Phoebe

saw something that I didn't and it wasn't really this.

I hadn't told anyone about this.

And maybe two years later, I'm scrolling on Twitter and I see people posting about like spooky stories that had happened to them or unexplainable things.

And it made me think, oh, I should tell my story on here and see if anybody else in SLC has seen something like this.

And so...

I type in my Twitter and I say, does anyone want to hear about the time I saw cryptids in SLC?

And my friend is like, yes, definitely.

So I type out my story pretty short.

And I remember my friend actually replying to me and saying, either you're a great creative writer or this is the craziest story I've ever seen.

And I told her, no, this is very much real.

Nobody else responded saying they had seen something like this.

And then after that, because this was the first time that I had ever talked about it publicly, I had never told any of my friends.

I started thinking about it again and really remembering the night.

And so I started looking up Salt Lake City urban myths, Salt Lake City cryptids, Salt Lake City urban legends, things like that.

trying to find anything similar to what I had seen.

And I couldn't find anything.

I found that there's supposed to be some sort of Loch Ness monster in Bear Lake.

I found that people had reported other kinds of creatures, but nothing like what I had seen.

The only thing that I saw, the only story I found that was similar or felt close to what I had seen was people talking about, and I almost don't even want to say the word because you're kind of not supposed to, talking about skinwalkers.

I don't know that I believe in skinwalkers, but I don't know that I don't.