Shadow Person reports with no dependable place
397 cases, best-documented first. Page 2 of 4.
These accounts don't say where they happened in words we can place (often a video or post that never names a town), so the map can't draw them. They are still cases, with their sources; the map lists them under Cases with no resolvable place. Why some places are estimates or missing
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.
Shadow Person
Witness reports their cat staring up at a tall black entity on the other side of the window.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person · 2024
The narrator and their family encountered a pitch-black, featureless humanoid silhouette on a hiking trail in Brazil that disappeared when illuminated by a flashlight.
Shadow Person · 2023
Witness reports seeing a teleporting humanoid made of black mist on a rural road in South Georgia.
Shadow Person
The narrator and a friend encountered an entity that rushed them, blew out a lamp bulb, and then vanished.
Shadow Person · 2019
Witness reports seeing a shimmering, plastic-like humanoid creature in the woods near the Tennessee-Kentucky border that stopped when pointed at with a rifle.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing a shadow figure disappear into a wall after confronting it mentally.
Shadow Person
Witness reports feeling an overwhelming presence of someone else in a classroom while alone.
Shadow Person · 2024
Witnesses report seeing a shadow being that tried to appear as a person in a lot in Central Florida.
Shadow Person
Witness reports a black shadowy figure with a red organ filled their vision while lying in bed, causing intense fear and physical symptoms.
Shadow Person · 1967
Witness reports seeing a man in black with gray skin and slanted eyes standing outside a store.
Shadow Person
Witness reports waking up to find the figure staring at them from the corner of their room.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports seeing a pitch-black, featureless humanoid figure materialize in their living room and attempting to punch it.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person · 2023
The narrator reports a shadow figure entering their apartment through a closed window and later appearing in their bedroom, culminating in the figure touching them and leaving claw-like scars.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing a black shadowy figure with glowing eyes clawing out of the basement wall and running through it.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person · 2025
Witness reports seeing a grey head above the bushes through a glass door for about 50 minutes during a sleepover.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports seeing a tall, slender figure wearing a top hat with no visible facial features who watches them silently.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing an entity crossing into their dimension and growing strength.
Shadow Person · 2018
Witness reports seeing a pale hiker lady with almost no nose standing still and observing a tree while their dog growled at her.
Shadow Person
Witness reports being struck by a rock thrown from an inaccessible cliff and seeing a dark shadowy figure watching from behind a tree.
Shadow Person · 2025
Witness reports seeing a semi-transparent man walking beside them on a rural road who appeared to be looking for a way to communicate.
Shadow Person
Witness reports waking up in a new room to see 'him' standing in the doorway watching them.
Shadow Person
Witnesses report encountering a featureless black silhouette resembling a bobcat that darted away at high speed.
Shadow Person · 2010s
Witness reports seeing two featureless, completely black human figures standing shoulder to shoulder in the snow who appeared silently behind them.
Shadow Person · 2018
Witness reports a figure sitting in the driveway with arms on knees that crawled away like a ferret.
Shadow Person
Witness reports shooting multiple rounds into a bush where the creature was holding up foliage and then hearing it run away.
Shadow Person · 2024
Witness reports seeing a seven-foot-tall solid black shadow with a dog-like head and pointy ears standing in a field.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports encountering shadow people while breaking into an abandoned 90-year-old home with friends.
Shadow Person
The narrator saw a figure resembling their step-dad at the front door window, which then turned and walked into the parents' room.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports waking up to see a hairless, gray, gaunt head with empty eye sockets next to their bed before it disappeared underneath.
Shadow Person · 2025
Witness and boyfriend report seeing a figure walking, looking back, and then running back and forth outside.
Shadow Person
Witness acknowledges having experiences involving malevolent beings over the years but is unsure if the black entity was responsible.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports seeing shadow figures of an elderly woman knitting, two children playing, and a male figure beating them in a guest bedroom.
Shadow Person
Witness reports a recurring dream from childhood of seeing a face staring and smiling from under a desk.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing a face peeking over the banister on the stairs before realizing it was his friend [name].
Shadow Person · 2020
The narrator reports seeing a vague, lanky humanoid shadow outside their tent at night, accompanied by a smell of rotting meat.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing the figure with weird energy shortly before their grandmother was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing a skinny humanoid figure with a long head appear in a window shadow at night and then run away silently.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
The narrator recalls seeing a shadow walk across their bedroom door into their parents' room when they were 4 or 5 years old.
Shadow Person
Shadows are seen peeking around the doorway to the hallway.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports seeing a tall, slim man wearing a long coat and top hat multiple times during childhood and adulthood.
