Day 1,940

They're blaming wolves for the attacks but we hunted them to extinction over 200 years ago. They say some must have survived or escaped from a nearby zoo because there's no dog big enough to do that much damage to a body and not leave a single trace aside from the musky scent of a predator.

We tried using scent hounds to track it down but they refused to leave the cars. When we eventually managed to drag the dogs out and give them the scent but they just spun in circles and barked - it was all around us. That meant we were either very close to the alleged wolf or it had marked the place recently.

When the body count was nearly at twenty the attack pattern changed. It usually shredded the torso and ate most of the meat from the body before leaving but for some reason it let someone live. They managed to crawl from the woods to the side of a road where they were found an hour or so later.

When they were recovered enough to talk again they raved on about the trees opening wide and teeth made from bark and that there was a greater being in the forest - clawing its way up through the ground - that frightened the trees until they let go and he was able to make his escape.