More stories from our readers regarding the shadow people

When I was younger, about 17 I had a very interesting/scary night that I will never forget and cannot explain. I was not a happy teen, I was extremely depressed and not medicated. This particular night, I was crying hysterically and begging god to take me out of this world. I told him that I did not want to be here that I just wanted it all to stop. I did this for hours. I was laying down in bed when I heard the bedroom door open. It was night time and the lights in the room were off, everyone in the house (myself, my mother & my father) we’re either in bed or asleep. I looked up and SAW the door opening. Behind the door there was a very tall (7 feet maybe) figure or shadow of a man. It looked like a normal besides being tall dark outline of a man. I waiting for second for the man to say something, he just stood there. I could not see a face, just him standing there in the doorway. after a few seconds of silence I physically said to the man “hello?” I did not receive an answer, he just stood there. I was scared to death, I ran as fast as I could to the light switch and when I flipped it on the figure or shadow or man or whatever was gone. I immediately ran to my parents room and hysterically woke them up and told my dad he had to search the house right then because someone was in the house. My dad did search the house but no one was there. This was not an illusion, I know what I saw and I don’t know what to think about it. Any ideas?

I wrote this about a month ago before I came across any information about “shadow people” I had not heard that term before I wrote this. The theory that these shadow figures come around to suck energy makes sense to me but as you can see in my story above, I did not have much energy to give when this figure showed up. I was in a very low energy state. Also, I have never experience sleep paralysis in any way. I was fully capable of moving as soon as I saw the figure. I sat up in bed immediately and looked directly at it.

I had this experience this morning while getting ready for work. In my bathroom I have a wardrobe mirror and the mirror above the sink, so I can see the back of my head. While I was drying my hair (facing away from the sink) I SAW the shadow of this person. Actually, it looked exactly like the photo at the top of this story: tall, thin, fedora…passed between me and the sink. I felt it pass me, almost like it brushed against me. Then I felt COLD, and quite confused. I was not really afraid; but I was just…really confused. All day today I have felt very strange, like something is looming. I don’t know what to make of this and would really like some opinions on the matter. I also want to be sure this is not ominous.

Mine was me and my brother this Shadow being or wat it was it had no eyes or hood but more like a real dark shadow dat stood out in the dark an in the shape of a human being dat was real anger at something u could sense it …… It would come out of the loft at nite ,an often walk around are bedroom it would appear to me an my brother at different times never together …it would move us around the bed at nite an when I got scared at nite I would try to get to the bottom of the stairs only for the spirit to drag me bk up stairs with like a hand over my mouth an than couldn’t shout or speak the more I shouted the less would cum from my mouth an than would wake next day like nothing happened …this happened to me an my brother for a period of time when we were like 5/6 year olds I would take a lie detector on this ….an than me an my brother set fire to the flat by mistake with a box matches I still see things an sense things an have dreams of things before they happen in my life its real strange believe me…it would make for a great movie of real life an even till this day I feel like my mind won’t let me remember more details

Mine was me and my brother this Shadow being or wat it was it had no eyes or hood but more like a real dark shadow dat stood out in the dark an in the shape of a human being dat was real anger at something u could sense it …… It would come out of the loft at nite ,an often walk around are bedroom it would appear to me an my brother at different times never together …it would move us around the bed at nite an when I got scared at nite I would try to get to the bottom of the stairs only for the spirit to drag me bk up stairs with like a hand over my mouth an than couldn’t shout or speak the more I shouted the less would cum from my mouth an than would wake next day like nothing happened …this happened to me an my brother for a period of time when we were like 5/6 year olds I would take a lie detector on this ….an than me an my brother set fire to the flat by mistake with a box matches I still see things an sense things an have dreams of things before they happen in my life its real strange believe me……to children with same story an as adults are stories have been the same they are real an some are mad an others fine but theirs different types

I seen a shadow in cloak my entire life. One night, I did not feel like praying on my knees, so I prayed in bed. That night the shadow in cloak came to my bed. I was paralized and tried calling for my parents but could not. The shadow bent down on its knees by my side and said, “This is the way to pray.” Then it dissappeared. I got up and ran into my parents room. I was unable to sleep in the dark for years.

My experience was quite different. It was the night before I was to be married. I was pregnant with my first child. I had just gotten into bed when I saw this figure at the foot of my bed. At first I thought it was someone in the house . But it didn’t move when spoken to….It stayed there a long time. About 15 minutes or more. I was not paralized, (as others claim). It finally just disappeared. I’ve often wondered if it was a portent of some kind. My husband would die 5 years later, and our daughter, just passed away recently. To this day I do not know what or who it was.

Shadowy figures do exist. They can be seen at night time or day time. Since I was a child they have been around me and our family had healers in the 1900’s. Seeing into people’s lives like big screens is something I keep secret because I don’t even have to in front of them or talking to them. But the shadowy figures come around and observe. They don’t communicate but are curious and have personalities. I can feel their emotions where there are three that come around regularly. One is anxious all the time and doesn’t like to be in one place at a time. Another is curious about everything and likes to just linger. The last one is serious in a parental way and puts the others in place. The others that come around are going from one place to another. Since I have seen, sensed and felt them around me for so long I don’t feel scared and they have never meant to harm me.Actually it has always been the opposite to watch over me or warn me to act like leaving a place or moving out of the way or making me go another route. The impression I have gotten is that it is their job. They are not defined by a name or a gender.

Our family goes way back with whatever it is to be labeled but I keep it hidden because no one would understand it. The sad thing about this is I knew when approximately my sister would leave this earth. My father knew his time and I too know mine.

Shadow people are real! They aren’t all bad like some people experience. They could be like how we are. You know how some people are bad and some are good. I have only ever seen one shadow person. I will say she as it felt female. I woke up not in a state of paralysis like most people say they do. I woke up to a black figure in a hooded Cape knelt down beside the bed. I was in my moms bed as I must of only been about 4. Now at that age you would of thought that I would of got scared but I didn’t. I just watched it as it was knelt down. It was looking for something, you know like how we rummage through things when we are looking for something. Well it didn’t notice that I had seen it at first. But when it actually did I then became paralysed like people talk about. The only thing I could move was my eyes. So I watch as it walks around the bed and it says telepathically “don’t look at me” I do as it asked and watched how it walked out the room and as soon as it left the room I could move. Even at that age I wondered what it was, I wasnt frightened at any point during or after. I know it wasn’t their to hurt me. I think it was just a thing that just goes about watching. I did feel that the cloak was like a coat that it had put on a bit like how we put a coat on but ours is to keep warm and there’s is for another reason but am not sure what for.

