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I slowed down to a crawl on this back road, and when I did there were these two kids on the road. Now I try to be a good natured redneck, so I stopped to see what they were doing, and if they needed help. I'd heard these stores growing up about words stuff happening on this road. Everything from ghost lights to even a woman who apparently asks for a ride and screams if you say yes before disappearing. But this, this was different. I stopped and asked these kids if they were okay. I mean it's summer and maybe they'd been up riding four wheelers or something, and they got wrecked or broke down or whatever. One kid asked for a ride, but his voice was just a don't know weird too calm, and he didn't make eye contact either. I looked at the other. I live in the deep south where the mosquito is the state bird, and the other kid was just covered in mosquitoes, didn't swap them or anything. So I finally asked him, why are you looking down like that man? He then looks up and I swear to you that his eyes are black as coal. I stomped the gas as hard as I could, soaring up the hill, barely making the curve. They both stared at me as I zipped up the road, fleeing gravel and dust everywhere. I got out of there as quickly as I could and I didn't sleep very well at night.

I just got back home from shopping and was parking my car. I was just about to open my door when for some reason I had an off feeling. I looked to my left and I saw a woman with a hood standing a few feet away from me. When she saw me she stopped walking towards me and backed up a few steps. I pretended to look through my purse, hoping that she would know that I'd seen her and that she would leave. She then went and hid behind my truck so I couldn't see her any longer. My car doors are locked but I didn't know what side that she was on. I waited for about two more minutes and then I saw her run a few feet to the corner and hide beside her house. I kept looking back and kept seeing her peek her head out to see if I had got out of the car yet. I called my dad and I asked if he could come to the car and help me walk home. He came running down the street with a bat and the woman left running them all of the story. It's always be aware of your surroundings if I didn't look to my left I would have been robbed. Or maybe even worse also I now carry something with me in my hand anytime that I'm getting out of a car every day at Sierra. I'll find top brand apparel, footwear and gear for 20% to 60% less than department and specialty store prices. And during clearance time at Sierra those incredible prices are 40 divided by 2.5

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And I got this, I don't know like compulsion or a kind of feeling that I never felt before. I stood up, jumped over the railing and began running toward the train tracks. I remember running with a focus skull in intent but still thinking to myself, why am I doing this? I think I heard my friends yelling behind me but listening to them did not get me up the stony hill any faster and that thought just fell by the wayside. I remember scrambling up a rocks on all fours and my fingertips just gently dancing across the stone. I made it to the middle of the tracks and stared up at this star. My two friends came running up behind me after some time and they were out of breath. They asked what I'm doing. I don't really have a response and I'm just staring. I don't even think that I turned my head to be honest. I was just fascinated by this thing. I don't want to say that I was paralyzed but I was certainly in fault and compelled to just keep stirring. I remember raising my hand to point at the star and before my finger could finish pointing at it in a straight line, the craft was suddenly above us. And it was strange too. It wasn't as if this thing went from being a shooting star or a media tight deal and zipped across the sky nor did it teleport.

It moved from point at point B just so quickly and it was maybe 20 feet, 30 feet above us. There were no windows or lights. It was a solid, quick silver tight disc that appeared to have a shifting surface. It did not disrupt the air like a helicopter. There was no dust from the crushed rocks or shaking of the nearby trees or anything. It was just very far away and then suddenly very close. I remember being startled that there wasn't a gust of air or screeching of breaks or some kind of thrusters to make it stop. It was really odd. One friend started shaking his head and started walking away with his arm straight down at his sides and his head facing forward and away and saying this is not real I am dreaming this cannot be real and walked back to the house and just never talked about it again near the friend and I stood there for it what felt like five seconds but also five minutes I said something to the effect if I want to believe it's not real but a mean is right there. We exchanged just very basic disbelief statements that came out very calmly and logically but in hindsight were indicative of some type of shock I guess. The craft didn't seem to do anything. We didn't see any aliens. We weren't abducted as far as I know and very fortunately we weren't on any drugs. I think I would have lost my mind

