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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 14, 2024

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Same here with late-night encounter. Years back, I was walking along a country road at night with my mother - it had no lighting - and as we passed one particular place where there was a fence/gate in the wall, I had a feeling there was something behind it, something that it would be better not to encounter.

Very odd, I said nothing, and when we walked back on the return trip I waited to see if I would feel the same when passing that spot. No, but my mother later asked me "Did you think there was someone or something behind that gate?" because she had felt the same.

What was it? No idea, except maybe ancestral instincts kicking in about being out at night when predators might be lying in wait. I've never had an experience like it before or since, and I never had any feeling about that particular place prior. There weren't any ghost stories or other folk tales associated with it, so I wasn't primed to feel 'haunted'.