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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.

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.

My shadowman sighting was when I was 22, appearing in my room. I tried chasing him, thinking he was a normal intruder. He ran through the living room, into the kitchen and was gone. It wasn't until the adrenaline starting to ebb that I realized the man was just solid black, not just a dim light situation.

This description is uncanny of experiences I had around the age of 7-9, except I saw a shadow man straight on view on a regular basis. Same description with top hat, trench coat also with a walking cane. Always stationery at the top of the main stair case. I remember feeling let's say startled/uneasy but never fear. This is the first time in the 27ish years since that I've even mentioned it. Bear in mind my experience is before youtube and all this was really available so I've always new it wasn't like a shared psychosis or anything along those lines. It was actually comforting to hear you describe almost exactly what I have seen for myself as a child.

This video pulled a deep memory out from within me. I saw hatman once while at my grandparents house. Couldn't sleep ended up wandering around my grandparents house with the lights off, saw a figure hiding among their coat rack. I was frozen for a good 5 minutes, eventually he disappeared and I went back to sleep with no problem. It was weird.

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”

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.

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.

My Dad is in his 70s, he has kidney disease, it's borderline between Stage 3 and 4. His health got bad enough last year that he had to go to the hospital 6 times in about 6 months, and I eventually had to move to his house to provide live in care for him because he couldn't get into any of the rehabs near his place after having surgery. I'm in my 50's and I have never had anything I could call a paranormal experience before recently. When I moved in with him, he was in very bad health, like he could barely walk, couldn't get his own food, couldn't bathe himself, etc. It was bad, and I wasn't sure if he was going to survive much longer. Thankfully, with a decent diet and some TLC he's doing much better now. At the time, he was so sick he didn't know where he was sometimes, and had several experiences where he thought his grandfather was sitting in the chair next to his bed, that strangers were standing around in front if his house all day, or that there were black doorways in his bedroom ceiling, among other weird stuff. He was telling me about these things while he was extremely ill, asking if I could see them as well, and I'm certain there's no way he was making any of it up, or exaggerating. He didn't even recognize his own bedroom in the house where he's been living since the 80s, and thought I had taken him somewhere that looked like his house, but wasn't. It was a rough time for both of us, to say the least. The crazy part is that I had started to see black shapes and human shaped black forms in his house before he came home from the hospital, or ever mentioned any of the weird stuff he was seeing. It was unnerving, being the only person in his house for many days at a time. I chalked it up to stress and being in an unfamiliar house, and of course I never mentioned any of it to him, considering what he was dealing with. One of the things I experienced shortly after he came home actually scared me, like the kind of sudden irrational fear I hadn't felt since I was a kid. I was looking in his freezer one afternoon, grabbing something to defrost for dinner, and out of the corner of my eye, the black form of a human head and shoulders popped up from the other side of the freezer door as I held it open. It moved insanely fast, and was squeezed in a 3 or 4 inch space between the freezer door and the wall beside the fridge where no person could possibly fit. It was a well defined shape and definitely human in form. As soon as I turned to look at it, it was gone. It freaked me out. I get chills just thinking about it. I had never experienced anything of that nature before that time, and nothing like that has happened to me since then. Before that point I was skeptical about ghosts and spirits, etc. I never mentioned any of this to my Dad until months later when he was feeling much better and had long since stopped talking or thinking about stuff that no one else could see. When I described what I had experienced, he explained to me that his grandfather was a notorious prankster, and that he used to jump scare the kids all the time when they were young. The kids didn't like it, but he thought it was hilarious. That was uncanny, it gave me goosebumps when he told me that detail. Last year changed my views on the afterlife and my skepticism about the paranormal. I don't go looking for it, and I'll never be a ghost hunter or anything like that, but I'm much more open minded when people talk about their own experiences.

I encountered a 7-foot tall shadow entity in my kitchen when I was a teenager. It was NOT harmless. And I've heard several stories about the man in the hat being aggressive/hateful towards the living.

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 😂

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’m glad Aiden doesn’t look so tired anymore, I’ve been re watching the videos from a year ago ( it’s Jan 2024 rn ) and he look REALLY TIRED, he works so hard I’m glad he has started to get a better flow going since the old days :) I love the lore lodge videos and the entire team they really produce such great projects

I have an experience with the Shadow Man, but I saw it concurrent with sleep paralysis and my brain registered Mr Man as Black Spy from Spy vs Spy, so at first I thought it was sorta comical that that's what my mind conjured. It's only when I came across I think a Wendigoon video where he mentioned something about the Shadow Man that chills went down my back and now I'm actually horrified that I saw it too.

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

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'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.

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.

Love this channel! I need to catch up on videos. I used to play these while I was working, now I got a desk job and don’t use my phone as often

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.