completely had we been tripping or something but it just sits with me where because it's a rather uneventful encounter. Like nothing really happened but also we saw a ship that was not from this world. I mean how could it be? We don't even have drones like this today and it's like 22 years later. It had some type of interest in us or it never would have come close to us I guess but all it did was leave. No attractor beams, no searing lights, no radiation burns or missing organs or anything. Maybe I adjusted high hopes that seeing a craft this closed meant the aliens and answering all the world's questions or whatever was about to happen but it still sits really strangely with me all this time later. Somewhere between the holy cow feeling and just a general arc of fulfillment. I consider myself lucky and blessed to have witnessed this but again you know no green men no army response no f-minus 15 screeching across the sky or anything it just seemed to stop by to say hi to then was gone. It's such a weird experience that I still don't know how to process something like this. There's just no way to wrap this up into a neat little bow you know? It's just well strange. This episode is brought to you by FX The Beauty

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crazy or more likely making it up. And I have a reputation for not being a liar making things up. I hate being called a liar in fact and have went out of my way in my life to be as honest as I can. If not sometimes too honest I suppose but because I just hate being called a liar even if I'm actually lying in this case by neglecting to tell it or when someone asks me if I've ever had any supernatural experiences. I just say no but honestly I have. I just don't want people to think that I'm crazy or lying but it's been years since this happened and I just have to tell someone. So here I am. Also for what it's worth I'm not religious by any means. I'd say that I'm agnostic if anything. I don't really believe in the supernatural but I also don't say that it's impossible as I don't know everything. Far from it in fact. But this story, this story doesn't help. I don't believe in ghost stories for the most part, UFO, etc. I'm very skeptical that stuff and believe that there are explanations that are far less exciting than people would like to believe. But this is something that I've experienced that I cannot explain and it still bothers me to this day when I think of it. I often have nightmares about it too. So there's some backstory first.

My mother and little sister were going to visit my grandparents. They lived near this little town called Eminence Missouri. About 30 minutes south. I think south of the town. Deep in the mountains. In any case, it wasn't super super remote. There were neighbors a few miles away in such. There were hillbilly types as you can imagine. It's deep in the Ozarks in Missouri. So yeah, lots of missing teeth in math and crazy old mountain folk. If you've been in the Missouri hills, then you know what I mean. We were staying in a camper about 200 of sofa from the grandparents' house, my mom, sister and I. One day, a few hours before dark, I decided to get onto the four-wheeler and go into the woods. I tied around in the woods, hell's a bit, but I wanted to go deep in there on a four-wheeler and have some fun. So I filled the four-wheeler up, asked my grandparents where the trail was. There was a trail that you could take to ride horses down, four-wheeler's and stuff like that. It was a one-way road with no turn-offs to get lost so that's where they told me to go and I drove off. I rode for about 40 minutes in one direction until I was nearly half out of

cast and about this time I was searing for a place to turn around and head back. It was a small and narrow trail as so I had to wait until there was a small clearing to do a U-turn, but here, as with things get weird now I remember, as I was widened the trees blowing in the wind, the birds singing, the animal noises, the woodbuckers, all the wonderful noises of nature that I love so much from the woods. When suddenly they all just stopped to mean it just went completely dead silent just on the dime. I mean dead silent, not a single sound. At this I remember goosebumps going all over my body just from the lack of noise alone, knowing that there were animals around but everything just going quiet like that. It felt like I was in a noise vacuum or something, but everything felt different, sounded different or more accurately, sounded like nothing at all. The only noise was the burring from the four-wheeler and that was pretty much it. As I was riding down the mountain I saw a huge deer, anna-deer like animal and I mean it was massive standing in the path where that I was driving on about I don't know maybe 5 different in front of me or something. Not exactly sure but close but not too close. It was there and then one second it was. It was moving, it was just staring at me and like I said it first it seemed like maybe a buck

