Undated Shadow Person reports
338 cases, best-documented first. Page 3 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 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.
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Witness reports being paralyzed in bed while a Hat Man and two shadow people loomed over them and pulled at their wrists before disappearing.
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The narrator and his wife felt a heavy presence with ill intentions approaching their bed.
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Witness reports seeing shadow people appearing around their closet and circling them while lying in bed after breaking their leg at age 5.
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Witness reports finding marbles cleared in a path and a demolished Lincoln Log house after setting a ghost trap.
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The narrator reports seeing a tall, skinny, glowing grey humanoid figure with no hair or facial features walk past their bedroom doorway into the bonus room.
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Witness reports experiencing sleep paralysis while pregnant and seeing a faceless shadow entity with a hooded cloak standing over them.
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Witness reports that Girl (1) saw a shadow spirit sitting on a rocking chair three feet away, and Boy (2) later saw it at the tree line smiling.
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Witness reports a short, two-dimensional shadow creature with horns and claws glitch-walking towards them in their bedroom while the room shook.
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Witness reports feeling watched while walking home under flickering streetlights and then seeing their gold watch vanish into thin air in their bathroom.
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Witness reports a very large man who is not nice and may have aimed negative energy at them.
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The narrator woke up to see a shadow figure hovering over her husband.
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Witness reports seeing a tall shadow figure with many teeth and red glowing eyes in the corner of their room when they were younger.
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Witness reports seeing a 3.5 ft tall black creature with glowing red eyes and pointy wings while driving down a mountain road during a storm.
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Witness reports waking up to see the shadow of a man in a hat towering over a corner and feeling watched while hearing a soft buzzing noise.
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Witness reports being paralyzed in their room while staring at a tall, cowboy-dressed black tar entity standing in the doorway for several hours before it vanished.
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Witness reports seeing the figure in their doorway before their friend's lost dog was found.
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Witness reports seeing a shadow figure in the backyard of a new house during the afternoon sunshine.
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The narrator reports seeing a figure called the Hat Man several times as a young child, who acted as a guide and appeared at the edge of their wood line.
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The narrator reports being attacked in their sleep by a dark shadow figure or giant black blob that pressed on their chest and drained their energy.
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Witness reports seeing two ghost-like, smoke-made beasts that their dog lunged through, followed by ongoing shadow sightings.
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Witness reports seeing large, black shadows popping in and out of the woods near a creek while walking on a trail with companions.
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Four witnesses observed two sets of illuminating eyes in the distance that changed colors from amber to blue to red and interacted with them for hours.
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The narrator reports seeing a tall, pale humanoid with a long face, grey stubble, and bright white-blue eyes who appeared to be in pain but was not violent.
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Witness reports seeing a huge dark blob with octopus-like legs in the corner of their ceiling that seemed to want to grab them.
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The narrator reports seeing a massive, evil figure resembling the Grim Reaper with fire in his eyes, wearing an olden day hat and cloak, while out at night.
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Witness reports seeing a tall, thin shadow person in a top hat at various locations including their home, school, and friends' houses.
Shadow Person · Oregon
The narrator reports that shadows were running around his house as part of demonic activity.
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Witness reports seeing a family of shadow people walking across the hallway wall in the early mornings before sunrise.
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The narrator reports that the Hat Man appeared at night during their childhood, inducing dread and feeding on fear.
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Witness recalls seeing the entity at the edge of woods while playing with a dog as a child.
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Witness reports seeing a full shadow figure standing to the right of their thicket that did not respond when waved at.
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Witness reports seeing a tall shadow person standing in the doorway and towering over them after swapping bedrooms with their brother.
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Witness reports seeing a solid black shadow man wearing a hat and long coat staring at her house while pregnant.
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The narrator reports having vivid nightmares about a little girl being chased by a large shadowy creature resembling Bigfoot.
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Witness reports chasing a dark shadow figure that glided off the ground, entered trees, and laughed with the voice of a deceased relative.
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Witness reports seeing a super spindly, black, anthropomorphic form perched in a triangular window of a storage shed that unfolded and approached them with a blinding light from its head.
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Witness reports seeing a dark shadow figure behind a tree and later a full shadow figure standing to the right of their thicket campsite.
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The narrator heard whispering and saw ghostly apparitions running the forests of Mt. Vernon.
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The narrator saw a rocking chair moving back and forth on the porch while ignoring paranormal experiences.
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Witness reports seeing a horned, laughing figure with rough, burnt-looking flesh and grey smoke at its base while lying in their ex-partner's lap.
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The narrator reports seeing a shadow person with red dot eyes looking through glass outside a door during their father's drunken psychic episode.
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Witness reports seeing the figure standing next to a sleeping child before disappearing.
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A witness recounts being at an apartment complex built on a burial ground where they heard their name whispered multiple times by unseen spiritual beings.
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Witness reports seeing five shadow people climbing a rail and jumping off a house, with one stopping to stare at him with glowing red eyes.
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The narrator reports two encounters with a figure wearing a hat resembling an old minister's hat and later described as wearing a trench coat or black duster, during which horrible things happened in…
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Witness reports a shadowy figure mimicking their voice to call their dog from the edge of a runway.
Shadow Person · Louisiana
Witness reports a tall, slender, all-black shadow figure rushed at him in a hallway while he was trying to use the restroom.
