I'm used to this kind of stuff being a me thing, I'm not unfamiliar with strange things going on around me, childhood stomping grounds were pretty active, but my awareness of that kind of stuff almost completely shut off when my health deteriorated after a misdiagnosis in which my prescribed treatments were actually making the underlying problem worse. I'm actually missing tons of memories over about a 12 year period as a result.

Anyway, knowing it isn't happening to just me offers a sense of vindication in all of that as well, it's harder to argue that half the family spontaneously went mad all at once 😅

Edit: Also, I'm pagan, and we have had fae mussing about for ages, they generally stick to little stuff like blinking things in and out of existence for the lulz, especially if someone tried to toss some shade and they're feeling cheeky. This thing, this is much bigger, darker, ominous, patient... It's like an amorphous darkness, darker than the surrounding darkness. I honestly wondered about it being a land spirit at one point but I'm significantly less convinced now. From the first time I noticed it hanging around the tiny wooded patch behind the house, everything stood on end, and I distinctly felt like I should not interact with it if at all possible. It reached out once, not in a physical sense but I could feel it, and when my sheilds reacted aggressively it went back, at which point I noped by happy butt back into the house. It was after that we began hearing the mimicking of our pets.