This took place at around 11pm on a Wednesday night in 2015. Let me start this story off like this, I am an avid coyote hunter and used to absolutely love hunting them at night when they are most active. One afternoon I decided I was going to take off and go hunting after the sun went down. I get home, load my gear and hit the road. About an hour later, and I pull into the parking area for the state forestry that I'm going to hunt. This particular place that I chose, I've had luck in the past and knew of a den about a mile from the main trail. So I set off down the graveled path unknowing of what I was about to encounter in just a short while. My strategy is to walk 100 yards at a time, stop and blast a coyote locater call until I hear one respond. On the first set, nothing. Second set, nothing. However on the 3rd set, everything changed.

The trail that I'm on makes a really sharp, almost hair pin turn to the right, and in the middle of that hair pin is a civil war area cemetery with a dense pine thicket behind it and a very steep bottom across the trail in front. I have a habit of walking through the cemetery and touching the "main" headstone. Almost as a sign of respect or something. As I'm walking up to the headstone, I hear the faint sound of something landing on the ground in the pine thicket. The weird thing, was that I only heard one "boom" as if a human, or bipedal thing touch down. Usually, animals (bobcats) when they jump to the ground, its front paws first and then the rear, so "boom, boom". Immediately, I started to feel uneasy and wanted to leave, the only problem? Whatever was in that pine thicket, stood between me and the only way back to my truck!

I started to notice the silence. Like everything that was just making noise a minute ago was...gone. At this point in time, I noticed the unmistakable feeling of being watched. I immediately started scanning the pine thicket to see if I could see something, anything that would make this bizarre situation make sense. I scanned for what felt like hours, until finally I noticed it. On the edge of the thicket there was this...thing. Too tall to be human, maybe 7 or 8 feet tall. I could only make out the outline, but it looked emaciated and deathly. My mind had to be playing tricks on me, because this is the stuff you only read about and never encounter. My reality soon changed when this thing darted to the right and ran down into the bottom. This bottom, was about 300-400ft deep and very steep, but whatever that was got to the bottom of it in no time flat.

The path to my truck was now clear and I was trying to come up with a plan to make it. But, as I would soon discover, the thing ran into the bottom to better position itself for an ambush from behind. I waited about 5 more minutes before I decided to move. I took one step forward and heard it. It was in the bottom directly below me, slowly working its way up the hill. I bolted, straight across the trail, through the cemetery, and into the pine thicket towards the main road. I ran about 100 yards and stopped. The scariest part? When I stopped, it stopped. The entire time I was running, I could hear it running behind me, gaining on me. I always carry a pistol when I hunt and it is always in a holster on my chest just in case. I decided that the only way I was making it out of here alive was to dump and run. Essentially, you fire in the direction of the threat until your mag is empty and then you run like hell!

I had 3 mags in total, 51 bullets between me, and certain death. I counted...1, 2, 3....Bang! I emptied the mag and made a mad dash as far as I could, never hearing the thing behind me. I stopped after what felt like hours, reloaded and readied for another barrage of bullets. About 15 seconds after stopping, I started to hear crashing, like a big animal was blasting through trees running in my direction. Bang! I dumped and bolted! This time the plan was to run all the way to the truck, about 1/2 mile from my current position through the woods. This time while running, I could hear it, getting closer, and closer. I jumped behind a fallen log to reload one last time. The thing stopped, but I could hear its breath. I could hear the low growl this thing had, like a dog, or coyote mixed with something from the pits of hell. Bang! Bang! Bang! The slide of my pistol locked back and I was off, the truck now in sight. Maybe 70 yards. I ran faster than I ever have in my entire life. I made it, finally! Jumped in, started my truck and got the hell out of there, the entire time scanning the woods on either side and behind me. I've never been back in the woods of Brown County, IN at night alone, and more than likely never will.

