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On The Beach
My creepy true story happened a couple years ago and I had completely forgotten about it until more or less a month ago, and so did my boyfriend who was present at the time. I already posted it a while ago on Reddit, but since you ask, here is my story. Though I doubt it will ever be seen among the 2300 comments.
It happened in July 2012 while I'm off with my boyfriend on vacation. He inherited a small house on a island in France|Britany, France It's called Ile de Groix, it's situated a few kilometers off the south coast of Brittany and you can only get there with a ferry. It is pretty small and only a few inhabitants live there all year long. There's not much to do but it's really beautiful and it's a nice place for quiet vacation. We like to go for rides, during daytime as well as nighttime. Now I'll start telling my story (100% true).
So, one night, a clear night night doused in moonlight (it's important to remember that), we went out around midnight for a ride on the island, as we were used to do so. We headed to a beach whose name I can't remember, that goes along a small familly vacation village (VVF).
Quick description of the area: the VVF is situated in a big curve bordered by a small road, alongside the road is a strip of grass and sand. When standing on this strip you have a really nice view of the beach and the sea which lie below. The road and village are situated on some kind of a steep cliff. To go down to the beach you have to walk down sheer narrow stairs, situated a few meters away from where we were standing.
K (my boyfriend) and I were standing by the road on the strip of sand grass since like ten minutes, looking down at the sea. I need to point out that it was a calm clear night and we hadn't seen anyone during our ride. We were walking along the beach for a while and hadn't noticed anything strange, nor signs of human presence on the beach (no night swimmers -the water is very cold in Brittany even in the summer- no young people having a party on the beach etc..).
So we were standing on a cliff, facing the sea, when suddenly, straight ahead of us, we saw a human-shaped figure get out of the water and hurry across the beach. I know, it's nothing scary so far. Except the figure was pitch black, contrasting with the clear sand and was not reflecting any light, like a dark shadow (it's weird cause remember the moon was shining).
We first thought it was someone skinnydipping; problem is when you're going out of sea you first swim to the edge of the sea, then you stand up and walk out of the water. This figure gradually went out, all the time standing tall, as if it was walking on the bottom of the ocean. Moreover, K and I had been looking at the water for a while and never noticed anyone swimming, as if it was totally immerged for at least ten minutes.
At the sight of that, I felt particularly uncomfortable, not to say really freaked out. So was my boyfriend who is not easily scared. Weirdest part is once the human-shaped figure got out of the water, it headed straight ahead to the foot of the cliff where we were standing, but it wasn't walking or running, it was SLIDING on the sand, like really fast. A pitch black human-shape, with indistinguishable face and features, sliding fast as fuck on the sand, almost gliding, not moving its legs or anything, leaving no trail or footsteps behind. All the time standing tall and human-shaped. Average human-sized and built.
We stared at it silently until it got a few meters away from the foot of the cliff; then, without talking, we decided to get the fuck out of dodge, still with this feeling of dread and fear. We never saw or heard of this creature again, and nothing strange happened during the rest of our vacation. My boyfriend however has witnessed strange things on the island before, but nothing that's related to this story.
I apologize for the bad english and my terrible writing (English isn't my first language and I don't get to practice it often). Sorry about the length too.
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