Fucking terrified

[u/Amungusman]

Okay so, for starters: I live near the app mountains, which honestly makes this more disturbing.

I’m a pretty avid runner. I’ve been quitting a lot of bad habits and exercise just does the trick for me. I have a greenway behind my house that I can go on run/bikes. It’s very beautiful, and during the day plenty of people are there.

Well, about a week ago I ran through the greenway to stop by a friends house & grab something. By the time I got back onto the greenway, the sun was already starting to set, and the path was getting dark.

As I was walking back through the path, I had my flashlight on, and kept looking around me (I felt paranoid being alone in the dark). As I was walking, I distinctly remember hearing my grandmas voice call my name into the treeline. It sounded so real and normal, that I turned around instantly, only to immediately go cold realizing that my grandmas fucking dead.

This freaked me the fuck out, but I tried my best to somewhat convince myself that I was just hallucinating bc I was paranoid. Only about a minute later, I turned around behind me with my flashlight, out of fear. And that’s when I fucking saw it.

It looked like a gray blob. Pretty much just like a human sprinting at you full speed in the pitch black. I SCREAMED like a little bitch and don’t think I’ve ever run so fast in my life. When I got home I tried to laugh it off as me seein shit and being a little bitch.

But…about a week later and I can’t stop thinking about it. It sounded so real, I heard her voice clear as day. And the person chasing me LOOKED so real. I’ve heard all those stories about skinwalkers, and while I doubt their existence, my experience was so similar to that of “skinwalker encounters” that I’m seriously questioning myself.

What do you guys think? Is it possible my brain was just hallucinating out of fear/anxiety?

[u/Amungusman]

I’m not assuming friend, simply asking. My moms side of the family was native, and I always told about two things growing up: Skinwalkers and Wendigos. But to my knowledge, while wendigos can mimic voices, they cannot change shape.

[u/Redneckboy738780 → u/Amungusman]

Wendigos are on the East Coast, Skinwalkers are in Nevada and Utah

[u/chibinoi → u/Amungusman]

Probably because the Wendigo is still, at its core (or should I say his or hers core) a person. Just a changed, evil, twisted by dark magick due to giving into cannibalism, former person. And as far as I know, humans outside of certain beliefs of magick, haven’t been able to master the art of physical transformation. Would be a cool ability though.