I guess I just can't get past the idea that at some point this supernatural being would've had to have bought his hat from somewhere (possibly a hat outlet mall), trying on several hats until it found the correct size and hat style it was most fond of, then paid with the legal tender of it's dimension, and finally at last, it was ready to set off on it's mission to casually watch humans sleep.
@@joshkardos1673 or from random loot chest. Or a supply drop. Or maybe he even crafted from mats that he farmed in thr overworld. Maybe if felt made of humans
me who is an unironic trenchcoat enjoyer (many of mine are designer coats my uncle gave me lmao) and tbh fucking tired of the stereotypes LMAO they’re just long coats it’s not a big deal.
Does anyone else remember the stranger danger PSA's? His image was pounded into our heads as children. The shared hallucinations may be from our subconscious dredging up old feelings and imagery to warn that we are in fact in danger. In a sense that something isn't right with our bodies at that time.
Goes way back beyond that though. As someone who has this dreams with out a man in hat, or by self inducing dreams. I just sleep and constantly have this happen. Rather just a shadow, silhouette, or a presence that’s induces dread or a phobia. The Strangest dream I’ve had is when it once caught me, and the; white, warmth… And I woke up feeling refreshed and comforted. In only 5 minutes of sleep.
YES! As a child I thought the fedora wearing trench-coated hatman in my dreams was just me mistaking some malevolent nightfigure for the guy on the neighborhood watch signs. I musta been four or five when I finally realized that-everything clicked and those annoying night terrors of being abandoned in the desert by a silent faceless minivan driver arrayed like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca stopped. Kinda weird how so many of us have the same figure showing up in our nightmares largely because of Public Works & Roads Departments and homeowners associations
As someone who fell down the DPH rabbit hole for two years and basically lost those two years to sleep and medicine abuse, it really is no joke. I thankfully never went over 450mg of the stuff, but even then was pretty dangerous. I saw the hat man one time when under the effects of the drug, he basically stood across the room and then lunged at me causing me to jump out of bed in a panic. I also commonly saw black tendrils and giant black bugs. Once I saw a strange dogman creature I can't properly describe. I'm thankful I managed to quit that nonsense back in 2018 before I got too deep into it. I basically don't remember those two years and it was almost impossible to sleep peacefully for months while quitting. I recommend no one ever get involved with Dph beyond it's intended usage, but I've sworn it off all together. It's interesting how our minds create these beings. There's a notable example of the the hat man in the PlayStation one game "LSD Dream Simulator", in which the hat man can sometimes appear and forcefully wake you up. The game was based off of the creators own dreams. Additionally, I always enjoy this content so I'll back what I can on Patreon. I know it won't be much but I hope it helps you continue making quality videos.
You say you’ve seen a dog man creature? I don’t know if perhaps we saw something similar. This was during a period where I was purposely deprive myself of sleep. I was exhausted but had woke up and MOVED AROUND - I saw this humanoid creature disjointedly walk towards me. All I knew was I could let it touch me or I’d die. So I ran to the farthest light from it. Instantly felt better with the bright lights and passed out. Woke a few moments later. Smoked some weed. Had my ex bf come over. And saw the hat man.
This video scared the shit out of me. I have chronic pain and on bad days I try to sleep through what I can. I use DPH as an OCT sleep aid, and I had no idea it was this dangerous. I'm typically resistant to drugs of any kind (which is fun because I need much more potent painkillers and it's hard to get them to give you fuckin' tylenol with codeine with the opiate epidemic going on) and DPH is no different. I just moved up from 150 to 200mg because increasing resistance meant 150 wasn't knocking me out anymore. I'm not using it to get high or hallucinate or any of that, just what it's being legally sold to do, but this is still pretty terrifying to see. Unfortunately I don't see a doctor for another 2 months before I can ask for a prescription sleeping pill instead. =/
when I was a kid, that was me with xfiles and alien/UFO related dreams. then again some of those scenarios were extremely specific. lol it was a weird time
When I was in high school, I experienced anxiety about a few reoccurring dreams I was having during my teenage years, until I did a Research Term Paper on Dream Interpretation and Analysis. The term paper came with instructions to have several different cites sources, including at least three live interviews as well as five establishes sources of current and classic literature related to the topic. I interviewed a Native Shaman from the Ibapah Native Reservation (Goshutes), a Modern Tarot Card/Palm Reader & Dream Symbolism Interpreter, and a Licensed Psychologist. This research uncovered so much insight into the symbolism of dreams and their correlation to my Waking Life stresses. This research also gave me medical insights to sleep paralysis and the chemicals in our body which cause those sensations. The natives spoke about the "In-Between State", a sleep-phase between falling asleep and REM, when they believe we are in tune with our ancestors and a higher power for guidance through many life lessons. Through the process of this Research Term Paper, I gained so much insight into my own life and the way that my stress and joy expressed itself in my sleep stages. It also gave me useful information about the foods and drinks I consume, in relation to the time proximity to sleep, and how those chemicals can manifest and change the nature of my sleep and dream experience. I no longer suffer from anxiety, especially when in relation to things that happened during the sleep process. I no longer have night terrors, nor recurring dreams with negative connotations. I can now lucid dream, taking charge of a dream heading in a negative direction and steer it into a very peaceful and positive overtone.
I used to get sleep paralysis once a month when i was in my late teens used to terrify me. it's rare now maybe twice a year . I used to wake unable to scream or move and the feeling of dread is off the charts. I would love to know how much adrenaline courses through the body when this occurs. Now when I come out of it I try and get back into it lol. It would be nice to know what happens if I let it play through. Take care ppl.
Heisenberg. It’s just Heisenberg. Saw it back in the 90’s as a youth. Definitely freaked me out, and I was wide awake in my kitchen during the afternoon.
I never had seen The Hat Man, but I did saw a "shadow person" once. I saw a completely black naked human figure with small glowing white pupils climbing on my window once. It was about 4 am during early summer so the sun was already starting to shine. I saw it very clearly, it walked on my window as if the gravitation was reversed and then it bowed "down" and looked straight into my face. My whole room had this weird green glow lighting it up slightly. I could not move and for a while i struggled to break free. When I did, I heard a loud crack and everything went back to normal. Could not sleep well for 2 nights after that. That was the only sleep paralysis I have ever experienced in my life and honestly it felt demonic in nature.