Do you think it’s possible that these shadow people are actually guardians? They want to watch us to make sure we are safe and they leave once they are seen possibly because they don’t want to intrude on your privacy (with you knowing) or scare you? I saw a shadow person out of the corner of my eye before and so had my father and brother but as soon as we saw it it left. I admit, I was kind of scared at first because I was young, but I haven’t seen it since. Sometimes I feel watched though, and I feel like the shadow is still watching over me but I can be sure. Please tell me what you think, thanks!

What is these shadow figures are guardians. That’s why they watch, to keep us out of trouble. And if they are seen they might be seen again because they don’t want to scare the person they’re protecting. I saw one once and I was kind of spooked, so maybe he went away because he didn’t want me to be scared. But maybe he’s still watching, because I still feel like I’m being watched at times.

The way it was described was exactly like the first time I’ve seen this figure a few details left out the next day I found out a close family friend was dead I was 13

I’m always being watched by shadow-people they’re either standing near doorways or in corners just watching me. I’ve seen one manifest itself as a tall slender human like figure about 7 ft tall wearing a cloak that shines like liquid metal I can never see into the cloak all that I can ever see is pitch black with a soft blue light surrounding him. I gave him the name Sky instead calling him an it he looked solid but he wasn’t. I should know considering when he first showed himself I went to touch him to see if he was physically there my hand went right through even though I was right in front of him.

Hi Nicole,

Yes I’m very fine now, thank you. Mostly I just read tarot cards at present but I still keep a journal of researched infos, some rituals and spells. I have learned to be thorough in my quest and developed a little healthy skepticism. I’ve read your hub about the demon Z ouija phenomena, it’s absolutely interesting. I too have tried using the ouija when I was younger and you’re right there is really something addictive about it. Like once you do it, you want to do it again..mostly alone to see if it really works. My experience with the ouija was uneventful, it was just me answering myself.

I’d love to hear about your very own experience with shadowpeople sometime and how it’s similar to mine. Thanks:)

Hi Nicole,

I have read a few of your hubs and I have to say I like how you present theories and evidence based on facts, coming from different perspectives in order to give your readers a wider scope of understanding.

I had an encounter with a shadow person once, only that I never even knew they existed before. When I saw an article about shadow people on thoughtcatalog I was surprised to know a lot of people from all over the world have the same experience.

I was in my teens, just lying in bed waiting for dinner to be ready with only my bedside lamp lit, singing to my favorite songs. When I glanced at my window to my right, I saw a shadow of a man, well more of a silhouette really, with spiky crew-cut hair just looking at me from outside. Thinking it’s one of my cousins trying to prank me, I immediately got up and approached him so I can see him better and asked what he wants. No answer. I didn’t feel scared or threatened by this entity, but when I was by my window I thought I would get a better view and make out a face but nothing, just dark. So I did what any logical person would do and tried to peek out so that we come face to face, literally inches apart but everytime I get closer he started ducking,slowly receding below the window frame outside. I said to myself, okay, you wanna play so I hurried up and got outside to catch him. My room was separated from the rest of our bungalow home, kinda like an outhouse so I can easily get outside. No one was there and it wasn’t even that dark for there was a backyard light, and no place to hide either. That’s when I started getting creeped out by this.

I just wanna share that during my teens, I was dealing with my mother’s passing really bad so I dabbled in spirit summoning and some poorly researched black magic(goth phase cliches I know). After I moved out, we rented that room and the rentor told me some really weird things happen while staying there like some pretty vivid dreams of a woman holding her down in bed. I too had experienced sleep paralysis in that room once, and chalked it up to stress and the hypnagogic state you talked about.

Is it possible I might have invited something in during those dark times in my life? There are times even at present that I feel so negative all the time, like hate, envy, and depression and I try to fight it with prayers and positive thinking. I didn’t bore you, did I? lol

Mine I don’t think is an imagination. But i really see it where there is a light and there is no anything dark or black on that part only white towel so you will see the difference. I am about to open my door and I notice the curtain is sudden open and I look inside… I really see it tall and dark person for about 5- 10 seconds… I don’t feel creepy. There is some mysterious thing happen like I had a fight with my partner then 1 day after an old woman told my partner in his dream that I have been crying and she is very angry at him… I remember I have office mate before who betray me and I left the apartment. After, a month I heard that an old woman is trying to hold her neck and want to kill her… I do not know if it has a connection. Today, I am pissed offf coz my partner drinking whisky, am hoping he stop it then his bottle of whisky explode and no one is touching it… My partner is very scare he came down the stare and he told me… When I went up and check on it- the bottle break its half part all whisky are spilled on the floor.

I enjoyed reading your article. Supernatural subjects are quite interesting to me. 🙂

I noticed close to the end of your post, you mentioned a theory about the “undead.” What do you mean by this?

I would like to get a response. I think this article has a lot of coincidence to what happened to me and my girlfriend. 2 nights ago I woke up at 3:40am because my girlfriend was making very weird noises in her sleep, there was a very small dim blue light in the room coming from the internet box and I could see she had Goose bumps and she was stiff like a rock at the same time she was trying to wake herself up at the same time I was also shaking her to wake up, this has never happened to her for five years we have been together never saw her having a nightmare. Thing doesn’t stops there, as soon as she is able to wake up I ask her what were you dreaming and she said I was possessed by something (she aint from any religion) and I was gonna just turn around drink water I had in the side table and go back to sleep, when I turn around to grab my bottle of water outside the bedroom door I saw this Black Shadow STARING it happened for some seconds I couldn’t believe it but then when I started saying to my girlfriend there is a man standing outside the door the shadow started walking to the other room and left us. After that I could only sleep with the light on and last night I turn all lights off to sleep because for me is difficult to sleep with light and so my girlfriend woke up at 3:30 am and then me at 4 like around that time it got difficult to have a deep sleep eventho I was sleeping before that time is weird I don’t know how to explain is like an uncomfortable feeling.

