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They are not ghosts, spirits, nightmare hags or creatures. They are dark, humanoid shapes that appear at bedsides at night, and other locations. Sometimes they appear during the daylight. They seem to possess independent intelligence and awareness. Who are the Shadow People, and what are they doing in our world?
I am researching the Shadow People and am collecting personal experiences. If you’d like to tell me yours, please email me at rosemary@visionaryliving.com.
Please include:
When the experience(s) happened
- Description of the Shadow Person and the experience itself
- Your emotional reaction
- Any communication, including intention, between you and the Shadow Person
- Behavior of the Shadow Person
- Any perceived relationship to the place you were at or events going on in your personal life at the time.
Thanks!
October 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
hello, about a year ago my son was sleeping in his room when he was jerked awake by a shadow person. he says that it held him in some sort of arrest where he couldnt move speak only forced to stare at the shadow for 4 or 5 seconds. then he says it swooshed under his bed like a speeding bullet.
October 24th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
When I was a teenager in high school we lived up on a granite hill in a newly built house. I would come home from school, and at the top of the stairs there was a shadow dog. The upstairs was loft style and over looked the whole house especially the front door.
When I got home I would always look up, and almost every day the shadow dog would be there.
From the body conformity I could tell that it was a labrador retriever. It never tried to dodge out of sight like the other shadow beings. It was as thought the shadow dog was waiting for me to get home safely. When I looked back up he (I felt that it was a he) would be gone as though he was satisfied that I had made it home.
I always felt safe with him there.
The shadowbeings have never frightened me. I miss that shadow dog though…
October 24th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Experience with shadow people has been frightening, and nearly drove me insane.
There was a lot of discord at a location where I lived, when I moved the shadow people disappeared.
Shadow people I encountered were male, seemed to be bald. Would look around corners, duck away when I directly looked at them. I was always frightened, and at times doubted my sanity.
This is all I can remember, I don’t want to think of them because I don’t want them back!
October 28th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
yes have seen shadow people 3 times.
December 24th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I live in a house over a 100 years old and i have seen a large shadow person moving very fast past the end of my bed at about 12:00 at night, i jumped about 3 feet off the bed and my wife saw it also! you could see a very large outline of a man! It was very fast!Cleburne, Texas!
February 26th, 2009 at 12:02 am
I think the year was 1972. I got up sometime during the night to use the bathroom. Walking through my bedroom, into the kitchen toward the bathroom door I stopped suddenly and just stared surprised. About eight feet from me in the darkness was a figure, tall and broad-shouldered (T-shaped) blocking the
path to the door. I walked calmly back to my bedroom foregoing my “bathroom call”, and tried to digest what I had just experienced. I felt neither afraid or amused but rather in denial, even though I know I saw it. “It” didn’t appear again.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
My son came to me and told me he was sitting in the loungeroom when he seen a man that had no face he said it was grey and kinda see through and wearing a top hat and a suit and carrying a suitcase he said he seen it in the corner of his eye but when he turned to have a better look it disappeared it gave me chills when he told me so I searched on google ghost with top hat and it seems to be very common I was quite suprised by the amount of storys I found
February 28th, 2009 at 11:45 am
One of my experiences with shadow people took place a couple of years ago. It was fairly late and very dark in my room. I thought perhaps that what I was seeing was due to a lack of sleep, but I was wrong. To the right of my bed – about 7 feet away – was my bedroom door, that’s where I saw what appeared to be the silhouette of a tall man. The figure sort of stood there for a few seconds and then started to pace along the side of the bedroom wall. This went on for at least a couple of minutes until I whispered to it “are you gonna do this all night?” At that moment, the figure stopped moving and appeared to be facing me. Then, after about 30 seconds, the figure started to pace again! It did this for about another minute then disappeared.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Just the other night I was up a bit late working on some class work. It was about 11:30pm when I headed off to bed. Upon walking down the hallway I turned to my right to enter my bedroom. There was a dark shadow next to my closet gazing down at my bed. It scared me as I thought it was my husband playing a joke on me. I threw up my hands to keep from running into it only to hit the bedroom light and see nothing. My husband was sleeping in bed without a cause. He didn’t even stir when the light came on. I was so scattered and scared I had to check out my entire room before turning off the light. What is your opinion on this???
March 22nd, 2009 at 6:47 am
I’m from the UK and not far from my house is a forest called swinley forest, it is a lovely place and even when i walk through it at night i never feel fearful which is more than can be said for the streets! but in order to get into the forest you have to cross a very dangerous and fast road but before the road your in another small set of woods and this area has never really felt right its so old so all sorts potentually could of happened there but anyway one night it was particularly dark and me and a friend were walking down the path through the woodland (no the forest) when i thought he had stopped, i felt him standing next to me, you know how you sense when your with someone, its weird but you just know dont you but anyway as i thought he had stopped, i stopped aswell and as i turned to look look at him on my right i reaslised that i was not standing next to him, instead i was standing next to a dark figure, a figure i have now discovered to fit the description of a shadow person, i think they had a hood on it was hard to tell as it was so dark but it was so weird, as i turned myhead so did it and for literally 2 seconds no more i was face to face with it i just had this awful feeling of dread come over me and at that point i realised that my friend was still walking down the path so without saying a word i just ran and ended up crashing into the back of him. my friends still take the micky and think im mad but i know what i saw it felt so real! i have been down that path many times since and often look at the area i saw this person (slightly off the path by the bushes) but ive never seen anything since. when i think back to it it still scares me slightly and i’ll always remember the way we both turned our heads and faced eachother, or at least, thats how it felt!
