So I have a very specific shadow person story. I work in a warehouse & about 3 months ago I stared seen a shadow figure, he (looked masculine) was almost 7 foot tall and at first creeped me out. But I didn’t feel any real danger from him, just a slight unease. He’d usually stay in my peripheral vision & I mostly saw him at work in the warehouse, but a handful of times I also saw him while at my house or outside while I was doing shit. As I got used to his presence he showed up more regularly, 2-5 times a shift was the highest but now I felt no unease from him. Since I work near the edge/outside wall of the warehouse I usually see him near the middle, close enough that I can see him but not extraordinarily close. He usually stood in the walk way & moved up & down it. About 2 months after I first started seeing him I happened to be walking down the path I usually saw him in & he appeared only a few feet away from me & to my left. It scared me and I jumped to my right hard, and right as I did a box I assume to weigh about 40 kgs broke through the safety netting & landed to my left, right where I was. I thought about thanking him, but people started running over & he disappeared again. I’ve only seen him twice since then & I was able to look right at him (instead of him staying in my peripheral vision). When I saw him I gave him a head nod and he gave one back, I wish there was a better way to thank him but I don’t think there is.
So the machine I usually operate has started acting up in a weird way. I’m not sure if saying all of this has something to do with it, but if it continues I’m going to delete the original post & see if that helps
I believe shadow people are a mixed bag of phenomena, for some people it may just be our peripheral vision and brain tricking us but for others like you it's an actual presence. That presence is also a mixed bag I believe, what we refer to as "shadow people" may be different entities; for example some are just ghosts that are watching us and can be good, bad or neither, while others maybe more malevolent entities like demons, dark spirits or djinn, and aside from those some could be psychopomps or angels/some other entity delivering a sign or message. My grandma used to be Christian but left the church and renounced her faith however even after that she would see shadow people and other figures (not just shadow people, a figure with color and detail. She said she saw a giant man with no head just a hat and he was made of red and black horizontal stripes, he appeared in her closet and pushed her back without moving and at the same time knocked all of her cassette tapes off the shelf in her closet, after that one of my uncles went in to ketoacidosis) that she believed were guardian angels delivering her a sign, as they only appeared to her right before something really bad was going to happen to somebody like herself or my diabetic uncles. My dad also had an experience with a shadow person when he was kid, he had influenza when he was about 6 or 7 ( I can't remember exactly) and he was bed ridden for the worst of it. During which time, he told me, every night he saw a figure of a tall jet black person with a perfectly spherical orb in place of their head. This figure would appear in the corner of his room every night, when he was the most ill, and walk to the foot of his bed where the figure would sit and wait through the night. The figure did nothing but sat and wait each night and my dad told me that he thought it was waiting for him to die from the illness. I've thought about that over the years because my dad told me his encounter when I was a kid and I've come to think that the shadow person that visited him was neither benevolent nor malevolent, I believe it was a psychopomp waiting to assist my dad in crossing over since he was so close to death but since he recovered from the influenza it left him and my dad never saw it again.
My cousin and I would see specifically a man in a trench coat with a hat in the shadows of our house, at the top of the steps, and sometimes it almost looked like a wolf under the hat and coat. We would come running into one another’s rooms and hide under the covers after our moms wouldn’t believe us. It’s the only interaction I’ve ever had with anything like that, and I honestly thought that I had made it up until years later my cousin talked about it and I realized that I hadn’t dreamed it at all.
Other stories have mentioned seeing him up close n sd it's an owl I have seen him in my window he took long slow drag off a cig n his eyes lit up an orange red color like the fire on the cig
I seen him all the time growing up. Especially during sleep paralysis, I wouldn't be able to breathe but I could see around my house and he'd be standing by me laughing. One time I seen him out of my grandma's window laughing. He has long black hair, black trench coat and top hat. He looks like The Undertaker the wrestler. I'll never forget him till the day I die
One of my experiences I vividly remember is waking up from a nightmare and looking up and seeing pitch black, I didn’t see him completely but I felt “the presence” of him being there. It was scary and I fell back asleep, it came back a few times and 4 years later I haven’t seen a shadow person since, even though it’ll freak me out I kinda want to see it again just to go “ah yeah, shadow man to boo”
I had a similar situation. Falling asleep and felt him standing at the end of my bed. I opened my eyes and saw him walk towards me and disappear. They're def something weird, but i dont think theyre dangerous.
I dont want to scare you man but one day in my holidays in greece i saw one shandow man staring my cousin while he was sleeping and this thing noticed me and then run inside the hole of my guitar i didn't believe what i saw but then my dog goes crazy and was staring the guitar
I remember as a child, I lived in an old farm house. the closet in my room, was often left open. I remember being terrified of the closet. I recall this smile coming from the closet. It was a dark figure, I couldn't make out what was in there, but I still remember over 40 years later the smile.
I’m a grown adult woman as still terrified of closets, it’s ridiculous but my closet legit terrified me as a child. Tormented me for years, so obviously something happened but I’ve blocked it out. God I’m glad I don’t remember seeing a creepy smile under the door.
@@WinterWitch01 So it's not just me. Until very recently, I'd wake up and see weird stuff in my room like people walking around, but I've understood it to be some sort of sleep disorder, and it having to do with me waking up mid-dream or something. I've gotten some blue and purple LED lights which I keep on at night in my room, and I haven't seen anything since, which kinda confirmed it was my brain making sense of shapes in the dark. But yes. Definitely. Closet door has to be closed. Damn closets.
I posted a comment here about a friends old house that was wildly haunted, but I forgot about the basement closet till these comments. This house had a lot of weird occurrences, tall shadow watching from the backyard, malicious shadow people in a bedroom, friendly child voice in the living room, etc. One of my visits to this house involved us playing hackysack in the basement and kicking it into the closet at some point. I couldn't see where it landed despite it being well lit in the basement. I shined my phone flashlight in, and it made no difference to the shadows. Nothing at all was revealed by the light. So I grabbed a nearby pushbroom and gently poked into the closet to gauge it's depth. About two feet from door to wall. After that I decided to flip the broom over and attempt to pull the hackysack out with it. Not only did I not manage to get out in three tries, but I got nothing. Not even dirt. Closets are not to be trusted.
My shadowman sighting was when I was 22, appearing in my room. I tried chasing him, thinking he was a normal intruder. He ran through the living room, into the kitchen and was gone. It wasn't until the adrenaline starting to ebb that I realized the man was just solid black, not just a dim light situation.
This description is uncanny of experiences I had around the age of 7-9, except I saw a shadow man straight on view on a regular basis. Same description with top hat, trench coat also with a walking cane. Always stationery at the top of the main stair case. I remember feeling let's say startled/uneasy but never fear. This is the first time in the 27ish years since that I've even mentioned it. Bear in mind my experience is before youtube and all this was really available so I've always new it wasn't like a shared psychosis or anything along those lines. It was actually comforting to hear you describe almost exactly what I have seen for myself as a child.
This video pulled a deep memory out from within me. I saw hatman once while at my grandparents house. Couldn't sleep ended up wandering around my grandparents house with the lights off, saw a figure hiding among their coat rack. I was frozen for a good 5 minutes, eventually he disappeared and I went back to sleep with no problem. It was weird.
My shadow person didn’t have a hat. He also was never in the corner of my vision as he would walk straight in front of me. Haven’t seen him since I moved out of my childhood home.
@@KatieRussell713I was in my early 30’s my first time and mine never had a hat. I haven’t been bothered for a couple years and the last time was a comparatively mild experience to the others.
My Dad is in his 70s, he has kidney disease, it's borderline between Stage 3 and 4. His health got bad enough last year that he had to go to the hospital 6 times in about 6 months, and I eventually had to move to his house to provide live in care for him because he couldn't get into any of the rehabs near his place after having surgery. I'm in my 50's and I have never had anything I could call a paranormal experience before recently. When I moved in with him, he was in very bad health, like he could barely walk, couldn't get his own food, couldn't bathe himself, etc. It was bad, and I wasn't sure if he was going to survive much longer. Thankfully, with a decent diet and some TLC he's doing much better now. At the time, he was so sick he didn't know where he was sometimes, and had several experiences where he thought his grandfather was sitting in the chair next to his bed, that strangers were standing around in front if his house all day, or that there were black doorways in his bedroom ceiling, among other weird stuff. He was telling me about these things while he was extremely ill, asking if I could see them as well, and I'm certain there's no way he was making any of it up, or exaggerating. He didn't even recognize his own bedroom in the house where he's been living since the 80s, and thought I had taken him somewhere that looked like his house, but wasn't. It was a rough time for both of us, to say the least. The crazy part is that I had started to see black shapes and human shaped black forms in his house before he came home from the hospital, or ever mentioned any of the weird stuff he was seeing. It was unnerving, being the only person in his house for many days at a time. I chalked it up to stress and being in an unfamiliar house, and of course I never mentioned any of it to him, considering what he was dealing with. One of the things I experienced shortly after he came home actually scared me, like the kind of sudden irrational fear I hadn't felt since I was a kid. I was looking in his freezer one afternoon, grabbing something to defrost for dinner, and out of the corner of my eye, the black form of a human head and shoulders popped up from the other side of the freezer door as I held it open. It moved insanely fast, and was squeezed in a 3 or 4 inch space between the freezer door and the wall beside the fridge where no person could possibly fit. It was a well defined shape and definitely human in form. As soon as I turned to look at it, it was gone. It freaked me out. I get chills just thinking about it. I had never experienced anything of that nature before that time, and nothing like that has happened to me since then. Before that point I was skeptical about ghosts and spirits, etc. I never mentioned any of this to my Dad until months later when he was feeling much better and had long since stopped talking or thinking about stuff that no one else could see. When I described what I had experienced, he explained to me that his grandfather was a notorious prankster, and that he used to jump scare the kids all the time when they were young. The kids didn't like it, but he thought it was hilarious. That was uncanny, it gave me goosebumps when he told me that detail. Last year changed my views on the afterlife and my skepticism about the paranormal. I don't go looking for it, and I'll never be a ghost hunter or anything like that, but I'm much more open minded when people talk about their own experiences.
I encountered a 7-foot tall shadow entity in my kitchen when I was a teenager. It was NOT harmless. And I've heard several stories about the man in the hat being aggressive/hateful towards the living.
I heard the man in the hat is a leader of the shadow people. They've been compared to aliens but its interdimensional i think, and they feed off us or study us.
I saw a shadow walk around my living room.right in front of me.it had a cape. It didnt seem to pay attention to me. I mean i wouldnt know because i ran as soon as i saw it
when i was twelve i used to see shadow people outside when i walked down the street in my neighbourhood, they were totally featureless and i didn’t sense any malevolent energy from them. i think they were just spirits passing by, my friends would always witness them at the same time as well so ik i wasn’t imagining it. i even saw a big cat one as well 😂
I have often felt a cat brushing up against my leg, look down, and nothing there. I have had a lot of kitty companions over the years, and have had to see many of them cross Rainbow Bridge. When I feel that nowadays, I smile in memory of my furry friends.
When I was younger, around 14, I had this recurring waking nightmare for a week, and it was so bad that I literally could not fully sleep that entire week, and I was falling asleep in class and such. During the night when I went to sleep, I'd wake up an hour or two later and open my eyes, and I'd see this blob of shadow with two white dots for eyes in the corner of my room staring directly at me. For some reason this set off my flight response to full gear, and I would fly out of bed and run straight across my house and into the living room. My parents would come to me and try to calm me down and my heart would be going a million miles per hour, I swear I've never run faster than in those moments This would keep happening and i would keep seeing the same entity, although it's location in my room would change and one time it even was leaning over from my top bunk (had a bunk bed at the time). Eventually when I got so unbelievably tired from this thing after days of this happening, I woke up in the night and felt it's presence in my room, and without even opening my eyes I screamed at it to "FUCK OFF" and just like that, it never showed up again across all of my life
Message from one of our interns: I have always had a very active imagination and one day when I was about 19 I was listening to a bunch of biblical prophecy about the end times and my mind began to wander and I imagined a scenario in my head. The, essentially a day dream, began with me standing from where I sat listening to the revelations stuff and walking upstairs to my parents upstairs bathroom. As I turned the corner and stepping a couple feet away from the upstairs bathroom door I stopped as in my daydream there was this mass of pure black so dark this form was that no light reflected off its surface it simply absorbed whatever light hit it it was so black. In my day dream the blob of void was maybe 3 feet tall as it came up to my waist. As I stared at this thing in my day dream suddenly a part of it shifted a part that resembled the size and shape of a human head although completely void colored. I watched this mass lift it’s head and turn it 180 degrees to face me. God its face haunts me and chills me as I write this reply. It’s face was formless, its eyes oval but with white dot pupils in the center. It’s mouth was not but two crescent shapes with jagged teeth the same void color as it’s body. The only defining characteristics of its face were its seemingly shining white eyes and mouth and it stared at me in my day dream it’s unblinking eyes burning holes into my own eyes. From the moment it turned its head to face to stare at me this overpowering wave of fear, genuine fear like I was the prey of some large animal cornered and alone, washed over me. I broke out of this day dream by literally shaking my head and mentally telling this demon to fuck off. Even now when I visit my parents house and use their upstairs bathroom I feel a small sense of dread which tends to fade quickly as I ya know use the restroom. Occasionally the memory of that day dream comes back up in my mind and I tend to mentally flip off this demon and call it names and what not.
I’m glad Aiden doesn’t look so tired anymore, I’ve been re watching the videos from a year ago ( it’s Jan 2024 rn ) and he look REALLY TIRED, he works so hard I’m glad he has started to get a better flow going since the old days :) I love the lore lodge videos and the entire team they really produce such great projects
I have an experience with the Shadow Man, but I saw it concurrent with sleep paralysis and my brain registered Mr Man as Black Spy from Spy vs Spy, so at first I thought it was sorta comical that that's what my mind conjured. It's only when I came across I think a Wendigoon video where he mentioned something about the Shadow Man that chills went down my back and now I'm actually horrified that I saw it too.
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out. And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me. I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opossum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
I've seen weird movement in shadows since I was able to articulate to my parents that sometimes the shadows move funny. Had a couple therapists tell me this is a sign of a psychotic disorder. However. Scariest one - by far - happened to me, my mom, and my little brother in like 2013. I was recovering from a surgery and also had a cold. I'd just gotten to sleep when my mom wakes me up. I'm pissed, assume she's drunk, and try to ignore her. She insists I go see this creepy thing in her room. So I follow her to her room, where my then 4 year old brother was sleeping. I sit on her dresser for a while, mad she's woken me up but deciding to chat anyway, when she reaches a hand out to silence me. I hadn't been paying attention, but the nightlight she kept in her room so the kids could see if they came in in the middle of the night had gone off. It had been randomly going off, and somehow hadn't really caught my eye. I look at her, she looks terrified, and points to the ceiling. In the middle of the part illuminated from the nightlight, there's a perfect black orb. Instant cold shivers and goosebumps and all that. Hair on the back of my neck standing up. Before I can question it, the nightlight turns off. When it comes back on a few seconds later, the black spot has moved, and begins moving all over the ceiling. Absolutely freaked my shit out. Something about it seemed so malicious. My brother was also awake by this point because my mom and I are loudly asking what the fuck that thing is. He saw it, as well, though he doesn't remember it now. We all moved to another room. It freaked me out so much that I didn't want to sleep alone, and I hate sleeping next to other people. The next day, I took the entire nightlight apart. There was nothing in there that could have moved like that. I looked up how big something has to be to set it off; it could not have possibly been a bug, because it was only set off by cat-ish sized animals or larger. It also couldn't have been the cat because she was senile and couldn't figure out how to leave the basement at that point. There were no reports of anything similar anywhere online. And it's not that I alone saw it. My mom saw it, too. My brother saw it. It was incredibly unnerving. Anyway. We tossed that nightlight out a few weeks later. Bad vibes, you know? It never went off like that again.
Idk if my story can really be qualified as a Shadow Person but the entity I encountered just, fits the overall look of one so I'll share mine: My mom use to do this thing when me and my sibling were in Elemtary school where she would kiss us awake, ask what we want for breakfast and go make it while we slept a little longer. I don't remember what I asked for but it wasn't a difficult thing, maybe Eggos, and I went back to sleep. A few moments later I heard her call me and I got out of bed and sat at the table and across from me was, basically, a Shadow Person, but his face and hands were visible, he had very pale pink skin. He was smiling and it went up to his eyes and his eyes were slits like a cartoon smiley face and his hands were folded in front of him, he had a bowler hat and his 'clothes' were just a black mass with just his hands visible. I wasn't scared or him, more just like "what?", and he said something to the effect of "You're not awake/You're still asleep", in my dream I heard my mom call me amd I actually wake up. Tbh, it didn't feel weird, I've always had weird dreams, but what I found weird looking back was him being obviously creepy but non threatening and just matter of factly going "Oh, hello child, you gotta get up c:"
i love that mental image a lot. the way dreams just assign completely inappropriate emotions to certain circumstances is so weird. your experience is like the inverse of how dream people flip out at you for asking if you're dreaming
A lot of these stories seem to be showing two entities, a shadow person who is neutral or even benevolent, and a shadow person who is wearing a hat and trench coat that is almost always malevolent and terrifying. And I keep laughing at that because it's like how dogs bark at men with coats and hats or beards, and then I am imagining humans scared of men with coats and hats but not regular shadow people.
This freaks me out so bad because I saw this "hat man", wearing a trench coat, 30 years ago when I was 9. He was in the corner at the foot of the bed, and I closed my eyes, only to open them and find him standing right next to me, looking down on me. I closed my eyes again, expecting a blow to come swiftly. When it didn't happen, I opened my eyes again and he was floating directly above me, face to face with me. I closed my eyes again, and didn't open them until the sun came up. I had completely buried this memory until I was 18 and I saw him again, but very briefly this time. I told everyone about this. And eventually, I came across this phenomenon while surfing the web, and was shocked beyond words that other people had this same experience. Specifically the hat and trench coat part is extremely unsettling, because it's just beyond coincidence. Many say they didn't see a face, but I did. It was pale as bone, and looked like old leather stretched over the skull, with sunken cheeks, thin lips, and black eyes.