or a deer or something but then I looked closer and it had really dark black eyes like I was staring into nothingness, intense darkness that stood out from the colour of the forest really clearly. Like I said two I still love nightmares every now and then about this thing just staring at me. The antlers were nearly the size of its body itself but the antlers looked we would like tree roots or something. I'm not too familiar with deer if I'm being completely honest I've never really hunted or anything but just the antlers where I don't know they didn't look like anything I've ever seen on a deer or any animal that has antlers. They were too large and too spindly or windy sort of. Something about it just looked terribly off and I could feel my heart jump into my throat all of a sudden. I stopped the four-wheeler instantly and just stared at it. I was terrified but also couldn't help but stare back at it. While it stared at me I remember the wind started blowing and the rustling of the trees occurred. It sounded like the trees were almost speaking to me in a language too or maybe I was just hearing things and scared out of my mind I don't know but I remember getting the feeling that I was being told to leave and never return that's how I felt anyway but again I'd never heard those words spoken so if there was a language it was something that I'd never heard before

it was more a feeling I guess that I can't explain it very well but I may not have understood the language but it was very clear that I needed to leave. Like if you were in a country where you didn't speak their language and you came up to the house door and started hearing them yell at you to leave you may not understand the language but you know what they're telling you right. That's how this felt but in a language of window or trees or nature. I know how insane that sounds but that's just how it felt at the time so I did. I left. I hideled it and balled it out of there. I turned the four wheeler around nearly toppling it off the trail and falling down some 15-foot drop near the trail since I hadn't found a good U-turn clearing yet and wasn't about to keep driving towards the deer or whatever this thing was. It was a tight turn but I made it and I floored it as fast as the four wheeler could go. It was still absolutely silent during this time and I've never heard silence quite like that. My father is a sound engineer. He has a home studio and a studio that has like dead boxes or whatever that you can sing in that have no noise from the soundproofing. That's the closest thing that I can explain the silence to being. It was a quiet in the woods mind you were it was alive with noise only moments ago in any case I floored

the four wheeler to go as fast as I could back up the mountain around the bends and get out of there as fast as I could not worrying about the danger that I was putting myself in driving so fast as some of the sketchy parts of the trail that I was on eventually I got on a flat straight path and around this time I was about maybe halfway back to the entrance of the trail I would estimate and I started to see animals deer birds I saw a black bear too but the only one that I'd ever seen in my life all sitting I sort of stand in near the trail not like right next to it but maybe about 15 to 20 feet back in the woods amongst the trees just staring at me. All these wild animals including the birds and the trees also island not moving and just staring at me only their heads moving following me with their eyes while I left as fast as I could these animals too were not making a sound I still couldn't hear the wind either the birds that were up in the trees were just looking at me all watching me silently I'll never forget the feeling of their eyes burning into my back once I passed them all it was a terrifying feeling the year is feeling of my life in fact I think I kept going though as fast as I could the sun was getting close to setting now but it was still plenty laid out thankfully it was about an eye

of from setting I'd say but I just kept going I remember going past areas that I didn't really recognise at all I could have sworn to that I was on a new trail or had taken a wrong turn or something but I knew that that was impossible because this trail had no turn off it was just a single road trail or one way or whatever but the surroundings were 100% not the same as on my way back in and because of this I started to freak out I tried reminding myself though that it wasn't possible since it was a one way trail and so I just kept going I remember passing a huge tree that had moss all over it then this massive tree like something out of a fancy movie a tree that I would have 100% noticed on the way and when I was originally cunning onto the trail and now here it was terrain and trees with moss that I had never seen or noticed before I also didn't see any four wheeler tracks that really should have been there but for some reason were blown over and no longer there I can remember the fear that I was on the wrong trail but I knew being a one way that should have been impossible so I just kept going I mean I wasn't about to turn around to see if I missed a turn off somehow or anything eventually though I came to an area that suddenly looked normal and I could see my tracks again from where I came in which means that somehow there

