Supernatural experience in Salo, Finland - need explanation
Supernatural experience in Salo, Finland - need explanation
I am visiting my friend who lives in Salo (a town near Turku). Yesterday we were coming back from a train from Helsinki late at night (about one oclock after midnight). We were walking along the river near the lanterns, and suddenly my friend grabbed my hand and shoved me a strange object under one of the lanterns on the alley we were walking by. It was about 7 m distance from us. I even not immetely came to realisation what exactly I saw because of how odd it was.
Under the lantern, a tall, solid black figure was standing. It was unnaturally tall, only a bit shorter than the lantern (about 3m). It was human-like, but I couldn't see any clothing, or any details at all - it was just a pitch black silouette. I stared at it for a bit, coming to terms with what I saw. It didn't move at all. We turned to the nearing street to not walk by this thing, and we were super scared, even read a little prayer when we got home.
The next day we checked the spot, and no furniture, no trees, or any object which could explain this was present. We want to go under the lantern this night to maybe check how the lighting there works, maybe the pitch black silouette at least is an optical illusion.
We also visited Sveaborg the day it happened, so maybe something attached?? Idk, I dont beleieve in things like this, but we both saw this and its very unnatural.
Does anyone have any ideas what it was? Maybe some local folklore, or some rational explanations? Thank you, I think it's the first paranormal experience for me and my friend both, and we are very confused.