First time I experienced sleep paralysis, I saw 4 “shadow people” shaped like gray aliens hovering over me on the right side of my bed. I legit thought I was visited by aliens for about 15 minutes, until I googled “can’t move tingly feeling sleep hallucinations” lol
back in like 2004, well before I knew this phenomenon had a name, I saw the hat man. I called him the business man, because of his nice hat, long button up suit and briefcase in his hand. he was darker than the dark in my room. like a black holes center. it made the shadows in my room look well lit. he didn't have the glowing eyes or whatever. just business attire. from what I could make of it. he didn't disappear right after, in fact from time to time I still see him. he never left.
Me too.i saw this kind of beeings.i always thought this was the men in black cause i saw 5 of them ywars ago.....their looked like buissness men.i called them men in black.
Anything you think is true and it comes from 4chan or anything like that go and do some research and you will be surprised how many of these true stories originate from 4chann. And people see things like this because of suggestions then all of a sudden they see it.
Sleep paralysis is genuinely the most frightening thing I've ever experienced. The problem with sleep paralysis is that you're not completely asleep, nor are you awake. And in that manner, you get the worst of both worlds. You are awake enough to realize that you can't move, and you're asleep enough to experience nightmares-which seem very, very real because you ARE partially awake. Imagine lying in your bed as though you were awake; everything is as it should be. Then a nightmare begins. It looks real because some of it IS real. And if I'm being honest, the most frightening thing about it is the fear that it's going to happen again.
Couldn’t agree more. The thing is that the fear is all encompassing as if in the very presence of hell. You can’t convince yourself that you were dreaming at all because, as you said, you’re actually awake.
When I get it (often) I am fully conscious and have to fight out of it ,it's like trying to move if your muscles are 1000% exhausted. I have sinus issue and I woke up in SP and couldn't breath through my nose completely blocked up and couldn't open my mouth worse experience ever
i had this happen to me once. it was even crazier because it was daylight and i have shitty blinds so my room was totally lit up, there was no guessing wether i was awake or not, i could see my surrounding perfectly and i was wide awake. only thing was, i couldnt move. a ghost like figure appeared over top of me and pointing a gun to my head. i was trying to scream with every part of my being and not a peep came out. absolutely the most terrifying thing thats ever happened to me. i still wonder to this day wether it was just my mind playing tricks on me or if there was something deeper to it.
Hey, I'm Hmong and I never knew that was common in us. I've never experienced sleep paralysis could be because I've never grew up practicing Shamanism. I'm really glad you gave us mention because not many people know about us. Shamanism is a big part of our culture and worshipping spirits is too. Also the way you pronounce dab tsog is not like "dab sog" but "dah chaw". It's spelt like that because Hmong is a tonal language and uses different tones to apply meanings to words. One word could a dozen different meanings based on how your tone of voice is. There is no Hmong alphabet so we adopted the English alphabet to create those tones in writing.
I have never heard of him until this video but I clicked because the thumbnail shocked me so badly. I saw him over 20 years ago exactly as everyone is describing him. A shadow man in a flat brimmed hat with red eyes. Just staring up at me while I was sleeping on my bunk bed. With a feeling of terrible dread. Now I just found out over 20 years later that many people have seen him, this blows my mind as I've told myself all these years it was my imagination. I thought it was just me. Now I'm more inclined to think he was really there and not some night time illusion.
I see a moving shadow. Somehow in the black of night I can still see it in moving around in my room. Sometimes slow and menacing, sometimes quick and frenetic. I also see it whenever I open ANYTHING AT ALL IN THE KITCHEN The shadow is my cat
I was awake when I saw something similar. Just getting dressed. It was a man, yes with a hat, but the thing that weirded me out was what else he was wearing. He was wearing a business suit under a long, heavy canvas overcoat that wasn't buttoned closed. And he had thick, heavy, too-long arms. The impression I got in the half-second I saw him was that he had been buried in the suit, so he couldn't take it off, but the overcoat and hat are what he would have normally worn, so he wore those on top. No face. He was hunched over and shuffling between me and my boyfriend in our dark bedroom, heading towards our door. It's not he tried to attack us, but...I felt like he was just going about his business, and would have gotten angry if anyone interefered.
That’s interesting. I haven’t heard about long arms before. The one I saw was squatting in the corner under a mirror like it was trying to hide and it wasn’t that late maybe even day but I came in the front door and there it was so I wasn’t t tired , or just woken. I was wide awake .
I feel like there is definitely an archetypal element to it, but at the same time you may have a percentage of the population who have hyperfocused on the idea of the hat man, already predisposed to sleep paralysis, and the hat man is a manifestation of their thoughts.
No, I had a friend at work ( an older gentleman) who never heard of this. We were talking about paranormal stuff at lunch, said he was on the couch watching t.v when he saw a tall dark shadow with a hat walked out his washroom and into his elderly mother's room.
There’s another common figure- a “cloaked” figure- that I saw during sleep paralysis. I had no prior knowledge of anything related to this and still had the exact same hallucination as the drawings I found online. When I “woke up” from that experience, I was 100% convinced I was attacked by something and even went to the mirror to check for bite marks (apparently my shadow dude was a vampire? Who the fuck knows). That happened when I was ~12, and these days I don’t really believe in the supernatural all that much, but sometimes I think about my experiences with sleep paralysis and wonder. I imagine it’s still some unknown psychological phenomena, at least I hope it is.
It's called an egregor. And yes, if you focus on something you will likely see what your thoughts are focused on. Nothing mysterious here. It's more like auto subjectivity. If they focused to see a lady with a red umbrella, they would see this instead as it exists only in their own minds. You know you can put someone in hypnosis and if you suggest they've been burnt with a cigarette, but only touch them with a pencil, the body will develop cloak and burns? The brain is a powerful tool.
