Country Road
My friend and I in high school once walked to town from his house for a pack of cigarettes at night. His house is in the country about 2.5 miles from town via dirt roads with no lights of course. The walk there was fine. We get to the store and get the cigarettes. We went and chilled at a friend's house for about 30 minutes.
We leave and start our walk back. Not even a half mile out of town we hear this weird dog barking type of sound. It sounded like a bark but NOT a dog bark. My friend immediately started screaming at it. I told him it's fine. We proceed to walk and can hear something walking next to the road in the field very audibly.
We hear it walking for about halfway there. Halfway there we see it cross the road far ahead of us. We can't make it out cause it was dark and again it was a country road. My friend was scared shitless and so was I. I kept pretending like I wasn't scared so I could try to calm him down.
We don't see it again for another mile or so. We get to the last turn to the road that leads to his house which is about .5 miles away. We turn and I see it. It was standing in the fucking ditch about 10 feet away very visible. It MUST have been tall because we were on the road and it was in the ditch and it was head level with us.
I stared at it as we walked by. It started sorta walking backwards. The legs were kinda bowed back.
I was like "dude please don't fucking run so it won't run after us."
and he was freaking out and said "do you see it too???"
I said "yeah".
We make it to his driveway and sprinted it all the way to his front door and went in.
Still not sure what it was. I no longer walk on country roads at night.
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