Horror

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You walk past the zoo at 3 a.m drunk after a work party to celebrate a promotion. You feel the cool air and drink it in as you walk home. The fog coming in is thickening in the chill air. You look toward the west and hear an odd low sound, like something you heard on National Geographic TV. What was it? Yes...you remember. They had recorded the sub-sonic reverberations of elephants, inaudible to the unaided ear, but when pitched up twenty octaves, they were discernible, within the range of human hearing. These sounds were like those, only louder. More chaotic.

Just then a flash of light streaked by you, seemingly coming from the direction of the expanse of land north of the zoo set aside for the elephant enclosure. "That's odd. It didn't make a sound, whatever it was."

You remember from National Geographic TV the briefest mention of an ancient legend. What was it called? The Cekopah Indians had called it the Elephantom. Yes, that was it. Legend has it that these terrible beasts could communicate with elephants. Even today there are some who fervently believe that they were from another planet, and that they would return someday soon, after over 1000 years of absence. Most laughed off the claims of these Neo-Cekopah cultists, dismissing their predictions as rubbish, quackery. Only last year their leader had been hauled off in handcuffs, indicted for tax fraud and embezzlement.

Having safely arrived at your home after a long day, your mind begins to race as you take in the impact of the night's events. You plop down on the sofa and casually flip on the TV. A news flash states that several persons in the surrounding area had reported a UFO. "Same one I saw. Could simply have been a bloody airplane, or any number of things," you say out loud. Smugly, you shrug off any notion to the contrary. "No rest tonight," you say, as you pet your cat on the head.

Will you get in your car to local library to search for more clues about the Elephantom legend? Horror-2

Or will you try to forget about the whole thing and get a good night's sleep? Horror-3