The Thing

What's that God damn noise???

I was trying to sleep one night and it was my second school night of the school year. I couldn't sleep because I kept hearing scuffling-like noises coming from outside. We have tons of fields and woods all around us since we live in Southern Indiana. I always feel kind of unsafe and like I'm being watched. I decided enough was enough with the noises, but it suddenly stopped when I got up.
It didn't make any sense. Every time I would get up and was about to leave my room for the back door, it would stop. I eventually decided to find out what was going on once and for all. I have anxiety really bad, as you can tell now and this was hurting my stomach after the butterflies. I quietly walked into our den, carefully looked through the windows on each side of the back door.
That's odd. All of my cats were either laying down or sitting up on the porch and all of them were staring in the same direction: towards the woods and the broken down barn just down the little hill which has a walk way down there made of rocks. I slowly unlocked the door and turned the knob with anxiety filling my whole body. I slowly opened it. I asked them in a nice voice: "What are y'all staring at???" and they didn't look away.
That's the scariest shit I've ever encountered at the moment because my cats usually and ALWAYS come straight to me or stare at me as soon as I walk outside. Either wanting food or wanting inside. I decided to look over there. The security light wasn't on so it was hard to see down that hill. Thank God I had my iPhone with me since they have very bright flashlights.
I turn it on and I scanned the place down there with my flashlight while still standing on the porch. I scan the broken down barn and what I saw was the most horrifying and most disturbing thing I've ever experienced and it's never happened to me before! I saw a human-like figure standing just outside the opening of the broken down barn, STARING AT ME. The most fucking horrifying thing about this, thing, is that it's eyes were glowing like an animal's would! 😳 HUMAN EYES DON'T DO THAT! 😨
I screamed my lungs out to death! I ran inside and locked the door and ran to my room! I closed the shades and the curtains! My sister was rushing into my room like a maniac wondering what the living hell underground just happened!!! I told her and she was mortified! Our mom came down stairs from her room wondering why the hell I was screaming like I saw a dead body! I was totally out of breath at this point.
"I saw...I saw a thing. A thing out there!" I was bent over and putting my arm up and pointing to the direction of where the broken down barn is. I finally caught my breath and said, "It had a human-like figure! I saw it standing just outside of that broken down barn!!! IT WAS JUST STARING AT ME! I just wanted to know what that freaking scuffling noise outside I was hearing was! But then I looked through the windows and saw the cats staring at something! They wouldn't stop staring even though I went out the door! It's like I didn't exist to them! I looked over there with my flashlight and I saw that man-looking figure STARING AT ME AND IT'S EYES WERE GLOWING!" I said, eyes so wide they're about to pop out of my head.
My mom was also mortified! She carefully looked around out there and she fucking screamed! It was behind our garage now! JUST FUCKING STARING THAT CREEPY ASS STARE! I screamed, watching this happen through the windows again, not wanting to go back out there as my mom came running back! It started charging at her and she made it into the house thankfully!
It was banging on the door and we called the police! The police came and they never found any sign of anything or anybody being here! They never even found it! I've been staying inside ever since that experience! I'm horrified of the dark now. I can't ever sleep anymore either. Maybe that thing is what was watching me all this time...