Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
Every week in this feature we bring you weird stories about the types of things you see in the paragraph above. We’ve talked about bigfoot, aliens. ghosts and a ton of other other-worldly oddities. The only one that really spooks us is today’s topic – shadow people.
Shadow people are just what they sound like – a dark outline of a person seen walking across a wall, a door, or even through trees. The one individually recognised around the world is the Hat-man, so named because he always seems to be wearing a bowler. Perhaps the reason it spooks us so bad is because we know a lot of people who have seen them.
Today we bring you a few stories of these things, along with a video of people describing their encounters. So, you know, curl up in your jammies and enjoy.
Shadow people, according to Wikipedia, are:
“…supernatural shadow-like creatures of both modern folklore and traditional native American beliefs. According to folklore, they appear as dark forms in the peripheries of people’s vision and disintegrate, or move between walls, when noticed.
“Reports of shadow people occupy a similar position in the popular consciousness to ghost sightings, but differ in that shadow people are not reported as having human features, wearing modern/period clothing, or attempting to communicate. Witnesses also do not report the same feelings of being in the presence of something that ‘was once human’. Some individuals have described being menaced, chased, or in some rare instances, attacked by shadow people. There have also been reports of shadow people appearing in front of witnesses, of which they stay there or lingering for several seconds before disappearing. Witnesses report that encounters are typically accompanied by a feeling of dread.”
They’re usually described as being seen out of the corner of your eye. It’s only a second that they’re there, but witnesses can’t deny it. Here are a few encounter-samples from the Shadow People Archives. (All quotes [sic])
Sample #1:
“[My] first unmistakable encounter with a “shadow being” was sometime in late 1987. My door would mysteriously come ajar during the middle of the night. And I would have to get up and close it. This happened dozens of times. Then one night when I went to get up to close it I saw a tall shadow with a fedora hat standing on the other side of the door. It was blacker than the darkness around it, featureless and was staring right at me. Terrified, and feeling I had no place to run, I picked up a screw driver and lunged at the figure. As I did this it slipped into the wall to the right of me within a split second! It made no sound and went through a solid wall. I was so frightened I thought I was going to die.”
Sample #2:
“One nite when I was about 16 yrs old, I lay in bed trying to fall asleep. I heard a faint sweeping sound, as if someone was slowly sweeping a floor. As I look around, see nothing so I lay back down. The sound stops and I finally go to sleep, but abruptly awoken by something covering my mouth and nose. I could not breathe. As I look at what is there, I see a 7 foot tall jet-black shadowy figure standing over me, pushing on my chest. I remember not being able to get up; it was very strong. I started seeing sliver and red and everything went black. When I came to, it was gone, but I hear that sweeping sound again. I lay there afraid to move, afraid to breathe. The sound faded away. And I get brave enough to run to my mother’s room. When I tell her what had happened she told me it was bad dream.
“Now when I turn about 25, I start seeing black shadowy human figures out my side view. When I look right straight at them, they disappear. I tell my mother about them and she tells me that she has seen them too. She did not want to scare me by telling me that the night I awoke, she awoke also but felt being choked instead of feeling pressure on her chest. She sees them a lot.”
Sample #3:
“…This one time though, I actually had a physical encounter with one of the creatures. I was about twelve at the time and was starting to see them more frequently (I assume they somehow knew we were moving soon). One night, I saw one of them appear on the wall farthest away from my bed (I’m still not sure if there was only one or many that “visited” me, I always just saw one at a time). This one started making it’s way across my wall towards my dresser, it was moving faster than any of the ones I had saw before. Once it got to my dresser, it kind of casted itself on to my dresser and continued moving toward me in the same fashion. I felt paralyzed and couldn’t move even though I knew it was coming towards me. Once it got to my bed I stood up and jumped to the corner (my bed was up against two walls).
“I remember trying to find a way off my bed so I could run out of my room, but once it casted itself onto my bed it’s “legs” spread all the way to the end so that I couldn’t get off without stepping on it. I saw it’s arm move up the wall beside me and touch my shoulder. I could feel it’s hand. It was a terrible sensation, at first it felt cold and numb, but then it started to feel like it was squeezing my shoulder without actually causing an indention. I can’t really explain what it felt like in full detail, it was something in a class of it’s own.
