So this was in Colorado. I was like, Oh, the Great Dunes
are here, so I'm gonna I'm gonna head down there at night. Everything
kind of happened when I when I write, it was pretty late, but
the Welcoming Center was empty and nobody was there. It was just vacant.
It's just me right behind my ear, like squeaking almost and also like shuffling.
I turned around and it's just this figure and it's like slowly moving towards
me, and I can still hear the shuffling and like the squeaking. What
frightened me was that, you know, human instinct is interesting where you can
just kind of instantly know what something is. This was where I couldn't.
I couldn't figure out what I was looking at. Aiden. Thanks for joining
me on Bigfoot Crossroads. Man. How are you? I'm good, I'm
good. How are you doing? Pretty good? Man? So you're from
Georgia now, but you're originally from California. Yeah. So I moved like
three years ago, almost four at this point, to follow my job in
the film industry and doing more creative stuff like photography and all that fun stuff,
and Georgia was the place to do it. Pretty much. And my
family had moved a year prior and so I ended up following them. And
photography is pretty much what led you to your experiences that you contacted me about.
Yeah, it did. It was wild because the whole trip so basically
what I was moving from from California to Georgia. I decided that I was
going to drive the whole way because I didn't really want to pay for shipping
or do anything like that. With all my stuff. I didn't have like
too much, and I had a truck at the time, and I just
packed everything in and I was like, you know what, I'm going to
drive the whole way, going to stop us some interesting location. That didn't
get to all of them. I got to some and you know, take
photos and see what I could pretty much capture. And that's on one of
the ventures. That's what led me to an interesting encounter. I guess you
could say, was I honestly like to this day, even though I sent
you like the email and you read it, I have no idea what it
is. So where were you exactly when this happened. So this was in
Colorado, I believe in the Great Dunes, like right beneath it like the
edge part of Colorado, believe that's where it is. And the night before
I was like, I hadn't been sleeping in general, but then I had
stopped that day in Colorado one of my friends and slept at his place for
a bit and then decided to continue my journey to Georgia. But I was
like, oh, the Great Dunes are here, so I'm gonna I'm gonna
head down there at night, and since it'll be clear, I'm going to
take a picture of like the sand dunes and the stars. And I'm like,
really really beautiful and I could be a great shot. And I still
got the photo. But everything kind of happened when I when I arrived at
the Welcoming Center outside the Great Dunes, That's that's where everything happened. What
time of night was it whenever you got there, I believe it was two
am, so it was it was pretty late. And at this point most
of the people who were camping in the place like would have already been asleep,
right. There were some people like later on that I found, but
the Welcoming Center was empty and nobody was there. It was just vacant,
and there's like some street lights whatever lamps are up at the welcoming parking lot
is where I was, and that's there's like a very you know, that
orange what's it called that type of light, But that's that's what time it
happened at, Like around two am is what I'm guessing, because I remember
I drove the rest of the night into the morning to get to Oklahoma after
the encounter, so it was like two am. The parking lot's completely empty
other than you correct, Yeah, it's just me, and it was.
It was weird because pulling up, I didn't expect anything, and I also
had never been there before, so in my mind I was like, oh,
the welcoming centers here. I'm guessing the Great Dunes are right behind it,
right. They're not, I found out later. But I drive up
and I stirtle the parking lot and I'm like, oh, maybe there's a
ranger I could talk to, you know, some human, and there wasn't.
