Strange black figure... advice?

Hi there everyone

I'm kinda new to the forums so all responses are greatly appreciated! I'll keep this as brief and as detailed as possible

Ok, cliched as this sounds, I've always been kinda sensitive to vibrations in places (be they troubled, calm etc) so I've never been particularly scared or narrow minded for that matter, when it comes to spirits etc;

About a year ago I started seeing a figure, no features just a blur, kinda like when the roads really hot and you can see the heat rising - at first it kinda freaked me out, as I could feel it watching me, but I realised it wasn't negative or anything, if anything, just watching out for me.

So really, up until now i've never seen anything "solid" looking.

Ok, I was staying the night at my friends house, who's moved out with her sister because of abusive parents - her sister now being in an abusive relationship herself (though being in a state of denial.)

They live in a pretty old area, in what we call a "Town house", so like a wooden cottage thing with wooden floors etc;. I've always noticed that it's kind of discordant in vibrations, probably due to the fact there's been so many people there (rental property) if you know what I mean..

I won't go into the complete floorplan of the house, but basically when you walk in the front door, on the left is the "master" bedroom (which has window-door things facing the street) and you basically walk right into the "lounge".

Ok the other night, around 11pm, me and my friend were alone in her house. I'd just gone to get something to eat when I glanced into the lounge and saw something solid, VERY clearly.

It looked like it had just come out of the master bedroom, it was BLACK (I actually thought it was my friend, cos she's kinda goth) but it was sculking, it's head low like it was trying to sneak around, it didn't turn to face me but walked into the lounge.

My first thought was intruder? Sister? But it wasn't. When I closed my eyes and tried to "feel"/"look" in the area I distinctly felt perversion, or mm deviousness. It wasn't very positive at all..

I've always felt the master bedroom as very umm compressed, like a chamber, if that makes sense? I'm not sure if you get what I mean..

Anyway, some random people that I and my friend know have commented on seeing a young girl peeking through the windows of the master bedroom, into the street (pulling back the curtain)

My main question is about the black figure I saw..

What does it represent?
It didn't seem human, as I could not place a gender or age on it
In fact it seemed kinda oily/greasy..

This is completely honest (not one of those "i have a friend who's friend told them something freaky about a friend" stories"), and I'd appreciate any feedback

Thanks for your time!

I like many others have seen these shadow figures. Don't expect any real defiant answers. I've yet to meet anyone or read anything that knows everything about them. Nor do I claim to know everything, I can only give advice based on my experience. What I can say is that they are spirits. In the case you have with the sulking girl shadow it sounds like she is a spirit of someone who has passed away. If that is the case she may have appeared to you in need of your help. Find out the house's history and see what you can do. It could be that she just want to leave and needs your push to send he on her way. Do do this you have to look to where your faith is. You will need to pray for her or meditate or what ever your faith teaches you. It doesn't matter what religion you prescribe to if any.
Some shadows need your help while others have some sinister agendas. People call them ghosts, demons and other things. A good idea for you is to use the google search function on ATS and look up Shadow figures or Shadow people. There have been lots of people who have posted their experiences.


Good luck!

One thing is for sure-those are evil. My friend used to do rituals worshipping the devil and these are the things that come up in the dark(In a desert by a abandoned haunted mental institue thing).
The deep black humanish spirits that seem to walk around and disappear are not things you want to try to see or talk to.
In the ghetto neighborhood i used to hang around with my friends late at night these things were on empty streets looking at me and my friends and we were freaking scared. One day one was right in front of me at my bed and HOLY crap it was like it knew i was doing bad stuff and was there to kill me.
I only see them in bad places and when i do somthing bad.
(I just got scared thinking about it and its broad daylight)

[edit on 4-7-2005 by Wisdumb]

If you think something is evil and you don't have a past of getting freaked out or paranoid in a fearful way about stuff similar to this, then whatever it is that you're seeing/witnessing is more than likely evil. The "Shadow People" are evil (sinister agenda) spirits/ghosts. They are on-lookers of what is deemed as negative and bad. Most of their plans rely heavily on preventing other spirits/-ghosts from escaping and entering the realm of heaven (good). They also come to warn and scare off people, not out of spite to simply scare, but out of the simple fact that they know you are about to, have already done, or have currently commited an evil act.

Maybe you can think back to the time you first witnessed and saw such a thing. You will realize that whatever you were doing, thinking, and acting out in at the time had some sort of negative (maybe even evil) agenda to it. Once you realized what it is that you were doing, then you will come to figure why you initially witnessed this "Shadow Person". Light casts a shadow, and a shadow is dark, so therefore whatever type shadow both yours or spirit like, that you witness to see, represents the dark side one way or the other. As you were previously told/warned these "Shadow People" aren't friendly and are not the type of entities you what to attempt to communicate to for the sake of trying to figure out what they are.

~ Eric ~



[edit on 4-7-2005 by 2Super7E123]

Thanks for your replies

Though I do/have the impression that the girl and "Shadow Spirit" were/are different entities..

Wisdumb is projecting his guilty conscience, and if you follow his posts on this board you will see he has the IQ and reasoning power of a rock. Take what he says with a grain of salt in a bottle of water.

