One Night it Was a Short Dark Figure, Two Nights Later it Looked Like Slender Man.

Witness Report: “In 2011 I was away studying at University and I was living in the halls of residences which are located in a country park. The grounds of the University had its own myths and legends, ranging from ghost sightings to a supposed haul of buried treasure that was hidden back in the 14th century. I remember one night I was in a friend’s room, we were working on a project which took us late into the early hours. At around 5am the morning light was starting to break through in the sky. I took a break and had a smoke leaning out of the window which was on the second floor. The room I was in was at the back of the building which overlooked a small grass area and a gravel car park that was divided by hedges. 

I remember looking down at the hedges and I saw what I believed to be a small dark figure, that was human shaped. I started to get an uneasy feeling as I felt like it was staring straight back at me. What I found strange was that it was quite light out, enough to see everything else but this figure was completely black, it had no face, no clothing etc. I thought maybe it was just my eyes playing tricks on me due to working overnight and me being still awake in the early hours. So to make sure I asked my friend to come and have a look out of the window at it and she also thought it was odd. We then both jumped out of our skin as the figure shot off quickly and moved off to the left. 

I tried to follow where it went by looking at the hedges which you could see through as they were very brambly, but it had vanished. I should have been able to see it move through there. I didn’t understand how one minute it was there standing looking at me then the next minute it was completely gone. We both stared for a while hoping the strange dark small figure would come back or to see if we could spot it but even watching closely we saw nothing. I don’t scare easily but this freaked us both out. We sat down in the room just thinking and we were baffled by what we had seen. We tried to come up with some explanations and rationale but we couldn’t. In the end we just decided maybe it was some weirdo creeping around looking into students rooms. 

This was the first encounter with this thing, but two nights later we witnessed something that was far worse, so much so it has stuck with me to this day and I have never quite got my head around it.

As I say it was just two nights later when again I was back in my friend’s room only this time it was around 1am. We were both smoking at the window when we saw it. It was behind the car park standing by the woodland area. But it wasn’t small and human shaped like the other night but instead it was now tall, ridiculously tall, skinny and all black in colour. It was walking slowly towards the woods. It had long gangly arms and long legs. I dropped my cigarette in disbelief and looked at my friend. I said “are you seeing this or am I going mad?” She just swore and was fixated on the thing. It was like that Slenderman thing but all black with no features and bigger. It wasn’t looking at us this time, it was just walking slowly towards the woods.

Within seconds it had disappeared into the woodline. We both had to sit down and question our reality and sanity. We weren't drunk nor were we on drugs (I never have been). We thought both sightings must be linked somehow due to the short period of time between them. We found it odd that they both looked completely different. Still to this day I can’t explain the sightings, more so the second one.

I came across Deborah’s page a while back. Reading others' stories and experiences has made me finally decide to share mine. I’m hoping I can find some answers. I’ve always been sceptical about monsters and myths, (although I have always enjoyed reading about them) however after that night it made me think, are they really out there?”

Was it the witness themselves that caught the interest of the thing watching them? Was it showing itself to anyone who could see it? Was it interested in the girl as the event happened when he visited her apartment. Or was it the land itself? Who knows what has been summoned or conjured there since the land first revealed its secrets?