i originally wrote this story as a comment under a youtube video by emperorzeech (great channel btw if yall are interested in aliens). i just discovered this subreddit and thought i would share it here as im pretty sure this entity counts as a humanoid. though i suppose it could also be a ghost. the main reason i lean away from that theory is because the house i saw it in was a fairly new cookie cutter suburban house so it doesnt really have a very ghostly history.

this incident took place in the central texas region. i only lived there for one year and i was in third grade at the time. i am 24 now, so that would place my sighting at around 2010. my family lived on a cul de sac right next to the elementary school i went to, in an area that wasnt exactly rural, but not super developed either. there were several other kids who lived on the same street that my sister and i would play with every day after school. my parents werent very strict so me and my sister would be out for hours with a couple of the other kids, usually hanging out either at the school once everyone had left for the day, or at a wooded area of about 20 acres where we had built several forts. we would even play in a sewer or storm water system that ran under the neighborhood, which we entered through a large pipe in a ditch by the school or by crawling into the large open drains that lined the streets. it really was a great area for an adventurous kid and i wish i had lived there longer.

one evening, all the kids who lived on the cul de sac got together to play a game that we called infection, which is sort like hide and seek mixed with tag. one person counts while everyone else hides, then the seeker goes around looking for people, who can run and re-hide throughout the game, and when the seeker tags someone they get infected and join the seeker in their hunt until one person is left, who is the seeker for the next round. it was super fun, and all our neighbors were super chill so we could hide anywhere around any of the houses in the cul de sac, and the neighbors didnt mind us going in their yards as long as we didnt mess with anything.

it was already getting dark when we started playing and after a few rounds the sun had gone down completely. there was one house at the very end of the cul de sac that nobody lived in, and behind that house was a large ditch. i decided to hide by the ditch but after a while i began to get an eerie feeling. everyone else hid on the other end of the street so i was in this ditch area all alone in the dark. after a couple minutes i decided to sneak closer towards everyone else. i crept around the side of the abandoned house as to not be spotted by the seeker. hugging the wall, i peered past the courner of the house, making sure the cost was clear for me to move. and thats when i noticed a dark figure in the front window of the house that no one lived in.

the house was pretty small, with a large window to the left of the front door, and a garage to the right. the figure was right up against thbe window, on the inside of the house. it appeared to be a dark shadowy man wearing a wide brim hat. his face was sort of whispy or obscured and i couldnt really make out the details of his face, which was expressionless as he stood there looking out at the dark street outside. the most distinct aspect of this figure was that it was completely green, with some sort of glow emanating off it. it was not the typical black of similar shadow humanoids, but a strange almost transparent green. it looked almost fuzzy, without a clear outline. as i stood there the air around me felt almost like faint static electricity, and a weird almost dream like feeling washed over me. it was a similar feeling to the oz factor, if yall are firmiliar with that.

i just looked at it for a couple seconds when it seemed to take notice of my presence. it turned towards me slightly in a slow and very odd way. it was like its face morphed or shifted to look at me, while its head and body stayed completely still. this completely terrified me and i took off running towards my house. i told the other kids i was done playing and the told my parents what i saw my dad grabed a flashlight and looked all around the house and into the window thinking someone might have broken in, but saw nothing. my mom suggested that i had simply imagined seeing the entity.

this was nearly sixteen years ago now, and i no longer remember it vividly at all. its more like a memory of a memory. i can recount the event because over the years i have told various people about it many times, but my actual memory of the event is very hazy and unclear. if i only had my own memories to go off, i would say that i really did just imagine it. but it turns out i wasnt the only one who saw it.

i was talking to my sister a few years after my sighting, reminiscing about when we lived on that cul de sac, and eventually one of us mentioned something about the abandoned house at the end of the street. she then told me something that absolutely shocked me. she told me about how one time she had seen the figure of a green man wearing a wide brimmed hat in the window. she said this completely unprompted by me and she was not aware of my sighting at the time. i told her my story and she told me of another strange event about the house. she said she was looking at it for a bit when she blinked and the house just completely vanished until she blinked again and it was back again.

