Around 1970, when Diana Deans of Orland, Maine, was about 10 years old, she invited her best friend for a sleep-over. It was nighttime, but Diana remembers a beautiful full moon that lit everything outside with a kind of silvery light.

After a few hours of good-natured interaction, the two girls bedded down in the living room-after much giggling and talking-eventually fell asleep.

For some reason, they both woke up at the same time.

Looking around for the cause, Diana chanced to glance out the living room window. Scanning the darkened yard and the road beyond, she suddenly perceived motion. Looking harder now, she saw a solitary figure, moving up the road toward the house.

But there was something odd about it. Something was not as it should be.

Diana continued to observe the figure, trying to determine what was strange about the sight.

The form of the creature, for all intents and purposes, appeared to be human. But the dress was eccentric. It wore a long black cape with a hood that fully covered its head. The person might have been perceived as some sort of medieval monk, except for one thing...

Whatever it was, was not walking. It was gliding along, weightlessly, moving horizontally a few inches above the road. There was no motion of moving limbs beneath the dark fabric.

Diana saw all this clearly in the light of the full moon. Doubting the testimony of her own eyes, Diana called her friend to have a look.

Her friend saw it, too. Both girls stared with mounting fear as the dark-robed figure continued up the road...

And turned into their driveway.

Now it was coming directly toward the house.

The girls moved quickly into the kitchen so they could get a better view from the window there. Even though they'd changed location, the thing had not. It was still out there, advancing toward the house.

Terribly frightened now, the girls ducked down below the kitchen windowsill. Frozen, frightened, they cowered there for what seemed a long time.

Eventually, a terrible tension forced them to stand up to see if the thing had gone.

What they saw frightens Diana to this day.

Now the figure was close enough for Diana to see its head. The dark hood was clearly visible. But inside, exactly where the face should be, there was nothing but total blackness. No face. No eyes. Nothing but the dark interior of the hood.