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Ever heard or seen what is know as Shadow People? Whats your take on these dark beings.
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The Shadow people are supposedly from a parallel universe. Some people say it is an optical illusion because they can usually only be perceived in ones peripheral vision. I think only from personal experience that it is a possibility. Art Bell had a few shows on this back in the day. IMO we are still infants at understanding science and how the universe works. This includes the paranormal. So until someone can prove with a fair amount of evidence that it is all B.S I keep an open mind on most things.

A long time back, my Mom opened her bedroom door, and saw a tall dark robed shadow standing in front of her, she slammed the door and screamed for my Dad to come, but the shadow was gone.
Another time, while she was in bed, she thought she heard the door open, so she looked up and saw a dark figure walk into the bathroom, she thought it was my dad, and she called out his name, when he didnt answer she screamed, and my Dad came in the bedroom, he was in the living room before that.

I've seen Shadows of people and animals out of the corner of my eyes, but just rubbed it off as imagination, or my eyes playing tricks on me. However, when I was 13 years old, I did see what looked like a woman in a whilte wedding dress standing in my woods, it scared the crap out of me and ran inside the house, and told my dad, he came out with a flashlight, but never saw anything.

I used to go over to a friend's house, and we'd play wargames, there would be about ten of us, and at different times we all had seen
the same thing, an upper torso of a Blue man.We nicknamed him the Blue man, the upper torso was solid blue.
Our parents said it was Mass suggestion/imagination, whatever, we know what we saw.

 I've heard some say other dimentional, some ghosts, and still others demons. I know someone who messed around with a Voodoo book, and claimed to see a shadowy figure three nights straight.  And this was someone who's belief system was soundly based in pure science at the time.  Don't think anyone will ever know what the shadow people are, or prove / disprove their existance one way or another. As for my part I believe they probably exist, but as to what they are I'm one to go with the demon idea.  Just my take, as I really haven't any information for more than a guess.

Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on July 09, 2009, 07:02:03 PM


I've seen Shadows of people and animals out of the corner of my eyes, but just rubbed it off as imagination, or my eyes playing tricks on me.

I've had like experiences, & then some. I can't say what, or if they mean anything, but I know it's not merely one's imagination, or too much coffee. I've come to believe that the imagination can be a doorway, for lack of a better term,to the spirit realm.

Back to the corner of the eye's thing, I've experienced this often thruout my life. Most recently, I worked overnights at a group home for special needs children. Many of us, myself included, experienced some very profound things of this nature. I personally think the nature of the kids, the adolescents especially ,either created, or attracted some sort of spirit, or energy. Why, or what it means again, I can't say. Such things, real as they are, usually cause more questions than answers in my case.

That's my theory on the house. Other co-workers had more conventional explainations, everything from guardian angels, to outright hauntings.

When I was younger, I had dreams about this Male and Female shadow people, they both would cover my body, and I could feel them
choking me, I would wake up terrified, sometimes yelling, and all the time sweating.
This went on for a long time, I told my folks about it, they blamed the horror movies i watched late at night.
I never had a dream again like that since 2003.

I looked in the mirror once, and I saw five-o'clock shadow.

Sorry. I seem to be a little hyper today.

Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on July 09, 2009, 06:41:38 PM
Ever heard or seen what is know as Shadow People? Whats your take on these dark beings.
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Honestly, I love watching shows and reading books that deal with the supernatural and hauntings, but I'm the type of person that needs to see something with my own eyes to truly believe it.  I guess I'll be forever on the fence about it until that day comes.  If I did happen to see something like the above picture, I think that would be the end of walks in the woods for me.  :D

personally, when I was in my 20s, 30s, I was very much a believer in the paranormal, UFOs, cryptids, etc., but I couldn't reconcile the enormous number of claims people would make and the dearth or any real evidence. I think my breaking point was in the 80s/90s when there were so many "abductees" coming forward. Barney and Betty Hill are one thing (two people, on the road, real lost time, etc), but it used to be when someone claimed to go to bed, wake up in a strange place and have strange experiences, then end up in bed again (which seemed to be a lot of these stories), it was called a "dream."

The other thing that drove me away was the increasingly elaborate explanations needed--can't find evidence of bigfoot, so they are from another dimension. Occam's Razor, anyone?