“I had my eyes closed and waited for in too go away. After about two minutes I opened them again and saw that the image had gotten much more darker than it was before. I panicked, tore away from it and ran to the basement. I slept in the basement with the lights on that night, but kept fearing that the shadow person would follow me. I slept in my room the next night and didn’t see anymore images until the night before we moved, but thankfully none of them came near me.”
There you have it. Three particularly spooky encounters to make you feel warm and cozy when you turn the lights out at the end of the day. As if that wasn’t enough, here’s a video to keep you feeling especially cozy.
You were gonna be up at night anyway, right?
Helen says
Some of these frightening stories sound so much like the odd and scary things tht occur in sleep paralysis, and I urge those who do not know about this condition to research it on the Web. The University of Waterloo in Ontario recently did an in-depth study, and the facts presented are very much like thefacts printed above. The business where you cannot move is a telling quality. And the more you know about how your brain works and how out-of-sync it can become, paralysing the body at times butwith a mind wide awake and the recipient of sounds like sweeping or footsteps, the sighting of appartitions, etc. has probably given rise to much folklore down the centuries.
This is a most ftightening business. I have encountered it myself. But once you know what is causing it, there are things you can do to prevent it, such as not sleeping on your back or having too many warm bedclothes. Do look up some well-written University-type research. You will probably be well assured. Having said this, in the middle of the day whilst wide awake, I have had encounters with those “shadows”, and no one is offering any explanation of these so far.
euclid says
Helen – here’s one: you’re crackers.
Justing kidding…?
As a former ‘shadow person’ myself, I can state
without equivocation that their intentions are noble.
You see, they target people who post on snide
celebrity blogs but do not understand irony, know how to spell, or
think for themselves. (That covers just about every
poster on this site, come to think of it.)
This article is the work of slanderous h8ers.
They are doing good work. Keep it up ‘shadow people’.
Some of my best friends are ‘shadow people’, but
FYI – they really don’t like it when you call them that.
rob says
I’ve heard that shadow people are from another dimension or that they are ancient alien spirits trying to warn us about something about to happen in the near future that will change our perspective on reality
Laurie says
I was eight years old when I first encountered a Shadow person. As a child, we’re all frightened of what lies hidden under the bed…but, this was different!
My mother had recently divorced, and we had moved into a new apartment. Any time I was left alone, I felt I was being watched. It was as though a tremendous pressure surrounded me. It was very tangible, negative, and extremely frightening.
One night my mother went to take a shower. I was sitting in the living room, and I felt the pressure increase. I ran and jumped into my mother’s bed…and threw the covers over my head trying to hide.
I peaked up from the covers for only a second, and that’s when I saw it…
It wasn’t a peripheral view…it was a dead-on view. It was a Shadow man…and I saw his profile running along the wall. It moved VERY fast. I knew it wasn’t the shadow of someone running outside..because, where the eye should be there was no shadow…just the light of the wall. And, I remember trying to reason with myself on this as a child. And, the energy in the room at that was horrible.
I’d never mentioned my fears to my mother. I knew she was going through a lot having recently divorced, and trying to take care of us on her own. And, I was a kid…she’d think it was a “Monster in the Closet” tail. But, that night I was so scared..I did say something. To my surprise, my mother instantly went to cussing it out, and screaming at it to leave me alone. She too, had been sensing it.
We moved shortly after. I’ve never seen one dead-on like that again. But, I have had the same “pressure” sensations..and will occassionally catch a glimpse in my peripheral view. The intensity and frequency has subsided as I’ve grown older.
For years, only my mom knew about our incident. Then with the advent of the internet..I began reading other people’s experiences, which made me feel less crazy. As a child, I’d always thought ghosts were white whispy sort of creatures like Casper…nothing like what I saw.
tim says
This is no sleep paralysis phenomenon. When I was about 11 or 12 I was in my room, functioning normally and standing upright, and I started to feel uneasy like someone was watching me intensely. I retreated to the covers of my bed because of my intense feeling of dread. Then I was suddenly paralyzed and felt a hand press onto my chest. It lasted about 7 horrifying seconds and when it stopped I laid in fear for about a minute before running out of my room.
