Written Confession: Stick Man Scare in Southeast Ohio

The following written confession was shared via Reddit by DiastrousTop3081:

My mom lives in SE Ohio at the top of a hill on a country road. One day my son (age 8 at the time) was riding his scooter up and down the road (something he wasn't allowed to do for safety reasons.) So this country road has woods on both sides, but they aren't particulary dense on either side, and fields and a utility crossing splits the roadside woods from the bigger sections of forest.

He suddenly comes running up the hill, white as a ghost, teary-eyed, and says he saw something scary in the woods. He's almost inconsolable. He finally gets calmed down and we ask him what he saw. He says it was kind of like a stick figure but thicker. It was all black, had no facial features, and looked "just like the man on the bathroom signs."

Of course we went to check. He took us to a specific area, pointed out exactly where it was, even showed us how much taller it was than a dead tree in the area (roughly 7ft tall). He was physically shaking the whole time he was showing us and talking about it.

We told him it was probably a warning to stay out of the road, but what could it have been? Anyone ever seen anything like this before?

Stick Men sightings are a seemingly recent but growing phenomenon. Learn more about this bizarre entity in our post Creature Feature Friday: STICK MEN.