Undated Shadow Person reports
330 cases, best-documented first. Page 2 of 4.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
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Witness reports their cat staring up at a tall black entity on the other side of the window.
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The narrator reports speaking to a 'Hat Man' who entered their house claiming to help, then left keys on the floor behind the door before they fell asleep.
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The narrator and a friend encountered an entity that rushed them, blew out a lamp bulb, and then vanished.
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Witness reports seeing a shadow figure disappear into a wall after confronting it mentally.
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Witness reports feeling an overwhelming presence of someone else in a classroom while alone.
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Witness reports a black shadowy figure with a red organ filled their vision while lying in bed, causing intense fear and physical symptoms.
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Witness reports waking up to find the figure staring at them from the corner of their room.
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The witness reports seeing a skinny man over 6 feet tall with a perfectly smooth outline and an extremely tall stovepipe hat, who made no sound.
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The narrator reports seeing a pitch-black, featureless humanoid figure materialize in their living room and attempting to punch it.
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The narrator reports that as a child they were terrified of a shadow figure in the basement and claimed to be talking to it, though their mother did not believe them.
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Witness reports seeing a black shadowy figure with glowing eyes clawing out of the basement wall and running through it.
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Witness reports having lucid dreams where they see the entity at their window or bedside without opening their eyes and have a semblance of conversation with it.
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The narrator reports seeing a tall, slender figure wearing a top hat with no visible facial features who watches them silently.
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Witness reports seeing an entity crossing into their dimension and growing strength.
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Witness reports being struck by a rock thrown from an inaccessible cliff and seeing a dark shadowy figure watching from behind a tree.
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Witness reports waking up in a new room to see 'him' standing in the doorway watching them.
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Witnesses report encountering a featureless black silhouette resembling a bobcat that darted away at high speed.
Shadow Person · Mexico
Witness reports seeing a solid, ink-black, bald-headed figure rise from a hole in the ground while walking through their dark house in Mexico.
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Witness reports shooting multiple rounds into a bush where the creature was holding up foliage and then hearing it run away.
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The narrator reports encountering shadow people while breaking into an abandoned 90-year-old home with friends.
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The narrator saw a figure resembling their step-dad at the front door window, which then turned and walked into the parents' room.
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Witness reports seeing the shadow creature often in the upstairs main part of the house, where it would hover in-place with no interest in them.
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The narrator reports waking up to see a hairless, gray, gaunt head with empty eye sockets next to their bed before it disappeared underneath.
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Witness acknowledges having experiences involving malevolent beings over the years but is unsure if the black entity was responsible.
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The narrator reports seeing shadow figures of an elderly woman knitting, two children playing, and a male figure beating them in a guest bedroom.
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Witness reports a recurring dream from childhood of seeing a face staring and smiling from under a desk.
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Witness reports seeing a face peeking over the banister on the stairs before realizing it was his friend [name].
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The narrator and their sister both reported seeing a man in black with a top hat standing at the end of their respective beds and staring at them.
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Witness reports seeing the figure with weird energy shortly before their grandmother was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
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Witness reports seeing a skinny humanoid figure with a long head appear in a window shadow at night and then run away silently.
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Witness reports seeing a shadow figure move unnaturally fast from the kitchen down a hallway and into their bedroom while they were in the bathroom.
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Witness reports encountering a man who appeared out of thin air near a school administration building and later in the neighborhood, feeling an overwhelming sense of darkness before he vanished.
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The narrator recalls seeing a shadow walk across their bedroom door into their parents' room when they were 4 or 5 years old.
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Shadows are seen peeking around the doorway to the hallway.
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The narrator reports seeing a tall, slim man wearing a long coat and top hat multiple times during childhood and adulthood.
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The narrator reports a personal encounter with a cloaked figure wearing a bowler hat and a long duster jacket, who stood over them while they were pregnant, emitting a negative presence and…
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The narrator and their best friend repeatedly encountered a figure they called the 'Tall Man' or 'Hat Man' during their teenage years.
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The narrator reports seeing a 'hat man' standing in the corner of a tiny room in their parents' old house during the last recession.
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The narrator reports seeing the Hat Man clearly in a mirror close behind them and catching sneak peeks out of the corner of their eye.
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Witness reports having a nightmare with tons of shadow people standing around their bed.
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Witness reports seeing an arm in a red cardigan at the side of a bedroom door that moved eerily without sound.
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The narrator reports hearing the entity calling their name in an inhuman tone during late night or early morning hours.
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The narrator reports hearing their own voice and their mother's voice while home alone, experiencing a paralyzing cold feeling similar to encounters with shadow people.
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The narrator reports seeing a tall figure wearing a top hat standing in their doorway during an episode of sleep paralysis.
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Witness reports seeing a figure standing at their door frame after waking up, noting it lacked a hat and was located near a graveyard.
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The narrator reports that the Hat Man used to stand at the foot of their bed in their childhood home, ducking under the 8-foot ceiling and staring at them in the dark.
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The witness reports feeling weight on their bed and seeing a creature with huge feet climb up on all fours to sniff them.
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Witness reports feeling a hand with interlaced fingers grab and jerk their hand away while sitting with [name].
