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Black Eyed Woman Demands 'Let Me In!'

It was a Saturday night around 9pm and no one was home. Everyone had gone out for dinner and I decided to stay home as I felt nauseous (8 months pregnant) and exhausted after having worked 10 hours. I was in my kitchen rummaging through the fridge for a light snack when someone knocked on my front door. This surprised me because my family has keys, they would just open the door right away. Also in my neighborhood, you know not to open the door unless you're expecting company.

The knocking continued. I decided to not answer and they would go away as one would do to solicitors or unwanted company. But no the knocking continued. Now irritated I go to the front door and look out the peephole to see a woman in her 50s just standing there staring down at my welcome mat. Seems harmless I think to myself and stupidly open the door but the screen door is still locked and standing in between her and I. Awkwardly she hasn't looked up and hasn't said a word, so I ask "Can I help you?" And she stays quiet then without any emotion more like monotone she asks if she can use my phone. I said I don't have one because one it didn't seem an emergency and two, people snatch phones and run in my city so I was paranoid. She asked again more demanding to use my phone and then demanded by saying 'Let me in' and looks up at me. Her eyes are solid black and holds her eye contact almost smirking.

I remember about the stories I have read. All of children. But here was this older lady with black eyes. The only way I can describe about how she made me feel is that, I felt threatened. I look away but quickly look back at her eyes, something about them draws you into them. I tell her NO and ask her to leave and begin to slowly close the door but she practically screams 'LET ME IN!' Startled, I turn on the porch light hoping to scare her away.

What she does next confused me to this day. She can clearly see me now and looks down at my pregnant tummy and turns around and walks away. That's it, no looking back, no nothing. I was dumbfounded. UA

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'I Saw a Devil Dog'

“I never heard of Dogmen until this last year, but back in the early 80s I saw what I called a devil dog. It was in south Seattle, under the big powerlines that come from the southwest. This thing was black, and very big. I'd seen wolf-mastiff hybrids up close before, and it was BIGGER. It also had red glowing eyes. It was almost completely dark, and it WASN'T eyeshine. It had turned to look at me. I was almost home, so I hurried asking and it kept going. I was born and raised country, and I'm not afraid of animals. That thing didn't feel like an animal. I wondered if it could be something else, having heard about skinwalkers (not by that name, though) through the reading of The Teachings Of Don Juan, by Carlos Castaneda. I think Washington has those, but thankfully I think they are rare. At least I hope so. Had a class B bigfoot encounter between Mt. Rainier and west of Yakima back in '72.” BW

'Vanishing' Black Eyed Kids!

The following account is one of the more terrifying BEK incidents that I have read:

Please don't take this lightly and stay safe. Here is what happened to me two nights ago. I was encouraged by friends who tell me people need to know what I've experienced. I recently moved into a condo in southeast Portland, OR. Outside of downtown, it's pretty rural here and there are more houses and condos than apartment complexes. I was out on my balcony smoking a cigarette when I noticed something strange.

Now I'll preface this by saying I have heard of black eyed kids, children, people, whatever. I don't usually get spooked by scary stories or creepy pastas. They are all fun and games right? No harm. I have had weird things happen to me I can't explain, don't get me wrong. My boyfriend swears I was possessed once, I had an object "thrown at me" by no one when I was alone in a basement. Paranormal weirdness that I don't bother much to try and understand. I dismiss it and go on with my life. I never believed I'd be writing something like this. I'm a graduate student on a professional track and I stay pretty firmly grounded in scientific and reasonable explanations - whether I know what they are or not, I favor the belief they underlying everything.

So on my balcony smoking. Across the condo complex on a neighbor's balcony I see two silhouettes. It's late, around 2 am and it's a week night. One was slightly taller than the other but they looked to be females around the age of 8-12 with one a bit older. I saw movement and the two stood close to one another. I could hear them knocking on this second story balcony door. My light was off so aside from my cigarette burning I don't think anyone could see me well enough to know I was there, and once I saw them I was frozen still. I don't know why, but as soon as I could make out their shapes I felt an overwhelming sense of terror. Like something imminent and dangerous was preying on me and I couldn't move.

After some time, ten minutes of paralyzing fear and listening to their knocks the light in the condo came on and someone opened their blinds. I was afraid for them. I wanted to yell to the neighbor to stop but I was more afraid they'd see me and I can't explain it but I knew I didn't want them to know I was watching. The neighbor stepped back I think confused and apprehensive. I could understand why. I heard the voice of the older taller one...and it's burned in my mind. It was completely monotone and seemed to be void of any life or cheer. Like a kid is usually happy sounding even if they aren't happy but it was so weird, I knew it wasn't the voice of a child, or a person. It wasn't human, something in this voice was wrong. I couldn't hear exactly what she was saying but at one point the smaller one turned around and stared straight at me like she knew I was there the whole time. I almost p*ssed myself.

