Now, this is gonna be very long, but this is very freaky. I'm freaked out by my friend's description. He lives across state, near Albany, and he just instant messaged me, freaked out because this is what happened to him on his way home tonight. I'll just paste our whole conversation here....read if you're interested.... Lecmaninoff (2:31:03 AM): Dude, lemme paste something to you. FromZeroEGG (2:31:11 AM): okay Lecmaninoff (2:31:16 AM): Man, I wish I could describe it. Okay, so I'm with Meg and we're driving by under the 890 bridge, Edison avenue, off of Broadway. Creepy part of town, all industrial. And I turn slowly onto Edison... And this person continues to walk across the street. I sorta slow almost to a stop but not quite, and she/he/it to a complete stop. About 5'7 or so, all in black, with something red on its shirt that I couldn't make out. Lecmaninoff (2:31:23 AM): Blonde hair. Infinite eyes. And it just looked up at me with this half cocked smile and way overwide eyes. As I slowly drove by. And Meg and I didn't say anything for a second. As we drove a little bit and intuited it. And then we told each other, both separately, that we were really scared and had never seen a human face make so.... unearthly and unorganic an expression as that. Dude, it felt like some deformed animal took over that person and then looked at us through its eyes. Like it knew something we didn't, and was about to watch us die or something. I couldn't tell a gender, or age, or anything. EGG (2:32:28 AM): dude...that sounds freaky EGG (2:32:30 AM): what's that from? off (2:32:36 AM): From my life. off (2:32:40 AM): I was just telling my friend. off (2:32:47 AM): It just happened to me. EGG (2:32:53 AM): whattt? EGG (2:32:59 AM): what was the red thing on the shirt/ ecmaninoff (2:33:02 AM): No idea. FromZeroEGG (2:33:06 AM): blood? ecmaninoff (2:33:15 AM): I have no idea. FromZeroEGG (2:33:18 AM): was it a guy/girl/ghost ecmaninoff (2:33:27 AM): Could have been any of the following. FromZeroEGG (2:33:34 AM): was the person black or white? ecmaninoff (2:33:41 AM): White, I know that much. ecmaninoff (2:33:45 AM): But that's it. ecmaninoff (2:33:51 AM): No gender, or relative age, or anything. FromZeroEGG (2:33:55 AM): bright blonde hair? ecmaninoff (2:34:03 AM): No....dirty blonde. FromZeroEGG (2:34:16 AM): dude, these kinds of things interest me, but for some reason, they always bring tears to my eyes...lol FromZeroEGG (2:34:22 AM): that's so freaky ecmaninoff (2:34:30 AM): Man... FromZeroEGG (2:34:34 AM): was it in albany or schenectady? ecmaninoff (2:34:40 AM): It was like ****in' God or the Devil or something. ecmaninoff (2:34:45 AM): And I don't even believe in religion. ecmaninoff (2:34:49 AM): Schenectady. FromZeroEGG (2:35:17 AM): that's so freaky FromZeroEGG (2:35:20 AM): what time was it at? ecmaninoff (2:35:25 AM): 1:30 ecmaninoff (2:35:28 AM): Full moon, too. FromZeroEGG (2:35:36 AM): jesus, that's crazy ecmaninoff (2:35:52 AM): Man, it was like... ecmaninoff (2:35:58 AM): it looked like a different species. ecmaninoff (2:36:10 AM): Like an alien species that knew the human race was about to end. FromZeroEGG (2:36:17 AM): that's crazy FromZeroEGG (2:36:28 AM): like, what did it look like when it made the face? ecmaninoff (2:36:44 AM): It was a very slight smile in the corner of its mouth. ecmaninoff (2:36:49 AM): The head was a little cocked. romZeroEGG (2:36:57 AM): was it a person? ecmaninoff (2:37:02 AM): The face came, like, shining through the darkness and the dark hood. FromZeroEGG (2:37:29 AM): it had a hood on? ecmaninoff (2:37:34 AM): Dark hood. FromZeroEGG (2:37:44 