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The original was posted on /r/paranormal by /u/Red_Blue_One_Two on 2025-04-23 00:53:00+00:00.
This was about 4 years ago. I was in college staying in an apartment on campus. I was talking to a guy (who ended up being tremendously abusive during our relationship, just in case that’s relevant?) and because we were in that “will we, won’t we” phase, we ended up talking until the early hours of the morning in my apartment. Once we decided it was late and he should go home, I walked him outside to his car. While we were in the parking lot, we made some light goodbye chatter that was interrupted by the sound of barking dogs. Like a lot of dogs. It sounded like thousands maybe. We both jumped and looked all around us to source the horrifying roar that was ripping through the air to the point where we couldn’t even hear each other. Let me be clear, whatever this was, it was a hoard. Barking over each other, getting louder and more aggressive, turning almost into howls, like a war cry. It kept getting closer until it felt like whatever this was would surely be on us in a second, and then it stopped all at once. And expectancy of a resolution hung in the air until we both heard each other’s breath again, and asked if the other was okay and if we heard the same things. The whole situation was only about 12-15 seconds, but it felt like the barking and howling was so long to all stop at the same time at its loudest, closest point. I cannot find anything like this experience from people i know or the internet and It’s plagued me since it happened. I asked other people in my complex if they heard anything at all, and most of them were asleep, but a few people that were awake said they only heard some cars passing and maybe some distant chatter at times.