After that I have seen shadow people looking like black figures in the corner of my eye. I had the misfortune of seeing one directly for a second or two and I am convinced they are some form of evil. These are creatures that look like hunched over primates and seem to move with remarkable agility. Their fur (not fur but the closest thing we know to what I saw)is pitch black and their eyes always seem to be red or yellow. I think there are more powerful ones like the one that touched me, and their presence is one of pure evil, certainly an experience you won’t forget.
James says
I went to sleep around 4-5 pm one evening. I awoke somewhere around 10 pm. When I awoke, I made no indications of waking up other than merely opening my eyes. Somehow or another, I noticed something move toward the foot of my bed. So, I moved my eyes without moving my body to look. I saw the outline of a person that was essentially facing me. I could see the outline of the whole body. The head, shoulders, torso, and legs. It walked up the side of my bed, from the foot of my bed, up to right in front of me, but it did so as it was facing me. It wasn’t sideways. It was directly facing me. I wasn’t afraid to begin with. I was more or less fascinated. I watched it move in front of my VCR and block out the green light of the time on it. It got right next to my head, standing straight up and facing me, and all of a sudden, I was extremely frightened. When I say it walked up beside my bed facing me, that’s what I mean. It had its stomach and face facing my bed as it walked beside my bed. The way it walked wasn’t like it was human. It walked as though it was gliding or something. I watched it straight on directly. no peripheral vision or nothing. i was looking at it straight on. it wasn’t moving very fast at all. from beginning to end, i watched this thing for about 7 seconds. It moved really slow. It appeared to stand about 5 foot tall, and I couldn’t tell if it was a male or female outline, though, my first impression I thought it was a female outline. Anyway, when it got to my head facing me, I screamed, jumped straight up, and ran down my bed, jumped off the foot of my bed, grabbed the door handle with one hand, flipped the light with the other, turned around, looked, didn’t see anything, and ran out of my bedroom. I was terrified. The rest of that night and the following night, I slept with my bedroom light on. Thereafter, I started sleeping with my television on. Then, I networked my bedroom, and now I sleep with my computer monitor on(no power saving mode). I will not sleep in absolute darkness anymore cuz of that night. My mom died a few years before I saw it, and it looked about her height. My first impression was that it was a woman outline, and it was about her height. Maybe it was her, pacing back and forth in front of my bed as I slept. Perhaps protecting me, or reaching out to me cuz she needed help. I’m not sure if it was her or not, but either way, it freaked me out.
Stephanie says
I moved into an old apartment in Long Beach California in august of 2008. Right after I moved in and got settled, I started feeling like someone was watching me…all the time. I absolutely knew I wasn’t alone when I was on the computer one day and I felt a hand on my right shoulder, at first it was just a touch, but then it turned into a squeeze just under the point of hurting. I said to it, you are not real, you are not real and it went away. The 2nd incident was when I was laying in my bed facing the closed bedroom door and I saw a tall shadow move from in front of the door to the right where I have a rack with clothes hanging on it. It seemed to move right through the clothes and get as close to the wall as possible and stood right next to my bed, I yelled at it to go away and yelled to it that it wasn’t welcome if it was evil and it left. Last night I was sound asleep and I woke right up and looked to the foot of my bed and saw HIM standing there, he seemed to be very tall, atleast 7 feet tall. He had a fisherman hat on and a black cloak like cape on and was so black that he stood out in the darkness, behind him is my window so he was very defined. I didn’t feel like he was happy and it scared me so much. I am pregnant and it makes me scared that he wants to hurt me or the baby. I turned over and put my arms around my fiance and closed my eyes hoping he would go away, I didn’t check again to see if he was ther but I am scared to sleep tonight now….
Lynne says
Hello I just read your posting.
No your not crazy neither is anyone else who has seen these “shadow” people.
I also have seen one face to face. I later found out my then boyfriends son, at the time 12 yrs old, seen it as well on many occassions, as well as a former girlfriend one evening as we were bringing in vegetables from the garden. All three incidences in the same home.
