The Black Eyed Children with David Weatherly

Weird Monkey Paws...or What?

 In my late teens and early 20's, several others and I saw weird monkey-like hands or paws or whatever you want to call them, scrabbling under the space between the floor and the bottom of the door that lead down to the basement of our family home where my bedroom and my brother's bedroom was. I lived in North Battleford Saskatchewan at the time...definitely not a tropical area as Saskatchewan is smack in the middle of Canada and our winters are long and freezing cold.It is a small small prairie city without any zoos of any kind. This phenomenon was seen on more than one occasion and always witnessed by several others. I remember it occurring in the summer or early fall. It would be in early to mid evening, never really late at night.The hands were small, like a spider monkey's would be but somehow different... dark brown to black hair/fur with long jointed humanoid fingers and long dark nails. The small arms were visible from just below where the elbow would be...the forearms of the creatures I guess. They would reach under the bottom of the door and scrabble back and forth across the floor. There appeared to be two of them. They moved back and forth very quickly making scratching noises. It scared the hell out of everyone but when I opened the door nothing was ever there. Their movements were very fast and aggressive. I know there were at least two creatures. I saw them two different times both incidents witnessed by others. Once by me and three of my girlfriends and another time by me and my little brother and three cousins. I was always the one to open the door. It took every ounce of courage I could muster to do so. Everyone would be screaming and freaking out. I felt compelled to calm them down even though I too was terrified. There was never any evidence of wild animals being in the house. No scat or destruction that would have occurred had wild animals invaded our premises. We had a dog and cat that most certainly would have reacted had wild animals been there. Both times this occurred the dog was with my parents but my Siamese cat was there. He didn't like to go down the basement but he'd always peek his head into the room when the commotion was going on. The creatures I saw...well, partially saw, felt somehow "wrong" and were frightening and had an evil presence. I am blogging this to see if anyone out there has ever had a similar experience. I am baffled by what I witnessed.