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The narrator reports seeing a tall figure wearing a cowboy hat in the hallway, which was later corroborated by their son who sees a similar tall man with a beard and hat between his room and his…
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Witness recalls seeing the entity at a friend's house and grandmother's house.
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Witness reports being drugged at a party and experiencing a similar event with several entities around while the night sky was vivid green.
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Witness and a close friend saw the shadow figure cross from the living room to the kitchen while in the bedroom.
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Witness reports a seven to eight-foot tall black figure without features ducking through curtains, touching their forehead, and then disappearing when their mother entered the room.
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Witness reports CSG lying on top of them at 4:08am with his face two inches from theirs.
Shadow Person · México
A witness in Mexico saw a shadow being stand up out of a black hole in the ground.
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The narrator and her younger son saw a 3D shadow child standing in the doorway of her room, which disappeared when she blinked.
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Witness reports a solid black shadow with white eyes materializing in their closet and then fleeing.
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The narrator and his girlfriend encountered a figure in a hat with a black void for a face that approached their car in traffic.
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The narrator reports that 'thin white things' currently linger in halls and appear at the end of rooms, feeling like they would attack if noticed.
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The narrator and her friend C both report seeing a featureless, black, fluid entity peering down from an open attic ceiling.
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The narrator reports seeing a tall, thin, completely dark figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat that glides during an episode of sleep paralysis.
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Witness and sister report seeing a shadow move across kitchen cabinets, stop, get bigger, and stand under an arch before they ran upstairs.
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Witness reports waking up in the middle of the night to see a black shadowy figure shaped like a man standing at the foot of their bed.
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Witness reports seeing the same figure standing outside a window while sitting on their bed.
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The narrator reports seeing a faceless, dark shadowy figure the size of an adult human walking on all fours along a street near their home.
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Witness reports seeing the same man at a residential complex gate for a split second.
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Witness reports seeing a figure darting around in the corner of their eye and hearing knocking on the wall.
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Witness recalls seeing the entity's upper body at elementary school and feet under a restroom stall door.
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The narrator saw the shadow of a person walking along shelves in an electrical store but found no one when turning around.
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The narrator reports seeing a dark figure darting from room to room for 30 years, which eventually appeared in front of them before jumping into a corner and vanishing.
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Witness reports the creature flashed yellow eyes and let out a loud shriek that sounded like neither a person nor an animal.
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The narrator reports repeatedly seeing a figure wearing a hat standing at the end of hallways and following them from work to home.
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Witness reports seeing a little girl with bright blue eyes and short brown hair at their front door who asked to come in before vanishing.
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The narrator reports seeing a figure leaning against their wall by the window at night when they were under five years old.
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The narrator reports seeing a smoky black figure with a hat and cape in their dining room repeatedly as a child, which eventually disappeared upon physical contact.
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Witness reports seeing a partially existing humanoid entity with mottled blue-black skin that breathed and remained stationary on the porch.
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The narrator and a friend saw a featureless black man with a hat staring at them from under a street light before he vanished.
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The narrator reports seeing a distinct disembodied shadow with a hat in the kitchen doorway while on their laptop.
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Witness reports seeing shadow people at the meadow, which spooked [name] so much he refuses to return.
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The witness reports seeing a tall, dark, shadowy figure with glowing red eyes and long fingers standing in their bathroom doorway during broad daylight.
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Witness reports seeing a massive shadow with glimmering eyes below a bluff where items went missing.
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The narrator reports a figure sitting on their bed during sleep paralysis-like episode, trapping their legs with weight before disappearing when the light was turned on.
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Witness reports a diffuse, dark black humanoid figure about 6'6" tall wearing a long coat and heavy boots that paced the hallway of their house at night.
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The narrator reports a terrifying experience with a shadow person resembling a grim reaper that appeared to be feeding off the light of a baby.
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The narrator reports seeing a stationary figure in the road outside their house for three consecutive nights when they were a child.
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The witness reports a vision during deep meditation where they saw a figure with bright yellow eyes who spoke in a loud, deep voice.
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The narrator reports seeing a 4'6" skinny humanoid wearing an anti-static suit and helmet in their house 32 years ago.
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Witness reports a dark shadow figure passing in front of police officers and going into the woods while police refused to file a report.
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The narrator saw a shadow figure flying near the ceiling in their kitchen.
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The narrator reports that every encounter with the entity has occurred during the 3-4am window.
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The narrator and their passenger saw a shadowy figure on the M6.
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Witness reports a shadow person going across the room from left to right.
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Witness reports seeing shadowy figures at the windows of their cabin and feeling a telepathic gaze during nights in northern Minnesota.
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The narrator describes large shadows following them that were as tall as the ceiling and disproportionate.
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Witness reports feeling a weight on their bed as if someone was sitting there.
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The narrator reports a huge disembodied face with a pointy nose, black eyes, and a mustache appearing through the shower wall to ogle them.
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Witness reports a mattress jumping on its own while they and their sister played, which stopped when the sister was found to be in the shower.
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The narrator claims that their girlfriend and her two kids saw a large shadow figure every day in a haunted house they rented.
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Witness reports seeing a black faceless man standing close to their bed while they were in the top bunk.
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The narrator reports seeing the Hat Man twice in broad daylight, once in their living room and once outside while mowing the lawn, when they were about 16 or 17 years old.