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Shadow People in Ghost Hunting
Shadow people are very common phenomena in the paranormal field. Known to be quite elusive these shadowy beings often appear out of the corner of your eye only to vanish when your attention is drawn to them. Shadow people can vary in form, but most commonly are said to take the shape of a tall man.
The main characteristic of a shadow person is the level of darkness they are composed of. They are so dark that you can actually see them well in a dark room. This complete absence of light can only lead us to speculate on what they are made up of. Theories that they are inter dimensional beings or even spirit guardians are quite popular among those who have experienced or researched them.
What’s the difference between a shadow person and a full bodied apparition?
This is a question that a lot of ghost hunters ask when first starting out. There are many theories surrounding the origin of shadow people. Whether or not you’re dealing with a human spirit is still up for debate.
A full bodied apparition is said to be the ghost of a previous inhabitant or an earth bound spirit tied to a location. Often times this is a result of a residual haunting where the spirit is not aware of the physical world and is almost said to be playing “on a loop”.
Shadow people tend to be more elusive as it is rare that one would be seen directly. This elusiveness leads many to wonder if there is intelligence behind their visits.
The best way to capture a shadow person during a paranormal investigation is through camera or video equipment. There have been many notable pieces of evidence on well known ghost hunting programs such as Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters for example. Often times due to their elusiveness however shadow people will just be categorized as a personal experience.
I just wanted to touch briefly on shadow people since it is a topic I’m asked about often. Even if a location is not known to be haunted people can experience these strange beings. Let us know if you’ve ever had a run in with these shadowy visitors.
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about 1 year ago
Have been in my current house for 2 years. House was built in 70s, no one has ever died in the house. Over the last 6-7 months I have been seeing shadow figures almost daily. Usually on my stairs, or popping up behind couch. No light is thrown to cast shadows, can see them no matter what the time of day is. Also have had strange feelings of prescence in the house. Needless to say, I am going to see someone tommorrow about this, I think they are trying to tell me something.
about 1 year ago
My wife and I saw one running across the road on evening. I was driving, she was in the passenger seat, it was after sunset and we were about fifty yards behind a car that was directly behind another car (I was close enough behind the middle car for my headlights to reflect off the crome bumper. We were on a two lane road that had a few houses on it but not many — the road ran just on the outskirts of a small town (20,000 pop.).
Something caught my eye from the oncoming traffic lane (movement crossing the road towards my lane), I couldn’t see what it was — just the movement — but I tracked it into my headlights. I watched it move (very fast — like the fastest person in the world doing their best time in the forty) from the center of the road to behind the car in front of me (I could see it’s outline against the car ahead of me) and then off into the darkness to my right side where I immediately lost it.
At first I thought it could have been a play on the light, maybe a reflection thrown across the road, so I didn’t say anything and drove on for about two minutes. After that I turned to my wife and asked her if she had seen something strange a momement or two ago in the road. Her reply was that she thought she had seen someone running across the road inbetween my car and the one infront of us.
This was a human figure, that I caught out of the corner of my eye, but then saw move across my field of vision from left to right. It was weird. It was almost as if it had some place it was going.
about 1 year ago
For years I’ve heard voices all around my house, and hands on my shoulder. I’m usually alone, upstairs in my room. I have no doors (except to the bathroom), only two walls and a closet. When I hear something moving downstairs, I think it’s the dogs, but they’re sleeping on my bed, I look over the railing and something would be out of place… I first saw the ghost when I was just about three years-old, it stared at me, and I stared back. When my mom woke up, the ghost jumped and ran down the stairs making soft thumping sounds… I’ve kept contact with it every now-and-then, it does the same. I’ve left notes around the house, and it writes back, saying, “Do you ever wonder what hod dogs are really made of?” Or, “Wonderful weather we’re having this afternoon!”
Sometimes it scares the crap out of me, sometimes it makes me warm…
about 1 year ago
I was just relaxing/sitting and taking a break from work. I was staring at the glass window outside our office. Its about i think around 6-8pm. Its dark already outside and you can see the building and lights. All of a sudden, a black hooded man passes by. I turned sideways and was thinking, I am sure there’s nobody else in the other glass room and what it could possibly be. It cannot be a reflection. I am the only one there. I message my colleagues from the computer saying i might have seen a ghost or something. I could hear my colleagues joking me and scaring me by the way. Then I heard one of my colleague says lets go there and pick her up, she might not be able to move. So they went to my workarea and they open the lights and investigate on the other glass room. They saw nobody. Since then, i was looking for somebody else who might have seen the same thing and researching about it.
about 1 year ago
In 1999, I was settling down for the night and as I turned off the bedroom lamp my eyes adjusted to the small amount of light thrown off by the various panel lights on the entertaqinment and computer equipment in there. The time it took for my eyes to adjust was less than 30 seconds most likely.
As soon as they were adjusted, the shadows in the room POOLED in the center of the room, and rose up in a bulge that became the general outline of a man. It leaned over a bit towards my bed and whisperede in a hoarse but audible voice “Good night.” I screamed, and it (he?) vanished instantly.
