Shadow People & the Hat Man

Paranormal Enigmas of the Night

Have you ever had paranormal experiences of so-called Shadow People? There are variations such as the Hat Man. Some experiencers and researchers include phenomena such as Black-Eyed Children, shadow creatures as spiritual parasites, and other related weirdness. Others consider them separate phenomena. Many Earth Humans have experienced them across different cultures, regions, and times, and have given them many definitions. Yet they remain a mystery. They’re mostly are seen at night and are usually considered malevolent or at least tricksterish. Yet in other situations they appear to be hurrying through as if focused on a mission, or even lingering about harmlessly but with intense curiosity. Once commanded to leave or if one turns on the lights  or flashes a bright light, they invariably glide away and vanish.

It’s common to see a flicker or flash of movement of someone out the corner of our eyes, a shadow swiftly moving by. Was that a real object or entity? Or just shadows and reflections of furniture, drapes and curtains, random stuff, and tired, sleepy, overactive minds? Such are often mind tricks, illusions, from our overreactive imaginations creating instant stories in our minds. We in turn sometimes project these perceptions forth and interpret them as “real.” If we are scared, we might anchor these otherwise silly incidents into our belief systems with intense emotions. Most everyone experiences those moments. I’m talking about something different here, however, something distinct from Homo sapiens. I’m talking about and for the reality of being unable to move while these solid black masses of one-or-two dimensional humanoid beings flow across walls and slide along furniture in full view by our woke, conscious minds.

I had these Shadow People in my bedroom for several nights running back in 2017, and experiencing them terrified me. They “scared the shit outa me,” I texted my brother. The Shadows didn’t hurt me, nor did they reached out to attack me in any obvious way. Their very presence terrified me, however, and they felt icy cold, tho the cold seemed to be more the cold of intent rather than temperature. They also seemed to feed off fear and upset. My whole body felt a visceral reaction to them as something inherently dangerous. Continue reading

What did I see at the door?

A simple thing becomes an eerie mystery

Was it her? A ghost? What kind of apparition was this? Or was it merely some form of psychological projection from within the mysteries of the mind? Or a projection from her via an unconscious spooky action at a distance entangling time lines and quantum places? Perhaps simply mental errors in the interpretations of what my bodymind perceived amidst reflections of lights on glass conflated with old memories? Doubt is indeed corrosive.

Strode out of the elevator thru the lobby towards the double-doors of the entry to the apartment complex where I lived. My long-time friend Syd was coming over to visit me and my wife Faithlyn this Wednesday evening on the last day of January 2024. Entered the lobby looking down at the floor as I stepped over the boundary between elevator and the lobby floor. Don’t trust those two to be even. Seen too many movies of bad things happening with elevators and elevator shafts. 

Looked up and there she was, standing on the other side of the glass. Syd wore a white rain coat, one I’ve seen here wear many times before. Her longish blonde hair was out and down to her shoulders. The rainwater, glass, and lights slightly distorted her face, as if it was somewhat folded in as she looked back at me. I smiled, looked down to check my clothes, then grunted as I pushed open the glass doors to the lobby to open the outside doors for her. She wasn’t there. What? Confused and perplexed, I pushed open the door and stepped outside. Maybe she had to scoot back to the car? Except there wasn’t anyone there. Whoa…there was not a single human visible anywhere along the sidewalk or walking up to a quarter of a mile away. The only people I saw were off in a few cars and trucks or still back inside the lobby. That was so weird. Our texts indicated she was near so I quickly went down to greet her. Then got a text something urgent came up – she was still at work, I learned later – and would be a half an hour late. She did not already come and leave. Continue reading