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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/MaximumSquid22 on 2026-05-30 00:51:53+00:00.

I felt like sharing this experience that happened to me 10 years ago. It was October of 2015, when I still lived in my old house that I grew up in New Jersey. The front of my old house had a large segmented window that had a big window sill my cat enjoyed laying on, right next to the front door. This window had a clear view of the street outside our house, which was in a suburban area and didnt get a whole lot of traffic at the time of night this occurred (about 8-9pm). My mom was in the same room watching TV and I was by the window petting my cat and looking outside. There was a single street light that illuminated the area near my driveway entrance, so it wasn’t completely pitch black. And that’s when it happened.

I don’t know how else to describe the feeling, but I was physically unable to move as if frozen in place by an aura of something. My eyes were forcibly fixed in place as I couldn’t look away from the window. For about 5 seconds, I saw what appeared to be a floating and torn brown hooded cloak moving slowly down the street from left to right. Floating next to it was a large brown staff. There was no evidence of facial features or even extremities of any sort. Just a cloak and staff floating down the street as if being worn and carried by an invisible being. Immense fear washed over me in these 5 seconds, and then I was able to move again. That thing, whatever it was, had vanished out of sight past my house and I had went to my mom in a state of shock and told her what happened. I was 15 at the time and I still remember this encounter vividly. Another important detail is that my cat who was sitting in the window sill did not react in any way to this thing, as if he couldn’t sense it. But I felt and saw it, and I am positive it was a real occurrence and not due to something like being tired (which I wasnt). I will probably never know what exactly it is, but to this day it’s definitely the weirdest and most unexplainably frightening thing that has happened to me.