[Serious] Reddit, paranormal or not, what is the scariest/creepiest thing that ever happened to you or a friend/family member?

Buddy and I were out hunting, I had a rifle for deer, he had a shotgun for partridge.

We ended up staying out to long and it got dark as we were hiking back,it dawned on us we didn't have flashlights, just zippos, so we were using those to provide some light.

We were still a good 6km from his house in the woods when we started to hear something moving behind us, so we stopped and listened and couldn't hear anything, this kept happening every few minutes, we'd hear something and stop, nothing. We had guns, we knew how to use them, so at first we were a little freaked but not that bad.

That is until we stopped and it kept moving for a few extra seconds, so we turn around and we're waving this zippos around trying to see what's going on. It wasn't super thick bush, but it was dark, we couldn't see anything.

I called out to let a person know to show themselves before they get shot (Highly unlikely to be anyone else in that area at night), heard nothing back, so we keep going and the noise started again, I spun around and maybe 15 feet behind me shining back the flame of my zippo were two big eyes maybe 4 feet off the ground, So I cranked a round into the air and it hauled ass away, we could hear it smashing through the woods for what felt like an eternity.

Never did find out what it was, didn't like going into the woods at night afterwards though.

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