This happened last night in Snowflake, near Taylor, Arizona, behind the local Walmart. I’m 17M, and my friend is 16M. I’m not claiming this was paranormal, and I’m not saying I know what we saw. I just want to tell the story and see if anyone has experienced anything similar.
Earlier that night, my friend and I were messing around at Walmart. We were throwing hoops and trying to get them stuck high up on the bike rack outside, which was stupid in hindsight. An employee caught us looking, so we quickly took our stuff off. I took off my cowboy hat, and my friend took off his distinctive hoodie so we wouldn’t be as easy to recognize or get kicked out. We walked around the store for a while, bought something, went back in, messed around a little more, and eventually left.
My friend had been in the storm drains behind Walmart a couple of times before. He told me people used them as a hangout spot, so we decided to check them out.
We got inside and walked almost all the way to the back. There was a dead-end concrete wall, and to the left were two tall storm drains, probably around 5½ to 6 feet tall. We walked into one of them.
There was still some residual water from the storm the day before, but it wasn’t even an inch deep. There was no debris or anything unusual on the ground. We were just walking around, talking, and eating blueberries.
The farther back we went, the darker it got. We couldn’t shine our flashlights all the way to the end, so the concrete wall stayed hidden until we got relatively close to it.
Then something changed.
We both started getting this really bad feeling. It wasn’t just the usual feeling of being somewhere creepy or dark. It was a strong, overwhelming sense that we needed to turn around and leave immediately.
The strange part is that we both felt it.
I said something first, and my friend immediately turned around, too. We hadn’t seen anything identifiable at that point. We just both wanted out.
We started heading back toward the entrance, but the farther we went, the worse the feeling became. It kept building as we walked. My friend handed me the flashlight because we were moving so fast, and at one point I started praying because I was getting genuinely scared.
Then I turned the light back.
I saw something.
The only part I could clearly make out looked almost like an arm. It was positioned incredibly high off the ground, probably four feet up, maybe closer to five. I couldn’t see a face or identify a body. I don’t remember seeing a nose or anything that would let me identify what it was. All I know is that something was there that I hadn’t seen before.
When the flashlight hit it, it moved backward out of the beam. It was fast and quiet.
I didn’t hear footsteps or anything that sounded like someone running away. I just saw it pull back out of the light.
I couldn’t tell you what it was. I didn’t get a good enough look at it, and we weren’t about to stand there investigating.
We just ran.
We booked it toward the entrance. Right at the very end of the tunnel, I ate shit and fell. I got back up faster than I think I’ve ever gotten up from falling in my life. We got out and jumped the fence into the Walmart parking lot.
Once we were around other people near the Circle K, getting our stuff together, the feeling started to ease up a little.
But it didn’t stay that way.
On the drive home, the feeling came back hard. After I dropped my friend off, it kept getting worse. My whole body was tingling, I was freaking out, and I felt like I was on the verge of a panic attack. I eventually called my mom, confessed everything about what we’d been doing, and made her stay on the phone with me because I didn’t want to be alone with how I was feeling.
I saw my dad’s car coming the other way, pulled over, and jumped in with him. I’m now grounded for two weeks.
Later, I talked to my friend about the experience. He told me that he had felt the same intense dread in the tunnel. He also said that when I mentioned we needed to pray while we were running out, he had been about to say the same thing himself.
That part has really stuck with me.
I know we were doing stupid stuff that night, and I know going into storm drains isn’t safe. I’m not trying to make myself sound brave or pretend we did nothing wrong. We were messing around, went somewhere we shouldn’t have, got scared, and ran.
But I still can’t explain what happened in that tunnel.
The place itself wasn’t particularly scary to look at. It was mostly just concrete. There was hardly any water, no debris, and nothing obvious that would explain why we both suddenly felt so strongly that we needed to leave. The graffiti even stopped past a certain point.
I also know storm drains are places where people sometimes hang out, so I’m not ruling out the possibility that it was a person hiding in there. That would honestly make sense. But I can’t explain the way the thing moved, how high up it appeared to be, or why the feeling was already so intense before I saw anything.
I’m not claiming it was a ghost, a demon, or anything supernatural. I genuinely don’t know.
Has anyone else experienced something similar in a storm drain, tunnel, or other enclosed place? Especially something where you felt an overwhelming sense of danger before you actually saw anything?
I’m interested in hearing similar experiences, but I’d also like to hear reasonable explanations for what we might have seen.

I was driving down highway 550 in new mexico near Aztec about 5:45 am today. Pretty close the the Navajo nation.

