Shadow people are paranormal shadow-like creatures that people usually see in their peripheral vision. Reports suggest that they do not appear to reflect light and that their appearance is essentially a silhouette in black.
They usually have no discernible features beyond the general outline of their form. However, shadow people have been reported to have shifted into a more human form and in these instances it is said that sometimes features such as glowing eyes and sometimes mouths or nostrils are discernible.
Reports of shadow people, sometimes called shadow folk, shadow men, or shadow beings, have many similarities with ghost sightings, so many similarities that many paranormal experts consider ghost and shadow people one and the same.
However, other experts disagree and claim that shadow people are a separate phenomenon from ghosts for a variety of reasons.
First, they claim that the movement of shadow people is said to be quick and jerky, sometimes with stops, starts, and changes of direction, not at all like the smooth floating motion often associated with ghost sighting. This is apparently the primary reason they are usually seen out of the corner of the eye.
Second, some people report being able to discern that the shadow people are wearing a fedora style hat like a 1930’s-era gangster or a cloak.
Third, shadow people usually appear quite solid, unlike the ephemeral appearance of ghosts.
Fourth, there are very few reports of positive interactions with shadow people.
Unlike the friendly ghost sightings that are fairly common, encounters with shadow folk are almost always frightening or shocking. In fact, even the experts that view shadow men as a subset of ghosts, usually concede that shadow men are a malignant beings.
The supporters of shadow people as a separate and unique phenomenon offer all sorts of speculation about the nature of shadow people using ideas from religion, parapsychology, metaphysics, and the occult.
One of the many ideas is that shadow people represent a Thought-form, ghost or demon that was created by extraordinary pain, suffering, and trauma in a dying persons life. Others suggest that shadow folk have been purposefully summoned from another realm through black magic or other occult practices.
The fact that they do not seem to reflect light has led some to theorize that they are from an alternate universe with different laws of physics or perhaps they are caught in a trap between two physical universes. David Icke has proposed that shadow people are related to Grey aliens, or to the Reptilian humanoids.
The theories about the nature of shadow people are almost endless, but they are certainly quarry that should only be sought out by experienced, well equipped ghost hunting teams – never by solo hunters.
I lived in an old terraced house from birth to the time i was twenty years old many times i would see one of these black shadow beings standing at the top of the stairs just in sight the house was dark there was no electricity in the hallway for light so you had to go from the downstairs rooms up to the master bedroom before you could turn a light on it was always in the same place just at the top of the stairs, it was so black that it would stand out from the darkness around it but when you looked up at it, it would step back into the darkness, some nights i would be in bed sleeping when i would wake up and hear something come up the stairs from the bottom to the top, and it would always stop outside the bedroom door i would look at the clock it would always be three o’clock in the morning then i would fall back to sleep this would go on for four to five nights then stop for months, then start up all over again, one night i came home from work the clock’s had just gone back to GMT winter time i had to go up stairs to get ready to meet my girlfriend, this night my father said i would not go up those stairs to night if i was you he’s up there waiting,i was eighteen at the time and could not show that i was afraid so up i went as i went up my father closed the living room door which made it pitch black but i could not turn back and show myself to be a baby i went on up the first flight of stairs to where the thing stood then the stairs turned twice first one step then again six more which took you from the back bedroom past the middle bedroom to the front master bedroom where you could turn the light on as i came to the middle bedroom something in the dark grabbed hold of me and held me solid i pulled with all my strength and could not break free i was wearing a brace and bib overall the strap broke and i fell backward down the six stairs into the back bedroom, my mother and father came up the stairs to see what had happened when we turn on the bedroom lights there was nothing or no one there, then one summer night just has we were about to leave the house for good it had just got dark my girlfriend wanted to use the toilet which was out the back garden so i went out with her and i stood in the garden while she went to the toilet, has we were coming back in, this was on a hot summer night no wind the middle bedroom windows started to shake well shake is not the word it was like a madman had hold of them, some years after i ask my dad “was there anything in that house” yes he said see this scar on my mouth on his top lip there was what must have been a very deep cut, yes i said, one winter morning i got up for work it was still dark about five in the morning as i pasted the middle bedroom i felt something behind me it pushed me down the stairs into the back bedroom has i hit the door i had the clock in my hand and the glass smashed in my face and cut through my lip i looked up and saw i tall black figure standing over me, i then ask why he told me there was nothing there to which he replied we did not want to frighten you.I lived in an old terraced house from birth to the time i was twenty years old many times i would see one of these beings standing at the top of the stairs just in sight the house was dark there was no electricity in the hallway for light so you had to go from the downstairs rooms up to the master bedroom before you could turn a light on it was always in the same place just at the top of the stairs, it was so black that it would stand out from the darkness around it but when you looked up at it, it would step back into the darkness, some nights i would be in bed sleeping when i would wake up and hear something come up the stairs from the bottom to the top, and it would always stop outside the bedroom door then i would fall back to sleep this would go on for four to five nights then stop for months, then start up all over again, one night i came home from work the clock’s had just gone back to GMT winter time i had to go up stairs to get ready to meet my girlfriend, this night my father said i would not go up those stairs to night if i was you he’s up there waiting,i was eighteen at the time and could not show that i was afraid so up i went as i went up my father closed the living room door which made it pitch black but i could not turn back and show myself to be a baby i went on up the first flight of stairs to where the thing stood then the stairs turned twice first one step then again six more which took you from the back bedroom past the middle bedroom to the front master bedroom where you could turn the light on as i came to the middle bedroom something in the dark grabbed hold of me and held me solid i pulled with all my strength and could not break free i was wearing a brace and bib overall the strap broke and i fell backward down the six stairs into the back bedroom, my mother and father came up the stairs to see what had happened when we turn on the bedroom lights there was nothing or no one there, then one summer night just has we were about to leave the house for good it had just got dark my girlfriend wanted to use the toilet which was out the back garden so i went out with her and i stood in the garden while she went to the toilet, has we were coming back in, this was on a hot summer night no wind the middle bedroom windows started to shake well shake is not the word it was like a madman had hold of them, some years after i ask my dad “was there anything in that house” yes he said see this scar on my mouth on his top lip there was what must have been a very deep cut, yes i said, one winter morning i got up for work it was still dark about five in the morning as i pasted the middle bedroom i felt something behind me it pushed me down the stairs into the back bedroom has i hit the door i had the clock in my hand and the glass smashed in my face and cut through my lip i looked up and saw i tall black figure standing over me, i then ask why he told me there was nothing there to which he replied we did not want to frighten you.
