Well, I wouldn't be discounting the small boy...
Let me tell you a story, that I swear is true.
When I was 6, I lived in an old victorian house. I used to tell my mother stories about the figure that I saw walking through the house. My mum never thought anything of it until 20 years later when we had long since moved.
She got back in touch with an old neighbour who asked her if anything weird ever happened in the house as the new neighbour was telling her stories about one of the rooms in the house, seeing a figure and things moving around.
It was my old room. My mother had NEVER told the neighbour what I had said as she thought I was just being a child making stuff up.
Like I say, true fact ^
Now, you might want to read the following story from one of the links someone else put up:
"The first famous ghost in Crested Butte appears before you even hit the town boundaries. For decades, locals have sworn that an otherworldly man can be seen hitchhiking along the road between Gunnison and Crested Butte. He seems harmless, but lock the doors just in case."
Erm, now googlemaps seems to be saying to me that you are just off the above mentioned road.
It doesn't get much better when you find that hitchhiking seems to be very popular in the area...
greenhornhitchhiker.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/hitchin-valley_27.html
I quote:
How hitchhiking became part of the Gunnison Valley culture
Imagine standing on the side of the road waiting for a ride: a car pulls up, a stranger’s car. You have no idea who this person is, or even if they are really going where you need to be.
You step into this possible serial killer’s vehicle, ignoring the Hollywood idea of murdered hitchhikers found on the side of the road. It takes a lot of trust in humanity to hitch a ride.
Hitchhiking is not unique to the Gunnison-Crested Butte area, but few other places have embraced the act as much as this valley.
One of the most distinguishable elements of hitchhiking in the valley is the fact that Gunnison and Crested Butte have designated hitchhiking stations, although very few people seem to know the origins of these locations.
Estimates from police officers and city officials from both Gunnison and Crested Butte put the implementation of the hitching posts anywhere from 10 to over 50 years ago.
“The hitching posts were here way before I got here,” said Sherman Driver.
Sherman has been a bus driver for the RTA in Gunnison for the last five years, but has been living in the area over 40 years.
“There has been hitchhiking going on well before I moved here,” said Gunnison City Commissioner Phil Chamberland. “It’s been an American tradition since the 60s and 70s.”
Hitchhiking has been banned in several states across the country, including Alabama, Arizona and California, but never by Colorado. Colorado is known as one of the friendliest places to hitch a ride. Hitchhiking is also illegal on any interstate highway, but that doesn’t affect this valley.
“I think that Hwy 135 being the only route to CB made this form of transportation effective,” said Chamberland. “The Stations were probably just convenient locations to get to.”
Hitchiking was much more popular on a national scale several decades ago, however many people started to shy away from thumbing a ride after hearing horror stories of hitchhikers getting kidnapped and killed. In fact, in the late 70’s, serial killer Ted Bundy escaped from a courthouse in Aspen with the intention of coming to Crested Butte, but became disoriented and lost his way. Still, this area has never seen any of the dangers of hitchhiking first hand.
Sorry, but based on this clear evidence, its apparent that you are UTTERLY FUCKED.
The Blood man is obviously a driver who stopped to pick up a serial killing hitchhiker attracted to the area like Bundy, and he's trying to either warn you of the danger still out there or he's a ghostly apparition intent on revenge and is mistaking your house as the killers hideout.
Hope you have a good night's sleep and make it through the night OP. Enjoy your holiday!!!