Shadow People and The Hat Man | Who are they? What do they want?

[Music]. here's how it happens you're drifting. off to sleep or maybe you wake up in the. middle of the night you feel a presence. in the room you see something out of the. corner of your eye you try to look but. you can't move you try to call out but. you're unable to make a sound there's an. invisible weight on your chest even. breathing is difficult you strain to. look and then you see it the shadow of a. person you can't detect any features but. every Instinct you have tells you this. entity is not friendly you hear a light. hum and maybe a rush of air and the dark.

entity vanishes you've just encountered. a shadow person now this one was pretty. benign but there are some shadow people. sightings that are more intense more. real these encounters can be traumatic. and in some cases violent I should know. because it happened to me. foreign. culture has their own paranormal Legends. Asian cultures European American and so. on some myths exist in cultural subsets.

like religions and individual countries. even small towns and neighborhoods have. their own Legends people raised in. Michigan might not know what a. chupacabra is but they've heard of the. dog man Americans might laugh at the. story of Krampus the evil version of. Santa Claus who is half goat half demon. and punishes children but mention him to. kids in Germany or Austria and they. won't find it funny visitors to. Ronkonkoma New York enjoy swimming in. the Clear Lake in the middle of town but. locals don't go in the water out of fear.

of tuscawanta the Algonquin princess who. drowns one young man every year in. search of true love or the crib kit the. what no the crab cat all goldfish are. afraid of him he's half crib half cat. who works in a sushi body underworld. they have sushi in the Underworld before. the crib kid appears you hear him. sharpening his blade and the room will. smell like sake it's crab cat catches. you he meows Omakase then he cuts off. one of your fins and you spend all of.

eternity swimming in circles circles oh. because he cuts off one thing. Fear The Crab cat whether a chupacabra. evil Santa Claus or a crab cat these. stories couldn't be any more different. but one Legend is universal Shadow. People shadow people are seen in every. culture on Earth and Shadow People. encounters have been happening for. thousands of years and of all the. thousands or maybe millions of Shadow. People encounters over the years the.

descriptions are eerily similar most. often they appear as nothing more than. Silhouettes they lack defining. characteristics you can feel that there. are facial features there but you can't. see them the majority of Shadow people's. sightings happen when you're in bed at. night though they have been seen outside. especially in dark wooded areas but a. few shadow people have been seen in. broad daylight it's not uncommon to hear. a humming or a buzzing or a whooshing. sound when a shadow person is present. and some people hear electricity and. some people hear the shadow person.

Whispering or even screaming in their. ear in most cases the shadow people will. disappear when you see them they'll zip. into a corner fly through a wall or just. fade away but in some rare cases shadow. people don't disappear they become more. clear and detailed and in very rare. cases shadow people can be violent. hey Jane hecklefish the first attached. image was from the West Virginia. Penitentiary in Moundsville West. Virginia it's a really tricky place that.

my paranormal team and myself have. investigated many times this was. captured in the cafeteria by our night. vision camera we investigate in complete. darkness and heard movement behind us. the camera captured this figure and it's. known to haunt this location the second. attached image was caught by Oakmont. paranormal in a joint investigation of. the Andrew Carnegie Library and Music. Hall in Pittsburgh it looks to have. glowy eyes the lady sitting in front of. the figure called our attention to the.

movement around her and said that she. was feeling sick. we're gonna do a complete walk through. hope you guys say something or do. something good online it's God no oh.

