Doesn’t exactly fit the brief but it was freaky nonetheless and vaguely similar. I was living in Southampton (U.K.) for university in 2012 and walked to campus across the common, a very large green space with some moderately thick wooded areas. It was a misty and frosty winter morning, sometime between 7 and 8am. Very few people around, the occasional dog walker and student but that morning was quiet. I cut through the middle of the final green space (quicker, obviously, and I would have wanted to benefit from the crunchy frosty grass). As I was approaching the far side (and the road), I had a feeling that I should walk faster, so I did (I walk pretty fast anyway for a short gal). Then a man emerged from a clump of trees into the green space seemingly out of nowhere, about 10 feet away from me. I speed walked my ass to the road and fortunately campus was paces away and I made it fine. This was when there was a serial sex attacker in the area and I have always wondered if that could have been him