Still paralyzed with fear I couldn't move. I saw pale skin and huge black eyes. It was dark, it was far, but I know what I saw. When she turned, the light from inside the neighbor's balcony shed light on them so I could see well enough to know her eyes were pitch black. Her clothes were strange and old, outdated, and she was expressionless. The neighbor had the door open only an inch or two and her hand looked ready to slam it shut. The taller girl became angry and she seemed as though she was going to make her way in through the damn door. The neighbor slammed it and locked it hard. I could hear the fear of that woman with the intensity in which she locked that door. She stepped back from the door leaving the blinds drawn and I lost sight of her. They stood before the smaller one looked up at the taller one. The two looked at each other, said nothing! No communication, and in unison looked toward me and I broke free of my paralysis to bolt inside and lock the door. Still holding my cigarette with it's filter burning at this point. I kept the light off and kept my eyes on their shadowy silhouettes.

This is where it gets crazy sounding and I search desperately for a way to say this that anyone reading can comprehend the sheer shock, terror, and seriousness at what I witnessed with my own two eyes. They effing dematerialized! I mean, they just turned into almost a swarm of what could have been insects, and disappeared. Swear to God, on my life. I watched the spot where they had been standing for what had to be the longest sixty seconds or so of my life. And I stepped back away from the window in fear of them popping up behind me or something. I was shaking violently and my cat rubbed on my leg meowing in some attempt to console me because he sensed my fear. I noticed my cigarette filter still on my hand was flattened from me pinching it so hard. I looked down at my cat and back outside because I wanted to try and find them. I looked where they were on the porch to see if I'd gone insane temporarily and they were just hiding there or something. They were gone. My neighbor returned to where I could see her in her window. She was on the phone, probably with the police and that's when I noticed them again, directly above her, on the f*cking roof! Just standing above her, holding hands. Then they got on their hands and knees. I still was completely gripped by fear and horrified by what I was seeing.

Back track a bit. Since we moved in we have been hearing things on the roof at night. Running back and forth, foot steps, dropping something heavy sounds, which is weird because we are on the second and top floor. We have been arguing with the neighbors who say we are making too much noise during "quiet hours of 10:30-6 AM" which we definitely don't. I am always sleeping due to medical school and my boyfriend stays up late but always by himself. We don't have a TV, so he just reads or looks stuff up on his phone, he doesn't stomp around or move furniture. So I always thought it was weird that it sounds like people are walking above us or running or whatever it is. I chalked it up to trees hitting the rooftop and what not.

So these 'kids' are on the roof somehow, don't know how they could've even gotten up there. They get on their hands and knees and are moving on top of this lady's roof. It looks like they may have been scratching at it or digging at it but I could see their black eyes in contrast to their skin with their heads cranked up straight watching me through my window of my balcony door. They were both looking right at me which was extremely unnerving. I didn't even know WTF was happening or why. I knew I had to get some kind of proof of what was happening but I was terrified to take my eyes off them and lose them from view. I knew my phone was plugged into the charger in the kitchen and something in my head said to me, not in my voice, "don't move, you may not like where you see me next." Like someone was talking to me in my mind. It scared me so much I felt like my heart was going to explode. I wished someone other than my cat was there so I could validate what I saw and ask them to bring me my phone so I didn't lose sight of them. But the phone is important and I must prove I'm not crazy. I broke our staring match and ran to the kitchen, just breaking the gaze eased a bit of the terror but I was still shaking. I grabbed my phone and went back to the window. They stood up in unison, I pulled up my camera and snapped but the flash reflected on my window and it was a sh*tty nothing picture. I think it upset them. I was trying to photograph them and again they started disappearing. Like I said earlier dematerializing or something because you could see like pieces of them all fading sporadically lessening into them not being there at all!

I continued looking at the roof, the balconies, even down below and couldn't see anything or anyone. My neighbor was still on the phone at the door, her husband or significant other or male roommate was there with her and she was pointing up and talking to either him or whoever was on the phone. She pointed outside and stomped her foot. He was shaking his head in what seemed like disbelief and she passed him the phone and left my line of sight into her condo. I wanted to go out on my balcony but I was still very afraid. I felt wrong, sick to my stomach from the intensity of the experience. I told my boyfriend about it when he came home and he was very freaked out. He has never seen me get upset to literal tears about anything and knows I am a die-hard skeptic of aliens, ghosts, and anything paranormal. I dismiss every photo or video as a hoax and just think with everything anyone can do technology wise today there has to be a reasonable explanation. It shook me to my core and I wish the story ends there.

The next night I was smoking on my balcony. This was last night. It was earlier than before and this time my boyfriend was home. I felt creeped out, but OK to go out with him within screams reach, so I was going to have a quick cigarette before bed. I was in a robe and slippers, and this time I turned my light on. I sat down and lit my cigarette with the balcony door still open. I took a long drag and exhaled and heard two coughs somewhere above me. Holy sh*t. I knew exactly what it was. I froze and a deep sense of dread boiled up, just like the night before. I threw my cigarette and almost tripped sliding inside the open door. I locked it immediately, at which point my cat began freaking out because he hates being locked out and followed me outside. He was going bananas. Screaming pathetically and frantically I gave in and opened the door. He bolted inside and I slid it closed and locked it again. I kept the light on and called my boyfriend over. "They are on the f*cking roof!" I said, and we both got quiet. We heard footsteps above us and his eyes got big. We stood there silent and still just listening. They sounded like they were heading toward our front door. I ran over to it to double lock it using the top lock which we always leave open.