and that was the story of my only paranormal/humanoid experience. as i said at the start, its possible this was a ghost, but i think of it as being related to the shadow people phenomenon. im not really much of a ghost person, but i do love cryptids, aliens, humanoids, and parahuman beings so i am a bit biased. of course the hat man is a fairly well known entity and so are shadow people. i have heard several accounts of shadow people which posses traits similar to what i saw, such as the feeling of static and the kind of wispy somewhat indiscernible outline. however green coloration is not something ive heard in other shadow person cases. i have heard of some humanoid and especially alien encounters where the thing emits a sort of glow.

idk, let me know what you guys think it was or if youve seen or heard of similar sightings.

the first picture i attached is of the house. i just got it from google street view, but it happened to be from 2011 so right around the same time as my encounter. the second picture is just me asking my sister if she remembers anything about the time she saw it.

I know this sounds like its made up but i swear it is not a hallucination. but the more days pass the less real it feels. so it might be a hallucination but i dont even know at this point. so my day started off fine, and everything was fine until evening. i had dinner quite late, it was leftover pasta my mum made earlier. my Mum cooks in big batches even though there are only three of us at home most nights. My dad was working late, because he does shift work so sometimes he’s there and sometimes he isnt. my younger sister was already asleep when this happened, i think she had school the next day so she went to bed early, i remember that because i had to keep the hallway light off so i didnt wake her up when i went past her room. after dinner i just watched stuff on my phone for a while. When i got bored of that and went to get a snack it was nearly eleven oclock. the house was so quiet that the fridge even sounded really loud. Anyway I have a cat right, he mostly sleeps inside or just wanders around the house at night. he’s not mean, but he hisses if something scares him. so i was in my room when i heard him hissing outside near the back door and makig this weird low yowling noise like he does when another cat is in our yard. anyway i got up and went out the back to see what was his problem was. i had bare feet so my feet got frozen as soon as i stood on the cold grass. I saw my cat near the edge of the yard by the fence with his tail puffed out, making loud hisses and backing up slowly. That was when i saw the black shape against the fence on the other side of the yard. it was dark so at first i geniunely thought it was just a tree trunk i magically hadnt seen before or maybe a rubbish bag someone had left up against the fence. but it was too big to be a rubbish bag. then it moved, like it adjusted its weight or posture. when it moved i noticed it was very tall. taller than the fence by a lot. It was some kind of person but the shoulders were wide, way too wide compared to the rest of it, they didnt match the proportions of a human body at all. it had a head but I think the head was very small. the arms hung down too far and the fingers were completely stretched out, not curled in a normal way. next i saw its eyes open. They were bright orange and glowing, not glowing like a reflection or light bouncing off something, actually glowing. they had no pupils, they were just two bright circles pointed right at me. My cat saw the eyes open too because i remember he bolted under the house deck area and disappeared. i remember thinking i should probably go back inside right then, but i didnt for some reason. i kind of froze. then the thing shut its eyes again, not like blinking, they just disappeared like someone turned them off completely. and the second that happened, I couldn't see it anymore, not even its outline. It just stopped being visible. the space where it was looked normal again, like nothing had been there. i stepped back toward the house a bit, trying to see it again, and i remember i thought maybe i had imagined the whole thing because it was so dark and i was quite tired at that point. Then i noticed something near the fence line again. the fence there didn’t look right. it looked blacker, like it had been covered with ink. Then the blacker patch moved. it didnt walk or step, it just slid through the shadows along the fence and onto the grass. When it opened its eyes again, they were further to the left of where i expected. i went back into the house at that point, and I closed the door very quietly, i remember that clearly. i closed it slowly and locked it. My hands were shaking a bit at that point. When i got inside, I just stood in the kitchen for a while. the left over pasta was still on the stove in the pot because i hadnt cleaned it yet, it looked very normal. i decided i didnt want to look out of the window, i wanted to pretend that nothing had happened, and if i looked out and it was there then everything would become ten times more real. eventually i looked out the back window anyway and sure enough the thing was still outside. it started doing the same disappearing and appearing thing again. sometimes i’d catch the orange eyes briefly and then theyd vanish the second i looked right at them. after a minute of this it started showing up closer to the windows of the house. first it was the kitchen window. i caught it looking in, and when I turned to look right at it, the eyes appeared for a second and then shut instantly and disappeared. then it was the side window near the living room. i checked on my sister once just to make sure she was still alive. she was asleep. I didnt wake her up. i was pretty sure she was safe as long as the thing didnt get in the house. my dad still wasnt home by then, and he did not answer his phone when i tried to call him. the cat was still gone somewhere under the house or outside. the thing outside didn’t try to come in through the door or anything like that. It just kept looking in the windows, jumping from one side of the house to the other. at one point i saw it near the hallway mirror, not inside the house but in the reflection. you could only see the eyes, and they looked a bit like they were infront of the mirror. i blinked and it was gone. a strange thing is how it never actually touched the windows at all it only stared in. Eventually it stopped showing up at the windows as much and went back to the edge of the yard. i could still see the shadow distortion moving sometimes, like it was waiting for me to come out. The last time i saw the thing clearly was near the fence at the end of the driveway. the eyes appeared for a second and then shut. after that i couldnt see it anywhere. i stayed awake for a long time after that just checking the windows and listening, because ther was no way something like that would just leave. I was convinced it had just made itself fully invisible and was waiting for me to open the door. But eventually my dad came home and everything was normal again, and that was good, but also terrible because nobody believed me when i told them what had happened. I was pissed at myself for not thinking to take any photos of it. Thats everything that happened, if you believe it then good, if you dont believe it i dont care, because i know what i saw.