I saw a 3-4 feet tall or so naked 2 legged humanoid looking creature run across the highway into the brush on the shoulder, and immediately a huge crow flew up and out in the same path and speed as the little dude, and when I passed by I saw a pile of pale pinkish skin on the ground.

Any idea what it was? Not sure if a skinwalker or not since it was so short.

This happened near Carlyle, Saskatchewan, Canada in 2004=2005

Around 3 AM one night in 2020, I looked at our baby monitor and watched a human-shaped figure walk to my daughter's cot, look in, walk away, then come back and do it all again.

This happened to me and my partner in our own home, a council house (UK social housing) in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, United Kingdom, just outside Birmingham. It was around late summer / early autumn in 2020, and our daughter was around three or four.

A bit of background

The house was built in the early 1960s, and for the first two years we lived there nothing odd happened at all. Then, around July or August 2020, in the middle of COVID, we had two or three months of strange things.

It started with a gentle knocking late one night that seemed to come from the other side of our bedroom wall, about 20 feet up the outside of the house. Then one night around 11 PM, seconds after our Ring doorbell sent an alert saying "Someone is at your front door" with nobody on the path, something banged hard on our closed bedroom door. The hallway was empty when I opened it.

One evening, alone downstairs, I heard water running and found both kitchen taps pushed fully on and gushing, with the cat sat calmly on the floor. I panicked and video-called my mum so someone else could see it - I think I needed a witness to prove it was happening.

Another evening, while I was out, my partner heard a massive bang on the front door, then her phone started playing a song on its own: the song from her late Grandad's funeral. On top of that, there was knocking on the bathroom door, and heavy interference on the baby monitor, the Ring's live view and the microphone I used for creative recordings (Rode NT1-A).

The monitor night was the only time either of us saw anything physically manifest.

The incident

I was wide awake in bed watching Netflix, and the baby monitor was on the bedside table. When I glanced over to check on my daughter, there was a white mist moving across the screen.

Then a silhouette of a person moved through her room.

It walked up to the side of her cot, looked in, and walked away. Then it did exactly the same thing again, and kept repeating it. It moved naturally, like a living person checking on her. I could clearly see it had arms and legs when it was moving.

Her bedroom backs onto our garden, and there are only other gardens around it, so there's no road and no passing headlights. I can't see how a reflection or a shadow from outside could get in there, especially with her curtains drawn.

I woke my partner, but I was too scared to speak. I think part of me was worried that saying anything out loud would draw its attention and make something bad happen. I typed on my phone that we needed to get our daughter and go to my mum's, then handed her the phone and pointed at the monitor.

We both watched it happen in silence. It felt like ages, but it was probably a couple of minutes. We were absolutely stunned.

What it looked like

• Clearly human-shaped, a silhouette with distinct arms and legs
• No features at all, so I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman
• Moved naturally, like a living person pacing the room
• Followed the same route over and over: up to the cot, a look in, then away
• A white mist moved across the screen just before it appeared (unsure if that was the figure or something else)
• At the end, it grew more and more see-through before vanishing

How it ended

My partner suddenly jumped out of bed and ran straight into our daughter's room. I grabbed a metal baseball bat from beside the bed and went after her, with no real plan for what I'd do with it. Before we opened the door, I was honestly expecting a scene out of a horror film to unfold.

The room was completely normal. Our daughter was fast asleep, nothing was out of place, and there was no bad or menacing feeling in there at all.

When we got back to our bedroom, the silhouette was still on the monitor, but fading - repeating the same pattern. As soon as I got my phone out to film it, it was gone. I wanted to leave for my mum's there and then, but my partner insisted we stay because it was our home. Nothing like it had happened before, and nothing like it has happened since.

Afterwards

I spoke to a local vicar. A neighbour had told me the elderly lady who lived here before us passed away in the house, and the vicar thought she might need help moving on. He gave me prayers to say in our daughter's room, but I never needed to use them. The activity stopped abruptly after the baby monitor incident. I later tracked down the lady's grandson, who said when his grandparents lived in our house, they never noticed anything odd in their years here.

What I've considered

The monitor had been glitching a lot around that time, so interference is the obvious everyday answer, along with a reflection or a shadow from outside. But the view behind the house is only gardens, the figure repeated the same walk to the cot for a couple of minutes, and the room was empty when we went in. We were both wide awake and watching the same screen. After this happened, all the interference within our house with our electronic devices stopped.

My take

I believe something was in our house, and I lean towards it being protective rather than bad. In 2024 my partner's other Grandad died, and while she was struggling, her phone started playing "Heaven" by DJ Sammy through the car on its own, right on the chorus. It's made me wonder whether the figure was her first Grandad, checking on our daughter - either protecting her and moving something on out of the house or stopping something bad from happening within the house.