I want to believe what you're saying is correct. But I saw this figure. I'm not one who has sleep paralysis, I don't have vivid dreams or nightmares. And I had never heard of the hatman before. In fact, it was about two or so years after I saw him that I was researching it and found information on it. One night I opened my eyes from a dead sleep to see him standing against a wall. I closed my eyes and went back to sleep. The clothes were textured, he was as tall as the ceiling. When recalling it afterward I had a certain feeling that I wasn't supposed to see it, it "wasn't for me".
Seeing things like this has always been a thing, and as the idea spreads other people imagine they see things. Even before this hatman, it was something else. Even when awake, you can see things in the corner of your eye. Now that it's popular, everyone is saying they saw it, years ago, everyone saw something else. But whatever is popular people will say they saw it many years ago but only now people are posting about it? It's the hip thing. It's a cool story and all, bit cheesy though.
my coworker was telling a ghost story and she started to describe a shadow standing over her and I had a feeling and just said “was it wearing a hat?” and she went white. Turns out it has been. always bugged us ever since.
[tw] the dph stuff is so scary. i feel really lucky for not falling for heavy use since i too used some allergy medication when i was having too bad depressive episodes, but just enough to be unconscious and prevent harming or ending myself for some time. i do see how this can go wrong so easily and at the same time its hard to talk about since i dont believe people would take it seriously. my problem was definitely with mental illness tho, and even if i still have some struggles, ive gotten treatment and am doing way better. just wishing for everyone here to take care and be well if youre also struggling. kinda random since this is about the hat man but anyway. big hugs
First time i saw the hat man was 2008. I was 3 years old and drank hydroxizine without parental guidence. I allmost died. I tripped the hell out at the hospital, and exited my body. I saw my grandpa praying at the foot of my bed, and in the corner was the hatman. Wierdy i feel like he protected me. After my grandpa started praying the foot of my bed I got better.
As a hmong person being born and raised in America, this is my first time time hearing of "dab tsog" and the symptoms you explained feeling like your chest is being crushed and having the air sucked out of you is exactly something I experienced as a child when I had sleep paralysis it almost felt like my I was being crushed In a vice and at times I would think I was gonna die from the pressure but I would thankfully fall back to sleep and wake up the next day but during those childhood days I would be so afraid of sleeping I would stay up all through the night because of fear of what would happen during the night. Thankfully, as I grew up, I stopped having sleep paralysis but hearing you mention the things "dab tsog" would do sent me back to those times.
Sucks to be so disconnected from your native culture doesn't it. I remember having to learn about things from German folklore as an adult, because they don't talk about German folklore in the US. The US is a cultural black hole.
One of my earliest memories is seeing the hat man. I was just a toddler and my mom was feeding me, in a rocking chair, with a window to her back. I said "What man doing?" My mom freaked out and called my dad at work. She still tells the story to this day. I never saw the hat man again.
When I was in high school, I experienced anxiety about a few reoccurring dreams I was having during my teenage years, until I did a Research Term Paper on Dream Interpretation and Analysis. The term paper came with instructions to have several different cites sources, including at least three live interviews as well as five establishes sources of current and classic literature related to the topic. I interviewed a Native Shaman from the Ibapah Native Reservation (Goshutes), a Modern Tarot Card/Palm Reader & Dream Symbolism Interpreter, and a Licensed Psychologist. This research uncovered so much insight into the symbolism of dreams and their correlation to my Waking Life stresses. This research also gave me medical insights to sleep paralysis and the chemicals in our body which cause those sensations. The natives spoke about the "In-Between State", a sleep-phase between falling asleep and REM, when they believe we are in tune with our ancestors and a higher power for guidance through many life lessons. Through the process of this Research Term Paper, I gained so much insight into my own life and the way that my stress and joy expressed itself in my sleep stages. It also gave me useful information about the foods and drinks I consume, in relation to the time proximity to sleep, and how those chemicals can manifest and change the nature of my sleep and dream experience. I no longer suffer from anxiety, especially when in relation to things that happened during the sleep process. I no longer have night terrors, nor recurring dreams with negative connotations. I can now lucid dream, taking charge of a dream heading in a negative direction and steer it into a very peaceful and positive overtone.
Hypnagogic hallucinations are so fascinating! Just last night as I was falling asleep I suddenly jolted awake and as I opened my eyes and looked up at the ceiling I saw a small, black, imp-like figure with horns and yellow eyes stare at me from the edge of the lamp. It retreated to hide inside the lamp shade the second I noticed it.
I often wake up just before dawn breaks when its still dark and see what looks like a spider with weird long legs crawling on the wall, where ever i happen to look, in the split second from calmly waking up seeing it and being jolted awake it gets bigger to the point it takes up the whole wall then disappears once I'm fully awake, I've been noticing it the past two years now not a huge deal, but seeing this comment reminded me of it
@@stag6161 used to see spiders everywhere when I was prescribed Benadryl and/or trazadone. My god trazadone is a night terror intensifier. I’ll go crazy from lack of sleep before I ever ingest either of those chemicals again.
Imagine in some other dimension, a single man has the job of researching weird phenomena. People report to him that in their homes, they see weird shadows that walk around their homes and eventually lie down in a certain area of the house and stay there for a while every day. He throws on his coat and hat and makes his way to the homes of these poor people. Waits around witnessing strange phenomenon with them and when the shadow lies down he and the others get real close to study and test what these weird shadows could be. After a short while studying the shadow they always sit up and vanish. This poor man is no closer to solving this oddity than he was 200 years ago, or 20 years in his dimension. But he continues on ever vigilant.