And I was like, all right, I was gonna park here,
I'm gonna get my camera out. And because of where I'm at, those
are the only the lights are up and the stars are out, but it's
sand and that doesn't really reflect starlight too much. Because there's no moon this
night, and it's pitch black. Right behind the Welcoming Center. There's like
you can't see anything at all. And I'm like, all right, well,
maybe I can set my shutter speed, lead the you know, lead
the shutter open for a few seconds, like thirty seconds, ten seconds,
and see what I can get. And so I park on the front left
side of the welcoming Center, you know, for this part where there's like
this brown like this wooden log fence and then you can hop over the fence
and there's bushes and stuff. So I parked on the on the far left
side, and I leave the car. I turned the car off, I
leave the lights on, and I opened the open my door. I get
out to the left hand and side, and I have my tripod and my
camera with me if anybody's curious, I have the Sony A seven three at
the time. And I get out and I'm like, all right, we're
gonna take a picture. This would be fun. And I sat up,
I set my tray pot up, I get everything situated. I set my
shutter of speed. I'm like, all right, cool, let's take the
picture. See what I can find. And then all of a sudden right
behind my hear like squeaking almost and also like shuffling of shoes. It could
have been on gravel, and I wasn't scared yet or anything. I was
like, Oh, the rangers here, cool, because of course it's it's
a national park, and I expect her to be like a ranger or somebody
just like, right, you're at the welcoming center. Yeah, like you
know someone should be here, and uh, all right cool. When he
say hid this guy? I turn around and I'd say around like fifty feet
past my truck. And it's an F one fifty, so you know,
it's tall, it's not lifted or anything, it's less like normal stock.
It's right behind my my truck on the opposite side. So since I'm parked
parallel in the parking lot, it's on the passenger side. Lie right past
the passenger side, uh, back part of it, and it's just this
figure and it's like slowly moving towards me, and I can still hear the
shuffling and like this squeaking. But what frightened me the like what frightened me
was that, you you know, human instinct is interesting where you can just
kind of instantly know what something is right? This was where I couldn't,
you know, I couldn't figure out what I was looking at. And it
looks it looked to me as if a gray dark like very dark gray tracksuit,
like some of them were running, almost like the Adidas the ones where
add like those stripes on it, except it was only one stripe and the
stripe was a silver like a silver lining almost around the body. And I
couldn't see the legs. It was like right past the truck, so I
didn't really see if it had feet or whatever it was, but the silver
lining kind of just showed like the outline of the body, and it was
wearing a hood. It was like just a silver hood and no base.
And I was like, what am I what is I Like? I was
just I was, and it was in shock pretty much because I don't I
don't know that is it doesn't look like anything familiar, And in the back
of my mind, I was like, maybe it's a person. But then
it kept moving towards me, and it was really tall. It was taller
than like the top of my truck, and so I don't know what to
do, and I'm just like also just panicking and like this feeling inside me
was like I have to I'm gonna throw up. I feel sick. I
don't know what this is, and I'm like scared, and I've never felt
that way before, but this was new, and I was like, I
don't like this. I don't like this at all. And so what I
ended up doing was I grabbed my camera in my trypod and I just I
just moved normal speed. I in my mind, I was acting as if
I didn't see this person or whatever this thing was. I was just gonna
like, I'm sitting, you know, I'm getting to my truck. If
it is a ranger, I hope, I really hope it is. I
hope it's something that I know it'll come up to the side of my truck
window and maybe talk to me or something. But I can see what it
is first, you know, before it gets to that point. And so
I grab my truck out of my camera and I walked to the left side
so that as I moved towards my truck, I just don't see it anymore
because I don't really want to look at it because my eyes were just more
glued than I couldn't really move from looking at it unless my body was moving
because I was like, I need to know where it is. I need
to know what's going on here. I was like, yo, I don't
know, and so I grab myself and I just get in my truck.
And the keys are in the cognition right because I left it on. I
left the lights on, so I just left the key and you know,
no one's there and the door has already opened, so I just get in.
I just slammed the door and I turned the truck on immediately, like,
I throw my camera in the passenger's side seat, and I don't even
look out that side because I'm like, I don't want it. I don't
want to look at the pastor's side if it's just staring at me. And
so I turned the truck on. And in my mind, at this point,
it should have been right behind the truck, so if I looked in
the rear view mirror, it should be there, and so I didn't.
