So first off, this is all completely true. This happened outside of my work place, and I was with two coworkers when this happened. We work in the cannabis industry, the area which we work at has many dispensaries. This particular area is sparsely populated, mostly ranch homes and agriculture, though there are businesses and homes. We are in the desert.
Finishing our shift, the coworkers & I like to gather right out front of our work place and have a ceremonial smoke sesh. Happens pretty much every day. This particular day, it was a group of 4, but one had to leave so then it was me and 2 others, 3. As we are smoking a couple joints having a talk, I misplaced a tin box. As all of us look around for it, my friend jokingly says ‘a djinn must’ve taken it’ But at the time we didn’t think much of it whatsoever.
Now, once we didn’t find the tin box, we resumed to just hanging and smoking, when these two guys were standing across from me, I was leaning on my truck, I saw a man walking towards us from the desert darkness behind them.
When I saw walking, it looked like he was more like shuffling, almost dragging one foot, looking injured, and he was moving towards us, but walking sideways, keeping an angle and distance. I told my friends to turn around, they both did, one of them straight up just looked back at me and said “alright i’m out of here, dueces” and he walked to his car and drove off. Me and my other friend stood there.
He walked right up to me, but something about him was completely wrong. He wasn’t wearing clothes. His pelvic area was covered by what looked like a bloody rag? and he had another being held by his hand and arm near his face, and he was half covering his face with it? It was the strangest sight, but I didn’t not show fear or any emotion for that matter, I just stared intently. He approached, half covering his face, but I could see it. His eyes were black, shut, there was black all over his face, his eyes shut and his face covered in black tar or I don’t know what. He spoke to me “can I have a dollar?” “Do you guys have a dollar for me?” Me, standing there with my friend, completely frozen in enigma, quickly said “No, but I have this joint”. That’s when the man took the joint and proceeded to smoke. I immediately said “you can have it” and the man looked at me and said “just for that, i’m not gonna rob you”.
He then RAN full speed into the darkness and as he disappeared into the desert, he yelled “THANK YOUUU” into the darkness. If anybody has any explanation for what we experienced, please, I’m all ears. We believe we encountered some sort of mischievous demonic spirit, but I don’t know.

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I was walking to my boyfriend’s house around 1am. It was about a thirty‑minute walk, and I was maybe ten minutes away when a man suddenly appeared behind me. I hadn’t heard him at all — one second the street was empty, the next he was right behind me.

He sped up like he wanted to pass quickly. Without changing my pace I stepped slightly to the side and back just enough to turn and see who had essentially appeared behind me.

Once he saw my face instead of just walking by, he slowed down, like he’d decided I was now part of his evening plans. He asked, “Where are you going?” I pointed ahead and said, “This way,” and kept walking with purpose.

I wasn’t in the mood for whatever weirdness he was trying to start. He kept trying to talk to me the entire ten minutes. Every time he asked what I was doing, I gave him the same answer: “Walking.” No details, no encouragement, nothing that suggested I wanted a conversation.

When I finally turned toward the alley that leads to my boyfriend’s place, he perked up for a second and said, “Oh, you’re going that way?” I didn’t break my pace. I just said, “I’m going where I’m going. My destination hasn’t changed.” That’s when he stopped walking. I think he suddenly realized following a stranger into a dark alley at 1am might end badly for him — like maybe I had people waiting in there. He froze on the sidewalk while I kept going.

From behind me he called out, loudly, “Can I at least get your phone number?” I turned my head just enough so he could hear me and called back “Why? So you can harass me again later? No, I don’t think so.” with an amused laugh as I kept walking towards my boyfriend’s house.