From: name withheld by request
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:24:31 PM
To: The Official Shadow People Archives
Subject: Shadow person
Hi there,
Recently I’ve been having really strange experiences with what I think may be one or more shadow beings. I’m a student so I don’t know if maybe I’m making this up because I’m stressed, and that it’s being exacerbated by the fact that I already had problems with anxiety, or if it’s something worse.
The first experience I had was probably about a month ago, and I disregarded it because it seemed like a typical sleep paralysis experience. Now, I don’t have sleep paralysis frequently, so I’m not exactly sure if even this was normal for that, but from what I heard it seemed fairly similar.
What happened was I woke up in the middle of the night in my dorm, but I think I was only half awake or so because I was “awake”, but my eyes weren’t opening and I felt like something was touching my hip. It took a bit but I was actually able to open them, but I couldn’t move my body. I was lying on my back, which is also weird for me because I usually sleep on my stomach, and when I opened my eyes, I saw the shadow figure.
I know most people say that they only see them out of the corner of their eye or that it looks like some sort of disembodied head or something, or that it’s across the room, but this one was very much in my personal space. It was ON MY BED with me, on what I’m guessing were its hands and knees, and it had its face close to mine. It had its head cocked, and it seemed like it was trying to threaten or scare me with its close proximity and large size (I think it was probably at least 6 ft. tall).
Since I couldn’t move all I could do was stare at it, and it felt like it lasted forever, until finally at one point I blinked and it just disappeared, and suddenly I was able to move again. I sat up, got out of bed and turned on my lamp, didn’t see anything, and laid back down. Eventually, I was able to go back to sleep.
About a week later I had another experience, this time while I was trying to fall asleep. I was laying on my side, probably about halfway there, when once again I felt something touching me. It felt like whatever it was had laid down next to me in a spooning position. I was laying there honestly terrified, and once again I couldn’t move. I also remember being extremely cold even though I was covered up. I thought at first when I was in denial that it was because my fan was on, but it just doesn’t seem possible when I was freezing cold under all of my blankets. Eventually, I fell asleep, but I was terrified the entire time.
Since then I feel like I’ve been getting more and more paranoid. I sleep with my closet light on now and I hate to be alone in my room at night. If whatever this thing is real, I know it doesn’t like my boyfriend. We’re in a long distance relationship (we’re only an hour and a half from each other but it’s far enough to be inconvenient, so whenever we’re able to we sleep over at the other person’s place), and it leaves us alone whenever he comes and spends the night, and I don’t have any problems when I go to his house, but I noticed that I seem to have more problems after I see him. It makes me feel better to be on the phone with him while I’m trying to sleep, but the other night my phone hung up on him even though all I was doing was looking at it, and my boyfriend claimed the same thing.
I keep seeing more things out of the corner of my eye, even during the daytime and while I’m in class, at work, or anywhere really. I’ve also started hearing noises, but I’m trying to write them off as other people since I’m still in a dorm room. I don’t really have anyone to ask about whether they hear it too because my roommate moved out at the end of last semester, so I’m by myself in my room. It’s usually subtle stuff like the sound of someone breathing, but every now and then I think I hear short phrases like “No” or something like that. It sounds like it’s a male voice.
The real kicker here is that I used to see a lot of stuff similar to this when I was little, so that’s the real reason why I’m starting to get really freaked out. It’s been at least seven or eight years since I’ve had any problems, and I really don’t want this to start up again.
I had to get all of this off my chest because it’s starting to become too much with finals coming up here in a couple of weeks and work. I wanted to submit my experiences because they sound similar to stuff, I’ve read on here, but like I said, I’m not completely sure if I’m making it up because I’m stressed or not.
