Are the Shadow People Dangerous? | Paranormal Entities
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- If you bring up the words "shadow people" or "hatman", chances are someone in the room is going to have something to say. Tall, dark, and possibly handsome, the Shadow Man or Shadow Person is a paranormal or supernatural being which appears to people in the darkness of their homes at night. Though they may seem intimidating, very few people report more than just a scare. But does that mean they aren't dangerous? Welcome back to The Lore Lodge...
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0:00 - Intro
1:58 - Personal Experience
2:53 - Scientific Explanation
3:32 - Problems with the Science
4:36 - Common Descriptions
5:32 - Outdoor Shadow People
8:28 - Conclusions
9:32 - Outro 
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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
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
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.
@@chronic_payne5669 to this day, I have to close all closets and the bathroom door in my bedroom.
@@chronic_payne5669 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@atashgallagher5139 😂😂🤣
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.
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
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..
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
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'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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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 ☺️
My only shadow person experience was while I was high, so I assumed it was fake, but then the other people with me asked if I'd seen it yet, claim to have seen it on multiple occasions.
I was outside at like 2 am, chilling with some friends, and they passed me a joint, and I accepted and smoked with them. After a while, I looked at the outside light on the garage door, and saw a spindly hand shadow "crawling" it's way across the door, with no arm attached. I started freaking out, but then my friends said "Oh that's just Dave, he hangs out a lot."
Not sure what to think, but looking back, it makes me laugh
Mine is named steve, used to be scared of him, but now we get along, he seems like a cool guy.
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 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.
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...
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.
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’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 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.
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
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 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
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 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’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.
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
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'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.
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.
I’ve been subscribed since the second I came across this channel 😊
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I have a shadow person with really bad energy in my apartment building.
A few years back, someone did a Ouija board session in the lobby and something malevolent came through.
I have seen it in my hallway, and once it started to chase me, however, it couldn’t get pass my door frame, despite my front doorway being left wide open.
There is a crucifix over my doorway, so I guess that’s what stopped it.
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!
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 😂
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
in the early 80s, long before the internet and long before id ever heard of "hat man" this happened to me..a little after dusk my neighbors and i were playing in their back yard, we were just getting rdy to call it quits as we couldnt rly see the ball anymore. mark said to me " hey man, your stepdad home?" i said "nope him and mom are out of town till tomorrow" so he says "whos that then?"...we look over where marks pointing to the upstairs bathroom window and can CLEARLY see ehat looks like a mans head in profile wearing a fedora backlit in the window ( said bathroom entrance was at top of the stairs to the second floor )
im like "dude someones vroke into the house, cmon!"
we were 14/15 and more balls than brains i guess becusse we all ran to my house, i immediately started up the steps and as i looked up i saw a tall man in a fedora and coat, before i could react he turned to his right and walked down the upstairs hallway to the bedrooms.
mark saw him, i cant remember if marty did as well but all three of us went up..,marty stayed at the top if the steps and mark and i checked all 4 bedrooms...empty, storm windows and screens intact.
i said "mark you saw him, right?!'
he's like "yup, dude had a longcoat on"
we all turned around and left.
i spent the night at their house.
many years later as a man in my 50s imagine my suprise at hearing about "hat man'
ive got no explanation
there was no traumatic event over the subsequent few years.
was just a thing that happened.
weird.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This shadow man seems very reminiscent of the Mysterious Stranger from the Fallout series.
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.)
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
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.
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 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.
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 ✌🏽
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!
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.
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.
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.
I remember a shadow person incident I had. Was just chilling at home alone, piddling on the computer, looked up and saw a child in white. Spooked me so bad I drove to my GF's apartment and crashed on her couch. While I was laying there in the dark, I saw a tall shadowy figure slowly stride out of the dark hallway and just loom over me. I forced my eyes shut until I fell asleep 😅 nothing really came of it, but I was terrified during the whole process
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.
Yeah I don’t know why but I vaguely remember seeing something similar whenever I was relatively young as well it was very brief but I definitely remember the eyes looked red I was in the car on the way home at night.
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.
Both of my sisters have seen the top hat man/shadow man at wildly different ages but in the same room, the room i slept in before my younger sister was born.
