Workday Weirdness

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When I lived on the outskirts of my county's main city, Norwich, I used to walk into work each day. I'd plug in my walkman (we're talking 1980's here!) and stride out on my 40 minute hike to the office. On two occasions I had a strange encounter. The first was when I got to an old building that was being renovated. It had scaffolding along the front and the pathway was narrow and blocked from the road by plastic netting so only one person could walk along it. As I walked towards the city I could see a man in a dark suit and with a black beard walking towards me so I side stepped into an alleyway to let him pass through. I waited a while but nobody passed me so I popped my head out of the alleyway and there was nobody there. He couldn't have gone anywhere as there was nowhere for him to go - no doorways or any way to get through the plastic netting. A few days later I was taking that same journey and I could see through the massive windows of a shop on the corner of a junction that a man wearing a black suit and sporting a black beard was walking a black labrador dog. I side stepped into the shop doorway so that the man could safely come round the corner without bumping into me. Again, I waited but nobody came round the corner and, as I'd been looking at the shops on the opposite side of the road, I knew he hadn't crossed the road. I stepped out of the doorway and went to the junction from which he'd been walking and there was no sign of him. He obviously hadn't turned and walked back from where he'd come and neither had he walked towards the city (the direction I was walking). No idea what had happened but could it have been some kind of ghostly figure? I'd never really believed in spirits until then but I can't explain it. I spoke to several people and nobody else had seen him or heard about him. I'm not a fanciful person but my partner suggested that maybe, because I was zoned out in my peaceful 'morning selection' of classical music on my walkman, it just made me more sensitive to the spirit world. Anyone else had any weird experiences or any ideas what had happened?