My problem with Art Bell/George Nouri types is that any guest with any claim is greeted with the same amount of skepticism--that is "zero." As a result, to me anyway, none of them have any credibility.

Occam's Razor?

Nah, I use Gillette. ;D

Right on, MDG. 

As my old Grandad used to say:  The more you overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to screw up the drain."  A paraphrase-- his proverbs, we kids called 'em Grampisms, were heavily dosed with creative NSFW language.

The biggest problem with most claims of the paranormal, is that there are danged few pieces of hard evidence.
The photos here are pretty spooky and fun to fantasize about (except for the room of chairs--I see nothing but a botched drywall job).  But there is nothing there that could not be a still from a movie or someone playing with Photoshop.

Quote from: MDG on July 10, 2009, 08:49:21 AM
Barney and Betty Hill are one thing (two people, on the road, real lost time, etc), but it used to be when someone claimed to go to bed, wake up in a strange place and have strange experiences, then end up in bed again (which seemed to be a lot of these stories), it was called a "dream."

Afraid I have to agree with the "dream" theory, sounds like bad jalopenos before bedtime. And no one else sees a ufo in the area, even though many people tend to stay up late. Those abducted in remote places from their cars I would more likely try to keep an open mind about the possibility. Ghosts I am a firm believer in, having expierienced one for a number of years. But being abducted in bed, in a city with no craft sightings by anyone else, does make it sound like  those people were dreaming. As far as the shadow people, I have an open mind knowing someone close who experienced this three nights in a row.  

I think, at this point in time anyway, we can't prove or disprove the existence of God, ghosts, spirits, angels, demons, other dimensions etc, etc.
For one, such things are very personal experiences, & perhaps they're meant to be. Second, I don't think  we can see, photograph, even experience such beings & events unless they WANT to be noticed.

Not offering any answers or absolutes here, this is only based on my personal observations & expereince.

Strange creature caught on film, look behind the mounted cop, something is crossing the road behind him.

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Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on July 11, 2009, 12:31:39 AM
Strange creature caught on film, look behind the mounted cop, something is crossing the road behind him.

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I'll bet that is a feral Paradolia, (sub species of Apophenia)  Fairly widespread throughout North America and Western Europe.

You know, real or not... I like this stuff.  Keep it coming. :)

Quote from: Fester on July 11, 2009, 01:27:16 AM
I'll bet that is a feral Paradolia, (sub species of Apophenia)  Fairly widespread throughout North America and Western Europe.

Now, Fester, we all know pareidolia's don't exist ;)!

You are probably thinking of the mythical Python Booted Apostrophe.

Dang!  Once again, you're right!

Hey, its the crux of the biscuit. ;)

 There is a swamp monster around Bishopville, S.C. in the Scrape Ore swamp.  Original sightings during 1972, with more around 1988 and 2005.  Lizard Man has been described as 7ft with scaly green skin and orange or red eyes.  I remember the `72 sightings from newspaper articles, living in South Carolina at the time.  Maybe Doc Conner's secret hide-out, or a lost Sleestak?

Any stills round there?

We had a few weird sightings around here a few years ago.  Turns out the guys seeing strange critters in the woods were making moonshine, and the lizard men were ATF and state cops sneaking around in camo getting ready to bust them!

 The closest thing to S.C. Lizard Man pics I've ever seen was a few S.C. 'Palmetto Lottery' comercials with a man in a lizard suit, while I was visiting back home in Columbia a while back.  Damn media cashes in on everything.  Next they'll have Bigfoot drinking Lipton Tea. 

Quote from: depressedlarrytalbot on July 09, 2009, 11:28:16 PM
I looked in the mirror once, and I saw five-o'clock shadow.

The strange thing was, it was only 4:45.

Down in Fort Worth, Texas, they had the Goat-man running loose in the late 70s

Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on July 23, 2009, 07:00:16 PM
Down in Fort Worth, Texas, they had the Goat-man running loose in the late 70s

the most famous of these reports is the case of the Lake Worth Monster. This case hit the public consciousness in the summer of 1969. While America was caught up in the moon landing, sightings of this hairy creature were being reported in the Greer Island area of Lake Worth in Fort Worth, Texas. The animal was described as being approximately seven feet tall, weighing in the neighborhood of three hundred pounds, covered with white hair and walked upright like a man. It was purportedly seen repeatedly throughout the year and during July the area was packed with locals who had witnessed the beast. At one point it was said to have become annoyed at the onlookers and hurled an automobile wheel and tire at them from the distance of five hundred feet. Needless to say, they leapt into their cars and departed the area post haste.

