Right after I graduated from college in 1992, I moved in with a buddy into a modern apartment building in a Chicago suburb, which was nine stories tall, and our apartment was on the fifth floor. It had a balcony with a terrific view, and was one of the features we liked best about the otherwise run-of-the-mill four room apartment.
One morning, not long after my buddy had left for work, I was in the bathroom getting ready myself for work, and had just gotten out of the shower and was drying off when I noticed a movement on the balcony through the blinds from the reflection in the mirror (I kept the door of the bathroom half open so it didn’t steam up too much). Thinking it must’ve been a pigeon, since we got a lot of them, I didn’t really think anything of it and continued to get ready. A couple moments later, I distinctly saw a large shadow move across the blinds from on the balcony, and my heart began to race rapidly. I had the radio in the bathroom playing fairly loudly, and turned it off, as well as the light in the bathroom, wrapped the towel around my waist and quietly made my way into the living room, which was light, but not overly light since the sun was still rising.
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In 1983, the wife of Doyle, a geologist, encountered one of these shadow people in their home near Olathe, Kansas. Its appearance followed that of another spirit – a vaporous white form. Doyle says his wife was home alone in the house one September evening. “She was headed down the hallway when she stopped, feeling a slight chill in the air,” he tells us. “Almost immediately she observed a wispy white shape, that of a woman in flowing white apparel, drift from my office into the master bedroom. This apparition seemed to look briefly at her as it passed by.
“But then ‘something’ else made its appearance. From the master bedroom into which the wispy woman in white had disappeared emerged a very solid and very ghastly apparition. This thing was a slow-moving, black, skeletal form, like some hideously animated charred corpse. It did not drift, but walked slowly into my office, not seeming to be aware of my wife. You would think this ‘thing’ would have terrified her, but she said she felt no unease whatsoever, despite its frightening appearance. In fact, she advanced to the office door and looked in. The light was on, and this thing was standing at my desk with its back to her, looking down. She said it was reaching out with a boney blackened hand at the papers on my desk, as if it were profoundly interested in those papers.
“She stood transfixed as it then slowly turned, as if aware of her presence, to face her. She said it seemed to have remnants of charred clothing clinging to its body. It then looked back at her, its faceless skull devoid of any emotion, malevolent or otherwise. Its eye sockets were black and empty. She had no thought that it meant her harm or was evil. Then it simply vanished, like a TV screen being snapped off.”
What was this dark entity looking for on Doyle’s desk? Was it a spirit merely repeating an action it took in life? Or was it some extradimensional being with a real interest in those papers?
Nicky has had several encounters with these shadow beings, some completely terrifying because they have actually touched her. One night as she lay in bed with her husband, she was jolted awake. “I opened my eyes and this dark figure, which felt like a male presence, was holding my arms down and smothering me,” she says. “I kicked at it to try to feel my arms and screamed so loud that it woke up children at the other end of the house. My husband flew out of bed, and for the first time in the 12 years we have been together he saw it. The dark figure went through the ceiling. It shocked my husband so much that he sat up for an hour and didn’t say a word. I was so terrified and relieved at the same time because my husband saw it and I wasn’t going crazy.
After that, the visitations relented until the night of November 4, 2004. “My husband was on night shift and it was just me and the kids,” Nicky says. “It was 11.30 p.m. I felt its presence and when I opened my eyes I could clearly see the figure was not human. It was all black and crouching on four legs. It sort of reminded me of a gargoyle. It pounced at me. I screamed at it and punched the air, jumped out of bed and turned on the lights. I left the light on because I was too scared to turn it off.”
Was it real… or Nicky’s imagination? It would be easier to dismiss if her husband hadn’t seen it, too.
This is an anonymous story about shadow people. What are they? Where do they come from? Are they from another dimension or are they dark spirits? If you have any thoughts about this, I would love to here from you.
House of Shadows
I became aware of the shadows shortly after moving into my house in New Jersey. My daughters’ playroom was in the basement and they were constantly complaining that they were always seeing something move out of the corners of their eyes. My youngest also said they hovered near the ceiling. In later years, I had my floral workshop in the basement and saw them constantly. It got to the point where I would talk to them with my mind, not that they ever answered back.
They were black. We saw them all over the basement, but mostly along one wall, and occasionally saw them along the same wall on the first floor and in the kitchen near the back door. We did not see them anywhere else in the house or elsewhere on the property. But even when we did not get a glimpse of them, we were aware when they were present. Some of them seemed to have an evil presence. A few years after we moved in, I told them they were not welcome in the house and the evil presence seemed to go away. Still, we had an uneasy feeling about them. Not fear. We just accepted they were there, as several steps taken over the years to make them go away didn’t work anyway. Only once after the evil ones were told they were not welcome was I aware they came back. And I am not sure if they were evil or just upset. I will explain later.
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