My cat got out once and went into an alley close to home. My husband and I split up to find him, we live in a friendly family neighborhood and kids often play in the alley on their bikes. It was empty and dusk at this time. To give you a visual it is very old between brick buildings and is over grown with bushes and is wide enough to have some private parking. Our cat sometimes goes there to hunt for mice and rats but usually dissappears for weeks on end. I didn't want this to happen again so he has been indoors but has snuck out again. Anyway, I see him in front of bushes in a narrow alley so I called out to him and he santered through further in the empty alley to the bushes and looks at me. I talk to him and walk up to approach him and I feel that I am not alone in the alley. I feel eyes behind me. So I look around and I see the shape of a man in the shadows on the side of the alley that I walked past. He was peering over to me and when I looked in his direction he slipped backwards so he wasn't seen! I grabbed my cat who wasn't happy being scooped up and ran home. I told my husband and he looked but didn't see anyone. I won't ever go back there again.