From: Stella
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2020 7:15 PM
To: The Official Shadow People Archives
Subject: Plymouth UK
Not sure if this is a ghost or a shadow person. I saw this as a child, and I’ve been looking for others who have had same experience for many years. Now I want to share in case it matches another experience.
I had a really unusual experience as a child in the early 80s. Walking home with my mum in a dark street after a school open evening, where we had to talk to all my teachers about my performance, (and clearly nobody else around) I looked up the road and saw a shadow going out from the kerb into the road, and it was moving – walking in fact. It was also light enough under the electric street lamps to see there was nothing casting the shadow - it was just there. Also, it was way darker than the actual shadows around it because of the street lighting. I’d say it was black in the sense of complete absence of light. I compared it to my own shadow which was a multiplicity of grey shadows that changed angles as we walked from one street lamp to the next. This odd shadow was pitch black and remained as if there was bright sunlight to the other side of her (in actuality there was a 10 foot high granite wall so the light to create this shadow would have been an impossibility anyway.
Anyway I was able to watch it as it got nearer. It was clearly of a person. I could see legs. I saw it was wearing a knee length loose skirt, high heels, and a long full head of hair, it was walking and getting closer and closer. I tried to get my mum to look but she refused. I could have done with the extra witness, never mind.
I wondered what would happen when we met it. Would there be an invisible entity, and would we feel it? Suddenly, there it was, a very clear shadow of woman walking along, and where she should have been to cast that shadow was nothing. And when the shadow passed, I felt nothing. Not even a cold patch - but it was pretty cold anyway so maybe I didn't notice.
Then I kept looking behind us. It was walking along behind, following the pavement, which wasn't completely straight. I would have followed it without my mum being there. It just disappeared off into the distance.
I often wonder if it still appears there or whether it was just a weird one off experience for my benefit.
This happened in Plymouth, Devon, England and I can only guess the year, 1982, probably around 7pm – at earliest in late Autumn as it was cold and dark - possibly towards end of term, so December?
Photo below shows the location – we were walking on the right hand side towards where you can see a vehicle in the distance.
