Shadow People.

My theory is that they are simply residuals from our subconsciousness, layered over reality so they appear to be real.

There was a shadow child in the house I grew up in. Everyone who lived there had seen it at one point or another, but I think I'm the only one who ever came face to face with it. One morning I came up the stairs and saw my cat's collar was off, I looked up and in the door frame of my bedroom was this shadow child. It threw the collar at me and ran in the room. When I went in no one was there, not in the closet or anywhere I could find. So, I just got ready for school and called it a morning. lol 

i used to see these in my dad's house back when i lived there. landlord said it used to be some sort of doctor's office or something. i've seen them both in and out of peripheral vision (scariest thing ever is looking straight at it and the fuhker doesn't vanish). i like to think they're ghosts, and may have been dead patients or something (at least, that's all i hope they are). 

I believe they are ghost that hasn't fully manifested due to the environment around them. 

I think they are ghosts of those who were on the land before us. At my grandparents house, I used to see a shadow man walking across the yard as if he was tending to it. I had stairs up to a balcony to my apartment there and once in a while there'd be a shadow looking in on me through the window from the balcony.  One time he was ascending the stairs and I told him that was close enough and he moved back down the stairs to the yard. I was never scared of him, I actually felt safer knowing he was there. 

Okay so it sounds pretty regular but I hallucinate 

Makes me think of the Doctor Who episode "Listen". 

The Shadow People used to visit me pretty regularly, but I haven't seen them in a while.

they are very simply former humans who have escaped the cycle of physical incarnation but in the wrong way.

I have seen shadow people since I was 12. I am now 44. 

This is my first time learning about shadow people, but they sound like what I see and experience during sleep paralysis, especially when I’d get it nightly a few years ago.

Well the funny thing is is there are so many people out there that have bad sleep paralysis and for those who are unfortunate enough to see shadow people in the midst of their paralysis all see the hat man

I hope this doesn't sound too dismissive but I saw them all the time, and then i got diagnosed as schizoaffective, lol. i still see them sometimes especially if im driving at night

I saw a shadow being when I was younger and it completely changed me and my spirituality, even though it was such a minor experience compaired to others I've heard. It lead me to believe that there are other dimensions and beings living in those dimensions, even a spiritual dimensions which ghosts come from. I believe shadow beings come from other dimensions, but half the time they are definitely not human. 

I think they might be Tolpas created subconsciously 

I think they might be Tolpas created subconsciously 

ive always thought of it as the brain filling in what it cant quite see, like how people might look at shadows/bad lighting and think theyre seeing something theyre not.

One of those bugged me so much when I was living at my parent's house last summer. They can leave you alone and not do anything to you but sometimes they can be really annoying. Mine used to knock on doors and wake me up from my sleep and play with the instruments in my room. Got really creeped out but it didn't follow me to where I live now so thank god for that.

once i saw a shadow person that looked disturbingly like Mr.Clean, bald head and everything.

i feel like shadow people are ordanary people from other universes, we travel universes with every decision we make right? who's to say our consciousnesss slips up once and a while, and shows us something we would see in a seprate timeline, where some other events took place. or its dead people idk.

Odd

i used to see them alot when i was a kid, maybe 6-7, they would look like dead reletives and the recently passed. i saw my great grandmother brushing her hair on my nightstand and someone who walked over and slept infront of me. idk about other universes but i think they are a spirit of sum sort 

I used to see them all the time, especially in the corner of my room but since then I moved to a new house. There this kid on my staircase, a shadow kid, but he never leaves the staircase except for the one time he appeared near my bed but that was the last time I've seen them. They just kinda disappeared. 

This might sound a little crazy but I can see and sense those mf's forreal. They really enjoy sitting right where you can't fully see them, or walking past you close enough that you can sense them a few feet beside you. Sometimes they're naturally harmless but they enjoy sticking to people with a low vibrational personal shield, someone that has their guard down 80% of the time. They'll stick to you, confuse you, and they will not leave unless made. They can be incredibly petty and dangerous, if you encounter one, best advice is to leave and cleanse immediately. 

dude those are demons

I’ve seen shadow people before but it was a pretty bad time in my life and I’m mentally ill so I could’ve hallucinated it. your theory is really interesting tho!!

