To sketch you a little picture, we live in a sleepy little town in a very safe part of Australia.
Semi rural but gentrified....so there's a lot of nice little coffee shops and galleries etc on the high street.
We live on the high street but at the far end of it...no shops here. They're all further up.
Anyway....a few times our dog has kicked off at night with this very agressive barking. I usually put it down to possums.
but one night, DH was working all night which he doesn't usually do...the dog was going mad at around midnight so I popped on my head torch and went out to the back yard.
There's a big gate and when you open it you are on our drive...walk up that and the path and high street are there. Trees and bushes are either side of the entrance to the drive.
There was nothing I could see so I calmed the dog and flicked off my torch and moved to the left, towards the house and out of sight of anyone who might be on the street.
The dog immediately kicked off again.
So I darted back in sight of the road and saw a slim male figure move quickly out of sight and behind the bushes on the left. The impression I got was that it was a young male...that was based on the height and slimness and the way it moved.
I was too spooked to investigate and thought I was being paranoid as he could have been just walking past.
I can't see the rest of the street so couldn't check if he was walking up the high street or lurking.
But it would seem that he hid when I came with my torchlight wouldn't it? Then when he thought I'd gone, he took his chance to come out of hiding (at the front of my house in the trees!) and make off down the street.
Would you get a camera? Or am I being paranoid?