The Thing on the Highway

The entity has no name nor gender, only being referred to as the "thing" or "creature". It is a shapeshifter, stealing the skin of it’s previous victims in order to lure in new prey. It has sharp claws, and thousands of razor sharp teeth hidden in the back of its throat. It’s movements are slow and calculated, but it can reach speeds around 60 miles an hour if it chooses to.

It mimics voices and sounds it hears, repeating them like a sound file on a computer. It tends to mostly feed on humans, however it will eat anything from small animals like squirrels and rabbits to something large like a brown bear. Anything it eats is dismembered and dissected like a master surgeon, using its sharp claws like a scalpel.

This leads to law enforcement believing it to be a serial killer, though they have little to no information on the creature. Humans killed by the thing are skinned from head to toe, their vital organs missing as well.

The thing is adept at shapeshifting, though it leaves imperfections, such as overly long limbs, too long of a neck, and wide eyes without eyelids. Sometimes the skin seems too loose on its body, giving the impression that its melting off like wax. Its current form is a young woman with long black hair, wearing a tattered black nightgown, indicating that the creature attacked the young woman in her sleep.

The creature often plays with its food, it likes the chase and will follow a certain target for days to even months before making it’s move. It sticks to the shadows and foliage to hide while it hunts, but it will reveal parts of itself to inflict a sense of paranoia in its target.