every door in the house come nightfall just to be on the safe side despite us arguing that no animal could open knobs.

It had been a month since the incident but we still carried the habit of securing our homes. My older brother was preparing our dinner when he told me to go clean up before we could sit down to eat.

I finished washing myself and found that the food wasn't ready yet so I situated myself in the living room with the tv on. A while later my brother came to fetch me but before I could even get up from my position we heard a voice outside that made our blood run cold.

It was mom calling our names and asking to be let in.

"Bryan…Lucas…let me in."

We both looked at eachother in horror because there's no way that it was our mother at all. For how could that be her when we had placed her dead body in the tub not even an hour ago?