AM): how did you see hair though? ecmaninoff (2:37:54 AM): It fell in front of its face slightly. FromZeroEGG (2:38:06 AM): jesus, i would have ran it over just to see what it was FromZeroEGG (2:38:07 AM): lol ecmaninoff (2:38:08 AM): I saw those ****ing eyes through it. FromZeroEGG (2:38:16 AM): how long was the hair? ecmaninoff (2:38:26 AM): About to the bottom of its nose. ecmaninoff (2:38:31 AM): One or two long hanging strands. FromZeroEGG (2:38:35 AM): what time was this at? ecmaninoff (2:38:38 AM): 1:30 FromZeroEGG (2:39:28 AM): are you freaked? FromZeroEGG (2:39:31 AM): i would be ecmaninoff (2:39:33 AM): Very. ecmaninoff (2:39:36 AM): It felt like an omen. ecmaninoff (2:39:40 AM): But, like, for me than me. ecmaninoff (2:39:46 AM): It felt like an omen for the entire human race. ecmaninoff (2:40:02 AM): *for more than me FromZeroEGG (2:40:08 AM): like, you seriously, don't think it was just some random guy walking down the street? FromZeroEGG (2:40:20 AM): that cocked a smile cuz he was in your way, and wanted to say sorry ecmaninoff (2:40:26 AM): I have never seen a human being look like that. FromZeroEGG (2:40:36 AM): like what? ecmaninoff (2:40:37 AM): Or express such...malevolence. ecmaninoff (2:41:03 AM): It felt threatening in a way I've never felt threatened before. ecmaninoff (2:41:13 AM): This'll sound ridiculous, but I felt like it was threatening my soul. ecmaninoff (2:41:28 AM): Not just me and my body, but it was threatening my very existence. ecmaninoff (2:41:31 AM): Meg felt the same way. FromZeroEGG (2:41:38 AM): how fast did you drive home? ecmaninoff (2:41:43 AM): Slowly. romZeroEGG (2:41:46 AM): i would have gone like 2395329592 mph ecmaninoff (2:41:51 AM): And very freaked out. FromZeroEGG (2:41:53 AM): ow far were you from home? FromZeroEGG (2:41:56 AM): how* ecmaninoff (2:41:58 AM): When I get scared I drive slower. Lecmaninoff (2:42:01 AM): About a mile or two. romZeroEGG (2:42:18 AM): is your girlfriend still there? ecmaninoff (2:42:26 AM): She drove back home. ecmaninoff (2:42:30 AM): But she was really scared. FromZeroEGG (2:42:31 AM): oh FromZeroEGG (2:42:38 AM): did she get home yet? ecmaninoff (2:42:44 AM): She must've by now. ecmaninoff (2:42:54 AM): They lost power today, I can't even call. FromZeroEGG (2:43:00 AM): that sucks ecmaninoff (2:43:10 AM): Man, this was supernatural. FromZeroEGG (2:43:13 AM): you guys should, like get a couple friends and go out and try and find the person again ecmaninoff (2:43:19 AM): SOMETHING paranormal happened tonight. FromZeroEGG (2:43:31 AM): did you see the person the whole time? ecmaninoff (2:43:40 AM): What do you mean? ecmaninoff (2:43:45 AM): I can still see it. ecmaninoff (2:43:54 AM): Like, if I had any facility with art, I could draw it. ecmaninoff (2:43:58 AM): Perfectly. ecmaninoff (2:44:28 AM): You would've thought it was normal if its eyes weren't trying to tell you that something terrible has happened or is about to happen. ecmaninoff (2:44:40 AM): Its eyes were so intense. FromZeroEGG (2:44:41 AM): like, did you see the person the whole time they were walking across the road? ecmaninoff (2:44:46 AM): Yeah. ecmaninoff (2:44:52 AM): It was originally just this black....thing. ecmaninoff (2:44:54 AM): Walking. FromZeroEGG (2:45:06 AM): did it stop right in front of you? ecmaninoff (2:45:06 AM): And then out of the blackness came this very bright face. ecmaninoff (2:45:11 AM): Leering at us. ecmaninoff (2:45:16 AM): It stopped right beside me. ecmaninoff (2:45:21 AM): I was driving, so right out my window. FromZeroEGG (2:45:25 AM): how far? ecmaninoff (2:45:26 AM): Maybe two feet or