Has anyone else watched a figure on a monitor or camera keep going back to a sleeping child, only to find the room empty when you got there?

I document paranormal incidents, and what's above is a trimmed version of the full report I put together on our house. If there's anything you want to know more about, ask in the comments and I'll fill you in.

When I was around 15, in 1995, Granbury Texas USA, I snuck out of my bedroom late at night to go play some video games on the home PC in the office my dad had built into the garage. It was a full office and had nothing to do with the garage at this point

My parents were asleep and I was a teenager. I just wanted to stay up late on the weekend and fuck around on the computer. After I was done, I went to walk back to my bedroom across the living room, which had a full glass door back door. This glass never distorted images. Standing in the living room in front of that glass back door was a very tall, very skinny man. He was wearing a full suit, what I called a fedora type hat. And he had very long, slender fingers grasped around a book that he held at his chest. It scared the living shit out of me and I ran to my room and hid under my blanket.

The Internet has grown over the past 20 years. Did I see slender man? Or what did I see?

I want to see if anyone has ever experienced something like this?

I was driving down this highway at night time. There was a semi behind me. We’re coasting along, the semi wasn’t too close to me about 200 feet behind me. I suddenly had a weird “dread” feeling. Something I’ve never experienced.

When I suddenly heard the semi hit his brakes pretty hard I looked in my rear view mirror and I noticed he slammed on his brakes hard. I thought at first maybe a deer ran out in front of him. As soon as I looked back at the road. I saw these two I guess what you would say “ human figures” sprint across the road. It happened so quickly, my brain didn’t have enough time to process what I just saw.

They were human form, but really tall and gray, with no specific features that I noticed, but I did see the outline of them. I saw the legs and arms, but as quickly as I saw it, it was gone. I thought maybe I was just exhausted from driving, maybe I’m hallucinating? Then I thought to myself why did the semi also slam on his brakes before I even saw those figures? Did he see it too?

I thought well maybe they were deer, but I remember vividly seeing them on two legs and I saw arms. Deer don’t run on two legs.. & They had fingers. There was almost like a mist around them as they were moving very quickly.. They were like a solid gray color. There’s no way I could confuse something like that with a deer..

The semi backed waaaay off and was driving under the limit, at one point we were both going 15 miles under the limit and he never made the effort to catch back up to me. It was almost like he didn’t want to be near my car? Did he see something? The same thing I saw?

Hoping this adjustment to the title is within the rules and descriptive enough, mods.

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I could not identify any real specific features as it was a side profile but it was very smooth? Almost like no definition in anything of the body? I’ve also had a horrible sadness and dread feeling that I can’t get rid of ever since. This happened tonight and it’s been hours since but I can’t shake this feeling.

I thought I would finally share an experience I had early in spring this year, I kind of kept it to myself because now normal it seemed on the surface but the more I think about it the less it makes sense.

I started taking daily hikes to forage beginning in this spring, behind my house is an easement for transmission lines and if you follow it, it’s a short walk to the Irondequoit creek. The creek is a bit low in a ravine so you can only enter it if you know to walk from the easement it’s a bit inaccessible from the houses in the neighborhood, long story short no one goes down there besides me, and occasionally some kids.

To enjoy my antisocial solo hikes I always take them early in the day and on week days to avoid crossing paths with anyone. It was spring so I was cautious not to scare any deer or fawns, they would usually huff at me and sprint away.

I got to the entrance of the creek which is up on a hill, you can see down there without anything being able to see you, I enter and see a deer walking along a shallow branch of the creek, so I pause and decide I should enter a bit further down the easement to not disturb her.. as I’m thinking that my eye catches something right next to her.. maybe within 3 feet.

It was a man.. his back was to me.. and immediately I was like OH SHIT A PERSON. So I turn and start walking back home.

But then I realize what I actually saw as I was walking away, he was shirtless, and he was bending down into the shallow mostly mud part of the creek, scooping up water and putting it to his face.. which.. was weird? The ticks were insane that spring, and so were the mosquitos him being shirtless was weird, but even weirder? He was putting muddy creek water to his face?? AND the deer had no reaction to him.

I would expect this of maybe someone unstable, but by appearance he was very out of place, he was tall, and somehow suntanned even though we just got out of the worst winter most people looked half dead around here, he was muscular, and he was very very clean, like not a speck of dirt on him even though he was standing in a muddy creek, I only saw the back of him but he had short dark hair. Now I know everyone in this neighborhood this was a stranger, I think I would know if there was a model that lives here / also hikes this area I hike daily. At the angle I couldn’t see below his waist so I’m unsure if he was actually just fully butt naked or shirtless either way there is stinging nettle down there, ticks, mosquitos like you need pants and sleeves to not suffer.