I know this comment is 7 months old, but man... the fact that you saw a face is really freaky! I've never seen him myself, but I do remember my grandma telling someone (not me, I just happened to be there at the time; I think she was on the phone maybe?) about one of my relatives who saw a man in a trench coat and hat in their bedroom. She said he was like a shadow. But you're the *only* person I've ever heard describe a face before! That's seriously creepy 😱 What a strange phenomenon this is 🤔
@@justinburchette I know, and I am about the least superstitious person you can find. I still have sleep paralysis to this day, just had it last night in fact, but that night wasn't sleep paralysis because I could move, I was just too scared to do anything. So I rule that out as an explanation, especially because I can semi lucid dream and can pull myself out of sleep paralysis and nightmares.
@@augustgreig9420 I wish I could do that! I had a lucid dream *one time* and it was _purely_ by accident (something in the dream made me realize I was dreaming... then everything got really weird, and I woke up; it wasn't very exciting lol.) It definitely sounds like a nice skill to have! I haven't had an episode of sleep paralysis in a good while now; probably close to a year, if I had to guess. But whenever I do, I can always tell when it's coming. Idk if that ever happens to you or not - but for me, I get this... indescribably strange feeling in my head whenever I lay down. That's the major giveaway; and I wish I could describe the sensation to you, but I just can't. It's such a strange feeling... and it *only* happens when I'm about to have an episode. I never have that feeling any other time. It's totally bizarre. Anyways, I also hear the sound of running water... almost like a river, maybe? It's like a river mixed with static (like white noise). Something like that, anyway. Does anything like that ever happen to you? Or do you have some other kind of way of knowing whenever sleep paralysis is gonna hit you? I'm just curious. I tried describing this to someone else who experiences sleep paralysis once... and they looked at me like I was insane lol. So I assumed maybe it was only me 🤷🏻♂️
@@augustgreig9420 Oh, but I forgot to mention: one of my biggest fears is waking up and having something in my face / looming over me / hovering over me / just staring at me in general while I'm laying in a dark room, totally vulnerable. So... I can't even imagine what you went through. That sounds like such a scary experience! 😰
I remember seeing a shadow person in my peripheral vision a lot as a kid; no hat or glowing eyes though, at least not that I can recall. I actually have very vivid memories of lying in the floor watching TV and it standing behind yet leaned over me. If I turned to look directly at it, it would disappear but I never felt threatened though. Later as an adult, I encountered another shadow person in an apartment where my husband, kids, and me used to live. Out of the corner of my eye, I would always see it round the far corner of the hall and turn into the kitchen and disappear. The difference in that was it creeped me out a good bit more. However, at night and only at night, I hated having to go into the hallway. It was an overwhelming feeling of dread and fear. Everywhere else was fine (except for my son's closet, but I'll get to that in a second) and I never saw the shadow fugure walk the hall at night. Anyway, one night my son, who was between 8 to 12 years old when we lived there, was having a particularly rough evening and was pretty fearful. His room was at the end and around the aforementioned corner of the hallway. So I began to pray. For reference, his closet doors were shut. (Double closet doors, btw.) As I got to the part where I said, "Abba Father, if there is anything here that is not of You, cast it out in the name of Yeshua" his closet doors SLAMMED open and a VERY heavy high end sleeping bag, which was folded up in its storage bag, came flying out of the closet and landed halfway across the room. 😳 In spite of the major shock of that, he went to sleep and I went and picked up the bag and put it back in the closet and noticed there was a peace in his room after that. However, I did continue to see the shadow person. I never said ANYTHING to the kids about my seeing it or the dread that permeated the hallway. Years later, and completely outbof the blue, my oldest confided in me that she had the EXACT same feelings in the hallway AND also saw the shadow person come down the hallway and turn into the kitchen. (She and our youngest shared a room and it was across from the kitchen.) The other two lit up and shared how they too had the same feelings and sightings. It wasn't until AFTER they all spoke about what they had seen and felt that I finally shared with them that I had also. My husband never had any of the experiences we did. That closet incident still gives me chills to this day.
I also had the feeling of dread in the hallway. Everywhere else my cousin and I noticed the shadow man (we saw a tall man-like wolf in a hag and trench coat) it was just spooky. But at night, the hallway and steps terrified us bc of him.
When I was about a pre teen both me and my mom saw a shadow person. How I know is because when I saw its head/hat pop up behind a couch she yelled for it to get out of our home.. nothing major happened around the time we saw it but it was extremely weird. I'm glad I saw it, I felt like it wanted to watch us or study us... maybe just hangout or hide from something else
The "Shadow people" description sounds almost exactly like the figure crossed out on neighborhood watch signs, who is almost always depicted as an all black silhouette wearing a fedora and trench coat...
As someone that sees shadow people, always have, every day, this is so incredibly validating. Especially the bit about indoors = good, outdoors = bad. Wow. Thank you for this.
for me as a kid, it was the opposite. on two occasions, both in twilight sleep, i saw a bright shining figure in my door way. well, opposite up until i was 12 or so. had a second story bedroom and my bed was next to the window. one night settling down, i was listening to a book on cd (bc cool kids had cd players), and i looked up at the window. it looked too dark. keep in mind the blinds were *mostly* shut but i could see a bit through them. and then i realized towards the top of my window there were two red dots... and then they blinked. i have never lost my shit quite like that in my life. brought my parents both back and by the time i returned, normal moon / star light was coming in through the window, so i knew whatever was gone. my parents believed me simply because of how scared i was. didn't sleep alone for about a week. took me a good month to sleep in my room again. any idea what it was, aiden? red eyes don't fit the shadow figure. this was more a figure casting a shadow.
My daughter (pictured) who died 5 years ago at the age of 16, saw a blue glowing figure of a man, standing in the doorway of her bedroom when she was a young child.
Bruh, I remember one time I was walking through my local park at night and saw a pure black figure running at me, scared the shit out of me, but when I looked, there was nothing there. My only memorable experience with shadow people that wasn't just a quick flicker in the corner of my vision
I very distinctly recall seeing a shadow man in the upper corner of my room at night when I was a child, gripping the walls with its arms and legs like the super vampires from blade two. It just stared at me, then rapidly zipped over to another corner, then another, then disappeared. A few months later my father came down with cancer. I never connected those two events until now...
I saw one during my college years. It was at a friends house, and within 24hrs, one of the residents of that house plus a mutual friend were in a car wreck and only miracously survived. The car was totalled so bad that the owner of the junkyard actually gave the father his condolences when he came to see the vehicle since he was convinced no one could have survived such an accident
I was at my friends house with him, it was just us and we were both leaning on an island in the kitchen and we both stopped and turned to look at the wall at the same time when a shadow just disappeared from the wall that had been there the whole time. He and I looked at eachother and around the room. It freaked us both out quite a bit.
I had a black eyed kid incident when I was about 10-11. My mom had taken my brother and I with her to a friend of her’s house for the evening. My little brother and I played with her kids for quite a few hours, and then we went home. You see, my mom had a van. My brother and I were ready to go in the van waiting on my mom to stop talking with her friend for quite a few minutes. Her friend’s kids were on the outside of our van as I talked to the oldest boy and his siblings. The big door on the driver’s side was open mind you. It was dark at this point, only a street light up their drive way lit their drive way and yard a little. Out of nowhere, a little girl walked up to the entrance of the van door. I had never seen this girl in the few hours we were there, and based on how the kids who lived there acted with her, they had never seen her either. It was dark, so I couldn’t make out her facial features. Yet, I remember seeing that her eyes were super dark. What through me off was the fact that the little girl kept asking me if she could get in the van. I don’t remember exactly how she kept asking me, but she didn’t want to talk about anything else. She just kept asking if she could get in the van, and I kept saying no. She creeped all of us out. I jumped out of the other side of the van and told my mom I was ready to go.
I didn't know this was happening when I was a kid, but my mom spent a lot of time with the family of one of her friends, the family had widespread mental issues. According to my mom, the 4 boys in the family are plagued by malevolent shadow people even into adulthood, and my mom attests to one night there being something like a dozen shadow people outside of their trailer shrouding every window in darkness essentially, all you could see was them. My mom tries to help everyone, but thankfully she stepped back from that family entirely and focused fully on her own, things got much worse than just shadow people with that family. Type of stuff that makes you wonder if mental health issues and demons are the same thing. I'm glad my mom spent a lot of time away from us as she helped her friend and sheltered me and my siblings from it all as children.
A bit late to the party but wanted to add my story anyway. I have an imaginary friend who matches the description of a shadow man being tall, shadowy, wears a hat, like corners but mine wears a poncho. I have given him the name Edward and I feel comfortable in his presence. So there's my experience with a shadow man. Also love your content new subscriber!
I wrote this comment earlier but I think that it fits well here and I am glad to have found someone who agrees with me. Sometimes a demon is just lonely and wants a friend, it can't be easy when everytime you show up people either won't acknowledge your existence or hate you and fear you and try to exorcise you. I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out. And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me. I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opossum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
When I was a child, like 4-5 years old, I would wake up some nights (like after my mum and dad went to bed) and see three figures in the doorframe. They were nothing more than black shadows really but I *felt* like they were watching me. So I would tell them 'sleep well', something that felt important, and then go back to sleep. They never had hats though, they were just shapes and a feeling that I should tell them good night.
honestly, I've had a lot of paranormal experiences, almost exclusively in my grandma's old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, and my aunts old house not far away. I used to hear music playing downstairs in my aunts house, and would always see things like shadow people in my grandmothers, I always feel a bit uneasy in these places, especially at night
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out. And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me. I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opposum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
Man sleep paralysis is terrifying. I only once experienced it, but i didnt know it was thing before hand. I was just staring out my backdoor as it got darker, and darker, and i imagined shadowy figure approaching me in the darkness without been able to move
I am 28 years old and still regularly see shadow people. I have insomnia and find that it generally happens to me more the worse my sleep deprivation has been. The more tired I am the closer I can get to looking at them. Normally it's just in the corner of my vision and if I try to look at them they disappear but once when I had not been able to sleep for three and a half days the shadow person was much closer and I could look straight at it. Was definitely a bit creepy but hasn't happened in a minute.
As a kid I had always seen a shadow person in my house growing up. It used to stand over my bed as I slept and I know it was there because we always had a night light on in the bathroom so we didn't trip over the pets if we got up in the night. This thing I would even see it in the middle of the day just walking around the house. The dog never barked at it but she did follow it same with the cats. It was never malevolent. But it did stay with me until I left for collage. It was with me for the first month in my dorm but then just went away and I haven't seen it scene. It's been about maybe 7 years.
I love telling this story, and tbh any story about the paranormal stuff that happened when I was a kid. So when I was young, 7-15, I lived in an apartment complex, and among many many experiences I had was a shadow man who would stand in my bedroom. I don't remember when it stopped but it must have been when I was 13-14 because I changed the arrangement of my room and he always was in the same spot which I couldn't see anymore. I remember specifically I never saw his eyes as they were covered by his hat, a fedora I think. He did have a grin full of sharp teeth though, which I remember drawing a ton as a kid. I also remember that I felt as though something bad would happen if I saw his eyes, but not like he was going to hurt me or anything. It terrified me and lots of bad/scary stuff happened at that time that he could have been warning me of.
i also saw the hatman when i was about 17. he was standing in between my balcony door for hours, and i mean not inside my room and not outside my room. i mean in between. i was so scared.
The only shadow figure I distinctly remember, I saw while I was in college. It was at my boyfriend’s, at the time, very old house. The only light was the microwave, and the figure leaned into the door way with the light behind it. I was more confused than frightened. But it leaned over a bit toooo much to be human. While I was processing what was happening it leaned away. Spooky stuff
I've recently had a dream, a quiet shadowy man with a hat and bright white eyes coming out of a closet and walking towards me during a normal dream. I screamed at him and he backed away but kept looking at me. Scared the hell out of me, dream me thought I was about to be kidnapped. Completely woke me up from the dream and I was paranoid for the rest of the night couldn't get back to sleep at all.
I’ve mostly seen shadow people outside.The ones I’ve seen don’t have any noticeable eyes, no hat or anything resembling clothes, they vary in size but are taller than 6 ft, they are shaped like a malnourished human being , switch between moving on all 4s and walking upright and animals panic when they are near. I saw my first Shadow person when I was in 10th grade, the sun had just set as I was doing chores at the farm my family was remodeling, I had to get a few buckets of corn and bring them home to feed our pigs. As I was reaching into the grain bin I heard something moving around inside the bin and something outside the bin, we had barn cats there but one of them was already at my feet. I couldn’t think of anything that should or could be in the grain bin since it latches from the outside so I just swore at the dark and latched the door as fast as I could. I made it about twenty feet before the other cat ran up behind me so I turned around to greet him but then I saw the shadow person crouching where I had just been standing a few seconds ago. I hurried as fast as I could back to the farm truck, only making another ten feet before one of the cats ran away and the other stopped, turned around and hissed. I looked back and the shadow person was running at me on all 4s , I dropped my buckets spilling one . The shadow person stood up and drew one had back as it got close to me but then it stopped, it’s faced moved like it was opening its mouth to scream, then it ran away into the darkest part of the yard toward a wind break and I went home and cried myself to sleep. I’ve seen some a couple times since then , once during the middle of the day just standing still watching me another time 3 of them stood outside of the house one evening, our outside dog cowering on the front porch barking and our inside dogs standing at the windows going crazy.
it’s weird, i used to see a guy in a hat and trench outlined in the doorway of my room at night when i was young, but i used to get the impression that he was facing outward. like a guard. it felt almost comforting when i was little and afraid of the dark
I kinda had the same thing when I was a kid someone used to check on me every night at 9:30 I would hear my door open and close after a few seconds. I didn't feel threatened it felt like Nanna energy.
I had a similar experience. My boxer dog sleeps with me so he will bark at anything that comes near me while I’m sleeping and when I woke up my dog was sleeping and didn’t seem bothered. The shadow person was facing outwards. Felt like having my father protect and watch me while I sleep, very weird but comforting.
When I was young I used to see the man in the trench coat when I was having sleep paralysis or what would appear to be . He would always say to me "its time" and then the dream would go super lucid. Still spooks me as he visits now and then
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out. And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me. I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opossum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
Well, thanks, now I'm gonna get paranoid again 😂😂 i have a rather similar story, but somehow, it doesn't feel the same. In july 2020, I moved in with my father, because my mother basically kicked me out. I was already 20 at that time, but i didn't feel comfortable living alone yet and even after searching for a flat, i couldn't find a place, so after long conversations and his very obvious enthusiasm, I moved in with my dad. Everything was fine up until he had to stay in the hospital for what was supposed to be a routine check-up in December. He was sick since I was a child, so it didnt feel weird that he had to stay at the hospital, but he kept going on how he had a bad feeling about this, I told him to shut up, but I started feeling weird too, once he was away, felt as if someone was watching me and saw shadows move around just out of sight. Several times i thought i saw a face in the window next to my own reflection, but I live on the first floor, so that couldnt be possible. I got spooked and chalked it up to me just being paranoid because I was alone. But it didn't stop. This happened throughout December and it got even worse when 2021 rolled around. In the middle of January, the bad news came crashing down. My dad had a cancer diagnosis and had to have a heart surgery or the chemotherapy wouldn't take. One day before the surgery, he got covid, shortly after that pneumonia, and not even three weeks later, he was dead and while grieving I didn't feel paranoid again. I don't believe in ghosts or shadow people, and I certainly wouldn't have felt like this meant anything. But just this Saturday, I got paranoid again. I couldn't sleep, felt as if I was being watched and it was the exact same feeling. It cam crashing down and when i went to sleep i faced the wall, not daring to look somewhere else. When I visited my grandma on Sunday, she told me my friends Grandpa died over night. But as I said, I don't believe in the supernatural and it probably was nothing and i get spooked easily, but this was just weird.
I had an eerily tall shadowy figure appear in my room and stare at me. He was above eye level, I was in the top bunk. It smelled like my grandpa, which I found out after was the smell of cigarette smoke. It had bright white eyes. I forget if it was before or after he passed. I freaked the fuck out and went under my sheets to watch skydoesminecraft until the morning. I sleep in a different room and this happened probably 10 years ago? Insane. Anyway, cool video!
I've only seen one outdoors and the weird thing buddy with me saw it too, typical hat man, tipped his hat at us and vanished back into the shadows, was dead centre and not off the the side pretty much like 10 feet away, seemed like a chill dude, wish I had a hat to tip back.
The hat man was standing outside of my bedroom window. I was 8-9 years old. My bed was next to the window and if I opened my eyes while in bed I could see outside under the curtains. He had a face. When I got older and watched the movie Poltergeist, I realized the guy outside my window looked like the preacher from the movie. My daughter has seen shadow people, actual black shadow people since she was 5-6 years old.
When I was little,and visiting my father,I used to watch a shadow figure walk up the stairs outside my room and lean against the doorframe,just casually. No eyes or anything,just the outline/shadow of a person that didn’t fit anyone that lived in that house. My sister shared the room with me and saw it too. Never malicious,it just kinda stood there. Always gone by the time I woke up.
my indoor ones were always behind me, so when i looked around they were visible for a second but when i did a double take they were gone. outside, they seemed like they wanted me to see and they wanted me to he scared. they would leave fairly quickly too but it was very different and i vividly remember the horrible fear and pure terror i felt. inside was just watching, almost looking over, whereas outside were the opposite.
So around October of 21’ I started to work night shifts and I didn’t get home until around 12-1. Every time I would leave my house I would just feel uneasy, but every time I came back home I would see him on my porch for like a second then he’d be gone. It kept happening for a month and I tried not to think much about it. But then I started to see him in my house. I would go to do laundry and he’d just be standing there in my laundry room. I would stare at him then blink and he’d be gone. Every time since the 1st laundry room sighting he started to show up more and for longer. Like it wasn’t just a quick glance and gone anymore; it turned into what seemed like a stare down more and more. I usually stay in my room upstairs thought so I tried to brush it off… then he started to show up in the opposite corner from me in my room. Now it’s become about a 2-3 times daily thing of me seeing him all around my house. Finally, I fell asleep at my desk one night for maybe only like 20 minutes. I feel really weird though so I wake up and as soon as I open my eyes I see his hand outstretched only a couple of inches from my face. I was frozen, like it wasn’t sleep paralysis or anything. His hand was just there for maybe about 15-25 seconds. Then it slowly moves away and I can see him so much more clearly. Like I can make out a color in his suit and of his hat. I’ve never been able to explain it and I’ve never told anyone about it because no one around me believes in this type of stuff, but I know what I experienced and I’ll never be able to explain what it was and that sucks
You mentioned that you could see him very clearly… so what did he look like? Was he a more shadowy figure (like fog or mist) or was he a more defined, solid figure (like a human or physical object)? What colors could you make out?