Met him once while I was walking. My dog dog won't go anywhere near him. The ridiculousness the situation didn't hit me until after was stood in the rain in a random village in the middle of nowhere
My mom dealt with the Hat Man when she was a kid back in the 60's and 70's on a regular basis. She saw a lot of spirits, but Hat Man was the only one that had no details and no face. Once day, she asked him "why do the others have a face and you don't?" She said that it stood there for a second before a face appeared on the black mass, and then it started rapidly changing through several faces; male, female, young and old. She said that he went from being something that just creeped her out more than the other spirits, to something utterly terrifying. Now, Hat Man had a face, several of them, every time he appeared, and the faces would be angrier and angrier every time she saw him. Eventually, he went away as she got older, just as the other spirits did, but he stuck around the longest of all of them. Skip forward to the mid 2000's; my mom, dad, aunt, and younger sister decided to play with a Ouija board while I wanted nothing to do with the thing. A short time after that night, my sister and her friend were having a sleep over, and her friend suddenly got really quiet. When my sister asked her what was wrong, she pointed over to the far wall of the room where there was a dark shadow that looked like the profile of a man's face wearing a wide-brimmed hat. It appeared like the man was talking, but they didn't hear anything. They screamed and ran out of the room and spent the night on the floor of my parent's room; folks just thought they watched a scary movie even though they weren't supposed to and got scared. The next morning, the two of them went back into my sister's room and started looking around for anything that could have made that shadow, but they couldn't find anything that they thought could make that shape. So began the near decade of torment my sister, and later, I, had to deal with. This thing knocked on the inside of the walls, stomped around heavily in the attic, appear out the corner of our eye during the day, be there more blatantly at night, breathe on the back of our necks, whisper in our ears, break things/twist metal, and mimic voices (once, my sister heard our parents down in the kitchen, only to go down there and find it empty; called our parents and they were on the other side of town. Once, my folks heard my aunt who was living with us arguing with me down in the den, only to find that there was no one there. Called me, and I was about a mile away on a walk and my aunt was still at work. It had started with my sister, moved on to torment me as well, and was starting to make itself known to my parents. My mom saged our bedrooms to placate us because she was sick of my sister sleeping on the floor in their room every night, and it did seem to at least keep it out of our space, but she didn't sage the rest of our house because my dad thought it was stupid and only agreed to our rooms for the same reason my mom did. One day, I got so sick of it. I was about 16ish, and I was home alone because my aunt no longer lived with us, my parents were out grocery shopping and my sister was at her friend's house. I was in the bathroom when I heard the sounds of someone shuffling back and forth in the hallway just outside the door. I was too scare to leave, so I was stuck in there for about 15 minutes before it stopped. When it stopped, I threw the door open and made a beeline for my room, but I heard it walking behind me. At that moment, I had had it; I spun around (seeing nothing, but feeling it there) and screamed at it as loud as I could "I DON'T KNOW WHO OR WHAT THE F*CK YOU THINK YOU ARE, BUT I'M DONE WITH YOUR BULLSH*T! YOU HEAR THAT!? I! AM! DONE! YOU ARE NO LONGER WELCOME HERE! GET OUT! GET OUT!! GET THE F*CK OUT!! IT'S OVER! I'M NOT GIVING YOU ANY MORE ATTENTION! YOU HAVE NO POWER!" It stuck around for a while after that, but any time it tried anything, I got angry instead of scared, and I told my sister to do the same. Either yell at it or ignore it. At night, when I would hear it shuffling or knocking on walls out sider my room when I was trying to sleep, I would yell at it to "BE QUIET!" before grabbing my ipod , poping in my earbuds, and turning over to face the wall. Eventually, with no more fear to prey on, it seems to have left. Something still tries to come back every now and again, but I just wait until my parents are gone on a trip and sage the whole house while yelling at all negative entities to get the hell out, and it seems to do the trick; though last time it didn't seem to have the same effect, so I'm gearing up to try again with more than just sage this time. Edit to add that we had not heard my mom's story until several years after the issues started, we hadn't known about the Hat Man from the internet yet since we were too young to really be allowed to do much online and only found out we weren't the only ones seeing this thing until we got older, and obviously mom hadn't known about the Hat Man before since the internet didn't exist back when she was a kid
These are the types of stories that make dismissing the idea of spirits impossible. Actual chills reading this, I hope you and your family are doing better now :)
These things play by elaborate rules that we were not meant to understand or pry into. Sage might work temporarily, God knows why, but it's a bandaid, not a cure. The only thing guaranteed to keep demons away is the blood of Christ on the doorposts of a house. He conquered these spirits on the cross. If you call upon His name, even as an unbeliever, He may be gracious enough to break this spirit's hold on you. But then turn from your sins and be baptized, or He'll break you too when He judges the earth.
I had never heard of the hat man before I had an experience with him. I saw him one night while I was in bed, my ex boyfriend was lying right next to me and I couldn’t move so it was like a sleep paralysis thing. I saw a tall man with a brimmed hat, and he reached out to me. I told my friends about it not long after, and one of them replied “oh, you mean you saw the hat man?” And then I fell down a research rabbit hole 😂 I have heard all the scientific explanations about it, but it’s hard to believe it wasn’t something paranormal when I think back on the night I saw him.
The human brain is a disaster. You know that Bloody Mary game that involves staring at a mirror? You know why it's persisted for hundreds of years? Because it works. You stare at an unmoving picture (in this case, a bathroom mirror) for too long and your brain gets "bored" and starts to hallucinate. And it's usually something that would make HP Lovecraft piss himself. It's why security guards who have to stare at a monitor picture that rarely changes (i.e. people or whatever rarely walk through) are told to rest their eyes or look around every now and again. Because they stare at the monitor of an empty floor for a half hour and their brain starts going "hey, I wonder what your loved ones would look like without their skin?"
I've seen the Hat Man handfuls of times. he's always standing right next to my bed, looking over me. I've heard you see him because you feel a threatening presence in your normal waking life.
I experienced the hat man. Although initially I was afraid, i ultimately had a pleasant experience with him. We even spoke and he offered me an overwhelmed sense of reassurance. He actually changed my life for the better. I often wonder if others eho have experienced him, were going through a particularly difficult time in their lives? Perhaps at a crossroads, not knowing which path to take? I also wonder if their outcomes would be positive and fears subside, if they attempted to open verbal communication with this being???
