Hide Behinds ʕ ﾟ ● ﾟʔ

One night, my friend and I went under the Mississippi bridge in Tennessee to do some art. We are locals to the area, so it isn’t a far drive at all. We get there and we park and we walk along it (keep in mind this was at night) to find a spot that’s free to tag. As we are walking along, we hear a loud noise so we start running. We don’t take chances. Whatever we heard we heard the entire run back to the car, it was like it was chasing us away.

A few nights later me and the same friend along with another go back to attempt it again because…maybe it was just an animal… 

Pulling up I had a horrible feeling but I thought it might have just been paranoia. I soon learned to trust my intuition next time. This time, we drive under the bridge and park right in front of a free spot so we can quickly leave if we need to. We got out of the car and my friend started on her tag and I was holding the flashlight for her. My other friends was standing next to the car because he was scared under there. We then hear a very loud and very close noise in the woods next to us. We run back to the car and drive off and once we get to the road my friend realizes she left her phone. So of course, we go back.

As we get to where we were my friend pulls up beside it so we don’t have to all get out. 

When we get back to the road I ask them if they saw what I saw.

I saw a figure, like the silhouette of a human, standing behind one of the poles. 

My friend says when he got out to get the phone, he saw the same exact thing. He said his intuition told him not to look away or he felt like it would move or get closer. My other friend also said she saw it and she said that’s why she pointed the headlights in that direction when pulling out.

Fast forward to a few nights later, we are all at my house. My friend who got the phone goes outside for a minute to get something from the car and he comes back in saying that he saw the same figure but it disappeared quickly when he looked at it. As my friend left to go home (the one that was driving) ,she calls me and asks if I was screaming. I said no, and she said it sounded like me or another woman screaming. And she says when she got to her house she smelt a terrible smell.

So I wasn’t staying at my house alone after that, so I go to my other friends house (the one that got the phone) and we go to get clensed by his mom who has been a wiccan for a very long time. The cleansing didn’t work, the smoke was going away from us. But as we were standing on the porch doing so, I look across the street to the woods and I see it again. Standing there, just looking at us. I look at my friend and he nods his head to confirm he sees the same.

I have since then gotten a protection spell done by a strong witch in my family and I have no seen it since. But sometimes I still feel watched. I always have and always will believe in cryptids and other mythical creatures, but I am not easily paranoid.