April 1st, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I live in constant fear of this happening again:
Back when my husband and I were dating, I was living with my
grandparents. They are both devout Catholics, and have had their home
blessed by several priests with whom they are quite close and
friendly. Nonetheless, one night, I awoke to find a black figure
standing by my bed. It was entirely black, and seemed to absorb all of
the small amount of light which was in the room. I immediately tried
to scream, but found myself unable to make any noise at all. I tried
to rise and flee from my bed, but was also unable to move…I couldn’t
even breathe. As I attempted to struggle, I started to feel faint, and
eventually my vision was lost to what seemed like an all-encompassing
bright white light, and I lost conciousness. All the while, the thing just stood there, looking at me. It was one of the most
frightening moments of my life, and I don’t know what to do.
My brother with whom I am very close has also had dealings with these shadow men, to
the point that one night he was beaten rather badly by one while he slept over at a friend’s house.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:06 pm
I see shadow people all the time. Usually looking around corners, but lately, he (one in particular seems to be a prankster), has been popping up from beside a chair near my TV. Even tho i cannot see his face, i can see that hes looking at me, its like he playing hide n seek. there are also time that he is right next to me, my son sees him alot also,
April 24th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I have noticed that I have aquired a second cat, though he is all shadow. I only see him in the peripheral. I’ll see it run into the bathroom while I my cat was in the back bedroom. For awhile I thought it was just my cat… have you heard about shadow animals?
July 10th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
one day i was asleep amd idk it seemed as if i were awake. i could see myself laying down from a distance and all of a sudden i heard footsteps coming from my hallway and i saw a black shadow hovering over me and then it was shaking me in my dream but i couldnt wake myself up and i saw it happening to me like idk it was something that never happened to me before..
July 17th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
When I was a young boy,probaly around 5-7 ?, I would lay down @ night for bed and when I would look upwards towards the ceiling I would see this Lions Spirithead coming towards me @ a very fast speed and straight @ my face and then @ the very last milisecond it would swoop right over the top of my face,sometimes I swore that I could feel the wind from it. Nobody ever believed me so I`ve keep it inside for @ least the last 40yrs. Fly FREE my friend FLY FREE!
July 17th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
I came across your web-site, and find the information given eerily similar to what my son has experienced.
In our previous home, when he was approx. 2 years of age, he would continually talk about these “shadowy people” that he said would come into his room at night, and wake him up, and bug him by calling his name or bumping his bed.
He would call out to me in tears and beg to sleep in my room.
I would let him get into bed with me, and he would tell me about these “shadowy people” he was seeing.
He said he “didn’t like them, and that “they were scary”, and that they “weren’t nice”.
He told me that they would come through the walls, ceiling, floor etc
I told him to tell them to leave if they scared him again. He said he would try that the next night if they came again..
A few days passed and he stopped talking about it until one night he woke up in tears. I could hear him yelling from his room “go away, leave me alone”. He got louder and began crying.
I went into him in his room, and asked who he was talking to.
He told me “the shadow people”.
He told me that he had told them to leave, but they wouldn’t, that they only left because I was coming.
Then he told me that they told him…and he said this in a deep creepy voice, “Open the door”.
Chills went up my spine.
He slept with me that night and for a few days.
I went to see an owner of a metaphysical shop that I had been going to for many years. I mentioned the situation to the owner.
The owner gave me some candles and a ritual to perform.
I never mentioned any of this to my son, and the morning after I performed the ritual he woke up happy and said, “Mommy, mommy guess what? The shadow people are gone, my angel told me you closed the door”.
My son is 6 years old now, and even though we now live in a different home, he still speaks of these shadow people from time to time. He still says that they aren’t nice and that they scare him sometimes, but that he’s not much scared of them anymore.
July 18th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
When I was 12 years old, I had a frightening experience in the middle of the night. I was having a bad nightmare. All of a sudden, I was wide awake only to see a large black form standing beside my bed. It didn’t have a shape to it. It just looked like a large shadow with no face! I was frozen for what seemed like an eternity, but was probably about 5 seconds. I coudn’t speak or move. Then, with all of my will power I found my voice and screamed as loud as I could. My mother and sister came running to my bedside about as frightened as I was. I was led to believe that it was just a bad nightmare. A few years later after we moved from the house. which was 150 years old, my mother asked if I remembered the incident. She then proceeded to tell me that the figure I had seen at my bedside was seen by everyone in the house. Everyone said that it appeared by their bedside, as if it was looking for something. When it came to my bedside, I was what it was looking for. Could this be a shadow person or something else? There were other spirits in the house, but not as frightening as this.
March 12th, 2010 at 6:03 am
I’m not sure if this qualifies as a shadow figure, but I thought I would share this story. Around 1992 I was a police officer in a small Texas town. On one snowy night, I received a call about an intruder/break-in of a home. I interviewed a child who told me he awoke to find a tall, thin man wearing a top hat standing at the foot of his bed. He screamed and the figure “floated” into the hallway. The boys father woke and saw the figure exit the backdoor of the house. Upon my arrival, the backdoor was locked and there were no foot prints in the snow. The father also described the figure as tall, thin, wearing a top hat and perhaps a dinner coat with tails. I still get goosebumps when I think about that night.