Because you are senstitive, and because your friend is in an abusive relationship, you experienced
an anthropmoprhication (is that a word?) of the ambient pain and discontent in that place.
In other words, your mind created a shape to deal with your sensations.

I suggest avoiding the place so it doesn't depress you. Being around people who live in and for abusive relationships doesn't help your personal growth.

The little girl could very well be a projection of your friend's desire to return to innocence before her life to a road toward pain and abuse.

But hey, you are on the scene there, nobody but you can really find out whats going on around there, but I still suggest avoiding the company of those who dwell in perpetual sorrow.




[edit on 4-7-2005 by Legalizer]

Your feelings about the girl and "shadow" being two completely different entities are correct. Either way, both these entities represent the negative vibrations going on with your friends abusive relationship/the "town house" as a whole.

Originally posted by Legalizer
you experienced
an anthropmoprhication (is that a word?) of the ambient pain and discontent in that place.
In other words, your mind created a shape to deal with your sensations.

Are you suggesting it was not spirit based? More 'mind orientated'??

I must admit I feel a certain disdain for the boyfriend (who woudn't ) - but I would never have thought it would lead me into visualising creepy black things?!

Hehe.

Thanks everyone for your posts so far, it's hard to talk to most people about things like this I guess, because they assume you've gone off the deep end - and it's nice to get some constructive and enlightening feedback!

Many people have experience a black shadow figure at a time of death, and attribute this entity to the angel of death coming for the soul. More often than not people who relate this experience find it does not give a sense of dread but a sense of comfort and peace.

These are people who do not fear death to begin with, so this is how their mind puts
a "human face" on something that is the final step of human experience.

Mind you, these are not the people who are dying. Although some sick people relate this experience when very close to death, and recall it when they recover, with the general impression that the entity comes and pretty much says "now is not your time, just checking in on you".

Shadows are not necessarily evil.

Certainly many of the people who see them experience anxiety, terror, even paralyzing fear. That is completely reasonable, of coarse people will feel that they are looking a person that is not a person. People feel the same way around snakes and spiders when there may not be any danger at all.
Now I'm not saying all the shadows are nice beings. Some people have even claimed that shadows have tried to smother them.
Shadows are seen by many people when they are suffering from sleep paralysis. Some people believe the shadows cause the paralysis and some say the state of mind during sleep paralysis allows you to see them. There was this one guy who didn't sleep for days because he was afraid to wake up with paralysis. During his SP a shadow would always walk up to him and get right in his face. That would keep me from sleeping too .

Many different people claim many different things about shadows. Some say they are ghosts others say they are demons. There are even some people that say shadows are actually extra terrestrials. Some people have seen short shadows like myself and some have seen extremely tall shadows. Some people who have seen shadows turn their fear into anger and the shadow vanishes.

I don't think you can call shadows evil anymore than you can call humans evil. We are made up of both good and evil just as they are.

Hmm.. but when I saw it, it looked completely SOLID...

Aurgh it's doing my head in

Originally posted by Ophiuchus
Hmm.. but when I saw it, it looked completely SOLID...

The shadow I seen was solid too. It was about 2 and a half feet tall, pure black with out features. Although it had no features I was getting the impression its mouth was opening and closing(perhaps trying to talk).

My Mother-in-law when she was a girl also seen a shadow but it was misty.

That's kinda creepy..

What I saw was short (like me ) about 1.6 meters, but really, really hunched over.. not looking at me, in a hurry to hide? get out of the bedroom?

I dont know

Originally posted by Ophiuchus
What I saw was short (like me

) about 1.6 meters, but really, really hunched over..

Some people believe shadows serve as a warning.
There have been people who report shadows as being similar to their (living) loved ones, like brothers and fathers and such. I believe that when that happens it could be a warning about the future of those loved ones. Perhaps if you see yourself in the shadow it may be a warning about your own future.

These things show up for a reason. You just need to find out why you seen it.

Have you been sleeping any?

Normally with the increasing lack of sleep you will start to hallucinate, these hallucinations are normally result in seeing "shadow men". Quick darts through the corner of the eye. The more sleep you lose the more "detailed" the hallucinations appear.

[edit on 4-7-2005 by Majestic12]

Shadows are most defiantly not hallucinations.

www.abovetopsecret.com...
34 people on this thread alone have written about their own experience. And these are credible people like mods and long time members of ATS.

There are more threads that can be found here but I wont be able to count all of the people on them.

Sure maybe one or two people can be discredited by saying they were hallucinating but not this many.

When I have experienced these shadows about 99 percent of the time they have been hallucinations.

I have only seen a shadow once before and it tried to attack me, seriously.

Man that sucker is going to insult me and he doesnt know who the he11 he is talking to. Sure wish i knew that dude personally cause he sure wouldnt do that again.

Anyways if its only like 2 feet tall it might not be that bad cause the ones i've seen were 10 feet tall. Don't listen to those people who say you got mental problems cause they are in denial.

Please don't start threatening people becase of their comments. Such idiocy will lower the integrity of the thread.

Supposedly, these shadow people are there to spy on people.

You may have to look at what's currently going right now in your life, that would seem to attract them in the first place.