The last reported sighting of the creature that year was by Charles Buchanan on November 7. He was sleeping in the open bed of his pickup truck and was awakened when his sleeping bag was suddenly grabbed by a creature and was pulled from the truck. He stuffed a bag of chicken in its mouth and it shuffled off into the water and swam towards Greer Island.

This series of events was the impetus of my interest in this field. I was a child of nine years old that summer and my grandparents lived in Fort Worth. They had a boat on Eagle Mountain Lake, which was separated by a dam from Lake Worth. I can still remember seeing the headlines in the Fort Worth Star Telegram about the "Goatman." We spent many a night anchored out in the middle of the lake and my imagination ran rampant with all manner of scenarios of the monster climbing aboard our boat.

This was a clipping from an article on the Lake Worth Monster.
Doc

  Looked up more info on the TX Goat-man, and came across other sightings.  Prince George County, Maryland in the `50's and `70's.   Louisville, Kentucky during the `50's.   Smith Mills, Kentucky during the `70's.   Damn it Doc, now I'm getting hooked on this Cryptozoology bit.

Here's a clipping from Wiki on the LizardMan of S.C.

The Lizard Man is described as being seven feet tall (over 2m), bipedal, and well built, with green scaly skin and glowing orange eyes. It is said to have three toes on each foot and three fingers on each hand which end in a circular pad on them that stick to walls. The creature has an incredible degree of strength, more than capable of ripping into a car.[2]


[edit] Davis sighting
The first reported sighting of the creature was made by Christopher Davis, a 16 year old local, who said he encountered the creature while driving home from work at 2 AM on June 29, 1988.[3][2][4] According to his account, Davis stopped on a road bordering Scape Ore Swamp in order to change a tire which had blown out. When he was finishing up he reported having heard a thumping noise from behind him and having turned around to see the creature running towards him.[5][2]

Davis said the creature tried to grab at the car and then jumped on its roof as he tried to escape, clinging on to it as Davis swerved from side to side in an effort to throw it off. After he returned home, Davis' side-view-mirror was found to be badly damaged, and scratch marks were found on the car's roof--though there was no other physical evidence of his encounter.[6][3][2]

"I looked back and saw something running across the field towards me. It was about 25 yards away and I saw red eyes glowing. I ran into the car and as I locked it, the thing grabbed the door handle. I could see him from the neck down – the three big fingers, long black nails and green rough skin. It was strong and angry. I looked in my mirror and saw a blur of green running. I could see his toes and then he jumped on the roof of my car. I thought I heard a grunt and then I could see his fingers through the front windshield, where they curled around on the roof. I sped up and swerved to shake the creature off."

Quote from: CreepysFan on July 23, 2009, 11:47:19 PM
  Looked up more info on the TX Goat-man, and came across other sightings.  Prince George County, Maryland in the `50's and `70's.   Louisville, Kentucky during the `50's.   Smith Mills, Kentucky during the `70's.   Damn it Doc, now I'm getting hooked on this Cryptozoology bit.

>:D

For those of you who do not know this story, it is an old folk lore. Lake Worth is next to Ft.Worth, TX. I use to leave near here. I had heard the stories my self of a half goat, half man creature lurking on a tiny little island in the lake.

But, what doesn't end up in these stories is the fact that Carswell Airforce base is off the same lake, 1/2 mile away. Carswell AFB is one of the locations where the supposed "Rosewell" UFO and ET had ended up. Have anything in common???

Another clipping I came across.
Doc

Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on July 24, 2009, 12:35:51 AM
For those of you who do not know this story, it is an old folk lore. Lake Worth is next to Ft.Worth, TX. I use to leave near here. I had heard the stories my self of a half goat, half man creature lurking on a tiny little island in the lake.

But, what doesn't end up in these stories is the fact that Carswell Airforce base is off the same lake, 1/2 mile away. Carswell AFB is one of the locations where the supposed "Rosewell" UFO and ET had ended up. Have anything in common???

Another clipping I came across.
Doc

It was probably not half goat-half man. It was likely just some lonely Texas redneck shagging a goat.

are you admitting to something here?

Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on July 28, 2009, 01:55:17 PM
are you admitting to something here?

NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

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My wife grew up in a very haunted house,asateen back around 1983 my family regulalry saw UFOs (this was around the time of the Hudson Valley sightings,but we lived farther north than that area) and I am pretty sure I saw Bigfoot a few years ago, so yeah, I believe in alot of crypto/paranormal phenomenon!

Portland has several underground tours of what are called the Shanghai Tunnels.  I went with a group once and afterwards, had pictures from the tour posted on our group's website.  At least three different cameras were used that night and all three showed the same floating globe effects in the same room.  None of the other dozen rooms showed the effect.

A few years back, I got a chance to work at an abandoned insane asylum for 45 days.  It was called Dammasch and is now torn down.  Several ghost sightings were reported.  Towards the end, someone found a report that the two most common visitations were the rape of a young woman and a sole security guard walking around.  When they heard that, everyone looked at me.  Course, it didn't help that I was white from sheetrock dust at the time.

That's pretty wild, Z!  I'm glad you bumped up this thread - I was just thinking about posting a couple more tales of terror, myself!

Oh, I just noticed, RedKing is the one who bumped this up!

Quote from: Unknown Primate on December 03, 2011, 09:46:25 PM
That's pretty wild, Z!  I'm glad you bumped up this thread - I was just thinking about posting a couple more tales of terror, myself!

I've got to pass on the credit for bumping to Redking which I also appreciated.  Love the supernatural kind of stuff.  Would love to hear what you were going to post UP.

I love reading about this sort of thing! I used to have scads of books on Bigfoot, lake monsters, Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle, ancient astronauts, ghosts, etc. I don't believe in any of it for a second, though. But I still like reading about it.

My brother had an encounter with a shadow figure once. He was asleep on the family bunk beds and something awakened him, and he saw a man in black looking through a photo-album on a music stand, and when he reached out, the figure vanished.  Same House, I saw a ghost once. Also, The Home I grew up was, and I kid you not, location to a Santa Claus siting, by me.  I was asleep in my living room when I was like 7 or 8, something like that,  And My mother and I slept in the living room that night because the house was cold elsewhere. I awakened early Christmas Morning to see a weighty figure dressed in red unloading a bag of toys. My Father was in Indiana, and my soon-to be Stepfather was too big to be who I saw, and My brothers were too small. My mom insists no one was let in that night.

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I've got to pass on the credit for bumping to Redking which I also appreciated.  Love the supernatural kind of stuff.  Would love to hear what you were going to post UP.

Yep!  I just noticed -  ;D!

UP please share some of your stories!! Doc, I ove your stories too-I am glad you mentioned seeing Santa-I swear I saw the old man too, when I was about 5 or 6. I got up in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve and snuck out to the living room and swear i saw him unloading a sack of presents. of course I ran back to bed and pretended to be asleep, and as I got older I figured I just dreamed or imagined the whole thing...but after hearing your story, and I still vividly remember it...maybe it really was Santa!

PEPSI, The Ghost Dog

I was around 10-11 years old and a bunch of us kids were goofing off & playing around in the street.  It was close to eleven o'clock in the evening.  After our parents yelled for us to stay out of the street or get on the porch, I opted to hang out on my neighbors porch.  Directly across the street was my house, with a straight on view of our garage at the end of our driveway.  The garage door was open & I could barely see our two cars sitting there in the darkness.  The three kids I was hanging with jumped up and ran into their house to get some kool-aid or something.  I sat there on their porch & started staring into our garage, which was about a hundred or so feet from where I sat.  I began to make out a faint white spot, almost a glow, under one of our cars.  Even from that distance, I recognized it as Pepsi, my neighbor's dog.  He had a distinct white face, with a couple of small dark spots.  I called out to him several times, till my neighbor's old man came outside and asked me what I was doing.  I told him Pepsi was in our garage staring out from under our car.  He became a little shook up.  He was a big, rugged guy and it surprised me to see him like that.  He leaned over and said, "Mark, I found Pepsi, dead, yesterday morning - he'd been hit by a car."  He said he hadn't told his kids, yet, and asked me not to mention it to them.  He was slightly freaked out, but not as much as I was!  The kids eventually found out about the demise of their beloved pet - and I kept my word - till now...

That's spooky but kind of sweet too. Do pets have an afterlife? I can't remember the name of the book, but Stephen King wrote a delightful segment about a beloved dog (not Cujo I'm sure!) that had died and had woken up in a beautiful warm grassy field, full of rabbits to chase.