is this true?????
That depends on what you mean by “true” – most scientists look at paranormal studies as pseudo-science. But I’m sure if you talked to someone who has had an experience with ghosts, or shadow people they would tell you that – it is absolutely true!
The first comment was long and made no sense. The fact\’s are I have been seeing them now for a while. I will give the short version and it goes like this: The beings come at night and always in the dark. They enter through a bright white light and these beings are 7-8ft tall and are accommpanied by a smaller one around 6ft tall. The small ones tend to run and hide behind the TV, doors and wherever they can hide and peek their heads out to see if you\’re there. The tall ones will be cloaked with a hood, hat and may have red or yellow eyes. The ones I see have a hood and will stand over my bed and watch me sleep. They will paralyze you, where you cannot catch your breath or move and what you are seeing is real and somehow they steal your energy and once you break from it the shadows will run! Not disappear but run and run fast into the walls or other rooms. My girlfriend would see them outside on the balcony watching us as we were watching TV or whatever and then when we would see them they would duck and move over and the peak again. My girlfriend has never had these experience\’s. I have had them since I was a child. I have always seen ghosts and have seen them since I was like 5. Now, since 3 years a go, I moved to Greece from Chicago to work and started to deal with these which are not ghosts or demons and are not evil but creepy and very creepy! I have seen both ghosts and demons and have seen their wrath. I still have scars on my back from them. The shadow people are not this but maybe some kind of inter-dimentional beings and I have no idea why they watch us and how they pick those who they watch. I have more to tell if you want to talk. jtrader312@yahoo.com
wow thats like almost the same as my shadow freack 0.0
I have had an experience with a shadow person, face to face. Although it was a very short experience. I was asleep and wake up to one standing at my bedside. It did not move or make a sound. I got a great outline of him. It was a young mans outline, slender in size and his arms were behind his back. I was scared, rolled over and started praying. When I rolled back over he was gone. I was a teenager, no one in my house has a build like that. My door was shut,(and squeezes),window shut, and lived on the second story with no ledge. I believe. I’ve seen more than this. All my life except the past 8 years, not so much.
I lived in a house were four of my family members seen a shadow person, I think that they are attracted to drama or distress because there was a lot in the household at the time. Since I have moved out and married I have not seen another one. The shadow man I saw was sitting on my sisters bed ( my sister and i shared a room, her bed was directly across from mine). I had just woke up and it was really late. The shadow man was sitting in almost a mediative state. It had no discernible features. The shadow person’s outlined looked male, very muscular and tall. The moment my eyes seen this shadow person my body froze in fear, i couldn’t move, breath, or scream for that matter. After a few seconds I pulled the cover over my head and yelled at my sister to get up and turn on the light. When she did the shadow person had left the room. The one my sister seen appeared late a night as well (she actually was the first to see a shadow person) She said she had just woke up and turned over to where she was facing my bed. in the middle of the, just in between my bed and hers she seen a shadow person crouched like, what she described as, a frog. Curious my sister wanted to know what this strange shadow was in the middle of the floor, so she leaned in for a closer look. When she did the shadow person moved backed in jerky manner. My sister description of the shadow man was almost the same as the one I had seen except for it’s pointy knees. This featured stood out more to her than any other. The other two were seen outside of our bedroom, one in the kitchen and the other in the hallway. One was seen by my uncle who said it was leaned up against a wall watching him sleep on the couch. My uncle described the same features. The last one that was seen was by my mom’s boyfriend at the time, this one was different because my mom’s boyfriend described the shadow person wearing a hat.
i have a question see at my house i always feel sorta strange especialy in my moms room first it gets super duper hot then i would see a human figure appear on the tv in a sorta misty way. i would see that all the time in that room now its gone i wanted to know if this could have been a ghost see im only a kid and my mom dosent like me watching shows on tv about ghost hunting and it the only thing i wanna watch now. i cant explain but i really want to know if what i feel is real cause theres even a door in my sisters room that when i close it .it opens by itslef it may be the wind but i dont know theres something really strange to it