Inexplicable events, anyone had similar?

[Hudson633 28]

I logged on today and heard what sounded like a nearby burst of LMG fire. Too fast to be an automatic rifle I think, and only lasted about 5 rounds. I didn't see the shooter anywhere.

Later I fired a cheeky shot at a player over 800 meters away, and about 3 seconds later got killed instantly by automatic fire.

I respawned and ran a good half hour north to the middle area of the map, and logged out in the middle of a forest. Logged back in about an hour later and again heard an automatic burst of quick fire when I spawned. Again I didn't see the shooter anywhere.

I noticed exactly where i'd spawned was a dead player with a machine gun of some sort. I logged out fearing a hacker attack.

Can anyone shed a light on this? It can't all just be coincidence can it? I don't want to be paranoid but are these the symptoms of some kind of player cheating? I tried to google the events but I coulden't find anyone posting the same thing.

Also death messages were appearing on that server very frequently, usually one at a time and not in bunches. Normally I don't see such a high death rate, and I'd been alive personally for 10 days in a row.

This was all on one server.

[Timmymachine109 (DayZ) 235]

Could have been a player teleporting about with godmode and killing people??

[Hudson633 28]

I'd also reckon so, hackers tend to be not very skilled at the games they play, since they don't have to any good to win relying on hacks.

Would account for the LMG fire missing, but I never heard the shots even go overheard with that whizz-snap that most rounds give off.

Must have been invisible and targetting players that were shooting others.