A Shadow Person story. Has anyone else had this happen to them?

I have never heard of hats on shadow people.
Interesting.

My shadow people experiences have all been in Gettysburg PA. There is a hill with pine trees on it near the Gettysburg High School. When you go out there after all the ghost hunters have left ... you always see a shadowman. He RUNS between the trees. Sometimes you get tapped by him. He's always there. I can almost promise you'll see him if you go there.

And no .. I have not ever noticed a hat on him.

he said he had just seen a 2 foot tarantula follow him and vanish in to thin air

wow thats strange because i have also seen spider like things around me that disappeared. i have a thread here: www.abovetopsecret.com...

they were not two feet long, but pretty big, and they glowed like neon bulbs.

Originally posted by evo80
I was laying in bed one night trying to go to sleep. I had to be up earlier than normal the next morning. My brain often will not shut down very easily, so i was basically just lying there thinking. then all of the sudden i just knew that something was in the room with me. I worked at a movie theater, and i had a lot of big movie posters posted on my walls. well somehow i seemed to just "understand" that some "things" were watching me through the eyes of my posters. i looked around the room, carefully looking into the eyes of the faces on my posters. I couldnt see any difference, but i knew "they" were there. I also somehow "understood" that they meant no harm, and that i had no need to be frightened, so i wasnt. I knew that they were just there to observe me. I am easily spooked by this type of thing, but that night i knew everything was going to be alright. After a little while of being observed, i began to feel a little sick to my stomach. I do not know if it is related, but it happened. All i really did was lay there for a while, not making any noise, feeling sick. Then it hit me; I had to pee. lol. so I looked over at the clock that i had sitting on my nightstand, and i saw that it was 1:30am. I said to myself something like "oh man, i have to be up so early. This sucks so bad." I was not mad at being observed, but i was a little upset that i was not going to get much sleep. So i went to the bathroom, came back to bed and layed back down. I was laying there on my back and then a Shadow Person leaned over me. This figure had the hat that i now know to be typical of a shadow person. it was strange, because the hat has always stuck out to me, and i have heard stories on Coast to Coast AM describing them with a hat, as well as Art and George talking about how they always have the hat. So anyways, this shadow person leaned over me, and told me "we gave you more time..." i kind of thought "whaaaaat?" so i looked over at the same clock that had read 1:30 before, and it was now saying 12:30!! after that, i knew that they had left. The sickness went away and i was able to fall asleep a little while later.

Has anyone had a similar experience?

I had basicle the same experience, did the faces on the posters seem more grim?

I noticed that it was only in a few posters, mainly a "The Da Vinci Code" poster
I have. Tom hanks's face got 3525 times more grim, stern, tight and evil looking.

and the monalisa's eyes about them had the oddest feeling of sentience about them.

I never got a shadow person, but even as I look at the poster now his face seems
more grim then it was when I got it from the movie store.

Very interesting.

A side note, my walls are covered with movie posters as well, the full sized
ones from the movie stores.

well i did not notice a change in the faces, but i did know that something was there. i did not sense any evil at all. the only thing i could make of it was an observation of me with no intent to harm. and by their gift of that extra "hour" it seems like if anything, they were appreciative of me for allowing them to study me. the few evil shadow people stories i have heard seem to be the ones where they are not wearing a hat, maybe that is something to research.

When I was 16 (Im 34 now) I was staying the night at a friends house. He had 2 twin beds and a dog who sleeps wherever he wants. That night the dog chose my bed. I dont recall the time but I awoke in the middle of the night, the dog to. As I petted him, my attention was drawn to a corner of the room. I sensed something, like I was being stared at (like I was staring at the corner). All I can notice was a black mass about 2-3 feet tall and about 1-2 feet wide. The room had no light but that from the outside, basic street lights. The dog was also looking straight at theat corner with intent (like he would at a strange animal not knowing if friend or not). The dog was situated on the bed with me in a way that he was closer to the corner then myself, meaning he could not see what I was looking at but I can tell what he is looking at. after about 10 seconds of staring at the black mass, it ran across the room and thru the door. I say ran because at that moment it seemed to be humanoid in shape (as it ran). This caused the dog to start barking at it and because the way the bed was I saw that he watched it run across the room as well. I was mildly freaked out and called my friends name trying to wake him up but he was out cold which was uncharacteristic. I managed to just go back to sleep.

This family I was staying with that night has a history of paranormal events going back at least 40 years in the fathers family. He told us many accounts of The Man in Black as his family called. His description of it is humanoid, all black like a 3 dimensional shadow, the apearance of a long coat (like a duster), and a wide brimmed hat. It would sit next to family members then when whoever would look at it to say something, thinking it was another family member, it would vanish.

I expierenced a very frightning sleep paralysis event in the same bed within a couple of months of the shadow person event. Very scary.

I expierenced a second, very different kind of sleep paralysis, not malevolent at all, that same year while camping out. Earlier that evening I saw a ufo.

