Roby Thing

The **Roby Thing** a particularly disturbing encounter with an unknown entity took place in a sleepy suburb of Liverpool called Roby, England which subsequently received the name "the Roby thing". A group of children came into contact with something that did not resemble anything earthly that day while exploring the area.

## Sighting

One day in May 1951, 8-year-old Tony, 7-year-old Jill and 10-year-old Alan and George went out to explore and play around Carr Lane. George's parents warned the boy not to wander around the old buildings, which are unstable and may be home to vagrants with various nefarious intentions, especially if a child comes into their hands. However, George was a little rebel and ignored these warnings. That day, he and his friends mainly wanted to explore the old haunted barn on Carr Lane. He heard various strange stories from other children, with one boy claiming that the barn had been used as an air raid shelter during the war.

So the gang of four children went into the street, led by George. It didn't take long and before long they were standing right in front of an abandoned building. However, as is usual in England, the nice weather suddenly gave way to clouds and rain, so everyone went to hide inside. Jill was scared in the barn with the rain, and George suggested they gather anything that would burn to make a fire. He also came up with the idea that this could be their new hideout where they could meet more often. Meanwhile, Alan found a dropped candle, so George lit it with his matches and the group made a small fire out of scraps of newspaper, twigs and leaves. However, in the dim light, they suddenly noticed strange graffiti on one wall.

Sketches of people from the 30s and 40s and some interesting portraits were drawn on the wall with dark material. However, their author was unknown, but they were found to be similar drawings in asphalt paint that appeared in other shelters in Liverpool during the war. However, on the same wall, next to the portraits, there was also a simple sketch of a thin creature with big eyes, pointed ears and a mouth full of sharp teeth. The creature in the picture also had a long sharp tail similar to a stinger, and in addition, there were some unknown hieroglyphs right next to the drawing along with the inscription "KEEP OUT".

Jill was even more frightened by the drawing this time and wanted to leave. However, George took advantage of this and purposely scared her by saying that she is a ghost that eats girls. Alan joined in on his joke, claiming that children's skeletons had already been found at the site. But at that moment there was a moment of real fear. A faint groan was heard from somewhere, to which a dark, disfigured being climbed out of the hole in the wall on all fours. At first, the children thought it was a dog, but when the creature got closer, it was immediately clear to them that it was no dog. The creature had dark, shiny skin and an insect-like shell on its back. Her eyes glowed red and George described them as "navel-like". The creature was said to be 2 meters tall.

The group didn't have time to recover from the shock when the creature suddenly pounced on them. So everyone ran away in a panic, and it wasn't long before one of them was hit by a car on the street. They finally ran to the house where Jill lived. The girl was so hysterical that at first she couldn't even tell her parents what happened. So George described the meeting with the "monster" to them, but of course they didn't believe him. Unfortunately, the case about meeting an unknown being ends there. However, when the story surfaced on the internet years later, several Liverpool locals remembered the abandoned barn on Carr Lane and the stories of something crawling out of it at night and prowling around the area. They called that something simply "the thing" and what the creature was (if one really existed and if we want to rely on the testimony of a bunch of children), no one ever managed to find out.