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The Rake is a popular hero of scary stories along with the Thin Man. His name can be translated as "rake", but, most likely, he is called that because of his extreme thinness, perhaps the name "Skeletin" could be a good Russian analogue. This is a very strange humanoid creature, it is believed that there is almost no information about him, since the authorities traditionally hide everything and destroy documents. Rake was seen in rural New York, with strange emotions seized by witnesses - from panic fear and physical discomfort to pure curiosity and childish playfulness. However, such a meeting still did not end with anything good for people.

All that a group of enthusiasts managed to find in this case in a year is about two dozen documents from the 12th century to the present day, mostly letters. Completely creepypasta in English - on the site creepypasta.com, below is a summary.

In one suicide letter, a certain person complains that he is forced to commit suicide, because he alone cannot bear the visible and invisible presence of Reik in his life. In another diary entry, an unnamed Spaniard complains about the extreme horror he experienced and the inability to sleep, because. closing his eyes, he immediately sees a black monster, his Rake clearly drove him crazy. The next entry is from the logbook, writes a sailor who, on a journey, came across a strange creature and decided that he had to hurry back to England. And finally, a long story about how Rake broke into the bedroom of a married couple at 4 in the morning, then entered the nursery and injured their daughter, who died after only saying "It's Rake." The girl's father died when his car fell into the lake that night on the way to the hospital, and the mother has been looking for information about him ever since.

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In the summer of 2003, in the northeastern part of the United States, there were mysterious events associated with a mysterious humanoid creature. These events aroused brief interest from the local press, which then suddenly faded away. Very little information has survived, as most printed and online descriptions of the creature were destroyed for unknown reasons.

Initially, meetings with him took place in rural New York. Witnesses shared a variety of emotions that caused their encounters with an unknown creature. Some spoke of indescribable fear and horror, others claimed to have experienced something like childish curiosity. And although the printed versions of their stories are no longer available, the memory of them has not lost its power. This year, some of the participants in those events began to search for answers.

In early 2006, their combined efforts resulted in the collection of nearly two dozen documents dating from the 12th century to the present day, spanning four continents. Almost all stories were exactly the same. I was fortunate enough to meet one of the members of this group and receive some excerpts from their forthcoming book.

Suicide note: 1964

Now that I'm about to end my life, I want to ease the pain that I might cause by doing so. This is no one's fault, except for this being. I first felt his presence when I woke up. I woke up and saw his face. Then I heard his voice and looked into his eyes. Since then I have been unable to sleep for fear that it might come to me again. I'm afraid that I might never wake up. Farewell. Found in a wooden box that also contained two empty envelopes addressed to William and Rose and one short letter without an envelope.

Dear Linnie,
I prayed for you. It spoke your name.

Diary entry (translated from Spanish), 1880

I experienced the greatest horror! Yes, yes, the greatest horror of my life. I see it as soon as I close my eyes. He has black and empty eyes. He saw me and pierced me with his gaze. He has a wet, slimy hand. I won't sleep, his voice (unintelligible text follows).

Ship's log: 1691

He came to me while I was sleeping. I felt him as he bent over my bed. He took everything. We must return to England. We will not return here again, this is the request of the Rake.

Certificate 2006

Three years ago I returned with my family from a trip to Niagara Falls. We were all very tired after a day of driving, so my husband and I put the kids to bed and decided that the night had already begun for us.

Around 4 am I woke up thinking my husband had gone to the bathroom. I took a moment to straighten the sheet, but then I woke him up. I apologized and said I thought he got up. When my husband turned to me, he suddenly sighed sharply and pulled his legs up to him so quickly that I almost fell off the bed. He immediately caught me, but did not say a word.

After half a second, I was able to see what caused such a strange reaction. At our feet sat something that looked either like a naked person or a huge hairless dog. The position of his body was frighteningly unnatural, as if he had been hit by a car. For some reason, this creature didn't scare me. I was rather concerned about his condition. At that moment, I was absolutely sure that he needed our help.

My husband curled up into a ball and looked through the gap between his arm and knee, first at me, then at the creature.

In the blink of an eye, the creature descended to the floor and quickly crawled along the bed until it was thirty centimeters from my husband's face. For thirty seconds, it was completely still, just staring at my husband. Then it put its hand on his knee and rushed down the corridor towards the children's room.

