The Chairwolf




“Profile: The victim appears to be in her late twenties, Caucasian, blonde hair, in prime physical shape. The victim’s eyes have been gorged out and bite marks of an animal origin are visible near her genitalia. Cause of death: Internal organ damage and bleeding. The scene suggests that the victim struggled with the assailant. The furniture around the house is broken save for one wooden chair found outside the house."

The night was brightly lit with a full moon, and yet had a certain chill to it. It was something straight out of a Stephen King novel. Sargent McDonnel had just started with the graveyard shift when he got a call of a struggle from some worried neighbors.

What awaited him in the house was a scene fit for nightmares. A young, beautiful lay dead on the floor, with her organs spewing out of her body. The broken furniture and splashes of blood bore witness to the grotesque scene of the place and told them of the event that had happened there that night. There were no signs of a break-in, no stolen items reported, and no clear motive. What scared the officers most, was the assailant might not have been human at all. The claw marks and the distinct stench suggested that this might have been the act of a beast. What beast would be capable of such horror? The woods that surrounded the town were haunted by nothing more than deer and elks, the only beasts in the woods being wolves.

It was a perfect locked-room mystery. Nobody in or out, yet an unspeakable act is committed. No DNA or evidence to be found on the scene. The forensics division bagged everything in the house, including the dirtied chair that lay outside the house.
From the looks of it, this was a case that hit the wall very soon. There was no evidence to be found, no leads worth pursuing. There was nothing that could be done to bring solace to the young victim.

Weeks had passed, the people had all but forgotten about the horrible night. Down at the State evidence holding facility, there were reports of howling noises. The emergency response units rushed down to the facility, only to be greeted by a bloodbath. A scene so horrific, it would drive people to insanity. The workers of the facility lay dead on the ground. Their guts ripped out like the other victim. It was as if a demon had gone on a rampage and killed every living thing in its way. The police heard banging noises from the back door and rushed in to apprehend what was happening. They were greeted by the sight of a tall, hairy monster with a snout like that of a wolf and teeth ready to pierce the flesh of its victims. It would be common sense to call it a werewolf, but it clearly wasn’t human. It was on four legs, and its neck was longer than any wolf’s could ever be. The officers chasing the noise dropped dead in their tracks. The creature turned around, and jumped on to one of the officers. The others tried to stop the beast with bullets, but the beast emerged victorious. The beast managed to escape through the window, and disappear into the darkness of the night.

The following morning, patrol officers found a bloody chair near the woods with bullets in it. They took it down to the forensics lab and it was confirmed, it was the same chair from the first victim’s house, that had disappeared from the evidence facility and had now surfaced near the woods.

They tagged the evidence and stored it away. Little did they know that there was more to this chair. Something more ominous. When the darkness of the night was swallowed by the light of the full moon, a beast emerged, a beast with an unquenchable thirst for blood. A beast that would go down in history as one of the worst horrors to ever strike humanity.

The beast was a wolf-like monster. It was the Chairwolf.


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