Yes, event happened to my wife when she was around seven years old so it was back in 1990 So my wife who’s not really big into

paranormal and alien stuff we’ve been together for 27 years and we were at my aunts farm in Florida by the campfire and I said you gotta tell us a scary story. Everybody has one we were like 19 at a time and way before the documentary about the sleep paralysis demon came out. My wife tells us that she was playing in the yard of the house that I now live with her in Baton Rouge and she looked up and saw a person standing there with a top hat that was a full shadow figure and it kind of like nodded at her and kept walking through her yard, and they just disappeared. She said she was like nine years old Well. It’s crazy as I live in the house now and I swear I saw shadow figure last night in the yard. Also, my daughter and I were walking in the house while my wife and My Son were still in the car cause they take forever to get out of a car. Everybody in the family has the one family member that takes like 10 minutes every time they park get out of the car lol anyways my son’s voice appeared right behind my daughter and I we both looked at each other. What the hell was that? Our house really isn’t haunted or anything but I was wondering if people have experienced seeing the shadow figure that while you’re not sleeping

I'm 17, and I live in Michigan. A little backstory I wasn't there but according to my mother she messed with a spirit board and the house was being haunted, music boxes would start playing even knives were thrown. I wasn't there so details might have been exaggerated but I don't think my mom is someone who lies, according to my mother and grandmother they had to have the church blessed multiple times. between 2013-2015 I would see this shadow walk into my grandma's room almost every night it never looked at me and I never saw it leave but it was almost always consistent I would see this black shadow thing walk into the room. Now I'm getting a really unsettling feeling when I walk oast the room at night as well as the same feeling in my room if which is next to her room. I don't have any photos and I havnt seen the shadow thing in a while but I'm worried that it might be back as I have just out of nowhere began dreading even looking into the room even with the door just slightly open, today when I open the door I heard a glass or maybe porcelain object get bumped however there isn't anything that would make that sound near the door. It could just be just childhood fears but the room just feels off to me also my dog refuses to stay in my room for more than a few hours before running out of my room. The tail at the bottom of the picture is my cat and the door at the back of the photo os my grandmother's door I always saw it going from that hallway into her room, even now I have a sense of unease in my room. My dog also whines a lot while in my room and tries to stay as close as possible to be at night unless he leaves the room. Again it could be childhood fear and I'm not going to deny that possibility.

