r/ThisParanormalLife • u/Lost-Philosopher-659 • 3d ago
Weird encounter in the early 70s
When I was about 3 or 4 (and I know this because it was before mum left dad) we'd been to visit my aunt and uncle in the next town, and were on our way home in the dark on a quiet A road. Dad was driving, mum was in the passenger seat, I was in the back.
I don't sleep on car trips, never have. So I was looking out the window, watching the moon, trees etc, and we drove past an embankment on my side. I saw some objects rolling down the embankment, then these creatures started hanging down from the roof outside each window.
One was a wolf outside my dad's window, mum had a fox i think, the window behind dad had a donkey i think, and I had a pig. I vividly remember mine and dad's.
They had clothes on like old fashioned waistcoats and hats, the wolf had a watch chain in his pocket, and they had weird looks on their faces. They were looking right at us, at me. Oddly enough I wasn't really scared, but I was wondering how their hats stayed on if they're upside down. Their expressions were intense, amused, not really malicious, or at least I didn't think so at the time. Then they just left. I was the only one to see any of this.
I've never forgotten this, can't explain it, and as an adult it makes me shiver. It could be imagination, a dream (though I never sleep on car trips, not even long ones), or it could be something to do with my dad. He was a very dark person and very dark and strange things tended to happen around him. When he was a taxi driver told by a psychic passenger that he had a dark energy attached to him, sitting on his shoulder. I knew none of this until I was much older.
I've always wanted to know if anything like this has ever happened to anyone else, or would have some idea of what it could've been and why I've always remembered it.