I was like, I'm just not gonna I'm just gonna look at my steering
wheel and maybe if it's a person, it'll come next to the window and
it'll knock on it first before I have to, you know, it'll give
me like Okay, now it's now I know what it is, right,
And so I don't look and I wait. I honestly don't know how long
I waited. It was probably only a few seconds. It felt like a
longer. But when you're in situations that you know your adrenaline going you,
you don't really you kind of lose track of time. Right. So I'm
sitting there and I'm like, I'm trying to just erect my brain. I'm
like, what am I supposed to do here? Because I don't know what
it is? And I don't really want to find out what it is if
I don't know what it is. And I eventually I'm just like, all
right, I'm gonna I'm gonna look at the rear room mirror. If it's
there, then I can see it. And if it's not, I'm gonna
look outside my my window on my left hand side, striver's side or end
the mirror first and then look see if it's there. And I look at
the rear room mirror and I'm nothing there, all right, And then I'm
like half expecting it to like jump scare me and just like push, you
know, go like slam its space against the window. I'm like, it's
gonna jump. It's like something's gonna happen here. And I was like with
my heart and I could like hear it, and like like everything inside me
was just like screaming, except I'm you know, I'm not saying anything,
and I'm just like silent. I'm like, what am I doing? So
I'm expecting that to happen. I look over and nothing's there. Yeah,
I look outside the window. After I looked outside the side mirror and nothing's
there. And I'm like, yeah, alright, where could this thing be.
So I'm like outside the passer sign, nothing there either. And I
was like, well, if it's behind me, I'm just going to hit
it too bad. And so I just put the truck in reverse and I
just like hit the gas and reverse and turn. I turned the wheel to
the right side, so I turned my back comes out right and I don't
hit anything. I'm like, all right, I don't know what that is.
Then, and I put the car and drive and I turned my high
beams on and I just like do a circle around the parking lot and no
one's there and nothing was ever was ever there as far as I know,
But that's where it ends, I make a circle. I don't I see
nothing like there was There was no car, there was no lights on inside
the building. There was no like, I don't know, golf cart,
I guess, or like a ranger car. There's there's nothing. It was
literally just the same as I had arrived, except for that whatever that thing
was and me. It was just me, and so I do the circle
around the parking lot and then ended up. I didn't I didn't want to
drive back the way I came yet through the entrance because the entrance is kind
of along. It's a long dark road of just desert and trees and bushes.
So just I was like, I'm going to go further into the park
instead and go to where it says campsite and hopefully I can find like some
people, because I kind of need people at this moment. I don't care
context, yeah, because I'm like, I don't I don't know, I
don't know what's going on, and I didn't know what to even think about
it, and so I'm like, I need something that I know is real,
so I know I'm not tripping out. And so I turned left instead
of going right, and I go further into the park, and that's when
the whole situation ends. But thinking back and uh, you know, reviewing
it, in my mind, it's just the same thing over and over.
It's the way I felt. It's seeing nothing inside the face area and seeing
this silver jumpsuit looking thing right behind my trug. And I'm not want like
I'm personally, I don't always believe in the paranormal. I know it's there.
I know it's just if it does, right, But I'm not like
looking for an excuse to have a story about something right right. Never,
Yeah, I never, I can never have that. I'm like, if
it happens, great, cool, if something, if you know, if
I see bigfoot in the horse, if I see something, if whatever happens,
I'm like open, but I'm not looking. And that's what like frightened
me. I think mostly was that I wasn't like ready for this situation to
happen. It wasn't like prepared. I wasn't thinking about it. It was
just it just happened. You weren't looking, but it found you. Yeah,
exactly. Yeah, And I have no explanation still to like what I
could have been seeing or saw or and conored I can go further into the
night of like what happened, but I mean, nothing else happened. I
found the Great Dunes, took the picture. There were some people around camping.
My eye kept running, you know, swerving back to the welcoming Center
where I had just been like some some ways away across the dunes, you
know, because the lights are on. I like the lamps, and you
know, I was always occasionally look back and see if anybody was there.
Nobody was over there, but took the picture, stayed there for like an
hour, and ended up driving through the night to Oklahoma because I was like,
I'm not stopping when it's dark, thank you, I'm not doing that.
So okay, question time, You're parked in this parking lot area at
the welcome center. Yep. How large of a parking lot is it?