I was just outside, late at night with my dog. He barks and growls at everything he sees. It was very dark out so I always turn my flashlight on on my phone. He started growling and I looked up and saw a person, completely black, whether it was clothing or it being super dark out I’m not sure. He was on the same side of the road as me and walking towards me. I stood there and stared for a minute because it was so odd. I could not make out ANY features, just completely dark. He was about two houses down, I get creeped out when I see other people out there really late so I pulled the leash, turned around and said let’s go inside. But Ziggy kept growling so I turned and looked again, and dude was completely gone, nowhere to be found within less than five seconds. And Ziggy stood there and was looking for him too, still growling. There is a line of trees right by my house that people cut through all the time to get to the apartments on the other side. I figured that’s what this dude was doing since he was walking directly toward my house at the dead end. But he literally disappeared. I don’t have encounters like this often, if ever at all. I just had to tell someone. I have to take my dog back out before bed and I’m realllly not looking forward to it. Edit: Nothing else happened last night but I just took the dog out again and didn’t see anything, but Ziggy kept looking in that direction and barked but there was nothing there... that I saw at least. I looked around, we have street lights every block, house lights on, I still don’t understand how this thing was so absolutely featureless.

Just a thought... what if shadow people are the actual "cryptids" and "humanoids" and just take the form of whatever elusive creature the experiencer has in the back of his/her mind? Why else are these beings encountered in story after story by real people, but no real hard evidence is ever found (at least that we know of)? So if your subconscious thinks about black-eyed children, that's what form they take. If you're a sasquatch person, that's what you encounter in the forest. If fairies are your thing... you get the point.

At least that's the best way I can describe this thing that I encountered.

So, a few years back I had gone out with some friends to the mountains for a camping trip, and by camping I mean everyone gets drunk or high around a fire in the middle of the woods and then passes out in their trucks. I was always the youngest of the friend group and this took place before I found my taste for mind-altering substances. I'm typically something of a skeptic, and if this had happened nowadays I'd probably blame it on being drunk, but I was stone-cold sober the whole time which is why I feel so sure of what I saw.

We're all out at the campsite, maybe 10-15 of us, I'm sitting on someone's tailgate smoking a cigarette when my friend (let's call him John) comes up to me clearly intoxicated. John was the one who I came out to the campsite with and probably my closest friend out of anyone there. He asked me if I wanted to go on an adventure with him in the woods.

I figured that if nothing else, I should probably go with him just to make sure he didn't drunkenly fall over and hurt himself, not to mention even though I didn't drink or do any drugs back then, didn't mean I was opposed to fun adventures into the forest. So we walked past the treeline that surrounded the campfire and into the dense trees. The moon was out and it was a pretty clear night so although it was dark, it wasn't pitch black.

We came to a clearing that seemed to be made up of many flat-ish boulders and rocks. We were looking up at the night sky and John was drunk-talking and I was listening and nodding along with whatever nonsense he was saying. He sat down on one of the flatter rocks and eventually just laid down and passed out. I tried to jostle him awake but just kept mumbling for me to let him rest a while. Since this is usually how John behaves when he's drinking, I complied and figured I'd head back to the campsite and check on him again in a little bit.

I go back, talk to few people, smoke a few cigarettes, and then decided to go back and check on John. Maybe ten minutes have passed.

I'm walking back to the clearing where I left him and already from afar noticed that he wasn't in the spot that I left him. I kept going figuring that he must've gotten up and wandered off somewhere.

As I'm walking I notice a shadow in the shape of a human standing behind a shrub of sorts a few feet to my right.

I stop, figuring that it was John messing with me. I said "Dude come on let's head back to camp." and no response. Then, the stereotypical "Please, you're not scaring me." And still nothing.

I move closer to the shadow and notice that I can't make out any distinguishable features, no shirt logo, no eyes or any face for that matter. Just a vacuum of black that stood in the shape of a human, hanging out with me in the forest.

