What Are They?

From: Nicole (polarbear438@yahoo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: everywhere
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Tue Dec 15 15:35:55 2009

I've always experienced shadows moving about or caught a glimpse of "something" out the corner off my eye. It was always quick, and I couldn't make out what it was, but none of this ever happened often enough for me really to think anything of it until recently...I am 20 years old now and for the past couple months something strange has been happening and I don't really no what to think or make of it all.

The first experience or when all this started to intensify was about 3 months ago. I was at my boyfriends house, we were in his room, on his bed eating. We were talking and watching t.v. and everything seemed normal until out of the corner of my eye i saw a dark figure crawl out from under the bed. Shocked I turned quickly and it disappeared, but the image of what seemed to be a large mutated cat stayed with me and kept me shaken only for a little while.

I kept seeing flashes out the corner of my eye like shapes of "things" but nothing like I had seen in my boyfriends room. Then a couple weeks later while I was driving I saw animal like black figure dart across the road and just simply disappeared. At this point I started to worry thinking I was losing my mind...the animal like shadows were appearing more often and appeared to be taking more clear shapes, however i still only ever got a very quick glimpse of "it".

Weeks continued and so did the images, until one day I opened a bathroom door and saw a small dog staring up at me then disappeared. I was shocked and a little shaken, this was the first time i ever saw an image actually look like a living creature. After that I did not see anything for weeks. Weeks went on with no flashes out the corner of my eye, but then they were back. They were no longer "animal like" now they were just blackish blobs. Whenever I noticed them they would disappear like always. Again I began to see them more and more often. I could be with people, walking, driving, anything I would see it, each time taking on a more familiar shape, this time though it was taking on human qualities.

After a while I started to ignore them, using any excuse for what I "may have" saw as an excuse. It wasn't like I had ever seen it long enough to know what it was, it wasn't exactly like a ghost or anything. Then it seemed i only noticed it while i was driving, so i quickly excused it with the fact of light playing tricks on my eyes. Shortly after I started noticing someone sitting in the backseat of my car. Each time I noticed it, it seemed slightly more detailed, but like always as soon as i would look it was gone. Only now it would reappear right after then disappear whenever i would look again.

Last night was different then anything so far, last night i actually saw a face staring back at me and even more bizarre he was white and translucent, unlike all the dark shadowy figures i had been experiencing. Then like always disappeared within a second.

I dont know what to make of all of this, but it is starting to creep me out. If anyone has any theories or anything please email me.