Is it? Is it a big parking lot or small? I'd say it
has like one to three four lanes with a center median. So you got
the front one, the front lane of cars, Like maybe it can fit
like fifteen cars. I'd say, I'm sure that people could like find pictures
of it on Google if they wanted to see it. Oh yeah, I
mean I could pull it up right now and tell you exactly how my there
are, but I'm off the top of my head. The front, you
know, fifteen fifteen fifteen, maybe like ten at the at the back is
it kind of it's almost like an oval looking shape. It's not. It's
like a fairly it's like as big as it's a little bit bigger than like
the Welcoming Center. The Welcoming Center isn't that big. It's like it's one
story and it's like maybe five rooms across, I'd say, so it's like
not that big. And then like the parking lot kind of wraps like in
an oval in front of it, and then has the entrance to go out
to the exit and then into the park pretty much. And then are there
like trees and stuff lining the outside of the parking lot or what so the
outside on the right side, I believe there's like some giant bushes. It's
the deserts. There's not like too many trees. I know. The middle
median has like some small bushes, like little brush and like grass looking things.
And then where I was there was grass, like the brown grass kind
of like the tall on the tall graph. And then the log fence that's
like two logs high. I'd say, you know, it's not that big.
It's kind of like it's like the fence for aesthetic, but it doesn't
actually act as a fence, right, Yeah, And whenever you first saw
this thing, how far away from your truck would you guess it was from
my truck? I thought it was around fifty feet. I'm guessing it was
just past my truck, like maybe three car lengths. And how far were
you on the opposite side of the truck. I was like probably one car
lengthy, one to two crawlings the way, pretty close, pretty close to
the point where I was like, I knew I was going to be it
to my truck if I just started moving right away. That's what I did.
So I wasn't. I wasn't fun. So the lights are on and
everything, so I know, you say it didn't have a face, but
like you got a pretty good look at this thing and the lights, I
assume, yeah, kind of right, so it didn't. It looked like
it was hitting a light, you know how like biker vests have a reflective
river on them. Yeah, and when it's not being reflected, it kind
of looked gray but kind of sparkly. Yeah, that's what those lighting looks
like. It wasn't glowing, but it looked reflective, so the lights weren't
even like there, I'm guessing like there was no light hitting it, although
on the right side of it, if you know, I could see it
obviously, so I'm assuming there was some light from the lamps out there.
But it was like it wasn't like it wasn't illuminated because it's still dark.
You look around and everything's pitch black, and it's like not that much brighter
in the parking lot because there's like two lamps up right. So it was
like that where it was like, oh, here it is, but you
can't really you can't really see it too much. It just looked like a
figure human. It looks humanoid ish, right because it has like arms and
a body and a hood, but then no faith in the middle of it.
And that's it was like, you just it looks like a void,
but it looks like the surrounding area. It just looks pitch black. What
did the suit look like? I mean, I know, you dark in
color, like a track suit, but typically I mean clothes have like zippers
and labels and things like that. Did you notice anything, No, labels,
no zippers. It just looked it looked maybe it could have had like
a zip up hoodie is what it may have looked like, judging by how
like the whole body frame of it was. But I didn't see arms swinging,
so I didn't see hands. I just saw the figure moving towards me,
like almost as if it was like not floating, but like I could
see it was moving, and it was just it was just gray. I
could see like the where it's arms were next to it. You could see
it like it had arms. It looks like it was wearing like almost like
a hoodie. There's no face inside. It was just just pitch black,
and it was tall, and it was tall, and so it was like
just moving towards me. And you know, however long I looked at it,
I then made a decision to just move because I was like, I
don't know what I'm looking at, and I'm not just gonna stand here and
wait for it to catch up to me, because it was moving towards me.
I mean, you mentioned, you know earlier, about how the human
mind recognizes things just instantly whenever we see them, and how one of the
most frightening aspects was your mind not being able to understand, like what am
I looking at? I would think that, let's just say, it's a
tall guy in a tracksuit and his face is kind of shadowed because he's got
his hood up. Yeah, I would assume that your brain would register that
as being exactly that. Yeah. I would have been like, oh,
it's a human walking to Yeah, it's a tall guy in the tracksuit.