My experiences with hat man were varied. Sometimes he scared me but at time I felt as though he were there to comfort or warn me. I’m torn between him being good or bad if he even is either. I felt selected by him to visit. Like he was seeking me or me him….I saw him from age 12-27. Haven’t seen him since. I’m 34
I got a theory about hatman. You know the neighborhood watch logo? It's usually a threatening figure in a hat being crossed out. So it becomes a chicken and an egg question. Did people see hatman before in the past and made him a mascot for stranger-danger? Or is the neighborhood watch sign so intimidating, it's able to etch itself deep into our psyche - just like creepy clowns do? Especially since people do report seeing police very often too, maybe it's the combination of guilt, confusion and feeling of being a stranger in your own house (or seeing strangers) that triggers that image?
naaah I have seen the hatman two times and never knew the neighborhood watch logo. Im from EU. The first time I saw him was the most terrifying. I knew he was waiting for me outside the bathroom and I stayed there for at least 30 minutes. I was in a small panic attack after smoking weed. The fear was real. Another time I saw him standing next to my bed looking at me when I was about to sleep. Its worldwide symbol, probably an archetype. I never knew other people saw him until I fell upon a random article on the net.
I'm from the UK, and we have a completely different neighbourhood watch logo, only saw the US one because of this comment, but I and others have seen similar things to the hatman in the UK.
I cannot find a single person who has had an experience similar to mine. Lemme start by saying I’ve only ever had sleep paralysis once. And the thing I saw had a normal body, but a smooth 5-sided diamond shaped head with only one big eye in the middle. It just stood there and then kinda phased into my corner. It was super weird
I think shared hallucinations come from ancient genetic memories that only the subconscious can access. Other shared hallucinations include spiders and snakes, two things we definitely have genetic memory about going back to the stone age. The fedora itself may be a relatively new form of hat, however the overall all shape you would see in a silhouette, is common to msny forms if hat going back a very long time (at least in the west). For example, imagery of plague doctors suggest a similar hat shape was around since the plague. There's also a traditional religious sect that wore a hat similar to the plague doctor hat as fat back as the middle ages as well, perhaps further back. Long trenchcoat like clothing has existed since the middle ages as well. Long arming jackets, gambeson, doublets, robes, etc. Later the progenitor of the trenchcoat existed in the 17th and 18th centuries as Frocks and Greatcoats. I haven't researched the mechanical elves hallucinations enough to decide if it fits into this category.
you no this is the one thing i have seen in like 92 in the corner of the room and i wasent asleep or comming out of sleep what sticks out to me was his hat years later i see this thing on internet i cant explaine that
My ex-wife, before I ever knew her, told me that she had a period of time where at night she would see a man standing next to her in bed, and she was in a paralysis-like state. I think she said though that she was pretty sure she was dreaming, but she had to wear an eye-mask to bed and when she would continue to see him even with the eye mask on, that's how she confirm that she was actually dreaming and she got past it. When we had our baby, sometime it would seem that she looked in the corner of the room on my ex's side of the bed in the spot where he would have been standing. For a second I thought about telling my ex about this video but I think I'll just let her have her peace.
If she didn’t cheat, get back with her. Thats the mother of your child bro, yall need to be together in a healthy loving relationship until the kid is grown
I occasionally wake up in the middle of the night in a blind panic, certain there is someone in my room, and usually seeing an all black outline of a person. It's not sleep paralysis, because I can move, and usually throw my blanket at the figure, or scramble to turn on my light. It's always a male presence, not sure why but I can just tell.
It's the Nalusa Falaya. Down here in the louisiana backwoods and bayoucountry, it's been wandering, watching , slinking, and stalking men since mankind made this stormswept swampland here his home.
Some have proposed that the Hat Man's appearance may be the result of the Nightmare on Elm Street videos. These were prolific and popular horror movies about a villainous entity that sought victims on the edges of sleep, similar to the Hat Man.
I was born before the nightmare on elm street franchise, and experiencing the hat man fairly regularly. The character of Freddy was inspired by the wave of adult sleep death of Hmong immigrants. Some saying they were afraid of of a shadow person that was stalking their dreams. (Likely sleep apnea induced hallucinations of a similar quality and symptomology and yes many included a figure wearing what seemed to be a hat and cape or long coat.)
@@JSLeeds That's right! I remember hearing about that. Weird. If you like Nightmare on Elm Street but wish it was stupider, try Freddy's Nightmares. It's kind of a little pervy too! Lol!
It's just a night terror, right? Or am I missing something? Many people with PTSD, myself included, have night terrors and they seem incredibly real when they occur. Add the benedryl and I can see how the Hat Man could seem real. I never saw the Hat Man in my night terrors but I did see the Bun Lady.
This sounds a lot like the Gray man figure who pops up in the game LSD Dream Emulator, who also wears a trench-coat & has a gray brimmed hat as well. The game was based upon dreams the designer had when he was keeping a dream journal, so he had encountered an extremely similar figure.
The Dab Tsog sounds a lot like a nightmare- Like the actual first definitions of a nightmare, being a creature that sits on your chest until you suffocate.
Before I ever had access to the internet, my mother has been recalling a story to me about seeing a tall pitch black figure with a wide brimmed hat and long jacket that she had seen following my eldest brother around as he rode his tricycle on the porch, when he was a toddler. My mom said she didn’t panic, just observed the hat man as he followed behind, floating. We are from the Caribbean, btw. At that time and even when I was on the internet for some time, I had never heard another account of the hat man til recently.
He’s an interesting figure... he’s a gatekeeper between the land of the living and the dead, he stands on crossroads. Very creepy he was following a little boy on a bicycle. I’m not sure if he’s evil but he’s scary….
i saw it when I was about 21-22 years old this would of been around 2001-2002. I had never heard about it before. It only happened once. I was in the bedroom sleeping next to my wife at the time. It stood in the door way. There must of been some ambiant light because i could only see a silhouette. It was very scary and I was paralyzed. This happened on 5th street in Port Angeles WA.
