Bit of background first, the first time this happened it was a number of years ago and I was probably at least 13 or 14 years old the first time it happened. The area I live in is kind of rural. I live across from an orchard, with one house on a small hill above us right next door, and one slightly below us on the other side of our house with a massive wooded area directly behind our house. The house above us next door is kind of separated by a line of trees. We can still see each house just there's obviously trees, and the road is like... 20 to 25 feet maybe 30 away from the front of each house.
It was night, so pitch black outside. We don't have any street lights where we live because again, kind of a rural area. We have a grape arbor near the middle of our property, I can literally stand on our deck and look to the house above us and the TOP of the grape arbor is just below ground level with the section of land their house sits on. Behind the arbor is a bit of lawn and some garden and then the tree line, and there's a thick tree between where our grape arbor is and our neighbors mailbox with red reflective discs on it. Blocked by the tree, you can't even see their mailbox, so I know what I saw was not those reflective disks.
It was DARK like pitch black dark, I had just opened up our kitchen door to let our dog outside to use the bathroom and the motion light goes on because of the door and my dog WOULD NOT step outside. All he would do, was peer outside TOWARDS our neighbors mailbox and stare. I thought ok it's Maine, does he see a racoon or a fox or maybe one of the neighbors cats?
No, I looked up and ABOVE the grape arbor, more towards where the thick tree is that blocks the view of our neighbors mailbox were these two glowing red eyes. I thought that ok maybe it's just an owl or something, I don't know. I tilted my head, and it COPPIED me, the eyes TILTED to match my movement and BLINKED. Our motion light doesn't even reach 5 feet past the deck, so I had no clue what it was I couldn't see anything past the light. My dog freaked out, like full on claws scrambling against the tile floor, snarling and barking as he RAN deeper into the house and my reaction is obviously look down when my dog starts freaking out.
I looked back up and it was STANDING just out of view of the light like maybe another 6 feet past the light? So much closer, the eyes were LEVEL with my own and I'm still standing in the door, the deck is a good foot off the ground and the door has a step leading up so that's two feet right there, and I'm like 5 foot maybe 5 foot 2. The red dots or eyes were LEVEL. WITH MY HEAD. I have NO idea what it was at the time, I just slammed the door shut and locked it and went to my room and acted like I saw nothing.
Fast forward some years, and literally like three days ago I started to hear just like a tapping noise when it would start to get dark. I'd look out the window, nothing's there, tapping's gone. Another time I could have SWORN I hear my dad calling me so I call out back asking what he wants and I get nothing. I look out the window to the driveway and his work truck is still gone, he's not home. The other day I saw the same thing I did years ago when I was a kid. Red eyes, just this time near the trail that leads outback into the woods.
I shut my blinds, made sure the doors were locked, lights off, and just I guess pulled a "Nope, didn't see that. No one's home you got the wrong address, goodbye" sort of mentality I guess? I'm curious as to what it is I saw, the red eyes thing. I can deal with spooky sounds just fine, I can deal with that I'm good that doesn't bother me. But it's the eyes, the red eyes that look like they'd be about SEVEN FEET off the ground that's freaking me out. If ANYONE has any idea what it might have been that I could have seen, I would GREATLY appreciate some input here, because now I just don't bother looking outside out the windows when it's dark, I pull the whole "If you don't see it, it's not there." thing, but some of the windows on this house DO NOT have blinds or shades, and it's the ones in the kitchen THAT FACE THE WOODS. It freaks me out, because I always feel WATCHED at night if I'm in the kitchen now, and those windows? Those windows are on the top floor, the basement door and windows are below them. It's a two story drop out those kitchen windows.
I just I would really love it if someone could give me any sort of input as to what the heck I might have seen because I don't like it, and I want it gone. I want it gone like, 6 years ago sort of gone, so just... Any input at all is helpful at this point.
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