The Second Coming of The Demon

The following is a transcript of a video recording found on the mobile phone of Mateusz Kowalczyk. The man in question was a part of a missing group of backpackers all of whom are now presumed dead. Their remains are yet to have been found. M. Kowalczyk's remains were found in the Tarty national park, not far from Poland's border with Slovakia. His body was bisected and the two halves were found some five meters apart. The recording contains graphic language.

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M. Kowalczyk is pacing back and front in front of the camera in a dimly lit space. His heaving is audible. M. Kowalczyk appears to be in distress. He wraps his hands around his abdomen and collapses to his knees. Vomiting. He gasps and coughs as he finally sits up in front of his camera, visibly shaken.

*I'm recording this just in case whatever the fuck is out there catches up to me too. I think I lost it, but I'm not sure. I don't know what the fuck this is but it's not human. It's some kind of… Monster…*

*Fucking… Monster…*

M. Kowalczyk begins heaving audibly again, running his hands across his face as his body visibly trembles for a few seconds before his manages to steady himself.

*Ah-it, this thing killed everyone, it killed all the others. Tore them apart, with its bare hands.*

M. Kowalczyk pauses for a moment, shifting his gaze downward and swallowing loudly before returning his gaze to the camera.

*Some kind of lizard-man, I don't know what the fuck that was. I don't… I… ugh… Shit… Fuck… I don't… Oh fuck… Relax Maciek, relax… you're fine… you're alright… you're safe… Ugh… Gah…*

*We were just camping before… we're just camping with this group of people from all over Europe. Just camping. I went for a little walk. I walked for a maybe ten minutes minutes before I needed to take a leak and… and everything was quiet… everything was quiet… then the sound of Dany's rifle went off. He was the only one with a gun. He brought it with him from Lwow to hunt. It was so loud, so loud against the night's silence. It startled me and I franticly zipped my pants… I ran back to camp…*

M. Kowalczyk pauses staring at the camera for about thirty seconds.

*All I could hear were screams, huh-huh-huh-huh… Screaming, the screaming haaah.. huh… I didn't know what was going on at first… huh-huh-huh-huh… I saw Dany shooting his rifle again… huh-huh-huh… More screaming… Everything was so loud… huh-huh-huh…*

*I saw it, I saw, I saw…*

*Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh…*

*It had Klaudia its hands… Huuuuuuuuuuuahhuhuh She was, she was she was she was… huuuh-huuh-huuuuh… Broken… Broken… Broken… Scales… it had scales… Like Armadillo… Tall… White… Pales all over… huh-huh-huh Klaudia was dead…*

*Dany shot it… huh-huh-huh-huh-huh.*

*It tossed her… She didn't move, I saw her face… ughhh*

M. Kowalczyk is visibly struggling to speak coherently

*I saw its head, it had no features huh-huh-huh-huh-n-n-huh-huh-nothing-just scales.*

*It tossed her, it tossed Klaudia at Dany…*

*I saw others… Dawid… Janusz… Marek… Kasia… Anna… Jag… dead… broken…. blood… guts… bones… huh-huh-huh-huh-huh*

*Dany fell, struggling to push Klaudia away… huh-huh-huh-huh-huh*

*It just jumped at him and-and-and-and t-t-t-t-t-t-tore ahaaaaaaaah*

M. Kowalczyk begins crying audibly

*It tore his leg ooooooooagh*

M. Kowalczyk begins weeping uncontrollably, he proceeds to weep for about forty seconds before attempting to speak again.

*That sound… that scream… aaah aaaah aaaah*

*I-I-I-I couldn't do anything Ah-ah-ah-ah I couldn't move… aaaaghhhh*

*It just-just-just began…. It beat*

*It was beaaaaahaaah Dany aaaaaaaaagha with aaaaghhaaa his leggggg*

*So muuuuuaghch blooodgh tshhh*

*I jus-jus-jus-ran*

*I jus-ran… Ah raan*

M. Kowalczyk resumes weeping uncontrollably again. The crying continues for a while until a low muffled growl is audible in the distance. M. Kowalczyk's crying stops immediately and he stares for a couple of seconds at the camera, wild eyed and growing noticeably paler. He begins muttering unintelligibly before grabbing his mobile frantically and ending the recording abruptly.

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M. Kowalczyk's remains were found three days after the aforementioned recording. The area in which his remains were found is now under the investigation of the local authorities.