The Night My Friends Nearly Got Me Killed

• 🌃 Three teenage friends on a summer night in 1995 were drinking beers and shooting a BB gun in a secluded clearing.
• 👽 Their casual evening took a terrifying turn when they witnessed a large, human-shaped silhouette with wings land in a nearby tree.
• 😱 After Benny shot the creature with the BB gun, it made an unsettling, high-pitched sound and pointed directly at them, sending the friends into a panicked flight.
• ❓ The next morning, the narrator found a single BB on his nightstand, suggesting the creature may have entered his room while they slept.

The Retreat

• 🌲 A group traveling to a wedding in Washington's Olympic Peninsula became hopelessly lost on unmarked forest roads due to a supposed shortcut.
• 🏚️ They stumbled upon an old, seemingly abandoned general store where an elderly proprietor warned them about the dangers of the fog and the woods.
• 🚗 Their rental car mysteriously vanished in the thick fog, only to reappear hours later after the fog cleared.
• 🚪 The proprietor, who claimed to have found the store decades ago after getting lost himself, disappeared without a trace when they left.

My Highway Experience

• 🛣️ Driving on Highway 491 in New Mexico, formerly known as Highway 666, the narrator experienced electronic malfunctions in their car.
• 👤 A mysterious vehicle with headlights maintained a constant distance behind them, and then a soaking wet woman appeared in the road, warning them to "Turn back. Death on the road tonight."
• 💥 Immediately after the woman vanished, the narrator encountered an overturned semi-truck blocking the highway, narrowly avoiding a fatal crash.

Goatman is Real, People from Maryland

• 🏕️ A family camping trip in Maryland's Patapsco Valley State Park was disrupted by strange footsteps and sounds around their tents at night.
• 🐐 The children reported seeing a face with horns and unusual eyes peering into their tent, and later described a large, hairy creature with goat-like legs and horns.
• 🚗 The family fled in their SUV after seeing a 7-foot-tall creature with a goat-like head and backward-bending legs step into their headlights.
• ❓ Upon returning to their campsite with a park ranger, they found their belongings scattered, with a camera and a pocketknife missing, and unusual hoof prints around the site.