Now why in the goddam hell is the shadow man revealing himself to little girls in my childhood home?
But on a serious note, my younger sister described him as hanging from the ceiling like he had committed suicide so something tells me their experience isn't entirely the same as the others.
I'd burn some white sage in that room. Science has proven that sage smoke turns negative ions into positive ions, 'lightening' the atmosphere of a room or home. You can find videos on the proper way to use sage on RUclips. Good fortune!
I had experiences as a child . I never heard of shadow people. The shadows would come in and look at me at night. No hats or facial features. They would study me then leave the room .It happenned many times. I was surprised to learn it was an occurrence with others.
I called my visitor a huge dark energy. No hat, just a huge presence. I noticed a shadow cat shortly before the energy arrived. The energy passed through my house a couple of times, and the 3rd time it came I felt like someone was trying to break into my house all night. The following day, hundreds of miles away, my youngest son commited suicide. The dark entity was warning me of impending doom.
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
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 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.
You need a open song like Mr Ballen does. Just a thought. Love your channel
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
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
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
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
*I have some stories,
the other day my friend told me that he sall a tall shadow figure with a top had and a knife in its hand
and that it was standing outside his window, it was tapping on his window.
Another story was i was just laying in my bed at night but then in my house i sall
a shadow man with no hat or knife but it walk infront of my bed and just stared at me
when i fell asleep then woke up it was gone.*
Happens whenever I'm tired. No solid figure, just when I'm tired as shit and focused on something in front of me I constantly see the shadow of someone moving in my periphery. I imagine because I work in a dangerous job (Cabinetmaker) it's something like the Black Dog truckers talk about, my own head trying to tell me to take a break.
I've seen something like shadow men. Over 10 feet tall in the road. It walked across as the car was still. It wasn't the black dog, you see when you are tired driving through the woods at night, this was sudden, and inexplainable. I've never had any paranormal events before or after. There were no eyes, and it was not a quick hallucination. There didn't seem to be clothes or absence of them. It was directly in front of me and close proximity. Light was dead to it's figure, no reflection. I've lived in the woods all my life, and I'm am comfortable in the night, and alone. So what is this thing?
Personally, as with all things paranormal/supernatural, I feel like shadow people/men/hat man are not just necessarily one thing. Why do we always have to explain the unexplained with one broad sweeping definition? The shadow man I experienced in childhood was well over 7 feet tall, had no clothes or face, and was a 3-dimensional solid figure that was darker than the dark room. He stood at the foot of my bed at night. I always sensed him, woke up, and sat up in bed. Then we stared at each other until he vanished. One night, I woke up, knowing I shouldn't sit up, and he was inches from my face. I closed my eyes and begged him to leave. This was not sleep paralysis, either. He was seen in my upstairs window by myself and my ex when we were outside at night and my bedroom light was on, when I was 18 and he was 19. The shadow man was still a solid black figure, standing in the window with no shadow, staring at us. He made his presence known in that house, along with other things, for decades. Maybe the shadow man you witnessed was the same type of entity I had experiences with in that home? I've had experiences with other types outside of that house with other people and can unequivically say that they truly do not seem like the same type of beings.
I live in semi rural Scotland, I grew up in a village called Kinghorn. There's an old coastal road that joins Kinghorn to Burntisland and a thousand years ago an ancient king died whilst riding his horse along this same road, his death led to the events of the Scottish wars of independence, William Wallace brave heart etc.
To this day every time I drive down that road at night I feel a malevolent presence. On other occasions I've seen multiple of their figures lining the cliff face side of the road always leaving the side that drops to the sea open.
My Most intense experience I saw them standing at the side like they've done before, I felt the presence of other people sitting in my car and then the seatbelt unclipped seatbelt alarm started flashing for all 4 passenger seats. I just kept my eyes glued straight ahead I didn't even look in my mirrors until I was round the bend that looks out over the sea and once I did the feeling disappeared and the seatbelt alarms all turned off again.
It all just makes me wonder if those same beings played a roll in the Kings death that night in 1286, maybe his horse got spooked and bolted over the edge? Maybe they were more deliberate
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.