I screamed and rushed to the switch, intending to stop it before it hurt the kids. When I stepped out into the corridor, the light from the bedroom was enough to see him crouching and crawling only six meters away from me. It turned and looked straight at me, it was covered in blood. I turned on the light and saw my daughter Clara. The creature rushed down the stairs while my husband and I tried to help our daughter. She was badly injured, and the last words in her short life were: His name is Rake.

That night, my husband was in a hurry to take Clara to the hospital, but the car fell into the lake. He didn't survive. As happens in small towns, the news spread quickly enough. At first, the police were eager to help us, and the local newspaper showed great interest in us. However, my story was never published, and local television did not react at all.

For several months, my son Justin and I lived in a hotel near my parents' house. When we decided to return home, I decided to find the answers myself. I managed to find a man in a neighboring town who had a similar story. We met and talked about our misfortunes. He knew two people who also saw the creature now known as Reik.

It took us two whole years to search the Internet and collect stories that we thought were about Reik. No source gave any details, nor the history of the creature, nor the consequences of its activities. In one diary, on the first three pages, there was an entry dedicated to the creature, but it was not mentioned anywhere else. The ship's log did not say anything about the meeting with Rake, it was only said that he forced the sailors to leave. It was the last entry in the journal.

However, there were cases when the creature appeared to the same person several times. Many people claimed that it spoke to them, and so did my daughter. This made us wonder if Rake might have been visiting us before we first saw him.

I turned on the digital voice recorder to play all night near my bed. I turned it on every night for two weeks. Every morning I listened to the recordings with a shudder, but I did not hear anything except my own tossing and turning in my sleep. By the end of the second week, I got used to my random sounds by listening to my recordings in a fast track. It still took less than an hour. On the first morning of the third week, I thought I heard something new. It was a piercing voice, Rake's voice. I have not listened to this voice enough yet, and so far I have not let anyone listen to it. The only thing I'm sure of is that I've heard that voice before. It spoke as it sat on our bed, across from my husband. I don't remember hearing anything at the time, but for some reason, the voice from the recorder immediately reminds me of this moment.

I feel completely miserable when I think about what my daughter might have experienced before she died.

I haven't seen him since Rake ruined my life, but I know he was in my room when I slept. I know this, and now I'm terribly afraid that one night I might wake up and feel his eyes on me.

A group of cryptids called the Reiki have gained popularity far beyond cryptozoological circles, but who are they really?

The name "rake" comes from the English word "rake" (rake). The creatures got such a nickname for the extremely long and sharp claws on the fingers, resembling blades.
There are at least three types of rake:

• Forest;
• Sewer;
• "Dover's Demons".

However, based on the trend of finding representatives of this subspecies, the variety "Dover's Demons" is considered incomplete.

Common physiological features in cryptids are similar: hairless skin, flattened nose, hypertrophied skull, large and watery eyes, sharp fangs and claws, posture of a primate.

Forest slats are found in remote areas of dense woodlands. They are agile, but not aggressive and, judging by the evidence, make contact easily. Presumably they can speak.

Their habits and appearance resemble chimpanzees.

It is their Indians who call "", considering the hominid an evil spirit.

Sewer rails have a grayer, duller skin. Often they have a tail, the muzzle is more elongated, there is no nose as such.

Also, like forest slats, they move on all fours, resting their body weight on their front paws, which can be seen in modern gorillas.

Sewer rails outwardly resemble ghouls, carrion eaters. It is possible that cryptids have common roots, since the description of subspecies is largely similar.

"Dover's Demons" is the name of a separate type of rake that has chosen places around the city of the same name in Massachusetts, USA.

They are distinguished by a significantly large head, huge eyes, peach or beige skin, as well as several other details, including a huge throat pouch like a howler monkey.

In 1977, when the creatures were first spotted, some journalists even speculated that the city was facing a new subspecies of monkeys that had previously lived in a separate area but had been disturbed by production.

Today, no one knows exactly how these creatures should be classified.

Some ufologists insist on the extraterrestrial origin of rakes, while cryptozoologists believe that they are the heirs of feral people raised by wild beasts.