I played the Ouiji board many times when I was a teenager I never believed in those things but I stopped playing it one time my friend and I got really spooked out by what happened while we were playing it, and how the thing on the ouiji board was just like “ha, ha, ha, ha”and the fan and tv went off and on we cried for the thing to let us out the game.

Should I move from apartment? What should I do?

Hi. I’ve been seeing this shadow entity now for 3 weeks. It’s a nuisance. I’m usually awake. It’s about the same time every night. I’m usually not scared. Not trying to act like a hard butt. But I always see it out of the corner of my eye. Or I know when it’s closer to me. I don’t try to pay no mind. Cause once I realize this entity is there. It disappears quickly. My only issue with this entity is… I have tightening of my chest. Almost like winded. I just want it gone. Cause I do not like the feels of being suffocated. I can’t tell anyone I know cause they look at me like I’m nuts. I’ve seen this entity (if it’s even the same one) many times throughout the years. But not on a constant basis. Last time I saw it. I was playing games with me. Like whispering or the one that truly scared me is when it made a real loud kiss noise in my ear while I was bent over putting towels away. Please help… I’m exhausted in every way manageable.

So, this is my experience with the shadow people, particularly today:

I had a dream in which I was outside I’m my balcony talking with some family I do not speak to that often. After certain comments were made, I started to get into a distasteful mood and started causing rain and thunder, and I revealed my ability to my family. I was also pilling books outside in the balcony despite the rain while i spoke to them. I got annoyed, so leaving the weather in that state, I went to bed. Then, a shadow person visited me. It was a hooded shadow, and it claimed to be my grandmother on my moms side, who passed away about a decade ago and I didn’t know well. Ive had other experiences with shadows, they have never gotten close to me, but this one did. It was at the foot of my bed, kneeling, talking to me. The only thing that was said was that ”I was misusing my gift” and that ”I would be judged for it” The shade also had no face, I couldn’t see it even if it was basically a foot away from me.

I was not having sleep paralysis I was fully asleep when I was having this dream.

I am a wicca and Id like to know what this means, but apparently no one online has had a similar experience

A couple of days ago i seen a humanoid figure sitting at the end of my bed staring at me occasionally i feel scratches on my leg sometimes i wake up with cuts on my fingers hands legs or my chest. The cuts don’t seem to hurt but if i poke them they just start bleeding like it was fresh although the inside was a orangey brown, I know the history of my house no one has died inside of here but have died nearby the house it is also on top of a old mine, a proximately 110 years old. Every night i hear running outside my bedroom door which creeps me out i keep a knife under my pillow just in case i see it again, my friends have told me they hear things at night above them and underneath their bed they are sleeping on in the other room one friends started screaming and crying that something was touching him with a sharp object, he said that he had started to hear heavy breathing underneath the bed so he ignored it as he thought he was hearing things, he told me that he is never going in that room again unless it is day but ever since that night i have put around 10 locks on the door from the inside so if something is in there it can’t get out, however my family have had a history of these encounters well when i was around 13 i would hear knocks on my bedroom window at around 12-3 am sometimes it was heavy knocking light and gentil knocking or furious knocking which was the main one i ever heard my girlfriend always refused to come to my house as she knew what was happening in my house and asked me if i wanted to go to hers instead.She never really told me why she wouldn’t step foot in my house all i know is that she knew about all the freaky things that was going on in my house.

WOW! You must be very intuitive! I live in the area that goes directly over the “Trail of Tears”, but also, I was able to capture a photograph in my dining room one night of a male soldier dressed in Civil War attire. I’ve not been able to find the history of this house OR this property. For some reason, the local city administrators aren’t too good OR QUICK at releasing public information. The only sure thing I DO know is that the house that USE to sit here where my house is NOW, got leveled with one of the strongest tornadoes these parts had seen in years. That happened back in the late 70’s. PART of this house was rebuilt from the original one that got leveled by the tornado, and then the other part of the house was moved here from another location that they’ve STILL not disclosed to us yet, and honestly, I wasn’t that interested in even KNOWING about it UNTIL I realized we had spirit activity here. I’m also convinced there is a portal in my home at the top of the stairs. I didn’t realize it until our house caught on fire in that very spot, and then when I was video recording the damage, I could literally see the energy in the form of a giant, wavy looking ball of energy, it was kind of clear but had a yellowish red color to it. At THAT particular time I didn’t know what that was and after asking over a dozen people, someone referred me to a lady who could see energy – she’s the one who suggested to me that that was a portal, well no actually, she INSISTED it was one – and when she did – EVERYTHING started making sense. I didn’t really like it, nor was I comfortable with it, but at least it was starting to make a little more sense than me just being crazy! However, this house doesn’t hold too much positive energy in it. I have seen THE NICEST people enter through my doorway, and immediately either become AGGRESSIVELY argumentative, or they will either puke or pass out. I’ve had one woman pass out TWO TIMES THE SECOND she walked through the door, and then another one started puking. BOTH of those women ended up leaving within minutes of coming over. Matter of fact, the air is SO THICK in here that MOST TIMES, people are uncomfortable here. I’m sick ALL THE TIME now. Not one day goes by that I”m not vomiting or having trouble breathing. I’ve been to the doctor about it, and there is nothing health wise causing it. It gets kind of hard to breathe sometimes when there is a LOT of spirit energy – like last night. I also begin to tremble with such a force that sometimes my legs get weak and give out. I was literally blown away by ALL THE different, yet negative, aggressive spirits that were here last night though. They were loud, kept banging in threes, banging so hard the walls would shake and the windows would rattle. Our dog AND the cats were even freaking out for about 4-5 hours, from around midnight til well after 4 am. But the thing that REALLY caught me off guard was at exactly 2:56 am, I heard a LOUD banging on what sounded like the door, then I got up to go see, just to look, and as I got up from my office chair, I was walking toward the door to go out into the living room to see if someone was outside – a pencil that I had been drawing with, aggressively flew FAST across the room from my desk to where I was walking out the door about 15 feet from it, and hit me in the back. It was like someone was mad and threw it at me AS HARD as they could. THAT freaked me out because everybody else was in bed, so I was alone downstairs, AND THEN when I looked down at the pencil, it began to roll across the floor. Lol… I TOOK OFF running, and then tripped trying to get up the stairs, but then something stopped me dead in my tracks! I could hear several muffled voices frantically saying, “GO BACK TO THE DESK, HURRY, HURRY, GO NOW!” At first I just stood there wondering if I were imagining that, but then I had an overwhelmingly persistent feeling of dread that MADE ME go back – So I went back down the stairs with my knees feeling like they were gonna give out on me any second and I got down to my desk, at which point I noticed one of my HUGE butcher knives sitting right on top of the desk. I don’t know HOW that thing got there (it REALLY WASN’T there 2 minutes before that) as I had been working at my desk since the kids went to bed around 10 and there was AND NEVER IS any reason for ANY sort of kitchen knives, let alone the biggest one in the kitchen to be in my office. So anyway, when my eyes set on that knife, for like a few seconds, it felt like I was racing SOMETHING to that knife – I grabbed that thing up so quick and was just thankful that it was just a pencil and not that knife that came flying across the room, because believe me when I tell you – we’ve had WAY WORSE and painful things happen – ALL OF US who live here have.