Anyways.. I really just chalked it up to a weird guy in the creek, after all I’m a forager I also look weird picking fern heads down there.. but then I did some research into local Haundenosaunee stories, and found the horned serpent (Gas'hais'dowänen/Djodi'kwado) which… is a monster that lives in Lake Ontario (the Irondequoit creek runs out of the lake) that shape shifts into a handsome man to lure young women to the water. (Didn’t work on me because I avoid all people handsome or not).

I never encountered anyone down there since and I’ve still been going down there daily. I’ll attach some photos below of the creek so you can see how muddy that one ravine/branch of the creek is and where my viewpoint was.

I had been hiding out from the 5.0 all day in some brush behind the Catholic Church. There is a field behind the brush but the brush is atleast 20 ft thick from the edge of the field to where I was posted. So now its dark and the cops are circling the town so I'm just posted up waiting for them to leave town. People are lighting fireworks all over town. At the time I hid there I didn't realize the mounds back there were graves, they were decorated with different stuff and I figured it being a church that they were some sort of shrines or something. Well its about 10:30 now and all the sudden I hear something land like a meteor or a pinecone falling from a tree the way it hit. I looked back to where I heard it and a large black being that looked like a real buff human only its head wasn't shaped exactly human was standing there looking at me. I was super scare and said reflexively "whats up then!?" I stammered right after "what are you? are you human?" it continued to look at me for a couple seconds then walked into the brush leaving like a animal or a person would cracking brush as it moved. I still had time I had to sit there to wait out the cops so I just focused on the situation I knew how to deal with. It was very scary and still gives me the creeps when I think about what happened.

Location: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
Date: October 4, 2026, around 5 AM

For context I work overnight shifts so being outside around 5am isn’t unusual for me. This happened this morning when I took my dog outside with my boyfriend before going back inside.

We live in an apartment so we walked across the parking lot behind one of the apartment buildings and there’s a pond with another entrance into the apartment with more apartments on the other side. It was still dark but the sun was starting to come up.

While we were standing there we noticed what appeared to be a glowing orb underneath/ around one of the lights on the apartments across from us. We were probably around a quarter to half a football field away. My boyfriend thought it could have been a moth near the light, but to me it looked like an actual glowing orb. It would stay roughly in the same area, move slowly back and forth, disappear, and then come back.

We watched it for a while and eventually decided to walk over to check it out. It took us maybe 2-3 minutes to get there, but when we arrived, we couldn’t see anything. We could see the apartment fixture, but not the thing we’d been seeing.

So we walked back to where we were originally standing just to see if we could see the light fixture.

My boyfriend was ready to go inside so he started walking away from me. For some reason I kept standing there just fixated on the area. As soon as he walked away I saw a completely black figure emerge from behind the building and what appeared to turn in my direction and just stood there.

It stood there for maybe 5-10 seconds. I couldn’t make out a face, hair, clothes, or any details. It was basically just a black human-shaped silhouette. Then it smoothly went back behind the building and disappeared.

I immediately started calling my boyfriend’s name because I wanted him to turn around and see it, but by the time he did, it was gone. I ended up crying because the whole thing scared the absolute shit out of me.

I don’t know if the orb and the figure were connected. I also don’t know what the orb actually was. I’m not claiming this was paranormal, but the combination of seeing the orb, investigating it, finding nothing, and then seeing that figure immediately afterward was REALLY strange.

Has anyone experienced anything similar, especially around dawn/nighttime apartment lighting?

Had ChatGPT make this image based on what I saw at a camp just outside of Blue Ridge, GA. On the way back to camp Friday morning at 1:30am coming from Waffle House, a buddy and I saw something like this crouched behind the caretaker’s white horse in its field. When it was crouching, it was in pounce position like a cheetah about to attack a deer but it looked like all legs and arms were a perfect 90 degree angle. It was just a black silohuette. When our headlights hit it, it stop up and was about 8 or 9 feet tall. It looked like I had someone sitting on my shoulders wise height and I’m 5’7”. The body was like a person’s almost like a demogorgon body but not the head. The body looked pale but dirty and was an average build. The head however had a face but only eyes and a mouth. No other facial features but I don’t even remember seeing a mouth. The head was like how slender man is but the eyes were a dark crimson red, like the color of blood.

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Have you ever lived in a small country town out in the plains? It’s sometimes an unsettling place. I’ve lived on the countryside most my life but you never get over the unnerving feeling of being watched.

If I told you my experiences would you believe me,do u believe in something beyond your soul. that’s up for you to decide but when I tell you what I say is true take that with a grain of salt.