The popular hero of scary stories. His name can be translated as "rake", but, most likely, he is called that because of his extreme thinness, perhaps the name "Skeletin" could be a good Russian analogue. This is a very strange humanoid creature, it is believed that there is almost no information about him, since the authorities traditionally hide everything and destroy documents. Rake was seen in rural New York, with strange emotions seized by witnesses - from panic fear and physical discomfort to pure curiosity and childish playfulness. However, such a meeting still did not end with anything good for people.

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All that a group of enthusiasts managed to find in this case in a year is about two dozen documents from the 12th century to the present day, mostly letters. Completely creepypasta in English - on the site creepypasta.com, below is a summary.

In one suicide letter, a certain person complains that he is forced to commit suicide, because he alone cannot bear the visible and invisible presence of Reik in his life. In another diary entry, an unnamed Spaniard complains about the extreme horror he experienced and the inability to sleep, because. closing his eyes, he immediately sees a black monster, his Rake clearly drove him crazy. The next entry is from the logbook, writes a sailor who, on a journey, came across a strange creature and decided that he had to hurry back to England. And finally, a long story about how Rake broke into the bedroom of a married couple at 4 in the morning, then entered the nursery and injured their daughter, who died after only saying "It's Rake." The girl's father died when his car fell into the lake that night on the way to the hospital, and the mother has been looking for information about him ever since.

Fan art

Many impressionable creative minds have been mortified by these chilling stories, judging by the existence of a huge number of hand-drawn images of Rake on the fuckyeahtherake single-dark blog and on deviantart.

For the second week in Georgia, they are discussing the "Kumiss ghost" as the locals call it. Kumysi is a village in Gardaban region, Kvemo Kartli region. According to the locals, the "Kumiss ghost" has already been seen in neighboring villages - Koda, Borbalo, Asureti and Goubani. Locals say that this is a tall, thin creature with a painted face, making strange sounds ... First, it knocks on the windows to be let into the house, and if they don’t open it, it starts to break the window. It is not possible to catch it ... It disappears ...

“One or more men dressed in black walk around Kumys. They frighten the population, enter houses at night, wake people up and make faces in front of them, make strange sounds, and if they cannot enter the house, they scratch doors and windows ... Residents fall from fear fainted, the children lost their sleep," this message appeared on the social network ten days after the appearance of a strange creature in Kumys.

“The residents of the neighboring village also complain about this ... Presumably, there are several of them (“ghosts” - ed.), and they are scattered ... A patrol is chasing them, but to no avail (they are extremely fast, smart and dexterous). I don’t know who should I tag in this post, but it is possible to tighten the measures?! It acts so smart that I doubt it is crazy. Until there are victims, maybe you will wake up?!!!", - the message says.

Mir TV journalist Mikhail Robakidze and cameraman Khvicha Samadashvili went to Kumys last week to prepare a story about the "ghost". Near the store, at the entrance to the village, they were met by several young guys who assured that a ghost visits Kumis every day. The day before, it turned out that about 200 people chased him, but to no avail ... The creature, as they say, ran across the road on all fours and disappeared in the direction of the lake.

“Some say that it is long-haired, others claim that its hair is thrown back, and for others it is completely bald. the owner of Lake Kumys to intimidate the inhabitants in order to then take possession of their lands. Although, in this case, it is not clear why this creature visited neighboring villages," Robakidze said.

The film crew of the TV company, after talking with the local population, went up to the cemetery, which rises above the village.

“We wanted to capture on camera that the village is empty, and people don’t even turn on the lights out of fear. At this time, we noticed someone in the bushes, but we don’t know who it was, because when we called him, he disappeared. He was wearing sportswear, he was about 180 centimeters tall, he moved quickly even in the bushes," the journalist told us.

According to him, there is an opinion that the "ghost" is a paranormal creature rake, which, according to the Kumis, was brought from Lugar's laboratory. Villagers found it similar to a rake after watching footage of Bigfoot on the internet.

“According to Wikipedia, a rake is a snowman whose existence has not been scientifically confirmed. It is a cross between a Neanderthal primate, a species whose evolution was interrupted. In 1957, a special commission was created at the USSR Academy of Sciences, whose purpose was to study rake. expedition, but the results of their research are classified," Robakidze said.

According to the journalist, local residents are afraid of a strange creature and require the police to install night vision cameras to capture the "ghost" and then detain him.

