At first we thought it was keeping its hands over its face to better hide how hideous it was but when we managed to trap it for a few minutes we saw just how wrong we were. None of us have tried trapping it or anything else since, none of us can stomach it any more.
We went old fashioned - bear traps and pits full of sharpened stakes. We had to go a little primitive, the creature was electromagnetic enough that it messed with any remove triggers and trail cams we tried to use. If it was close by, you could feel its static prickle the hairs on your arms and hear a faint buzzing in the air.
It took about five days before we found it with one foot stuck in a bear trap and part of its upper arm caught in another. In hindsight I think the multiple traps saved our lives, made the creature too wary to go near populated parts of the forest again.
We should have been more cautious when we had it captured but instead we relaxed, joking about like the fools we were and while we weren't paying attention it began to peel its hands away from its face. By the time I looked back it had almost fully revealed a mouth full of jagged teeth that took up every inch of its face that the hands didn't originally cover.
Even the palms of its hands were covered in fang-like protrusions that could hook into flesh and bring pray towards the cavernous mouth. Lucky for us, it was somewhat stuck at that point and we had just enough time to get back to our cars and hightail it home.
A couple of hikers we hadn't noticed during our escape weren't so lucky. Most of them was found but we know exactly where the rest of them is. Thankfully they were the last meal it's had in three years now but it's only a matter of time before it grows complacent and curious and comes back again.
This time, it won't fall for our old tricks.
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