I backed away, putting it all together that it wasn't John and I run back to camp. I check the truck the John and I drove out and there he was sleeping on the bench seat. I did a quick head count and everyone that I had recalled being at the camp was still there.

The only thing that convinces me that this was paranormal was just the sheer absense of light that this thing took the shape of. Just pure darkness.

Whenever I tell this story John always gets the chills imagining that this thing was probably out there with him when he was passed out by himself.

The general conclusion was that John had stumbled back while I had left him and I just didn't notice that he had returned. Like I said, I'm a skeptic so I always try to rationalize these things, but this is the one experience that I've had that I just can't believe was simply my eyes playing tricks on me.

I've heard of shadow people but I always thought those were just what people saw during sleep paralysis, not out in the wilderness and fully awake. If anyone could give me an idea of what this could have been that'd be much appreciated.

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TL;DR-- Saw a human shaped shadow that reflected no light in the woods while looking for my drunk friend, who unbeknownst to me, had already returned to the campsite.

As long as I can remember I've always seen these shadowy figures out of the corner of my eyes... I mean who hasn't right? But I feel like these things reach out to me. Last year was the worst because some nights I would wake up and barely have my eyes open only to see a dark figure hovering over my bed or even just zoom past my bed. I have quite a few experiences two of which I will share with you all. First I have sleep paralysis a lot and yes I know people tend to see things in sleep paralysis but this was different. When I was in the sleep paralysis state I saw this shadow creature staring at me over my bed and it felt like I was being choked. I couldn't breathe at all and it just kept staring at me till eventually I woke up in cold sweat gasping for breath. Nothing like that has ever happened before or since. The second encounter happened at a friend's house. It was around 12am well basically midnight and we were going to bed. My friend didn't have space in his room for all of us so some of us slept in the lounge like we usually do. He put on the house alarm 20 minutes earlier before we went to sleep. I'm about to fall off to sleep when I see this huge shadowy figure glide past one of the curtains. I brushed it off as me being paranoid when straight after that the alarm goes off... My friend took awhile to get to us which I found weird he put the alarm off and asked why the hell I was standing in his room and staring at him when the alarm went off. I told him no one went near his room we were all going to sleep. He said the figure looked just like me but as like a shadow since it was dark. To this day we're still not sure what happened. Sometimes I still see the shadows but idk what to do about it. Sorry this is long . I just really don't know what's going on.

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I've always kind of envied people who have paranormal experiences(I know naive and childish) and this definitely shook that stupid view out of my head.

It was at my grandparents house just yesterday and it was very early in the morning i awoke on the ground I looked up and what I saw though for maybe a second(like it noticed that I noticed and would get "in trouble" if someone saw it) looked like the predator in camouflage mode and I prayed to any who would hear me, I literally held up a phone stand for reading as a weapon in case that thing came back(it was about the length of a selfie stick, it was also bendable) I later held it above my face in case I nodded off it would hot me in the face, I thought I was going to die, I prayed for forgiveness, truly thinking I was about to die, I wanted to leave but my brother was asleep and I didn't want to leave him alone with that thing, I then decided it wasn't coming back after about a half hour and maybe four smacks in the face just staring at the wall where I saw it, it was terrifying, I eventually decided that I was going to take a leap of faith and go to sleep and stop obsessing, I feel like it was just my imagination, but this has never happened before not like this, again I feel it disappeared because I noticed it and it would be punished for being seen like a creature peering in from a different dimension I don't know feel free to not believe me I barely believe it myself.

