Now I have one of my own. I know this isn't a real creepy story, but it creeped me out, so humor me.
I was out with NephewCG tonight and got scared to death. There was a shadowy something moving out the corner of my eye. There was a small black cat being followed by what looked like a wolf. It skulked along behind the cat, moving eerily and it walked just like a transformed Remus Lupin with it haunches much longer than it's front legs. I was terrified, thinking a wolf (werewolf?) was loose in the neighborhood. Then I caught sight of its tail....
It wasn't a small wolf. It was a giant raccoon.
This thing was easily bigger than a beagle, almost the size of a labrador. I wasn't even relieved because how on earth do those things get that big? I hurried Nephew down the other side of the street, noticing it was headed toward my parents' house. When we got back, I told Sister and she said "Is that what the kids were talking about? Kids were freakin' out, saying there'd been a raccoon on the front porch but I thought they were just trying to scare me!"