Shadow People - What's the story

Hi guys and girls. The discussion on this thread is a subject that has touched many people including me and one of my friends. Shadow people. If you don't know what shadow people are, you can google it and find out a lot of information regarding this phenomena. I myself experienced one of the most classic Shadow People encounters.

It was about 4 years ago now, and the story starts with my close friends experiencing something that terrified him. He and his girlfriend were up one night watching tv, he decided to go to bed as he had work in the morning quite early. He said goodnight and went up to their room. After getting in bed he lay there for a while thinking, as you do before you fall asleep. Minutes later, he felt a strange tingling all over his body, then the duvet (blanket) pull tight around him, he assumed it was there dog and was about to tell her off when he realised he couldn't speak. Panicked, he tried to move and couldn't, not even an inch. He looked down to the bottom of the bed and saw a shadow moving slowly across, past his feet. He tried to move with all his might but he could not, no matter how he strained. He tried to call for his girlfriend, then the dog, but was not able to. After panicking more, he began screaming at it in his head, saying "get out of my house, get out of my house!"
Amazingly it passed across the room and left through the slightly ajar door. As soon as it was out of sight he could move again, literally instantly. At once he screamed out for help and his girlfriend downstairs was scared out of her skin and ran out to the hallway where she saw him stumbling down the stairs, and i quote, as if he was "pissed out of his face" (very very drunk). He explained what had happened and for weeks and weeks he would not sleep in there.

A few weeks later

i had recently lost the place i was living in and had to move back with my parents for a little while whilst i sorted something out. one night i was falling asleep at about midnight i guess, i lay there, my mind wndering when i felt a strange almost pins and needles feeling all over, not painfull, kinda tingly. That reminded me of my friends experience and i tried to move and couldn't. I knew the switch for my lamp hung just behing my bed, but i just couldnt move. I decided not to open my eyes cos i didnt wanna freak out, instead I remembered what had worked for my friend and how he got rid of it. So in my head i screamed for it to go away (in a bit more of a firm wording) and it did, i could move instantly, i reached up and put my light on, then sat up in bed. I felt weak, really weak, and i just sat there for a while. I put the tv on, got a drink and sat up till about 4, when it started to get light, then i went to sleep.

The next dy i rang my friend and tol him what had happened, we shared more details and were stunned at how many similarities there were in how we felt afterwards, weak, fatigued, clumsy.

This experience changed the way i look at the world completely, i already saw a lot of wierd things, but this was in my home, where i grew up as a kid. Crazy. Any thoughts and/or similar experiences would be great guys.

Thanks for reading ppl

I am 40 years old and I remember my experience 26 years ago like it was yesterday. I was 14 or 15, it was long ago like I said, and I awoke in the middle of the night to see shadow on my door. The way "he" was standing it appeared to me that the person had to have been standing in the hallway casting the shadow onto my door.

It did not move. It was as still, waiting, silent. Almost as if I caught it watching me and it wasn't going to move till I fell asleep again. I was so scared.

I remember the shadow had some sort of long jacket with a short collar and the hat was more like a fedora, like Indiana jones. Scared the living hell out of me.

Trust me, I often ask what happened next? I don't remember. I must have fallen asleep again. I don't remember anything after except asking my dad that morning if he was standing outside my door with a fedora and a jacket on while not moving. Yes, he did look at me funny, and then answered no.

What scares me is that this was before I had internet. I felt alone when telling people what happened during the following weeks after. Once I started seeing the phenomenon online a few years ago I was even more scared that other people experienced almost this same exact thing.

Is it real? I don't know, but it's real enough to me. If it was a trick of the mind then ALOT of brains like to play the same trick on their people.

The hat men phenomenon is real. The hats may be different, but that shouldn't matter. Real shadows or tricks of the mind....they are real either way to us who have seen them. That was my only experience with it.

listen no joke, myself and my step-daughter have seen dark shadows walking..or floating around our house... scared the livied poo right out me.we were watchin tv and like all of a sudden we both looked down the hallway and sure enough there was a shadow about the size of a person that just turned and went down the hallway away from us. I went through the whole house,nothing,we both assured each other that we did see this thing. like I said tripped us out....

We moved eventually,and yes either they followed us ,or they were at the new house before,but I started to see them in the new place,daytime and night time, daytime was really weird i mean the house was full of sunlight,and there was just this dark like cloud figure,by the way we cannot talk about this with my wife she completely freaks out.i beleive she has had an episode like we have had but wont say.. I know that the shadows have followed us to three 3 different homes, we are curently in our fouth house and have ahd no experinces here........YET...

my two dogs noticed something also .to this day I watch my animals for any weird signs BELEIVE IT

FINALLY! A THREAD I HAVE EXPRIENCE IN!! Okay, while I have no had exprience like most of the comment posters, I do know what you mean by shadow people, or to an extent at least. In our house, which is about 80+ years old, there's this shadow like prescene on the second floor hallway. Me, my mom, dad, brother, sister and brother's girlfriend have all seen it at one point or another.

Sometimes at night, sometimes in daylight. It's always this shadow like human-figure at the corner of your vision, but when you turn to look for it, nothing is there. I swear I almost screamed when I first saw it, took me hours to get back to sleep.

So...I'm pretty sure it's not the same as the Shadow People you all are talking about, but I thought I would bring it up just in case there are any similiarities.

On an off-topic subject...any of the older 70s generation heard of Candle Cove?

Hi people, just wanna say thanks for all the info and personal stories shared on my first thread, gave me a lot more than i could of hoped for,

THATS WHY I LOVE ATS!!! Thanks again

About two years ago my very best friends told me of how he woke up and was inable to move he said he could not even breathe. He said it was as if a shadow was just hanging over the top of his body, before I had heard of this specific phenomenon I just thought it were a ghost but the way he described it is eerily accurate to the details of yours and your friends story. Im going to tell him about this.

my first home i lived in to age 8 had many strange activities among them what i called shadow people. they looked a lot like the stick figures on traffic signs. they would emerge from shadows and jump out of this paisley print wall paper that was in most of the rooms, most of the time i'd be too frightened to do anything, but i once got so scared i knocked over a humidifier that was on the nightstand between me and my older brothers bed. lots of screaming and crying that night. my brother and i shared a room but he never recalls seeing anything but he could sleep through a nuclear holocaust.

they didn't seem to come close to me while in bed just linger around the room then i'd fall asleep. however i had a strange habit of waking up in weird places other than my bed .. behind a couch, on a couch, on the bathroom floor, at the foot of my parents bed, in our toyroom, etc. i have one memory of being carried by one of the shadow people, unable to move or talk i'm unsure where i was originally but they carried me back to my bed that time.

i haven't had any experiences like that since moving out of that house. i sometimes act weird around mirrors when roaming my house at night but i have yet to see or experiencing anything freaky