I understand there to be only a few different shapes of shadow beings (please correct me if Im wrong). The tall (6 foot)man in coat with wide brim hat, same but no coat and shorter, short (1-3 feet tall) humanoid, spider shape (1-5 feet wide) and cloud shape (1-5 feet wide). I think Im forgetting one.

I dont know what they are or what they want but I dont like em one bit.

I also work at a theatre!

What exactly is a shawdow person, i mean i understand the physical descrption provided in the posts, but what is the etiology of these forms?

I am very interested in shadow people.. its so strange what lies beyond our basic understanding. The closest ive gotten to a shadow person was a shadow arm that stretched across my blinds (my brother saw the same exact thing at a different time) so i know that this exist, and i know that none of you are lying.... which is very unnerving.

Originally posted by IntergalacticHippy
i'm not trying to disprove your experience or anything so plz dont take offence. could it be possible that you had a form of sleep paralysis / dream? or maybe it was daylight savings, do you have that where you are?

I do believe you may be right but I have experienced both Sleep Paralysis and shadow person...SP is normally accompanied by a "bad feeling" when you see the apparition...a feeling of foreboding or bad feeling comes with the hallucination...plus all the other sensory experiences that come along with SP tingles vibrations ect........
"Shadow people" , in my experience are more like....hmmm, whoa what the heck was that!" ...I just saw that! More awareness, a more normal wakeful experience all around.

I do believe these experiences are connected to "sleep awareness", and are both attributed to rare, yet natural occurences during near sleep concious moments.

I have allowed both experiences to unfold through scientific trials,- I can only induce SP hallucinations but not a shadow person, ---shadow persons are fleeting and NEVER interact with me unlike the other--Shadows are elusive and never show their faces. Shadows are still scary to me, yet I welcome the experience. I want to chase them but they always disappear, behind a doorway or under a chair...they are gone in a moment

As for what they are exactly, I dont know. They exist is all Im sure of. As for the hats, I should be clear that I dont mean a litteral hat just a hat shape. Then again maybe it is a hat!

A little off topic but I just wanted to say that there are 2 very different kinds of "sleep" paralysis (that I have experienced). Over the (recent) years I have noticed a lot of confusion over this, it seems to be thought of (by those who havent lived them) as a single type of experience. It seems people who this has happened to have only experienced one or the other, I have not read any accounts of both happening to the same person. I feel one type may have something to do with shadow people.

FlyersFan,

Hi.....I'm a new member. I've read your posts about seeing the shadow person on the hill near the school in Gettysburg. I've just returned from my first trip to Gettysburg and saw the black figure. My husband, son, and a few other people saw it too. Would like to talk more about it, but will wait for your reply.

Thanks!

Yea i had things in posters watching me one night too, well they didnt just watch me they came out at me but there was a more logical explanation.
I wont say what the explanation is but anyone that lived through the 60s
could probably guess

very interesting stories. i am still looking for another account of communication with one of these shadow people. mine told me something telepathically. i have never heard of that before. in fact, it is common for the shadow people to run off or disappear when they realize they have been seen. then there is the other part of my story about the extra time i was given. i was hoping to hear about, or read about another incident like that. as far as bad feelings, i actually felt very safe during my experience. usually that stuff would have had me too freaked out to function, but somehow i just knew everything was fine, and i was safe. i am very interested in this subject, and i appreciate all of your stories, and cant wait to read more. if i ever won the lottery, i would start a paranormal research company, and investigate this stuff for a living. that would be awesome.

all i can say is wow although i sometimes feel like i'm being watched its usually in darkness when i'm up late. but i cant say i've ever seen one but i dont disbelieve in this either

most likely they are ghost or creatures in an alternate reality whose dimension occasionally overlaps with ours allowing it to be partially visible. something i found interesting is that every one who has this experience usualy either see the hat man or the cloacked man.

heres a links for further reading
en.wikipedia.org...
paranormal.about.com...

Originally posted by Anubis_4400
most likely they are ghost or creatures in an alternate reality whose dimension occasionally overlaps with ours allowing it to be partially visible. something i found interesting is that every one who has this experience usualy either see the hat man or the cloacked man.

okay that is a nice idea, and for the majority of these sightings, is probably correct, but in my case it wasnt a "dark, fleeting shape out of the corner of your eye" or "a glimpse of a strange entity." this thing moved into my line of sight, stayed there long enough to convey a telepathic message, and then moved back out of my sight and was gone. this was a very strange experience, and from what i can tell, very uncommon.

