Written Confession: The Proctor Valley Monster Takes Flight
The following written confession was shared via Reddit by uscmex:
Around 2005, right after college, I moved back to my home town San Diego.
A lot of my friends still lived there so it was a super easy transitions. It was also super easy to find friends to go ghost hunting as we all loved to get creeped out.
I am from Chula Vista so the legend of the Proctor Valley Monster was nothing new. It’s a folkloric story about a few different tropes. A woman in white roaming the desolate road, a phantom car that comes up behind you at high speeds just to disappear right behind you, our version of Sasquatch called the Zoobies roaming the land and even ufo sightings. It was a hodgepodge of paranormal activity.
Mostly it was a 2 lane state bypass road that ran for a few miles between Chula Vista and Jamacha that essentially was a service road for the airport antennas. But it was also right next to a high school and for decades development didn’t make it out there so it was a ripe setting for teens drinking and ghost stories.
One day my friend sal and I decided to drive it the road. We’ve done it maybe 10 times. It’s very desolate and spooky. You occasionally see headlights in the distance and it’s almost always Border Patrol doing their rounds. Ever so often you will see another car, undoubtedly looking for ghosts just like we would be. But this time it was absolutely empty.
You see familiar things there. Evidence of a bonfire, empty beer cans, abandoned appliances etc. the road is half paved half sanded over so you always hear the tires as you change from surface to surface.
This time it seemed so boring. Nothing was out there. Just a stretch of nothingness. The second to last turn my Jeep lost the back end a bit so I understeered to straighten out and as I did the headlight focused on what we can only describe as a 7 foot owl with human type legs and yellow eyes standing in the middle of the road.
I slammed on my breaks and the sand flew passed us. We just sat there looking at this thing for what seemed forever but was maybe 45 seconds. It was taller than my car, a weird brown and black color with white striking’s on its chest. But it had human legs with knees and weirdly taloned feet. It had bright yellow eyes.
Then all of a sudden it opened it wings up and started to take off over our car and it let out a very low and guttural screech as it flew over us. My friend and I just sat there trying to figure out what the hell just happened.
We’ve been out there so many times but never saw it again.