Not the same but maybe the advice still stands even though this is sleep paralysis. But I've always sadi, maybe the demons are just lonely and want a friend and are tired of everyone hating them and exorcising them, and hating them. Also make doubly sure that there isn't a carbon monoxide leak in your home, or in your car, or in your workplace, they can also cause really bizarre and terrifying hallucinations like this and it builds up in your blood by permanently turning the hemoglobin in red blood cells into carboxy hemoglobin which is why even a small leak over a long enough time period can cause hallucinations which get worse over time. I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out. And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me. I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opossum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
Okay, I like in the middle of the woods, and very commonly see shadow people. Along with something I will never be able to explain, but thats another story. Living in the middle of the woods and commonly having to go out to check on our farm animals my entire family sees them constantly. I always feel a massive sense of dread and will run back to the house after finishing whatever task i have. Hearing that i could be in danger does not make me frrel better. and how im a bit worried haha
I don’t know if this even still counts, but I can only think of one event like this I’ve experienced. I jumped at shadows a lot as a kid. Usually not worrying about my own room but terrified of other rooms in my house if the lights were off. When I was maybe about say, 8 years old, my sheets were being washed so I had to sleep in our spare room/office. Being so scared of this particular dark room I brought my nightlight. A nightlight that when turned on I knew the shadows of perfectly well. It was maybe around 1 o’clock when I saw the perfect shadow of a girl with pigtails against the wall. Standing up and staring at me. It wasn’t a physical being but it was the absence of light in the shape of this girl and she moved. Like she was hyperactive but waiting. I was too terrified to speak but I pulled the covers over my head and never saw something like that again. Don’t know what that has to do with anything, but the only shadow person encounter i think I’ve ever had. I still don’t know what the hell that was entirely.
Well shit, I've never seen that girl before, but as a kid I would refuse to be outside alone, especially at dusk and night because I thought that if a car went by and even without one if I was in my yard alone that a little girl made of shadows with pigtails and sometimes with glowing red eyes would come going down the street and I didn't know what she would do or if she would take me or whatever but I wanted absolutely nothing to do with her. This was when I was like 6 - 10 give or take. I never saw it, but I have hyperphantasia and I saw involuntarily that girl in my mind playing over and over and it felt closer to really seeing it than just normally imagining it.
Sometimes when my sister was away when we were younger, I'd fall asleep only to wake up to a smiling guy with white hair one her bed, it wasn't a regular smile it was one if those uncanny smiles
I've discovered this video over a year after it's publication, but I still think it's worth to make a comment. I have seen "shadow people" twice as a child. Both times they were hatless and I encountered them outdoors. Their form was also different from the most common presented in the video. First time the shadowperson looked like a shadowy flame, and it moved away from me on a field nearby my house. The second encounter was right next to my garage. I saw it from a distance (around 100 meters) when I was coming back home after dark, but I could see it very clearly as it was full moon that night. It was tall and looked as if it had a hood and cloak, and seemed to levitate a few centimeters over the ground, I couldn't see its legs nor feet. I somehow didn't stop and continued riding bike towards home. After a while it became obscured by the tall hedge I used to have around my garden (from the side of a street). When I passed the hedge, the shadow was no longer there. Yet, right after my arrival my grandpa came out of the yard to check if I came back. And well, he had an accident and died after few weeks. Both times I saw shadowpeople I was obviously terrified, but I didn't sense any violence or danger coming from them. That's why I lean towards the Angel of Death theory, especially considering the fact that both encounters happened 1-2 months before my grandpa passed away. There was also a third time I thought I saw a shadowperson, but after a while I think it was just the case of pareidolia - it was dark and I was in a car, so I couldn't get a good look on it.
Not had a shadow person encounter but when I was maybe 15 I heard voices and felt breath behind me while I was asleep. This happened twice, the first time I heard my name and the second time I heard something say wake up in almost a yell whisper. It scared the shit out of me both times but there was not anybody else in my room either time. So I don’t know what it was and it was too real for it to have been in a dream.
Oh also whenever I think, talk, or here about anything supernatural or anything supernatural adjacent I get chills on the back of my neck and I get paranoid that someone or something is behind me. To fix this I usually put a hoodie on, or a blanket over my head if I’m on my bed. Not sure what this is or if this is just me being a weirdo or some psychological thing. Just thought I’d share lol
HEY the same thing used to happen to me literally every night!! it started when i was 13 or 14 and i thought it was normal so i ignored it for a long time. eventually when i was 19 i told one of my friends that “i hate the part of falling asleep where you hear the whispering and feel breathing on your neck” and she had no idea what i was talking about…. until she slept in my room and experienced the same thing. that’s when i knew it must have been something supernatural since it wasn’t just affecting me anymore, it would happen to anyone who slept in that room. i was actually able to make it stop by looking up techniques to get rid of ghosts and trying some magic banishing rituals. one of the rituals must have worked, because no one ever heard the whispering again. im 21 now and i haven’t experienced anything paranormal since. i don’t really know how to feel about the whole experience. it can’t have been sleep paralysis or a hypnagogic hallucination because it was the exact same thing every single night, and it happened to multiple people. i have had sleep paralysis before and i’ve never been scared by it because when it happens to me, it feels like being inside a dream and i know that the hallucinations aren’t real. but whatever this was it was different, and it felt real and scary. i also have only had sleep paralysis when waking up in the morning, and the weird voices only happened at night while i was still awake and lying in bed before falling asleep. i have no idea what kind of being this thing was but it definitely felt evil and i’m glad i was able to get rid of it.
I had a single encounter with a living shadow, and it wasn't the hat man, it had the vague outline of a cat, but was easily as large as a tiger. It didn't have any eyes, but I could tell that it was staring at me, it walked away out of my bedroom and didn't return. It was within the same week that my family cat got sick and we had to put him down.
This reminds me of some stuff I've seen. I remember this happening multiple times, but I only specifically remember once. I was with my friends at school, and through a window to the outside I saw this guy in a black hat and trench coat across the street or something. I told my friends and they saw him too. I actually kept watching him, cause I felt like he was gonna hurt me or something. that was weird.
I've seen both inside and outside shadow people. Inside they mostly just stood sorta ominously and when they were outside they would be much closer and much scarier. I once was running outside with my sister when we were much younger (7-8) and I'm very sure that I was pushed over by one. I felt a hand on my back and when I looked up after falling there was a completely shadowed man with a top hat that just stood over me. My sister was on top of the hill already, so it couldn't have been her. It was horrifying.
My friend got a house a few years ago, and kept seeing the shadow of a small girl in a certain hallway in his perifrial. He would dream of her as well. One night, in his dream she began choking him so he punched her in the face as hard as he could. He still feels like something is watching him from the hallway sometimes but it's been over a year since he has seen her, and it's not very often. He is no longer scared of it either.
when we were young, me and two of my other friends were having a sleepover, and as we all laid down in my bed, (it was big and we were little) we all saw the exact same thing at the exact same time. a tall shadow figure in the same corner of the room that dropped down into a squat then immediately lunged or sprang at us before vanishing. it was scary as shit and i can’t believe it was just “pattern recognition” since we all saw the same thing, and the corner was absolutely and completely empty.
When I was around 9 years old my sisters got me into creepypasta. I was really scared of the rake and on many occasions, I had a hard time falling asleep. One night I was lying on my side facing the side of the room where there is a door to the balcony. I opened my eyes and saw a shadow person without a hat. I was terrified and slowly switched to the other side. He poked me into my back and I was frozen from fear. I had to build the courage to put my nightlight on and when I did, he was gone. I haven't seen any shadow people ever since but there has been a lot of paranormal activity in my childhood room. My mum still lives in that house so every time I visit her, I sleep in that exact room.
When I was very young, me, my cousin and my old neighbor saw a shadowy figure in my neighbors room when we were hiding in there during hide and seek. We all described the same thing. The figure was huge almost gorilla shaped only standing up right and was as tall as the ceiling. We all screamed at the same time, and still even talk about it from time to time 😂
I had a similar experience but instead I asked it to protect me and for a few days it did and after that my friends started sleeping over all summer after that my cousin moved in. The reason i asked to be protected was because i was being abused even after asking for help. So when i saw the shadow figure in the corner of my bed towards my head i was terrified at first only because hello, this isnt something normal you'd see, but i closed my eyes tight and said out loud so it can hear me to protect me from the abuse. I was at peace and my abuse stopped. I moved out the after 2 years and I'm here today writing my experience. It was a brief moment and i did see it from the corner of my eyes but when i looked directly at it was just a darker spot than the rest of the corner and my room was dark. I also woke up the next day after asking for such a request and made me wonder if it was my grandma who had previously passed away.
Reminds me of when me and my friend saw a shadow thing out at night near a forest, after calling out to it and it didn’t respond my friend said “run” or something along the lines of that and I’m guessing when we where running he looked over and it was chasing us until we got into the road where it vanished
5:30 idk it this means anything but it occurrs to me that an outdoor death is more likely to be a violent event like a car accident than an indoor death, which is more likely to be a peaceful event like an elderly person dying in their sleep.
I've never experienced shadow *people,* but I have always experienced shadow *animals.* Most often rabbits or just some sort of small creature like that.
Be careful they're dangerous. Those are djinn and I'm dealing with them now past 4 years and cannot get them to leave me alone and I've moved 3 times since it began. They always follow
I saw shadow people as a kid (4-8?), confided in my dad, and he told me he saw them as a kid too (ostensibly to assure me it was just childhood imagination, but that's not how I took it). I don't recall any hats or eyes, just plain silhouettes, maybe with a trench coat (wide, ill-defined, lower half) and always inside. They persisted when I stared at them and they horrified me, but I felt compelled to go towards them. As an adult, I tend to see strange shadows, but not people, when sleep deprived and/or over-caffeinated. It's mostly the darkness from the other side of a door appearing to reach into the lit room in a vaguely finger-esque shape or out-of-place moving shadow blobs in my periphery (often where the wall meets the floor or ceiling). Edit: There were a handful of times in my late teenage years when I would see or hear people (not necessarily shadows) in my periphery or in the next room. However, this was exclusively when very tired and working alone in a creepy place late at night (poor lighting, lots of local-legendary deaths on the property, surrounded by forest...) I would often be in this position because beyond the general air of creepiness, there were also regular creeps so I couldn't very well refuse to close up in place of female colleagues.
A a young person, I saw shadow people like in my room. I also visited a haunted house (my grandmother’s) where people in and out of my family have seen ghost so I just thought they were ghosts in general. The issues truly started to happen for me when I babysat a neighbor’s kid. The mom was a nurse and she would have me spend the night since she left so early in the morning. Story time: the longest two weeks of my life started with weekend babysitting. The apartment had an opening to the kitchen and the couch was to the left of it and I could clearly see the hallway and child’s room from the couch. Day 1 I see the hat just pop up in the kitchen opening and glide over to the child’s room. Nothing to see here, I went back to sleep. Day 2 I had sleep paralysis and decided to open my eyes a bit and it kind of did the same thing but moved from the hall to the kitchen. I thought I was just hallucinating because of sleep paralysis. Day 3 I woke up and he was already in the hallway and he started to just hover around her door. I was just staring at it thinking it was just going to leave. It noticed me looking at it. Like I just kind of sensed that it was like “Hey that girl is awake??” So I turned around as it slowly made its way over to the couch and try to pretend I was sleeping. I prayed a bit and just played there. After like three minutes I looked over my shoulder and he was like looming over top of me. The eyes were red and that’s all I could see. I couldn’t look away or close my eyes. I felt like I was being suffocated. I gasped “You’re choking me I can’t breathe.” And the thing just backed away. I couldn’t see the eyes anymore but it just stood across from me and I kind of passed out. The lady ended up moving to Texas out of the blue and we ended up living in the apartment where I saw the guy again but he never got close like last time. I’ve dreams with shadow people in them but I don’t know if it’s just me or they are really just there. The last dream I ended up talking to them and they were being very….”motivational” to say the least 😒 Anyway, hope this helps ✌🏽
I saw the Hat man during sleep paralysis before my ex wife left me taking my kids from me causing years of court battles and suffering. I felt evil and malice coming from him but we ended up blessing that spot where he appeared after that with holy water and I was not troubled again by it.
I actually had a violent run in with a shadow person when I had sleep paralysis probably about when I was in middle school. I had woken up and it was standing next to my bed, no hat or coat just a male shadow figure wrapped in shadowy/smoke-y/mist with red eyes. I could feel just the rage and malevolence emanating from the thing in waves. It had to have been about six feet tall, it took its hands hand tried to shove them onto my chest, almost like one would do while trying to shove down trash in a trashcan to fit more in. It couldn't touch me because there was an invisible barrier about two inches above me, it kept trying to get to me and was becoming more enraged, frantic, and forceful with its movements the longer it couldn't. I was quite reasonably terrified and quoted Psalms 23 in my head to help calm me down, I then quoted the Lord's prayer after Psalms 23, and I kid you not, as soon as I said Amen in my head the thing vanished and I could move. I was quite shaken over the whole thing, I can still see the memory vividly. That is the only time I've encountered a shadow figure and have no wish to encounter another one ever again. I had three more sleep paralysis "hallucinations" after that though none of them bad, though I still had nightmares, but it all stopped after I broke both the sliding mirrors to my closet. (Which is supposed to be bad luck but stopped the incidents and nightmares.)
I’ve posted this elsewhere. I was in South Australia visiting my Brother. I’d hired a car so I could get around. At the time he lived at Nairn. When I left his place to go back to Adelaide it was night and drizzly. I accidentally ended up on the old Federal Highway instead of the New road. I just decided to stay on the old road as I’d traveled it before. Suddenly a the shadow of a man, cutting into the dark and drizzle appeared walking across the road, right to left in front of me. I was on top of him before I could think. It was like someone had taken a cookie cutter and I was staring into the void. He passed straight through the bonnet and kept on walking. There was no impact. I can’t say I was afraid it was just a what the actual moment. One of things that did stick with me was how silent it got. Obviously I didn’t stop and kept on driving.
I don't know if this is a Shadow Person experience or a Sleep Paralysis story, but this happened to me a few months ago. I was sleeping in my bed when I had a strange dream where I was lying on the floor of a dark apartment or hotel room staring at the front door. I guess I was some kind of dog in this dream. After staring at the door for a few minutes an all black human shape with a feminine form stepped out in front of me, crouched down, and held her arms out like she wanted a hug. A moment later I woke up, and noticed 2 things: 1 My eyes were half open and I was staring across my room at my trunk 2 the way the light reflected off the trunk made it look like the door in my dream
This seems to contradict most people's experiences Including my own. The almost always induce not only fear to the point of fight, flight freeze response but also more often than not give off an Extreme sense of evil enveloping the person or room. They do attack and I have experienced this as it came through my bedroom window and smothered me with a dark cloak of darkness that also felt like a large blanket restricting my movement until I was able to kick and yell loud enough and run to turn on the lights. They don't just come when you sleep but also when there is very low light or candlelight and there presence is malevolent, heavy, and dark. It comes with no triggers like movies or prior feeling of anxiety or feeling off. It comes in fast and takes you off guard like you just got dropped in the middle of the darkest, scariest haunted forest. The only 2 things you can do to make it leave is fight like mad and then turn on the lights.
I have heard of the shadow people before but I haven't heard of the hat with a trench coat. You mentioning that brought chills to me because I had a dream of a dark figure in a hat and trench coat and my encounter was not good it was an an assault, (in the dream) and no this was not a suppressed memory, no this was a one time dream of a "shadow man" trying to assault me. I can't remember how old I was but I think I was older then ten and younger then thirteen, based of off where I was when I had the dream.
When I was a kid, I saw a shadow with a pony tail messing with my DVD player. My parents basically said, “yeah sometimes you see shadows of people who aren’t there” and put me back to bed. I can’t recall any tragedies following this
@@gholamdapantaloonsniffer8218 You might have a point. My mom had several miscarriages that I didn’t learn about until I was older. I don’t remember exactly when I saw the shadow person, so idk if it lines up or not. I apparently saw a “baby ghost” around the time of the first miscarriage, so it wouldn’t be without precedent. Happy New Year btw
@@marumaru2105 happy new years to you too!! 🥳 I wouldn't be surprised either if it ended up being around the time of one of those happening tbh, which would have been so hard for your mum to open with and so the spirit/shadow babies would have been visiting to comfort your mother as well I'd say ☺️
@@marumaru2105 As I had that happen with me, when my great grandma died and I was 8. 3 days after my great grandma had died, I heard her voice while laying in bed say to me "it will be alright son" which is what she called me and then felt a warm touch on my arm closest to the edge of the bed where her voice came from ☺️
A friend of mine in high school lived in a house that had some real interesting energy. It was two houses down from the towns catholic church, which has a whole lot of "nope" about it. Before I ever went there he'd told me about *always* feeling watched there, and about waking up one night lifted up from his bed and being tossed to the floor when he noticed three shadow people around him. The first time I went there we were hanging out in the kitchen and I looked out the sliding glass door to see a huge shadow with emberlike eyes just watching us from the darkness. He said to ignore it, and we sat there talking for about fifteen minutes while it watched us. It shifted it's stance a few times but I didn't see it blink once. Then I looked toward a sound on my left and when I looked back it was gone. The next time I went we had another friend with us. Friend who's house it was went upstairs to the bathroom while me and the other friend went downstairs to the living room. She tried to open one of the crank windows and had trouble so I tried to help. Didn't have any luck, then we heard someone behind us say "it won't work, it's broken." and I turned around saying "oh alright", thinking it was my friend back from the bathroom. Then the toilet flushed. Upstairs. Her and I were alone in the living room. When our friend returned we told him what happened and his exact words were "was it the kid? That one's fine, he's friendly." with the most unconcerned look a human can have. After those events I looked into the towns history and found out it'd long ago been an Indian reservation. My theory is that the catholic church I mentioned had been built on their burial site, along with the three houses immediately behind the church, the closest of which I'd never seen occupied in my ~10 years in the town. I don't know if I started this with some point in mind but I lost it if I did. Stay safe folks, shits wild sometimes.