I could literally write a book on mine and my family and friends experiences in this house. I wake up every morning with dread, and I go to bed with dread, AND NO MATTER how many lights we install throughout this house – it is still WICKED DARK. I feel like we were lured here by some sort of paranormal force that made it feel like home THE SECOND we saw it – and then within days of moving in – we realized we messed up big. I’m not even kidding, the energy changed OVER NIGHT when we moved in. I cleanse it often, and things get chaotic and really loud while I’m cleansing it with sage, but all THAT does is seems to make em mad because whatever IS here is usually it’s WORST when and right after I’ve cleansed it. We’ve lived here since December 1999.

I see shadows in my old house all the time. I can never figure out where they are coming from. Is it the tv or a car going by I never know for sure. I ask my husband if he ever saw them and he said he did all the time. Oh well, they don’t bother me. Who knows maybe they’re protectors. Enjoyed your hub.

One day, in the middle of the day, around 1 or 2 in the afternoon on a REALLY SUNNY day, I saw out of my peripheral vision, who I THOUGHT was my oldest son, wearing a black sweatsuit and hoodie run past my office window, then I heard the front door open and slam, someone ran up our stairs, AND THEN, it sounded like a herd of elephants running down the stairs – we ALL saw that shadow figure, and that time, it ran directly up to my oldest son (13 at the time), it was taller than he was but they were practically nose to nose and it scared the crap out of EVERYBODY. He even had 3 or 4 friends over here – one of em got so scared he called his mom to come get him. I’d NEVER seen something JUST OUT THERE, right there in front of all of us like that. This thing though had a really creepy, weird gliding sort of walk, and as it glided QUICKLY I might add, it’s shoulders were slumped back, it was VERY tall, it was just creepy the way it moved. I really did scare ALL of us, and by then we were KIND OF use to seeing things out of our peripheral vision – JUST NOT RIGHT IN FRONT OF us. In my house though, the activity is not limited to JUST after midnight and 3 am – it is active ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT. But if I happen to stay awake until around 2 am, THAT IS THE MOST loud time, it’s really REALLY active then.

Nonnie Sanders, the person asked for my e-mail address but never send anything. Was kinda expecting that though.

I’m skeptical about these things and, like you said, looking for real proof. No proof has come to me so far…

for csap75 and Bartzel; did those videos ever get out to you or this hub? I would LOVE to see them. Am looking for ‘proof’ but not the kind you see on the ‘reality’ TV shows. My house is full of shadow people as well, like Mrs. JB. I have never feared the shadow world so don’t bother God about it. I have asked them a number of times what they want, or how I can help them. I believe they are remnant personalities (also referred to as ghosts) still attached to this house or the people who used to live here. The house is not that old, but the land itself has been occupied by generations of slaves, slave holders and Natives. We are also visited by shadow cats nearly every day. So try to be friendly and welcoming if you can; if not, then kindly urge them to move on, as they are ‘in your space.’ I don’t think they ‘feed on’ our emotions, but they are lonely, and do respond to us. If anyone has had any luck filming them, please post if you can.

Narcolepsy has 5 diagnostic symptoms and 2 can mimic paranormal experiences.

1 is sleep paralysis and 2 is hypnogogic hallucinations.

I work at an elementary school and one of my 9 year old’s told me that she is scared to use bathrooms because many times there is a black thing watching her. she asks God to help her and it comes more. She has nightmares that this thing will kill her. I don’t know how to help her.

Any thoughts?

Hi there. When I was a young child, around the age of 4 or 5, I witnessed something that I believe to be shadow people. My father wasn’t home at the time, and my mother was in the lounge room watching tv. I was asleep in my mothers bed alone, as I felt a little uncomfortable in my bed that night. I remember waking up during the night sometime to see 3 small shadow people standing at the foot of my bed just staring at me. They were aproximately 1 meter tall, and the 3 of them were standing shoulder to shoulder. It scared the hell out of me. I called out to my mother straight away and said, “mum, there are 3 small children in here staring at me”. My mother jumped up straight away to see what I was talking about and to make sure I was ok. But just before she walked into the bedroom, I said to her,”mum, stay there! Don’t come in. Everything will be ok. God is with me now, and he is here to help”. I was completely awake when all this happened. The shadow people were there for aproximately 10 seconds.

When my mother eventually opened the door to come in to see me, I glanced up at her and said, “their over there”.

But when I turned to look back towards the end of the bed, they were no longer there. I’ve never understood why I saw them or why they were there, even till this day. They just stood shoulder to shoulder looking and observing me. They never moved, nor made a sound.

I’m glad I’m not the only person to have experienced or witnessed shadow people. Very strange experience, with no explanation for it.

So I’ve had these experiences fairly often throughout my life. I often feel like there is a presence that is following me around. Maybe I’m not being followed, maybe I am just more adept at experiencing such things? I don’t know, and I usually don’t look into it. When such things have become “known” to me, I usually have a sense of fear over it. Sometimes it is an overwhelming sense of fear that just consumes my whole body and paralyzes me. Ive looked this up a few times in my life and sure enough soooo many other people have had similar encounters. This was reassuring but it also left me with more questions. At first I just dismissed it as a psychological anamoly, I went with the common “sleep paralysis” type of explanation and got on with my life. Through my life though there have been certain instances where it has made it hard to believe that is just simply a trick my mind is playing on me. I have these encounters mostly in my room, or when I am at home alone. But there have been times when I was sharing a room with someone else, (say a partner) and they have experienced the very same things I have as well.

