Beyond the Beyond: The Falkville Metal Man — An Alabama Mystery
A sheriff’s car drives slowly along an Alabama dirt road. The headlights cut through the darkness as Jeff Greenshaw of Falkville makes his normal evening rounds. His window is cracked, and in the forest on either side of the road, everything seems completely silent. Then he sees something ahead in the dark. Something silver. Something shining. And what he was about to encounter next would change his life forever.
At first, Jeff thought it was a trick of the headlights. Maybe someone had broken down up the road. Moonlight reflecting off a mailbox, but it was a place a mailbox shouldn’t have been. Then, slowing his car, he sees that whatever it is, it resembles a human being. It’s upright and walking away from him.
It turns, and he can see that its skin appears to be metal. It doesn’t look like a suit, but rather a smooth, shining surface that wraps its entire body. As it turns toward him, the reflection of his headlights shines back. The being stands there. Watching. Without thinking, Jeff’s camera is in his hand. He snaps photos of the thing, the flash turning the inside of his police car white for a moment…