Well, one night I was at my neighboors house on her trampoline with her cousin. I was just sitting there and he was like "dont move" and I'm like "why" he just stood on the trampoline for a moment and was like "get in the house, RUN" so it was dark, and when someone tells youto run in the house you get freaked out. (Yes, I am going somewhere with this)
He said he saw something in the next yard over. I didnt see anything. I thought he was just seeing things. Later we went out on the front steps to sit and count the bats flying overhead (I swear we counted 500 bats once). Dont ask why.
We lived near some woods andfrom where we lived you could see a nice size chunk of the woods with a really small field area in front. well, I happened to look over that way and saw what appeared to be a large black dog. It was running across the field area and I swear it just dissapeared. And you cant tell me it went into the woods, it didnt. the streets were well lit. It was just a black silouette of a dog and it suddenly disapeared. I would have seen it if it went into the woods, I kept my eyes on it the whole time.
Later I asked my neigboors cousin what he saw and he said it looked like a really large black dog, just standing there.
Now the creepy thing is that I had read about this dog spirit that is said to appear all over the world and it was a large black dog spirit. It usually was harmless but was known to leave things burned, but usually not likely to attack (if I am remembering correctly)
Also, for the size, this thing was extremely graceful in how it was running
Oh, and did I mention that night there as a forest fire? yeah, you get used to them, when you lived that close, but they didnt make the woods go up in flames, you just smelled burning wood, usually from idiots who caught something on fire. But still, the smell of wood burning is strong and the chances of it happening were high anyway cause it was a really hot, dry night. But still freaky