[Music]. the Choctaw have been in America for. almost 4 000 years they were among the. Five Civilized Tribes as described by. Europeans meaning the Choctaw had an. organized and advanced Society they had. a high literacy rate they had. centralized governments with written. constitutions they had a merchant class. and would trade with other tribes as. well as with Europeans the Choctaw would. accept white and black people into their.

tribes through marriage and despite all. these modern sensibilities the Choctaw. had a rich mythology they have a story. about the nalusa Cheeto this is a shadow. being who appears when someone allows. evil thoughts to enter their mind the. new lucachito appears while they're. sleeping and devours their soul these. entities are so terrifying to the. Choctaw that to this day many people. will not say the name the Choctaw also. have an elusivelya which literally. translates to long black being this is a. shadow person who lives in the woods and.

appears at dusk to torment hunters and. children who stray too far from Camp. cultures from all over the world have. similar Legends medieval Europeans fear. the incubus who assaults women while. they sleep the succubus assaults men the. word nightmare comes from ancient. Germanic or Norse a mayor or Mara is a. demon that sits on your chest and tries. to strangle you while you sleep this. creature is known as kikimura to. Russians Czechs and poles even the. Sumerians 5 000 years ago told stories.

of the Aloo the aloe roams the night. searching for victims who are asleep the. Aloo can paralyze you possess you and. put you in a coma in Arabian and Islamic. mythology and theology Jinn are. supernatural creatures created from. smokeless and scorching fire many. Muslims believe the Jinn are real an. individual member of the Gin is known as. a Ginny and this is where we get the. word Genie like rub the lamp Genie yep. oh no.

princess. strongest and regular men definitely. he's faced the Galloping hoods a hundred. bad guys with swords who sent the dunes. today was by Prince Ali. oh you didn't see that coming I did I. was just hoping to avoid it. the Gin are typically invisible but when. they want to be seen they can take any. shape they want they're often seen as.

large shadowy figures gender able to. take control of a human's body but they. can only do this if the victim is in a. weakened State feelings of unhappiness. and depression can make someone. vulnerable to a gin Jin have free will. and could be either good or evil the. good ones will support assist or protect. humans but the evil ones they can kill. you. [Music]. at a job site there were more than a few. of them could never looked at them. straight on or they were Danish the dogs.

react to them every time they appeared. everyone at the job site saw them the. site was up in the northern California. Foothills near Copperopolis this area. was active Native American territory. also was very active during the gold. rush I would be sitting in a chair in. the guard shack looking down the long. driveway when something would catch my. eye in my peripheral view if I turn. forward to a bit of a fetish and I. focused my view down the road I can see. the outline of a person mostly like a.

shadow as if the Apparition absorbed. light rather than reflect a part of our. Pass Downs involved at sharing what the. shadow people did during that shift too. many corroborated witness accounts to. write it off. foreign. [Music].

Americans are familiar with the Vietnam. War the proxy war between Cold War. superpowers that lasted from 1955 to. 1975. but what about the laosian Civil. War which happened at the same time it. was fought between the kingdom of Laos. supported by the United States and its. allies against Lao Communists it's also. known as the secret war in American. intelligence circles because CIA. recruited thousands of fighters from the. local Hmong population to hold back the.

Communists well the secret war did not. go well for the CIA the Hmong people. became refugees and thousands of them. fled to the United States when the Hmong. arrived in America suddenly young. healthy men were dying in their sleep. over a hundred men died this way and. doctors had no idea what caused it but. the Hmong did know it caused it they. believe in an evil night spirit that. sits on your chest until you suffocate. they call it a pressure demon but as. long as you're faithful to your rituals. and keep your ceremonial objects near.

your bed you're safe the mom believes. that they were being punished by Shadow. entities for leaving their Homeland to. this day there's no medical explanation. as to why all these young men died when. this story appeared in the LA Times Wes. Craven was inspired to write a nightmare. in Elm Street Freddy Krueger is actually. based on a shadow person and as frequent. as Shadow People encounters were. throughout history it seemed to be a. fringe phenomenon something that. happened in Far Away lands and ancient. civilizations nobody knew how common.