I think they were mostly annoying than anything else. During my teenage days, they appeared in my house day and night and not while I'm outside or at school. It doesn't matter if you're doing something or sitting down and relax, they would always touch me and whispers "hey" to my ear at unsuspecting times. These things appeared at the side of my eyes and when you turn, they just run off. Sometimes I can see them moving quickly in the house kitchen and corners of the my room. It was scarry at the first few days, then quickly turn annoying when I'm trying to get some rest or sleep, thankfully they disappeared after a week. This incident doesn't happen elsewhere except in my house and makes me afraid to step inside my house for the first few days. When it occured way too much, I kinda get used to it although it will spook me from time to time. Ps. No hats.
Ive seen my share of those. One was the ghost I met in a dream where there used to be a big white house where my house is now. He had a strong presence and felt angry like I was in HIS territory. He wore a wide brimmed hat and had no features. The next day my electricity went out for half my house, my neighbors too. Ive met some that were just nuicences. Like the one that stood over me in a dream. I yelled at it and somehow conjured up a circle of spinning yellow lights that shattered it. Another one was the ghost of a guy who offed himself in my apartment. He was scary because he was made up of swirling black clouds and not just a solid shadow. I moved out because he wouldnt leave me alone. Now thats an interesting point about indoor vs outdoor ones. I dreamed about seeing an outdoor cloaked tophat wearing one standing at the entrance to a cemetery. He at first appeared as a cute small black dog that morphed into a man with red eyes right in front of me. His presence was menacing and teally scared me. He said something I dont remember.
I find it interesting how many witnesses claiming to see these Shadow People,that also experience a strange buzzing,a sound that they say you can feel,as much as hear. This seemingly happens both before and after these being appear..😳 I've heard this reported time and time again.
The house I grew up in was haunted. It was on 10 acres of dense forest in southeast michigan. We have no idea why it was haunted as it was a brand new house. Built for us to move into. But it was a hotbed of weird things. Mostly noises but every once in a while we'd see things. I remember a few occasions I saw a shadow person. It was always male. It stood somewhere between 5'8 and 6'10. It stood in the corner of my room by the door every time. I always had my door closed at night so it wasn't someone standing in the hallway. I'm not sure if it meant me harm, but I was never at ease with it around. A couple times I felt like I might be in danger, but it never really moved much. If it did move, it moved like it was maybe shifting its weight. It would only be there for a few seconds. It wasn't sleep paralysis because I was able to sit up in bed, but I didn't dare get out of bed. It would just stand there, looking at me for usually not more than a minute. Most of the time after a few seconds of it being there, I'd turn my head or close my eyes real hard and when I looked back at where it was it was gone. I saw it maybe a total of 5 or 6 times I think between the ages of 10 and 14ish. I always chalked it up to sleep deprivation as I'd have nightmares pretty frequently in that house. But after moving out of that house I stopped having nightmares and I stopped experiencing paranormal stuff
i don't remember a hat or a tragic event, something i do remember is when it moved it more of faded from position to position rother then moving like anything else would, but what sticks out to me the most is my twin brother saw it too and sometimes we saw it the same time, one specific time i saw it go in our room and then he said he saw it go under his bed but He was not sure where, he was on the top bunk of a bunk bed and i had the bottom bunk, looking back on it the weirdest part was it never bothered me where so many other things did
I used to see a shadow man from age 17 to 21, the years where I had cataracts. For those that don't know, it's cloudy eye lenses, giving very dull blurry desaturated vision which leads to heightened motion perception (less visual clarity, faster visual processing.) He would be standing in/around my lounge and driveway , almost always in my peripheral vision. He was fairly tall, about 6'8"-7' tall, had a long flowing coat/cloak, had no visible eyes, no visible texture or features, just pure shadow. He would always, aside from one time, be standing motionless like a sentry. I never felt anything malicious from him or even any unease even when clearly noticing him. Often I'd notice him standing at the top of my driveway, staring down at the road as if he were keeping guard. The one time I did see him move was when my brother and his friend were having a gaming night. As the two of them walked from the lounge into the kitchen, I was walking past them and noticed someone in the lounge with his back to me walk in an extremely fluid motion towards the lounge window facing the driveway, and he casually walk/glided up the couch and through the large pane of glass right behind it. I thought it was another of my brothers friends for a few seconds until my brain clicked back into place and I realised people shouldn't look like a shadow when directly under a light bulb and don't walk through solid walls and windows.
I have a few shadow person stories, but there is one that still freaks me out. For context when I was younger, like 10-15, I would have nightmares where the dream was fine up until this shadow figure appeared, or bled through the dream; it would grab me and scream and then my dream would fade- I always woke up in a cold sweat. This specific incident happened when I was getting ready for school one morning. I wake up like normal, sweating from the nightmare, pull on my pajama pants and get clothes and a towel for after my shower. I walk out into the hallway and get to the bathroom door, close it and start my shower. When I get out I hear a knock at bathroom door and open it thinking it's my mom but what I see is a large black shadow person looking down at me. Slammed the door, missed the bus, and called a friend to wake my mom up by knocking on the frontdoor. Mom was angry that I missed the bus, but I was just glad the shadow figure was gone.
I'm fascinated by shadow people. I've seen them, even into adulthood. Can't remember if I've seen one with the hat, though. At least two of my kids have seen the shadow man with a hat. I've even seen shadow "critters". I have two black cats and sometimes I think they're walking by me but when I look they aren't there. I used to see most of my shadow people when I was younger and while driving, for some reason. Always a face or figure on the side of the road. When I start seeing them now I try to figure out if I'm over-tired or stressed but nothing really comes to mind.
I remember when I was a child about 7 or 8 looking out of the window of the home I grew up in and seeing a man in hat no real detail to him just a dark figure and above him was a swarm of crows were talking in the hundreds. The swarm suddenly started to fly down towards him in a spiral eventually completely engulfing him, this is around the time I got my parents. Once we got outside we found a dead crow in the spot he stood.
When I was in high school I was out with a bunch of friends in a golf course that was under reconstruction when I saw a group of like 4 of them, at first I thought that they were people but when I looked closer I noticed they were not and a sense of dread ran through my body as I started running out of instinct just to get away. My friends thought I saw a guard so they ran with me and laughed when I told them what I saw
There was a movie called shadow people that mention the shadow man with the hat and ties them to the hmung people and is tied to sudden unexplainable death syndrome which gave us Freddy Krueger and I have been attacked by a shadow person when I was a kid many times
This exact thing happened to me when I was like 6, a dark figure was poking around my room when I woke up in the middle of the night. the hat being worn was a fezz though
I saw shadow people when I was a kid, I think around 9, 10, or 11. The one I saw didn't have a hat or trenchcoat, or any details aside from being a shadow person. There were no tragedies, and I never saw it outside. I didn't like it being there, and was kind of scared of it, but more in the "scared of the unknown" type of way than a primal fear. My parents always told me not to mention it, although now that I think of it, I think it was to prevent me from scaring my younger siblings, not some superstitious thing.
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out. And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me. I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opossum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
I believe I saw shadow people a lot when I was working at CVS in Eatonton, Ga around 2016-2017. The building was old and another pharmacy company occupied building before CVS did. My theory is that they were people who died, and were upset that their pharmacist either didn't give them their meds, gave them the wrong amount, or the wrong kind. A doctor's unreadable handwriting could cause these mistakes. Sometimes pharmacists could act as gate keepers.
I still see them, I'm 33 years old. I have seen them face on in broad daylight. At night in the corner of my vision and I've been attacked by one. I've seen them in a variety of sizes too, lately I have been seeing child sized figures. I have also had spirits poking me, scratch me and flicking my hair when I'm in my house on my own. For those who are going to say "it's just a halucination" I felt and heard my clothes move in the way you would if someone touched you. I'm also not the only person in the house who has this happen, it happens to my mum often. We have also seen them at the same time too.
Around when i was a preteen, my twin sister and I experience seeing quite a few shadow people over a single summer. I don't know what started it, but one day we started seeing this girl with long black hair, in reflections and windows. We called her "her" because we didn't know what to call her, and didn't want to sound crazy.The weird part was every time we spotted her, she would alternate between wearing a black dress and a white dress. And sometimes there wasn't an obvious object that tricked my eye (one time i walked through a locker room and thought i walked by a change room with a mirror in it, because i saw my reflection walking by in the corner of my eye (I also have long dark hair) but i got a weird feeling and looked back in the room and there was no mirror or anyone else there). She would show up every night as well, and we would see her in the blue glow from a light on a DVD player. She would walk around the room and often walk over to my bed, kneel down and stair at my face. Sometimes with her fingers holding on the side of the matress like a very interested child looking at something. Soon after that we started seeing more of them. There was this tall man (no hat, but did look like he was wearing a trench coat) he began to appear, and i noticed when he was around, it would ONLY be him there. The girl and anyone else would dissapear as if they were afraid of him. He would always sit on my bed and watch me. I remeber having mixed feelings about him. I didn't exactly get the feeling of danger, but i had a strong feeling not to trust this being. However, he was less scary than the others, so there was a bit of a compromise feeling in my mind where, yes he was creepy, but i knew it would JUST be him watching me, so i had an easier time falling asleep. The other figures were way stranger and much less frequent. The next one i saw the most was this skeleton figure that floated above my bed. It's legs were obscured by this weird cloud (kind of like a skeleton genie). It would appear a lot, and was the main reason i became less afraid of the shadow figures. Because it would reach down to try and grab me, but could only reach about an inch above me, and close its hand. Then would dissapear. I got the impression that i couldnt be touched by whatever these things were. And i couldnt hear them either, so i started to grow numb to the scariness of the situation and it became sort of like watching a movie. and if i closed my eyes it was like they weren't there. (I realized years later that this gave me PTSD for a while, because i would always keep my eyes closed in the dark. And one time i was at a friends house when i was a teenager, and broke down in a panic crying when she turned the lights off, because we wanted to try and find ghosts. I didn't realize how terrified i was of the concept. I'm a lot better now, and can be alone in the dark no problem.) One time i saw the walls bleeding. It looked like someone slashed the walls, and they bled like a living creature. A few times i saw about a dozen people standing by my bed watching me, but they were strangely short. Like almost shorter than the average little person, so it made me think they were standing on the ground under the house, and the only parts that were visible coming through the floor in my room, was their torsos up. My sister one time saw what looked like a dove, trying to fly in the corner of our room, but it appeared to be caught on a string or a trap that woudn't allow it to leave, so it struggled for a while. This type of thing happened every night for months. It always happened before we fell asleep, i don't recal ever waking up to seeing them. And never experience paralysis. The other odd part was the beings seemed to be more interested in me than my twin. I thought she might be seeing other things that i wasn't, that were going after her. But she confirmed that wasn't the case. She saw the man sitting at my bed, the skeleton floating above me, the girl that would kneel by my bed or stand by the door (the girl would be interested in my sister sometimes, but the others didn't seem to be) i'm not sure if she ever saw the walls bleeding or the group of short people. But it was very confusing. When i first started seeing them, i was always afraid. Then after a while i started more or less getting tired of it and just wanting to be left alone. The scariest night though, was one night the man was sitting on my bed watching me. I was trying to look through the darkness of his face to try and confince myself that he was not, in fact, covering part of the light from the DVD player. When a car drove by and shone a bright light that crossed the room rapidly. And when it crossed the man, i was expecting him to dissapear, but instead i saw a man sitting there. With old dryed out skin around hollow blood shot eyes. They were red, but not like red irises. It was more like the skin around his eyes were red, and the whites of his eyes were irritated. He sort of reminded me of Palpatine from Star wars. I was terrified and hid under the covers for the rest of the night. They finally went away when i had a moment where i mentally put my foot down. And pretty much said "if you are demons, i have God here so get the fuck out. If you are ghosts then you are not welcome either. Get the fuck out!" And i never saw them again. I don't know if i managed to do some sort of prayer or spell, or if they were a figment of my imagination, or perhaps they never left at all, but i just closed off the ability to see them. As far as i remember, there was no tragedy that came after. It seemingly randomly start and ended. It also only ever happened when i had a specific bedroom in the house. We rotated rooms quite a bit, so i had almost every room in the house as a bedroom at some point or another (basically excluding the bathroom and kitchen. Yes i had half the livingroom as a bedroom at one point). And i only ever saw them when i had that specific bedroom. Then a few years later, my baby sister got nightmares in that room, but i dont know what they were (she often didnt explain what scared her, and i was worried about accidentally putting scary ideas in her mind that would play tricks on her. So i didnt talk to her about them). I don't know what those things were. I don't want to see them again, but i do want to understand what i saw..... and why it was somehow more scary than a lot of stories i've heard, but also less scary because they couldn't toùch me. If it was all in my head, then my mind is a very creative ass hole.
When i was 4 or 5 i saw an OVAL SHAPED SHADOW FIGURE in my parents room that was makimg a horrific hooting noise, like an owl! I remember being frozen in terror and having horrible sweating and rolling thunder in my head all night. Maybe it was part of a fevor dream, but i was awake!
~10 years ago when I was out urban exploring in broad daylight I possibly might've seen a shadow person 2-3m away from me. I went to this dilapidated structure, it was this really old destroyed factory type of building; no glass on the windows, rubble and graffiti everywhere, you get the picture. I didn't go upstairs because I didn't trust the structural integrity of the building, so after I had wandered around inside for a bit I went out the back into this small enclosed yard. I saw there was a small open hole where you could go under the whole building in what looked like a very small claustrophobic tunnel system. Unfortunately I didn't have any lights and you couldn't see anything at all without it. On top of that I had not told anyone where I was, so I decided not to go down there now but instead come back another day. So I walked around the perimeter of the building. When I got to the corner, walked around it and got a couple of meters further, I was standing right next to this big window with no glass and I looked up - I will never forget what I saw. This silhouette of a big person who was standing point blank next to this big open window, and even though the figure had no visible features at all, like it was literally a dark silhouette and nothing else, I sincerely felt he/it was looking straight at me I have no doubts about that. What really threw me off was that I was instantly involuntarily filled with a feeling that I can best describe as utter fucking dread to the point it started to kick in my fight or flight instinct. Was like this entity was just irradiating pure malevolent dread. I remember just looking at eachother silently for what felt like a couple of seconds before I quickly turned and walked away, mostly due to the fact that I was trespassing and I was worried it might've been a guard or something and that was a good enough excuse for me to get the hell away. It's important to mention it was broad daylight and the room where the entity was standing was a very brightly lit room and I can't even begin to describe the contrast of the bright surroundings and this extremely dark colorless entity with absolutely no discernible features other than having the outline shape of a human, which just felt odd as it was standing almost point blank in front of me. The whole situation just felt wrong somehow. I felt I couldn't think straight, like my instincts took over and I feel really silly about this because there should be no reason for me to react this way but I did. Unfortunately very shortly after this incident the whole structure got completely demolished, so I didn't get the chance to go back and inspect the tunnel system even though I was preparing to go back better prepared. This is probably the only experience I've had that I would say could _possibly_ be classified as paranormal (well maybe one more but _nothing_ like this). I ponder about it sometimes and the situation honestly still creeps me the fuck out, I've been out urban exploring several times, been around sketchy people and sketchy situations, but I've never ever before in my life experienced such a sudden and irrational, intense, uncontrollable surge of dread inside of me. I'll never forget this experience.
I saw a shadow man when first tried randonautica. The sun was setting and that was that kinda of eerie time between day and night. I followed the map to the spot only about a mile from my house. It was a fenced off field with a few big old trees. When I got to the edge of the field about 100m away he was there moving around doing something. I looked right into his featureless face and he was all solid black. Had no hat and didn't feel threatening, more inquisitive like he was trying to do something. I felt amazed and privileged to be seeing it. I looked away momentarily, then when I looked back he was gone. Later on at home thinking about what I saw freaked me out bad and I had insomnia and waking panic attacks for a few nights. I got a bible out each night and prayed and read psalms and after about a week things were back to normal.
I had a very strange one where for about 3 months I was followed by a man in a plague mask. At the time was very s*cidial, so it could well have been a side effect of my mental distress, but every time I saw him it was almost like he was warning me against it. Perhaps a spirit warning me against death? A visage from the part of me that wanted to live? Who knows, but he's certainly the most notable example I can think of. I've also had the top hat and trench coat so who knows! I definitely feel like it was partly thanks to his efforts I'm still here. As soon as I recovered, I never saw him again
Our brains are very capable of obscuring reality subconciously. I would wager it's possible that the reason we can "see" so many more things as children and close to death is because our brains either have not developed fully, or are beginning to decline. That's why we can see through the veil sometimes, when our brains drop the facade. I could be totally wrong, but I find the possibility interesting.
@@TheLoreLodge it's definitely an interesting idea. Perhaps it's being closer to that primal state that lets us see more? Personally I could see it either side, could well have been a stress enduced hallucination, but also could have been a warning. It definitely felt paranormal, so I'm leaning towards your take on it
Welp, now I know why the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial has been so prevalent
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Imma come back to this comment when I finish the video. On site this made me giggle 😂
So I have a very specific shadow person story.
I work in a warehouse & about 3 months ago I stared seen a shadow figure, he (looked masculine) was almost 7 foot tall and at first creeped me out. But I didn’t feel any real danger from him, just a slight unease. He’d usually stay in my peripheral vision & I mostly saw him at work in the warehouse, but a handful of times I also saw him while at my house or outside while I was doing shit. As I got used to his presence he showed up more regularly, 2-5 times a shift was the highest but now I felt no unease from him. Since I work near the edge/outside wall of the warehouse I usually see him near the middle, close enough that I can see him but not extraordinarily close. He usually stood in the walk way & moved up & down it. About 2 months after I first started seeing him I happened to be walking down the path I usually saw him in & he appeared only a few feet away from me & to my left. It scared me and I jumped to my right hard, and right as I did a box I assume to weigh about 40 kgs broke through the safety netting & landed to my left, right where I was. I thought about thanking him, but people started running over & he disappeared again. I’ve only seen him twice since then & I was able to look right at him (instead of him staying in my peripheral vision). When I saw him I gave him a head nod and he gave one back, I wish there was a better way to thank him but I don’t think there is.