I have had MANY experiences with spirits ranging from hearing them, seeing them etc. I could go on for at least an hour minimum
sharing my experiences up to the most recent, which we now live in what was my parents home. My mother passed away a year ago October 7, 2008 in her sleep in this house. We are now seeing what we believe to be a portal which we think she is using to visit us. This “portal” is up stairs in the loft area just off our bedroom.
If I can I’ll share my “shadow person” encounter.
Lynne says
I can relate to your statement about not being afraid at firt when you saw this shadow. I wasn’t either for the first 10 or so seconds. But eventually I was after I passed my arm right through it, I was scared shitless.
Lynne says
After reading everyones posting on their encounter(s) with the black shadows,I have decided to share my experience. As I stated above I have had many sightings, encounters with spirits etc. I would say 85% of them I wasn’t alone when they occurred.
Here is my “shadow person” experience.
18 years ago I moved in with my then boyfriend. We were living in what was to be the garage to the house which was to be built.
It started with one morning I was up at about 4:30am-5:00am to get ready for work.
I was in the bathroom washing my hair in the sink. After I had rinsed my hair and applied the conditioner the bottle I set on the counter had fallen over. I thought nothing of it and attributed it to being displacement as the reason the bottle fell over. I picked it up and set it back down. Once I rinsed the conditioner out of my hair I lifted my head out of the sink and immediately felt something blow very cold air directly into my right ear. I did not feel it on my face just my ear. This is in the middle of winter here in Canada, all windows were closed and the heat vent was under the counter. I looked to the right and saw nothing; thinking it was my boyfriend I went to the bedroom to see if it was him playing a prank on me but he was sound asleep snoring.
Some time had passed say maybe a month or so and during that time I always felt as though someone/something was watching me and I was never alone in that home when he was not home.
Finally one evening we went out to a Christmas party and arrived home at around 2:30am. In this home the dinning room, living room were the same room. The main bedroom was just off the dinning room, the bedroom door opened into it.
I came out of the bedroom to hit the dimmer switch and turn off the light.
The bedroom door was closed all but about 2 inches. After I turned off the dimmer switch the only light coming into the dinning room was from the bedroom; I then felt as though I was not alone in the room. I turned to my right and was basically face to face with a shadow image. I chalked it up to my eyes adjusting to the sudden change in light but after standing there facing this shadow for about 9 seconds I though my boyfriend was playing a trick on me and he had to have put something there. By this time the shadow image was that of what would be a person standing there. Head, shoulders, arms and straight down, no facial features no eyes. I could not see though it, in fact it seemed to get darker as though it was something solid standing in front of me. I could clearly see the pictures on the walls, the pin ball machine, the furniture. I decided that if my boyfriend was playing a trick on me I should be able to knock this “thing” over if I hit it with my arm. So I extended my right arm and swung it right through this shadow. It then hit me, what I was looking at face to face was not of this world. I suddenly was scared shitless, I turned and ran to the bedroom I threw open the bedroom door, turned around to look back and there it was standing in the same place I left it only it was now facing me as I stood in the bedroom door.
I then ran and sat on the foot of the bed, arms crossed rocking my self back and forth reciting the words “HOLY SHIT” two to three times at least while looking back at my boyfriend.
The next morning I told my boyfriend what I saw, eventually he told me I know what you saw you were telling me about it while you were out there and I was trying to get you to come back into the bedroom.
I didn’t remember that.
Sometime later I shared that experience with my boyfriends grandfather, he then asked me if I had told the kids what I saw and I replied “no” why? He told me the kids stated they also saw this shadow in the house.
The same year a girlfriend and I were bringing in the vegatables from the garden. The next day on the phone she told me one of the guys must have been in the salarium when we were bringing in the vegetables. I told her no, she insisted someone had to have been in there. Again I told her no, and asked why she was so certain one of them had to have been in there? She said because she saw a dark shadow of someone standing in the salarium that night. I told her no they were not and proceeded to tell her of my story.
