The Clearing in the Woods

Warning this actually happened to my friend Jake when he was twelve. He and his buddy

were exploring the woods behind his house when they stumbled upon a clearing with people

in black robes chanting around a fire. They froze as they watched them sacrifice a small animal.

Someone spotted them and screamed. The boys bolted through the pitch black forest hearing

footsteps crashing behind them. Jake made it home but his friend never did.

Three days later they found him at the edge of those woods. He wouldn't speak

for months and to this day he refuses to say what happened during those missing hours.