So the machine I usually operate has started acting up in a weird way. I’m not sure if saying all of this has something to do with it, but if it continues I’m going to delete the original post & see if that helps
So the slightly malfunctioning machine seems to have just been coincidence, as it never happened again after that one time
I believe shadow people are a mixed bag of phenomena, for some people it may just be our peripheral vision and brain tricking us but for others like you it's an actual presence. That presence is also a mixed bag I believe, what we refer to as "shadow people" may be different entities; for example some are just ghosts that are watching us and can be good, bad or neither, while others maybe more malevolent entities like demons, dark spirits or djinn, and aside from those some could be psychopomps or angels/some other entity delivering a sign or message. My grandma used to be Christian but left the church and renounced her faith however even after that she would see shadow people and other figures (not just shadow people, a figure with color and detail. She said she saw a giant man with no head just a hat and he was made of red and black horizontal stripes, he appeared in her closet and pushed her back without moving and at the same time knocked all of her cassette tapes off the shelf in her closet, after that one of my uncles went in to ketoacidosis) that she believed were guardian angels delivering her a sign, as they only appeared to her right before something really bad was going to happen to somebody like herself or my diabetic uncles. My dad also had an experience with a shadow person when he was kid, he had influenza when he was about 6 or 7 ( I can't remember exactly) and he was bed ridden for the worst of it. During which time, he told me, every night he saw a figure of a tall jet black person with a perfectly spherical orb in place of their head. This figure would appear in the corner of his room every night, when he was the most ill, and walk to the foot of his bed where the figure would sit and wait through the night. The figure did nothing but sat and wait each night and my dad told me that he thought it was waiting for him to die from the illness. I've thought about that over the years because my dad told me his encounter when I was a kid and I've come to think that the shadow person that visited him was neither benevolent nor malevolent, I believe it was a psychopomp waiting to assist my dad in crossing over since he was so close to death but since he recovered from the influenza it left him and my dad never saw it again.
Stay safe out there broseph
Please go see a psychologist 🙏 🙏 ❤️ glad you did not get hurt
My cousin and I would see specifically a man in a trench coat with a hat in the shadows of our house, at the top of the steps, and sometimes it almost looked like a wolf under the hat and coat. We would come running into one another’s rooms and hide under the covers after our moms wouldn’t believe us. It’s the only interaction I’ve ever had with anything like that, and I honestly thought that I had made it up until years later my cousin talked about it and I realized that I hadn’t dreamed it at all.
The demon in the trench coat and tophat, stay safe
sorry that was me
you described him exatry as i saw,a wolf like under hat.also long nail and dark than lightoff darkness.
Other stories have mentioned seeing him up close n sd it's an owl I have seen him in my window he took long slow drag off a cig n his eyes lit up an orange red color like the fire on the cig
I seen him all the time growing up. Especially during sleep paralysis, I wouldn't be able to breathe but I could see around my house and he'd be standing by me laughing. One time I seen him out of my grandma's window laughing. He has long black hair, black trench coat and top hat. He looks like The Undertaker the wrestler. I'll never forget him till the day I die
One of my experiences I vividly remember is waking up from a nightmare and looking up and seeing pitch black, I didn’t see him completely but I felt “the presence” of him being there. It was scary and I fell back asleep, it came back a few times and 4 years later I haven’t seen a shadow person since, even though it’ll freak me out I kinda want to see it again just to go “ah yeah, shadow man to boo”
I had a similar situation. Falling asleep and felt him standing at the end of my bed. I opened my eyes and saw him walk towards me and disappear. They're def something weird, but i dont think theyre dangerous.
I dont want to scare you man but one day in my holidays in greece i saw one shandow man staring my cousin while he was sleeping and this thing noticed me and then run inside the hole of my guitar i didn't believe what i saw but then my dog goes crazy and was staring the guitar
I remember as a child, I lived in an old farm house. the closet in my room, was often left open. I remember being terrified of the closet. I recall this smile coming from the closet. It was a dark figure, I couldn't make out what was in there, but I still remember over 40 years later the smile.
I’m a grown adult woman as still terrified of closets, it’s ridiculous but my closet legit terrified me as a child. Tormented me for years, so obviously something happened but I’ve blocked it out. God I’m glad I don’t remember seeing a creepy smile under the door.
@@WinterWitch01 to this day, I have to close all closets and the bathroom door in my bedroom.
@@WinterWitch01 So it's not just me. Until very recently, I'd wake up and see weird stuff in my room like people walking around, but I've understood it to be some sort of sleep disorder, and it having to do with me waking up mid-dream or something.
I've gotten some blue and purple LED lights which I keep on at night in my room, and I haven't seen anything since, which kinda confirmed it was my brain making sense of shapes in the dark.
But yes.
Definitely.
Closet door has to be closed.
Damn closets.
I posted a comment here about a friends old house that was wildly haunted, but I forgot about the basement closet till these comments.
This house had a lot of weird occurrences, tall shadow watching from the backyard, malicious shadow people in a bedroom, friendly child voice in the living room, etc. One of my visits to this house involved us playing hackysack in the basement and kicking it into the closet at some point. I couldn't see where it landed despite it being well lit in the basement. I shined my phone flashlight in, and it made no difference to the shadows. Nothing at all was revealed by the light. So I grabbed a nearby pushbroom and gently poked into the closet to gauge it's depth. About two feet from door to wall. After that I decided to flip the broom over and attempt to pull the hackysack out with it. Not only did I not manage to get out in three tries, but I got nothing. Not even dirt.
Closets are not to be trusted.
My shadowman sighting was when I was 22, appearing in my room. I tried chasing him, thinking he was a normal intruder. He ran through the living room, into the kitchen and was gone. It wasn't until the adrenaline starting to ebb that I realized the man was just solid black, not just a dim light situation.
This description is uncanny of experiences I had around the age of 7-9, except I saw a shadow man straight on view on a regular basis. Same description with top hat, trench coat also with a walking cane. Always stationery at the top of the main stair case. I remember feeling let's say startled/uneasy but never fear. This is the first time in the 27ish years since that I've even mentioned it. Bear in mind my experience is before youtube and all this was really available so I've always new it wasn't like a shared psychosis or anything along those lines. It was actually comforting to hear you describe almost exactly what I have seen for myself as a child.
This video pulled a deep memory out from within me. I saw hatman once while at my grandparents house. Couldn't sleep ended up wandering around my grandparents house with the lights off, saw a figure hiding among their coat rack. I was frozen for a good 5 minutes, eventually he disappeared and I went back to sleep with no problem. It was weird.
My shadow person didn’t have a hat. He also was never in the corner of my vision as he would walk straight in front of me. Haven’t seen him since I moved out of my childhood home.
Check it for carbon monoxide leaks just to be safe.
I’ve only seen them as an adult
@@KatieRussell713I was in my early 30’s my first time and mine never had a hat. I haven’t been bothered for a couple years and the last time was a comparatively mild experience to the others.
My Dad is in his 70s, he has kidney disease, it's borderline between Stage 3 and 4. His health got bad enough last year that he had to go to the hospital 6 times in about 6 months, and I eventually had to move to his house to provide live in care for him because he couldn't get into any of the rehabs near his place after having surgery.
I'm in my 50's and I have never had anything I could call a paranormal experience before recently.
When I moved in with him, he was in very bad health, like he could barely walk, couldn't get his own food, couldn't bathe himself, etc. It was bad, and I wasn't sure if he was going to survive much longer. Thankfully, with a decent diet and some TLC he's doing much better now.
At the time, he was so sick he didn't know where he was sometimes, and had several experiences where he thought his grandfather was sitting in the chair next to his bed, that strangers were standing around in front if his house all day, or that there were black doorways in his bedroom ceiling, among other weird stuff. He was telling me about these things while he was extremely ill, asking if I could see them as well, and I'm certain there's no way he was making any of it up, or exaggerating. He didn't even recognize his own bedroom in the house where he's been living since the 80s, and thought I had taken him somewhere that looked like his house, but wasn't.
It was a rough time for both of us, to say the least.
The crazy part is that I had started to see black shapes and human shaped black forms in his house before he came home from the hospital, or ever mentioned any of the weird stuff he was seeing. It was unnerving, being the only person in his house for many days at a time.
I chalked it up to stress and being in an unfamiliar house, and of course I never mentioned any of it to him, considering what he was dealing with.
One of the things I experienced shortly after he came home actually scared me, like the kind of sudden irrational fear I hadn't felt since I was a kid.
I was looking in his freezer one afternoon, grabbing something to defrost for dinner, and out of the corner of my eye, the black form of a human head and shoulders popped up from the other side of the freezer door as I held it open. It moved insanely fast, and was squeezed in a 3 or 4 inch space between the freezer door and the wall beside the fridge where no person could possibly fit. It was a well defined shape and definitely human in form. As soon as I turned to look at it, it was gone.
It freaked me out. I get chills just thinking about it. I had never experienced anything of that nature before that time, and nothing like that has happened to me since then. Before that point I was skeptical about ghosts and spirits, etc.
I never mentioned any of this to my Dad until months later when he was feeling much better and had long since stopped talking or thinking about stuff that no one else could see.
When I described what I had experienced, he explained to me that his grandfather was a notorious prankster, and that he used to jump scare the kids all the time when they were young. The kids didn't like it, but he thought it was hilarious. That was uncanny, it gave me goosebumps when he told me that detail.
Last year changed my views on the afterlife and my skepticism about the paranormal. I don't go looking for it, and I'll never be a ghost hunter or anything like that, but I'm much more open minded when people talk about their own experiences.
I encountered a 7-foot tall shadow entity in my kitchen when I was a teenager. It was NOT harmless. And I've heard several stories about the man in the hat being aggressive/hateful towards the living.
In my experience, he always protected me from the living.
I heard the man in the hat is a leader of the shadow people. They've been compared to aliens but its interdimensional i think, and they feed off us or study us.
It absolutely was harmless.
What did it do that made it dangerous.
I saw a shadow walk around my living room.right in front of me.it had a cape. It didnt seem to pay attention to me. I mean i wouldnt know because i ran as soon as i saw it
when i was twelve i used to see shadow people outside when i walked down the street in my neighbourhood, they were totally featureless and i didn’t sense any malevolent energy from them. i think they were just spirits passing by, my friends would always witness them at the same time as well so ik i wasn’t imagining it. i even saw a big cat one as well 😂
I have often felt a cat brushing up against my leg, look down, and nothing there. I have had a lot of kitty companions over the years, and have had to see many of them cross Rainbow Bridge. When I feel that nowadays, I smile in memory of my furry friends.
@@PhoenixLyon Wholesome Haunting™
Sometimes the demons just want a friend, or maybe they were out exercising to help keep up with the demands of a stressful job of haunting.
The cat part. I have also seen a big scadow/blackfog cat but in my house and only for a breaf of a second.
When I was younger, around 14, I had this recurring waking nightmare for a week, and it was so bad that I literally could not fully sleep that entire week, and I was falling asleep in class and such.
During the night when I went to sleep, I'd wake up an hour or two later and open my eyes, and I'd see this blob of shadow with two white dots for eyes in the corner of my room staring directly at me. For some reason this set off my flight response to full gear, and I would fly out of bed and run straight across my house and into the living room. My parents would come to me and try to calm me down and my heart would be going a million miles per hour, I swear I've never run faster than in those moments
This would keep happening and i would keep seeing the same entity, although it's location in my room would change and one time it even was leaning over from my top bunk (had a bunk bed at the time). Eventually when I got so unbelievably tired from this thing after days of this happening, I woke up in the night and felt it's presence in my room, and without even opening my eyes I screamed at it to "FUCK OFF" and just like that, it never showed up again across all of my life
Maybe shadow dude just wanted a friend and you hurt his feelings so bad that he left and got a new roommate / friend.
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I have always had a very active imagination and one day when I was about 19 I was listening to a bunch of biblical prophecy about the end times and my mind began to wander and I imagined a scenario in my head.
The, essentially a day dream, began with me standing from where I sat listening to the revelations stuff and walking upstairs to my parents upstairs bathroom.
As I turned the corner and stepping a couple feet away from the upstairs bathroom door I stopped as in my daydream there was this mass of pure black so dark this form was that no light reflected off its surface it simply absorbed whatever light hit it it was so black.
In my day dream the blob of void was maybe 3 feet tall as it came up to my waist.
As I stared at this thing in my day dream suddenly a part of it shifted a part that resembled the size and shape of a human head although completely void colored.
I watched this mass lift it’s head and turn it 180 degrees to face me.
God its face haunts me and chills me as I write this reply.
It’s face was formless, its eyes oval but with white dot pupils in the center.
It’s mouth was not but two crescent shapes with jagged teeth the same void color as it’s body.
The only defining characteristics of its face were its seemingly shining white eyes and mouth and it stared at me in my day dream it’s unblinking eyes burning holes into my own eyes.
From the moment it turned its head to face to stare at me this overpowering wave of fear, genuine fear like I was the prey of some large animal cornered and alone, washed over me.
I broke out of this day dream by literally shaking my head and mentally telling this demon to fuck off.
Even now when I visit my parents house and use their upstairs bathroom I feel a small sense of dread which tends to fade quickly as I ya know use the restroom.
Occasionally the memory of that day dream comes back up in my mind and I tend to mentally flip off this demon and call it names and what not.
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I have an experience with the Shadow Man, but I saw it concurrent with sleep paralysis and my brain registered Mr Man as Black Spy from Spy vs Spy, so at first I thought it was sorta comical that that's what my mind conjured. It's only when I came across I think a Wendigoon video where he mentioned something about the Shadow Man that chills went down my back and now I'm actually horrified that I saw it too.
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out.
And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me.
I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opossum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
@@atashgallagher5139 "hey man I just work here"
Okay, well what do you DO?
* slow blink * * refuse to elaborate *
any idea what wendigoon video that was from?
Omg I also saw it as spy vS spy figure with an w located face and it was terrifying and after that happened I couldn’t watch that show anymore weird
I've seen weird movement in shadows since I was able to articulate to my parents that sometimes the shadows move funny. Had a couple therapists tell me this is a sign of a psychotic disorder. However. Scariest one - by far - happened to me, my mom, and my little brother in like 2013. I was recovering from a surgery and also had a cold. I'd just gotten to sleep when my mom wakes me up. I'm pissed, assume she's drunk, and try to ignore her. She insists I go see this creepy thing in her room. So I follow her to her room, where my then 4 year old brother was sleeping. I sit on her dresser for a while, mad she's woken me up but deciding to chat anyway, when she reaches a hand out to silence me. I hadn't been paying attention, but the nightlight she kept in her room so the kids could see if they came in in the middle of the night had gone off. It had been randomly going off, and somehow hadn't really caught my eye. I look at her, she looks terrified, and points to the ceiling. In the middle of the part illuminated from the nightlight, there's a perfect black orb. Instant cold shivers and goosebumps and all that. Hair on the back of my neck standing up. Before I can question it, the nightlight turns off. When it comes back on a few seconds later, the black spot has moved, and begins moving all over the ceiling. Absolutely freaked my shit out. Something about it seemed so malicious. My brother was also awake by this point because my mom and I are loudly asking what the fuck that thing is. He saw it, as well, though he doesn't remember it now. We all moved to another room. It freaked me out so much that I didn't want to sleep alone, and I hate sleeping next to other people. The next day, I took the entire nightlight apart. There was nothing in there that could have moved like that. I looked up how big something has to be to set it off; it could not have possibly been a bug, because it was only set off by cat-ish sized animals or larger. It also couldn't have been the cat because she was senile and couldn't figure out how to leave the basement at that point. There were no reports of anything similar anywhere online. And it's not that I alone saw it. My mom saw it, too. My brother saw it. It was incredibly unnerving. Anyway. We tossed that nightlight out a few weeks later. Bad vibes, you know? It never went off like that again.
Idk if my story can really be qualified as a Shadow Person but the entity I encountered just, fits the overall look of one so I'll share mine:
My mom use to do this thing when me and my sibling were in Elemtary school where she would kiss us awake, ask what we want for breakfast and go make it while we slept a little longer. I don't remember what I asked for but it wasn't a difficult thing, maybe Eggos, and I went back to sleep.
A few moments later I heard her call me and I got out of bed and sat at the table and across from me was, basically, a Shadow Person, but his face and hands were visible, he had very pale pink skin. He was smiling and it went up to his eyes and his eyes were slits like a cartoon smiley face and his hands were folded in front of him, he had a bowler hat and his 'clothes' were just a black mass with just his hands visible. I wasn't scared or him, more just like "what?", and he said something to the effect of "You're not awake/You're still asleep", in my dream I heard my mom call me amd I actually wake up.
Tbh, it didn't feel weird, I've always had weird dreams, but what I found weird looking back was him being obviously creepy but non threatening and just matter of factly going "Oh, hello child, you gotta get up c:"
i love that mental image a lot. the way dreams just assign completely inappropriate emotions to certain circumstances is so weird. your experience is like the inverse of how dream people flip out at you for asking if you're dreaming
A lot of these stories seem to be showing two entities, a shadow person who is neutral or even benevolent, and a shadow person who is wearing a hat and trench coat that is almost always malevolent and terrifying. And I keep laughing at that because it's like how dogs bark at men with coats and hats or beards, and then I am imagining humans scared of men with coats and hats but not regular shadow people.
Maybe dogs bark at men in hats because they too see the Hat Man..
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This freaks me out so bad because I saw this "hat man", wearing a trench coat, 30 years ago when I was 9. He was in the corner at the foot of the bed, and I closed my eyes, only to open them and find him standing right next to me, looking down on me. I closed my eyes again, expecting a blow to come swiftly. When it didn't happen, I opened my eyes again and he was floating directly above me, face to face with me.
I closed my eyes again, and didn't open them until the sun came up. I had completely buried this memory until I was 18 and I saw him again, but very briefly this time. I told everyone about this. And eventually, I came across this phenomenon while surfing the web, and was shocked beyond words that other people had this same experience. Specifically the hat and trench coat part is extremely unsettling, because it's just beyond coincidence. Many say they didn't see a face, but I did. It was pale as bone, and looked like old leather stretched over the skull, with sunken cheeks, thin lips, and black eyes.
I know this comment is 7 months old, but man... the fact that you saw a face is really freaky! I've never seen him myself, but I do remember my grandma telling someone (not me, I just happened to be there at the time; I think she was on the phone maybe?) about one of my relatives who saw a man in a trench coat and hat in their bedroom. She said he was like a shadow. But you're the *only* person I've ever heard describe a face before! That's seriously creepy 😱
What a strange phenomenon this is 🤔
@@justinburchette I know, and I am about the least superstitious person you can find. I still have sleep paralysis to this day, just had it last night in fact, but that night wasn't sleep paralysis because I could move, I was just too scared to do anything. So I rule that out as an explanation, especially because I can semi lucid dream and can pull myself out of sleep paralysis and nightmares.