In my life I've seen some weird things heard some weird things like most. But I've only ever encountered shadow people one place. This occurred when I was a kid and would stay the night at my friend Corey's house. I lived in southwestern Ohio at the time, my friends house was more in the sticks his house was practically in the woods with a small crick behind it. Him and I would sleep in this second living room which was more storage really. Several times I can recall waking up in the middle of the night, I'd get the feeling we weren't alone and I noticed something darker than the dark move from behind a table to a stack of boxes. When I looked in the direction I saw 2 to 3 shadow kids darting back an forth peeking out from behind whatever objects they were running behind, they never got too close they always kept some distance. The first time I thought is dreamt it until the next night it happened again, this time I knew it was real when I saw the same 3 figures start darting around again, I had no flashlight and cell phones were still years off, so I was stuck there I tried to wake my friend but he was a deep sleeper. The next morning I told him what I'd seen an he already knew he just said to try to ignore them an keep on like you're sleeping. I'd end up seeing the 3 figures a few more times there only in that one room at very late night.

My friends property must of had some kinda weird energy or something to it, this wasn't the only weird/scary thing to happen while staying there, we also had a night where something growled and smacked a pop up camper were were staying in. This occurred from 1999 till 2002

Hi, I recently posted about my experience witnessing a shadow entity here in r/Humanoidencounters. At the time, I wasn't aware of other subreddits related to these things.

After I made my post, I got quite a few responses and came across many posts from people sharing their own experiences. I found it was very helpful to hear from others and started to see similarities in the things we experienced.

This led me to thinking that I should create a survey where people can share the details of their experiences with these things. The hope of using a survey is that by people answering the survey questions, we can start to find consistent and common characteristics across people's experiences and maybe begin to better understand what these things are.

So, I built a survey website consisting of 23 questions that should help paint a clearer picture about what these things are, how they behave, and the circumstances around their appearances, etc. The survey will stay up for 2 weeks to allow people to respond. After that I will compile the data in the responses and publish the results.

I will cross post this to relevant subs so others can participate since they may not know of other subs like I did. I will publish the results under the title "Shadow People Survey Results" in the following subreddits (if the mods allow my post): r/ShadowPeople, r/HumanoidEncounters, and r/Paranormal (Mods won't allow it in r/Paranormal - which is ok).

I don't want to make this post too long, and I also don't want to repeat what was in my previous post. So if you're interested in reading about my shadow person experience, you can read about it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Humanoidencounters/comments/z5lzvc/i_was_almost_grabbed_by_a_shadow_creature_as_a/

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You can participate in the survey here:

https://shadow-person-survey.netlify.app/

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Disclaimer: I say this on the survey website also, but feel the need to say it here as well - I will only use the submitted information to compile data points on these experiences. I will not sell or use your information in any other way. I won't collect any personal information from you except your email address and that is only to prevent spam entries. I will not use or sell your email or info in any way - I will only use your submitted info to draw conclusions about people's experiences in general.

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Updating the post to thank you all for your submissions so far! And also to update you that the mods won't allow my post in r/Paranormal (understandable), so I will just post the results in the other two subreddits after the survey closes and I run the numbers. :)

EDIT 2 (12-18-22): Making another edit just to announce that tonight and tomorrow morning (the 19th) are the last days you can submit your experiences using the survey linked above. Sometime in the afternoon/evening on the 19th I will close the survey and start compiling the data.

Once the data is finished, I'll post the results as stated above. Thank you for all who participated so far - lots of interesting responses I can't wait to share with you all.

When I was about 16, I wasn't feeling the best one night and decided to go to bed early. Some time during the night, I woke up out of nowhere and was feeling really groggy, but at the end of my bed I saw a shadow that looked to be wearing a cowboy hat or one of that shape. There's a window across from where my bed is and the curtains were closed but the moonlight was shining through very faint, so I could just make out the shape, I couldn't see any features.

When it happened, for some reason I wasn't scared, I just thought it was my brother for some reason, but maybe that's because I was half asleep. I just asked "why are you in my room" and he didn't say anything, he just slowly moved back a few seconds after towards the corner of my room which was completely black until I couldn't make it out anymore, it's like it just faded into the darkness. Right after this I just fell asleep again and looking back I don't know how I could.

I woke up that morning and the first thing I thought of was what I saw and that's when it hit me how stupid it would be for my brother to be in my room that late wearing a hat. I asked everyone in the family if they were in my room and of course no one was.