“Villagers say that if the existence of the “ghost” is not confirmed by the video, it turns out that they are crazy, and the police are normal. Law enforcement officers make one circle in the evenings and return back. In addition, the police say that there is also no reason to detain this creature, because it did not commit a crime," Robakidze said.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, law enforcement officials did not disregard any report about the “Kumiss ghost” and even opened a case under Article 160 of the Criminal Code, which implies a violation of the inviolability of housing or other property.

"The investigation began on the basis of the appearance of scratches in the house of a local resident of Kumys, and all reports are checked very carefully. All the facts that the population associates with this unidentified object are included in the case. At this stage, something significant has not yet appeared," the press said. - service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The situation is further complicated by the fact that all witnesses describe the "ghost" in different ways, the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted.

"There are mutually exclusive reports, and when there is nothing concrete, it is difficult to do something. Whether this is a ghost or something else, while no one knows, it did not cause physical damage to anyone, and the houses were not seriously damaged," the press release noted. service.

The police are also on duty at night, and they say that they have not noticed the “Kumiss ghost” yet. And local residents are convinced that the police themselves are afraid and try not to go outside again.

1880 Diary entry.

“It was the greatest horror of my life. He comes as soon as I fall asleep. He has black and empty eyes. Rake is a creature that simply pierces with its gaze. He has a slimy, wet hand. He tells me… (hereinafter illegible text)”.

1964 Death note.

Before I die, I want to ease the pain that I will cause by this act. Please don't blame anyone but Rake for this. I felt his presence for the first time as soon as I woke up. This is the strangest creature I have ever seen. His eyes and voice are terrible. I can't sleep for fear. Suddenly he will come again. I'm afraid I might not wake up. Farewell". This note was found in a wooden box. Also there were a couple of empty envelopes and a short letter: “Dear Linnie, I prayed a lot that Rake would not come to you. The creature has spoken your name."

Certificate 2006.

“Three years ago my family and I went to Niagara Falls. When we got home very tired, we put the children to bed and immediately went to bed. I woke up around 4 am, straightened the sheet and accidentally woke my husband. Turning to me, he sharply pulled his legs up to him. And he did it so fast that I almost fell out of bed. It's good that he managed to catch me. After half a second, I understood the reason for his strange reaction. At our feet was something that looked like either a hairless dog or a naked person. Of course, I knew that there were strange creatures in the world, but I did not think to face one of them live. His position was very unnatural, as if after a car accident. For some reason, I wasn't scared at all. On the contrary, I was worried about his condition. At that moment it seemed to me that it needed our help. In the blink of an eye, the creature crawled up to my husband and began to look into his eyes. All this went on for about half a minute. Then it touched his knee and ran out into the corridor towards the nursery. I screamed and ran after me to protect my children. Once in the hallway, I noticed him crouching along the wall about six meters away from me. I will never forget that piercing look. The creature's body was covered in blood. I turned on the light in the nursery and saw my injured daughter Clara. While my husband and I tried to help her, the creature ran down the stairs. Our daughter's last words were, "His name is Rake." The husband picked up his daughter in his arms and carried her to the car to take her to the hospital. But on the way the car fell into the lake. He also died. In our small town, the news spread pretty quickly. The police wanted to help us, and the press showed a remarkable interest in us. However, my story was never published, and local television did not react at all. My son and I could not return home. And we spent the next few months in a hotel not far from my parents' house. But in order to find answers, I decided to return. With great difficulty, I managed to find a man from a neighboring town with whom the same story happened. We met and discussed our misfortunes. He knew two other people who had seen Reik. We spent about two years looking at sites that described unusual creatures, trying to find references to the Reik. But there was no detailed history or description of the consequences of his activities in any source. Only in some diary, three whole pages were devoted to the creature. Sometimes there were cases when Reik appeared to one person several times. He even spoke to someone, as in the case of my daughter. It made me wonder if the creature has visited us before. Every night I sleep with the voice recorder on, and in the morning I listen to the recordings. In addition to my tossing and turning in my sleep, I hear nothing. But one day, a piercing voice rang through the headphones, Reik's voice. I'm very scared. I would not wish even an enemy to have strange beings like Reik appear in his life. Since he took everything that was dear to me, I have not seen him, but, judging by the recording, he was in my room. And now I feel fear every day. I'm afraid to wake up and feel his piercing gaze on me.