Shadow Person · 2026
The narrator reports seeing a tall, lanky, black shadow man with white eyes and a Cheshire grin staring at them from a corner next to the garage until they blinked.
Shadow Person
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…
Shadow Person
The narrator and their best friend repeatedly encountered a figure they called the 'Tall Man' or 'Hat Man' during their teenage years.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports seeing a 'hat man' standing in the corner of a tiny room in their parents' old house during the last recession.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
Witness reports having a nightmare with tons of shadow people standing around their bed.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing an arm in a red cardigan at the side of a bedroom door that moved eerily without sound.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports hearing the entity calling their name in an inhuman tone during late night or early morning hours.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports seeing a tall figure wearing a top hat standing in their doorway during an episode of sleep paralysis.
Shadow Person · 2004
Witness reports seeing a distortion in humanoid shape crouched on a tree branch behind their apartment while smoking.
Shadow Person · 2006
The narrator's mother reports that after a business trip in 2006, strange occurrences began affecting the family, starting with electronics turning on by themselves.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing a figure standing at their door frame after waking up, noting it lacked a hat and was located near a graveyard.
Shadow Person · 2014
Witness reports seeing a shadow rise from the forest floor, form into a ball, and shoot back into the woods like a rocket.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
The witness reports feeling weight on their bed and seeing a creature with huge feet climb up on all fours to sniff them.
Shadow Person
Witness reports feeling a hand with interlaced fingers grab and jerk their hand away while sitting with [name].
Shadow Person · 2019
The narrator reports seeing the Hat Man constantly just before the COVID-19 pandemic, noting he always appeared at a comfortable distance and never moved.
Shadow Person
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…
Shadow Person
Witness recalls seeing the entity at a friend's house and grandmother's house.
Shadow Person
Witness reports being drugged at a party and experiencing a similar event with several entities around while the night sky was vivid green.
Shadow Person · 2017
The narrator reports waking up to see the outline of a man wearing an old bowler hat.
Shadow Person · 2020
The narrator reports seeing a pair of yellowish eyes in the distance at night, along with the smell of rotting meat.
Shadow Person
Witness and a close friend saw the shadow figure cross from the living room to the kitchen while in the bedroom.
Shadow Person · 2018
Witness reports seeing the same figure in the driveway again, growling and staring at them.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
Witness reports CSG lying on top of them at 4:08am with his face two inches from theirs.
Shadow Person · 2012
Witness reports seeing the figure standing in their room after their door slammed shut and shaking the wall.
Shadow Person
The narrator and her younger son saw a 3D shadow child standing in the doorway of her room, which disappeared when she blinked.
Shadow Person · 2001
The narrator reports seeing a tall man in a trench coat and brimmed hat on the shoulder of a rural road in 2001, who vanished when they passed him.
Shadow Person
Witness reports a solid black shadow with white eyes materializing in their closet and then fleeing.
Shadow Person
The narrator and his girlfriend encountered a figure in a hat with a black void for a face that approached their car in traffic.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
The narrator and her friend C both report seeing a featureless, black, fluid entity peering down from an open attic ceiling.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports seeing a tall, thin, completely dark figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat that glides during an episode of sleep paralysis.
Shadow Person · 2004
The narrator reports a figure sitting on their bed, trapping their legs with weight and turning its head towards them during the night.
Shadow Person
Witness and sister report seeing a shadow move across kitchen cabinets, stop, get bigger, and stand under an arch before they ran upstairs.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person · 1980s
The host reports seeing a non-solid, human-form shadow entity in the late 1980s or 1990s that drove him crazy with terror.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing the same figure standing outside a window while sitting on their bed.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing the same man at a residential complex gate for a split second.
Shadow Person · 2026
Witness reports seeing a white silhouette with visible arms and torso in front of their wardrobe while lying in bed.
Shadow Person
Witness reports seeing a figure darting around in the corner of their eye and hearing knocking on the wall.
Shadow Person
Witness recalls seeing the entity's upper body at elementary school and feet under a restroom stall door.
Shadow Person
The narrator saw the shadow of a person walking along shelves in an electrical store but found no one when turning around.
Shadow Person · 2020
Witness reports seeing a dark shadow with a feminine frame moving in the kitchen and living room, followed by lights turning on and off, which was later attributed to a deceased lady.
Shadow Person
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.
Shadow Person
Witness reports the creature flashed yellow eyes and let out a loud shriek that sounded like neither a person nor an animal.
Shadow Person
The narrator reports repeatedly seeing a figure wearing a hat standing at the end of hallways and following them from work to home.
Shadow Person · 2010s
The narrator reports seeing shadow people in the hallway and finding kitchen cabinets open without explanation.
Shadow Person
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.