I had a childhood experience when I was 8 at a dude ranch in Nebraska. It was at night and probably 60′ away from me. It was a full moon and lots of stars over the summer.
I did not see its face as all I saw was a silhouette. The encounter was for approx 2 maybe 3 minutes. A day before my encounter one of the girls ran into to boys section scared as hell. Said she saw an ugly black face in the bathroom window. The next morning we checked out that side of the building (one side for the boys the other side for the girls). I was only 8 at the time but the window seemed pretty high off the ground. There were handprints which were large and strange as far as thumb location. A couple other things happened at the dude ranch.
Nothing truly bizarre but interesting. The horses were always jumping the gate for some reason.
When I saw it I was asleep and just woke up feeling like I was being watched. Stood up, looked and I saw it. At first I thought it was a counselor trying to scare us but then I noticed the arm length, way too long for a human. Then I noticed hair all over the body. As I watched it started swaying which was real eerie. After 2-3 minutes it just walked down the hill to a real overgrown holler. I was surrounded by other kids and was unable to react, yell or anything.
I know you are busy as hell but if you are at all interested would like to talk with you. Decades later I live in Georgia and have had some strange things happen. During the day I was just glancing in the woods and swore I saw two black legs. It was really thick vegetation as it was about two months ago. It was walking one direction then stopped and the legs turned towards me. I think it realized “oh shit, I’ve been seen”. It took off so fast it was a blur.
Twice we have loud smacks against the house. A week ago both our TV’S, me and my sons just went out. No power loss, just both TV’S at the same moment turned off. I called a cop one night and told him I saw a partial look of a guy in a ghillie suit. Didn’t want him to think I was nuts. He suggested a game cam. He looked around but being night saw nothing. Another two times we heard what sounded like someone beating their arms against their chest but it was really loud.”