Wanted to share my story of two separate incidents from 10 years ago when I delivered newspapers
Me and my dad got a job to deliver newspapers in the early morning as a sub contractor, the truck with the newspapers would get there around 1am and we'd be loaded up by 1:30am. Nothing happend the first few weeks, outside of the occasional uneasy feeling being out late/early.
Incident 1 happened probably 2 months into the job, we had one customer who lived back behind some other houses on that street with a long drive way where most times we could turn around or get close enough to the porch to just toss the newspaper out the window. This one particular morning I'd say probably around 2:30 am, the customers car was blocking most of the driveway so I had to get out the car and take it place it on her porch.
As I'm walking back to the car, in the tree behind me I hear this noise of some bird or something flapping its wings but this wasn't like ordinary flapping and it sounded like whatever this thing was, was pretty big and the sound kept getting louder, I turned around and looked at the tree but couldn't see nothing but the branches moving from the gust this thing was making.
There was zero wind that morning ,zero. Soon as I saw the branches moving, i hurried up back to the car. My dad asked me what was wrong and I told him and said look at the branches. The branches were still moving a bit but not like they were, first he thought it was just the wind but i said that can't be because there wasn't any.
That was the first and only time it happened but I was nervous about delivering there for a few weeks.
We don't deliver anymore but still drive by there occasionally because it's kinda close to where we live and is on the way to the store. I don't know what it was and I didn't want to know, I'm glad I couldn't see it. If I had to guess it could have been a shoebill stork BUT those don't live in this area and we don't have any large birds in this area especially not with big enough wings to shake tree branches.
Incident 2 took place maybe a month after 1, we of course had a customer who lived at the funeral home that's on our route, I'd have my dad pull through the drive and sit the newspaper on the step without ever getting out because I refused to and hate them, nothing happened until this incident and nothing happened after.
As we go to pull out and turn right to go on to the next street to deliver to other customers, something told me to turn my head towards the main door that faces the road in front of the building.
Both doors are see through which isn't normally anything to worry but at this particular time, I saw a man standing in between the doors, like standing in the walkway between the outside door and the one leading into the building, which while weird if it was just a person but I could see right through the man standing in the doors. I literally could see the inside of the building through the man standing between the doors. This happened around 3:00 to 3:15 am. I did a double take because I wasn't originally sure what I saw and the man was gone. Sure it could be said that I was probably tired both times but I wasn't ever tired on the route ever.
Those were the only two incidents that occurred on that job, we didn't stay at that job much longer anyway.
I can see both incidents replaying over and over in my head pretty vividly.