was a part of the trail that I had passed through that had changed scenery and removed my four wheeler tracks I have no idea how this is or was even possible to be honest I really don't like to think about it much also I kept seeing animals on occasion just sitting back from the trail staring at me from time to time shortly after getting back on the normal trail or whatever I remember hearing the wind pick up and start to speak to me in that foreign language that I mentioned earlier I've never heard when like this before since and I've been in the woods when it's windy a fair amount of the time it was otherworldly though I don't know thinking about it now still terrifies me but this time it sounded less ominous I guess and more friendly I know that's weird to say but as if it was encouraging me to keep going and I was doing the right thing by leaving as if it was no long gear angry at me for my intrusion I eventually got to the entrance of the trail which was a two way it was a sort of white sheep trail the right side was the side that I took the left side was another trail that was also a one way but in a different direction and the tail of the why was the way back home onto the highway I remember it pulled off onto the shoulder of the highway

from the trail everything went silent once again that dead silence that I was talking about was suddenly back I turned back and I saw that same deer or whatever it was standing there but this time it was moving stomping its foot and raising or lowering its head like a whole shaking off lies but windbly once again and I felt like it said again it never made any understandable words or anything but never returned or something like that then it walked into the trees and outside once out of sight maybe a few seconds later I began to hear the birds sing the normal noises of the forest returned and everything returned to the expected normal of the woods I just sat there staring back from where I had come into the woods feeling absolutely relieved to be out of there but also feeling like I had no idea what had just happened or how even to pass it out in my own mind I was shaking and barely able to keep my thumb on the gas trigger and the fall wheelers I peeled out onto the shoulder of the highway to finally get back home I just got back into the highway and started to gun at about a mile or two up the route to my grandparents driveway on the way there I passed a local on his gator a type of fall

wheeler with a trunk thing on the back more for far more than fun and he waved at me and maybe it was just me already being creeped out but he had this sort of look like he knew what I had just seen like he was sort of an on it I guess but I just kept going it was probably just my imagination making a friendly stranger more than what he was but I just wave back and I'm out it on now all I know is that I will never be going back into the Oslox or any mountains for that matter for pretty much as long as I live I think I know that people may think that online are trying to make up a story I went crazy temporarily or whatever but I know what I saw I have no idea what it meant or what it was about but whatever it was it didn't want me there or wasn't where I should have been or whatever so I will never return to those mountains ever again again I don't know what I saw I don't know what happened I'm open to the idea that I had a hallucination as the makes far more sense than what I saw being real but I just don't feel that is what happened then again how would I really know I guess it drives me insane trying to figure this out and I guess I'll never really know maybe I just need to truck this up to another weird story of being out in the woods

that people hear but I'll tell you one thing I definitely take weird stories people say that they've heard or seen in the woods a little bit more seriously these days all I can say is that while it all sounds insane looking back on it and ever felt in danger I guess I never felt as if this animal wanted to hurt me simply scare me off as if I was somewhere I shouldn't have been and they were doing me a favour by leading me back home to civilization I'm curious though if anybody listening to this has had any similar experiences in the Oz-Oxro mountains in general I just had to get this out somewhere at least where nobody knows who I am so that if I am called a liar or is schizophrenic or a creepy post maker at least it's anonymous right but in any case there's my story whatever you may think of it I live a normal life these days I'm in college doing well I'd have an apartment with a buddy and I have a girlfriend a job I'm very happy enjoying life and most of the time I'm just an average guy like everybody else but sometimes this whole thing pops up in my mind and I remember why I have a dream and it all comes back an experience that I'll never forget but quite honestly wished that I could anyway if anyone has been in this area and had anything

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waiting outside of the store and that's when I realized what was happening the lady wanted my little brother to go to the front of the store so that the two men could abduct him and run to the van I'm so glad that we followed her instincts that day and we didn't follow the lady to this day I'm very cautious when I go into town especially because I live in the border of Mexico and Arizona I guess the moral of the story here too is that you need to be careful when you talk to strangers even if you're an adult you just never know how many people may be a non-induction this happened not too long after I moved to England back then and still to this day my country's living conditions weren't great with everything getting worse every year at low salaries and high cost of living so I decided that I'd had enough not too long before that my best friend had moved to England with her boyfriend and her dog they lived in a house with a spare room so we planned it out and I moved to their house and shared the rent while I tried to find a job in my own place we didn't last too long in that house though and two weeks after I moved in we moved into a different house the house itself was supposed to be better but the neighborhood that it was in well let's just say that it had a lot to improve on the problem though was that my friends had