your right from what ive heard that is a very uncommon experience

I had a pretty bad one as a kid. I can actually see them in my dreams, provided they try to influence them.
/begin dream/
I heard the tv on in the living room. And the noise from the tv kept me awake. Noticing that it was late, I got up to see who had stayed up. In the living room my mother was sitting on the couch with her eyes riveted toward the front window. Every attempt to gain her attention was ignored, like I wasn't even there. Outside of the window it was storming pretty badly, and there was a strange shadow right next to the window. It was the outline of a man, but you could see through him. He raised his arm to the window and I heard a faint knocking. A silvery mist appeared on the window. I looked closer at the mist and it morphed into a skeletal hand, that fisted up and beat the window. BANG BANG BANG
/end dream/
the window just over my head had been beat loudly.
I sat upright and looked out the window, it was a full moon and our large backyard was empty. I laid back down to go to sleep. The same deity in my dream slid up next to me and stood over my head. It then tried to suffocate me to death. Increasing pressure on my chest and paralysis creeping over my body. I had the sense to whisper "Jesus.."
The shadow left like I had pulled out a cannon.
The next evening the same deity tried to attack my brother through his dreams. I made it go away.
My brother was a little freaked when I guessed his dreams for him the next morning, but that story would take too much space to talk about .
I still see shadows from time to time, but only a few are hostile.
I am sorry but none have tried to communicate with me.

Originally posted by evo80
I was laying in bed one night trying to go to sleep. I had to be up earlier than normal the next morning. My brain often will not shut down very easily, so i was basically just lying there thinking. then all of the sudden i just knew that something was in the room with me. I worked at a movie theater, and i had a lot of big movie posters posted on my walls. well somehow i seemed to just "understand" that some "things" were watching me through the eyes of my posters. i looked around the room, carefully looking into the eyes of the faces on my posters. I couldnt see any difference, but i knew "they" were there. I also somehow "understood" that they meant no harm, and that i had no need to be frightened, so i wasnt. I knew that they were just there to observe me. I am easily spooked by this type of thing, but that night i knew everything was going to be alright. After a little while of being observed, i began to feel a little sick to my stomach. I do not know if it is related, but it happened. All i really did was lay there for a while, not making any noise, feeling sick. Then it hit me; I had to pee. lol. so I looked over at the clock that i had sitting on my nightstand, and i saw that it was 1:30am. I said to myself something like "oh man, i have to be up so early. This sucks so bad." I was not mad at being observed, but i was a little upset that i was not going to get much sleep. So i went to the bathroom, came back to bed and layed back down. I was laying there on my back and then a Shadow Person leaned over me. This figure had the hat that i now know to be typical of a shadow person. it was strange, because the hat has always stuck out to me, and i have heard stories on Coast to Coast AM describing them with a hat, as well as Art and George talking about how they always have the hat. So anyways, this shadow person leaned over me, and told me "we gave you more time..." i kind of thought "whaaaaat?" so i looked over at the same clock that had read 1:30 before, and it was now saying 12:30!! after that, i knew that they had left. The sickness went away and i was able to fall asleep a little while later.

Has anyone had a similar experience?

wow, thats odd but cool!

Originally posted by Kr0n0s
Yea i had things in posters watching me one night too, well they didnt just watch me they came out at me but there was a more logical explanation.
I wont say what the explanation is but anyone that lived through the 60s
could probably guess

lol...hmm.. I wonder what that could be...

Sorry, I have never seen or even heard of hats on shadow beings:
It was January 15, 2007, I went to bed at 3 and woke up quite suddenly, just shortly after falling asleep and in my my feelings that something is not right, the time may have been 4am, to what seemed to be a presence in the bedroom and as I started opening my eyes in the total pitch blackness of the room I saw a dark figure of a shadow being leaning over me and looking at me, at that moment I asked this being to leave me alone ,just like so many other times and I said a prayer, then, I rolled over and fell back to sleep.
This is not the first time of this happening, it has happened many times in my life but it is the first time I took notice and recorded the date. This dark spirit or shadow being standing or hovering in front and staring at me, never has a face I can recognize, I just know he is there, I can feel his stare, why a he I dont know. My bedroom is pitch dark with storm shutters so when I say its dark believe me, yet when I wake up in these moments its like I can see everything but in a dim light condition.
Could it be a dark spirit in a grey room or an infrared image likeon an infrared camera, but it’s always a dark figure as well with grey lighting behind him and I can make out looking at the rest of the bedroom, such as the chair and dresser, which is why I feel as though I am not asleep in a dream state, I think they are messengers neither good or bad,speaking to us using telepathy.
Looking back at those dream moments, I remember even having two beings over me in some instances. One time I felt like I was in the presence of many of them studying me and discussing between themselves, but I didn't know what the subject matter was, maybe me, just the feeling of not being alone.
There was one time in particular that a shadow being leaped at me or into me or so I thought and I remember shouting out at the top of my lungs NO!!! but no one else heard me, so after a brief moment of struggling with my shattered nerves I returned to my sleep state.
Throughout my years of shadows and other strange occurances, it has made me feel as though we are not alone either in the spirit sense or ET sense but dont feel as though you will be harmed by shadow beings, because as I said, they are just messengers, you can take them or leave them and who knows what their messages are, just keep the faith and trust yourself, say a prayer and ask them to leave you alone if your scared. gwhint