@@augustgreig9420 I wish I could do that! I had a lucid dream *one time* and it was _purely_ by accident (something in the dream made me realize I was dreaming... then everything got really weird, and I woke up; it wasn't very exciting lol.) It definitely sounds like a nice skill to have!
I haven't had an episode of sleep paralysis in a good while now; probably close to a year, if I had to guess. But whenever I do, I can always tell when it's coming. Idk if that ever happens to you or not - but for me, I get this... indescribably strange feeling in my head whenever I lay down. That's the major giveaway; and I wish I could describe the sensation to you, but I just can't. It's such a strange feeling... and it *only* happens when I'm about to have an episode. I never have that feeling any other time. It's totally bizarre.
Anyways, I also hear the sound of running water... almost like a river, maybe? It's like a river mixed with static (like white noise). Something like that, anyway. Does anything like that ever happen to you? Or do you have some other kind of way of knowing whenever sleep paralysis is gonna hit you? I'm just curious. I tried describing this to someone else who experiences sleep paralysis once... and they looked at me like I was insane lol. So I assumed maybe it was only me 🤷🏻♂️
@@augustgreig9420 Oh, but I forgot to mention: one of my biggest fears is waking up and having something in my face / looming over me / hovering over me / just staring at me in general while I'm laying in a dark room, totally vulnerable. So... I can't even imagine what you went through. That sounds like such a scary experience! 😰
It definitely isn’t beyond coincidence. Creepy guy in a trenchcoat has been a movie trope and meme for over 100 years. Come on.
I remember seeing a shadow person in my peripheral vision a lot as a kid; no hat or glowing eyes though, at least not that I can recall. I actually have very vivid memories of lying in the floor watching TV and it standing behind yet leaned over me. If I turned to look directly at it, it would disappear but I never felt threatened though. Later as an adult, I encountered another shadow person in an apartment where my husband, kids, and me used to live. Out of the corner of my eye, I would always see it round the far corner of the hall and turn into the kitchen and disappear. The difference in that was it creeped me out a good bit more. However, at night and only at night, I hated having to go into the hallway. It was an overwhelming feeling of dread and fear. Everywhere else was fine (except for my son's closet, but I'll get to that in a second) and I never saw the shadow fugure walk the hall at night. Anyway, one night my son, who was between 8 to 12 years old when we lived there, was having a particularly rough evening and was pretty fearful. His room was at the end and around the aforementioned corner of the hallway. So I began to pray. For reference, his closet doors were shut. (Double closet doors, btw.) As I got to the part where I said, "Abba Father, if there is anything here that is not of You, cast it out in the name of Yeshua" his closet doors SLAMMED open and a VERY heavy high end sleeping bag, which was folded up in its storage bag, came flying out of the closet and landed halfway across the room. 😳 In spite of the major shock of that, he went to sleep and I went and picked up the bag and put it back in the closet and noticed there was a peace in his room after that. However, I did continue to see the shadow person. I never said ANYTHING to the kids about my seeing it or the dread that permeated the hallway. Years later, and completely outbof the blue, my oldest confided in me that she had the EXACT same feelings in the hallway AND also saw the shadow person come down the hallway and turn into the kitchen. (She and our youngest shared a room and it was across from the kitchen.) The other two lit up and shared how they too had the same feelings and sightings. It wasn't until AFTER they all spoke about what they had seen and felt that I finally shared with them that I had also. My husband never had any of the experiences we did. That closet incident still gives me chills to this day.
I also had the feeling of dread in the hallway. Everywhere else my cousin and I noticed the shadow man (we saw a tall man-like wolf in a hag and trench coat) it was just spooky. But at night, the hallway and steps terrified us bc of him.
When I was about a pre teen both me and my mom saw a shadow person. How I know is because when I saw its head/hat pop up behind a couch she yelled for it to get out of our home.. nothing major happened around the time we saw it but it was extremely weird. I'm glad I saw it, I felt like it wanted to watch us or study us... maybe just hangout or hide from something else
Maybe he just wanted a friend and he was lonely.
The "Shadow people" description sounds almost exactly like the figure crossed out on neighborhood watch signs, who is almost always depicted as an all black silhouette wearing a fedora and trench coat...
As someone that sees shadow people, always have, every day, this is so incredibly validating. Especially the bit about indoors = good, outdoors = bad. Wow. Thank you for this.
for me as a kid, it was the opposite. on two occasions, both in twilight sleep, i saw a bright shining figure in my door way.
well, opposite up until i was 12 or so. had a second story bedroom and my bed was next to the window. one night settling down, i was listening to a book on cd (bc cool kids had cd players), and i looked up at the window. it looked too dark. keep in mind the blinds were *mostly* shut but i could see a bit through them. and then i realized towards the top of my window there were two red dots... and then they blinked. i have never lost my shit quite like that in my life.
brought my parents both back and by the time i returned, normal moon / star light was coming in through the window, so i knew whatever was gone. my parents believed me simply because of how scared i was. didn't sleep alone for about a week. took me a good month to sleep in my room again.
any idea what it was, aiden? red eyes don't fit the shadow figure. this was more a figure casting a shadow.
angel?!?!?! the second one was totally aliens tho
ive seen a blinking red light above my house blast into a sky wasnt really scared however
My daughter (pictured) who died 5 years ago at the age of 16, saw a blue glowing figure of a man, standing in the doorway of her bedroom when she was a young child.
Bruh, I remember one time I was walking through my local park at night and saw a pure black figure running at me, scared the shit out of me, but when I looked, there was nothing there. My only memorable experience with shadow people that wasn't just a quick flicker in the corner of my vision
I very distinctly recall seeing a shadow man in the upper corner of my room at night when I was a child, gripping the walls with its arms and legs like the super vampires from blade two. It just stared at me, then rapidly zipped over to another corner, then another, then disappeared. A few months later my father came down with cancer. I never connected those two events until now...
I saw one during my college years. It was at a friends house, and within 24hrs, one of the residents of that house plus a mutual friend were in a car wreck and only miracously survived. The car was totalled so bad that the owner of the junkyard actually gave the father his condolences when he came to see the vehicle since he was convinced no one could have survived such an accident
Why did you see the Shadow Man and not the friends who were in the car? That's just not logical
I was at my friends house with him, it was just us and we were both leaning on an island in the kitchen and we both stopped and turned to look at the wall at the same time when a shadow just disappeared from the wall that had been there the whole time. He and I looked at eachother and around the room. It freaked us both out quite a bit.
I had a black eyed kid incident when I was about 10-11.
My mom had taken my brother and I with her to a friend of her’s house for the evening. My little brother and I played with her kids for quite a few hours, and then we went home.
You see, my mom had a van. My brother and I were ready to go in the van waiting on my mom to stop talking with her friend for quite a few minutes. Her friend’s kids were on the outside of our van as I talked to the oldest boy and his siblings. The big door on the driver’s side was open mind you.
It was dark at this point, only a street light up their drive way lit their drive way and yard a little. Out of nowhere, a little girl walked up to the entrance of the van door. I had never seen this girl in the few hours we were there, and based on how the kids who lived there acted with her, they had never seen her either. It was dark, so I couldn’t make out her facial features. Yet, I remember seeing that her eyes were super dark. What through me off was the fact that the little girl kept asking me if she could get in the van. I don’t remember exactly how she kept asking me, but she didn’t want to talk about anything else. She just kept asking if she could get in the van, and I kept saying no. She creeped all of us out. I jumped out of the other side of the van and told my mom I was ready to go.
I didn't know this was happening when I was a kid, but my mom spent a lot of time with the family of one of her friends, the family had widespread mental issues. According to my mom, the 4 boys in the family are plagued by malevolent shadow people even into adulthood, and my mom attests to one night there being something like a dozen shadow people outside of their trailer shrouding every window in darkness essentially, all you could see was them.
My mom tries to help everyone, but thankfully she stepped back from that family entirely and focused fully on her own, things got much worse than just shadow people with that family. Type of stuff that makes you wonder if mental health issues and demons are the same thing. I'm glad my mom spent a lot of time away from us as she helped her friend and sheltered me and my siblings from it all as children.
A bit late to the party but wanted to add my story anyway. I have an imaginary friend who matches the description of a shadow man being tall, shadowy, wears a hat, like corners but mine wears a poncho. I have given him the name Edward and I feel comfortable in his presence. So there's my experience with a shadow man. Also love your content new subscriber!
I wrote this comment earlier but I think that it fits well here and I am glad to have found someone who agrees with me. Sometimes a demon is just lonely and wants a friend, it can't be easy when everytime you show up people either won't acknowledge your existence or hate you and fear you and try to exorcise you.
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out.
And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me.
I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opossum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
When I was a child, like 4-5 years old, I would wake up some nights (like after my mum and dad went to bed) and see three figures in the doorframe. They were nothing more than black shadows really but I *felt* like they were watching me. So I would tell them 'sleep well', something that felt important, and then go back to sleep. They never had hats though, they were just shapes and a feeling that I should tell them good night.
honestly, I've had a lot of paranormal experiences, almost exclusively in my grandma's old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, and my aunts old house not far away. I used to hear music playing downstairs in my aunts house, and would always see things like shadow people in my grandmothers, I always feel a bit uneasy in these places, especially at night
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out.
And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me.
I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opposum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
Man sleep paralysis is terrifying. I only once experienced it, but i didnt know it was thing before hand. I was just staring out my backdoor as it got darker, and darker, and i imagined shadowy figure approaching me in the darkness without been able to move
I am 28 years old and still regularly see shadow people. I have insomnia and find that it generally happens to me more the worse my sleep deprivation has been. The more tired I am the closer I can get to looking at them. Normally it's just in the corner of my vision and if I try to look at them they disappear but once when I had not been able to sleep for three and a half days the shadow person was much closer and I could look straight at it. Was definitely a bit creepy but hasn't happened in a minute.
As a kid I had always seen a shadow person in my house growing up. It used to stand over my bed as I slept and I know it was there because we always had a night light on in the bathroom so we didn't trip over the pets if we got up in the night. This thing I would even see it in the middle of the day just walking around the house. The dog never barked at it but she did follow it same with the cats. It was never malevolent. But it did stay with me until I left for collage. It was with me for the first month in my dorm but then just went away and I haven't seen it scene. It's been about maybe 7 years.
Well either shadow dude was lonely and wanted a friend, or you should really check to see if your home has a small carbon monoxide leak.
I love telling this story, and tbh any story about the paranormal stuff that happened when I was a kid.
So when I was young, 7-15, I lived in an apartment complex, and among many many experiences I had was a shadow man who would stand in my bedroom. I don't remember when it stopped but it must have been when I was 13-14 because I changed the arrangement of my room and he always was in the same spot which I couldn't see anymore. I remember specifically I never saw his eyes as they were covered by his hat, a fedora I think. He did have a grin full of sharp teeth though, which I remember drawing a ton as a kid. I also remember that I felt as though something bad would happen if I saw his eyes, but not like he was going to hurt me or anything. It terrified me and lots of bad/scary stuff happened at that time that he could have been warning me of.
i also saw the hatman when i was about 17. he was standing in between my balcony door for hours, and i mean not inside my room and not outside my room. i mean in between. i was so scared.
The only shadow figure I distinctly remember, I saw while I was in college. It was at my boyfriend’s, at the time, very old house. The only light was the microwave, and the figure leaned into the door way with the light behind it. I was more confused than frightened. But it leaned over a bit toooo much to be human. While I was processing what was happening it leaned away. Spooky stuff
I've recently had a dream, a quiet shadowy man with a hat and bright white eyes coming out of a closet and walking towards me during a normal dream. I screamed at him and he backed away but kept looking at me. Scared the hell out of me, dream me thought I was about to be kidnapped. Completely woke me up from the dream and I was paranoid for the rest of the night couldn't get back to sleep at all.
I’ve mostly seen shadow people outside.The ones I’ve seen don’t have any noticeable eyes, no hat or anything resembling clothes, they vary in size but are taller than 6 ft, they are shaped like a malnourished human being , switch between moving on all 4s and walking upright and animals panic when they are near. I saw my first Shadow person when I was in 10th grade, the sun had just set as I was doing chores at the farm my family was remodeling, I had to get a few buckets of corn and bring them home to feed our pigs. As I was reaching into the grain bin I heard something moving around inside the bin and something outside the bin, we had barn cats there but one of them was already at my feet. I couldn’t think of anything that should or could be in the grain bin since it latches from the outside so I just swore at the dark and latched the door as fast as I could. I made it about twenty feet before the other cat ran up behind me so I turned around to greet him but then I saw the shadow person crouching where I had just been standing a few seconds ago. I hurried as fast as I could back to the farm truck, only making another ten feet before one of the cats ran away and the other stopped, turned around and hissed. I looked back and the shadow person was running at me on all 4s , I dropped my buckets spilling one . The shadow person stood up and drew one had back as it got close to me but then it stopped, it’s faced moved like it was opening its mouth to scream, then it ran away into the darkest part of the yard toward a wind break and I went home and cried myself to sleep. I’ve seen some a couple times since then , once during the middle of the day just standing still watching me another time 3 of them stood outside of the house one evening, our outside dog cowering on the front porch barking and our inside dogs standing at the windows going crazy.
That first experience is also how I react when someone comes into my room and opens the blinds and tries to wake me up.
it’s weird, i used to see a guy in a hat and trench outlined in the doorway of my room at night when i was young, but i used to get the impression that he was facing outward. like a guard. it felt almost comforting when i was little and afraid of the dark
I kinda had the same thing when I was a kid someone used to check on me every night at 9:30 I would hear my door open and close after a few seconds. I didn't feel threatened it felt like Nanna energy.
I had a similar experience. My boxer dog sleeps with me so he will bark at anything that comes near me while I’m sleeping and when I woke up my dog was sleeping and didn’t seem bothered. The shadow person was facing outwards. Felt like having my father protect and watch me while I sleep, very weird but comforting.
When I was young I used to see the man in the trench coat when I was having sleep paralysis or what would appear to be . He would always say to me "its time" and then the dream would go super lucid. Still spooks me as he visits now and then
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out.
And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me.
I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opossum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
sleep on ur side unless you do
Well, thanks, now I'm gonna get paranoid again 😂😂 i have a rather similar story, but somehow, it doesn't feel the same.
In july 2020, I moved in with my father, because my mother basically kicked me out. I was already 20 at that time, but i didn't feel comfortable living alone yet and even after searching for a flat, i couldn't find a place, so after long conversations and his very obvious enthusiasm, I moved in with my dad. Everything was fine up until he had to stay in the hospital for what was supposed to be a routine check-up in December. He was sick since I was a child, so it didnt feel weird that he had to stay at the hospital, but he kept going on how he had a bad feeling about this, I told him to shut up, but I started feeling weird too, once he was away, felt as if someone was watching me and saw shadows move around just out of sight. Several times i thought i saw a face in the window next to my own reflection, but I live on the first floor, so that couldnt be possible. I got spooked and chalked it up to me just being paranoid because I was alone. But it didn't stop.
This happened throughout December and it got even worse when 2021 rolled around. In the middle of January, the bad news came crashing down.
My dad had a cancer diagnosis and had to have a heart surgery or the chemotherapy wouldn't take. One day before the surgery, he got covid, shortly after that pneumonia, and not even three weeks later, he was dead and while grieving I didn't feel paranoid again.
I don't believe in ghosts or shadow people, and I certainly wouldn't have felt like this meant anything. But just this Saturday, I got paranoid again. I couldn't sleep, felt as if I was being watched and it was the exact same feeling. It cam crashing down and when i went to sleep i faced the wall, not daring to look somewhere else. When I visited my grandma on Sunday, she told me my friends Grandpa died over night.
But as I said, I don't believe in the supernatural and it probably was nothing and i get spooked easily, but this was just weird.
I had an eerily tall shadowy figure appear in my room and stare at me. He was above eye level, I was in the top bunk. It smelled like my grandpa, which I found out after was the smell of cigarette smoke. It had bright white eyes. I forget if it was before or after he passed. I freaked the fuck out and went under my sheets to watch skydoesminecraft until the morning. I sleep in a different room and this happened probably 10 years ago? Insane. Anyway, cool video!
I've only seen one outdoors and the weird thing buddy with me saw it too, typical hat man, tipped his hat at us and vanished back into the shadows, was dead centre and not off the the side pretty much like 10 feet away, seemed like a chill dude, wish I had a hat to tip back.
The hat man was standing outside of my bedroom window. I was 8-9 years old. My bed was next to the window and if I opened my eyes while in bed I could see outside under the curtains. He had a face. When I got older and watched the movie Poltergeist, I realized the guy outside my window looked like the preacher from the movie.
My daughter has seen shadow people, actual black shadow people since she was 5-6 years old.
When I was little,and visiting my father,I used to watch a shadow figure walk up the stairs outside my room and lean against the doorframe,just casually. No eyes or anything,just the outline/shadow of a person that didn’t fit anyone that lived in that house. My sister shared the room with me and saw it too. Never malicious,it just kinda stood there. Always gone by the time I woke up.
my indoor ones were always behind me, so when i looked around they were visible for a second but when i did a double take they were gone. outside, they seemed like they wanted me to see and they wanted me to he scared. they would leave fairly quickly too but it was very different and i vividly remember the horrible fear and pure terror i felt. inside was just watching, almost looking over, whereas outside were the opposite.
So around October of 21’ I started to work night shifts and I didn’t get home until around 12-1. Every time I would leave my house I would just feel uneasy, but every time I came back home I would see him on my porch for like a second then he’d be gone. It kept happening for a month and I tried not to think much about it. But then I started to see him in my house. I would go to do laundry and he’d just be standing there in my laundry room. I would stare at him then blink and he’d be gone. Every time since the 1st laundry room sighting he started to show up more and for longer. Like it wasn’t just a quick glance and gone anymore; it turned into what seemed like a stare down more and more. I usually stay in my room upstairs thought so I tried to brush it off… then he started to show up in the opposite corner from me in my room. Now it’s become about a 2-3 times daily thing of me seeing him all around my house. Finally, I fell asleep at my desk one night for maybe only like 20 minutes. I feel really weird though so I wake up and as soon as I open my eyes I see his hand outstretched only a couple of inches from my face. I was frozen, like it wasn’t sleep paralysis or anything. His hand was just there for maybe about 15-25 seconds. Then it slowly moves away and I can see him so much more clearly. Like I can make out a color in his suit and of his hat. I’ve never been able to explain it and I’ve never told anyone about it because no one around me believes in this type of stuff, but I know what I experienced and I’ll never be able to explain what it was and that sucks
You mentioned that you could see him very clearly… so what did he look like? Was he a more shadowy figure (like fog or mist) or was he a more defined, solid figure (like a human or physical object)? What colors could you make out?
