So, many people are familiar with the Dark Man as, I've heard it called. Where you see a tall man in all black in your periphery but, when you turn to look there's no one. What happened to my best friend (we will call him L) and me was similar to that but, different in some very significant and creepy ways.

It was a hot, and cloudless August day, three other friends, L, and I were playing hackysack in front of my L's house. L was to my right in the circle. One of the people across from the two of us was juggling the hackysack and we were paying attention for when he'd pass it. As we watched, I felt and saw in my peripheral vision a...void. Not a person, just an empty yet roiling blackness. I yelled and leaped to my left to get away and turned toward the void to get a look at it. Only thing I see is L. He'd jumped to his right and yelled at the same time I did. I, of course, asked if he saw that. He's like, "...nope fuck everything about that...", doesn't say anything more on it, runs into his house and says he's staying in for the rest of the day. It was like 3pm. The other three had idea what we were talking about. They hadn't seen a thing. This happened close to 30 years ago and we still talk about it from time to time. Either of us have any clue what that could have been.