Then again, if there's some kind of glitch, will I wake there one day????  ;D

Not sure of a pet afterlife, but I sure remember seeing that dog's distinct face - it wasn't even like I was used to seeing him peering out from under our car, because I don't think Pepsi ever did that!  I'll just plain out, never forget it.  Spooked me a little, for sure.  I do recall keeping an eye out for his ghostly visage when I would take trash out to the garage late at night...

Quote from: Dr. Madd on December 04, 2011, 06:32:03 AM
My brother had an encounter with a shadow figure once. He was asleep on the family bunk beds and something awakened him, and he saw a man in black looking through a photo-album on a music stand, and when he reached out, the figure vanished.  Same House, I saw a ghost once. Also, The Home I grew up was, and I kid you not, location to a Santa Claus siting, by me.  I was asleep in my living room when I was like 7 or 8, something like that,  And My mother and I slept in the living room that night because the house was cold elsewhere. I awakened early Christmas Morning to see a weighty figure dressed in red unloading a bag of toys. My Father was in Indiana, and my soon-to be Stepfather was too big to be who I saw, and My brothers were too small. My mom insists no one was let in that night.

I believe in the man in the red suit!!

Quote from: Unknown Primate on December 07, 2011, 04:06:51 PM
PEPSI, The Ghost Dog

I was around 10-11 years old and a bunch of us kids were goofing off & playing around in the street.  It was close to eleven o'clock in the evening.  After our parents yelled for us to stay out of the street or get on the porch, I opted to hang out on my neighbors porch.  Directly across the street was my house, with a straight on view of our garage at the end of our driveway.  The garage door was open & I could barely see our two cars sitting there in the darkness.  The three kids I was hanging with jumped up and ran into their house to get some kool-aid or something.  I sat there on their porch & started staring into our garage, which was about a hundred or so feet from where I sat.  I began to make out a faint white spot, almost a glow, under one of our cars.  Even from that distance, I recognized it as Pepsi, my neighbor's dog.  He had a distinct white face, with a couple of small dark spots.  I called out to him several times, till my neighbor's old man came outside and asked me what I was doing.  I told him Pepsi was in our garage staring out from under our car.  He became a little shook up.  He was a big, rugged guy and it surprised me to see him like that.  He leaned over and said, "Mark, I found Pepsi, dead, yesterday morning - he'd been hit by a car."  He said he hadn't told his kids, yet, and asked me not to mention it to them.  He was slightly freaked out, but not as much as I was!  The kids eventually found out about the demise of their beloved pet - and I kept my word - till now...

Cool!! :D

Quote from: Unknown Primate on December 09, 2011, 03:03:59 PM
Not sure of a pet afterlife, but I sure remember seeing that dog's distinct face - it wasn't even like I was used to seeing him peering out from under our car, because I don't think Pepsi ever did that!  I'll just plain out, never forget it.  Spooked me a little, for sure.  I do recall keeping an eye out for his ghostly visage when I would take trash out to the garage late at night...

That's a cool story Mark. I do think that dogs and cats have something going on -a soul of some kind. I base this not just on my feelings for pets but the experiences I had working as a veterinary assistant in college. We had to euthanize a lot of animals, and I'll never forget the first time I assisted. One minute, I was touching a living, breathing being -and the next, well, it might as well have been a rock. It was more than just the cessation of bodily functions -it's hard to explain, and I know it's all my perceptions, but it really felt like whatever made those animals individual beings with their own personalities had just fled the body. It was the same every single time we did it -one minute they were there, the next gone. No hard facts here but just my gut feeling.

Great  Photos of the Shadow People Real or not !!
I've Had First Hand Experience with one
About 5 ft. tall
Terrorized me For about 8 hrs.
He let me see him real good , Too Good
Never want  to see him again
Was about 25 at the time

Quote from: Scatter on December 09, 2011, 05:44:26 PM
I believe in the man in the red suit!!

Quote from: Zardoz on December 09, 2011, 06:16:06 PM
Great  Photos of the Shadow People Real or not !!
I've Had First Hand Experience with one
About 5 ft. tall
Terrorized me For about 8 hrs.
He let me see him real good , Too Good
Never want  to see him again
Was about 25 at the time

Wow, too scary! I'm not sure if I want to know what he looked like, I need to sleep at night!