As soon as I touched it I felt this cold creeping depressing sadness come over me like a wave. And there it was...knock, knock, knock. They were waiting for ME to open my door. I meekly said "who's there?" Timid and way less courageous sounding than I would've liked. That voice from the prior night, that dead lifeless voice was being directed at me, "ma'am you have to let us in, please help us?" I didn't say anything. I wished my door had a peephole but it doesn't. So I started backing away...knock knock knock. My boyfriend came up behind me and gave me his phone. He said, "we have to get a picture or no one will believe this" softly in my ear. I shook my head knowing he was right and started to approach the door again, hoping to sneak a photo through the high window to the right of the door. When I was just a few steps away the taller one lifted her face up to the f*cking window and shook her head in a disapproving 'no.' The blinds were mostly down but I could see her face almost entirely with the exception of her lips and chin. Those big black eyes with absolutely no white anywhere. They we're huge! Like too big to be human eyes. And there was no way she could reach my window, she had to be floating there to look in, which made me really confused and scared. I had my camera up and ready and snapped the picture without flash, and when I looked at it SHE WASNT IN IT! I'M SERIOUS! She should've been. I snapped it while she was there. She was still there after I took it, but she wasn't in the f*cking picture! I looked back at her soulless creepy face and she somehow smiled without smiling like 'ha ha you can't prove this happened.' I almost wanted to open the door and be like WTF are you? And that's when it happened again, and my boyfriend saw it too. She just slowly fell apart into nothingness and vanished! The heaviness lifted and my boyfriend and I were floored! He asked if we should open the door and look? He asked if I got the picture. I gave him the phone to see for himself. He was like no way! What the Hell?

I don't know what they are but there is a reason there are no pictures of them that are real. They can't be photographed. Does that mean they exist in another dimension? Or they are dead? Or vampires? I never would have believed anyone if I heard my story from anyone else. If it didn't happen to me there would be no way I'd give it the time of day. But it did happen to me, and I'm really scared it's going to keep happening, or worse. What do I do? I am so grateful to be alive but the terror I felt around these girls really has me on edge. I am so scared of going out on my balcony or even leaving my house at night or going to my house. It doesn't feel safe, and I have no way to legitimize what happened or do anything about it. I want answers. I want to know what they are. I want to ask them if I see them again but it's like I can't even speak around them. I am just almost completely immobilized. How does someone combat something like this? It's like something from a Stephen King novel but it actually happened. I feel like they are really p*ssed that I tried to take pictures of them and I don't know what is going to happen next if anything, but I had to get it out somehow because it is real, it does exist, and it's changed everything I've ever thought about paranormal experiences. So scared. I hope they don't ever come back, but I know from hearing things at night they may be here more often than I'd like to believe and whether I see them or not, they are there, and I have no way to prove it. Really frustrating and soul shaking. Anyone help? Answers? Advice? What are they what do they want? Has this happened to anyone else or something similar? IH

NOTE: The original account was posted in November 2017. I checked the thread continuously for several months and it seems that this witness didn't have any further contact with these entities. Your thoughts? Lon

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Bigfoot / Military: Growls & Rocks Thrown at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma

“I was stationed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma for two years, and while I was on field guard duty on a line of self-propelled Howitzers. At approximately 03:30 hrs I was approaching the east end of said line, I was growled at and had a softball sized rock thrown at me when I tried to get whomever it was to identify who they were. I was growled at again so loud and deep that on top of my body vibrating. I could feel my M16A1 weapon vibrating as well. While backing up slowly to get to the tent, to find the other guard to make sure he was okay, and to report the incident to the Commander of the relief. The other guard experienced a similar encounter. We talked it over and decided not to. We didn't want to have them think that we were crazy.” MB

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Ft. Lewis Bigfoot Tracks

I was stationed there (Ft. Lewis, WA) many years ago. We were set up in the woods, deployed, with tents adjacent to Highway 7. I was on guard duty that night and didn't get relief, FUBAR, someone forgot.

Anyway, I needed to go to the bathroom and decided to go off into the woods with my shovel. There was snow on the ground and as I went by our tent into the woods, there were large footprints that walked up through the snow and the berry runners (like small blackberry plants, close to ground). The footprints walked up to the tent, then went back into the woods.

Anyway, the footprints had toe prints. They were not the so called "Mickey Mouse" overboots they gave us.

There are a lot of woods there. They did live fire exercises, at least when I was there, shooting artillery into the hillside (we were actually camped one time right up from that hillside and we were quite alarmed to be camped there, you never know if someone miscalculates where a shell ends up landing!

I can't tell you what I saw. I can only speculate. I was really into Bigfoot for a long time before that and was pretty familiar with the footprint casts and such that have been made. PP

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Tall Gray Hairy Biped Observed in Michigan Woods

I recently found the following account:

I feel it's just an obligation to say that I am a skeptic. I've been trying to convince myself I didn't see a large, hairy, humanoid thing in in the woods all those years ago; but I did.

This was somewhere around the mid-2000's when I was in middle school. I was staying at a friend's house for the night in the backwoods of Michigan. For privacy we'll say his name is J.

