It all started back in April 08, it was one of the darkest/ clearest nights I can remember around here in a long time. My sister and I were driving home from her house at around 3 A.M. everything was fine, neither of us was under any kind of distress or anything, when we came upon a set of railroad tracks adjacent to the road I live on, we slowed to nearly a stop as we were going over, our brights on, with no other vehicles coming from any direction (I live kind of in the middle of nowhere) as we went over the last of the tracks we both see this shadowy figure, almost as if it were made completely of shadow glide directly through a barbed wire fence on the left side of the road, and into another field on the right side of the road. As we drove by the area it took us a second to register what had just happened so my sister says to me "Did you just see that?" my response was "Yeah that seven foot tall shadow man that just ran across the road" she says "Yes" and we both are speechless for a minute, in awe then we get to my house, and I go to bed. The next morning I tell my mother of what had occurred and she is completely skeptical, for good reason I suppose as it was 3 A.M. About a week later though she comes home late at night, and she tells me "I saw it" and I immediately knew what she was talking about as I had been walking the road late at night a lot recently due to vehicle problems and had since the first sighting seen it many more times always at the same spot. As I suspected she had seen the very same thing at the same place around the very same time. Keep in mind I had not spoken to her about the incident since it had first occurred about a week previously. So I found it strange. Around the same time all of this was happening one of my neighbors was walking through a field right next to my house and came upon some ruins. It just so happens that they were the previously unknown ruins of a Native American village. The area is now protected and no one is allowed to build there or develop the plot of land... Also on a side note, recently a farmer had been killed when his tilling machine ran him over just about 3 houses down the road from my house, he in fact owned the plot of land in which we had been seeing the shadowy figure. This all leads up to the most recent occurrence which happened at around 3 A.M. last Saturday. My brother, and I were talking in our kitchen about the movie "The happening" which we both found to be hilarious, when my brother looked to his right at a window near the back entrance of our house and screamed "Holy ****ing ****!" I looked at the same time and with a slew of words with the same effect I screamed because there with its face plastered right up against the window like some completely ****ing crazy b**** was what looked like a woman with a very pale flesh tone and long red hair looking through our window making the most contorted face I've ever seen. Once it noticed we had seen it, it took off almost as if it vanished into thin air but I clearly saw it back away, but once I got outside to survey the area around my house it had completely disappeared. Needless to say I don't go out walking without a flash light, or someone with me any longer. So here's the description that both my sister and I agreed upon for the shadow man. It was about 7 Ft tall, completely black as if it were wearing some sort of cloak over its body, it reminded both of us of the grim reaper, it had no discernible feet. It just seemed to glide through a barbed wire fence and across the road in front of us. As for the description of the red haired woman, the closest I could come to a comparison of the face/ the contortion of it would be the face Dan Akroyd's character makes at the beginning of Twilight Zone the movie, you know the part where he says "Do you want to see something really scary?" the part when they're driving in the car, it looked almost identical to that, most definitely the most frightening thing I have ever seen or experienced... If anyone has any thoughts or similar experiences I would really appreciate reading them.

Here's a link to the part of the movie I'm talking about Opening scene of twilight zone the movie

*edit also, sorry about the misspelling of the thread title, it's late as hell, and I have a massive headache.

Have you been living there long? Maybe ask your neighbours about it if you're on good terms with them. Shadow guy...well no clue there. Though since the other figure was a woman with red hair removes the chance of it being the farmer who was killed or any Native ghost (since they would have black hair). Maybe the ghost of a past owner wondering why her key didn't work anymore.

I swear that whole red haired woman thing is one of the scariest scenarios I have ever read in my entire life. Just something about it is so creepy, then watching that twilight zone movie clip added to the effect. I totally forgot about that part of the movie!
And as for the rest of it, its so odd that it all seems to be happening within the same time period. So creepy, if I were you I would just never go outside again!!!

I live in Champaign county. What county this sighting at?

Yeah it was easily the single most frightening thing I've ever seen.




This was in Delaware County.

very spookie indeed watch yourself and get a good camera we need pictures. peace out wolfie

ooohhh, pictures. Time to go Ghost Huntin'!

OMG I would have had a heart attack!
Maybe it was a skinwalker? Have you heard about those??

I've heard the term before, but I don't think I've ever looked into it, but I will now though, thanks Daniella.

You're welcome!
search for "skinwalkers" in here and you'll find lots of threads about them

The Mothman maybe?! heck next time chase that crazy woman with a baseball bat! Its time for modern Exorcism now =)