>>41265113 (OP)
In the army we met this man who was dead yet stood before us.
The weather was atrocious. 0 degree weather and wet, we were in difficult terrain, it was hard to get to the spot where this happened and it was the middle of the night. We had casualties just getting to this location.
We stopped in a depression and suddenly noticed this man standing maybe 20 feet from us, facing us. He is dressed inappropriately for the weather. I mean he was dressed as you might on a typical autumn day. No equipment, no weapons, no light, he just was somehow out here, despite being wholely unequipped to reach this spot or survive in it.
We see nothing in the naked eye, too dark. We see him on night vision. I have thermals - he never appears in thermals. My whole team does appearl the equipment works.
When I saw him the first thing I did was switch to thermal and scan for the rest of them. But there was no one else, and to my shock, he has no thermal signature. He was as cold as everything around him.
We all saw it.
I can't remember him having a discernable face.
We reported this encounter up and got an answer that there was no one reported to be in the area besides us. Command was puzzled as to what we were even talking about.
We moved on and left it be. We saw him again later, this time much farther away, watching us. I guess we were probably a mile or two from the original spot. Now, you could definitely cover that ground faster than us if you went directly there and didn't stop. But it was weird.
It freaked out my leadership so much we literally diverted our planned route to avoid him.
The second encounter again there was no thermal signature and no one else around him.
Guys chalked it up to a SW but I don't really know what I saw, maybe he was a ghost, or something. But he was ice cold yet stood before us as if living. That's what I can't reconcile.