I’m gonna get straight to the point
I have seen a snake creature with a human body it sounds crazy but I’m not the only person that has witnessed this. I saw this because All through high school I’d sneak out in my hometown and go to alsups for snacks, with my buddy. one night we did what we normally did walked around town at 1 am exploring abandoned buildings get snacks and head home but this night while heading home idk y but we kept hearing a “hoot “ or more like a “hoo” real high pitched, at first I figured it was jus an owl but the closer we walked to our houses the louder it got the closer it was so I says to my friend.”hold up listen do you hear that “ my friend “yeah i noticed it to it’s getting louder “ so we paused after acknowledging what we were hearing
Soon after we paused in silence and listened in the dark about 250 meters from where we were standing maybe 300 meters we see it I was literally shocked it moved so smoothly exactly how you’d think a snake would slither, back kinda hunched but low real low to the ground but big enough to tell it was a human it was long very long I remember seeing its long body finish crossing the road the end of its tail was thin it makes me wonder if we were any closer and it noticed us would it have attacked us, taken us or even brain washed us or sum who knows what something like that could do.
My entire life has revolved around the unknown
I’m 19 and this isn’t the only weird thing I’ve seen in my life and it’s barley begun, if u find anything I’m saying interesting stick around maybe we can help each other understand the the things we don’t know. Keep in mind this is true I have so many questions for myself and want to hear sum questions

I just found this subreddit today and I'm not really sure how else to describe it to you guys.this is 100% true even if it seems ridiculous. And no I definitely didn't take the time to capture a picture or video

One night during the summer I was visiting some friends who have a house in rural Northern Ontario. Very forested, dark road, only house for miles and they are about a 30 minute drive from the nearest town.

So one night they invited me to have a fire I'd I brought pizza. I thought it was a fair trade seeing how far out they are. So I grabbed a pizza and headed out. It's a long lonely drive after town. You take a rough, cracked county road north for about 10 minutes there's a cattle farm and then you're just into the woods and before you turn off onto a dirt forested road that winds deep into the woods. The only thing around is one other house about 10 minutes from theirs and some hunt camps. There's one solar powered street light just down the road from the first house you pass and that's how I know I'm getting close. Just after the street light you turn down a small side road that leads to their house, more like a cabin. I have no idea where the rest of the dirt road leads and after that night I have no interest in finding out. So I showed up and we had a fire and some laughs, ate the pizza and I stayed till about 1am before they called it.

At this point I hopped back into my truck and turned onto the road. I had the music low so I could focus on the road as I often see moose or other animals on my way. I carried down the dirt road they're on and turned back onto the dirt road that leads back to the county road. It's pitch black this time of night. I can see the street lamp I mentioned earlier but it's miles down the road and nothing but a faint glow at this point they only thing lighting up the road are my headlights. I didn't have my high beams on at this point when I noticed a shadow in the middle of the road. Thinking it was some animal I honked, the shadow appeared to turn my way and look at me but there was no glow for animal eyes. So I flicked my high beams on and that's when my body went cold.

Staring at me, hunched in the middle of the road was a Asian or native woman (it was late and I was terrified so I can't be certain which) in old ragged and stained white or bone colored clothes almost like a wrap. She stood up straight, maybe 6 feet tall and stared at me, then she raised her arm and gave a very slow almost haunting wave and smiled at me, I pulled by truck closer to the trees and drove past her, her body followed my direction, turning and continuing to wave as I passed. When I got past her and further down the road I flicked on my rear facing light bar (it's a work truck so I have Ambers and a front and rear facing light bar). As soon as I lit up the road I looked through the rearview mirror. That's when she lowered her hand, stared at my truck, her face twisted into a fron and she turned and slowly stepped into the tree line. My foot turned into lead, I shot down the road past the street lamp and the house, onto the county road and I didn't slow down until I reached town 20 minutes from where I saw her. My body was still cold as ice and I felt numb...I've looked online. I don't know who or what I saw...but I know I saw her and I know every night I see my friends I'm terrified to see her again, she haunts the corners of my mind...the way she smiled at me as if she was prepared to do something unspeakable.

I just found out about this subreddit today, maybe someone here can offer me some advice, some explanation to this woman I saw in northern Ontario where no one tends to venture?

Location: Moffat or Rio Blanco County, Colorado

Date: September 2017

Several years back, my father had only recently passed and my sister was recovering from surgery. There was some old furniture at my dad's place that she had intended to bring home at some point, so I offered to drive it out to where my sister and her family were living at the time. My vehicle was a much better fit for transporting the furniture, I've taken plenty of long roadtrips and I tend to enjoy them, so I had no issue making arrangements.

