Ringo
I like to not get involved in these matters
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Another thing that doesn't seem consistent with the "captive" scenario is that on the second day wyattj found the lock broken and the shed door open.
Why would an imprisoned person remain inside the shed if the door was open?
Furthermore ...
If wyattj was rummaging around inside the opened shed, how could he have missed the mystery entity if it had been inside the shed with him?
The scratching that freaked out young wyattj was described as coming from beneath the shed's floor. The figure / entity he saw was described as emerging from the shed.
This would seem to indicate the figure / entity was either inside the shed with wyattj or it somehow emerged into the shed's interior from beneath the floor.
I know it doesn't fit but I was just trying to see if there was another angle to it. Again, I mean no disrespect to wyattj's father and I realise that this is sensitive to even suggest. But as an intellectual excercise:
wyattj hears thumping noises from a locked shed and runs away scared
Father answers phone panting heavily as if in a struggle or doing something which requires effort
Father returns flustered, uncommunicative and offers an excuse of seeing "something" in the road. He then isolates and drinks beer.
The next day, the Father can't find the key to the padlock (as wyattj has it) and so he breaks open the lock to check inside.
Later, wyattj enters shed and sees signs of the previous days struggle (upturned bbq) and hears noises coming from under the floor (a possible trapdoor like in an episode of Life on Mars when they find an abductee under the floor of a shed). Maybe the scratching noises were the person trying to get out.
wyattj runs away, turns and sees a pale skinned "creature" running out of the shed and away. He was primed to see "something" unusual by his fathers suggestion. The creature is pale skinned from lack of sunlight and bent backed from being in a small hole.
So, my imagination can put that together. It's highly unlikely but I can't see a major flaw.
Again, I don't honestly think this is the answer but then again, I also don't think that an invisible "rake" monster was in the shed either.