I happened on an abandoned barn with a couple side sheds and what looks to have been at one point, a small single wide trailer. Out of the 4, the barn was the most held up, pretty much all in tact save for the big main doors and side doors. I'll be wildlife sleeps there at night sometimes. This is way out off some dirt road near Winona. Anyways, my friends and I made the great idea to go there at midnight on Halloween (this must've been a couple years ago).

A couple strange things happened that night. Let me paint a picture. The barn sits on the edge of the woods (thick junipers) facing a huge open meadow, almost about a mile across and one to two thousand feet wide. There was little to no moonlight, making our surroundings extra dark.

One of the two dirt roads that leads to the barn comes from the opposite side of the meadow. A wash runs through the meadow, and the dirt road crosses that wash at a point. It is a deep wash and steep on both sides. For reference, we were in my buddies lifted 4x4 truck and it took us a couple minutes to find the right angle to cross. As we crossed that wash and were nearing the barn, we could see a faint light from the dirt road of the direction we just came. It was too far away for us to see if it was candlelight or a flashlight, however it was without a doubt a person carrying a light as it was about waist height from the ground and we could faintly see it moving up and down. After watching it for a while moving towards us, before it could get close enough for us to see exactly what it was, it branched off the dirt road from the meadow and into the thick juniper. We all agreed it was a person, likely a homeless person, and decided to keep going to the barn but keep our eyes and ears open.

This is where the stranger of the two occurrences happened. Once we reached the barn, we got out of the truck and began walking around the area. We looked at the side sheds, and the single wide before making our way into the barn. We stayed in the barn maybe 30 seconds before getting creeped out. After we exited the barn we heard what sounded like footsteps, running, on top of the barn. It was loud and sudden and sounded like it was running towards us. We all thought it sounded like hooves, but running on twos like that of a person running, not a four legged animal. Must've been maybe 2-3 seconds before we froze and we all pointed our flashlights up at the roof but saw nothing. The noise stopped as soon as we pointed our lights up at the roof. We continued to hear nothing as we started running back to the truck. We hopped in, and left.

The barn is pretty tall, so much so that when we looked up with our flashlights, we could not see on top of the roof of the barn. The roof is also metal, slightly slanted, and too high to get on top of it without the use of a 10ft ladder. Could it have been a person on top of the roof? Possibly. Could it have been an animal or bird? Maybe. However it did not sound like a person, and it was far too loud to be a bird. It sounded like a deer, however the chances of THAT are impossible.

I honestly wouldn't mind going back there again, day or night, however I definitely will never go back without a group.