Quote from: Pauspy on December 10, 2011, 01:21:42 PM
Wow, too scary! I'm not sure if I want to know what he looked like, I need to sleep at night!

Flat Black , Slender , Alien build , you could tell he had a mouth ,nose , eyes but you could'nt see them. 5 ft. tall very fast
even when you could'nt see him you could feel him there.   It happened during the day in a well lit room

Quote from: Zardoz on December 09, 2011, 06:16:06 PM
Great  Photos of the Shadow People Real or not !!
I've Had First Hand Experience with one
About 5 ft. tall
Terrorized me For about 8 hrs.
He let me see him real good , Too Good
Never want  to see him again
Was about 25 at the time

You spent 8 hours with it?  In a well-lit room?  Where was this room and what were you doing at the time?

If any of you are into ghosts, I highly recommend this tour if you ever happen to make it to Key West. Me and my gf and brother and his gf went to this tour, and I honestly thought it was going to be stupid, but in fact it was very educational and a whole lot of fun. Never realized how many famous crazies were down there until the tour. The count and Robert the doll were quite crazy along with the killing tree.The idea for the Childs Play movie came from Robert the doll. Check it out.

http://www.hauntedtours.com/tales.html (http://www.hauntedtours.com/tales.html)

Where I currently live in Gaston County, NC, there are supposedly numerous haunted sites, including the old Gaston County Courthouse. There are also rumors of a strange, eerie creature that pops up in various locations, called a High School Graduate. They say it does weird, other-worldly things, like read things to itself without moving its lips, take less than fifteen minutes to make a single transaction at an ATM machine, and order from a menu at a restaurant instead of leaving it closed and just asking if they have this or that! I've yet to encounter one of these bizarre creatures, though. Maybe it's because I doubt their existence?

Quote from: Count_Zirock on December 10, 2011, 04:37:16 PM
Where I currently live in Gaston County, NC, there are supposedly numerous haunted sites, including the old Gaston County Courthouse. There are also rumors of a strange, eerie creature that pops up in various locations, called a High School Graduate. They say it does weird, other-worldly things, like read things to itself without moving its lips, take less than fifteen minutes to make a single transaction at an ATM machine, and order from a menu at a restaurant instead of leaving it closed and just asking if they have this or that! I've yet to encounter one of these bizarre creatures, though. Maybe it's because I doubt their existence?

Now, YOU are getting crazy!  The creatures you describe don't exist.  Maybe they once did, but they went extinct ages ago.

Count Z - They say there are photos of these, but they're always blurry.

Quote from: Count_Zirock on December 10, 2011, 04:37:16 PM
Where I currently live in Gaston County, NC, there are supposedly numerous haunted sites, including the old Gaston County Courthouse. There are also rumors of a strange, eerie creature that pops up in various locations, called a High School Graduate. They say it does weird, other-worldly things, like read things to itself without moving its lips, take less than fifteen minutes to make a single transaction at an ATM machine, and order from a menu at a restaurant instead of leaving it closed and just asking if they have this or that! I've yet to encounter one of these bizarre creatures, though. Maybe it's because I doubt their existence?

Yea, around here they have these creatures called college graduates that take elder people and make them into slaves. They even respond to the word BOSS!!! Weird huh?  ;D

"Robert" is disturbing, indeed!

That's why I like reading these kinds of stories. Never know where you're going to find good story fodder.

Great stories. And yes I believe our 4 legged friends move on from here. Sometimes they hang around for awhile as well. Over the years we have had 8 cats and a dog pass on. With half of the cats ,shortly after passing on , we would be doing dishes or doing something around the house and suddenly it feels like something rubbing around our ankles or stretching up and touching the top of the leg. We would look down expecting to see one of our other cats only to see nothing and the other cats sleeping in another room. Also back in August of 09' we had to let our Chow Chow Little Bear move on due to crippling health issues. Over the next few days at different times we both heard her nails clacking on the tile floor and both heard her bang on the patio door to be let in a couple times each. Also the day after she passed I came home from work depressed. She would not be there to greet me after work.
I walked in the door and our cat Blue who we had got a couple months before came running down the stairs and greeted me just like LB would have and over the next few days took on some of LB's habits and mannerisms.

