"The arms of the robe covered the hands, and the hood covered all of the face, but the weirdest part was how no one paid a bit of attention to this bizarre figure walking by them."
The witness describes an anomaly that has been reported before, which I'll explain later:
“I was in West Baltimore, Maryland, so I was paying attention to my mirrors, and as I was looking behind me stood a crowd of people in the corner. I saw this really tall thing walk out from behind the crowd, wearing a bright red robe with a hood over its head and using a cane. The arms of the robe covered the hands, and the hood covered all of the face, but the weirdest part was how no one paid a bit of attention to this bizarre figure walking by them like it was a normal, everyday occurrence or they didn't see it at all.
As soon as I saw it, I thought, 'Oh no, they are going to mess with this dude terribly.' This neighborhood isn't known as a warm and fuzzy type of place. It's not somewhere you really want to draw a whole bunch of attention to yourself, but it just lurched on by without anyone even looking at it, nevertheless messing with it.
It happened around 2004, and I still remember it like it was yesterday. It was wearing a bright red robe and had to be close to 7 feet tall even though it wasn’t standing straight up and it was daylight out. I remember because, for a second, I thought the robe was to keep the sun off. They definitely should've seen it, but no one even looked twice. It walked straight through a group of eight people. You could tell it was hunched over like the robe was covering some serious physical defect, and the cane kind have strengthened that thought. But as I said, a BRIGHT RED robe if you wanted to cover a defect up is a really strange fashion choice.
I've always wondered what that robe was hiding, but I think I'm lucky I don’t know. From the second I saw it, I got a weird vibe that quickly turned to concern for it and then right back to weird/creepy as I got to noticing more details. Yet it seemed like no one closer to it noticed a thing.” B
NOTE: I lived in the Baltimore metro area for almost 40 years. I have heard of this 'phantom' in the Park Circle neighborhood (near Druid Hill Park) in the 1980s from my wife's relatives and neighbors. However, I don't know where in West Baltimore this witness made the observation. Each sighting I received was from a vehicle, during the day, and the unknown entity wore a bright red hooded cloak and carried a cane. At the time, I checked into the sightings, but I wasn't able to gather any tangible information. I was a bit surprised to see once again that the 'phantom' was still active years later. Lon
Haunted Places: The National Directory: Ghostly Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO Landings and Other Supernatural Locations
The Big Book of Maryland Ghost Stories (Big Book of Ghost Stories)
Ghosthunting Maryland (America's Haunted Road Trip)
Baltimore Ghosts: History, Mystery, Legends and Lore
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