For me it hasn’t been a humanoid looking figure, it’s been more of a black amoeba that grows and starts to fill up the room, as this happens an overwhelming sense of fear grows within me. The first time this happened was a about a year or 2 back, in the room I am right now, with someone I was dating back then. We were lying in my bed in the dark, talking about something. And all of a sudden she stops, and stopped me, and told me that she felt something in the room, I felt it too, and I felt her fear of it, I felt attuned to her fear sooo much that I too felt this overwhleming sense of fear, and she told me “I dont know what’s going on right now but I am really really scared. Can you please do something?”

I mean…I have never seen her so afraid before. I felt frozen with fear as I felt the presence grow and grow, and I could see the room grow in darkness (it was already really dark). This darkness was kind of like a fog that looms over slowly, except it was growing in all directions and consuming the room. This was the first time I experienced it like that (at least that I know of) I have experienced this a few times since then, on my own, and just the other day while talking with a friend at night. This time I was the one who had to ask them to do something ( I asked them to turn on the light for me).

Ive had experiences where I can very clearly seek a dark blob, in a certain part of the room, that moved in a blob like manner. Ive read about people seeing this darkness manifested in differen shapes and sizes. Some people see humanoid dark shadows, others just mist or blobs. This diversity in encounters is what is mostly confusing to me now. If such things are real and not just a product of our imaginations, why the difference in representations? Are these shadow figures more or less influenced by our mental capabilities (the way we perceive them at least)

Iw ish I could know more about the people who have had such experiences. Where they feel they are in there level of awareness. I feel I am very high in my level of awareness, I feel like I have always been on a different level than most people. NOT BETTTER. Just different, and able to perceive more than most do. I mean this in terms of spiritual transcedence ( i practice buddhism, and have meditated and reached levels of awareness commonly referred to as Satori, or even Nirvana) I feel like I am more easily able to tune into these states of consciousness, since it has not taken me as long as I thought it would take someone (considering what the literature says) to reach.

So I wonder if these presences make themselves known to people with such levels of awareness, or if people with those levels of awareness are just more capable of sensing presences that are already there.

What if “shadow people” or whatever you want to call them, are always around, and what if we can sense them sometimes when are levels of awareness are on the same level of their state of being? What if its the same for “them”?

Just things to consider.

If anyone reads this, and has any information, or would like to share their stories with me. I would honestly love to hear from you. I think stories like this often get dismissed as paranormal hibberjabby and dont get the level of consideration they deserve.

I hate how most of the times experiences with the paranormal (if you want to call it that) are often treated as thing to be scared and wary of. This fear that is perpetuated often puts up barriers for understanding what one is experiencing. I feel like often times, the way we talk about these experiences with others, is the very reason why others who may experience something similar will be afraid of it, and feel a sense of overwhelming fear (just as I have) come over them. Because the narrative has always been “these things are scary- because these things are bad- because these things may hurt you- so you should be scared” and it affects us all on a subconscious level. Which is why a lot of people would rather dismiss these experiences and try to explain them in terms of science.

But having reach deeper/higher levels of awareness than I ever knew existed, I am in a position to consider other levels of being existing out there and in here too.

I would wish that the cultural narratives over such phenomenon be switched around from an Us v.s. Them type of standpoint to a mutual understanding of what is being experience by millions of people all over the world. There is a connection here, we just have to try to understand it.

If these beings are in fact observing us, why can’t we observe them back?

The only way we can do that, is by not be so afraid of them. Accepting them as a reality in the moment we are experiencing them, and acknowledging that out of alll the documented experiences with such beings there is none where any harm has come to the witness. At least not that I know of.

If something scares you, do the research. Learn as much as you can about it. Then you will be in a position to better decide whether it should scare you or not.

Please message me if you are sincere and genuine about such stories

oluswan@gmail.com

@csap75 – Could you share these vids? Can’t say that i’d love to see the vids, but i’d be very interested in them.

Hi Kitty. I’m glad I found this thread, I can relate to all these story’s about these shadow beings.

My encounter with them started about 3 years ago when I moved mymily into this rent house. I would start seeing dark objects move swiftly out of the corner of my eye so then I started using my camera on my phone and point it in the direction of where I would see it and play like I’m watching TV and then it happened. I caught it! When I played back the video I had to play it frame by frame and there it was. I was speechless, they are real.

Now I am interested in the phenomenon and I have caught over a dozen of them on camera and video. I’ve never showed anyone but my family these pictures and videos afraid people may think I’m crazy, he’ll I thought I was going crazy so I had to start carrying my phone on me at all times while I was at home because you never know when something was going to happen. After awhile I getting obsessed with it all and they where starting to show themselves more to me and started to interact with me as well. Now it’s getting dangerous because they’re telling me to get out, I’ve had an old hag follow me in the room right before bed and I had my video camera going and caught a black mass come out of my daughter’s bedroom cling onto me and then formed into a woman figured black mass and tell me with an evil sounding old lady’s voice I want to fu@$ you. When I played back the video my wife and I flipped out, that’s it we are moving out!

The following night I was in my daughter’s room talking to her about her day, my wife yells out to me something and I turned around to answer her I looked over into my bedroom and I couldn’t believe what I am seeing, it’s a ghostly cat and of course I have my phone in my hand and started to film. It was amazing what I saw, it was cat looking around and when I started to move towards it disappeared. Unbelievable, I did not know what to say. Needless to say we moved out of that house and into a newer home and had not encountered any of this again.

As long as I live I will never forget it.

I feel a lot better that I got to express this to another. It’s been bothering me for a long time and i would like to share these experiences with someone as well. I would like to send you a link if you’re interested and you can take a look for yourself.

Everybody out there, all of it is very real. I never believed in the supernatural but now….

Thanks

• okiring imagoro 2 years ago

  this doesn’t quite describe my experience though its the closest i’ve come across, as a child i had these vivid experience with similar figures, but they were more human figures than shadows, dark like a void yet 3 dimensional like you and me, no eyes, no mouth, the they would surround my bed and just stand there, they seemed to converse among themselves but i couldn’t even hear a whisper, I’d scream and try to wake up, but i never could wake up, so I’d close my eyes and just scream as loud as i could till my mum would come and switch on the lights and grab me , I’d open my eyes and it would feel like i wasn’t dreaming, like i was awake along along , it happened every night for like 5 days, on the last night they came again, they always came through the bathroom door, never the bedroom door, but this time they reached out their hands towards me, i started screaming, close my eyes trying to wake up, i open them and they are still reaching out,i scream louder and the lights come on, my mum is standing next to me am awake and they are gone…. i tell myself to this day that it was just a dream, but i remember it like it actually happened. my most vivid memory to date.

