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My story takes place in 2009 when my best friend, and I would stay most of the afternoons out in her backyard. She lived in an old historic building on 1st Ave in Gallipolis Ohio right on the river.
The first encounter we had were sitting there talking about school and we heard a bat or something circling the yard pretty close. Next thing we know something hits her roof but it was too dark to see what. The thing sounded like a grown man jumping and landing on her roof. We both got up and tried to see what it was, it had stopped and the moment but it felt almost electric and somehow calm and still. For a while that night we could hear something on the roof. We were still walking around out back then next thing we know a weird wind tunnel type sound starts that you could almost feel the breeze from. Then something lands in the tree above her table causing branches to fall out of the tree. We stand there frozen as it jumped to a different tree and the same thing happened branches fell down and the same wind whirl sound and we ran inside. We thought we were craZy or it was one big owl ! Happened a couple more times the same way.
A few nights go by and my friends boyfriend, was there. He was older than us and worked on the river. We had told him about what happened before and he thought we were both crazy. My friend had gotten a new metal roof and that night we heard the thing again and the air got still and full of static or energy. Sure enough he came and landed on the roof this time you could hear him sliding like nails to a chalk board. He slid down and off of her roof and between the two buildings. Terrified we made her boyfriend go check and see what it was. He walked over to where it fell and stopped dead in his tracks and stuck his finger out. He then motioned for us to come over and look. very calmly I got up and walked up behind him. As I went to look I saw a figure that was all black with reflective with red glowing bright eyes and I would say three foot taller than I am(5’4). My brain didn’t have enough time to process what I’d seen before it seemed to shoot straight up into the air and disappear.
At this point we knew it wasn’t just us that had this experience and my friend’s boyfriend seemed to be really shaken up and almost not wanting to believe what he actually seen.
Few more months went by and we had not experienced anything! whatever it was we thought or had migrated. I started talking to this guy who was the manly, big, tough guy type.My friend and I have told him about our experience about five minutes later without a warning something big flew down into the backyard this time we could almost see the wings and outline just swoop down and then it swooped right back up. The guy ran out of her backyard screaming “what the heck was that!” he never returned to my friend’s backyard.
That was the last time that we had such an experience. We both believe that whatever it was it was kind of looking over us. Both of us felt very safe. About 2 years later I went to the mothman diner and I told the little old lady with the beehive hairstyle, Carolyn Harris (whom sadly has passed away) that I believed in the mothman and I told her the story and as soon as I said we always heard a bat she stopped me and told me he eats bats and all the hair on my whole body stood up straight lol I’ve believed in the mothman ever since.