Not the same but maybe the advice still stands even though this is sleep paralysis. But I've always sadi, maybe the demons are just lonely and want a friend and are tired of everyone hating them and exorcising them, and hating them. Also make doubly sure that there isn't a carbon monoxide leak in your home, or in your car, or in your workplace, they can also cause really bizarre and terrifying hallucinations like this and it builds up in your blood by permanently turning the hemoglobin in red blood cells into carboxy hemoglobin which is why even a small leak over a long enough time period can cause hallucinations which get worse over time.
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out.
And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me.
I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opossum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
Okay, I like in the middle of the woods, and very commonly see shadow people. Along with something I will never be able to explain, but thats another story. Living in the middle of the woods and commonly having to go out to check on our farm animals my entire family sees them constantly. I always feel a massive sense of dread and will run back to the house after finishing whatever task i have. Hearing that i could be in danger does not make me frrel better. and how im a bit worried haha
I don’t know if this even still counts, but I can only think of one event like this I’ve experienced. I jumped at shadows a lot as a kid. Usually not worrying about my own room but terrified of other rooms in my house if the lights were off. When I was maybe about say, 8 years old, my sheets were being washed so I had to sleep in our spare room/office. Being so scared of this particular dark room I brought my nightlight. A nightlight that when turned on I knew the shadows of perfectly well. It was maybe around 1 o’clock when I saw the perfect shadow of a girl with pigtails against the wall. Standing up and staring at me. It wasn’t a physical being but it was the absence of light in the shape of this girl and she moved. Like she was hyperactive but waiting. I was too terrified to speak but I pulled the covers over my head and never saw something like that again. Don’t know what that has to do with anything, but the only shadow person encounter i think I’ve ever had. I still don’t know what the hell that was entirely.
Well shit, I've never seen that girl before, but as a kid I would refuse to be outside alone, especially at dusk and night because I thought that if a car went by and even without one if I was in my yard alone that a little girl made of shadows with pigtails and sometimes with glowing red eyes would come going down the street and I didn't know what she would do or if she would take me or whatever but I wanted absolutely nothing to do with her. This was when I was like 6 - 10 give or take. I never saw it, but I have hyperphantasia and I saw involuntarily that girl in my mind playing over and over and it felt closer to really seeing it than just normally imagining it.
Sometimes when my sister was away when we were younger, I'd fall asleep only to wake up to a smiling guy with white hair one her bed, it wasn't a regular smile it was one if those uncanny smiles
I've discovered this video over a year after it's publication, but I still think it's worth to make a comment.
I have seen "shadow people" twice as a child. Both times they were hatless and I encountered them outdoors. Their form was also different from the most common presented in the video. First time the shadowperson looked like a shadowy flame, and it moved away from me on a field nearby my house. The second encounter was right next to my garage. I saw it from a distance (around 100 meters) when I was coming back home after dark, but I could see it very clearly as it was full moon that night. It was tall and looked as if it had a hood and cloak, and seemed to levitate a few centimeters over the ground, I couldn't see its legs nor feet. I somehow didn't stop and continued riding bike towards home. After a while it became obscured by the tall hedge I used to have around my garden (from the side of a street). When I passed the hedge, the shadow was no longer there. Yet, right after my arrival my grandpa came out of the yard to check if I came back. And well, he had an accident and died after few weeks.
Both times I saw shadowpeople I was obviously terrified, but I didn't sense any violence or danger coming from them. That's why I lean towards the Angel of Death theory, especially considering the fact that both encounters happened 1-2 months before my grandpa passed away.
There was also a third time I thought I saw a shadowperson, but after a while I think it was just the case of pareidolia - it was dark and I was in a car, so I couldn't get a good look on it.
Not had a shadow person encounter but when I was maybe 15 I heard voices and felt breath behind me while I was asleep. This happened twice, the first time I heard my name and the second time I heard something say wake up in almost a yell whisper. It scared the shit out of me both times but there was not anybody else in my room either time. So I don’t know what it was and it was too real for it to have been in a dream.
Oh also whenever I think, talk, or here about anything supernatural or anything supernatural adjacent I get chills on the back of my neck and I get paranoid that someone or something is behind me. To fix this I usually put a hoodie on, or a blanket over my head if I’m on my bed. Not sure what this is or if this is just me being a weirdo or some psychological thing. Just thought I’d share lol
HEY the same thing used to happen to me literally every night!! it started when i was 13 or 14 and i thought it was normal so i ignored it for a long time. eventually when i was 19 i told one of my friends that “i hate the part of falling asleep where you hear the whispering and feel breathing on your neck” and she had no idea what i was talking about…. until she slept in my room and experienced the same thing. that’s when i knew it must have been something supernatural since it wasn’t just affecting me anymore, it would happen to anyone who slept in that room.
i was actually able to make it stop by looking up techniques to get rid of ghosts and trying some magic banishing rituals. one of the rituals must have worked, because no one ever heard the whispering again. im 21 now and i haven’t experienced anything paranormal since. i don’t really know how to feel about the whole experience. it can’t have been sleep paralysis or a hypnagogic hallucination because it was the exact same thing every single night, and it happened to multiple people.
i have had sleep paralysis before and i’ve never been scared by it because when it happens to me, it feels like being inside a dream and i know that the hallucinations aren’t real. but whatever this was it was different, and it felt real and scary. i also have only had sleep paralysis when waking up in the morning, and the weird voices only happened at night while i was still awake and lying in bed before falling asleep. i have no idea what kind of being this thing was but it definitely felt evil and i’m glad i was able to get rid of it.
I had a single encounter with a living shadow, and it wasn't the hat man, it had the vague outline of a cat, but was easily as large as a tiger. It didn't have any eyes, but I could tell that it was staring at me, it walked away out of my bedroom and didn't return. It was within the same week that my family cat got sick and we had to put him down.
This reminds me of some stuff I've seen. I remember this happening multiple times, but I only specifically remember once. I was with my friends at school, and through a window to the outside I saw this guy in a black hat and trench coat across the street or something. I told my friends and they saw him too. I actually kept watching him, cause I felt like he was gonna hurt me or something. that was weird.
I've seen both inside and outside shadow people. Inside they mostly just stood sorta ominously and when they were outside they would be much closer and much scarier. I once was running outside with my sister when we were much younger (7-8) and I'm very sure that I was pushed over by one. I felt a hand on my back and when I looked up after falling there was a completely shadowed man with a top hat that just stood over me. My sister was on top of the hill already, so it couldn't have been her. It was horrifying.
My friend got a house a few years ago, and kept seeing the shadow of a small girl in a certain hallway in his perifrial. He would dream of her as well. One night, in his dream she began choking him so he punched her in the face as hard as he could.
He still feels like something is watching him from the hallway sometimes but it's been over a year since he has seen her, and it's not very often. He is no longer scared of it either.
when we were young, me and two of my other friends were having a sleepover, and as we all laid down in my bed, (it was big and we were little) we all saw the exact same thing at the exact same time. a tall shadow figure in the same corner of the room that dropped down into a squat then immediately lunged or sprang at us before vanishing. it was scary as shit and i can’t believe it was just “pattern recognition” since we all saw the same thing, and the corner was absolutely and completely empty.
When I was around 9 years old my sisters got me into creepypasta. I was really scared of the rake and on many occasions, I had a hard time falling asleep. One night I was lying on my side facing the side of the room where there is a door to the balcony. I opened my eyes and saw a shadow person without a hat. I was terrified and slowly switched to the other side. He poked me into my back and I was frozen from fear. I had to build the courage to put my nightlight on and when I did, he was gone. I haven't seen any shadow people ever since but there has been a lot of paranormal activity in my childhood room. My mum still lives in that house so every time I visit her, I sleep in that exact room.
Every person I’ve heard of who saw a shadow person was absolutely terrified. There was no understanding. I’ve heard of hundreds of these cases
When I was very young, me, my cousin and my old neighbor saw a shadowy figure in my neighbors room when we were hiding in there during hide and seek. We all described the same thing. The figure was huge almost gorilla shaped only standing up right and was as tall as the ceiling. We all screamed at the same time, and still even talk about it from time to time 😂
I had a similar experience but instead I asked it to protect me and for a few days it did and after that my friends started sleeping over all summer after that my cousin moved in. The reason i asked to be protected was because i was being abused even after asking for help. So when i saw the shadow figure in the corner of my bed towards my head i was terrified at first only because hello, this isnt something normal you'd see, but i closed my eyes tight and said out loud so it can hear me to protect me from the abuse. I was at peace and my abuse stopped. I moved out the after 2 years and I'm here today writing my experience. It was a brief moment and i did see it from the corner of my eyes but when i looked directly at it was just a darker spot than the rest of the corner and my room was dark. I also woke up the next day after asking for such a request and made me wonder if it was my grandma who had previously passed away.
I’ve been subscribed since the second I came across this channel 😊
Reminds me of when me and my friend saw a shadow thing out at night near a forest, after calling out to it and it didn’t respond my friend said “run” or something along the lines of that and I’m guessing when we where running he looked over and it was chasing us until we got into the road where it vanished
5:30 idk it this means anything but it occurrs to me that an outdoor death is more likely to be a violent event like a car accident than an indoor death, which is more likely to be a peaceful event like an elderly person dying in their sleep.
I've never experienced shadow *people,* but I have always experienced shadow *animals.* Most often rabbits or just some sort of small creature like that.
Be careful they're dangerous. Those are djinn and I'm dealing with them now past 4 years and cannot get them to leave me alone and I've moved 3 times since it began. They always follow
I saw shadow people as a kid (4-8?), confided in my dad, and he told me he saw them as a kid too (ostensibly to assure me it was just childhood imagination, but that's not how I took it). I don't recall any hats or eyes, just plain silhouettes, maybe with a trench coat (wide, ill-defined, lower half) and always inside. They persisted when I stared at them and they horrified me, but I felt compelled to go towards them. As an adult, I tend to see strange shadows, but not people, when sleep deprived and/or over-caffeinated. It's mostly the darkness from the other side of a door appearing to reach into the lit room in a vaguely finger-esque shape or out-of-place moving shadow blobs in my periphery (often where the wall meets the floor or ceiling).
Edit: There were a handful of times in my late teenage years when I would see or hear people (not necessarily shadows) in my periphery or in the next room. However, this was exclusively when very tired and working alone in a creepy place late at night (poor lighting, lots of local-legendary deaths on the property, surrounded by forest...) I would often be in this position because beyond the general air of creepiness, there were also regular creeps so I couldn't very well refuse to close up in place of female colleagues.
A a young person, I saw shadow people like in my room. I also visited a haunted house (my grandmother’s) where people in and out of my family have seen ghost so I just thought they were ghosts in general.
The issues truly started to happen for me when I babysat a neighbor’s kid. The mom was a nurse and she would have me spend the night since she left so early in the morning.
Story time: the longest two weeks of my life started with weekend babysitting. The apartment had an opening to the kitchen and the couch was to the left of it and I could clearly see the hallway and child’s room from the couch.
Day 1 I see the hat just pop up in the kitchen opening and glide over to the child’s room. Nothing to see here, I went back to sleep.
Day 2 I had sleep paralysis and decided to open my eyes a bit and it kind of did the same thing but moved from the hall to the kitchen. I thought I was just hallucinating because of sleep paralysis.
Day 3 I woke up and he was already in the hallway and he started to just hover around her door. I was just staring at it thinking it was just going to leave. It noticed me looking at it. Like I just kind of sensed that it was like “Hey that girl is awake??” So I turned around as it slowly made its way over to the couch and try to pretend I was sleeping. I prayed a bit and just played there. After like three minutes I looked over my shoulder and he was like looming over top of me. The eyes were red and that’s all I could see. I couldn’t look away or close my eyes. I felt like I was being suffocated. I gasped “You’re choking me I can’t breathe.” And the thing just backed away. I couldn’t see the eyes anymore but it just stood across from me and I kind of passed out.
The lady ended up moving to Texas out of the blue and we ended up living in the apartment where I saw the guy again but he never got close like last time. I’ve dreams with shadow people in them but I don’t know if it’s just me or they are really just there.
The last dream I ended up talking to them and they were being very….”motivational” to say the least 😒
Anyway, hope this helps ✌🏽
I saw the Hat man during sleep paralysis before my ex wife left me taking my kids from me causing years of court battles and suffering. I felt evil and malice coming from him but we ended up blessing that spot where he appeared after that with holy water and I was not troubled again by it.
I actually had a violent run in with a shadow person when I had sleep paralysis probably about when I was in middle school. I had woken up and it was standing next to my bed, no hat or coat just a male shadow figure wrapped in shadowy/smoke-y/mist with red eyes. I could feel just the rage and malevolence emanating from the thing in waves. It had to have been about six feet tall, it took its hands hand tried to shove them onto my chest, almost like one would do while trying to shove down trash in a trashcan to fit more in. It couldn't touch me because there was an invisible barrier about two inches above me, it kept trying to get to me and was becoming more enraged, frantic, and forceful with its movements the longer it couldn't. I was quite reasonably terrified and quoted Psalms 23 in my head to help calm me down, I then quoted the Lord's prayer after Psalms 23, and I kid you not, as soon as I said Amen in my head the thing vanished and I could move. I was quite shaken over the whole thing, I can still see the memory vividly. That is the only time I've encountered a shadow figure and have no wish to encounter another one ever again. I had three more sleep paralysis "hallucinations" after that though none of them bad, though I still had nightmares, but it all stopped after I broke both the sliding mirrors to my closet. (Which is supposed to be bad luck but stopped the incidents and nightmares.)
I’ve posted this elsewhere.
I was in South Australia visiting my Brother. I’d hired a car so I could get around. At the time he lived at Nairn. When I left his place to go back to Adelaide it was night and drizzly. I accidentally ended up on the old Federal Highway instead of the New road. I just decided to stay on the old road as I’d traveled it before.
Suddenly a the shadow of a man, cutting into the dark and drizzle appeared walking across the road, right to left in front of me.
I was on top of him before I could think. It was like someone had taken a cookie cutter and I was staring into the void. He passed straight through the bonnet and kept on walking. There was no impact. I can’t say I was afraid it was just a what the actual moment. One of things that did stick with me was how silent it got.
Obviously I didn’t stop and kept on driving.
I don't know if this is a Shadow Person experience or a Sleep Paralysis story, but this happened to me a few months ago. I was sleeping in my bed when I had a strange dream where I was lying on the floor of a dark apartment or hotel room staring at the front door. I guess I was some kind of dog in this dream. After staring at the door for a few minutes an all black human shape with a feminine form stepped out in front of me, crouched down, and held her arms out like she wanted a hug.
A moment later I woke up, and noticed 2 things:
1 My eyes were half open and I was staring across my room at my trunk
2 the way the light reflected off the trunk made it look like the door in my dream
This seems to contradict most people's experiences
Including my own.
The almost always induce not only fear to the point of fight, flight freeze response but also more often than not give off an
Extreme sense of evil enveloping the person or room. They do attack and I have experienced this as it came through my bedroom window and smothered me with a dark cloak of darkness that also felt like a large blanket restricting my movement until I was able to kick and yell loud enough and run to turn on the lights. They don't just come when you sleep but also when there is very low light or candlelight and there presence is malevolent, heavy, and dark. It comes with no triggers like movies or prior feeling of anxiety or feeling off. It comes in fast and takes you off guard like you just got dropped in the middle of the darkest, scariest haunted forest. The only 2 things you can do to make it leave is fight like mad and then turn on the lights.
I have heard of the shadow people before but I haven't heard of the hat with a trench coat. You mentioning that brought chills to me because I had a dream of a dark figure in a hat and trench coat and my encounter was not good it was an an assault, (in the dream) and no this was not a suppressed memory, no this was a one time dream of a "shadow man" trying to assault me. I can't remember how old I was but I think I was older then ten and younger then thirteen, based of off where I was when I had the dream.
This shadow man seems very reminiscent of the Mysterious Stranger from the Fallout series.
When I was a kid, I saw a shadow with a pony tail messing with my DVD player. My parents basically said, “yeah sometimes you see shadows of people who aren’t there” and put me back to bed.
I can’t recall any tragedies following this
To be fair I doubt your parents would have told you of a tragedy as a kid, unless it was a close family member
@@gholamdapantaloonsniffer8218 You might have a point. My mom had several miscarriages that I didn’t learn about until I was older. I don’t remember exactly when I saw the shadow person, so idk if it lines up or not. I apparently saw a “baby ghost” around the time of the first miscarriage, so it wouldn’t be without precedent.
Happy New Year btw
@@marumaru2105 happy new years to you too!! 🥳
I wouldn't be surprised either if it ended up being around the time of one of those happening tbh, which would have been so hard for your mum to open with and so the spirit/shadow babies would have been visiting to comfort your mother as well I'd say ☺️
@@marumaru2105 As I had that happen with me, when my great grandma died and I was 8. 3 days after my great grandma had died, I heard her voice while laying in bed say to me "it will be alright son" which is what she called me and then felt a warm touch on my arm closest to the edge of the bed where her voice came from ☺️
A friend of mine in high school lived in a house that had some real interesting energy. It was two houses down from the towns catholic church, which has a whole lot of "nope" about it.
Before I ever went there he'd told me about *always* feeling watched there, and about waking up one night lifted up from his bed and being tossed to the floor when he noticed three shadow people around him.
The first time I went there we were hanging out in the kitchen and I looked out the sliding glass door to see a huge shadow with emberlike eyes just watching us from the darkness. He said to ignore it, and we sat there talking for about fifteen minutes while it watched us. It shifted it's stance a few times but I didn't see it blink once. Then I looked toward a sound on my left and when I looked back it was gone.
The next time I went we had another friend with us. Friend who's house it was went upstairs to the bathroom while me and the other friend went downstairs to the living room. She tried to open one of the crank windows and had trouble so I tried to help. Didn't have any luck, then we heard someone behind us say "it won't work, it's broken." and I turned around saying "oh alright", thinking it was my friend back from the bathroom. Then the toilet flushed. Upstairs. Her and I were alone in the living room. When our friend returned we told him what happened and his exact words were "was it the kid? That one's fine, he's friendly." with the most unconcerned look a human can have.