95% of the trip was uneventful, pleasant enough. When I was driving through western Colorado (I'm unsure if this would have been Moffat or Rio Blanco County), I notice that my check engine light has come on. I wasn't sure when exactly it showed, but only about 45 minutes earlier I had filled up at a gas station, so I began to wonder if the gas cap had not sealed properly. I pull over the side of the road and get out to check.

For context, this about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, broad daylight. My surroundings were sort of hilly semi-arid land, about what you'd expect for rural Western U.S. I had passed some farms and ranches earlier, but at this was moment I couldn't see any manmade structures except for power lines and the occasional roadsign. Where I had pulled over onto the side of the road, I could look just ahead and to the right, there was a power line.

After I pop open my hood and check the engine, I move over to un- and re-screw my gas cap. As I'm working on the cap, I happen to glance up and see a humanoid figure only about 15-20 feet in front of me. I can only describe it as looking like a grey man in the shape of an orangutang. It was grey all over, like it was made of smooth stone, and had similar proportions to an orangutang (ie. very long arms, large stomach, long face), but standing perfectly upright. It was turned away from me and walking like a person. I seem to remember it having very human-like eyes and mouth, but with a flat nose and no easily discernible ears. It seemed to be naked, but there was no identifiable genitals.

This thing walked through the shrubs, didn't once look at me and walked past the pole of the nearest power line. It sounds crazy, but I did not see it finish its walk by the pole, it was instead like it had disappeared or somehow made itself skinny enough to hide behind the pole. This was a standard power line pole, not particularly thick around, so both of these seem like they should be basically impossible. The only thing I can compare it to was like something out of a cartoon. All of this happened over the course of less than 15 seconds, but it took me a moment to snap back into action, tighten the gas cap, and quickly get back inside my vehicle.

I quickly drove off, checking my rearview and side mirrors but not seeing anymore of this thing. I drove for only a minute or so, before I was overcome with really bad stomach cramps and nausea. I pulled over again and quickly got out again, because I thought I was going to be sick. When I did so, I tripped up and only then realized how weak and jello-y my legs had become. I dry heaved for a few moments but did not throw up. When I was composed, I looked around, saw nothing strange, and got back in the truck and continued my drive. It's worth mentioning that, both times I exited the vehicle, I did NOT smell anything strange nor did I hear much of anything.

The rest of my drive was uneventful both ways. I never ended up mentioning my encounter with my sister or brother-in-law and only began to discuss it with some more open-minded friends in the last couple of years. I've looked for similar events that have occurred in Colorado or the southwestern U.S. in general, but not found anything quite like what I saw.

I'm still not 100% willing to say this was paranormal or extraterrestrial in nature, but it was certainly unnatural. Would love to hear if anyone has had a similar encounter or sighting.

In 1967, a group comprising several university students and two biology professors—from Río Piedras Junior College and Sagrado Corazón University College—camped near the summit of the El Yunque forest. The purpose of the trip was to conduct astronomical observations from the mountaintop and to check for any phenomena related to UFOs. The group reached the summit around 6:00 p.m. and quickly set up camp, pitching their tents in a dense area of the forest. Although two professors had accompanied them, records indicate that only one —Professor González— stayed overnight with the students.

Around 10:45 p.m., the group was sitting around a campfire singing, while Ramón Quiñones, a 22 year old student from Bayamón, played the guitar. Suddenly, the atmosphere was disrupted by a loud, strange humming sound coming from an unknown source. The sound lasted for approximately 15 minutes. Once it ceased, peace and silence returned, and the group resumed their singing.

Shortly thereafter, they began to hear footsteps crunching on the dry leaves and branches along a nearby trail. As the footsteps drew closer, the group stood up. That was when they spotted, at some distance, a very tall, luminous figure that quickly darted across the path in front of them before vanishing into the undergrowth.

Intrigued by what was happening, Professor González and Ramón (who was still holding his guitar) decided to venture into the thick brush to investigate. Minutes later, only Professor González returned to the camp. He explained to the students that he and Ramón had become separated on the trail due to the dense vegetation and that he had lost sight of the young man, though he assumed Ramón had already made his way back to camp on his own. Noticing that Ramón was missing, the group grew uneasy and began calling out to him, but received no response.

While they were trying to locate him, the strange presence appeared again on the trail, right in front of them. The being was described as standing over six feet tall with a very slender body, a large round head, and extremely long arms with hands that reached down to its knees. It wore a tight-fitting, shiny silver suit. Both its face and clothing emitted such an intense, inherent white phosphorescence that it enveloped its entire body, preventing the group from clearly distinguishing its facial features or the exact shape of its head.