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The narrator heard loud buzzing and chaotic footsteps approaching them in a dark room before fleeing upstairs.
Shadow Person · San Diego County, California
Witnesses report seeing a lady in a blue dress standing or curled up by the road, causing feelings of dread.
Shadow Person · San Diego County, California
A woman reports seeing a horned shadowy figure with red eyes hovering over her while she slept in the back seat of a car.
Shadow Person · Lolo Pass, Oregon
The witness reports seeing shadows running across the road late at night near the river in the Lolo Pass area.
Shadow Person · Bromsgrove, England
The narrator's grandmother reports seeing the silhouette of the narrator's deceased grandfather walk into and out of the living room.
Shadow Person · Bromsgrove, England
The narrator's grandmother reports seeing a shadow rise from her late husband's chair and cross the room.
Shadow Person · Bromsgrove, England
The narrator's grandmother reports seeing a pair of trousers and a faded silhouette figure walk across the living room floor.
Shadow Person · Sacramento, California
Witness D and his friend [name] reported seeing a tall, jet-black human-shaped figure in a skate bowl that did not cast a shadow.
Shadow Person · Warren County, Missouri
Residents living at the [name] reported seeing a shadow inside the building that seemed to engulf their vision.
Shadow Person · Houston, Texas
The narrator's father reports seeing a figure resembling his two-year-old son in the kitchen, only to find the real son asleep in bed and the figure vanished upon turning around.
Shadow Person · Tucson, Arizona
Witness reports seeing a shadow person running alongside them on a rocky trail in Tucson, which stopped when they stopped and knelt down.
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Witness reports seeing a black mass shaped like a human body in the mirror while going to pee at night.
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A girl at a party claimed to see a shadow spirit sitting on a rocking chair smiling at her from three feet away.
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Witness reports that his younger brother [name] cried saying 'the man sat on fluffy' when he was about 3 or 4 years old.
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A guest from North Carolina reported seeing eyes that turned into hovering orbs above his tent, with his father seeing faces in them before they left.
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The narrator's cousin reports seeing a bright, light-based humanoid figure that wavered and then disappeared while they were watching movies.
Shadow Person · North Carolina
Neighbor [name] and her children report seeing shadow figures in their house, one hovering over a sleeping child.
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The narrator's sister reports that a ghost named [name] traveled to the West Coast to verify a newspaper date via radio.
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A neighbor reports that a woman committed suicide by shooting herself in a shallow grave she dug on the property after discovering her husband's affair.
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The narrator's younger sister reportedly screamed for her mother after being in the basement alone and later communicated with the entity using sign language.
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The narrator reports that her husband and children saw shadow creatures in their house for over a decade, including one wearing a bowler hat and suit staring from a doorway.
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The witness and his friend [name] saw legitimate shadow type people while playing laser tag.
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The narrator's wife reports seeing shadow people and other spirits in vivid dreams while experiencing paranormal events in their apartment.
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The narrator's father reported seeing a dark mass of shadow form at the top of the stairs in his grandfather's house.
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The narrator's sister reports seeing a shadow man with a black trench coat and top hat staring at her multiple times.
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The narrator's mother reports seeing a tall, thin, white, hairless creature watching her from a corner during an astral projection.
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The narrator reports that a friend high on drugs saw a shadow man walking towards them in the dark.
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Witness reports a compressed comforter at the foot of the bed slowly rising as if someone had just gotten up.
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Witness reports a large black shadow with a long tail and pointed ears was seen near her flat and alley, making clapping sounds and chasing stray animals.
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A neighbor writer claims to have seen the shadow of her deceased friend in the living room window from across the street.
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Witness reports that [name] talked to an invisible friend named [name] who moved toy cars by himself.
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The narrator's niece reports seeing an extremely tall shadowy figure standing over her bed that moved closer before she turned around.
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The narrator's sister reports that a tall thin man in a trench coat and top hat entered their bedroom to watch her sleep.
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Boy (2) reports seeing the creature standing inside the living room of the cottage after returning to check on it.
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The narrator's niece reports seeing a man resembling the 'Hat Man' when she was three years old.
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The narrator's brother reportedly refused to talk to the entity and identified it as a monster.
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Witness reports a man's grandpa saw a black figure pacing around the outside of their house at night.
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The narrator's daughter reports seeing a tall black shadowy figure standing over the narrator while he was sleeping.
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Witness's sister reports seeing a shadow figure hovering above the witness in her apartment corner near the bed.
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The narrator's grandma suspects she saw the same figure in the field owned by a Native American man.
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The narrator's brother reported seeing a shadow wearing a top hat walk through a wall into the neighboring house.
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The narrator's wife dreams of coming face to face with an entity that took the form of one of her darker paintings.
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The narrator's sister-in-law reported seeing a white shadow move past the living room doorway.
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Witness reports a red-headed hitchhiker appearing on Route 44 at night who is intangible and causes radio static.
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[name] saw an 8ft shadow run across in front of him at an old cemetery while the narrator wasn't looking.
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A friend of a friend reports seeing the ghost of a woman who appeared and then backed away.
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The narrator's ex-girlfriend reports seeing a figure in a red suit and hat with black skin walking toward her house while the garage was open.