Saved by the dog, I have another story which involves my friend and I when we were 11. We live in Scotland, so it's rare to ever get good weather.

One night it was warm out, my friend and I decided to walk her dog.

We knew everyone in the street were nice, so we weren't worried about being approached.

We were walking past some houses and a few trees behind those houses that were lit up by lampposts.

When we were walking past these trees, her dogs started acting scared, which was unlike her.

We looked about the street but didn't see anything.

However, when we looked at the trees behind the houses, we saw glowing eyes

and something saying, Help me. My friend took a step forward, but her dog whimpered, and she stopped and looked at me.

We both had a bad feeling so we stood there for a moment wondering if we should go over. Suddenly her dog started cowering and fear and whimpering again.

Then we heard the Help Me again. Only this time it sounded

distorted. The eyes became more visible and soon a dark figure started to emerge.

This was when my friend and I knew we had to leave. We turned to run but her dog wouldn't move.

Whatever was in those trees behind the houses had really scared her.

We could hear twigs being snapped off the trees. We decided to just carry

her dog, so we had to run up a steep hill while carrying a big Labrador. We managed to make it

onto her block and in the view of her house.

It sounded like it stopped chasing us when we got near her house, but our hearts were in

our throats and we were too scared to stop and turn around to see if we were being

followed.

After that, we started taking her dog a different route, as both me, her, and the dog were too

scared to go past there again.

I don't know what it was, but I'm glad that we had her dog with us otherwise.

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