Yeah, because I mean that's where my brain immediately went to describe it,
right, And that's how I've described it till what was it Like last year
over the summer, I went camping and they're like, you have any stories,
and I was like, well, I have one there, you know,
that's my story. To describe it, I need to tracks you because
it was great with a silver you know, slightly left silver outline of it.
But it was just tall and moving towards me. And it wasn't acting
like a human would have acted, you know, because if I'm in that
situation and I'm the person, I'm like, hey, yea, yeah,
I would have said something and not just disappeared at two am, especially at
you know two am isolated parking lot, Yeah, where no one's at some
guy pulls up in a truck and gets out with the camera and stuff.
I mean, yeah, I mean that's what you know. My first instinct
would have been, if it's a person, they're probably interested in what I'm
doing, yeah, taking a picture. But it didn't do anything. It
just kept walking or moving towards the truck, towards me, as if it's
going to like come around the truck and then come towards me. But I
was like, I'm not gonna sit around for that to happen because I don't
know what I'm even looking at. So I know you have no way of
knowing this, but in your estimation, you get in your truck, you're
looking around kind of wanting to see it, but not wanting to see it.
Yeah, I mean, did it have time to get out of there
and go hide somewhere or get out of you from you could? Is that
a possibility? So the bushes and trees are really small. It's like there's
like a one giant bush, but it's like branches. It's like those branch
bushes. So I would have seen it and I would have heard it too,
like shuffle a a if it was a person and you can't escape headlights.
I would assume, Yeah, I can't escape headlights and the lights are
on in the truck. It's not like I didn't have It wasn't like pitch
black everywhere. It was just these two lights in the parking lot and then
my truck lights. And around where I am because I'm on the far left
side, there's just bushes, and then the front of the building which kind
of wraps around like wraps around the part of the front part of the parking
lot, and then behind like you know, a way past the building are
like just like some trees and bushes and just like pitch blackness into like the
night. But it wouldn't have to go past you to get to that,
like into the headlights or whatever. Yeah, it would have to it would
either have to run past me or it would have had to just run straight
back where it came from on the right side of the truck. And you
know, but like across the whole parking lot to hide behind a bush that
it couldn't hide behind that you really couldn't hide behind with that tall And yeah,
so I mean I don't personally, I just don't see that being a
liable option, only because like there wasn't much around. It's kind of like
it's flatsh with like a couple of trees around the area. But it's not
like a dense force like out here in Georgia, where like to seconds,
I'm i to go missing, right, It's it's almost like a plane almost
whenever you first got out of the vehicle, any impending doom fillings or anything
like that before you saw it. No, No, not really, no,
not at all. Actually I had no I was like, I'm gonna
go take a picture, and that was really the only thing in my mind,
you know. I mean, it's dark and you can't see anything,
so you're always like hopefully nothing shows up, like like an animal or like
an air or like a mountain lion or something. I don't know what's out
there. I don't know any animals in Colorado. I know it's Colorado.
It's wild. So there was no feeling though. The only the only time
I actually had that feeling was the I think the previous night I was in
the arches. I think that was after No, I think it was before
I went to the arches and try to get a picture. No, it
was before, yeah, because I tried to get a picture, and it
was foggy, but though you know, nothing happened there. I did the
same thing, got out of the car, try to take a picture,
foggy, I can't, got back in and left. The only thing I
had there was kind of like, ooh, this is kind of creepy because
the arches are giant rocks, so you have the night darkness and then you
have the rock darkness, which is like a contrast. It's way darker than
it is like the night sky, And so that was like, oh,
that's kind of creepy because you can just see these giant looming almost like massive
structures, but they're just giant rocks. So that's kind of creepy, you
know, looking into like more darkness apart from the darkness you're already looking at.
But that's it, you know. But when I got to the Great
Dunes, I had in mind already. I was like, I'm gonna go
take a picture of the stars and the sand. Dudes. I didn't have
any like inclination of like a like an impending doom feeling or or anything like
that. On the way up, you know, there's like little posters they
glow up. It's like a light bulb almost like crystas lights put us in
the same in the shape of a flying saucer. Okay, there is that,
Yeah, there's that. On the way up at someone's property iseline.