Then, a few years later, in 2005, I began a program of long late-night walks around my neighborhood in order to improve my health a bit. I started seeing Shadow People (this is what I independently named them before I ever went and looked it up online. I happened to mention them to a friend and he said that he’d heard some radio program where they discussed them and they called them Shadow People too).
The Shadow People that I saw on my walks came in a variety of sizes and shapes, mostly humanoid, but almost always inhumanly angular, and they moved with an oddly-jointed fluidity that seemed almost weightless and massless to the eye.
Sometimes I would see one crouching down, usually in front of a parked automobile. Sometimes they would FLIT from behind a parked car and across the street, vanishing weither behind another car or just sort of flitting around an unseen corner near the sidewalk.
Sometimes they were not humanoid. I saw insectoid Shadow Creatures, bird or bat-like ones, and, rarely, ones shaped like dogs or cats.
For a while, they appeared every night, to greater or lesser degrees. I had no real feeling of malice from them, but found them unsettling anyway, like an open unguarded manhole cover: Somehow passively dangerous. They also seemed nosy and obsessively sneaky and on some unknown agenda.
I haven’t seen them in quite a while, they stopped appearing to me some time in 2007. I looked them up on the Web and read up on them, and I can say that I have not seen the Man with the hat, and I have not seen any eye holes or glowing eyes on the ones I’ve seen. They are definitely darker than the darkest blackness of night though, and they stand out clearly and flit oddly.
about 1 year ago
I stole a rock from the Colosseum and then had odd dreams. I woke up from a dream and saw 5 or 6 shadow people in my room. I didn’t know for sure if I was awake or asleep. I said out loud, “am I awake?” and then went and turned on my light. I was definitely awake.
about 1 year ago
i have only once saw what i am sure to be an actual shadow person/ demon may be a better description. It was about 4 in the afternoon in Winchester KY, I was heading to my truck just outside of my grandmother’s house when i saw IT! It was very bold in behavior, in no way was it trying to be discrete, until it saw me looking directly into its eyes… Its eyes, they were like fireballs. Depicting the tormented soul i had found it to be, Was it mmmmmme??? In some twisted alternate universe. Not sure, but get this, the emotion emitted by this thing was sooooo strong! HATRED!!!!!!!! In fact, it was as though it wanted to kill me, it ran to the side of the house next door just peaking its shoulders and head around once more to give me that loathing look that so baffled me. To this day i think more of what it was saying to me than to what it was… I hope i never run across this guy again! AMEN
about 1 year ago
Ive been followed by the same shadow being since 2005 i used to work graveyard for ups it was around 11pm at night i had to walk down a long barely lit street to get to work every night. i finally crossed the street an i felt like i was being watched an i turned around an saw it straight on it was a man standing about 6foot 5 wearing a trench coat an fedora like hat i couldnt see through him at all an he was standing directly underneath the street light…i got chills an this bad feeling in the pit of my stomach an he just vanished. i finally got to the parking lot entrance to ups an saw him again standing between me an the parking lot..he began to walk towards me an walked right through me that night i saw the moon was blood shot red an that wasnt the end of what i saw that night….
the second time was about two weeks ago i was outside smoking it was about 6pm the sun was still setting i my right ear began ringing horribly an when i turned my head to the right there he was leaning over whispering in my head it freaked me out i couldnt hear a word just the ringing sensation in my ear. i shook it off an moved further down the walk way of my house to finish smoking an again the ringing in my ear as if it was getting frustrated that i could not understand it…an then it disappeared…
about 1 year ago
I have seen these things since I was nine years old (1989). The first one was in broad daylight they used to watch me, get in my car, one even tried to touch me. In my late teens I got myself checked out for delusional disorders, and almost disappointingly, I turned out to be sane. I say unfortunately due to the fact that at that point in my life they simply terrorized me. I also later studied Psychology for three years on the university level. No explanations there. They were still around. When I was about 22, out of sheer curiosity and the semi novelty of the internet, I typed in what I’d always called them “shadow people” on the search engine…and I didn’t get just one hit…I got dozens and dozens of stories of people calling them the same thing, describing them the same way, most with the same feeling of “I don’t know WHAT they are, but I know they were never human.”…and I’d never heard of them from anyone else or talked about them with anyone other than my immediate family. I was sort of stunned.It was eerie. I still see them sometimes. I’ve been able to set some boundaries with them. In some places they are more active/aggressive than others. It’s really weird for me talking about it. I guess the part that shakes me so much is how this has happened to me my whole life and I thought it was isolated to just me. I kept it quiet. I didn’t search for others for most of my life…and when I did. They were there. Thousands of them. With my story.
about 1 year ago
See them all the time. I don’t think too much about it anymore – that just seems dangerous. These days, I see them off to the side, and I tip my hat to them. You go about your business and I’ll do the same. We’re on good terms.