so. ecmaninoff (2:45:30 AM): And just looked at me like that,. ecmaninoff (2:45:40 AM): As I inched by, originally because I didn't want to hit it. FromZeroEGG (2:45:40 AM): what did the red thing look like? ecmaninoff (2:45:47 AM): I couldn't make it out. ecmaninoff (2:45:51 AM): It was all smeared./ FromZeroEGG (2:46:16 AM): my guess is that someone had just killed someone/something ecmaninoff (2:46:36 AM): I mean, my mind might be playing crazy tricks on me. ecmaninoff (2:46:45 AM): But the thing is, both Meg and I were profoundly affected by it. FromZeroEGG (2:46:48 AM): doubtful if your girlfriend saw it, too FromZeroEGG (2:46:52 AM): yeah ecmaninoff (2:47:02 AM): But it didn't actually DO anything.... FromZeroEGG (2:47:09 AM): what do you mean. FromZeroEGG (2:47:10 AM): ? ecmaninoff (2:47:17 AM): But just, the feeling evoked from it was the most sinister thing I have ever felt. ecmaninoff (2:47:40 AM): It didn't, like, do anything wrong. ecmaninoff (2:47:44 AM): It stopped and smiled at me. ecmaninoff (2:47:46 AM): Sounds normal. ecmaninoff (2:47:52 AM): But it was SOOOO not normal... ecmaninoff (2:47:59 AM): Meg and I both almost started crying we were so scared. ecmaninoff (2:48:09 AM): I don't scare easily, Sean, I don't scare easily at all. FromZeroEGG (2:48:31 AM): i don't really either, and i'm kind of scared sitting here FromZeroEGG (2:48:32 AM): lol ecmaninoff (2:48:55 AM): I felt like I was in the presence of something that could have killed me if it wanted to right there. ecmaninoff (2:49:04 AM): But was waiting for something. ecmaninoff (2:49:16 AM): And it knew. ecmaninoff (2:49:18 AM): Already. ecmaninoff (2:49:23 AM): What it was waiting for. FromZeroEGG (2:49:32 AM): dude...that's so freaky ecmaninoff (2:49:40 AM): You have no idea, Sean, no idea. ecmaninoff (2:49:52 AM): My girlfriend and I were trying to crack jokes and stuff... ecmaninoff (2:49:58 AM): But we were and are so scared. FromZeroEGG (2:50:15 AM): what was the area like that you were at? ecmaninoff (2:50:20 AM): Industrial. ecmaninoff (2:50:23 AM): REALLY industrial. ecmaninoff (2:50:54 AM): A couple of old furniture factories, abandoned GE factory, a huge garbage dump, underneath a huge system of elevated roads... FromZeroEGG (2:50:57 AM): like, city area? ecmaninoff (2:51:02 AM): Not inhabited. ecmaninoff (2:51:14 AM): Like, practically deserted if a few central roads didn't run through it. ecmaninoff (2:51:21 AM): NOT where someone should be walking. FromZeroEGG (2:51:31 AM): were you on an elevated road? ecmaninoff (2:51:33 AM): There's nothing around it for a half mile in either direction. ecmaninoff (2:51:35 AM): Nope. ecmaninoff (2:51:45 AM): We were about to go under a bridge. ecmaninoff (2:51:54 AM): In a couple hundred feet after the turn. ecmaninoff (2:52:11 AM): There is not a single deader part of the capital district. ecmaninoff (2:52:21 AM): I have never seen a person there even in broad daylight. ecmaninoff (2:52:25 AM): It's no man's land. FromZeroEGG (2:52:36 AM): did the person look like a bum? ecmaninoff (2:52:40 AM): No. ecmaninoff (2:52:44 AM): Not at all. FromZeroEGG (2:53:02 AM): fat, thin, medium? ecmaninoff (2:53:03 AM): I got no vibe from it in terms of its station in life, gender or occupation or age or anything. ecmaninoff (2:53:14 AM): I would defer to medium, but I don't know. ecmaninoff (2:53:26 AM): Walked very slowly and surely. ecmaninoff (2:53:37 AM): And just rooted itself and looked right at me through my window. ecmaninoff (2:53:43 AM): I could have touched its face if my window was down/ FromZeroEGG (2:53:45 AM): do you care if i send this to a friend? ecmaninoff (2:53:49 AM): Go ahead/. ecmaninoff (2:54:45 AM): I feel like it knows how I'm gonna die. ecmaninoff (2:54:53 AM): That's how I feel right now. ecmaninoff (2:55:32 AM): I need to go to bed. ecmaninoff (2:55:39 AM): I dunno if I can sleep. He's not one to make something up like this, and I sincerely believe every word of it, which is what freaks me out. He says it was like something out of the Mothman Prophecies or something.
