to think we just saw something supernatural??

[LilacWine7]

I went for a short walk with a friend along country lane, sunny warm morning, we were chatting away happily.
I should point out I've recently been really ill with HG so haven't been outdoors for weeks, also I'm on medication that makes me a bit drowsy, so if I'd been alone I would have assumed this was my imagination or a hallucination!

Anyway, we were walking along a deserted lane, pine woods either side, when 'something' came out of trees to our left, went quickly across the road and disappeared into trees on other side. I say 'something', it was more a sudden movement of air and light, more sensing than seeing, a bit like a shadow (but not dark like a shadow more like a heat-haze) and it made rustling sound in trees. It moved with the height and speed of a person crossing road.

My friend and I simultaneously froze, grabbed each others arms, and said 'what was that?' Thinking I was seeing things, I asked her what she just saw. She described it exactly as I had experienced it. We weren't particularly scared, more bewildered. We are both quite skeptical about this kind of thing but can't explain what this was.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? Is there some scientific explanation we haven't thought of?

Tried to find an image of Predator when he was invisible but it was blank

As we've had nice weather recently, it could have been a small swarm of newly hatched midges, especially of there is water in the trees somewhere.

Like this?

www.poetrynook.com/poem/toms-angel

Sorry, don't know where the link went.

The human brain is hardwired to recognise certain shapes - other human beings mainly.

Which is why shadows and movement can appear to be human.

Once I was walking along a road at night, well lit, and I would have sworn in court that there was a tramp about 50m ahead, sitting on a wall, holding a bottle of whiskey. As I approached it, it "changed" into a bush in shadows - which it had been all along.

I remember an article in "Drive" magazine in a Drs surgery in the 1970s, where a psychologist suggested a lot of accidents on country lanes where people swerved for no reason was because they thought they saw a shape in the shadows/foliage, which looked like a person in the road.

Oh, and inexplicable isn't a synonym for supernatural.

On here you're not "allowed" to believe in the supernatural. It's as though people are afraid of things they don't understand OP

Oh you are allowed to believe in the supernatural. It's just that

1. there is no scientific evidence to support the existence of the supernatural and therefore
2. there is nothing to be afraid of

People will, naturally, point this out. This does not indicate a lack of understanding, rather the opposite.

I'm more baffled by posters talking about invisible deer - a couple metres in front of you, yet invisible?

IME deer are quite big (in fact someone I know has just had their car written off after hitting a deer that jumped out into the road). I admit they are stealthy but invisible at that range?

Same here Norbert
I see deer quite frequently. Do I have super powered eyes or are there a lot more deer that I don't see?

You can believe in what you like ImNameChangey. But OP asked for ideas as to what it could be - which is what I (and several others) have supplied.

'How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth?'

• Sherlock Holmes

"or are there a lot more deer that I don't see?" haha good point Marcipex - I guess we could have walked past dozens of them and just been oblivious!

Re the deer thing, I watched a programme years ago that dealt with how the brain registers 'sight'. As I recall, the part of the brain that registers movement is not the same as that that registers images. In various circumstances, and with certain types of visual impairment, you can 'see/sense' movement without actually seeing an image. Unfortunately it was ages ago so I can't remember exactly how it worked.

i love supernatural stuff, it could of been an alien or pollen like emily picture shows. You should of checked it out

"On here you're not "allowed" to believe in the supernatural. It's as though people are afraid of things they don't understand OP.

It reminds me of the time when people laughed at those who said the world was not flat. Just because something's beyond our ken does not mean it's not a possibility."

I'm not afraid of things I don't understand. That's why I don't feel the need to make things up in order to find explanations for them.

Oh, and that whole flat earth thing? Myth. People have always known it was round.

Emily, the pollen from pine-trees photo looks very similar to what we saw! I guess it could have been cloud of pollen blowing across road in a sudden gust of wind, and the rustling in trees could have been a deer moving at same time.

Re: Invisible deer.

having seen a family of elephants seemingly appear from nowhere, walking out of a a large clump of bushes in Kenya, I can attest to the effectiveness of camouflage !

Your brain is programmed to make shapes out of things it doesn't understand.

I've seen lots of weird things like human invisible shapes

Why do people always leap to the most implausible explanation first? Surely the sensible thing to do is to eliminate all the rational explanations then start looking at the supernatural ones?

I remember reading that most doctors diagnose more rare conditions in their first year than in the rest of their careers......every patient with a cold has some incredibly rare tropical illness they've just read about..............

Laurie- did you know it had a name?

paredolia

LurkingHusband but you you did see the elephants eventually. I think the OP is saying whatever she saw crossed the road in front of her but still had no discernible shape. Probably a gust of pollen but clearly not a deer that she "saw".

Could have been an owl or bird of prey. Some of them can fly through quite dense thickety woodland - it's incredible to watch in slow motion - like a shadow silently slaloming through the trees.
The first time I was out jogging the woods and had an owl encounter I nearly pissed myself with fear. :)

I'd go with the pollen theory as well.

Having said that, you never know. Years ago I used to work in nursing homes and saw many strange things on nightshifts. I suspect most were tricks my brain was playing, sleep deprivation can do strange things. I'd often glimpse shapes in peripheral vision, or think I'd hear footsteps (like slippers on carpet) but no-one was there. Going to the laundry rooms in basement at 3am was the worst job- really spooky.

Monkjacks are very little and quick deers too. They have usually gone before you realise you just saw one...or it could have been Predator.

Tazmanian devil?

It was probably just a shifty young wizard in an invisibility cloak. Nothing to worry about.

Love this

Eddies in the space-time continuum.