Shadow people's sightings were but all. of that would change in 2001 when shadow. people would go mainstream. when I was on active duty in the Marine. Corps stationed at Camp Pendleton. California I had to encountered with the. shadow person late at night on a weekend. I was alone in the barracks Stone Cold. Sober my roommate was on the other side. of the base as I go to bed I turn over. and slightly open my eyes at this point. I see a shadowy figure come out from my.

roommate's closet and walked to his bed. I could see arms and legs moving I see. it literally crawl into his bed and. clear as day I see the thing turn over. like it was looking at me in a panic I. back into the wall never blinking and. staring at what I just saw I grabbed my. phone and turned the flashlight on only. to see the bed ending a few weeks later. I finally tell my roommate what I saw. and he was speechless and said he saw. something similar a few days before I. told him it's really difficult.

somebody in there. find one find something. somebody's in there they come out. [Music]. [Music].

my husband and I are paranormal. investigators we lived in Oklahoma we. decided to check out the Joplin's book. light I just turned the car off while my. husband said he could hear a. conversation coming from the field next. to us we didn't think anyone would be. out in the dark in the cold rain just. having a conversation as it looked past. my husband toward the field I saw from. the corner of my eye the light shining. into the car was being blocked starting. from the left to the right I quickly.

turned my head and watched this one two. three four Shadows ran behind the car. and completely blocked the light from. the yard light although he had driven. about a hundred miles to investigate the. spoke light I put the car in gear and. knocked it out of there after parking. for less than three minutes my belief. anyway is that shadow people don't. really have anyone's best interest at. heart and I prefer not to spend time in. the company. [Music].

thank you. for you. [Music]. foreign.

[Music]. [Music]. [Music]. in April 2001 Art Bell took a random.

call on Coast to Coast AM the caller. told Art a story about Shadow People. nobody had ever heard of shadow people. before at least not by this name but art. found the story interesting and asked if. anyone else in the audience had a. similar encounter well 4 500 stories. came in and last week I asked viewers of. the y-files to send their Shadow People. stories we got almost 300 submissions in. one day not bill got way more than you. well of course he did he's Art Bell. you're jealous I'm not jealous it's not.

a competition well yeah that's with. someone who loses a competition says I'm. not competing with Art Bell oh that's. abundantly clear. shadow people will fall into one of a. few types the first is just a black mist. without any form it may look like a. cloud of slowly moving smoke you know. this is a shadow person because you can. feel a presence or a negative energy in. the room next human-shaped Shadows these. Shadow People clearly have a body Head. and Shoulders but you can't make out any. features even though you can't see their.

face you still get the sense it's. looking at you like the black mist. Shadows these typically disappear when. you look directly at them and this. encounter is the most common. [Music]. foreign. [Music]. I was experiencing a lot of turmoil in.

my life due to an alcoholic and abusive. father at this point is when the shadow. people started appearing never doing. anything just watching it scared me but. I dare not say anything for fear of. being beaten as the years passed my. paranormal experiences increased to. Beyond Shadow People I started seeing. and interacting with full apparitions. once I was with my best friend as a. teenager and a man walked up to us and. just said everything is going to be okay.

even walked past us and vanished my. friend just stood there speechless and. in shock when I asked him if he knew. that man he said yes he's my uncle but. he died two years ago as a young man. while in the military that was stationed. at Subic Bay naval base in the. Philippines there many of the locals. witnessed Shadow People apparitions. around me the Filipinos would get scared. and claimed the Oswald we're following. moving up in severity there is the. Demonic shadow person these are.

considered very dangerous they're. similar to human-shaped Shadows but. these have glowing red or yellow eyes. and this creature will speak to you. taunt you and threaten you and your. family sometimes the room will smell. like sulfur and often this entity will. grab you or even try to strangle you a. more specific shadow person is called. the old hag this entity takes the shape. of an old woman with features that you. can see and she looks like what western. cultures would consider a typical witch. the old hag will paralyze you climb on.