Until your friends starts getting frequent phone calls with static or cryptic messages despite the fact that his phone's unplugged, I wouldn't worry about it. Definately odd though, don't think I would be able to sleep. Though, he said he was about to go under a bridge when he saw this person. You do remember what happened in the Mothman Prophecies?
Also, if Hollywood's taught me anything, it's don't be anywhere near a city with the word Pleasant in its name. Schenectady is located at the green arrow. That's double trouble. Honestly though, it seems your friend happened upon this person/being, and not the other way around. That's how you want it to happen.
Thankfully I didn't even have to click on the link to get the joke. That's not someone I particularly enjoying seeing lol. In fact, I think I'd rather just believe that it was a ghost
It's funny because later on in the conversation, he told me that the person (or thing's) eyes looked like something straight out of the Mothman Prophecies. He said the expression on the face looked like Jack Nicholson in the Shining when he first goes crazy and you realize he's not himself anymore. He also said that it freaked him and his girlfriend out so badly, that it was almost as if the guy knew when, and how they were going to die, or knew that the world was going to end. He said it was like this person or thing could have killed him and his girlfriend at any instant (apparently, it was standing about two foot from his driver's window), but was only waiting for some kind of word to confirm that this was who it was after (or something).
I'm just gonna do some reserch to see if there were any deaths in the area recently. I just started and found this: On the evening of November 28, 1924, the day after Thanksgiving, an assassin shot both Captain Youmans and Patrolman John Flynn as they were walking on Edison Avenue near the elevated railroad bridge. The 12-gauge shotgun blast fatally wounded Capt. Youmans and injured Ptl. Flynn. Despite his injuries, Ptl. Flynn carried the Captain back to the 2nd Precinct at the intersection of Broadway and Edison Avenue where he summoned help. For the next ten years Ptl. Flynn worked for the department; however the wounds he received that day continued to plague him until he finally succumbed to complications in 1934. The "Roaring Twenties" were in full swing, and, like many other urban areas in the country, Schenectady had problems with prohibition. Capt. Youmans was known as a champion in the fight against speakeasies, gambling houses and other vice prevalent in that era. It looks like a police officer died at that EXACT intersection, but in 1924. If you believe in ghosts, it could have been something like that. Maybe I'll find more. It's kind of fun to look.
Sounds like your friend got spooked by a druggie. I gotta tell you, reading that freaked me out not at all. The bum that came up to me when I was ten, gave me a quarter, and told me to "buy a kid some rice", that freaked me out.
My AIM screen name, lol. It's like, really old now. From Zero was a band, and I believe EGG was my nickname for Eddie Griffin or something. God, I thought he was going to be awesome.
