I think I had my first cryptid sighting this past weekend. I want to share what I saw as I'd love to hear what you guys think it is as I'm not super familiar with cryptids beyond the more well-known ones. Or if you think it's a cryptid at all. 

I saw it when I was passenger in my friends car as she was driving back to her house from our day of hanging out at the pool. We got to a part where the road curved, though there was a gravel road you could follow that continued straight and next to that gravel road there was a house. As we approached that curve I saw something a little bit behind the house, and behind a tree. A creature that looked like it was about to try and cross the gravel road. But to me it looked like it had turned its head and looked at us as we approached before backing up and disappearing behind the tree. I hadn't seen it for very long but it was completely black, almost like a solid shadow. It had what I believe was a long neck and a kind of oval/bulbous head. It had a body similar to that of a chubby cat and had four short kind of stubby legs. Since it had been behind the tree, I don't know if it had a tail or anything more than what I saw. It had no features that I could see; no ears, no eyes, no mouth, no fur, etc. It was bigger than a cat or dog, but smaller than a horse. 
It almost kind of looked like a smaller land version of the loch ness monster.
It is also possible that the long neck and head I had seen was a tail, but I believe it wasn't because again I swear it had turned its head to look at us. 
I provided a drawing of what I had seen to help give yall a better picture. 
I'm very curious as to what I saw as I don't think it was any normal animal. 
This was also spotted in southwestern Ohio if that helps any. 

My first cryptid sighting?