After those events I looked into the towns history and found out it'd long ago been an Indian reservation. My theory is that the catholic church I mentioned had been built on their burial site, along with the three houses immediately behind the church, the closest of which I'd never seen occupied in my ~10 years in the town.
I don't know if I started this with some point in mind but I lost it if I did. Stay safe folks, shits wild sometimes.
I think they were mostly annoying than anything else. During my teenage days, they appeared in my house day and night and not while I'm outside or at school. It doesn't matter if you're doing something or sitting down and relax, they would always touch me and whispers "hey" to my ear at unsuspecting times. These things appeared at the side of my eyes and when you turn, they just run off. Sometimes I can see them moving quickly in the house kitchen and corners of the my room. It was scarry at the first few days, then quickly turn annoying when I'm trying to get some rest or sleep, thankfully they disappeared after a week. This incident doesn't happen elsewhere except in my house and makes me afraid to step inside my house for the first few days. When it occured way too much, I kinda get used to it although it will spook me from time to time. Ps. No hats.
Ive seen my share of those. One was the ghost I met in a dream where there used to be a big white house where my house is now. He had a strong presence and felt angry like I was in HIS territory. He wore a wide brimmed hat and had no features. The next day my electricity went out for half my house, my neighbors too.
Ive met some that were just nuicences. Like the one that stood over me in a dream. I yelled at it and somehow conjured up a circle of spinning yellow lights that shattered it.
Another one was the ghost of a guy who offed himself in my apartment. He was scary because he was made up of swirling black clouds and not just a solid shadow. I moved out because he wouldnt leave me alone.
Now thats an interesting point about indoor vs outdoor ones. I dreamed about seeing an outdoor cloaked tophat wearing one standing at the entrance to a cemetery. He at first appeared as a cute small black dog that morphed into a man with red eyes right in front of me. His presence was menacing and teally scared me. He said something I dont remember.
I find it interesting how many witnesses claiming to see these Shadow People,that also experience a strange buzzing,a sound that they say you can feel,as much as hear. This seemingly happens both before and after these being appear..😳 I've heard this reported time and time again.
The house I grew up in was haunted. It was on 10 acres of dense forest in southeast michigan. We have no idea why it was haunted as it was a brand new house. Built for us to move into. But it was a hotbed of weird things. Mostly noises but every once in a while we'd see things. I remember a few occasions I saw a shadow person. It was always male. It stood somewhere between 5'8 and 6'10. It stood in the corner of my room by the door every time. I always had my door closed at night so it wasn't someone standing in the hallway. I'm not sure if it meant me harm, but I was never at ease with it around. A couple times I felt like I might be in danger, but it never really moved much. If it did move, it moved like it was maybe shifting its weight. It would only be there for a few seconds. It wasn't sleep paralysis because I was able to sit up in bed, but I didn't dare get out of bed. It would just stand there, looking at me for usually not more than a minute. Most of the time after a few seconds of it being there, I'd turn my head or close my eyes real hard and when I looked back at where it was it was gone. I saw it maybe a total of 5 or 6 times I think between the ages of 10 and 14ish. I always chalked it up to sleep deprivation as I'd have nightmares pretty frequently in that house. But after moving out of that house I stopped having nightmares and I stopped experiencing paranormal stuff
i don't remember a hat or a tragic event, something i do remember is when it moved it more of faded from position to position rother then moving like anything else would, but what sticks out to me the most is my twin brother saw it too and sometimes we saw it the same time, one specific time i saw it go in our room and then he said he saw it go under his bed but He was not sure where, he was on the top bunk of a bunk bed and i had the bottom bunk, looking back on it the weirdest part was it never bothered me where so many other things did
I used to see a shadow man from age 17 to 21, the years where I had cataracts. For those that don't know, it's cloudy eye lenses, giving very dull blurry desaturated vision which leads to heightened motion perception (less visual clarity, faster visual processing.)
He would be standing in/around my lounge and driveway , almost always in my peripheral vision. He was fairly tall, about 6'8"-7' tall, had a long flowing coat/cloak, had no visible eyes, no visible texture or features, just pure shadow. He would always, aside from one time, be standing motionless like a sentry. I never felt anything malicious from him or even any unease even when clearly noticing him. Often I'd notice him standing at the top of my driveway, staring down at the road as if he were keeping guard.
The one time I did see him move was when my brother and his friend were having a gaming night. As the two of them walked from the lounge into the kitchen, I was walking past them and noticed someone in the lounge with his back to me walk in an extremely fluid motion towards the lounge window facing the driveway, and he casually walk/glided up the couch and through the large pane of glass right behind it. I thought it was another of my brothers friends for a few seconds until my brain clicked back into place and I realised people shouldn't look like a shadow when directly under a light bulb and don't walk through solid walls and windows.
I have a few shadow person stories, but there is one that still freaks me out. For context when I was younger, like 10-15, I would have nightmares where the dream was fine up until this shadow figure appeared, or bled through the dream; it would grab me and scream and then my dream would fade- I always woke up in a cold sweat. This specific incident happened when I was getting ready for school one morning. I wake up like normal, sweating from the nightmare, pull on my pajama pants and get clothes and a towel for after my shower. I walk out into the hallway and get to the bathroom door, close it and start my shower. When I get out I hear a knock at bathroom door and open it thinking it's my mom but what I see is a large black shadow person looking down at me. Slammed the door, missed the bus, and called a friend to wake my mom up by knocking on the frontdoor.
Mom was angry that I missed the bus, but I was just glad the shadow figure was gone.
I'm fascinated by shadow people. I've seen them, even into adulthood. Can't remember if I've seen one with the hat, though. At least two of my kids have seen the shadow man with a hat. I've even seen shadow "critters". I have two black cats and sometimes I think they're walking by me but when I look they aren't there. I used to see most of my shadow people when I was younger and while driving, for some reason. Always a face or figure on the side of the road. When I start seeing them now I try to figure out if I'm over-tired or stressed but nothing really comes to mind.
I remember when I was a child about 7 or 8 looking out of the window of the home I grew up in and seeing a man in hat no real detail to him just a dark figure and above him was a swarm of crows were talking in the hundreds. The swarm suddenly started to fly down towards him in a spiral eventually completely engulfing him, this is around the time I got my parents. Once we got outside we found a dead crow in the spot he stood.
When I was in high school I was out with a bunch of friends in a golf course that was under reconstruction when I saw a group of like 4 of them, at first I thought that they were people but when I looked closer I noticed they were not and a sense of dread ran through my body as I started running out of instinct just to get away. My friends thought I saw a guard so they ran with me and laughed when I told them what I saw
There was a movie called shadow people that mention the shadow man with the hat and ties them to the hmung people and is tied to sudden unexplainable death syndrome which gave us Freddy Krueger and I have been attacked by a shadow person when I was a kid many times
This exact thing happened to me when I was like 6, a dark figure was poking around my room when I woke up in the middle of the night. the hat being worn was a fezz though
I saw shadow people when I was a kid, I think around 9, 10, or 11. The one I saw didn't have a hat or trenchcoat, or any details aside from being a shadow person. There were no tragedies, and I never saw it outside. I didn't like it being there, and was kind of scared of it, but more in the "scared of the unknown" type of way than a primal fear. My parents always told me not to mention it, although now that I think of it, I think it was to prevent me from scaring my younger siblings, not some superstitious thing.
I get sleep paralysis a few times a year, some years it's more often others less. At first, as a little kid not knowing what it was seeing a shadow with glowing red eyes making eye contact with me completely paralyzed with the bed shaking and pounding outside the door and windows was the most terrifying thing imaginable. Then I learned what it was and it was less bad, then I got some diffuse warm lights for my room because I had a bunch of other blinking lights that kept me up so I needed to drown them out.
And the thing that really changed it is I started listening to music. It happens much less frequently now and when it does there isn't so much fear. I find more energetic music relaxing for sleep, I'm guessing it's an ADHD thing but that might just be me. But regardless hearing the doom soundtrack or some other song like that playing makes the good ol' sleep paralysis demon a lot less scary, in fact sometimes it seems like he's scared of me. I'm no longer trapped in here with it, it's trapped in here with me.
I have named my sleep paralysis demon Steve after the opossum that lives in my barn that I keep my woodshop and metalshop in. He's a good enough guy once you get past the void in perception your mind attempts to make sense of by filling it with shadow and giving it eyes and a feeling of personhood. I like to think that he's just like "Hey, look man I just work here" and I think we have a functional relationship.
I believe I saw shadow people a lot when I was working at CVS in Eatonton, Ga around 2016-2017. The building was old and another pharmacy company occupied building before CVS did. My theory is that they were people who died, and were upset that their pharmacist either didn't give them their meds, gave them the wrong amount, or the wrong kind. A doctor's unreadable handwriting could cause these mistakes. Sometimes pharmacists could act as gate keepers.
I still see them, I'm 33 years old. I have seen them face on in broad daylight. At night in the corner of my vision and I've been attacked by one. I've seen them in a variety of sizes too, lately I have been seeing child sized figures. I have also had spirits poking me, scratch me and flicking my hair when I'm in my house on my own.
For those who are going to say "it's just a halucination" I felt and heard my clothes move in the way you would if someone touched you. I'm also not the only person in the house who has this happen, it happens to my mum often. We have also seen them at the same time too.
Around when i was a preteen, my twin sister and I experience seeing quite a few shadow people over a single summer. I don't know what started it, but one day we started seeing this girl with long black hair, in reflections and windows. We called her "her" because we didn't know what to call her, and didn't want to sound crazy.The weird part was every time we spotted her, she would alternate between wearing a black dress and a white dress. And sometimes there wasn't an obvious object that tricked my eye (one time i walked through a locker room and thought i walked by a change room with a mirror in it, because i saw my reflection walking by in the corner of my eye (I also have long dark hair) but i got a weird feeling and looked back in the room and there was no mirror or anyone else there). She would show up every night as well, and we would see her in the blue glow from a light on a DVD player. She would walk around the room and often walk over to my bed, kneel down and stair at my face. Sometimes with her fingers holding on the side of the matress like a very interested child looking at something.
Soon after that we started seeing more of them. There was this tall man (no hat, but did look like he was wearing a trench coat) he began to appear, and i noticed when he was around, it would ONLY be him there. The girl and anyone else would dissapear as if they were afraid of him. He would always sit on my bed and watch me. I remeber having mixed feelings about him. I didn't exactly get the feeling of danger, but i had a strong feeling not to trust this being. However, he was less scary than the others, so there was a bit of a compromise feeling in my mind where, yes he was creepy, but i knew it would JUST be him watching me, so i had an easier time falling asleep.
The other figures were way stranger and much less frequent. The next one i saw the most was this skeleton figure that floated above my bed. It's legs were obscured by this weird cloud (kind of like a skeleton genie). It would appear a lot, and was the main reason i became less afraid of the shadow figures. Because it would reach down to try and grab me, but could only reach about an inch above me, and close its hand. Then would dissapear. I got the impression that i couldnt be touched by whatever these things were. And i couldnt hear them either, so i started to grow numb to the scariness of the situation and it became sort of like watching a movie. and if i closed my eyes it was like they weren't there. (I realized years later that this gave me PTSD for a while, because i would always keep my eyes closed in the dark. And one time i was at a friends house when i was a teenager, and broke down in a panic crying when she turned the lights off, because we wanted to try and find ghosts. I didn't realize how terrified i was of the concept. I'm a lot better now, and can be alone in the dark no problem.)
One time i saw the walls bleeding. It looked like someone slashed the walls, and they bled like a living creature.
A few times i saw about a dozen people standing by my bed watching me, but they were strangely short. Like almost shorter than the average little person, so it made me think they were standing on the ground under the house, and the only parts that were visible coming through the floor in my room, was their torsos up.
My sister one time saw what looked like a dove, trying to fly in the corner of our room, but it appeared to be caught on a string or a trap that woudn't allow it to leave, so it struggled for a while.
This type of thing happened every night for months. It always happened before we fell asleep, i don't recal ever waking up to seeing them. And never experience paralysis.
The other odd part was the beings seemed to be more interested in me than my twin. I thought she might be seeing other things that i wasn't, that were going after her. But she confirmed that wasn't the case. She saw the man sitting at my bed, the skeleton floating above me, the girl that would kneel by my bed or stand by the door (the girl would be interested in my sister sometimes, but the others didn't seem to be) i'm not sure if she ever saw the walls bleeding or the group of short people. But it was very confusing.
When i first started seeing them, i was always afraid. Then after a while i started more or less getting tired of it and just wanting to be left alone.
The scariest night though, was one night the man was sitting on my bed watching me. I was trying to look through the darkness of his face to try and confince myself that he was not, in fact, covering part of the light from the DVD player. When a car drove by and shone a bright light that crossed the room rapidly. And when it crossed the man, i was expecting him to dissapear, but instead i saw a man sitting there. With old dryed out skin around hollow blood shot eyes. They were red, but not like red irises. It was more like the skin around his eyes were red, and the whites of his eyes were irritated. He sort of reminded me of Palpatine from Star wars. I was terrified and hid under the covers for the rest of the night.
They finally went away when i had a moment where i mentally put my foot down. And pretty much said "if you are demons, i have God here so get the fuck out. If you are ghosts then you are not welcome either. Get the fuck out!" And i never saw them again. I don't know if i managed to do some sort of prayer or spell, or if they were a figment of my imagination, or perhaps they never left at all, but i just closed off the ability to see them.
As far as i remember, there was no tragedy that came after. It seemingly randomly start and ended. It also only ever happened when i had a specific bedroom in the house. We rotated rooms quite a bit, so i had almost every room in the house as a bedroom at some point or another (basically excluding the bathroom and kitchen. Yes i had half the livingroom as a bedroom at one point). And i only ever saw them when i had that specific bedroom. Then a few years later, my baby sister got nightmares in that room, but i dont know what they were (she often didnt explain what scared her, and i was worried about accidentally putting scary ideas in her mind that would play tricks on her. So i didnt talk to her about them).
I don't know what those things were. I don't want to see them again, but i do want to understand what i saw..... and why it was somehow more scary than a lot of stories i've heard, but also less scary because they couldn't toùch me.
If it was all in my head, then my mind is a very creative ass hole.
When i was 4 or 5 i saw an OVAL SHAPED SHADOW FIGURE in my parents room that was makimg a horrific hooting noise, like an owl! I remember being frozen in terror and having horrible sweating and rolling thunder in my head all night. Maybe it was part of a fevor dream, but i was awake!
~10 years ago when I was out urban exploring in broad daylight I possibly might've seen a shadow person 2-3m away from me.
I went to this dilapidated structure, it was this really old destroyed factory type of building; no glass on the windows, rubble and graffiti everywhere, you get the picture. I didn't go upstairs because I didn't trust the structural integrity of the building, so after I had wandered around inside for a bit I went out the back into this small enclosed yard. I saw there was a small open hole where you could go under the whole building in what looked like a very small claustrophobic tunnel system. Unfortunately I didn't have any lights and you couldn't see anything at all without it. On top of that I had not told anyone where I was, so I decided not to go down there now but instead come back another day. So I walked around the perimeter of the building.
When I got to the corner, walked around it and got a couple of meters further, I was standing right next to this big window with no glass and I looked up - I will never forget what I saw.
This silhouette of a big person who was standing point blank next to this big open window, and even though the figure had no visible features at all, like it was literally a dark silhouette and nothing else, I sincerely felt he/it was looking straight at me I have no doubts about that.
What really threw me off was that I was instantly involuntarily filled with a feeling that I can best describe as utter fucking dread to the point it started to kick in my fight or flight instinct. Was like this entity was just irradiating pure malevolent dread. I remember just looking at eachother silently for what felt like a couple of seconds before I quickly turned and walked away, mostly due to the fact that I was trespassing and I was worried it might've been a guard or something and that was a good enough excuse for me to get the hell away.
It's important to mention it was broad daylight and the room where the entity was standing was a very brightly lit room and I can't even begin to describe the contrast of the bright surroundings and this extremely dark colorless entity with absolutely no discernible features other than having the outline shape of a human, which just felt odd as it was standing almost point blank in front of me. The whole situation just felt wrong somehow. I felt I couldn't think straight, like my instincts took over and I feel really silly about this because there should be no reason for me to react this way but I did.
Unfortunately very shortly after this incident the whole structure got completely demolished, so I didn't get the chance to go back and inspect the tunnel system even though I was preparing to go back better prepared.
This is probably the only experience I've had that I would say could _possibly_ be classified as paranormal (well maybe one more but _nothing_ like this). I ponder about it sometimes and the situation honestly still creeps me the fuck out, I've been out urban exploring several times, been around sketchy people and sketchy situations, but I've never ever before in my life experienced such a sudden and irrational, intense, uncontrollable surge of dread inside of me. I'll never forget this experience.
I saw a shadow man when first tried randonautica. The sun was setting and that was that kinda of eerie time between day and night. I followed the map to the spot only about a mile from my house. It was a fenced off field with a few big old trees. When I got to the edge of the field about 100m away he was there moving around doing something. I looked right into his featureless face and he was all solid black. Had no hat and didn't feel threatening, more inquisitive like he was trying to do something. I felt amazed and privileged to be seeing it. I looked away momentarily, then when I looked back he was gone. Later on at home thinking about what I saw freaked me out bad and I had insomnia and waking panic attacks for a few nights. I got a bible out each night and prayed and read psalms and after about a week things were back to normal.
I had a very strange one where for about 3 months I was followed by a man in a plague mask. At the time was very s*cidial, so it could well have been a side effect of my mental distress, but every time I saw him it was almost like he was warning me against it. Perhaps a spirit warning me against death? A visage from the part of me that wanted to live? Who knows, but he's certainly the most notable example I can think of. I've also had the top hat and trench coat so who knows! I definitely feel like it was partly thanks to his efforts I'm still here. As soon as I recovered, I never saw him again
Our brains are very capable of obscuring reality subconciously. I would wager it's possible that the reason we can "see" so many more things as children and close to death is because our brains either have not developed fully, or are beginning to decline. That's why we can see through the veil sometimes, when our brains drop the facade. I could be totally wrong, but I find the possibility interesting.
@@TheLoreLodge it's definitely an interesting idea. Perhaps it's being closer to that primal state that lets us see more? Personally I could see it either side, could well have been a stress enduced hallucination, but also could have been a warning. It definitely felt paranormal, so I'm leaning towards your take on it