So, it's been a solid couple of years since this happened, and I've done a lot of speculating since then. I'm going to begin with this. I'm a logical person and I understand that certain things are possible and certain things are not. This is the part where I don't want to here, "It was a demon," unless you have some sort of really solid evidence for that.
I'll set the scene. I'm at a friend's house. I'm sitting in their room speaking to them, and I happened to glance over at the door. What I saw genuinely terrified me, and I will describe it to the best of my abilities.
It didn't have any apparent color, and was mostly transparent. It had no facial features, nor clothing, nor genitals. Not even ears, to my recollection. It looks horrifically thin, but it wasn't bony. It looked like it was naturally emaciated thin, if that makes any sense? Smooth bends at the shoulders and such.
From this, what I thought is that, perhaps, someone had died there and that was the lingering energy that was left behind. Just playing repeat. In my eyes, that would explain the appearance. It was energy that was slowly dispersing over possibly decades, so that would explain why it looked grossly thin, and still didn't look bony.
I'd take this and run with it, but there is something else that throws me off.
It's how I felt when I made that would-be eye contact with it. I felt this horrible dread. It was so much foreboding, fear, sadness- a wash of negativity and I can say that the moment I laid eyes on it, I began sobbing hysterically. I closed my eyes and whipped my head away, and the second I did, all of the feelings went away. And it was just gone and to this day, roughly five years later, I've never seen anything like it.
So as a quick recap, it was a grossly thin, partially transparent apparition (??) that left me riddled with absolute misery until I looked away. Does this match any sort of a description to anything? Could it have been energy from a deceased individual and I was just picking up their life's negativity somehow? Or could it have been a sort of spiritual parasite? Or perhaps something else entirely?
The only thing I will add is this. Notably, after seeing this thing, their house burned down. A rat bit into a wire in the walls, apparently, and burnt the house down. I only add it as I assume there are things that bring misfortune with them.
Any help would be nice, as I've never gotten an answer behind what I saw. Thank you! Blessed be!