Bruh, I remember one time I was walking through my local park at night and saw a pure black figure running at me, scared the shit out of me, but when I looked, there was nothing there. My only memorable experience with shadow people that wasn't just a quick flicker in the corner of my vision

I very distinctly recall seeing a shadow man in the upper corner of my room at night when I was a child, gripping the walls with its arms and legs like the super vampires from blade two. It just stared at me, then rapidly zipped over to another corner, then another, then disappeared. A few months later my father came down with cancer. I never connected those two events until now...

I 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.

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

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.

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 saw one during my college years. It was at a friends house, and within 24hrs, one of the residents of that house plus a mutual friend were in a car wreck and only miracously survived. The car was totalled so bad that the owner of the junkyard actually gave the father his condolences when he came to see the vehicle since he was convinced no one could have survived such an accident

I 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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 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.

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've never experienced shadow *people,* but I have always experienced shadow *animals.* Most often rabbits or just some sort of small creature like that.

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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I had an eerily tall shadowy figure appear in my room and stare at me. He was above eye level, I was in the top bunk. It smelled like my grandpa, which I found out after was the smell of cigarette smoke. It had bright white eyes. I forget if it was before or after he passed. I freaked the fuck out and went under my sheets to watch skydoesminecraft until the morning. I sleep in a different room and this happened probably 10 years ago? Insane. Anyway, cool video!

I 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.

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

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.

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.

When I was very young, me, my cousin and my old neighbor saw a shadowy figure in my neighbors room when we were hiding in there during hide and seek. We all described the same thing. The figure was huge almost gorilla shaped only standing up right and was as tall as the ceiling. We all screamed at the same time, and still even talk about it from time to time 😂

I 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

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.

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

I saw shadow people when I was a kid, I think around 9, 10, or 11. The one I saw didn't have a hat or trenchcoat, or any details aside from being a shadow person. There were no tragedies, and I never saw it outside. I didn't like it being there, and was kind of scared of it, but more in the "scared of the unknown" type of way than a primal fear. My parents always told me not to mention it, although now that I think of it, I think it was to prevent me from scaring my younger siblings, not some superstitious thing.

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 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.

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.

A a young person, I saw shadow people like in my room. I also visited a haunted house (my grandmother’s) where people in and out of my family have seen ghost so I just thought they were ghosts in general. The issues truly started to happen for me when I babysat a neighbor’s kid. The mom was a nurse and she would have me spend the night since she left so early in the morning. Story time: the longest two weeks of my life started with weekend babysitting. The apartment had an opening to the kitchen and the couch was to the left of it and I could clearly see the hallway and child’s room from the couch. Day 1 I see the hat just pop up in the kitchen opening and glide over to the child’s room. Nothing to see here, I went back to sleep. Day 2 I had sleep paralysis and decided to open my eyes a bit and it kind of did the same thing but moved from the hall to the kitchen. I thought I was just hallucinating because of sleep paralysis. Day 3 I woke up and he was already in the hallway and he started to just hover around her door. I was just staring at it thinking it was just going to leave. It noticed me looking at it. Like I just kind of sensed that it was like “Hey that girl is awake??” So I turned around as it slowly made its way over to the couch and try to pretend I was sleeping. I prayed a bit and just played there. After like three minutes I looked over my shoulder and he was like looming over top of me. The eyes were red and that’s all I could see. I couldn’t look away or close my eyes. I felt like I was being suffocated. I gasped “You’re choking me I can’t breathe.” And the thing just backed away. I couldn’t see the eyes anymore but it just stood across from me and I kind of passed out. The lady ended up moving to Texas out of the blue and we ended up living in the apartment where I saw the guy again but he never got close like last time. I’ve dreams with shadow people in them but I don’t know if it’s just me or they are really just there. The last dream I ended up talking to them and they were being very….”motivational” to say the least 😒 Anyway, hope this helps ✌🏽

I saw the Hat man during sleep paralysis before my ex wife left me taking my kids from me causing years of court battles and suffering. I felt evil and malice coming from him but we ended up blessing that spot where he appeared after that with holy water and I was not troubled again by it.

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 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.

I believe I saw shadow people a lot when I was working at CVS in Eatonton, Ga around 2016-2017. The building was old and another pharmacy company occupied building before CVS did. My theory is that they were people who died, and were upset that their pharmacist either didn't give them their meds, gave them the wrong amount, or the wrong kind. A doctor's unreadable handwriting could cause these mistakes. Sometimes pharmacists could act as gate keepers.

I'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?

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

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'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 don't know if this is a Shadow Person experience or a Sleep Paralysis story, but this happened to me a few months ago. I was sleeping in my bed when I had a strange dream where I was lying on the floor of a dark apartment or hotel room staring at the front door. I guess I was some kind of dog in this dream. After staring at the door for a few minutes an all black human shape with a feminine form stepped out in front of me, crouched down, and held her arms out like she wanted a hug. A moment later I woke up, and noticed 2 things: 1 My eyes were half open and I was staring across my room at my trunk 2 the way the light reflected off the trunk made it look like the door in my dream

This shadow man seems very reminiscent of the Mysterious Stranger from the Fallout series.