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  Blake Ford Hall 2 years ago from Now Rising Out of Phoenix Arizona Earthlings

  It has been my experience, that they get really frustrated and really pissed off, if you refer to them as shadow puppets. LOL. Great hub KTD. I found myself paralyzed by it…Keep on Hubbing. Blake4d

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  Vinny 2 years ago

  I had various experiences in a place my family lived when I was young. The one the screams out at me was as follows. I was laying in the bottom of a bunk bed and could not sleep (I was often scared in this house). I use to keep the covers up around my face and if I heard anything in the room I would throw myself completely under them. I’m not sure what time it was but I don’t believe it was that late as people were still up. Well, I got that “I’m scared” feeling and tossed myself under the covers. After a couple of minutes I peeked out from under and saw a hooded figure walk right by me. Now, while I was petrified at the time, I can say now that it never even looked at me (much less menaced me). But I was sooooooo scared and I remember it so well even to this day.

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  Nicole Canfield 2 years ago from the Ether

  I don’t know if images will help, but I know that if I cry out for god even in my mind they will leave.

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  freelancer 2 years ago

  It is really frustrating to see that even God has no effect on this shadowy figures because these eerie figures appear very near to the god’s images kept near the doorway in my home. Oh my god!

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  Nicole Canfield 2 years ago from the Ether

  Cameron – I believe you. I’ve had similar experiences…around the same time as you. Thank you for sharing.

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  Cameron 2 years ago

  This happened to me on two different occasions in different houses in different regions.

  It was around the dead hour.Both times I I checked my clock.The first time I was 15, and there was a black, gray, and brown humanoid cloud about 5 amd a half feet tall floating over my bed I immediately had shivers up my spine then it faded away.Time was 4:14am.

  The second occurrence was June 24, 2013 3:28am.I just fell asleep when I flipped over I opened my eyes, amd saw the same figure from the first sighting this time around 6 feet tall.I stared at it this time not afraid but rather irritated that it disturbed my sleep.It faded away.Five minutes passed, and I heard the sound of something trying to get through the doggie gate between the kitchen, and living room.

  All of the living occupants of the house were accounted for at that time either being asleep or behind closed doors in the house.

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  jen 2 years ago

  Thank you fr this post, it really somewhat enlighten my mind bou’t shadow people. I had experienced it many times, I woke up in the middle of the night, out of a sound sleep and saw a silhouette of a man, standing beside me. 2nd woke up again and saw him at our door, at 1st I thought it was my mom just to give us a glance bfor she went back to bed, but it was quite long seeing him staring that got me to ask her mom, is that u? She did not respond and just walked away. Then on the morning I ask my mom bout it and told me she did not do it. starts me on thinking on who is that dark man I see but not giving much attention to it. Thn one night out of silence i woke up someone whispered in my ear saying “bumangon kana anak” on english translation it says “get up my child” comes from a fathers voice, it freaked me out, asking myself where did that came frm, there’s no one in my room excluding me. It really got

  my attention, coz I realise that time the shadow shows consecutively for 3 nights. But i got used to it since the shadw did not do harm to me. Now since january, I always got woken up in the middle of the night twice, sensing someone is watching me but I didn’t see the shadow anymore, the one disturbing me is when I got woken up my eyes took me to one spot of my room where I had a strong sense that the watcher is posting on that spot. Im not sure if this relates to some pranormal activity or just its me thnking of it.

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  JMCa 2 years ago

  I lost a very close friend to cancer 3 1/2 years ago. About 9 months after his death I went to a medium physic to ask questions about my job, daughter and marriage. He came to our meeting. There were several specific things said that I knew it was him. Very specific. I wasn’t there about him or even had thought about him leading up to the meeting. Anyway after that meeting I spoke to my close friend/neighbor who consoled me shortly after his death and I told her about this visit and she told me she had to tell me something. During a visit in her backyard while I was emotional and crying about his passing she had seen a shadow figure in her garage while coming back from her kitchen . She told me she didn’t want to tell me to scare or worry me at the moment. She said it did not scare her and she’s never seen it since. I’d like to think that was my friend watching over me but I don’t know. I guess it’s not for me to know yet.

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  Livelaugheat 3 years ago

  Hi,

  I’m new to this but I guess I’ve been seeing these shadow ppl since I was in college. I recently had a visit by one with a hat on and I was frightened but they told me that I was safe and everything would be okay, but every time I get a visit I’m frightened. Sometimes I’d get visits and the shadow person would press against my chest so I don’t know the visits can be terrifying.

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  CPG 3 years ago

  I actually had a Shadow person following me, at first ‘he’ was rather frightening and I couldn’t talk to or about ‘him’ but after a while ‘he’ told me to call ‘him’ Friend and we began talking, ‘he’ told me ‘he’ was studying humans, then ‘he’d leave in the morning, ‘he’d only be around at night. But around Janurary ‘he’ left, I actually feel more comfortable without Friend, ‘he’ had a rather uncomfortable and frightening aura about ‘him’…

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  Cindy 3 years ago

  I have had issues with these images/ghosts/beings for years. I am leaning toward a combined theory, based on my experience. When I was a child, 8-15, I suffered from what the doctor called “Waking Dreams.” I would be in my room, and would see things- sometimes nice things like small angels hovering above me, or like large snakes in my bed. As I grew, it changed to shadow people. While going to college, I lived alone in a small house and would often awake to a dark figure watching me from the doorway, It would always startle me, but I never felt like it would hurt me, and when I would call out to it, it would disappear. Later when I had children, I would often wake to see a similar figure looking into the cradle at my child. This would scare me and I would scream and the figure would disappear. I often thought I was just a weird sleeper, but my teen age son has confessed similar experiences. Now that I am in my mid 40’s, I feel it has changed again. Several times now, I have awakened to my own voice yelling at “nothing” to leave me alone. I have only seen a figure once, and it was right next to me, something that was never that physically close before. If you have any research to help me into this new phase, and to stay “same” wondering what is going on, I would be grateful.