the dog in most nights they would get into huge fights about who was the most tired from work who worked the hardest who did the most at home and other nonsense that I didn't have the patience for so I would end up offering to take the dog for his walk just so that I didn't have to listen to them anymore it would usually go pretty well I think especially because this was around the pandemic time so there were a lot less people on the street one night dough was different one I offered to take the dog and walked out of the house with him I had this strange feeling going on like that night I shouldn't have offered to go and should have just stayed at home then again maybe it's best that it was me and not my friend back then I was 25 going on 26 well built and brought shoulder and could easily take a fight even though I'm not a very tall guy so it would probably present a bigger threat than my friend in any case I went down the stairs walked out of the building with a trash bag in hand dumped the bag and went on my way to the clothes entrance as always when I got to the main road because I liked to keep the walks different and fresh for the dog I looked both ways to decide which way to go that's when to my left I noticed this guy jogging in my direction what troubled me those that he was jogging in completely normal day

to day clothes not dressed to go up for a run at all thinking that I didn't want to be judging people and didn't want to be feeling uneasy I decided to just walk the other way and try to ignore the guy running my way if it was the case I would cross the road and see what happened I wasn't the only one feeling uncomfortable though as the dog was refusing to just go about our way he was an intense dog with a massive focus when it came to trouble and was a mix between a bulldog and a Portuguese hunting dog breed so he was medium sized muscular and had the habit of staring people down in a way that would make everyone feel uncomfortable but that's just what he did then I turned to my right started walking down the street having to pull the dog along every because he wouldn't stop turning around and observing this guy who was still about 30 seconds jogging away from us of course I kept my eye on this guy as well taking advantage of having to pull the dog along to keep measuring how far the guy was from us and when he was starting to get too close for comfort I decided to cross the street if he was just running past he would be on his way if there was something else happening he would cross the street as well and of course that's exactly what happened what I started crossing the street the guy crossed it behind me and then I decided to

actually stop and let the dog stay the guy down to see what would come out of this it was like I had missed everything up for him too he looks sort of surprised stopped running and walked past us with both me and a dog going him he then lifted his hands like he was surrendering and said hey bro all good to which I replied all good you yeah boss yeah he said then he walked ahead of us and finished crossing the road and I went back to the same side of the road that I was on to begin with and thought that that would be it no trouble just a slight misunderstanding I guess that's when the guy stopped turned around so that I was not on his side of the road anymore and did the word as thing he took two steps back up the road and hid behind a tree like he was hiding from somebody else that was ahead in the street this made me even more uncomfortable and I was now having to control my shaking legs a adrenaline and increasing heartbeat and not let any signals give my discomfort away I ignored it kept walking ahead walking past the guy on the opposite side of the road looked him in the eye again to warn him without having to say anything and kept walking 10 more steps was all it took with this weird guy behind me I had something shuffle ahead on the

street initially I thought this could be a fox but stop when I decided the shuffling sounded like it was coming from something way bigger than a fox or a dog another person maybe then I saw it there was somebody else hiding behind one of the upcoming hazards trash cans waiting for me to get there I could see a part of their back showing up from one of the sides I don't know if me and the dog could have taken them on or not but I decided then that I wouldn't risk it for me let alone risk the dog's life I turned around and started walking up the street again what passed the guy what passed the first guy who was still huddled behind the same tree nodded at him and said could night and left the surprise in his face confirmed everything to me they were not expecting me to understand what was going on we're not expecting me to turn around and simply walk away and the first guy was not expecting me to still interact with him at all for the night I decided to just let the dog do his business in a little grass area behind our building and that was it now considering that this was a very dangerous and high crime neighborhood which keeps getting worse and a month later my boss's son and his friend were mugged at knife point

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