So it was like, look an alien. But it was like, on
my buying around, I'm gonna like, I'm gonna go find an alien tonight.
I didn't mind. I was like, I'm gonna take a picture of
stars. You know, I didn't have any any idea that I would have
run into something. So let me tell you a story. It's about two
o'clock in the morning. Like I'm not I'm not even I'm not even joking
for real. Same time. Yeah, a friend of mine had come over
to my house at this point in time in my life. My room was
at the back of the house. The backyards right outside the room. The
room has like three double windows on the back wall that faced the backyard,
and there's a chain link fence with a very old, squeaky gait right there
by the house. So oftentimes my friends would just come to the back and
come in through the gate and knock on my window and you can hear the
gate like as soon as they hit the handle on the gate. You can
hear it. This friend of mine had come over. We're sitting in that
back room. It's getting kind of late, about two o'clock. All I
remember for certain. It was after one point thirty. I know that,
so I'm guessing that it was around two eight. We go out of my
house through the front door. His car is parked right there in the driveway,
and at my house, my driveway and the neighbor's driveway are side by
side to the point where it just forms like a double wide driveway going from
the street all the way to the back of the house. His car is
in my driveway, but there's like an empty driveway next to it. And
then my vehicle was parked in front of his, and I was driving a
Ford Explorer at the time. So we're standing behind his vehicle in the driveway
just talking before he leaves, and we hear the gate at the back of
the house. Well, I'm thinking it must be one of my friends coming
over and they went around back and we just missed one another. So I
start looking around. I don't see any cars, you know, none of
my friends vehicles are out there. Yeah, And so we're kind of like
looking at one another and looking down the driveway, and the driveway kind of
widens behind the house a little bit, so you can't see the gate from
the driveway at the front of the house. So we're waiting for whoever it
is to come walking out from around the corner at the back of the house.
At the end of the driveway on the neighbors side, on the front
of their garage is one of those orange outdoor lights like you were talking about,
So there is that light. A few seconds go by, here comes
somebody walking out from behind the house, just like we expected. My driveway
is maybe fifty feet long, sixty feet long from where we are, so
not real far, but it's not real close. And I don't recognize the
person. I can't just instantly recognize them. And they walk to a position
where they're now my vehicle and his vehicle are now blocking the view of them.
We can't see them anymore. That's interesting. Yeah, So we start
walking back over into my front yard to change the angle where we could see
them. Yeah, and we don't see them. They're not there, and
I'm just like, what's going on. I'm pretty much in the middle of
my front yard at this point, and for some reason, I don't know
why didn't think to like yell out or anything. Maybe it's because it was
so late. You know, we work our way back over towards the driveway.
Now we're going to change our angle on the other side, you know,
to see who this is. As soon as we walk over back basically
to where we had been, you can see them, but they're standing in
the shadow next to my neighbor's house, almost like they're hiding. Yeah,
we kind of like step out into the neighbor's driveway, still at the back
of his vehicle, but even with it, and now we're in the other
driveway and they start walking down the driveway towards us, directly towards us.
Here's something else to say, just for a side note, he and I
are both really big dudes, not small at all. Intimidating for sure.
I do not recognize this person at all. What I can tell you from
what I can see because they're backlit by this light at my neighbor's house at
this point. So the silhouette, Yeah, the silhouette is like a person
much smaller than me, but looks like an adult male long hair. I
can tell that they have long hair. It looks like some sort of jacket
and pants, pretty uniform. I was thinking, maybe it's a jean jacket
and jeans or something. And they're just like walking right towards us, and
he and I are standing there, and this is the weird part. Neither
one of us could move. Neither one of us could talk, We couldn't
move, we couldn't do anything. We were just standing there frozen. And
this person made their way straight to us. And right before they got to
us, they turned to their left, which was our right, and changed
their angle where they walked between us and the corner of my neighbor's house and
just cut straight across my neighbor's front yard. They walked through the yard to
the sidewalk and then walked down the sidewalk. We're watching them this whole time.