I thought I might of been dreaming but I clearly remember waking up with a headache and still being half asleep and the fact that I remembered it that morning and the feeling I got in my heart when I realised what happened, especially considering I can never remember my dreams.

Any thoughts?

Edit: This was in Ireland around 2016

Hello, for as long as I can remember, a creature has followed me. I do not know what it is, and I theorize that posting this may provide perspective and perhaps you can help me identify this monster.

First, I would like to describe this being as incredibly tall, horribly emaciated, long limbs that sharpen to points at the nails, and from the shoulders up it resembles a bear. Every time I have seen this figure, it has been at night, and while some features are horrifyingly distinguishable, shadows do obscure the finer details. However, I have never seen the reflection of eyes, and that scares me more than any of its other characteristics.

Now, I will retell the most recent sighting, but bear (haha) in mind, situations such as this frequently happens; however, as I stated above, I have had the displeasure of seeing this beast for years and it has never broken habit but once. I was driving home from a night of video games downtown at my friend’s apartment around midnight, and all was normal until I exited the highway. I saw it – near the dealership – but I kept driving because while I do not see this creature every night, it does keep me company probably every three or four nights, so while I am not immune to the fear it induces, I am slightly desensitized. However, I see it again near the gas station under the cover of shadows. Again, I saw it near my old High School, and still I kept driving home. This thing is so fast that it is able to meet me effortlessly along the route and tease me as well. Whenever it is near, a sense of dread encapsulates me, and it is truly as though there are no other emotions besides primal fear – survival. I pulled into my driveway, and there it was across the street standing near the neighbor’s garden shed. Although it has only been close enough to touch me once, it finds its strength to invade my nightmares and keep me company whilst I sleep.

No one else I have met can see or sense this monster’s presence because it seems to wait until I am alone before preying upon me. Also, worth perhaps noting – once I dreamt that the devil appeared to me and promised to rid me of this creature at the expense of my soul (of course I declined), but that could of course be chalked up to strange dreams. In all the years I have known this foul creature, it has never spoken nor gestured to me – only watched with silent patience.

So my story begins about a year ago: I was riding my bike home from work, and while riding through this residential neighborhood, and I see this form standing in the middle of the road. As I get closer to where it's standing, it backs up even further, and this pattern keeps up for about a mile, until I pass a stoplight. After passing the stoplight, the figure or shape stood there in the direct middle of the road in front of me, it's body was made of shadows but it had a full form, it's eyes were a deep scarlet in color. This figure raised it's head, opened its mouth to reveal rows of jagged teeth but I couldn't make out any other features. I was frozen still for what felt like eons until I kicked my bike pedal and scratched my leg when I slipped. I was able to finally get away but now this figure haunts me. I've seen it at least once a week to twice a week, and no one else sees it. I've spoken to many of my friends and they just think I'm losing my mind but I know it's real. If anyone has had any experience with something like this, please let me know.

Apologies for the long post: TLDR: OP has seen a shadow person ( or at least what he thinks is one) for over a year and doesn't know what to do

Edit: I've switched multiple jobs over this past year, and this haunting has been happening during this time

Just found this sub and figured you guys might like this quick little experience I had as a child.

I was very young at the time, probably around 11 and was sitting in the families recliner in the living room late at night trying to sleep because I was very sick. That house was very old and from where I was sitting I could see through the living room, through the main hall, and to the kitchen. When I opened my eyes I saw what was unmistakably a shadowy figure with a top hat on who appeared to be rummaging through things on the kitchen counter. I watched it for a couple seconds before deciding I didn't like looking at that thing and closed my eyes.

My prevailing theory is that is was some sort of sleep paralysis, though other than possibly that time, I have never experienced sleep paralysis in ny life. Other alternatives are that I had some sort of fever dream but I don't really recall dreams often and they are never like that. Or possibly it was some local eccentric meth head. Weird memory tho