  Thank you!

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  Jeff Meyer 3 years ago

  One more thing I would like to add a few years ago I got a cat and since then I havnt had any trouble.

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  Bartzel 3 years ago

  Very interesting article, and even more interesting replies. My wife seems to be experiencing the same thing. She wakes up at 3:30 and sees a bright light on her left, almost as if there’s a sun inside our room. Strange thing is, this light only illuminates half the room. In the doorway on the right, there’s a dark figure just watching her.

  I on the other hand haven’t experienced anything out of the ordinary. Sometimes i think i see an odd shadow, but when i look closer it’s something completely normal (like the hanger with a coat).

  So could this also be a shadow person, trying to observe? And what about the light? Perhaps her guardian angel? I’ve heard before that people have seen their guardian angel in the form of a glowing light.

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  Nicole Canfield 3 years ago from the Ether

  Thanks for sharing everyone. As long as your physically and mentally safe, don’t fear them. I think they feed off of fear. If you see them again, tell them you are not afraid and that they are not welcome in your home or around you or your loved ones.

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  smiley 3 years ago

  this morning my niece said she saw a white human shadow looking n shaking my 13yr old daughter around 3 something in the morning n heard foot steps going in circles in my other daughters room.I myself always hear foot steps in that room n in the room were my niece claims to have seen that thing I would always feel as though I was being watched when it used to be my room wat could these be.

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  ThoughtIWasAlone 3 years ago

  I went into labor w/my first daughter at my grandma’s house. It was about 3 am. I don’t remember honestly why I looked out the window (it’s been 26yrs), but I saw an extremely tall, dark figure with a fedora hat on standing in her neighbors back yard looking at me. I don’t know how I knew it was looking at me because I didn’t see eyes. It didn’t speak or do anything. It just stood there. 7 years later when I went into labor w/ my second daughter, I saw it again. I didn’t see it at all when I had my third.

  When my girls were 13, 6 and 3, my 6yr old told me she saw a shadow of a man walk through the hall. I prayed but didn’t pay it much attention. Later when we moved, I was looking out the window my youngest 2 girls playing outside and they said something funny (as kids do) and just before I could laugh myself, I heard something laugh briefly beside me. I freaked out! The laugh wasn’t sinister, it was a genuine laugh of amusement. I prayed again. About 2yrs later, I was in the kitchen and I called my girls down to dinner and next to me again I heard a voice mock me calling my girls. It didn’t imitate me, it MOCKED me. You know how when you’re mocking someone you kinda change your voice drive home the point. It did that! Then I started seeing the shadows. My youngest daughter is about to leave home for college now and I still see them. I can be sitting and watching tv and see them out of the corner of my eye. They are always moving fast. I don’t see full bodies or anything. Sometimes I feel someone standing there and I’ll turn thinking it’s my daughter waiting to get my attention and see the shadow moving away quickly. I don’t know if what I heard years ago is even the same thing as these “shadow figures” because they are present almost every evening and I never hear them say anything. I feel like they are watching. But I do notice that they seem to like discourse.

  Sorry this is kinda long, but I wanted to give you enough information to be able to give me your thoughts on this.

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  Delane Adendorff 3 years ago

  That’s scary! I know how you feel. After my experience I felt safe as I knew by telling it to leave and seeing the dark shadow figure run out of the room (like a flash) it was not going to come back! But nothing in life is certain. I would certainly cleanse my home before bed tonight, together. Whether you speak out loud or cleanse your home in the name of your creator? I did research and the power of the name is apparently quite intoxicating for anything demonic. Who knows…I am not religious myself. But I want to believe that I have angels watching over my home instead of demons….(yikes)! Good Luck, let us know if anything returns….xxxx

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  Nicole Canfield 3 years ago from the Ether

  No, you’re not alone. Perhaps they will only visit once and you’ll never have to see them again. But if not, you might want to consider doing a thorough cleansing of your home.

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  whatwasthat 3 years ago

  Last night my fiancé and I both woke up screaming. We sat in the middle of the bed holding each other, absolutely terrified. My fiancé then turnes on the light and began to tell me he had seen 4 dark figures surrounding our bed…I was surprised and relieved to hear him say this because I had seen the exat same thing. Two figures stood closely near his side of the bed and the other two were standing at the foot of our bed. They weren’t their for very long, even though it felt like an eternity. This wasn’t the first time that i have seen a shadow person. I honestly thought i was going crazy and there must be something wrong with me, but after my fiancé finally seeing them and reading these comments I know I am not alone.

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  christina r. 3 years ago

  My 3yr old daughter this morning out of know where told me ” the shadow boy was standing on our bed. He had pink eyes and no mouth he couldn’t smile. He was turning colors purple and black and white. He only had one hand. He touched your nose.” Then she went back about her business. I asked her if i was asleep she said yes, and i asked her if he was mean she said no. .. the way she told me was as if it was as normal as could be….

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  Delane Adendorff 3 years ago

  About 4 years ago, I had a similar experience. I woke up with a dark force over me, I struggled for about a minute to move my body but I was completely paralysed and in total fear. I could feel this dark force moving up my legs…I could feel this pressure slowly almost reaching my knees. At that point I shot up and started ‘Involuntarily’ shouting “In the name of Jesus, I command you to leave this house”…. I said over and over again. My partner woke up in complete shock! I couldn’t believe the stuff that was coming out my mouth! I don’t practice the bible and for someone who is not religious at all…where did these powerful words come from? I felt this entity RUN out of my room so fast…it almost ran for its life! It was a remarkable experience! I have had many other experiences with the paranormal. None of them have been as dark as this one! The experience I had when I was 16 was a little girl who tried to reach out to me with her arms while I was awake, she came with a million bells. That vision brought music – millions of chimes and bells. When the music stopped, her vision went with. That was the most incredible experience of all the visions I have had. I was wide awake and she just appeared.