Listen.. I had heard of shadow people before my experience but, I had Never heard of the Hat Man. When I saw him, I was NOT paralyzed. He’s just like they say.. blacker than black, glowing fire eyes, a very wide brim hat and an overwhelming, feeling of maliciousness. When he disappeared for me, though he didn’t really disappear. He didn’t fade away or vanish. It’s extremely hard to explain what I intuitively understood about his departure.. it was like he had always been there and then suddenly as if he had never been there. Like the difference between existing and not existing. Does that make sense?!? 🤔 Anyway, I was an atheist before I saw the Hat Man. Now I believe in existence ,beyond.. P.S. I think, the Hat Man in particular, really does feed on misery and self destruction.
We might as well share the same consciousness, because my experience was everything you just described. How he was always there & then just disappears but theres something about the way he left. Almost like he reveals himself to you for a second as like a tease. Freaky…
I am not sure if I have ever seen the Hat Man, but I've experienced sleep paralysis probably hundreds of times. When I was 4, my grandparents had this old cowboy statue and it always creeped me out. I'd stare at it all the time. Probably just my imagination but I dreamt of sitting on the box TV behind and above it before it turned its head around 180° to face me and talk to me, and I also remember being in my room in the dark and seeing the outline of a man in a brimmed hat before. I thought it was the cowboy statue back then but maybe it was the Hat Man. I never do open my eyes, but I feel them tickling me and hear different voices. Sometimes they will be people I know coming in my room. A few times a demon with a deep Scottish accent has yelled at me to wake up in a mocking tone. I haven't ever found any records of a Scottish demon visiting people. My ancestry is English and possibly Scottish, so maybe it hates me?? The one time I have opened my eyes during sleep paralysis, I have seen a dark black and red portal. Think the gloom or malice from the Zelda games, only this was before the recent ones came out. I felt pure evil coming from that black and red void.
When i was very young id see a figure with a top hat standing outside my bedroom door in the middle of the night , it happened multiple times. I remember it vividly. It was a shadow, i couldnt see any features, just a tall figure with a top hat. I could move though, so everytime id hide under my blanket and wait till it went away or i was eventually able to fall back asleep
Saw them once when I was younger, had a nightmare being in like a Mario 64 Hell with the fireball image surrounding me but instead it was bloody Mario. Forced myself to awake up, to then go into sleep paralysis, saw him as a shadow on the wall. Creepy Night.
BRO, brilliant work. You provided a balanced and analytical investigation of this phenomenon, 'he' is getting a lot of attention at the moment, it's creepy.
I hate how skeptics always try to explain everything away with science like Sleep Paralysis, if it’s a waking nightmare , why do majority of people see the exact same figures, and why specifically demonic/extraterrestrial figures, why not some shit like SpongeBob or less scary figures
It's wasn't memetic to me. I saw it in 2002 and we had no internet in the house or any exposure to this story. I saw him at the foot of my bed, then didn't think about it for YEARS until i found an article in 2012 that had a drawing of what I saw. And this hat guy seems to be seen all around the world, in almost all cultures and spiritual beliefs; the same image. I saw 0:37 and 0:40. And no, I have never taken Benadryl.
this is freaking me out so bad because ive never seen him but when i experienced sleep paralysis at 18 i heard a voice calling itself the hat man n seeing these weird yellow body bags piling up. i wasn't under the influence of anything, but its so freaky knowing that there are common hallucinations that so many people experience, mine wasn't even visual but still somehow referenced the same figure.
i think its so weird when people experience the same hallucination. everyone says its hysteria or because they already knew about it beforehand. but what about those that never knew about the hat man?? or were never on meds or aren’t mentally or whatever. what then?
@@natabugg1enever saw the hat man but had so many sleep paralysis. Sometimes there's nothing evil and I'm the only one in my room. I now think it's entities, because whenever I start praying when something evil is trying to get to me, it disappears instantly. And I'm not even a religious person...
I’m not the most experienced with stuff like this, but my guess is that it’s only going to become more common. Correct me if I’m wrong but dreams all come from somewhere in your imagination or memory or just somewhere in your head. Due to the hatman gaining popularity he ends up in the memory and thoughts of more people. Then those people enter a dream, sleep paralysis etc. and this little man crawls up from the depths of your mind and now you experienced the hatman. And guess what? You posted about it. And do you know what’s gonna happen with that post? That’s right! More people are going to read it and learn about this funny little fellow, and now he’s in their minds too. The hatman spreads himself.
Great video, exactly why I love your work. Some natives have a shadow being that sticks its head out around trees too, peak/look around or something. They say its like playing peekaboo with like a kid behind a tree peaking out its head, but when it goes behind the tree it can "jump" numerous trees away without being seen moving in seconds. That reddit user was likely more of an attention seeker than anything, idk if I buy anything on those paranormal forums because there are a lot of people lying for attention. I think there is something like it that does exist but the vast majority are some form of; - Mass online hysteria or shared hallucinations, once its it your head its a pattern your mind tries to find. Somethings you see that vaguely looks like that when you're not fully focused will trigger your brain into the pattern recognition loop. - Our minds trying to make something physical in the concious world feel real in the unconcious dream world, like if you have to pee you might dream about a stream or waterfalls. If your blanket or something else feels heavy or too warm, pet moves onto your chest, or there are cases of people having dreams and shown medical problems like heart or lung problems making a tight chest. - I lean towards sleep apnea for a lot of them, low oxygen levels send you into a little bit of a scared moment so you're again tense in your dream or your body needs you to move so it scares you awake or into moving(maybe even an adrenaline trick or something). This could also be why you felt something on your chest in your dream, can't breathe so something shows up in your dream to sit on you. It could just be a genetic thing amongst those hmong people.
Thanks for this genuinely insightful comment. My dad has sleep apnea and my brother gets sleep paralysis from time to time. Think I’m going to ask him to get checked out just to be sure. I have bad dreams sometimes when I have to use the bathroom at night, haha. Like my brain scares itself awake on purpose so I don’t accidentally wet myself.
@@emakelley6807 the human brain may not ever fully be understood, and our brains send us more warnings than we know how to consciously process. I hope he gets it figured out, I couldn't imagine having sleep paralysis it just sounds terrible to wake up and not be able to move.
This isn't some internet phenomenon. This is something I saw when I was 3 years old in the mid 90s. This is something countless people across history have seen. It is Odin, it is Papa Legba, the hatman is real and though he doesn't seem to harm anyone, he is a mysterious and frankly freaky thing to behold.