Immediately behind J's house was a few acres of woods that led to a lake. If you went straight back into the woods from his backyard, there was a path that went straight to the lake, which was intersected at 90 degrees by another path about halfway to the lake. Probably a quarter mile from the backyard to the lake. If you went straight down the path from the backyard, then turned left at the intersection, the path was a downhill grade, followed by a flat portion, followed by an uphill grade, which eventually ran into a two lane country road, one of those 55 mph ones that goes on for miles with not so much one or two houses for miles.

It was late in the afternoon and the sun was just starting to set. We, being middle school boys, were running around the woods all afternoon playing with fake guns and stuff. Good times. Absolutely nothing leading up to this point was strange. No weird, eerie feelings. No odd, unidentified sounds. No paranoia or ghost stories prior to playing in the woods. Just two kids running around having a great time outside.

Well, we were basically pretending we were Army guys. At one point, J decided to run off saying something about flanking the enemy. He dashes off to my left. I started creeping through the woods pretending to shoot down bad guys as a went.

I found myself standing at the intersection described earlier. Straight forward was towards the lake. To the left was the path that went down, then back up to the road. I was standing looking diagonally between the two paths, when I hear some faint sound slightly off to my right, towards the lake.

What I saw made my whole body tingle, in the worst possible way. About 50 feet, maybe more, maybe less, towards the lake and just behind a tree, I see this face and shoulder/arm peeking around it. The most terrifying part was that it was probably two feet or more higher than you'd expect a humans head to be. Before I could properly observe the face, which was undoubtedly hairy, it snapped back behind the tree as if it realized I could see it.

The color of the figure I saw was light grey, like your average cement sidewalk. Because of that I was unsure of what it was. My first couple thoughts were sheer confusion and fear. Then, in my frozen state, I remembered that J was wearing a shirt almost exactly that shade of grey. I tried whisper-shouting his name towards the now hidden figure. I called out maybe two or three times when off about 50 feet behind me and to my left, down the path leading towards the road, J emerged from the thicker trees. This was the complete opposite direction from the figure I saw, and there's no way he could have sneaked around me in that short of a time frame. To further drive the point home, it was Fall, and the ground was covered in layers of dry, dead deciduous leaves. The crunch from the leaves was very distinct and you couldn't avoid it.

Anyways, J had heard me call out, and from just down the slight decline, he looked up and asked what was going on. I pointed off into the trees where I had seen the figure and said at normal volume "I saw something big over there!"

As soon as I finished that sentence, I mean the very second, whatever I had seen started stomping off towards the road, parallel to the path we were on but probably 50-100 feet deeper in the woods. Woods which were too think to see anything at that distance.

For some God forsaken reason, we tried to run after it. J and I were athletic. As athletic as 6th or 7th graders could be. We played tons of sports and we're fast kids. We were hauling ass down the path parallel to the beast, as fast as we could sprint, and yet it was absolutely smoking us. The road, if I remember correctly, was a solid quarter mile from the intersection of the two paths. We had maybe just finished running down the downhill portion when this monster was already to the road. And believe it or not, we could tell where it was from the crunching leaves, and you could here its massive footsteps clear as day, even while running.

When we realized it was getting to the road, we also realized a car was coming. I sh*t you not, as soon as the crunching leaves stopped and the thing stepped out onto the road, the car SLAMMED on its brakes and pounded on the horn. Its tires screeched for a solid three to four seconds at least. When the car finally stopped we heard the leaves start crunching on the other side of the road, and then the car SLAMMED on the gas, peeled out again and took off like a bat out of Hell.

Keep in mind we could only hear all of this. We didn't see the car so there's no way we could ever track the person down to ask what they saw, but I wouldn't be surprised if their story is out there on the internet somewhere; about the time they almost turned a Bigfoot into roadkill.

Anyways, we finally made it to the road and crossed to the other side. On that side, it was mostly flat woods as far as the eye could see. Nothing but trees, trees, and more trees. No sight nor sound of the beast. We waited for a bit then went back home.

Was it a Bigfoot for sure? I can't say. But what I do know is that it was tall, hairy, grey, and 100% bipedal. There was absolutely no mistaking the sound of it running. But I'm almost sure this thing was sprinting. The speed at which it reached the road was utterly unbelievable. It ran a quarter mile in probably close to 20 seconds. And trust me, I understand how absurd that is. TC

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'More Than One' Bigfoot Killed at Ft. Lewis, Washington

“There are reports of similar encounters... that happened at Ft. Lewis in Washington state. A friend of mine was stationed there with the Stryker Brigade many years ago, and told me that soldiers have supposedly killed more than one Bigfoot during night maneuvers over the years. Not while he was stationed there. This was told to him by an older NCO. He said that there had allegedly been encounters with the critters since the base opened. It's a massive place and heavily wooded, and that the Bigfoot travel through the eastern part of the base, according to the NCO he talked to.” AW

NOTE: I have reported about encounters at Ft. Lewis for quite a while:

Military Personnel Bigfoot Encounters
Bigfoot vs. Military Reports

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I Thought It Was A Huge Gorilla

September 2012 - Hunting Valley, Ohio: “I ran into one in September of 2012 in Hunting Valley Ohio while visiting my home from Arizona. My three dogs saw it as well. I thought it was a huge gorilla at the time. It stayed with us every night until we left in February. My family thought I was seeing things. A friend of mine also saw it one night and it was funny how he had a rough time explaining to me what he saw. It scared the daylights out of my dogs. One of them tried to jump into my arms and she is bigger than I am.” PL

Harrowing 'Black Eyed Kids' Incidents

I'm a believer in many things paranormal, with BEKs being one of the stories I thought was urban legend until early this morning. I'm the assistant manager of the Pizza Hut in my town and my GM has me on the late night shift so he doesn't have to anymore. It was a little after 2am and around that time is when the external lights of the building cut off, leaving the parking lot almost pitch black. The driver and I were in the very back of the store finishing up dough prep and dishes as we normally do. I like to say that I am attuned to the paranormal since I have witnessed many things throughout my 21 years.