They're just casually strolling. They never say anything, they never stop.
They go all the way to the end of the street. They turn left.
We can still see them walking. As soon as we lost view of
them as they like went behind the house at the end of the street,
we snap out of it and we're both just like, what the hell.
Hell, here's the thing. I will swear on anything. It did not
have a face. It was just empty blackness. At its closest point,
it was I'm getting goosebumps right now, man, I used to go out
and look for Bigfoot. Yeah, this is the scariest thing that's ever happened
to me in my life. This thing did not have a face. It
was just empty darkness. It was like there was a silhouette. It was
three dimensional. I could tell it had long hair, I could tell it
had clothing on, but it was all just black. There was nothing there.
Yeah, my friend saw the exact same thing. He still won't talk
about it really, Like he doesn't like to talk about it. I mean,
like I could. I haven't talked to this guy in probably five years.
I could call him up and be like, hey, man, you
remember that thing in the driveway, and he'd be like, you know,
shut the f up, man, don't talk about it. Yeah. Whenever
we snapped out of it, you know, I'm like, what the hell
was that? And he's like, it didn't have a face, Like that
was the first thing he said. Oh yeah, I immediately go inside the
house, call nine to one one and I called the cops. Man,
I didn't know I was shook. I was absolutely shook. I said,
there was a guy in my backyard. Yeah, they send the cops.
I tell them, you know, we tell them the story. We don't
tell them that it didn't have a face or anything. We just say this
person. We didn't We couldn't really make any details out. They walked down
to the industry. They turned left, the cops went drove around. He
and I got in his vehicle, drove around, never saw anybody, couldn't
find anybody. I have no idea what it was, but I will swear
until I die it did not have a face. It was just darkness,
just a black void where its face should have been. It's interesting that you
say you couldn't move and that, because that's how I felt like the moment.
I thought. I don't know if it was the same for you,
if it like took you a little longer, But it was like I instantly
looked registered it wasn't a person, and then it couldn't move. Yeah,
And it felt like I was forcing you know how you get like sleep paralysis.
Yeah, yeah, that's what it felt like. And I had to
force myself out of it to move towards my truck. But for you,
like what was that feeling of like you couldn't move and did you get sick?
Almost, So, whenever I first saw it step out from behind my
house and you know, kind of walk to where it was hidden from view,
at that point, it was like just kind of that ice cold vein
feeling. And then I was like, who is that? You know,
my mind is trying to process again what I'm seeing, and like, who
is this? Who is at my house? Because like I heard the gate.
I know we both heard the gate, so yeah, so it's like
physical right, And then whenever we saw it again and it's like leaned over
against the house as soon as it stepped out of the shadow and started walking
towards us, is when we both just froze, just could not move.
Because in any normal situation, he and I, especially him, would have
been like, hey, who are you you know? Yeah, I mean,
especially if you're that build. Yeah yeah, yeah, for sure.
I have no explanation for our behavior, for its behavior, what it looked
like, anything. And here's the other weird thing about it. Like I
said, we heard the gate, we heard it come out of the backyard,
but we had been in my room the entire time, and we never
heard the gate where it went into the backyard. Oh so it disappeared or
I have no idea. I have no clue. It's funny that you even
say it had like a jean jacket on, because it's great. Still.
Yeah, yeah, I couldn't make out like any colors or anything. Did
I have like a silver lining around it? Uh? Not that I remember.
Okay, it was kind of like, I mean, there was just
like the outline of it because of the light that was behind it at the
end of the driveway. Yeah, but still at that I mean, anybody
else walking down my driveway, I would like it wasn't that dark. But
this thing was dark, like a shadow like darker than its surroundings. It
did, Yeah, because that's what the like to me. I could tell
that the suit it was wearing, it was obviously not pitch black. It
was just like there was no there were I didn't see hands, didn't see
feet, and there was no face. You know. I looked it was
looking straight at me, and that's the thing. I was looking straight at
me. So if there was texture, you know, as someone was wearing
a mask, I could have seen that. Because it's twenty twenty one,
I believe at this point, and some people are still wearing masks at the
time. No mask, no full face thing. It was just nothing,
almost as if you're looking into the darkness that I heard that's around me.