top of you and sometimes try to choke. you and this is another Shadow being. that you can physically feel. my wife and I are on vacation in the. mountains in the middle of our first. night I woke up to the sound of. whispering coming from a corner of the. room I turned to look and realized I. couldn't move then I heard footsteps on. the carpet like the sound of feet. dragging starting to get scared I. desperately tried to move but I still. couldn't I tried to wake up my wife but. I couldn't speak then I felt something. sit on the side of my bed I still.

couldn't move but I felt an ice cold. hand on my face and fingers running. through my hair then I felt hot breath. in my ear and a raspy voice whispered. well that put me in full-blown panic but. I was still paralyzed then I saw it it. was an old woman who looked like a witch. she climbed on top of me and smiled this. evil smile all I could hear was her. heavy breath and the sound of my heart.

pumping through my ears while holding me. down she started tearing at my clothes I. don't want to get too graphic but she. was violating as the terror Rose I. fought and fought against her but this. just made her laugh finally I could move. and she was gone I told my wife what. happened we stayed the next two nights. on the couch and didn't even go into the. bedroom I was so shaken by the encounter. that we ended our trip early I don't. believe in ghosts and I'm not sure I. believe in Shadow People but what. happened to me felt real to this day.

I've never been more frightened in my. life then there's a shadow person known. as the Hat man he's usually an extremely. large shadow creature who wears a. wide-brimmed hat again Freddy Krueger. was a hat man and sightings of the. Batman have been increasing and many. people believe that the hatman is a. warning a sign of the end of times. my story took place in 2003 when I was. 17 years old I had the single most. terrifying experience of my life I was.

asleep in my room when I suddenly woke. up paralyzed and sensing an unease in. the room despite being awake I was. unable to move any cord of my body. except for my eyes I knew I was awake. because I can hear the TV that had been. left on in the upstairs living room. directly above me as I scanned the room. I noticed movement to my right in the. corner of the room the figure seemed to. appear from the Shadows standing as tall. as my ceiling menacingly hunched over it. had no noticeable features like eyes or.

a mouth the figure was dressed in a tall. top hat and slowly floated towards me. its fingers stretching out and seeming. to grow in length as I reached out for. me I felt a genuine sense of complete. Terror wash over me like I had never. felt before almost like the feeling of. dread was being imposed On Me by this. being. The Entity moved closer and closer and. its hand raised in my direction almost. in slow motion and I felt the visceral. sense of evil emanating from the figure.

a feeling that I had never experienced. before and have not felt sense despite. the fear that gripped me I was also. terrified by the intensity of the. movement and the Eerie unnatural. movement of the shadowy figure only when. the fear became overwhelmingly intense. did I finally step out of the paralysis. I am a logical reasonable person and I. did not believe in the Paranormal that. is why after the initial Terror left me. I found my whole experience to be rather. entertaining I mean the top app was just.

ridiculous I never once believed that my. experience was real and I thought that I. was simply experiencing a waking dream. it wasn't until several years later when. I was watching a documentary on Netflix. called the nightmare that I started to. feel like maybe it wasn't just a. hallucination I experienced all those. years earlier after several minutes into. this documentary someone was recounting. their paralysis experience and they. showed a sketch of what they had. experienced to my shock and disbelief.

this sketch was the exact same hatman. figure that I had seen nearly 10 years. earlier I mean exact same how is this. possible I paused the show completely. Frozen in disbelief as for the first. time I knew that I had experienced. something otherworldly that others were. apparently also experiencing seeing a. shadowy human figure was easy for me to. attribute to some sort of common. psychological human manifestation but. the commonality of that very unique top.

hat which held no significance to me was. impossible to explain and shook me to my. core. Batman is a type of Shadow being but he. has some traits that make him unique. obviously the most notable feature of. the hatman Shadow entity is his hat oh. is it it's not his button-down cut. against sweater the type of hat varies. by culture some say it's a fedora like. Freddy Krueger some say it's a top hat. in South America they say he wears a. gaucho hat but regardless of who sees.