While we were in a conversation about sales and what to prep, I started to feel unnerved. I ignored it due to anxiety and stressing over a homeless man making a scene a couple hours prior to close. But the feeling didn't go away, so I made a patrol around the restaurant. I looked out of the front doors first since the highway out front gives off a little bit of light, but there was nothing. I looked out the windows in the dining room, but still nothing. It wasn't until I decided to look out the drive through window that I saw it. Standing about 5 yards away from the window was a girl in a dress, barely illuminated by the lights that were still cooling down outside. She was pale and had hair that fell just past her shoulders. As an adult my first thought was "What is that kid doing out in 34°F weather in the pouring rain?" But then our eyes met and I saw that her's were a jet black color. I recoiled from the window and ran over to the safe to get my phone out of it. We have to keep our phones locked up during business hours and I don't have to have my phone glued to me 24/7, so I normally just leave it in there until I need it. By the time I got it out and ran back to the drive thru she wasn't there and I didn't see her again for the entire time we were there. I know the stories say they come to the doors of homes in tried to get in in as long as you don't invite them in your fine, but she just stood there and then vanished.

I am still on edge from the whole situation. The believer of the paranormal in me also makes me wonder if it could have been a spirit, which scares me more. My first encounter with an entity was one that portrayed itself as a child, so who knows. I just had to post my story somewhere. My girlfriend thinks I'm crazy and my general manager, who also believes in things such as this, is now freaking out. NA

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I was seventeen when this happened. At the time of writing this, I am nineteen almost twenty. I was working at an indoor water park that will be referred to as the Puddle. I was a lifeguard and was the last one heading home late one night. I was soaking wet and freezing despite it being around eighty degrees out. I got into my car and locked it, pulling my phone out for some music. I read a couple messages and got distracted. Suddenly there was a tap on my window. I looked up and saw a couple of kids staring at me. I rolled the window down just enough to hear them clearly. “What's up guys? Are you lost?” I asked in a polite tone. They didn't really respond. They didn't move at all. Finally, the smaller child spoke. And as he did, my heart dropped. The voice that came from this child's mouth was deeper than my own. It was so deep that it sounded like Satan himself spoke to me. “We just need a ride home. Could you let us in and take us there?” I couldn't move. I was frozen in fear. “Come on mister, just open the door” it demanded, knocking again. As they were knocking a car's headlights illuminated their faces. They had voids where their eyes should be. When they saw my look of horror, they grinned and started pounding so hard on my window that I thought it'd break. I kept trying to start my car but it wouldn't. Finally, one of the housekeepers of the hotel the Puddle was built around came out to throw the trash away. I heard them walking and went to warn them about the kids. When I looked up, they were gone.

Now, this could have been a hallucination brought on by the amount of stress I went through. But, it was very real for me. Anyway, my car ended up starting and I made it home in record time. Like I said, not the scariest thing that's happened to me, but it's up there. Let's just hope they don't find me again. NR

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I have one experience with black eyed kids. I was on vacation with my parents a long time ago (was still a kid myself) and it was very late at night. I had just gotten back to the hotel but wanted to go back downstairs and kill some time in the arcade and decided to take the elevator. What happened next was one of the most confusing, terrifying experiences of my life. I get in and go down and in the elevator as it gets closer to the bottom floor I suddenly feel terror I've never felt before in my life, the feeling was so specific. The door opens and standing in front of me are 2 kids with huge pitch black eyes staring at me. One kid looked a bit older than the other and was taller, they were both wearing some average looking clothes. They said nothing but they were beyond threatening. I mean I would have rather the door opened to someone holding a gun to my face than these creatures with the feeling they gave off. I was in shock for a second and immediately closed the door and got back up as fast as I could. My little brain was a mix of traumatized and highly confused at what happened. Needless to say I never used the elevator alone or went into the hotel arcade late at night ever again.

This happened before I even knew that other people encountered them, didn't even have decent internet at the time. I never saw one outside of a dream ever again that usually presented itself as a young girl with long black hair and large fang like teeth. IF

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Black Humanoid Encountered in DC Suburbs

This happened about 4 years ago. To this day I keep wondering what happened to come across my sister, it was winter time here in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. I live with my family in a neighborhood not far from Washington DC (Dale City) so it's not to say we're in the middle of nowhere. Although, our home is very close to a few decently large wooded parks. One night I was at my then-girlfriend's place up near the city, I got a phone call from my sister around 7pm, which in winter time makes it pretty much night time here. I didn't think anything of it, usually she calls me for random things she needs my insight on. A bit about my sister, ever since she was little she loved horror movies, growing up with her I can tell you first hand that she isn't easily scared, she loves the paranormal.