This exact thing happened to me when I was like 6, a dark figure was poking around my room when I woke up in the middle of the night. the hat being worn was a fezz though

I’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.

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.

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.

Yes absolutely. Just take a walk in downtown Detro... Ohhhh those kinds of shadow people.

My entire life has been filled with shadow people, literally to a point where I've ignored it so much I can't even notice it anymore. First time I ever saw one was when I was a child, around 4, and I woke up to a bunch of plushies on my face, ran out to the hallway and tripped on carpet, turned around and at the end of the hallway was a misty knight on a horse and only the horse had red eyes. Very wacky.

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!

Ive never seen a shadow person when i was younger but until i was like 7 years old i would often see the shadow of a fox looking thing move for a brief moment at random spots in my room then it would disappear for the rest of the 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.

This seems to contradict most people's experiences Including my own. The almost always induce not only fear to the point of fight, flight freeze response but also more often than not give off an Extreme sense of evil enveloping the person or room. They do attack and I have experienced this as it came through my bedroom window and smothered me with a dark cloak of darkness that also felt like a large blanket restricting my movement until I was able to kick and yell loud enough and run to turn on the lights. They don't just come when you sleep but also when there is very low light or candlelight and there presence is malevolent, heavy, and dark. It comes with no triggers like movies or prior feeling of anxiety or feeling off. It comes in fast and takes you off guard like you just got dropped in the middle of the darkest, scariest haunted forest. The only 2 things you can do to make it leave is fight like mad and then turn on the lights.

I remember my first run in with the shadow man… I was about 16 years old, towards the end of my sophomore year, and I was very interested in the hippy/ spiritual lifestyle. I had a phase where I attempted to lucid dream a few times but I was never focused enough to let it happen. Then one night I got up to go to the bathroom n that’s when I saw him in my doorway. At first I thought it was my dad on a nightly binge but when i tried to call out “dad?” My mouth wouldn’t open. The person said something I can’t remember exactly what, but it was along the lines of “what are you doing” I tried to move from my bed but that’s when I realized my body was in deep sleep all I could do was move my eyes n I saw the time was 2:35 am. Tried to calm myself down n close my eyes again. By the time I opened my eyes again it was day. Never tried to lucid dream after that, and haven’t experienced a shadow person since then either

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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

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.

The house I grew up in was haunted. It was on 10 acres of dense forest in southeast michigan. We have no idea why it was haunted as it was a brand new house. Built for us to move into. But it was a hotbed of weird things. Mostly noises but every once in a while we'd see things. I remember a few occasions I saw a shadow person. It was always male. It stood somewhere between 5'8 and 6'10. It stood in the corner of my room by the door every time. I always had my door closed at night so it wasn't someone standing in the hallway. I'm not sure if it meant me harm, but I was never at ease with it around. A couple times I felt like I might be in danger, but it never really moved much. If it did move, it moved like it was maybe shifting its weight. It would only be there for a few seconds. It wasn't sleep paralysis because I was able to sit up in bed, but I didn't dare get out of bed. It would just stand there, looking at me for usually not more than a minute. Most of the time after a few seconds of it being there, I'd turn my head or close my eyes real hard and when I looked back at where it was it was gone. I saw it maybe a total of 5 or 6 times I think between the ages of 10 and 14ish. I always chalked it up to sleep deprivation as I'd have nightmares pretty frequently in that house. But after moving out of that house I stopped having nightmares and I stopped experiencing paranormal stuff

I 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.

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The only times I've had a shadow person experience have been related to sleep paralysis. I *have* however had that creeping dread that something is watching me from the dark when I'm outside at night; I just never saw anything identifiable with that sensation

I’ve never seen the hat man but back in ninth grade I was having trouble with seeing shadowy figures. Idk what they were but I do believe I was possessed by one after having a horrible nightmare. They started showing up very often after that

I saw shadow people as a kid (4-8?), confided in my dad, and he told me he saw them as a kid too (ostensibly to assure me it was just childhood imagination, but that's not how I took it). I don't recall any hats or eyes, just plain silhouettes, maybe with a trench coat (wide, ill-defined, lower half) and always inside. They persisted when I stared at them and they horrified me, but I felt compelled to go towards them. As an adult, I tend to see strange shadows, but not people, when sleep deprived and/or over-caffeinated. It's mostly the darkness from the other side of a door appearing to reach into the lit room in a vaguely finger-esque shape or out-of-place moving shadow blobs in my periphery (often where the wall meets the floor or ceiling). Edit: There were a handful of times in my late teenage years when I would see or hear people (not necessarily shadows) in my periphery or in the next room. However, this was exclusively when very tired and working alone in a creepy place late at night (poor lighting, lots of local-legendary deaths on the property, surrounded by forest...) I would often be in this position because beyond the general air of creepiness, there were also regular creeps so I couldn't very well refuse to close up in place of female colleagues.