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  Jessica R 3 years ago

  Not too soon before my sister was killed by a drunk driver, I awoke to a dark figure (barely materialized) standing by my bed (I left my lamp on in the night). I didn’t feel threatened, rather that this shadowy buzz of particles was peering into my soul. The next couple nights, I awoke to that same appearance of dark fuzzy pieces above my bed, both times in swarms, not in the form of a single being. More like a swarm of bugs. All 3 of these occurrences, I had fallen asleep with my lamp on from reading. Then my little sister died. I always believed these nights to be a half conscious, half asleep hallucinations. Some type of sleep paralysis. But I really feel now as if those ‘things’ were real. I felt the curiosity. I felt…visited. I don’t believe in ghosts or demons materializing in our world. If anything, I always felt there was a possibility of ‘death’ visiting me, knowing he was going to take my most favorite person away from the earth, from me. I never saw those things again after my little sister died, instantly.

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  amni jackson 3 years ago

  I literally felt someone close to me in my sleep and heard screams in my ears… something was controlling my whole body, and suddenly my leg got lifted by someone BTW i was alone in the house at that time .. and a couple of days back i was looking at myself in mirror and someone whistled at me . Im so scared 🙁

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  Linz 3 years ago

  So this answered a terrifying question for me. When I was a little girl I was having my first sleepover and I sat up to see a shadow of a young girl sitting at the end of me bed starring at me my friend say up and saw it too. I leaned forward to touch it and my hand slid through it and we yelled for my sister who looked down from the top bunk with a bright flash light and a moment before I watched it slide into the hallway. But I’ve seen them many times

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  Jackson 3 years ago

  Hello I had a experience early morning around probably 3am or 4am…I can use someone opinion on it…

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  Jacob Threadgill 3 years ago

  i have noticed the presence of shadow people increasing in recent years and i know that while the majority of them are generally dark(dark meaning leaning toward evil but not evil usually good or neutral) there are outwardly good shadow people around. i have experience because my family is an aristocratic one in the world of the “supernatural” as most people call it. i have also noticed that i have two shadows when near a single light source.

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  michael rod 3 years ago

  I’m not sure what I experienced but I was not trying to observe me, around 4 am I was laying in bed attempting to try and sleep when I heard whispers of my name all In different directions. I had the sensation that I was falling so I opened my eyes becoming face to face with the silhouette of a women. panicking I attempted to sit up and move away from her but I became temporarily paralyzed and when I would attempt to try and move my head a shooting pain would make its way down my spine and in my skull and a loud ringing would carry through my head. this only made me more terrified and caused me to try and move more. This lasted for a few minutes and within seconds the women vanished from sight, the pain stopped and everything was silent. I talked to a doctor and a councilor to see if things like this have happened before to either medical patients or people with mental disorders and neither of them could figure out what would have been happening to me, I searched the internet and found this article this seems to be the closest to what I experienced. The thing that scares me most is I used to live with a bipolar women who always claimed to see someone, some one she called Lucy, we thought that she only saw Lucy when she was off her meds but after what happened I’m starting to think this so called Lucy whatever she is, is very real and very dangerous.

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  spiritofaradia 3 years ago

  I had experiences a few years ago, a flat I was renting was haunted and I was hearing the word ‘apparition’ in my head one night and I just knew that the spirit world wanted to communicate with me. I was apprehensive about seeing them and didn’t feel ready. In the mean time the spirits tried to get my attention other ways by turning up the volume on the tv when my mother phoned and also changing channels. One day my friend came over and was just chatting generally about family when there was a look of intense horror in her expression. Alarmed, I shot off from my seat and grabbed her leg. When we composed ourselves, she asked me for a pad and a pen. I fetched them for her and she began to do automatic writing. They told me how much they needed to contact me and it was a message about my future and that I would be playing a major role in a future event. Some time after that message, I would be sat watching tv. The first time I saw a shadow whooshing in and for 15 minutes it stood and watched tv with me. Other days I would see shadows whooshing in and just stand at the wall and watch me. I believe that they are my Guardian Angels.

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  Carlos 3 years ago

  I have a picture of my grandfather when he was alive. And suddenly when his son came to visit us in the picture a strange eye looking white thing appeared on his glasses. The picture ember had that. It only got that when he came to visit.

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  Lisa 3 years ago

  I have had two experiences in my house the last few weeks of seeing some type of dark shadow go by in my peripheral vision. Last night, around 2:30am, I woke suddenly to the feeling of someone holding my hand and then saw what looked to be a dark shadow lying next to me. I never flew out of my bed so fast! Turned on the light and there was nothing. There is no doubt, to me, that there was something there touching my hand.

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  Mike Kessler 3 years ago

  I’ve seen the black mist, hairy man (part man/part animal), and countless others. Last night, there were two shadow people in two places above me at the same time. One stared at me from above the foot of my bed and then vanished. I looked up at the ceiling above my head and there was a completely different shadow person there.

  I believe that they are either from a different dimension or time travelers who using a futuristic cloaking device to conceal their identities. They may appear as shadows in order to avoid altering history in the physical world. That would be a great way to avoid a paradox.

  They don’t scare me. I’m more intrigued by the idea that time travel and/or multi-dimensional travel may exist.

  I will try to speak to them next time and find out what they want.

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  Mr.SeeEverything 3 years ago

  i used to encounter these ‘shadow people’ at my hostel for 3times. i couldn’t move nor say anything. one is a figure of lady whose face was very near with mine. i could see her full figure and she had eyes with no pupils and she screamed to me. oh how i was scared. i just prayed to god in my heart hoping it will stop.

  Another encounter was a lady in white who just stood by my side. the third was also a lady who sat beside me

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  resa mao 3 years ago

  Last night I saw one. Thats why im on this sote reading up one them……he stood 2 -3 feet away from my bed around 5 am I woke up . Stood up sitting on my bed looking thinking it was my husband trying to browse through my phone. It moved or stoped. Then I laid down amd played as if I was still sleeping…with both eyes still open. I saw it lean against the wall like it was trying to hide….I saw this. Then I said you know I see you. I completely thought it was my husband. I got up and out of my bed and it just disappeared…….I darted out towards my husband sleeping in the living room with the tv on. And just watched tv till I fell asleep again…..should I be conserned. It listen to me and tried to hide. I was wide awake.

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  Kukata Kali 3 years ago

  Humans have a tendency based on how we’ve been conditioned to fear anything we don’t fully understand. We have issues with just loving each other as common species. When we see/feel something that is not involved in our common experiences, it would do us well to meet it with wonderment and love instead of fear. Then these shadows may become our allies in understanding our own level of consciousnesses instead of keeping us trapped in fear. Great Hub! Thank you for your expression~