Alright, so back to the call. I picked up the phone and first thing I realized was her voice breaking up, she was sobbing and could barely talk clearly. Instantly my mind started rushing with horrible thoughts about what could of happened, she kept telling me to come home, as soon as possible. I asked her why? Is everything okay? She wouldn't say, she just kept asking me to come home. Obviously I got in my car and rushed home. The neighborhood is very dim, there aren't many lights, only the few solar powered garden lamps from surrounding homes. As soon as I got home I ran inside, asked her again what happened? And she finally started explaining. About half an hour before she called me, she went outside to grab a few things from her car, again, it was dark out but when the car is unlocked the headlights turn on. When she opened the door to the car, the light was shining from the driveway to the roof of the garage, she noticed it first from inside the car. A short, bipedal, human looking thing, standing on 2 jet-black muscular legs. At first she said she thought it was a raccoon but this would have been obvious to her. But this thing, it scared her to the point of crying, while she was in the car. Her view was obstructed from the rest of the creature, which was crouching, and from what she described, it was scratching at something on the roof. Trying to get in? Maybe, but she wasn't going to stick around to find out. She got out of the car pretending to not have spotted it, this thing...it acted in a seemingly intelligent way. She thought "maybe if I act as if I didn't see it, it will just stay up there and not try to attack or anything" but as she walked behind the car, she heard it stand up right. Startled, she looked directly at it, the whole description she told me was as follows:

-Jet black, smooth dolphin skin like legs and arms.

-5 digit hands and no claws

-Dreadful looking, very dirty fur/hair? Covering it's head/body.

The face, is what was disturbing. The face had 2 shining yellow eyes that glowed from the car's headlights, no nose, just 2 slits. And a very wide mouth with no lips.

She took off when she made eye contact. As soon as she was indoors she called 911 and an officer was dispatched to our house. He looked around back and tried to see if there was any damage or sign of someone climbing the roof, no footprints, no damage. It was all in place. The officer just told us to lock the doors and windows and left. It's not like my sister to be terrified to the point of calling the police. Whatever this thing was though, I can only imagine what it was actually like to witness something like it in real life. To this day, both me and her get extremely uneasy arriving home after dark. X

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UFO and a Smashed Window

“I have a little story time. I don't know if it’s much but it’s pretty scary. So one night, my friends and I were having a sleepover and we were playing hide n' seek in the dark. I was going to be the seeker and I was counting, when the floor started to shake at a very fast rate and my friends window shattered all over the floor. We were all extremely scared and terrified. When we looked out the window, there was a very bright purple streak in the sky with a silver spaceship-looking thing in the sky and we all seen it. When we ran to the parents in the house, they didn’t feel the ground shake and didn’t see the “UFO” we saw. All we had was a shattered window. We all never spoke about this since it happened.” MT

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Stopped by Police After UFO Sighting

“So when my mom was younger she and her ex were leaving his weekend cottage which was on a hill and there were no houses around, just woods. So they were about to leave and they were putting on their helmets when they saw a huge UFO literally right above that cottage. She said it looked like it was about to land on the roof. It doesn't sound realistic I know, but, hey, my mom's not a liar. So they sat on the motorcycle and stormed off. They were soon stopped by some police officers and they thought it was because their driving was too fast but the officers didn't say anything about the driving, instead, they asked if they saw anything, what were they doing there... they had to show their ID etc. But they haven't said anything about the UFO. When they let them go, they met with their friends and told them what happened, nobody would believe them and they thought they were crazy.” DI

Unknown Humanoid Encountered at Indiana Lake

I recently came across the following account:

One evening back in high school, a couple of friends and myself drove out to a very rural spot to get stoned and hang out. There wasn’t a lot to do in my small hometown in rural Indiana, so these “country cruises,” as we called them, to random locations was normally the highlight of our weekend. There were lots of these spots that we frequented, some more secluded then others.

We decided to go to a spot known as “Green Valley.” It was a public lake and fishing area, so it technically closed at dark. Not that it mattered because there isn’t a gate, and cops rarely came there. Plus there is a lot of Jeep trails that lead back into the woods, so if you’re in a 4 wheel drive vehicle, (which we were) it is fairly easy to find a spot to park and be hidden from view.

By the time we had arrived it was nearly dark. So we pulled into the main area of the lake, drove around the back side, and entered the woods via Jeep trail. It had been raining a few days before. The trails were muddy even without rain, and had deep ruts in some spots from past visitors who were there “mudding.” (Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like, we drove big trucks and jeeps through mud pits in the attempt to get the vehicle as dirty as possible. Like I said VERY small town). We didn’t want to get stuck, so we stayed relatively close to the entrance of the trail.

We drove back far enough to be hidden from view, killed the Jeep, turned on the radio, and proceeded to roll up a few joints. My two girlfriends and I smoked and talked and laughed about meaningless random things. We were having a good time, when suddenly something hit the hood of my Jeep. Not loudly, but enough to make me look in the direction of the noise. I rolled the window down, but didn’t hear or see anything, and my friends seemed to not notice.