Ok, this is eye opening for me. I take Benadryl every night before bed, 1. Because I do have some allergy problems, 2. I also have a sleep apnea problem, so anything that can keep my breathing passages clear is beneficial, and 3. I tend to keep a window open in my bedroom for fresh air in my terribly-circulating apartment. But Over the last 3 years since I’ve lived here, I’ve had multiple instances of waking dreams / sleep paralysis. I tend to start dreaming immediately upon falling asleep, and I sleep deeply, and many times I’ve “woken up”, only to seemingly hallucinate and see shadows, animals, and other forms of weirdness in my apartment. It didn’t occur to be until now that it might be the Benadryl that’s causing it. No I don’t take anything to excess or for a “high”, it’s strictly small dose for sleeping. But maybe I should skip it for a while and see what happens.
As a medical assistant who has seen someone take Benadryl for 2 years, I would say look for an ENT for your allergies and look at ZQuil for sleep. Benadryl caused this patient to become dependent on it to the point that it actually caused her sleep to worsen rather than improve. I hope you get better!
I saw the hat man when I was 6 years of age. My parents had just bought a new bunk bed and during the first night, I woke up in the middle of the night to see a man standing over me. He just stood still and said nothing, so I ducked under the bed covers as I was so frightened, and when I reemerged it had disappeared.... He wasn't frightening, more ominous
😢As a sufferer of chronic insomnia, Ive been taking dph for yrs after opting to stop all Rx meds for it. Taking Rx is a lifestyle - a horrible one. Bcuz my tolerance was so high, DPH didn’t work initially. But once my body continued to be sleep deprived, I slowly began getting some relief. Starting at cat naps every 3 days til a couple hours every 1-2 days. Even now, Im not guaranteed sleep every night but its farrrrrr better than no sleep at all, sometimes exceeding 4 days in a row. Its horrific to be so exhausted that u can’t think str8 and move in what seems to be slow motion the entire time. had sleep paralysis twice in my entire life and I remember both vividly. Scary af. Once as a young teen and once in my late 20’s. Both times I literally couldn’t move anything (hence paralysis) and could barely breathe, but I only saw a “creature” the first time.
I'm surprised you didn't mention during the archetypes thing, that the reason they're called "nightmares" is from these stories. Ancient stories about these sleep terrors, and how victims said they felt like they couldn't breathe because "it was like a mare was sitting on my chest." Happens at night, hence "night mare."
Hes an entity. One of evil and malice. Can find him while tripping on belladonna, when you have severe scitzophrenia, sleep paralysis, and in delirium of any cause. Peace to those who experience the hat man.
What’s interesting to me is how many people (that suffer from sleep paralysis) see the hat man. I first experienced sleep paralysis in 2015…I was told it was due to severe stress. It first started with bugs, huge bugs crawling the walls and ceiling. I would even be able to move eventually and I’d grab my pillow to ‘squish’ them. It was so real I could hear and feel them being squished. They’d even fall to the floor but when I woke up fully they weren’t there. I thought I was going crazy. Then I started seeing a man…it started with a shadow figure in the corner of my room. I would wake up, see him and feel an overwhelming sense of terror and weight on my chest. Then, every time after, he got closer and closer. He got so close that I saw the stitches in his jeans once. But he would never let me see the details of his face (it was like a black blur). However, I would see his evil grin. One night, I came to eventually and was screaming bloody murder. “There’s a man in the house!!”…My partner and I looked through the whole house, every corner and room… there was no one. This isn’t a new phenomenon… I have talked and met all kinds of people that have seen the exact same thing. I haven’t seen him since 2017; I try not to think about him. But I would love to hear other peoples stories! Side note: I was talking about it (him) in private therapy for years. I had no idea it was a phenomenon until I started talking to more people and seeing documentaries/videos on it! So it’s interesting!
I was wide awake and didn't have any sleep paralysis when I saw the hat man. I was with my ex and we both saw it at the same time. I knew she looked when I did, but I asked what she saw before I Said anything. She said she saw a dark shadow with a hat. I saw it too. We were watching TV right before we turned to see what was walking away from where we were. I didn't feel terror. I was filled with mystery and confusion.
@@mikieemiike3979wow that’s an amazing story! I’ve never seen him without experiencing sleep paralysis. So I think that’s why it feels so terrifying. You can’t move your body or even speak. As someone that struggles with OCD and PTSD that was very hard for me not being able to control my body or even scream. And it looked and felt so real; I just felt this demonic presence around him. So not being able to move to ‘protect’ myself was crazy. I hope you haven’t seen him since!
@@laurenworlton7941 That must have felt terrible. I have felt sleep paralysis also once, but I didn't see anything when it did happen I just waited it out. I can only imagine how you felt. I have seen it once after that right before my brother was killed. We both saw him, actually. This was 4 years after the first time. The second time he didn't have a hat on. I actually ran to see where it was going, but it vanished. That was in 2012. Haven't seen it since. My brother was shot for being in the wrong place at the wrong time that year. On another note, I've also seen an angelic being in 2011. I saw it touch my forehead because I was driving while having a hard time staying awake. I couldn't pull over because I didn't see a place safe enough. Out of nowhere this bright being with a smile flies to me. When it touched me I felt my whole body energize. I felt not one ounce of drowsiness. I made it home and could not sleep. All I could think about was that flowing being that I saw. I haven't seen anything since that era.
@@mikieemiike3979 wow.. thanks for sharing all that 🙏🏻 I’m sorry to hear about your brother. I also had someone tragically killed in my family (this happened in 2008). But it wasn’t the wrong place or time for my family member. My uncle ‘gunned’ down his soon to be ex-wife in a church parking lot out here in UT. It was very traumatic and it’s definitely not something you forget or get over 100%, but you learn to live with it. To your example of the hat man not having a hat on: it was the same for me. As I got more stressed, more anxious, and certain circumstances kept happening in my life, he got closer and closer. It’s like he started showing himself more, if that makes sense? But luckily I was in therapy at the time and was able to recognize what was happening and how my anxiety was feeding into it.