him the hat is always wide brimmed. sometimes the Hat man has glowing eyes. Witnesses say he wears a cloak or a. trench coat he's always tall sometimes. he stands over 10 feet high one thing. everyone agrees on seeing the hatman is. bad news we were living in a house where. a lady hung herself from the rafters of. the Living World upstairs was condemned. used to be two apartments there was so. much activity up there you would have. thought the apartments were occupied. once the landlord came to fix a leak. from up there I told him about the.

activity he said no way anyone is up. there it's locked it's impossible I told. him there's constant walking around. constant it banging like someone is. moving furniture a couple of days later. my wife and I started hearing the sound. of one of those springy things that. stopped the door from hitting the wall. just over and over again brown brown. and it's right behind our door we open. the door and the noise is still. happening but there's no springy thing. nowhere for the noise to be coming from. but it's still happening we looked at.

each other baffled after two minutes of. the noise it stops the broom is leaning. behind the bunk bed and it flies out and. falls over the dog is spooked and right. there in the trash can slides about five. feet stopping right before the dog he. freaks and he's ready to get out of the. room later in the night our. three-year-old daughter wants to sleep. with us she's in the middle of my wife. and I and at exactly 3am I'm woken up. and standing over me is the tallest.

shadow person I've ever seen our roof is. eight feet and he was hunched over. staring directly at me he had a top hat. on and you can see the white in his eyes. and he grinned and I saw white in his. mouth white teeth so naturally covered. my head and grabbed my baby girl and. wife looked about three to four minutes. later and he was gone scared the bejesus. out of me. the Hat man can create or is attracted. to negative energy bad luck illness even. death follow the Hat man I saw the Hat.

Man in 2003 I was lying in bed ready to. go to sleep with my boyfriend beside me. I was laying there and looked up and saw. the Hat man standing behind the door I. had never heard about the Hat Man or. shadow people and I thought I was seeing. things or that it was because I had. taken a sleeping pill that night I said. there's a man behind the door my. boyfriend said shut up and go to sleep. that should tell you how concerned about. it we were I eventually went to sleep. and thought nothing else about it my. boyfriend died in this league later that.

year which within a few months of this. happening. sometimes the Hat man brings visions of. a future apocalypse some people who've. seen him said he showed them a dark. future nuclear war worldwide disease and. famine the hatman sometimes gets. attached to entire families where. multiple people can see him and once he. latches on it's almost impossible to get. rid of him some people even see him away. from their homes and in daylight this. happened to me 10 years ago when I was a. teenager I was sitting alone at the.

kitchen table eating then a sense of. dread at downright paralysis came over. me and I was compelled to look at the. kitchen door right there I can clearly. see the shadow of a man with a hat in. glowing yellow eyes I could only watch. not being able to move a muscle his face. was practically a shadow but I felt him. smile in a condescending Manner and just. like that he rattled the corner and. disappeared I'm 100 sure of what I saw. my taste could not be discounted as. sleep paralysis because I was wide awake.

it was broad daylight around 2 or 3 P.M. so who is the Hat Man what are Shadow. People some say ghosts some say they're. from another time or another dimension. others say they're from another planet. [Music]. there is no consensus among paranormal. researchers as to what shadow people are. but the theories are interesting the. obvious theory is that shadow people are. ghosts and when they appear it's a kind. of Haunting but ghosts typically reveal.

themselves as light or energy not Shadow. and ghosts usually have defined features. and clothing so I don't think that's. right another theory is that the Shadows. are astral projections of people who are. having out-of-body experiences I. disagree with this one too people who. report seeing astral bodies or astral. projections describe them more like. ghosts than Shadows astral projections. usually have features and are usually. light not dark a very interesting theory. is that shadow people are. interdimensional Travelers maybe the.