I continued our conversation when a few moments later another small ting sound came. This time on the windshield, and my friends heard it as well. After they questioned what the noise was, I decided to be the brave one and investigate. I assumed it was most likely acorns or walnuts falling from the trees overhead. I turned on the headlights, opened the door, and stepped out. After looking at the hood of my Jeep, I noticed a small grey rock lodged near the windshield wipers. I picked it up and showed them. We immediately recognized the rock. The front parking lot of the lake was made entirely of them.

I quickly climbed back into my Jeep and rolled up the window. Assuming someone was messing with us, we decided it was time to pack it up and head out. (Lots of meth heads around the area, and we were not trying to get robbed or stabbed in the woods by one). I started the Jeep, turned off the radio, (I know I’m not the only one who turns down the car radio when treacherous situations arise) and began to carefully navigate down the short trail towards the back of the lake.

All of sudden we were barraged with rocks, much larger than the initial ones. All hitting the driver's side of my vehicle. I would have been pissed but right as I let out my initial “What the f*ck?!” We heard a sound I’ll never forget. I’ll never do the sound justice, as it’s almost impossible to explain. It was a loud “roar.” The only thing that’s ever came remotely close to it for me, was when I heard a male lion roar at a feline sanctuary I visited with my husband years later. It was full of base, and lasted roughly 7 seconds or so. It was also fairly close.

It was time to get the hell out of there. I floored it.

We had almost reached the trail entrance and I was driving way too fast, when suddenly something slammed into the side of my Jeep. Hard enough to make me fishtail a bit, followed by the same sound we heard the first time, only higher pitched. Almost like it had been injured. I slammed on the breaks, and the typical panicked conversation began between us. You know the one. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? DID WE HIT A DEER? THAT WASN'T A DEER! OH SHIT! LETS GO!

I quickly continued down the trail and was finally in view of the lake, when my friend in the backseat started screaming, “LOOK! LOOK!” My friend in the front seat and I looked out of my driver's side window to see a “man” running through the woods towards the lake. I only say man because it most definitely was on two legs, and had the shape of a person. Only this person was moving at an unnatural speed through deep mud and trees and thorn bushes. And their proportions seemed to be greatly off. Longer arms and legs with an average torso.

We watched in silence as the man reached the edge of the lake, bent over and began running on “all fours” using his hands, and leaped into the water. This was early October and while it wasn’t freezing, the water was definitely ice cold.

We got the hell out of there. Drove 70 mph on the back roads until we reached town. At the first gas station we pulled over and got out of the Jeep. There was a small dent near the back end on the drivers side. I lied to my parents and said I had backed into a pole. We decided it was best to not tell anyone, as we didn’t want to sound insane. But every time I looked at the dent, I thought about it.

I went back to that area multiple times during high school. Never saw anything. But through the years I heard of others seeing peculiar things there, including one story of a group of kids seeing a man shoot himself while sitting in his car, went to call the cops and came back to find nothing. BF

NOTE: The location where the witness states this occurred was Green Valley Mine Pond, Sugar Creek Township, IN. It's located in west central Indiana (Vigo County) near the border with Illinois. Was this a Bigfoot or another undetermined humanoid? Lon

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Red Eyes In My Window!

“I had, what I thought, a Bigfoot walk up to my window when I was in 5th grade in the mid-1960s. It had glowing red eyes. I didn’t know what it was back then but I never forgot the eyes and the way it walked or glided. It was jet black too. Shadow man? We thought our home was haunted. We lived in many homes where we had “peeping toms” now I know. I’ve had other encounters.” DD

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Hog As Big As A Car!

“About 15 years ago (in 2001), my parents were driving on an old Indian trail that went up over the mountain from Cades Cove in Tennessee. They saw a giant hog that they described as being as big as a car! Needless to say, they didn't get out to take a selfie with it.” SM

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Lost Doll / Bright Light

“I believe in alien abduction because of what happened to me when I was little. When I was very small, young enough to barely remember, I was in bed, and I lost my doll. I knew that I'd had it with me earlier that night. I got out of bed and went looking for it. I saw it on my front porch. When I went to pick it up, I saw a bright white light, and I don't remember anything after that. I woke up the next morning in my bed, and didn't remember until much later in life. Every once in a while, there would be a bright white light outside my window, and I knew it was a symbol for me to come outside. So I would. For years and years, I thought these were only dreams. Until recently when I was talking to my mother. She told me that there was a night where she had put me to bed, and went to check on me but couldn't find me. She looked all over the house, and finally, on the front porch, where she found me with my doll, and put me back into bed. I was sound asleep.” SD

Hunter Recalls His Bigfoot Close Encounter

“I have to say that for most of my life I hiked and hunted deer and never encountered anything like a Bigfoot or Dogman or anything really. I've seen bear, deer, foxes; all manner of skittish critters, but never found a sign or footprint or seen one. Then in 1993, I had a close personal friend visit me. He and I were having a good time catching up and somehow the subject of Bigfoot came up. I told him I didn't believe in it and I'd been all over in what was supposed to be Bigfoot hot spots and ain't seen a damn thing. That it was all a bunch of hooey. He then gets all serious and sullen-like and I'm looking at him as he tells me of his encounter with a Bigfoot.

