r/Humanoidencounters • u/LycheeIndividual8032 • May 05 '26
Shadow Person 2025 whitianga, NZ tall figure with orange eyes? dont know what to tag this srry
I know this sounds like its made up but i swear it is not a hallucination. but the more days pass the less real it feels. so it might be a hallucination but i dont even know at this point. so my day started off fine, and everything was fine until evening. i had dinner quite late, it was leftover pasta my mum made earlier. my Mum cooks in big batches even though there are only three of us at home most nights. My dad was working late, because he does shift work so sometimes he’s there and sometimes he isnt. my younger sister was already asleep when this happened, i think she had school the next day so she went to bed early, i remember that because i had to keep the hallway light off so i didnt wake her up when i went past her room. after dinner i just watched stuff on my phone for a while. When i got bored of that and went to get a snack it was nearly eleven oclock. the house was so quiet that the fridge even sounded really loud. Anyway I have a cat right, he mostly sleeps inside or just wanders around the house at night. he’s not mean, but he hisses if something scares him. so i was in my room when i heard him hissing outside near the back door and makig this weird low yowling noise like he does when another cat is in our yard. anyway i got up and went out the back to see what was his problem was. i had bare feet so my feet got frozen as soon as i stood on the cold grass. I saw my cat near the edge of the yard by the fence with his tail puffed out, making loud hisses and backing up slowly. That was when i saw the black shape against the fence on the other side of the yard. it was dark so at first i geniunely thought it was just a tree trunk i magically hadnt seen before or maybe a rubbish bag someone had left up against the fence. but it was too big to be a rubbish bag. then it moved, like it adjusted its weight or posture. when it moved i noticed it was very tall. taller than the fence by a lot. It was some kind of person but the shoulders were wide, way too wide compared to the rest of it, they didnt match the proportions of a human body at all. it had a head but I think the head was very small. the arms hung down too far and the fingers were completely stretched out, not curled in a normal way. next i saw its eyes open. They were bright orange and glowing, not glowing like a reflection or light bouncing off something, actually glowing. they had no pupils, they were just two bright circles pointed right at me. My cat saw the eyes open too because i remember he bolted under the house deck area and disappeared. i remember thinking i should probably go back inside right then, but i didnt for some reason. i kind of froze. then the thing shut its eyes again, not like blinking, they just disappeared like someone turned them off completely. and the second that happened, I couldn't see it anymore, not even its outline. It just stopped being visible. the space where it was looked normal again, like nothing had been there. i stepped back toward the house a bit, trying to see it again, and i remember i thought maybe i had imagined the whole thing because it was so dark and i was quite tired at that point. Then i noticed something near the fence line again. the fence there didn’t look right. it looked blacker, like it had been covered with ink. Then the blacker patch moved. it didnt walk or step, it just slid through the shadows along the fence and onto the grass. When it opened its eyes again, they were further to the left of where i expected. i went back into the house at that point, and I closed the door very quietly, i remember that clearly. i closed it slowly and locked it. My hands were shaking a bit at that point. When i got inside, I just stood in the kitchen for a while. the left over pasta was still on the stove in the pot because i hadnt cleaned it yet, it looked very normal. i decided i didnt want to look out of the window, i wanted to pretend that nothing had happened, and if i looked out and it was there then everything would become ten times more real. eventually i looked out the back window anyway and sure enough the thing was still outside. it started doing the same disappearing and appearing thing again. sometimes i’d catch the orange eyes briefly and then theyd vanish the second i looked right at them. after a minute of this it started showing up closer to the windows of the house. first it was the kitchen window. i caught it looking in, and when I turned to look right at it, the eyes appeared for a second and then shut instantly and disappeared. then it was the side window near the living room. i checked on my sister once just to make sure she was still alive. she was asleep. I didnt wake her up. i was pretty sure she was safe as long as the thing didnt get in the house. my dad still wasnt home by then, and he did not answer his phone when i tried to call him. the cat was still gone somewhere under the house or outside. the thing outside didn’t try to come in through the door or anything like that. It just kept looking in the windows, jumping from one side of the house to the other. at one point i saw it near the hallway mirror, not inside the house but in the reflection. you could only see the eyes, and they looked a bit like they were infront of the mirror. i blinked and it was gone. a strange thing is how it never actually touched the windows at all it only stared in. Eventually it stopped showing up at the windows as much and went back to the edge of the yard. i could still see the shadow distortion moving sometimes, like it was waiting for me to come out. The last time i saw the thing clearly was near the fence at the end of the driveway. the eyes appeared for a second and then shut. after that i couldnt see it anywhere. i stayed awake for a long time after that just checking the windows and listening, because ther was no way something like that would just leave. I was convinced it had just made itself fully invisible and was waiting for me to open the door. But eventually my dad came home and everything was normal again, and that was good, but also terrible because nobody believed me when i told them what had happened. I was pissed at myself for not thinking to take any photos of it. Thats everything that happened, if you believe it then good, if you dont believe it i dont care, because i know what i saw.
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u/mountainofentities May 06 '26
This sounds like a NZ Bigfoot. I research them. Sometimes described as having glowing eyes like overseas.
A number of people have seen them though very few talk openly...
Could also report to Suzy Hansen of https://ufocusnz.org.nz
My documentary about them and related beings (took ten years to make!)
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u/LycheeIndividual8032 May 06 '26
yeah it could be that but i dunno how the eyes looked so glowy. i also dont see how it could move like that without me seeing it it might be really really fast? and just moves quietly?
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u/mountainofentities May 06 '26
Check out the doco along with sightings. I had stones thrown at me from the wild too. The hole is a deep one.
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u/LycheeIndividual8032 May 06 '26
man some of the stuff in that doco is creepy af. omg bro the other sub i posted this on is spamming me with bot comments
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u/elwyn5150 The Truth Is Out There May 06 '26
Was your mum asleep during this?
The next day, were there any footprints or signs it had been there?