He'll Billy Horror Stories Presents

Eerie Encounters

My cousins live in North Dakota.

I spent the winter break there one freshman year while I was in college.

We were at their friend's house one night drinking in her basement with some other girls,

and it was really late like 3 a.m. I was falling asleep so I decided to walk home.

They live in a desolate area with lots of snow and it gets really cold, especially at night.

But the houses weren't too far apart and when the moon's out it almost seems like it's

light out.

The path that we would always take is straight behind the house through some wooded areas

than more open land. As I was shoveling home through the snow with my head down, I

look up to my left, my 10 o'clock, and probably 75 yards away is another figure walking

in the opposite direction.

I saw him a split second before he saw me, and when he did he kind of jerked his arms

shoulders up a little, obviously startled from the sight of me as I was of him.

I laughed out loud for some reason, and just from the shock or something and gave him a

little wave like, oh you startled me haha sorry kind of thing.

He just stood there and stared at me. I thought he was going to say something for a second

so I would stop too just looking at him. He had a full face ski mask on. I could tell

it was a dude because he was really tall, but he didn't say anything. So for what felt

like forever it was just me and some stranger in a ski mask looking at each other in the

desolate woods, in the middle of winter at 3am. A huge chill went up my spine and a voice

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