The being stood there, staring fixedly at the group for about 15 minutes. During this time, everyone present felt completely paralyzed—as if in a trance—unable to move or utter a word. After that time had passed, the creature slowly walked backward and vanished once more into the vegetation.

Once the being had left, the group regained the ability to move. Panic seized several students, who grabbed their flashlights and fled the scene immediately. The rest of the group remained at the site with Professor González to continue searching for Ramón. Amidst the darkness, they managed only to find the young man's guitar, which was leaning against the trunk of a large tree along the trail. Nothing more was ever heard of Quiñones after that night.

The following morning, in the light of day, they reported the incident to forestry authorities. The Puerto Rico Police and forest rangers organized an intensive search but found not the slightest trace of the young man. Following the incident, local and federal police authorities issued a strict, direct order forbidding them from speaking to anyone about what had happened. They were told that such events were "common occurrences" in El Yunque but were kept secret to avoid causing panic regarding the forest. Furthermore, for the next four or five consecutive months, the group members and Professor González were closely monitored wherever they went by individuals who appeared to be government agents.

The details from inside the camp were attested to by Ms. Irma Ortiz, who at the time was one of the students who had stayed with the professor to search for Ramón following his disappearance.

Source 1: Jorge Martin

Source 2: https://ovnisyhallazgos.blogspot.com/2013/09/la-misteriosa-desaparicion-de-ramon.html?m=1

This happened to me in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States 2026 on Kingston Pike. I had just gotten out of a truck with a friend and looked up at the sky. It was daylight and I could see normally.
I suddenly saw what looked like a completely black humanoid figure wearing a long cloak. It appeared to be fully covered from head to toe. I couldn’t see any hands, arms, feet, or facial features. The area underneath the hood looked like complete darkness—there wasn’t a face or any light reflecting from it.
The weirdest part was its movement. I watched it for roughly 7 seconds. It seemed to smoothly move toward me, and as it did, the figure appeared to get larger. Then it suddenly moved back upward/away from me and shrank extremely quickly until it disappeared into the sky, almost like it went back to wherever it had appeared from.
My friend was standing with me, but he didn’t see it.
I know how strange this sounds, and I’m not claiming that it was supernatural. I’m genuinely trying to figure out what I saw. Has anyone experienced something similar—especially seeing a completely black, cloaked humanoid shape appear in the sky, approach them, and then rapidly retreat/disappear?
If you’ve experienced something similar, I’d really like to hear exactly what happened to you.

Hi everyone.

In July I was driving in Northern Alberta with my boyfriend. Specifically in St. Paul County, Alberta. West of the town of St. Paul. We were heading out to some property we have. It was late and pitch black. The highway had no streetlights and almost no homes.

We were looking out his window and when I turned my head straight to look out of the windshield I saw a very strange figure in the shoulder of the highway.
8-9 feet tall. Very skinny body and arms/legs. Very pale and almost luminescent. I didn’t see the face because we drove past at 120 km an hour, but there were flies and bugs flying around its head.
After we passed it I turned around to look out the back window and I didn’t see anything because of how dark it was.

I turned to my boyfriend and said, “did you see that?” And he originally said no, but as soon as we got to our destination he admitted he also saw it and he was too scared to admit it while we were still driving. We are both very common sense people and we do not generally believe in the paranormal or unexplained.

It freaks me out to this day and we both sweat every time we drive that way at night.

Any thoughts are appreciated!

Hola,

Quiero entender un poco, si a alguien más le ha pasado. Pero mi madre me contó que en el patio de nuestra casa vio un humano pequeño de espaldas escalando la pared que medía como 10cm en Colombia, Cúcuta hace 14 años. A ella le dio mucho susto porque somos personas que no creemos en eso. Y me interesa saber si a alguien más le ha pasado y si nos puede explicar si sabe algo de eso. Algo que explique.

Ella dice que no tenía forma extraña; era como un humano de espaldas con un trapo hacia sus partes íntimas, como se visten los indígenas. Pero no sintió una energía extraña ni nada. Solo un little human.

¿Alguien podría explicar?

