[PurerSands]

Creepiest thing to happen to me in a long time happened not so long ago...

The field i'm in work-wise is pretty hectic and has some crazy hours involved and so often i'd work one place during the day, and another at night. The shift I had just finished was a late one, and this particular place of work is over an hour away from where I live.

I had finished my shift and was driving home (5am). The roads here are pretty quiet at that time and apart from maybe a 20 minute ride on the motorway its a pretty rural route.

I had a colleague travelling in my car with me, and we were on a pretty dark part of the road, both tired and just wanting to get home. All of a sudden we see this dark tall object in the middle of the road JUST in view of my lights - slightly to the side appeared as if out of nowhere. We were really, really close to this object at the time and it was right by the drivers side. I swerved just in time not to hit whatever it was, and as we were passing it we made out what it was.

It was a man. Dressed in black jeans, a black hooded top, and black gloves. He had his hood pulled right down over his face and tied so he couldn't see anything, and we couldn't see a face. He was walking with his arms stretched directly out in front of him (Zombie Walk Style) and was trying to walk out in front of my car.

Needless to say we were both shaken, and sadly realized the man had been trying to take his own life. I called the cops to let them know and they said they would send a patrol car. I turned the car around as we both decided we should look for him, and try to help him. We drove the road for 20 minutes looking for him, he was gone. There were no houses, no lanes, no where 'normal' he could have gone. We waited and waited, the cops never showed.

I still think of him, hoping no harm came to him, and also hoping he never did to anyone else what he done to us. It was an extremely terrifying experience, one that shook us both horribly.