There are stories of people being injured and maimed by the Rake’s claws, though no stories of the Rake outright killing anyone.
Its behavior is more animal than human, described like a predator stalking and hunting prey. The Rake is said to appear at night, sometimes encountered by chance in the woods, other times lurking inside homes. Online stories ultimately made the jump into the real world, with Rake sightings reported by local news outlets in Colorado and Canada as recently as 2018. It is said to be vaguely dog or human-like, falling somewhere into that uncanny valley and looking like a warped version of something that should be familiar. Accounts on Tumblr and Livejournal popped up dedicated to both creating and collecting stories of this modern myth, ultimately describing a long limbed creature with dark eyes and long claws. This creature was born on the internet, a modern urban legend spawned on SomethingAwful and 4Chan, not unlike its more famous Creepypasta cousin, Slenderman. A pale, round head comes into sight and as you meet its dark, empty eyes, a sense of dread creeps through you.īuckle up because you’ve just crossed paths with The Rake. But then, through the branches, you make out long, pale limbs moving slowly, silently. At first you think it is something small, maybe a squirrel or bird trying to get out of the path of the colossal cervid. You watch it move between the trees, awestruck but its size and relative grace as it follows some unseen path through the forest.īut then you see something else, a hint of movement lower to the ground. Still not a creature you’re excited to cross paths with, but if you stay out of its way, it will probably be uninterested by your presence. You feel your muscles tense, ready for a fight.įinally, antlers come into view, and then a long legged, dark furred body. Whatever is making those sounds doesn’t seem concerned with hiding its presence, so chances are good that it’s big and mean.
A limited number of copies of this publication are available by contacting or by calling the Cultural Resources Division at 91.You hear the snap and rustle of something moving through the underbrush and are immediately alert, hunkering down behind a rotting log and watching. Among other discoveries, this project has revealed the earliest plank houses and the only semi-subterranean sweathouse recorded to date in northwestern California. The unique and ongoing partnership between all these parties has led to the discovery and documentation of an extremely long occupational history spanning about 8,500 years. It contains archaeological, ethnographic, and historical data of this north coast indigenous people. The report represents a collaborative study for preserving and interpreting an ancient village site located on the banks of the bucolic Smith River.
This volume is the result of three years’ worth of research conducted by California State Parks, National Park Service, University of California, Davis, private cultural resource management firms, and local historical societies in cooperation with the Elk Valley and Smith River Rancherias and the general Tolowa community. Presented within is a unique blend of rigorous archaeological investigation, local history, and ethnography. This volume is about the Tolowa, their deep past, their more recent history, and their rich cultural heritage as viewed from a single locality within Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park named Chvnsu'lh-dvn (TcuncuLtun), or Red Elderberry Place. 30, titled Archaeology, Ethnography and Tolowa Heritage at Red Elderberry Place, Chvn-su’lh-dvn, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. The Cultural Resources Division of the California Department of Parks and Recreation presents Publications in Cultural Heritage, No.
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