@@mikieemiike3979 Lastly, I grew up very religious (actually Mormon). After years and years of what I’ve gone through, I became very agnostic; almost atheist. I studied all kinds of religions, even Wicca. But I never found comfort. It wasn’t until my mother passed away in 2020 that I turned to God for comfort, but I still didn’t believe truly. I had a similar experience; but at the same time it was completely different. After that, I truly turned to whom I call ‘Papa’ now. (I’m a denominational Christian) What you had was a revelation, whether you believe it or not. God sent an angel that day to have you pull over the car… God sent that angel because He sees everything you’ve been through and he loves and cares; he didn’t want to lose you. And who knows? That might have even been your brother that God sent. I don’t know what you believe in, but what I do know is that I appreciate you sharing your story. And I also know that God shined his light down on you that day ❤️
I remember my first and only hat man encounter I had a dream of me sleeping in my bed and I heard footsteps and suddenly my covers were pulled. I woke up, obviously still covered, but unable to move, and I saw a figure form in front of my eyes I tried yelling "I'LL KILL YOU" and move but it was impossible Now I hope that consciousness doesn't continue after one's dies (or at least starts to die)
PS don’t show fear when in the presence of these entities. Even if initially you are caught off guard and have an adrenaline dump. Allowing it to turn to fear will result in being victimized by these things
The fuck it’s not. You can hold on dearly to your ideas and Belief and world view because it’s your right and this is America god damn it but I’m telling you I know it’s real and god be with you so that you never find out on your own
I have had an experience with the hat man and the old hag, and at the time had no idea what sleep paralysis even was...I do not believe science has even begun to explain this phenomena...
I like to think that the Hat Man is the accumulation of the DPH user's primordial unconscious, manifesting as an evil entity, to confront the conscious mind as if to say "why are you doing this shit you absolute buffoon lmao now im gonna spook ya"
Fr tho, the one and only time I encountered him was when i nearly overdosed on dph. He wasn't like other hallucinations either, like I'd get spooked by hallucinations of spiders or conversations with people who weren't there but when I saw the hat man it immediately actvivated my fight or flight response. Haven't messed around with that stuff since and I don't plan to again.
i painted over the shadow of a hatman on my wall..its 6 feet tall and gray painted on white walls..i thought it was cool at the time. now i feel blessed.
I know the skeptical answers aren’t as fun, but stuff like the Hat Man and sleep paralysis demons are easily explained by Pareidolia - the extremely common pattern recognition behavior of humans. Think like Rorschach tests or seeing objects in clouds. Combine that with suggestibility of being in a REM sleep state and it’s easy to see where these stories come from. That the ideas are memetic and transmissible is also linked to this. We are very suggestible, once you hear about something it is even easier to see that pattern in junk noise, and the effect is more pronounced the more you think about it. Not to say I didn’t like the video. Just found and subbed your channel and I really like your coverage and research, plus you have an excellent broadcast voice.
Explain this for me. I was asleep, but I heard footsteps on my sleep because I fell asleep on the couch. But anyways it caused me to wake up 6:00 am in the morning, so I thought my dad was getting up for work, so I look up across the hallway. But I seen a fully like humanoid shadow figure, that wasn’t on the walls and had 3-d shape like we do. And it moved its head tilting, like it was intrigued to be watching my presence. But I was frozen in fear, I literally couldn’t move a muscle because my adrenaline was at the highest it’s ever been before. It took everything I had in my body to grab the courage to finally turn the lights on, and just like that it vanished. At first, I didn’t think anything paranormal, I thought someone broke in. But the fact it literally just “vanished” the second the lights were turn on was something so surreal, I don’t think I human mind is capable of creating something so realistic like that. But then again our minds are limitless to what it can create, and we barley know about things our subconscious can really do. I don’t know is very intriguing to this day, what it could of been because I wasn’t “dreaming” neither. This was happening right in the moment.
@@tylerhartley5031 you have an active imagination and likely a high spatial IQ. You have the ability to imagine 3d objects and turn them in your mind, which many people do not. It was a part of your imagine and the stimulation of the amygdala, causing the adrenaline rush. It isn’t real beyond your mind.
I've been bingeing your videos all freaking day. I love your content and the way you produce and present it; I'm looking forward to seeing more. Your channel is criminally underrated, dude.
I had no idea Benadryl could be addictive. I remember kids talking about tripping on Benadryl in highschool in the late 90's but they'd get laughed at cause it wasn't a "real" drug. That belittling thankfully keep it's usage low until the opioid boom when people start taking Benadryl as a kicker for oxycodone. It's amazing what people will consume to high.
In the 1990s, sleeping in a hotel during a business trip, I made this experience. A Hat Man, sleep paralysis. I had not heard before of this phenomenon. The Hat Man appeared to me as a person (as in the pictures in the video) and in some way iI thought it was my father (who was still alive at this time). I construed this as a fake or disguise by the creature. So I fought against it with my will and - sleep paralysis - by trying to roll out of the bed. When I finally fell on the floor, the spook was over. If this was a product of my brain, ok. If not, the Hat Man must have known my father to mimic him. Never saw him again. May be he did not like my resistance. Great video, Pandox. Can give you only one thumb up, you deserve more.
The most frightening sleep paralysis case for me was some black distorted orb in the corner of the room that brought me to a very ominous state of being after death. I liken it to be stared at by the grim reaper.
I once thought i had woken up and had Hatman standing at the foot of my bed. I was frozen in fear,paralyzed. He just stood there motionless forever it seemed. After like probably 2-3 minutes and not a sound or movement I finally got brave enough too move and i sat up a, focused eyes better as they were now adjusting to darkness. And that when I realized it was my vacuum cleaner that I had forgot i threw a blanket over and had put my dad's cowboy hat on top of earlier that day as I was moving stuff around and cleaning. I never felt so relieved and stupid at the same time. 😥
I think hat men are ghosts from the past, if you look at footage from the 30's, 40's, it's hard to find someone not wearing a hat,if a man walked out of his house his hat was worn, always.