Ian says
I too have had a few encounters with these illusive little beings but other than that they dont hurt any one so we have decided to leave them alone kind of interesting though i see if i can get a picture
Tahlia says
I’ve seen three, never been touched though and never want to. The one I saw was hunched over as well.
Becca says
These shadow people many say, are reflections of the darkside of ourselves. I don’t believe this to be true. I have had experiences with these beings since I was a small child. Others say that this is some sleep paralysis, I’m here to tell you it’s not. These things are inquisitive, they can hunt, they play games, and on occasion can be aggressive. They prey on weak souls. Children, the elderly, even animals. If you have seen these things in your house and you have children I would suggest monitoring your children’s sleep more. Most of these things are just curious. You have others that are more malice with there intentions. These are not ghosts…let me make that clear. These are other worldly spirits and if they make you feel very scared, go with your gut feeling. They take the form of people so as not to completely freak you out. But, they are tricky. I had one recently that looked to be a little boy figure. I didn’t think anything of it, until my four year old and two year old started having night terrors. Not nightmares, night terrors. My kids usually always sleep very well and we never watch horror movies or anything like that, ever. I heard hard footsteps on the floor of my home and walked into the hall to see what it was. My oldest son started crying in his sleep.As I walk into the hall a figure of a litte boy ran out of my kids room. I followed it out into the living room. It had stopped and turned to look at me. I told it to leave my kids alone and it charged me. I had this huge wave of fear, anger, and jealousy run through at the same moment this thing ran through me. I told it to leave again and it walked out of my house through the wall. I have not seen it since. I have encounters with a man in a top hat. A woman and a small girl. These were not all in the same house. This is over the years. The man in a top hat haunted me for almost five years! I think these are ways to test us. If none of you have researched astril projection I would start. If you have ever had a dream that you stood up from your body and jumped out of your ceiling to fly…either to go see someone or just to fly, this is a form of astril projection. Kind of like an out of body experience without dying. I have had these since I was a baby. These “shadow people” are not always bad, but, not good either. When your spirit leaves your body, it leaves your body vunerable, other spirits can take over. I think that this is what these things sometimes try to do. That’s why they people whom have had bad experiences with these things, really, were having a game of tug of war over there bodies. That’s why they try this when you’re sleeping…you’re still vunerable. The only guess that I can come up with about why they try to do this is because you are living they are not…they want to try it out. I have seen these things in astril projection and on that plane, if they touch you, you really feel it. I’ve seen ghosts on that plane and let me tell you something. These things and ghosts are completely different. I don’t think these things have ever been alive. Ghosts feel like flesh and blood in astril projection. These things feel like raw energy, be it dark or what…the closest thing I can compare it to is if you electrified velcrow. Only when you touched it you only felt emotion but, you hear static. I know this sounds pretty crazy to lay this on you all at once but, if I can just enlighten people to these things. Maybe this will help. -Becca
Becca says
Sorry about this guys…it’s spelled astral projection not with an I …sorry for my spelling mistake.
Becca says
Sorry for the spelling error. This is the right way to spell the word…ASTRAL… again I’m sorry for the spelling error. I wrote this last night and was very tired. Thank you again for reading.
Shane says
My encounters are almost always when I’m sleeping. I
Spiny Norm says
I’ve seen them, riding home on my bike through a dark and woodsy park. It was after 3:30 AM on my second straight night without sleep and just as described – flitting around on the edges of my vision. It was creepy as hell and I have to admit I got out of there as fast as I could, even though I knew at the time that fatigue induced hallucinations can’t hurt you.
Becca says
Okay, in dreams where you are on a boat, in a maze, in a hallway, you need to know that these places are places of transition…this is bad. Always make sure that you try to control your dreams. I see these things all the time. If you are being haunted, know that you are being targeted in your dreams because that is when you are the most vunerable, spiritually speaking. That is one of the only times that if you don’t know what to do, you can lose your fight. When you have dreams like this, pinch yourself. You did the right thing by screaming. Anything to bring yourself out of it. If one of these things reaches out for you…DO NOT TOUCH IT! If you’re experienced fine but, since it sounds like you aren’t don’t. I know this sounds a little crazy but, that is how these shadow people work. If these shadow people think they can take your body out for a spin they will try. If they happen to grab you in a dream, I don’t know what your faith is but, most, of these things cannot stand in the name of Christ. I say that and most will stop or leave. For the stronger ones, just be prepared for a fight. I hope this has helped you. Remember what I said about what they feel like when they touch you. It’s like nothing you’ve ever felt.
