Is that you?

This happened about two years ago, in November, and it's still one of the strangest things I've experienced.

It was around 8 PM. My friend and I were standing on a quiet road. There was only one streetlight nearby, and on the other side of the road was a huge field with a few cows. It was almost completely dark, and there was nobody else around.

My friend had a ball with him. As a joke, I grabbed it and threw it into the field. He laughed and told me to go get it. I refused and told him he could get it himself.

He turned on his phone flashlight and walked a few meters into the field to look for it.

While I was standing alone near the road, I suddenly heard a man's voice whisper right next to my ear. It was so close and so clear that it made me jump. It said, "What are you doing?"

I looked around immediately, but there was nobody there. At first I convinced myself that maybe I'd imagined it.

Then I saw my friend running back toward me. He looked genuinely scared.

Before I could even tell him what I'd heard, he said that while he was searching for the ball, he also heard a man's voice whisper right next to his ear. The voice said, "Who are you?"

The weird part is that I hadn't told him anything yet. We both experienced something similar independently.

We didn't wait around after that. We got out of there as fast as we could.

A little later, when we looked back, the only streetlight on that road had started flickering.

I've tried to think of a logical explanation over the years, but I still can't explain why we both heard a whisper when there was no one else around.

Has anyone experienced something similar?