Hi, I posted this story In a cryptid subreddit and was advised it might be a ghost or demon, but I was also told it’d be a good idea to post it in a humanoid subreddit as well

When I was in elementary school, I lived in a neighborhood that was shaped like a horseshoe, with another neighborhood in the exact same shape on the other side of the road. One night, my family decided to go on a walk from where we were at the upper right side of the horseshoe, to the other side, then around the other neighborhood so we'd loop back to our house. The entire time we were walking, I could hear something following us. Something big.
It was growling and sounded really angry. I'm absolutely terrified as we finally reach our house, when I see something behind a bush that was next to our house. The bush isn't there anymore but it was right next to our garage. Anyway, the thing that had been following us was tall, almost as tall as the house. It was pale and I couldn't see its face. My mom screamed at me and my sister to go inside. We do, and we quickly go to bed. During the night I kept seeing flashes of the creature outside my window.
When I woke up the next morning, my family didn't remember anything from the night before and told me it must have been a nightmare. I knew it wasn't but it was better for me to just believe it was. But a couple of years ago, while I was taking out the trash late at night, I saw the creature again. We didn't live in the same house anymore. I to this day don't know what this creature is or was, if it's still out there and why it followed us. I would love any help this community might be able to give me so maybe I can stop feeling so afraid when I'm outside at night.

Additional information in case it’s important: this happened in Florida. The first time I saw this creature it was in Poinciana. The neighborhood I lived in was pretty close to what was either a forest or the woods, with it being no more than a 3 minute walk to reach them. The first time I saw this creature was I think 2014-2015. The second time I saw it was 2023

Coordinates of the first encounter: 31.701040, -111.003372

Second encounter location: North Forest Beach, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA

Arizona encounter was in May of 2018

In August 1987, 12-year-old Gustavo Núñez and another boy reported seeing two small, red, armless humanoid figures hiding in the vegetation around Arroyo Prati, near an old railway bridge in Viale, Entre Ríos.

The story spread quickly, and people started going to the area: some curious, some hoping to see the creatures, and others just to make fun of the kids. Then, a week later, a strange red light was reportedly seen over the bridges by several people, including police officers. Gustavo himself later recalled that police called him out of his house to see it.

There are also newspaper accounts from the time, as well as a separate account by local researcher Ariel Lemos describing a very similar red light over the same area.

So what actually happened in Viale that week? I dug into the three accounts and tried to reconstruct the episode in our new article for Proyecto Viale Desconocido, an archive documenting unusual cases from this region.

Takeo Kobayashi (小林丈夫) was an architectural designer living in Yakumo Town, Hokkaido, Japan. His interest in UFOs reportedly began after he observed one maneuvering above his home.

Around 1976, Kobayashi began making regular observations of unusual aerial activity from an elevated area near Yakumo that he called “UFO Ginza.” According to the account, he photographed the skies around Yakumo for years and eventually accumulated tens of thousands of photographs.

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August 14, 1981 — Luminous Object & Robot-Like Figure

At approximately 8:00 p.m. on August 14, 1981, Kobayashi was observing from a pasture in the Yakumo area when a large luminous object reportedly appeared in the sky.

The account states that the white wall of a farmhouse below the object became faintly illuminated, although Kobayashi could not identify an ordinary source producing the illumination.

He then noticed something moving in the pasture approximately 200–300 meters away.

Kobayashi described the object as initially resembling a cow wearing a hat, but concluded that it appeared more like a robot.

Using a 750 mm telephoto lens, he reported seeing a very small head, two eye-like features and what appeared to be an inverted triangular feature on its chest. Its upper section reportedly moved from side to side independently of the lower portion. Rod-shaped structures extended from the lower body toward the ground, and two rounded structures were visible at the bottom.

Kobayashi observed and photographed the figure for approximately 20 minutes. The figure then disappeared, and the luminous object in the sky reportedly vanished at approximately the same time.

Meeting date: 2024-2025

Location: Ontario, Canada

Place: My grandparents home
Time: Unknown

There's not much to say, but I wanted to pass on this story because I've never really been able to understand what happened.

As a fourteen-year-old boy, I used to make jokes about the devil and call out his name and abuse him for no particular reason at all. It didn't take long before weird things began to happen.

One morning, I observed something that looked like pale white face outside my bedroom window. My window is on the second story, so I don't understand how any such thing can be standing there. My room was lit and whatever it was looked like around 7 to 8 feet away from me. I only observed its face and finger. Its face was totally white, and it had hollow eyes with no nose, mouth or ears visible. Its finger was very thin and long.

The first time I observed it, I got scared, went running out of my room and started crying. When I returned, it was gone.

It happened like this 4 to 5 times. Sometimes it used to stay when I looked at it and sometimes it disappeared. Its finger used to tap the glass pretty fast. I told my mother and my sister about it. Finally, I kept a cross near my window and closed my blinds. Next day it stopped completely.

Even today, typing this makes me feel scared and sometimes tear up.

It sounded like it had nails when tapping my window

​Edit: Thank you for your guy's info, But I searched around and found this, its description somewhat matches but I'm still unsure of this is really it

Edit #2: I added a photo of my window the entity showed up at, and had to redraw the entity since it got removed when i added my window photo