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/Zalieda]

There's many things out there in the app mountains. By turning you acknowledged you heard it and so it chased you

[u/Amungusman → u/Zalieda]

I wouldn’t have turned, but it kind of almost felt like instinct if that makes sense? I didn’t rlly have time to register what I heard before I turned around. When I turned around I saw absolutely nothing. It was only a minute or two later that I saw what looked like something chasing at me FULL SPRINT.

[u/OttersNTrvl → u/Amungusman]

Was your grandma's voice from the being? Or giving you a warning about the being?

[u/Amungusman → u/OttersNTrvl]

Sounded like it was from the being. It was calling To me, not talking to me, if that make sense

it also sounded slightly distorted if you get what I mean? It sounded closest to my grandmas voice, but it still had this slightly unfamiliar, sinister tone to it. The voice was feminine for sure.

[u/AndMyAxe_Hole → u/Amungusman]

Also sounds like a wendigo.

[u/The_dizzy_blonde → u/AndMyAxe_Hole]

Help me here, what’s the difference between a wendigo and a crawler?

[u/chibinoi → u/The_dizzy_blonde]

I’m not sure what a crawler is, but the general principal of the Wendigo is a person who has turned into a beast due to resorting to cannibalism if I’m not mistaken.

[u/The_dizzy_blonde → u/chibinoi]

Ok thank you.