Saw something bizarre on the Yorkshire Moors - need help understanding it

This happened about three weeks ago, August 15th, around 7:30pm. I was walking the Yorkshire Moors near Hebden Bridge - lovely evening, clear skies, still quite light out. I was alone, which in hindsight maybe wasn't ideal.

I saw what I can only describe as a tall, impossibly thin figure standing about 200 metres away on a ridge. Humanoid shape but the proportions were completely off - arms too long, body too straight, movement too fluid. It didn't walk, it kind of... glided, for want of a better word. No distinct head shape that I could see. The whole thing was maybe 8-9 feet tall.

It noticed me looking at it. The moment I made eye contact (or what felt like eye contact), it turned and moved away at speed that no human could manage over rough terrain. Just... gone. Took about four seconds to disappear into the hills.

I felt absolutely terrified. Shaky for hours afterward. I've never experienced anything like it. I'm wondering if: (a) I hallucinated something (unlikely, I was perfectly alert), (b) it was a very tall person in unusual clothing (possible but their movement was genuinely unnatural), or (c) something genuinely anomalous.

Tall, thin, gliding motion - sounds potentially like a Skinwalker or similar phenomenon. I know that sounds ridiculous but the Yorkshire Moors do get reports like this with surprising frequency. Not usually taken seriously, but they happen. How did you feel emotionally during the encounter? Any sense of dread or wrongness?

It didn't walk, it kind of... glided, for want of a better word.

Humans moving across rough terrain can look genuinely weird if you're not expecting it - tall person with long stride, maybe moving quickly with unusual gait. I'd lean toward 'unusual human' rather than cryptid here, but the emotional impact you experienced is real regardless.

This description matches the 'thin man' reports from Pennine folklore. Not sure if that's reassuring or more unsettling. There's actually a consistent pattern of tall, thin figures reported in upland areas - maybe Yorkshire Moors in particular. Might be worth checking old local legends.

Could you go back to that location during daytime and try to figure out sight lines and distances? Sometimes our perception of scale changes dramatically in different lighting. A normal-height person at distance can look very tall if the perspective is off.

The emotional reaction is actually the most interesting part. Whatever you saw triggered a genuine fight-or-flight response. That's real, whether the entity was anomalous or just unusual. Worth documenting exactly where and revisiting during daylight if you're brave enough.