First of all, this is not a confession in the conventional sense. Rather this is a TRUE story of my encounters with a mysterious and unearthly being. My first memory of this being was when I was in first grade. I had just moved from Texas to Pennsylvania, and my parents had just bought a house. As all of our furniture had not yet arrived though, i was sleeping on an air mattress, on the floor, in my parents bed room. I do not remember the exact reasons for being awake, but for some reason, I hadn't fallen asleep that night. It was around two in the morning and i was laying down on the floor, with my viewing angle being out of my parent's room (my parents were asleep in a bed on the other side of the room). For clarification, My parent's room was down a long hallway, at the top of a flight of stairs. There was also a small wall-light in the hallway. So as I was saying... I had a clear view of the doorway into my parents room, but with all the lights off, except for the hall light, the room was pretty dark. All of a sudden as i was looking out into the hall, i heard someone walking up the stairs outside of my parent's room. I was pretty frightened, as I was only about 6 years old, but i continued to watch the doorway. Suddenly and without warning, the figure of a man slowly began to walk through the doorway, and into the room. I dared not let out a peep. As I watched, the figure, who appeared to be made out of thick, black smoke, stood on the threshold of the doorway, turned it's body, and looked right at me. It stood there for maybe, 20 seconds, then it backed out of the room. I never heard any footsteps going back down the stairs, and i was scared shitless. I have 100% assertion that this was NOT A DREAM. Now, skipping ahead about 8 or 9 years (to when i was 15), I was living in pennsylvania in the same neighborhood as before, but on a different street. One night as I was returning home from an hour-and-a-half run (I was training for a marathon, which i did run in and finish a few months months later) i was returning home at around 11 at night. My house was at the end of a long street, with streetlights running the whole length of it, and my house backs up to a small forrest (in short, we are in front of some woods). Even though the night was dark, my street was illuminated by the orange light of the street lamps. Anyways... as i turned the corner onto my street, I say a figure walking down the sidewalk about halfway down the street. THe odd thing was, he was only about 3 and 1/2 feet tall (roughly a meter) and he was glowing white. I couldn't make out specific features like a nose, eyes, mouth, individual fingers, etc. but i could clearly see that he was walking at a normal pace. I started sprinting down the street, to get a better look at this strange being, but as I drew closer, it turned around, looked at me, as sprinted across the street, in the direction of the woods. With all the energy i could muster up inside me, i dashed after him, but the glowing white being was too fast. As i saw where he went in the woods though, I began to enter into the woods myself. The night was too dark though, underneath the trees (because the streetlight's light couldn't reach the woods) so i had to turn back. Ever since then, sometimes when I am in my walkout basement (which backs up to those same woods), I will hear a clear knocking on my basement door, usually late at night, but whenever I open the door, there is no one there. Now I am nearing sixteen, and I felt that these experiences might have happened to other people as well as myself. I know these accounts sound pretty unbelievable, but I assure you, I have not made the up. They are completely true. If anything else of the same nature happens to me from now on, I might post the stories on this site, or on a blog. Until then though, If the same or similar encounters have happened to any you, feel free to leave it in in the comments. I do not want any trolls spamming the comments with untrue stories though, and again, I assure you that I am being totally legitimate. Thanks for reading this, That is, if you read up to here.