Shadows are actually people from other. dimensions or realities and are here to. observe maybe the shadow person you see. is actually you From Another Dimension. or another timeline a common theory is. that shadow people are demons Christians. who see the hatman have no doubt that he. is a demon women or the Devil Himself. and there's everybody's favorite theory. that shadow people are aliens there are. many Shadow People encounters where the. entity has large eyes and a small mouth. some people who've seen this type of. Shadow beings say once they focus it.

becomes less like a shadow and more like. a creature that's actually there also. reports of shadow people sightings are. extremely common among alien abductees. maybe the aliens are checking up on. their experiment or maybe abductions. begin with the alien emerging from the. Shadows to take them away alien. abductees sometimes report shadow people. as being blue shadows and not very tall. and blue Shadows are seen outside just. as often as they're seen inside some. people believe the aliens are using a. cloaking device or other technology that.

gives them a shadowy appearance this. technology also helps them walk through. walls or Disappear Completely encounters. with shadow people feel so real that. those who see them question their own. sanity this is why many if not most. Shadow being encounters go unreported. the big question is is there a logical. rational scientific explanation for. shadow people well I've got good news. and I've got bad news. we usually think of being asleep and.

being awake as too distinct and clearly. defined States and usually they are but. inside your brain that line can be a bit. blurry when you're dreaming most of your. brain thinks you're awake if you're. dreaming that you're running playing a. sport or any physical activity your. brain thinks this is really happening. and your muscles want to engage with. whatever you're dreaming about obviously. trying to slay a dragon Full Of Orcs. while you're tucked in next to the wife. would be a problem go ahead and tell him. you're speaking for personal experience. I don't want to talk about it you know.

wearing all that armor to bed isn't. helping your sex life I said leave it. alone and it's beyond me how anyone can. sleep in a wooden Cod piece okay that's. enough so while you dream your brain. switches off your muscles this is called. muscle atonia involuntary muscles still. work breathing heartbeat digestion. peristalsis but voluntary motor. functions are shut down this shutdown. occurs during hypnagogia the transition. from wakefulness to sleep during. hypnopia the transition to being awake. your muscles are turned back on you're.

asleep during this process so you don't. notice it but sometimes the brain's. wires get crossed and you're conscious. while your muscles are shutting down. have you ever been drifting off to sleep. then suddenly you jerk or kick this. happens when your brain is out of sync. with your sleep cycle you slipped into a. dream before your brain had a chance to. completely shut down your muscles you'll. notice it's happening more often when. you're over tired but sometimes your. brain gets so out of sync that you can. suffer from sleep paralysis this is when. you are fully conscious while your.

muscles are Switched Off you're. completely awake but you can't move you. can't turn your head you can't speak all. you can do is move your eyes and. sometimes you can't even do that sleep. paralysis usually just lasts for a few. seconds but sometimes it can go on for a. few minutes and this could be terrifying. during sleep paralysis sometimes you see. and hear things that aren't there these. are a hypnagogic hallucinations and. remember even though you're awake you're. still close enough to the dream state. that your brain stem can activate the. dream mechanism and conjure all kinds of.

things so the hallucinations can feel. very real not only can you have Visual. and auditory hallucinations you can. experience some aesthetic hallucinations. this is when your body can feel. something that isn't there the cherry on. top of this horrible experience is the. negativity that occurs there aren't a. lot of happy stories about sleep. paralysis this is because when you're. sleeping your brain has a deficit of the. neurotransmitter serotonin and dopamine. this causes low mood depression and fear.

the reason Shadow People encounters. sound so similar is that humans are all. built pretty much the same way it would. be logical for us to hallucinate the. same things but those who believe in. shadow people think there's more going. on than just sleep paralysis the. encounters described are too similar. regardless of Age religion or culture. people see the same Shadow beings. Believers say shadow entities appear. while we're sleeping because that's when. we're most vulnerable so let's all hope. that sleep paralysis creates Shadow. People it because I could think of. nothing more frightening than it being.

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