A Fairbanks, Alaska teen describes an encounter with a tall, lanky humanoid while hanging out with a friend in his neighborhood. A similar encounter was described by a co-worker.
"I grew up in a poor neighborhood in Fairbanks, Alaska. My friends and I used to play outside together quite a bit. In the summer, we'd stay up way too late. One such summer night, when I was about 16, a friend and I were bumming around the neighborhood and chatting. My friend claimed that a person could see further in the night if they lay in a prone position. I called BS, so naturally, we had to test it out.
Before I continue, some context will help. We had lived in this neighborhood our
whole lives. When we went to meet up to hang out, we would step outside, look
down the street, and see each other coming from the other end of the street. I
say this to impart to you the strong possibility that we have an accurate
perception of depth, size, and walking speed in relation to the objects present
in our neighborhood.
So there we were two kids, lying in the middle of the road at night (yes, we
were incredibly stupid). We were looking off towards my house, which has
exactly one intersection and exactly one street light visible in that
direction. I was pretty content that I had won our little debate when a
silhouette walked in front of that street light.
It was generally humanoid but seemed to be very tall and lanky. Its head
seemed vaguely ovoid, but the rest of its body seemed kind of stretched out,
too. Its movements were fluid and lithe. I don't know how to describe it
exactly, smooth motions, like if walking were swimming. It appeared to be
highly efficient motions, in a sense. The silhouette did not appear to be
wearing any clothes.
The hair on my neck stood up immediately, and I realized I was holding my
breath with fear. It crossed the street very quickly, emerging from a set of
pines on one side and disappearing into a set of pines on the other. It
seemed to cross in three glide-like steps, lasting only a moment. So, much
quicker than an adult human.
My friend whispered in a panicked tone, "Did you see THAT?" I said
that I had, and we agreed to get the hell out of there. We ran back to his
house, locked the front door, then went to his room to bolt the windows and
locked his bedroom door just to be on the safe side. Naturally, I decided to
crash there, but we just stayed up talking about what we saw and what it could
be.
I've told this story a couple times, and people always blow me off. Which is
fine. I can appreciate skepticism. But the extra weird part, for anyone that
bothers to believe me, is that we met someone else in our town who experienced
the same thing.
That same friend and I eventually wound up working for a pizza restaurant
together as young adults. We were telling our assistant manager, not much older
than us, that same story. He looked super spooked as we talked about it, and
when he finished he said he saw it once, too, when he was walking home from a
high school party. Once he saw it, he turned around and went back to the party
to try to find a place to crash there, unpleasant as that was.
So, here I am. I mostly keep it to myself, but when people are willing to
listen I share it with the general sense that if they make fun of me I'll be
alright. My coworkers now are surprisingly cool with it. They don't believe me,
but they bought me an X-Files mug that says "I want to believe," just
to show that it's no big deal.
Despite so many people telling me my brain was playing tricks on me, I still
keep my ear to the ground about humanoids, ETs, "supernatural"
phenomena, and the like. Seen a couple UFOs since then, but nothing big." B
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