22 Real-Life Experiences That Are Like Something Out Of The Twilight Zone

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“It’s around 3 in the morning in rural North-Central Alberta. My friend and I are driving home from a high school party in which neither of us drank or took any drugs. It’s the middle of winter. In Alberta, this means it’s cold outside. This night it was below -30 degrees Celsius (below -22 degrees Fahrenheit). The whole way home, my friend and I are chatting. As we round a corner, I’m zoning out listening to my friend talk, when through the windshield, I notice glowing eyes off the side of the road, the headlights not fully hitting whatever it was. The eyes were green/yellowish. This would be normal, but these eyes are about 7-8 feet above the ground.”

“At first, I think it’s a hiker or someone walking back to town, but their eyes wouldn’t glow, and no one is going to be walking that far from town or any houses when it’s that cold and late outside (this was a town of less than 1,000 people).

As we drive closer, this thing appears to have goat-like legs, is very heavy-set, and stands on two feet. Its arms drop down by its side like a person’s, and it appears to even have some kind of dark clothing on the top half. It had goat-like horns that curved but went upwards. At this point, my blood runs completely cold, and I have a full-fledged instinctual freeze response, hairs standing up on the back of my neck. I remember hearing my own disembodied voice think, ‘I shouldn’t be seeing this. This is wrong.’ I even teared up. We pass by it relatively quickly, and I can’t stop thinking about what that was.

My perception of time was kind of weird after that due to panic. But now the lights of town are in front of us, and I realize my friend isn’t talking anymore. I turn to my friend and sheepishly said with tears still in my eyes, ‘Sorry, what were you saying? I must be going crazy but I thought I saw something back there.’

She said, ‘No, no, it’s fine. I saw it too. Did it kind of look like a goat?’ So, she saw it too. We had no idea what it was. We both come from hunting families, and I know the easiest critique is that it was an elk or moose standing on hind legs. But the arms of an elk or deer don’t just fall beside the body; they buckle outwards a bit. Regardless, it seemed human-like in its stance, and it was very heavy-set. Then, you’d think, oh, it was a bear. But it had horns and curved back legs. I assume moose would be the same as an elk or deer but I’ve never really seen a moose standing ambiently, typically just when they fight.

Even our responses were odd. You’d think, given scary movies, you’d immediately flip out and react. Both of us kind of just got entranced and terrified for a while, blood running cold. While the friend and I don’t talk anymore, we talked about it a few times in the next years we were still in contact. She continued to refer to it as the goat thing.”

—Chevy_Cheyenne