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The Border Where Monsters Keep the Law
My name is Ryan McCall. I am seventy years old now, my hair white, my hands slow, my nights quieter than they once were. But there are moments—usually just before dawn—when I can still smell damp leaves and iron-rich soil, hear the deep hush of an ancient forest, and feel the tremor of something vast moving beneath my feet. Those moments always return me to one place: Land Between the Lakes.
I spent most of my working life there. Before that, I spent ten years in the military—years shaped by discipline, rules, and a belief that every threat had a name, a file, and a known response. When I left the service, I didn’t want cities or crowds. I wanted trees. I wanted distance. I wanted the kind of silence that doesn’t belong to humans.
So I became a ranger.
People think of Land Between the Lakes as a recreational paradise—boating, camping, fishing, long scenic drives between two massive bodies of water. But that’s only the surface. Beneath the picnic tables and trail maps lies a forest older than memory, a place where boundaries exist that were never written on paper.
My grandfather used to tell me that the woods were alive—not metaphorically, but literally. He believed the forest had memory, law, and inhabitants that predated human language. “The forest isn’t evil,” he would say. “But it punishes disrespect.” As a boy, I thought those were just old man stories meant to keep me from wandering too far. As a young ranger, I smiled politely at similar rumors. As an old man… I no longer smile.
Because I saw what lives beyond those boundaries.
A Summer That Would Not Cool
The summer of 1995 was unforgiving. Heat pressed down even at night, drying leaves until they shattered underfoot. Fire risk was high, and night patrols doubled. I volunteered often. I preferred the darkness. I trusted my instincts more than daylight illusions.
One night, near a small guard station facing the western woods, I noticed movement near the lake shore. At first, it looked ordinary—low, shifting shapes like deer or boar. Then it stood up.
Not rose. Not startled upright. It stood—slowly, deliberately, like a being accustomed to vertical balance.
It was over seven feet tall. Its legs bent backward at the knee like a running animal’s, not a human’s. A long, heavy tail trailed behind it, moving with purpose rather than emotion. It walked on two legs, silently, hunched forward as though its upper body was too heavy for full upright posture.
That was the moment my skepticism died.
I dropped my book. When I looked back up, it was gone. No sound. No broken brush. No retreat. Just absence.
And absence, in the wild, is often more frightening than presence.
The Howl That Shook the Ground
Later that night, the forest changed.
Insects stopped. Wind died. Silence fell so heavy it felt physical. Then came the sound—a howl, deep and distorted, echoing from miles away. It wasn’t a wolf. Wolves have clarity. This sound broke mid-note, as if forced through a throat too large for it.
The ground vibrated. Trees swayed without wind. Leaves fell like rain.
I knew then that the howl was not a call.
It was a declaration.
I phoned my superior. He laughed. Told me I was stressed. Told me Dogmen didn’t exist.
The call ended.
But the forest didn’t.
Following the Forbidden Path
At dawn, curiosity won over fear. I packed light and moved west—off trails, off maps, into territory few humans ever entered. Seven miles in, I saw it again.
This time, there was no doubt.
It walked upright, fur matted dark brown, arms too long, posture impossible for a human. When it dropped to all fours, the movement was fluid, natural—canine. Its ears rotated independently. Its teeth… those belonged to a predator shaped for tearing, not grazing.
I followed its tracks. Fourteen inches long. Claws. A stride that took me three steps to match one of its.
Then I saw another.
Different coat. Heavier build. Yellow eyes that reflected intelligence, not animal panic.
They were going somewhere.
So was I.
The Boundary Without a Fence
After nearly ten miles, the forest changed. The trees grew older, thicker. Light struggled to reach the ground. Then I saw it—an ancient pine, hundreds of years old, standing like a sentinel.
The first creature stopped there.
It lifted its head and howled.
The forest answered.
One howl. Then another. Then many.
From every direction, shapes emerged—Dogmen, a dozen or more. They gathered with purpose, not frenzy. And then they built something.
A totem.
A boundary marker.
Branches snapped effortlessly. Vines wrapped with ritual precision. Bones, antlers, feathers—symbols placed with meaning. They communicated in guttural sounds that followed rhythm and structure. Not random. Not animal.
Language.
That was when the ground began to tremble again.
When the Giants Arrived
From the east came footsteps—heavy, synchronized, disciplined. The Dogmen froze.
Then I saw them.
Bigfoot.
But that word feels insulting now—too small for what I witnessed. These were giants. Seven to ten feet tall. Massive beyond logic. Hair, not fur—thick, human-like. Faces almost familiar, but wrong enough to trigger primal fear.
Six of them advanced in formation and stopped precisely at the invisible line.
No one crossed.
The tension was unbearable.
Their leaders stepped forward. Sounds passed between them—different tones, same structure. Dialects of something ancient.
Then came the challenge.
The Duel of Champions
The Dogman alpha lunged first—fast, agile, lethal. The Bigfoot responded with overwhelming force, grappling like a seasoned fighter. They moved with skill, not rage.
This was not chaos.
This was law.
The fight was brutal but contained. No interference. No weapons. Just flesh, muscle, and ancient rules.
When the Dogman bit the Bigfoot’s thigh—breaking protocol—the forest held its breath.
That was when everything changed.
War—and Restraint
Both sides surged forward. The ground shook under their combined weight. Bigfoot formed walls of muscle. Dogmen slipped through gaps like living shadows.
It was violent.
It was tactical.
And then… it stopped.
The elder Bigfoot stepped forward. Old, scarred, powerful beyond age. He raised his hand.
Silence fell.
He drew a line in the air.
Then came the exchange.
A tuft of Bigfoot hair.
A Dogman’s tooth.
A treaty.
What the Forest Taught Me
They separated without victory songs, without pursuit. The elder looked toward me—not surprised, not angry.
Knowing.
I stayed hidden for an hour. When I approached the boundary, blood and torn earth confirmed it was real.
Later, in my grandfather’s old notebooks, I found sketches of the same scene. He called it the territorial covenant. A law older than humanity.
That day changed me.
Not because monsters exist.
But because they know when to stop.
A Warning for Us All
Humans don’t respect boundaries. We draw lines on maps and call it ownership. We cut roads through migration paths and call it progress.
But the creatures we call monsters understand something we’ve forgotten:
Survival sometimes means restraint.
I share this story not to convince you—but to remind you.
If you walk deep enough into the woods, you may find places where you were never meant to stand. And if you do, remember this:
You are not the oldest intelligence on this land.
You are not the strongest.
And you are not the law.
Some borders were written long before we learned how to read them.
