Well guys, here's another creepy entry into @shayne's Paranormal Steemit series!

So far we've seen:

• The Secret Chamber Of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple
• Ever Dream This Man?

Today is the extra creepy...

Dark Watchers

The Dark Watchers (also known by early Spanish settlers as Los Vigilantes Oscuros)[1] is a name given to a group of entities that have appeared in California Folklore for the past several hundred years purportedly stalking travelers along the Santa Lucia Mountains.

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According to a local witness

We see the Dark Watchers all the time. They are always out at dusk and dawn. All you see is just a tall dark silhouette. They almost look like horses standing on their hind legs with the assistance of a walking stick. Its pretty creepy, and nobody has ever seen them close up. They disappear the moment you try to get closer.

Up in an area where no human could climb I saw a black figure in plain daylight. I never seen anything like it up in the mountain. Was darker than dark could not explain it. Today I saw it again and in the same spot.

We passed the San Luis Obispo reservoir, and as we drove on the road I saw something at a distance down at the end of the mountain. It was a really big human figure, but it wasn't. It had a Black Cape kind of like the grim reaper and it was leaning over holding on to a staff. Even in mid light he was very black and reminded me of a raven.

We were coming home to the San Juan Bautista side when we saw a very large dark figure standing at the edge of the mountains. It appeared to have a large cape with straight shoulders that where very broad. It seemed to have a hunch on it's back. At first from a distance I thought it was a condor but when I got closer it stood almost over 10 ft tall. It did not notice us driving behind it but when we found a spot on the cliffy road to turn around and get a better look it was gone.

This report confirms the general description and character of the Dark Watchers

The poet Robinson Jeffers also lived and wrote in Big Sur, and in 1937 he published the poem Such Counsels You Gave to Me in a volume of the same title:

But when he approached
The fall of the hill toward Howren's he saw apparently
A person on the verge, outlined against the darkening
Commissure of the farther hills, intently gazing
Into the valley. The young man's tired and dulled mind,
Bred in these hills, taught in the city, reverted easily
Toward his dead childhood; he thought it might be one of the watchers,
Who are often seen in this length of coast-range, forms that look human
To human eyes, but certainly are not human.
They come from behind ridges and watch. But when he approached it
He recognized the shabby clothes and pale hair
And even the averted forehead and the concave line
From the eye to the jaw, so that he was not surprised
When the figure turning toward him in the quiet twilight
Showed his own face. Then it melted and merged
Into the shadows beyond it; the young man thought heavily
That in his state of mind and body hallucination
Was not surprising.

What do you think?

Have you ever seen a Dark Watcher?

Let me know if you have, or what you think generally about the Dark Watchers in the comments below.

They seem super creepy to me.

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