about 1 year ago
I have seen shadow people since I can remember. It hasn’t always been full figures, but they have always been floating. This past week I have seen 3, after not seeing any in years. Sometimes I feel like their telling me something is going to happen, but one never knows! I don’t exactly remember how old I was the first time I saw one, but it scared me to death, and I had my oldest cousin, that was baby sitting me, convinced there was someone in the house with us. I did not sleep in my room for weeks! Occasionally I will since strange smells, warmth, coldness or voices and I’m the only one home, or any where else. I often say hello and it disappears. I have one friend I talk to about these things only because the thought of this to some people is” just crazy!!”
about 1 year ago
I think i may of seen these “Shadow People” before when i was about 6 i just thought it was my eyes making shapes and stuff in total darkness thats the only time i saw them im pretty sure as i think i remember one looking like Frankenstein hahaha anyways years ahead *few years ago now* i would go outside and listen to my ipod id always feel like i was being watched but onetime i just randomly span really quick with my head and something caught my eye that i turned around again as i wasnt expecting to see anything looked like a little kid who just ran out of sight but got a look at it for like 1-2 seconds…weird stuff
about 1 year ago
He was wearing a black coat, his face in the dark. He just stands there stare at me sleeping. I see him several times within two weeks then he was gone forever. I was 12.
Later after 4 years “The City of Angels” was out and to my surprise Nicolas Cage was wearing the same long coat that my watcher was wearing. So, therefore I decided to call him guardian angel.
I never wanted to see any angels ever since, it scared the crap out of me. So I’ve developed a habit of always keeping my eyes shut when I wake up, I’d use my hearing to confirm if it’s morning, if not, my hand reach for the light.
And I am also very careful around mirrors.
about 1 year ago
I used to see a shadow person when I was between the ages of 9 and 10. The figure was a black cloaked man that would appear for a split second and then disappear. Although I would mostly see him at home, he would also appear while I was at school and even on vacation! One day, I was walking from the kitchen to my room and he appeared in front of me. This time there was a ball of light the swirling around his body like a corkscrew. This was the longest I had seen him and it really freaked me out. Finally about a week later, I was walking in the neighborhood with my mother and this time I saw him run from my side of the street to the other. I prayed to Jesus and said that if this thing is evil to please have him take care of it. A few moments later a cat ran in front of me and then darted out into the street. A car was speeding down the hill and hit the cat as it tried to run across. After that I have never seen the shadow person appear again. Thinking about the experience always amazes and I do believe these things exist.
about 1 year ago
I first started seeing a shadow figure at the end of my bed when I was about 13. It was complete and utter darkness even though in my bedroom with the lights off. I used to be so frightened that I couldn’t move. I couldn’t scream out for my dad or anything. The fear was so intense it petrified me. The figure was always at the end of my bed and eventually started shaking my bed. I tried to convince myself it was always a dream but then I started sleeping with the lights on and the bed would still tremble as if being shaken lightly. I started trying to not fall asleep at all because it was then that the figure would come. I couldn’t tell anyone because I was having issues with my family, but I was so afraid I started memorizing verses from the book of Psalms in the Bible. I don’t know why I thought this would help, but I was focused on the one with “though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil.” I recited the complete verse whenever the figure came and tried to refuse to acknowledge the fear it caused me. I was able to recite the verse in my dreams if I had nightmares and eventually the dreaded figure stopped coming. This past year it, or a different one, has returned. I’ve seen it many times across the room. I’m talking about being in my bedroom with the lights off at night and STILL being able to see this figure because it is so void of light it makes the darkness of the room seem light. I am instantly filled with fear because I know it’s there watching me. It remains defiantly after I open my eyes and stare back at it. Whenever I try to wake up my husband or cry out it goes away. Twice it was bold enough to be standing right beside me while in bed and it had never gotten that close before. The very last time I saw it, the figure was standing beside my husband while sleeping. I was shocked because it had never been interested in him before. The fact that it was even on his side of the bed scared me. The only thing I could do this year to keep it away was to have my 12 year old dog sleep with me, as if protection. However, she got mammalian cancer is died this year. Now I’m just waiting for it to come back. I think after reading everyone elses posts I will try and come up with some way of protecting myself from it since it fills me with such dread and fear. It can’t be a good thing and it’s defintiely not a fun experience I would wish on anyone.
about 1 year ago
Any people with these stories please contact me at brian@extremeparanormalinvestigators.com. Would like to speak with you.
about 6 months ago
I have had many encounters with these “shadow people”. I think they feed on negative energy myself. I used to see them all the time when I was younger around 16-21 years of age. I had one encounter that I do consider the rarest of them all. A shadow person was standing in my brightly lit room facing me and did not flee or disappear, it instead walked towards me and raised very human like arms trying to grab me. I screamed and it went away but It took a long time to be able to feel comfortable going to sleep again. I don’t really see shadow people anymore I’m 25 now and have seen maybe 2 this year just for an instant at a time.
about 6 months ago
Seeing a shadow person in a lit room is rare indeed. I’m curious how tall they are when you’ve seen them in the past.
Catching them out of the corner or your eye is definitely more common, I can personally only say I’ve had that experience.