Anyway, when you mentioned where you moved the angle right of the truck or
the car, I did the same thing because that's where. That's why I
moved left to like change the angle, and that's when it wasn't there anymore.
Yeah, I mean, I've tried to figure this one out for years,
and the reason being is obviously I know there's going to be people listening
to this episode and I get it. Oh, so it was just like
some guy in your backyard, you know it was dark out or something.
No, if that were it, I wouldn't be telling you about it right
now. Well, you also have like a feeling, and that's you know,
people during the camping trip ask me the same thing, like, it's
sure wasn't just a guy. I was like, I don't think I would
be reacting the same way if it was a guy, right, And I
probably would have said something. On a personable person, I don't say nothing,
and I don't get scared off of seeing somebody well me And then another
guy who, yeah, you're with somebody too. I mean, my friend
is very confrontational. He likes to get into fights. And you know,
in a normal scenario, this is somebody that doesn't belong on my property,
that's all my property, and has just gotten busted. You know, like
we're gonna beat the crap out of this guy. You know, like,
who are you? Why are you in my backyard? Man? What are
you doing here? Yeah? Honestly, and we were both just like frozen,
couldn't move, could not move. It wasn't even a choice. And
it wasn't like frozen with fear as much as it was just almost just like
in a zombie state, just like watching it, nothing even registering, just
watching it walk by, just standing there and watching this thing walk by.
And then after it got out of sight where we couldn't see it anymore.
And keep in mind, it's walked it's at least six houses to the end
of the block. It's walked right by us within five feet. It's walked
through this front yard, it's walked down the sidewalk, it's turned left,
it's walked past that house. After it goes out of you, we instantly
snap out of it. And start freaking out. Not while it's walking away,
not whenever it's five houses away. Well, also is it right next
to you too? Yeah, And the entire time, even with it walking
down the sidewalk and all of that, still can't see anything, can't make
out a face, nothing. Granted it's back was turned to us and everything,
but even as it's walking down the side, you know, at the
end of the street, there's no like profile to it or anything. Yeah,
that's wild. Yeah, Like even I don't even know to think about
that one, I mean yours. I would like to say, you saw
an alien, you know, wearing a space suit at the dunes in Colorado?
Mine shadow, man, I don't know. Are they the same thing?
I don't know. Do they come from the same place, No clue.
All I know is you saw something without a face and I saw something
without a face. Yeah, I mean it could have been lead the same
hype of something and very similar reactions in both cases, I would say,
Yeah, very similar, I'd say. And that's the thing is, like
I was kind of hoping you have like some kind of exclamation, but well,
because I was, like, I've been looking for one for so long
and I still just even just thinking about it. Whenever I'm out alone by
myself at night, it's just like, oh, maybe i'll see it again.
I don't know. I'm hoping. I don't obviously, but it's just
like always there. So the only thing that comes to mind. And it's
not the same place exactly, I don't know exactly where it is. So
I'm from Oklahoma and out towards the Panhandle, which is the general area you
were at. There's a place here in Oklahoma where all kinds of like crazy
weird stuff happens, the Shamans Triangle or something weird like that. It's got
some crazy name, and it's just like it's just like a weird place where
people see UFOs and weird things and weird stuff happens all the time. So
I'm wondering if maybe something connected to just that geographic region of the United States
or something. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I
haven't looked into anything regarding the Great Dudes. I did very briefly before I
emailed you. I was like, maybe this is like a normal thing.
I didn't find too much. The only thing I did find was like aliens.
But it's like I haven't seen anything. I don't know, and I
part of me wants to go back and like figure out what it is or
maybe encounter it again. I appreciate you coming on here and sharing it.
Man, I wish I had some aner is for you. It's okay,
I'll keep looking. Yeah. Do you got a place for people to check
out your photographs or anything? Yeah? I just have an Instagram. It's
aiden r D L so a I D E N r D and L laughter
and then I should pop up on Instagram. Yeah, and thank you for
having us has fun, Yeah, of course, man,