My story

I have been a scout girl for eight years. Throughout the year I have been advancing to become in chief of the company. The company is the unit where are the girls from eleven to sixteen years.

With my scout group we went camping last summer in southern Chile for ten days. The first three days we felt strange noises and the fifth day a wild animal that could not identify began to appear on the site in the night. (At that time we did not know that the noises were produced by an animal). That situation was repeated for two or three days… I don’t remember that. The thing is that when we wake up in the morning and woke up, all the food was distributed across the floor, rather leftover food.

The heads frightened by this situation decided to take turns at night to monitor and take care that nothing happened. I was really scared about having to stay in the night watching without knowing that I could find, but I did anyway because is my responsibility protect and care the children in my care, because their parents trust us. My turns that night was the third turn, from two in the morning until 5 in the morning, and touch me with a woman and a man more. The truth is that we were all scared. The first hour was pretty quiet and did not hear, see or feel anything. But with the passage of time and the night, we began to feel noises. Then we get scared much more and each one took a stick to defend ourselves in case of anything. We don’t know what could be causing these strange sounds.

After some time listening to those noises and not knowing what was happening was, appeared a silhouette of any living being that we can’t decipher at the time (later we discover that it was). We don’t know how to react and only we were quiet waiting. The silhouette began to approach us, to come closer and closer, until we were face to face with her. In that moment we discover or believe that what was that. The silhouette was a very big. Strange and unknown animal… We were doing a discovery. When the animal came so close to us, we almost peed in fear, but we kept strong and courageous. The animal tried to attack and we defended ourselves with great courage, we attack the unknown beast. Came a time when we could not do anything and the only option we had was to run. We ran as fast as we could to find more help. We plan an operation to defend us from the animal (more than an animal was a beast). We seek sticks, knives and anything that we serve to defend us. Together we went in search of the beast and between all we attack. Was a very difficult situation and several people were injured, but finally we did it, we could kill that beast, animal or whatever. After such a strange situation, camp finished good shape, as far as possible.