He said the one he saw was down in Georgia while he was hunting. He was going to position himself in an area where timber had been harvested the year or two before because the old logging roads were still open and the weeds had grown high and provided cover and food for them. He located a snag of tree tops that had be left behind from the logging operation. He got up in there as it provided him with a good cover spot and afforded him a very clear line of site down these old logging roads.

So he settled himself in. It was about 3:00 in the afternoon, so he poured himself a cup of coffee and took out a snack bar as he relaxed a bit before he needed to get serious about being all stealthy. He said he finished eating the snack bar and was about to light a cigarette when he noticed what appeared to be a man come out of the the tall weeds who started looking around at the ground like it was looking for tracks. He also noticed that while it had the correct features for a human, two arms, legs and one head that the head seemed odd. He described it as not having a discernible neck and the Trapezium muscles looked like they went up to where its ears should be on a normal person. He sort of thought that was odd, but at this point he was still under the impression that this was just another hunter and he was bundled up as it was in the mid-thirties. So my buddy doesn't really concern himself too much with it, the guy is just looking about, and he doesn't see any sign of a gun on him. He could be out scouting or something.

Then he notices that he suddenly has crossed the road and gone into the tall weeds. Now they are brown as this is late in the season and right after Christmas but they provide some very good cover. Now my buddy is a little concerned because there's what he believes is a human right in the immediate area he's hunting, and take my word for it, nothing will upset a hunter more if someone is messing up his hunt. While this guy isn't right there, he could be hit by a bullet. My buddy isn't in his normal tree stand shooting downward, he's on the ground and shooting level in an area that's been clear cut. Now at this point my buddy is trying to decide if he needs to relocate, just leave or what, because it was going to be time for the deer up in here to be headed back into the woods and if he's going to get a good shot at them then he needs to be ready and he can't see where that damn guy went.

Then suddenly he hears some kind of commotion coming from in the weeds. He's not sure what it is but he can hear a quick cry and grunt-like noise. Then he sees at least twenty deer bust out of the brush like mad. He said they were running like the very devil was after them. Of course, all he had in his hand was his coffee cup and by the time he threw it down grabbed his rifle all the deer were gone. "if that SOB comes out, I'm going to have a word of prayer with him." He was pissed. Anyway he didn't have long to wait. All of sudden he heard something coming through the weeds and he he was watching to see where he came out. Mind you he still had his rifle up and was scanning up and down the the road nearest where he heard the noises.

Just then, out he popped. Only now the "man" was a good deal closer and looked a lot bigger. Then he realized that this guy was wearing a fur coat and damn if he didn't have a deer over his shoulder. Not just a small deer but a pretty darn good size female. he assumed it was a female because he didn't see a rack on it. Now when it came out he is on the left of it, and the deer is over its left shoulder, so he can't see it's face. Anyway just as he's about to stand up and call to him the damn thing turned to the left, and when he did he said he thought he was seeing things. It was no man, and it looked around like it was making sure it was alone. He said he almost messed up his pants because the thing looked right at him and the pile he was in and then back the other way again. When it did he looked through his scope and got a great look at it. It wasn't an ape, but it looked like it had larger than human feature, a very prominent brow ridge and a flat nose. He said it looked like it was covered in fuzz, or very short hair. At least it didn't look like skin. In a flash he realized he could take it and he only had a couple seconds to really make up his mind to shoot or not.

Now right or wrong he opted not to shoot unless it came after him, which it didn't. But right as he's sort of relaxed this thing let out a scream that scared the hell out of him. Now, mind you, it's standing only about fifty feet from him and he's looking at it threw a rifle scope and it just let out a blood curling scream. He watched it look up and down the roads both ways. Then quick as a flash it took off carrying a whole deer like it was nothing. According to him the deer was apparently dead as it made no movement or effort to get away as it held it, and in seconds it was gone.

Now I know this story sounds an awful lot like many of stories here on the internet, but all I can really tell you is this story resounds with me. I knew this fellow and when you know someone, I mean really know them, you know when they are messing with you and when they aren't. I could clearly see this wasn't a joking matter to him. He was dead serious. He and I had hunted together. He used to teach me tracking and some survival techniques and we were friends. He never reneged on the story and when I would go hiking or hunting I started paying a little more attention to things and when I did it was like magic. I started seeing things I'd seen before but now they seemed to make sense. I believe there is a big old primate like thing in the woods. I have never found a track, or seen one and I haven't really found anything that I can point to and say, "See this right here? There is your proof." However, I do get out and I'm always looking.

Now, as for my buddy. God love him. He was killed a few years ago in an unfortunate freak accident at work. But just that preceding weekend he and I had spoken on the phone and I guess we spent a good hour and a half talking, and as it happened I asked him about the Bigfoot again and he told me. He'd quit hunting years ago. He didn't say if it was because of seeing the Bigfoot, but I sort of got the impression it was. So I look for it whenever I get the chance to get out and look. I don't want to offend anyone, but I'd like to say that I would like to shoot one and bring it in for a real scientist and verify that they are real. Not so much for me, but for my friend who told me about him seeing it. Sort of to honor him. KP