I've never seen shadow people with the exception of one event... It was more like the span if a couple weeks? I got a haunted plushie, and it had a zipper in the back like some stuffed animals that also double as purses. I opened it, and there was no pouch inside, just the stuffing... After that, the haunted plushie's conscience was still there, but I started seeing shadow people afterwards. I had no trouble chasing them off once I noticed, but I was seeing them in the apartment, and even in the woods outside the apartment while I was walking during the day. I haven't seen any before or since that incident, but it was really weird... The atmosphere in the apartment was super off from the time I opened the zipper to the time I removed them!

See, I haven't done much research on them, but I do have a shadow person who seems to be attatched to me or something I have. I've named him (don't know the actual gender lol) Conner, and he follows me most every where. The first time I ever saw him, that I can remember, he was following me down the highway just outside my car. I was in a pretty rough place then, so idk if it had something to do with that, or maybe not at all. I have seen him fully, he doesn't stay TOO long, the longest would probably be about 20 mins at most. He makes me feel safe, and other times it's a bit eerie but it's fine lol. 

honestly ive heard SO many stories about shadow people and whatnot and have seen them myself so i kind of have some theories.

following up what i said i think that in a moreish logical way i think we also may just see humans so much that they ppear in our prehepiral vison on accident because were so used to it like when you stare at something for a long time and loo at a blank wall ight after you can kinda see the object fading in and out lik outline? idk

I actually really like the thought that "shadow people" could be loved ones that passed away, or spirits that are just trying to watch over us. While we are still alive and they have moved onto the next life, because during most of my experiences with seeing them for a split second, they don't tend to do any harm at all. Only making their existence still known to us, then vanishing quickly.
That's mostly why I'm not really afraid of them, only accepting of their presence, as long as their not trying to do any harm I don't mind.

what if they're glimpses of people from other realities that are like colliding with our reality?

i think theyre just hallucinations and nothing special.

i dont know about the topic a lot but these shadow people scares me asf 

i belive that they are spirtits who are unaware that they have passed, so they linger in the place where they lived and follow people that they knew when they were alive. 

i have seen this one "shadow person" in my dreams and hallucinations for years now. i have no clue what it means, but it never speaks to me and insists on simply taking my sisters or my mother.. i have never been able to stop it from what i remember. very weird.

i am those shadow people

when i was in kindergarten going to bed, i used to see very tall shadow figures go across my room. no joke. still scares me lol, but they are just people so its not super scary. just odd :]

I just like to think its our minds playing tricks on us, or when we move our eyes to a certain direction hard enough we start to see black and mistake it as a person ... when it's not. Hallucinations and stuff still exist, so yeah. 

I just got that sinking feeling of familiarity when reading your post. I've had countless encounters with shadow people and the "Hat man". It's something I grew up with and I always hoped no one else had the same problem.

I'd love to talk to people about this phenomenon though!

Since I was little I would see them.

My theory is that they're spirits or ghosts of past people with strong spirituality or auras. I know it seems like a pretty basic answer but that's just what I think.

I don't think they are human or ever were. Maybe demons or other worldy beings. 

I have a cousin who claims to see spirits and shadow people I’m not sure if she is telling the truth because she is 12 but this was really convincing for me. We all had a sleepover ( me and my couisns) we were always up around 3-5 am watching movies and talking about random stuff. So I go to use the bathroom around 4 and my cousin decides to follow me for whatever reason. I don’t turn on the light in the bathroom as I’m not afraid of the dark. As I walk out of the bathroom my cousin is standing outside a little afar from the door and is staring at the corner of the bathroom. I asked her what’s wrong and she says” do you not see that?, it’s a tall shadow” and as soon as she says this I hear like something in the bathroom knock over something. 

From that night is see a tall shadow figure in the same spot each time. I’ve learnt to ignore it tho

Cool post, I'm not an expert of shadow people, would that be considered a beast?

I used to see them alot when I was walking down the hall at my grandmas house (which is a pretty old house I think) and I would speedwalk down the hall bc it would scare the shiz out of me, now I dont see them as much. And I really dont have any theorys on what they are, they could be anything (ghosts, demons, hallucinations, creatures,etc)

I think there may be a shadow person in my backyard. Check my blog for more info.

video of a shadow person

video of a shadow person