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I do take late walks, and this actually reminds me of something that stuck with me more recently.

I'm not familiar with any paranormal shit, so if any of this triggers something any of you might be familiar with I'd be curious, but I just started lurking /x/ from the dumb moon shit.

Walking my usual late night path and came across a dog or possibly a wolf? It was too far away and completely dark - it looked bigger than a dog. I saw it cross the street in front of me, and disappear into the shadows of a recessed area next to a fence on my side of the street.

Naturally, I crossed the street, and as soon as I did, the animal crossed back to match me, I saw it start moving so I crossed back over myself. When I reached the middle of the street it stopped and looked at me for a few moments before continuing and disappearing back into where it emerged from - a wooded area.

A little unnerved, I decided to turn down a side street in the opposite direction and loop back around to where I was going. The second I broke off, everything was incredibly still. As I was walking I started to hear what sounded like scraping or clawing at the fences in the yards around me - at least I think it was the fences, all I heard was wooden scraping. The clawing kept following me house to house and I couldn't make out precisely where the sound was coming from. I was sweating at this point, and the sound followed me until I turned at a three way junction. In my dumb illogical fear brain, I spat out my gum here and was like 'oh hey maybe the scent will throw it off!' I don't know shit about how animals smell, but anything to ease the building anxiety. After I turned down that road though, the atmosphere eased up.

I had thought the scratching was a dog in a yard, but there were no barks or whimpers, and it sounded like it was keeping pace with me across multiple yards. Only after did I semi-jokingly consider the idea that the scratching could've been on the roofs of the houses instead.
gpt
>I spat out my gum
you dun goofed, now it has your DNA