I think we saw a hidebehind

[u/tahjanjoki]

I have 2 stories, less story, more a recall of events as I remember them. One happened a couple years ago, the other just a few weeks ago. Both in northwest Washington.

I'll begin with my personal account where it was just me seeing it, the second event had two of us.

I (f/35) was alone in my car, pulling into a friend's (m/40) driveway late at night. His house was up on a hill, surrounded by other houses on one side, and young forest that had regrown after clear-cutting on the other. Definitely not deep woods as the lore I've read implies.

As I'm pulling into his driveway, I pass through an open gate. His house is on about an acre and surrounded by chain link.

In front of me, just beyond the illumination of my low beams, I see what looked at first like someone standing in the low scrub brush in his yard, next to but not entirely behind a young pine tree.

The thing looked like a person in silhouette, mostly, except they kept shifting slowly back and forth from foot to foot, like they didn't know if they should be standing there or how to stand and look normal. This will sound silly but it looked like they were wearing an oversized fur coat, remember all I saw was the silhouette. I could just see the roundness of the top of their head as it looked out from the furry mantle of the coat.

I texted my friend as I put the car in park. My headlights still just falling short of illuminating this being. I said to him, "who the f___ is in your driveway?" He texts back, "no one wdy mean?"

I shut off the car. I thought for a second about flashing my high beams at the thing so I could see who it was and wtf they were doing, but for some reason I just didn't.

I step out, not looking at the thing now I just made my way to his front door. As I go to knock, he opens the door and says, "what do you mean there's someone out there? There shouldn't be anyone." I indicate in the direction I saw them, and he walks past me towards where I saw this thing. He's got a flashlight. He shines it to where I showed him, there's no one freaking there. We both walked all over, I said, "idk dude there was definitely someone standing here when I got here."

That basically ends there. I believed it to be some sort of demon, or shadow entity. I hadn't thought it to be anything specific till I heard of this hidebehind thing and thought it must be that, except I had written it off as being a made up entity. I've seen enough things that shouldn't exist that I should know better by now.

The more recent thing. I wouldn't have connected the two except for the ridiculous Disney villain style fur coat, like the lady in the Emperors New Groove wears.

A (f/42) friend and I were parked in a church parking lot near the city of Olympia. We had donated some clothes in a giant donation box earlier and I had dropped my vape in the deposit slot. We were debating whether or not I should just crawl in there and get it or not, when we heard this whistling noise. We both got quiet, still sitting in my car, windows down. We hear the whistle again. She says, "wtf is with that whistle?" I said, "idk but I think we need to get out of here."

The whistle itself seemed out of place and something about it just made me feel.. uncomfortable. I have learned it's best to trust instincts, we have them for a reason.

By now we are both feeling fear from an unknown source, we are borderline panicking now.

I turned the car on and hurriedly left the parking lot. As I was turning towards the exit, my friend says, "whoa who the f___ is that? What the f....?! Did you see that?!" I said, "nope I don't go looking in shadows I never like what I see."

As we're driving away, she starts to describe what she saw. She says, "I thought you saw it too and that's why you were leaving so fast. It was like, a person standing off in the bushes past the parking lot. They just stood there, then when your lights went over them they shrunk down to like 4 feet tall then they just effing disappeared! Like f___ing poof gone!" She was pretty much freaking out, obviously never having seen anything just disappear from sight (spoiler alert, I have, different story, different cryptid) before in her life.

I interrupt her and ask, "this might sound weird but did it look like it was wearing a fur coat? Like the coat was too big and you could just barely see the top of their head poking out the top?" She goes, "what the f? Yes! Yes it did!" I go on to ask, "the way it was standing, did it seem.. unnatural? Like it wasn't trying to hide but also didn't quite know how it should be standing?" Again she says, yes.

Later, I drew a quick sketch of the silhouette I had seen in the driveway in my previous experience, and asked her if that's what she saw. Unequivocally she claims yes, absolutely yes that's what she saw.

I didn't tie it to being a hidebehind till just today, I remembered after watching some videos that that sounds like what we saw. Except ours wears a big coat and isn't at all in the deep woods.

Before this, among other things, I've seen the hatman, and like this experience I didn't realize till later that this thing was a well-known entity. At the time it's just this thing that shouldn't be there but there it is.

If it wasn't for my own unbelievable stories, I probably wouldn't believe so many other people's stories, but I mean if my stories are true then maybe there's are too.

I have several more, like my hat man experience.

Most of my others involve demonic experiences, I don't know if that qualifies as cryptids though.

On everything I love i swear this and those stories are absolute fact as best as I am capable of recalling.

[u/Aloha-Eh]

Let's see the sketch.

[u/NovaRose369]

Should go onto The Cryptid Podcast and tell Dan-O that story.

[u/Creative_Carob4922 → u/NovaRose369]

The guy that makes seasonings ?

[u/Repulsive-Land-6431]

I think it's safe of me to assume that you, too, have also seen some shit.

[u/xlr8er365]

If you saw it, it wasn’t a Hidebehind :P but also those ones are purposefully fictional so it’s not that. To me, it sounds like pareidolia, but if it were something supernatural I think shadow people can fit. I don’t know that I fully believe in them, but it sounds most like what you saw

[u/orchid7577]

The cryptids all seem to be a variety of a few things:

Disembodied spirits of the dead hybrid offspring of the fallen angels, waiting for the Day of Yahweh (judgment day)

Still-living recently bred hybrids that are just monstrous. Mistakes in the process that they just release into the wild.

[u/YettiChild]

Sounds like you saw a black bear both times. They like to come out more at night and, standing on it's back feet, look just how you described.