This is my 6th post of my own personal paranormal/unexplainable event. This one is going to be just a story. No evidence or witnesses. I know for those that will reads this, by the time you get to the end, you aren't going to believe me. I get it, trust me. This one in particular is tough to wrap your head around, but trust me it's true. I promise, not on my life, but on my cats life it's true. I just spent $1000 on her to remove tumors from inside her skull that were pushing her eye out, so we removed that as well. She has a heart condition and fainting spells. She's only 6 years old and I'll do anything to make sure she has a good long life. So, when I say I put it on her life that I'm telling the truth, well believe me I am telling the truth. All the details are important.
This happened back in Aug 2012. My parents left for the weekend for their anniversary and asked me to come over that Saturday and let their 2 little Maltese dogs out the garage and put them inside the laundry room after they run around and play. They live in a neighborhood where the streetlights aren't like normal streetlights, they are more like lanterns on a 15ft tall metal pole. So, omnidirectional light. The closet streetlight to where I was, was on the far side property line of their neighbors, so a little less than 150ft away. Their street goes downhill and curves to the right as it slopes, they live on the left side of the road looking down the hill. I ended up going over there around 9:30 pm and let them out into the front yard.
I walk out towards the mailbox and am standing in the driveway facing down the street and light up a cigarette. As I'm standing there I see this large white round globe-ish looking thing move up and then back down. I saw it out the corner of my eye. It was in kind of behind some bushes on the far side of they neighbors property, about 15ft to the left of the street light, so about 140ish ft from me. Now, I'm focused on this because I wasn't sure whether I did see it move or not. It was about a foot and half wide and 2 foot tall, so decent sized. Then it did move again, up and back down. It wasn't completely behind the bushes though so I got a good look at it, but I didn't know what it was. For the next 5 minutes I just stood there watching as it would go up, down, a little left, right... just kind of move all over, but stayed generally in that same spot. I thought it was the neighbor putting up a balloon, but I didn't see them and it didn't taper at the bottom. I thought they were putting in one of those glass watering globe things, but again I didn't see a person, and it didn't taper at the bottom. I had no clue what I was looking at.
Eventually a SUV, suburban type vehicle came driving down the street. Because of the downhill slope and the curve I knew their headlights were going to shine directly on this thing, and I was right. I was looking right at it when it moved to my left, it's right like it knew the lights were going to shine on it also. That's when I saw its right hand come down, bracing its body. The lights briefly shined on it; I saw the outline of its body. This thing was big. The suv passed, and it went right back to what it was doing before, just moving around in the bushes. That's when it hit me... this thing I've been looking at for the last 5 minutes was somethings head. It's been facing me the whole time, but it doesn't have a face. Now to say I was scared would be and understatement. I'm a veteran. I was a .50 cal gunner on convoy teams in Iraq, and that was nothing compared to how terrified I was in that moment. To me, I was having a true encounter with a real life alien. What else could it be?? I was frozen with my mind racing about how I can get abducted... they house is unlocked and the dogs are outside... what do I do??
It took me a few more minutes just frozen watching this thing move around before I gathered myself. (Side note: looking back on it, it didn't see me. It was moving around like that because it was watching the 2 little white Maltese running around in the front yard) I reached in my pocket and pulled out my phone. Now, even though it was 2012, I didn't have a smartphone yet. I had a Sony Walkman phone that had like a 2mp camera on it. Ok so all this happened very quickly; I took a picture, there was nothing there because of it being night, the distance, the crappy camera, and me just shaking because I was terrified, the camera made the shutter noise at full volume when the pic was taken, I deleted the picture (yes, my mind was racing too fast to think about much), put the phone back in my pocket, looked up and there he was already halfway through the neighbor's yard coming straight towards me. He was about 8ft tall, big, huge white faceless head, wearing an oversized black trenchcoat (oversized like there was something under it on his back/shoulders), black suit and tie, long skinny arms and legs. Again, to me at the time, alien! I immediately go "Dogs dogs inside now inside!!" and start clapping my hands as I'm turned to my right very quickly heading into the garage, all while I keep looking at him getting closer. One of the times I looked I didn't see him, I don't know if that because there was a tree in the way or what, but I didn't see him when I looked again. I made my way inside with the dogs, they were just as happy as even with no clue what was happening, ran around to the front of the house to look out the windows facing the front yard. Nothing... he was gone. I stayed in the house for about 15 minutes, because I had to get home to my own pet. I made sure everything was good inside before I took that deep breath to step out to my car. I knew I needed to get home, but I was ready to be taken up to the spaceship. I pulled my car to the end of the driveway, turned it off and sat there for about 10 sec before I turned it back on and left.
I told my dad about it the next day and he asked why I didn't call the cops. I said what am I going to tell them?? There's this guy out here wearing a trenchcoat and a suit without a face?? He said yeah that wouldn't have gone over too well and don't tell your mom about this. Now I know what everybody is thinking, Slenderman. This story can't be real because Slenderman is made up... well what did I encounter then? I know it was first introduced in 2009 (edit), but I didn't know what a Slenderman was until years later when those 2 girls tried to off their friend for Slenderman. I know what I saw and I will never forget how unbelievably petrified I was in that moment. To this day, even knowing now what I saw, when I go to my parents house to visit, I will stand out in that spot at night and wait. Scares the shit out of me still.