Phil says
Hi,
I’m going through something that i can’t explain. I thought it was just sleep paralysis at first, and my friend told me had that he experiences that once and awhile. However, what im going through feels quite different and far more intense than mere sleep paralysis, but i dont know.
I guess i’ll start with what happened just this morning and then some of the other happenings after. Anyways, i can not recall what i was dreaming about, i know it was dreadful and caused me great unease as if something was watching me and it wanted to torment me and naturally i tried to wake up. I did wake up, but not completely. How can i describe it, i feel like sometimes i have to wake up twice, its like my spirit and mind wake up first and i feel very much like im in another world. At first it wasnt terrifying, almost serene. Though it has turned sinister. Anyways, this morning i woke up in that state. I know my eyes are closed but i feel as if they are open and i can clearly see my room and this morning i saw something at my bed, at first it was like i was seeing only a piece of it, like it was just outside of my vision except its arm.
I looked away, when i looked back it had shifted over, upper body in plain view, yet dark and distorted. I never saw its head or face. I started screaming out to god and jesus. It seemed to dislike me doing this, but at the same time i felt as if i was simply pissing it off, but i felt like i was slowly gaining myself back with every single scream. The being, did not like this… he started to envelope me, my eyes were closed now i was focused completely on what i was screaming, but i felt it push on me… very heavy. It finally subsided and i was able to physically wake, but i felt exhausted not tired, literally spirtually and emotionally exhausted.
What the hell is happening to me? I feel like i am going crazy for even considering this is real, telling myself im having crazy dreams or hallucinations, but when i went online today to see if it was real i find people with stories just like mine. I dont believe in coincidence. Somethings going on.
When i consider this happens 2-3 times a week i got to say something has happened. Sometimes im in this state and i feel people pushing or squeezing my head. My chest feels heavy, my feet cold. I cant do anything but make little whimpering sounds…
I dont know, i’m freaking out, why’s this happening for the last month? Anyways thats my experience… i’m only sharing it in case there are others like me with similar thoughts that they are just losing thier grip on themselves. I’ve had other experiences with this crap over my life, this was the third time were i felt like i was in danger and i was scared for my life and not just freaked out.
Becca says
Congrats Phil,
You won your battle of tug-o-war over your body. When you’re in the kind of sleep that you can see your room ,but you know your eyes are closed…that’s your minds eye being open. I know that this sounds crazy but, you were very brave to fight by yelling out about Jesus. I think that you need to know you are not crazy. This happens all the time and people just dismiss it. I would try salt concecration of your house. Salt is a purifier and put in the corners of your house or apartment can help ward off these shadow people. If you need more security…I don’t know how religious you are but, saying the protection prayer in Ephesians will usually help someone who can’t control when they Astral Project. At least when you open your minds eye you won’t be spiritually naked so to speak. I hope that this has helped you Phil.
Jonathan says
This is amazing to read. Once I was sick and it prevented me from sleeping. I thought I was going crazy but there were two shadow people working together playing a game. They were running around and around the house barely keeping out of view under the windows. I opened all the windows because I thought it was kids messing around. They moved like streaks. Wayyy to fast to track with my eyes. They seemed to know where I was in my house at all times. When I would turn my back to the window I would see them streak by. They seem to be able to physically touch things because I heard footsteps.on my deck and pavement. I even heard one of them say “that was close” once. Pretty wild. They seemed to be having a good time as they stayed till nightfall.
Jules says
The day of my moms wake I stayed home because it was too painful to go. I was sleeping and I woke up and I saw a shadow of a person sitting next to my bed. I just closed my eyes and went back to sleep. I don’t know if it was a hallucination or not. I have a feeling it was my mom. The same thing happened when my friends brothers best friend died. Her 7 y.o. nephew said that he had seen the dead friend in shadow form in her brothers room.
nanci says
My first experience was with a long tall shadow, standing against the wall, near my opened bedroom door. I was so freaked out I slept with my lamp on that night. Soon after I started having that pressure of weight on my differing parts of my body, while I was sleeping. This happend occasionally, I just took it as ‘really bad dreams’.
