sorry mate, hate to be the bearer of bad news but if shit is already going south and you don’t know the ritual to stop it, eventually an overload of missing people cases will get tracked to where you are. i don’t think you have to worry about law enforcement because i doubt the creature responds well to authority but for your own sake get out of there. you’ve already lost control and it already knows it has the upper hand. do yourself a favour and leave before it’s too late. if you tell anyone you’ll probably be labelled as crazy so all you can do right now is to protect yourself, get the hell out of there and continue researching and brain storming ideas on stopping the epidemic in the safety of your own home. good luck op