okay this happned to me and my friend matt. it was garage sale day in my neighborhood and me matt and diego went out to look for some junk to salvage for our fort in the woods behind matt's house. now for a couple of weeks someone had been spraypainting saitanist (devil worshiper) symbols on our fort back there. we had erased them numerouse times but anyway. we found nothing that day so we decided to go into the fort in the woods. when we got in there we started talking and digging a hole to put up this flag pole of ours. for weeks matt had been saying that he keeps on seeing this really big black dog that just sits there we researched it and its called a barguest or black shuck just look it up on google and these things are supposedly shape shifters and their true form is the devil/demon. so anyway we are talking and we started getting into how the woods must be haunted cause matt found the saitanist symbol again except that our spraypaint was missing so we could not erase it. so we get my cell phone and we try something called E.V.P. (electronic voice phenonema) with the voice recorder on my phone. we try asking some questions like one was "is anyone here" we listened to the recording playing back and we hear "hello" and we did numerous other recordings. right when we start to have fun i look behind matt. the image still disturbs me. and i see this big black dog it must have been up to my neck and im like 5ft 4inches. this dog just sits there and for some unexplained reason i scream. the dog itself was not that scary its the feeling that you get upon seeing the dog. and i go "holy shit matt look behind you" he looks and dosent react much because he has seen it numerouse times. Diego in the other hand looks and freezes with his eyes wide open scared to death. I was the only one who moved so i ran and diego followed when i was halfway out of the woods. matt walked back and stayed behind we could see him through the brush he was standing there with my cell phone doing a recording and when he got out he said that he saw it just apear right infront of him like 5 feet away. It is scary because it was staring at ME no one else. so we have a theory that once you see it for the first time it picks up your sort of spiritual scent and haunts you. because after i saw it once i saw it numerouse times as matthew has. so now everynight its either at my house somewhere or outside matt's window. i talk to him online to check out its location all the time. We have come to know this dog as "the barguest" or like when we go in the woods (which is not very often anymore) when someone sees black anywhere you say "BLACK!" and we either run or shoot at the spot with a slingshot round. We are scared of this dog. its like the world falls apart the first time you see this thing. Everynight i am the last one to go to bed in my house so i turn off the lights and walk to my room and its like someone is following me yet i find refuge under my blanket. i sleep with a big swiss army knife next to my bed inase it comes for me. I pray to god when i feel it nesisary and it seems to help. So thanks god and thanks people for listening to my story which happenes to be true.