The Cages

It was a fair few years ago now, when I was in primary school, my 'bestfriend' there, Jacob and I, decided to explore the woods behind the back of mine. Where my house is, it used to be fields and a quarry with mineshafts, I think there is about 4 mineshafts under my house and garden, according to the plan details of my house. There's a field behind mine that ends in woods, and around the time the field was being turned over and drilled into as there was planning permission to build another set of houses over there now known as "The Hedgerows". If anyone would like to look me up on Google Earth to see the fields, or now houses, my street is Richborough Drive, Westmidlands, UK. As I was saying, we figured we would never get chance to go there after the houses were being built, so we went. I remember the mounded up dirt in a circle at one edge of the field, about 7 ft deep and full of rain water with the smell of blue clay. Beyond that, the trees started, next to the 'computeach' building.

We picked our ways through the trees and it wasn't as dense as we first thought. It had a beautiful canopy where the sun shined through the leaves casting the ground in vibrant green colours. As we carried on through, climbing the hills and sliding down the ditches, the trees got older, decay and fungi was starting to grow on them, to the point there was a mushroom-like growth on a tree the size of my head, we thought it'd be best not to touch them, saying that, I slipped going up a hill and caught the branch of a tree and the growth burst udner my hand oozing white sap, I wiped it on my jeans and carried on.

We eventually got to another clearing and there we found two cages with a trap lock mechanism. The kind where something walked in, the door dropped and a bolt slotted into place. Only the cages were over 10 ft tall by my guess, at the time I was 5foot 6, jacob was 5foot, and with him on my shoulders he could reach the top. We quickly got out the cage, dropped to the ground and scanned the area. The thought had only just occured to us of, what was in those cages?

Being fairly young kids, we were thinking giant ape, "king kong" monsters, or bigfoot, you get the idea. Either way, The cages were rusted, the lock mechanism on one cage had near enough disintegrated. We then noticed they were covered in the growth like plants. Jacob at this point asked how my hand was, and I told him, it was fine. just sticky. We carried on out of the clearing over the hill, and there we found a stream. The noise of the road a mere 20 – 25 foot away had ceased. All we could hear, was the water. So we sat, and pondered.

Something moved in he bushes to our right and we froze on the spot. A fox bounded out, gave us one look and walked off. we let out a sigh of relief. I was expecting some grotesque creature to crash out and, well, i don't know what it'd do. But you can probably fill that part in.

We still never found out what those cages were for. and they're still there now, seven years on, but more sunken in on itself, and no growth like things on the trees. since the house were put up, the forest has greatly retreated. But I still find myself looking out my window, over the houses at the spot where they were and wondering, What were they for?

Written by R34P3RST3F.