This story that I have was submitted by Alex Voss. It's our last story of the night. I have titled it Down on the Farm. Thank you Alex for your submission. Go ahead and go into it here. This story takes place at my grandparents' farm in the summer of twenty eighteen. I was alone one night. Since my grandparents were away, I was getting paid to watch the farm for a couple of nights. On the last night, I was watching TV in the living room when I started to hear strange noise coming from outside in the cornfield. At first, I shrugged it off because I figured it was most likely a dear that that wasn't until I heard all the cows start mowing at the same time. Usually, when you hear maybe one cow moo that's not a big deal. But when every cow starts mooing, then you know something is wrong. Something or someone would have to startle them. To me, all the cows freak out at the same time. I was the only one at the farm watching over the farms. Of course, it was my job to see what was going on, so I went to the closet to get a coat on and go outside. But I was just about to go outside when I heard a very high pitched cowscream. I stood still for a while, shaking in my boots. Something terribly wrong was going on with the cows. I quickly ran upstairs in my grandpa's room under his bed. He always kept a few guns loaded. I made sure the Honting rifle was loaded, and I went outside. The cow still would not stop moving. I went into the barn to check. There was nothing out of the ordinary going on inside the barn. All the cows were still here. That was until I walked further down and noticed that one cow was missing from the stall. From his stall, it didn't make sense. I was sure he was tied up the last time I had checked a few hours, right before darkness. I knew I saw him. I thought I could hear a cow make a high pitched moose sound as it's titled. As it's worded, excuse me from the cornfield outside the barn. So I went outside. But while I was walking to the field, I swear I heard what sounded like people talking. I finally had enough of this and I fired two rounds into the air. Everything went silent. The cows were quiet. I couldn't hear anything from the field. That wasn't until I heard the footsteps in the field. I didn't know if I had the balls to go inside the cornfield, but I had to do it. I was watching over the farm anyway. This was in the exact reason farmers have guns. I couldn't just hide inside with trespassers in the field. It was my job to protect the farm. I started to walk into the crops and I could hear many pairs of footsteps all beside me. I was even getting more freaked out as I continued to walk deeper in the field, and then I froze down one of the rows of the cornfield. There was a person in all blacks standing a few feet away from me. I rose my gun up, telling him to get out of my I wasn't bluffing. I was ready to shoot, but he never moved, so I fired another round into the air to scare him off, but he still didn't move an itche Then he actually started walking towards me with his arms slightly out, as if telling me to lower my weapon. I aimed my gun at him again, screaming go away. That's when I made the horrible realization that I was surrounded by people dressed in dark clothing, at least six or seven people. That was only the people that I see. Who knows that there was even more out there? And the one guy got close. As the one guy got closer, I realized something he along with the rest, were wearing all these creepy masks. The man stopped approaching me as I started stepping backwards. They all stood in silence for a moment. I cannot explain the fear that I was experiencing. I thought I was about to get killed. They all started chanting something at this point in time. I couldn't understand it. It sounded like a different language, but the chance, the chance, almost sounded like a song. I started wondering if they were about to perform some sort of sick ritual on me. That was when I took the opportunity to run away as fast as I could. Down a few more rows of corn. When I was out of breath, I stopped and fired about six rounds in their direction. I heard a bunch of footsteps and rustles and the crops going in the opposite direction. I finally scared them off. I ran back towards the direction of the farmhouse, I stopped as I saw something on the ground. What I saw has stuck with me and scared me till this day. There was a cow head sitting in the top excuse me, sitting in the middle of circles of candles. I wanted to puke. As I soon got back to the farmhouse. I did then puke. I grabbed the house phone and called the police. I told the operator everything to the best of my ability. She said an officer would be there. Soon after I got off the phone with the police, I started calling my parents, explaining the situation and asked them to come pick me up, and my dad said he'd be there in one hour, that's how far away they lived. I sat upstairs at my grandparents' room, shaking and crying at the same time, waiting for what it felt like an eternity, until I finally heard a police car outside. I ran outside in that to the officer and never felt happier in my life. I told them everything. He searched the barn, then a little bit around the cornfield he found the cow head and called up a search and rescue team. After this and now an active crime scene, This was not actual crime scene. When my parents arrived, I, along with the first officer, had to talk with them about everything that had happened. Thankfully, my parents took me home after that. My grandparents took this very serious and of course installed high tech security cameras all around the farm. Who knows what kind of group this was, but clearly they were doing some kind of animal sacrifice ritual or something. I just happy to be the unlucky one home alone on a farm they chose to do it at. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, that's that's wild, because uh, this isn't the only uh animal sacrifice story I've heard recently, And yeah, I don't know, like, like what what could heell? Someone say something like that, what is the what is the what is the gain that they're going to get from it? Is that? I can't process it. I don't know. But when I read this, I really I was just trying to put myself in his shoes, being young, and like, you're in charge, You're being paid for this, to do this job for your grandparents, You're looking over your family's farm. I can only imagine how terrifying this was. Yeah, that that's pretty crazy, And I actually was trying to picture in my head a high pitched cow sound like. I haven't been aroun of cows personally so very much anyways, but I think that was very let the cowship. But I don't remember here in a screen, but I can almost picture what they're talking about, like yeah, and it's like yeah, yeah. What I do know is though I'm not a cow expert, but I can only imagine when they're all going getting stirred up at once, all those sounds going on for all the cows at the same time, that has to be freaking terrifying. So like this, I gotta say, kid, I don't say how old he was. I don't remember. I'm sorry, Alex. Did college parents come get up? So he's probably teenager. Yeah, he felt as if though he had to protect the place. Yeah, I don't know if when I went outside, if I realized there was a cow missing and I heard noise from the cornfield, that I would have an enybody to go run into the cornfield. It seems like a very risky thing to do, right, kind of vulnerable running into a cornfield. Yeah, of course, if I'm trying to put myself in the mind of like teenage Jack and you know that that kind of like, well, I've got I've got to do this, this is my job kind of thing. Maybe maybe I would go out there to like threaten someone and be like get out of here, especially with a gun. But yeah, you're surrounded, but you'd never I guess I can almost see it because you wouldn't expect there to be multiple people out there, right. You probably just think this is some jackass, and really it's it's beyond messing around with like you personally, it's like your family's business. I mean, I can see, oh, you have a farm having that mindset, but you wouldn't run out there thinking there's a group of people right alter something. So I don't know if I would have immediately assumed that the cow was dead, you know, if they just pulled it out of the barn and just set it loose or something like that, I don't know. But when he sees the when he comes back, and they were clearly using the cow for some sort of I don't know, either just to either mess with them, which is really messed up, or if they were trying to do some real witchcraft or something like that and candles around it. That's kind of yeah, Yeah, I would have. I would done the same thing. I definitely would have gone straight to the house, locked the door, called the cops for sure.
