In the summer of 2003, a strange humanoid creature that was thought to be
Nothing more than just an old tale was sighted in North-East in America.
After an initial media frenzy, there was a news blackout and almost all of the accounts
of the story were were captured in the public.
The only stories that were told were those that circulated online
by the people affected.
One in particular was especially unsettling.
On 4th of July 2003, Sue and her husband, Bob, and her daughter, Clara, were asleep
in their home in North America.
At around 4am, Sue woke to find something sat on the foot of her bed.
Initially, she thought it was a stray animal, however, when the creature moved
and she saw it's full appearance, she realised that this was no animal that she had ever seen before
and it did not belong in the house.
After waking her husband, it fled from the room and down the hall
heading straight for their daughter's room.
They chased it and entered the room as they turned on the lights
They saw the creature standing over and watching Clara.
After turning and looking at it dead in the eye, the ravage creature ran downstairs and
disappeared into the night.
Sue and Bob rushed over to their daughter but she had been attacked.
She looked to her parents and said, " He's the Rake."
They rushed her to hospital but en route, the father lost control of the car and plunged into the lake
Him and Clara were killed but Sue managed to escape.
After these tragic events, Sue became convinced that the Rake was some responsible
for her family's death
and would not stop until she had found out what was in her home that night.
She was astonished to find so many people had been affected
by similar stories of a dog-like humanoid who would enter their homes.
Sue decided to set up a recorder beside her bed to see if the Rake returned when she was sleeping.
She did this for many weeks but nothing significant was caught
Then, one night she heard a voice that sounded strangely familiar
it came to her that it is the same sound that she subconsciously heard
that woke her up on that fateful night when the Rake first entered her family's house.
It seemed the Rake had returned one more time.
Sue did not see the Rake that night and has not been visited since
but is convinced the Rake is responsible for ruining her life and lives in fear waking up only
to see that it has returned.
She wants others to learn from her encounter and make sure they lock all their doors and windows
as this creature could do as much damage to others as it's done to her.
All of the stories of people encountering this being are filled with emotion and terror
and whatever had stirred them so much as to share their story is described the same in every account.
Human-like with sharp teeth and claws that makes the sound of a wild animal
although has a hairless muscular body
but is hunched and contorted in a disturbing way.
It only appears at night and hides in people's homes often standing at the end of
their beds as they sleep and flees as soon as the person wakes.
Why it does this or where it comes from hasn't been discovered yet.
Although some believe it hides in dense forests, this came about
when an image was taken by a man who left a cam in a forest in Louisiana.
When he returned the camera had been destroyed however the memory card was intact
and this image was recovered.
After being featured on the news, it was a relief for those who had been visited
by the Rake to know that a photo has been released that backed up their stories
Then as the years went by, only a handful of encounters have were reported
no more than 2 or 3 a year around the United States.
But in April of 2011, something very interesting happened
whilst conducting a routine telescopic camera search of the sewers in Liverpool
The North West Water company spotted something unusual lurking around down there
on 3 separate occasions.
Not only does this creature's appearance match the many previous sightings
but also suggest that the may not be individual to the U.S and also resides in the United Kingdom
Is it one single creature that travels around that is responsible for the encounters
that have taken place over the years or are there more than one?
Very little information is known about the Rake as it is not often seen
and as more people talk of it, the less common the sightings have become
Since it's last encounter in the sewers in 2011, the Rake has not been seen since
Leaving behind only the tales and the rare sightings of this mysterious being.