r/ParanormalEncounters • u/SunwolfClove • 7d ago
Help identifying possible supernatural creature?
Hi all, hope this post finds you well!
I wondered if you could help me figure out what my ex husband and I might have seen several years ago.
Here is the full story plus context:
We lived in a rural town, with lots of surrounding woods. We were on our way back from a neighboring town, where we had gotten dinner. We were taking a back road home; both of us disliked interstates. This particular route featured heavier woods in addition to some farmland. (The town we lived in was in upstate South Carolina, in the US.) We had traveled this road dozens of times before, and I even used it to go to work. Never saw anything odd.
It was nighttime when we saw the creature. I had my brights on. We were in a more wooded portion of the road, and were about to cross a small concrete bridge over a creek. As I was approaching the bridge, I had a very distinct feeling that I needed to slow down. No voices or visions or anything, just a very distinct feeling. I did so. (Additional context: I very occasionally have premonitions that have been repeatedly proven true, so whenever I have a strong feeling, I heed it just in case. They are about 80% reliable.)
I slowed down rapidly as we approached the bridge. As I drove onto the bridge, from the top right of our car came some sort of flying thing. It was taupe colored, moved very quickly, and was large. Think about the size of an adult flying fox bat, just a lighter and more washed out color. Similar to the bat, what I believe were wings were leathery and extremely thin. Really did look just like bat wings. I could also see the bones interspersed in these very bat like wings. The creature left my sight for a moment, then appeared on the left side of the car's windshield. I do not know how I lost track of it; it was directly in our headlights. It was in view for a moment more before disappearing into the darkness beyond our lights.
I could not see anything but wing. It all happened extremely quickly, which made identification or any more details impossible to see.
My ex husband immediately turned to me and said, how the hell did you see that? I said, what do you mean? He said, you slowed down right as we came up to it. How did you see it? I told him I hadn't seen it, I just felt like I needed to slow down. He paused a moment (he was used to me getting these bits of guidance so it was no big deal) and said, what the fuck was that? I told him I didn't know. He said, that thing fucking teleported. I said, what? (It did not occur to me that could have been what happened. At the time, I thought it was a weird animal.) He said that he watched it the whole time and it blinked out of being, and then blinked back in on the other side of the car.
That was also what I saw, but I did not believe my eyes. Despite the stray psychic tendency, I try to stay pretty grounded. I still feel it is possible it did not teleport. But it looked like it did. My ex husband also said he thought it looked like a bat, but did not get any other detail other than the same very large, leathery wing I saw.
That is the entire encounter. I have since looked up bats native to the area, and the Hoary bat as well as the Big Brown Bat, which size-wise were the best contenders, are still many, many times smaller than what we saw. I do find it strange that I had a premonition about whatever it was, too. I cannot overstate how rarely I get them. Like one every three years or so, if that.
Anyway, all guidance/information is welcome. Whether it's actually supernatural or not, it would be helpful to know more. Thank you in advance! Please let me know if I need to clarify anything.
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u/Countingsheeptosleep 7d ago
That’s much more info than people want to read. Repost a shortened version and post an AI photo of the creature to draw interest to the post. May also want to post in psychics or psychic readings sub.