as long as we’re on the midwestern gothic thing, wanna hear about the time i nearly got eaten by a corn demon?

the-sunshine-cult:

mcrpheuss:

bunjywunjy:

uh, YES.

ok so i go to school in milwaukee, and the summer before freshman year there was an overnight orientation and registration. I lived about two hours south at the time, and on the way there I drove my roommate. On the way back I was by myself for what would become four hours of being lost on back roads due to my usual exit being closed. Now I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ll get real tired if I have to drive more than a two hour stretch, and at that point I was closing in on three and a half. I start dozing off, next thing I know there are Eyes staring me down from the corn that my car was drifting towards. I jolted awake, floored my car, and got about four? Five? Miles down the road (while still in corn purgatory) and I start nodding off again. I thought pulling into one of those field mantinence roads to load google maps up would be a good idea. Nope. I was on my phone for all of 20 seconds when I hear corn rustling next to my door. I knew there are Things in the corn, and I was really hoping this was’t one of them, but I looked up and saw the same Eyes as before, but So Much closer. Threw the car into reverse, barely checked for other cars, took off and didn’t slow down until I recognized a town that was close to home. Tl;dr: if you think there’s a Thing in the corn, don’t tempt it, don’t slow down and Do Not stop.

as a native Ohioan i also can confirm there are Forgotten Gods in the corn