Years passed, and while I was pregnant, I had another experience while asleep and dreaming, I felt the pressure again, I was lying on my side and I was being push hard on the thigh, it felt like I was leaving a imprint in the ground. I was so scared and couldn’t scream or hardly breathe. So instead of fighting it any longer, I let in push me, push me through the ground and relaxed into it.
It was the last time I’ve ever had that sensation again.
Another experience with these shadow people, was when I was at work, I work alone at night in a store, as I was turning off the lights to leave, I saw a small hunched over shadow, ready to charge me from the other side of the store. I quickly turned my back and said aloud ‘ dont be stupid’ to the shadow, not myself and left. My next encounter was at home, I was getting up to go to the bathroom, early hours of the morning, and as I went to turn the hallway light switch on I knew the shadow was on the wall by me. It jumped across the hall to the opposite wall and in profile, sprinted off down the hallway. I got a little fright, but the call of nature and the sleepiness, seemed to work in my favour as I just waved it off.
Thanks for letting share.
Jesse says
okay, I only had one experience with something like this, but it wasn’t a shadow person.
It was 6:01 in the morning and I was in a back room that always freaked me out, though I was too tired to do anything and wanted to get some extra rest before I went to school. So I sat down in one of the military bases chairs that is like a couch (Note that I am living in Okinawa on a military instulation.) and rested my head on the side of the armrest, using it like a pillow and laying my body on it’s side and resting my feet on a stool so it was like I was laying down, and I blinked… Then I saw something that freaked me out. I only saw it for a second and thought I saw things, but what I saw was real. My computer was sitting at a desk next to the laundry room and it was on, like usual, though I saw my mom standing in front of it, blocking out the light of the screen. She was wrapped in a blanket and was hunched over. All I could see was the hair. Anyway, she was typing on the computer, and when I blinked again, she was gone. Instantly after that I felt the hairs on my neck prickle and a cold feeling in my chest. I called out,”MOM! You in here?” I looked around and saw she wasn’t. “No, I am in here.” She called from the front room. I sat up as quickly as possible and ran into the front room. (Note that my kitchen is connected to the room I was in, and the kitchen lead to the front room, so it was quite a distance. ) I saw her then laying down with the same blanket on that I just saw her, or it, in and she looked like I had just woke her with the fear in my voice. I didn’t see her at all that morning until I ran into the front room so how could I possibly know she was using that blanket. “Were you just in the other room typing on the computer?” I asked. She laughed and said,”I was in here the whole time, and was asleep when you called out to me.” I felt my blood in my body grow cold and started to sweat. “But I just saw you in there. ” She stared at me blankly then said,”I was here the whole time… ”
I didn’t go back into that room again that day. Also, I have never had something happen like that again, but I do see a cat at the corner of my eyes sometimes, not one of the two I have, and when I look it isn’t there. My mother also saw a cat strait on in this house and went looking for it, though couldn’t find it, and this was before we got our cats…
Can someone explain this?
Mark says
Jesse, the incident with your mom sounds like she was either bilocating or you saw a doppelganger. If the event wasn’t followed by a tragedy or death (I’m assuming it wasn’t or you probably would’ve mentioned it) then it was most likely bilocation. You were probably seeing her astral/spiritual body carrying on other business while she slept. Did you ask her what she was dreaming about? I bet she was dreaming about doing something on the computer. Weird, I know, but it happens and it’s usually nothing to worry about.
The stuff with seeing the cats sounds like shadow creatures to me. Most people call them “Shadow People” but they can appear as cats, dogs, spiders, etc. I have quite a history with seeing shadow creatures (mostly the “Head and Shoulders Guy”) but don’t really have the time to type out a long essay about my experiences right now. I’ve only once felt threatened/frightened by them and that was a long time ago. I usually just get startled when I first see them and then think, “Oh, it’s just one of those again.”