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seed_murda, that Robert the doll has always freaked me out.  Evil kids toys are just plain wrong.  There's also an Annabell doll that is demon possessed and dangerous.

Yea I just checked that anabelle doll out. Thats pretty crazy. It def makes you wonder about voodoo.

Quote from: Fester on December 10, 2011, 03:34:02 PM
You spent 8 hours with it?  In a well-lit room?  Where was this room and what were you doing at the time?

I was in the Living room of my house trying to unwind from the day
a couple of hours before sundown is when he started on me
it seems that he feeds on fear. maybe not, but I fed him plenty
I've told this story to many people and My whole body tingles everytime I tell it !!!
He would never let me see him all the way he would run off into the wall
then he tricked me and he did not run just stood there in the doorway looking at me
My eyes were fixed on him I could'nt believe what I was looking at. I did'nt want to look anymore
so I turned my head away and then looked back and he was gone again but knew he was still there
Finally I got in the bed and covered my head with a pillow I did'nt come out until the next day

I have a friend who swears when he was only 7 or 8 years old, that a small, black, inky darkness in the form of a child, tormented him off & on one summer!  He was staying at his Grandfather's farmhouse, way out in the country, that year.  Nobody believed him - except his Grandfather.

I had a dog named Otto, who's mother was a rottweiler & his father, a shadow in the night.  He died of natural causes on Halloween Night in 1998 - My kids & I vividly remember burying him in the backyard of our old house.  We had actually just moved into a big ol' drafty house, but still owned our old one.  Liz was in California with her Mom on a business trip.  It was very surrealistic - My son & his friend were just 14 at the time and my daughter was only 7.  She desperately wanted to be there for the "ceremony", so I let her.
After the kids went trick or treating, went back home and settled in for the rainy evening.  They finally fell asleep after watching a couple of old monster movies.  I sipped some bourbon and retired to bed.  So, here I was on Halloween, late at night, after just burying my beloved Otto.  In a big bed by myself.
I woke up around 3 a.m.  I thought I heard claws clacking on the concrete floor in the basement, followed a few minutes later by the feeling of Otto beside the bed, on the floor.  It suddenly occurred to me that he had died earlier in the evening.  It wasn't scary - just a little sad...  and I dozed back off in a few minutes.
I hadn't "dreamed" it, that's for sure - I seriously don't know if it was just a very intense feeling of loss or if Otto had come by to say goodbye one last time.

I'm a sucker for pet stories.  I react the same way when losing a family pet as a family human.

Quote from: Zombiology on December 12, 2011, 03:31:08 AM
I react the same way when losing a family pet as a family human.

Some of my pets have been better family members than the humans I'm related to! But, they still get the backyard burials...right next to the cats and dogs!

Quote from: Count_Zirock on December 12, 2011, 05:02:37 AM
But, they still get the backyard burials...right next to the cats and dogs!

Sounds like a place of honor.

Quote from: Count_Zirock on December 12, 2011, 05:02:37 AM
Some of my pets have been better family members than the humans I'm related to! But, they still get the backyard burials...right next to the cats and dogs!

You bury your human relatives in the backyard next to the cats and dogs?

I had an encounter with a shadow person a few years back. My sister wanted me to go house hunting with her and we went to a particular home in a nearby seaside town. This house was once a summer dwelling that had been somewhat refurbished to become a full time residence. It had an odd feeling to it, what with there being pictures of long-dead people on the walls and saved clippings of obituaries of family members under glass.

The upstairs area was the most done over, with a bathroom added as well as several small bedrooms. One bedroom ,in particular, had a large window that overlooked the street. Upon entering this room, I was hit with an overwhelming feeling of choking that intensified as you approached the window. I left the room quickly thing that I was becoming ill. I located my sister who was looking at other rooms throughout the upstairs at the time and we talked about what the plusses and drawbacks to the house were. Before leaving, I decided to take another look at that particular room that had made me feel strange. As I entered again, I got halfway across before I was overcome with the feeling of choking again, only more intensely this time. Deciding that this was enough, I headed downstairs and we left the house.

On the way home in the car, we were talking about the rooms when my sister said that she felt there was something wrong with one of the upstairs bedrooms..I asked her why she said that and she said that she had a distinct impression of being choked in that room and that there was something still there! When I confirmed that I had the same feeling about the room, she said that it felt as though someone had died in that area and didnt pass away easily.

Several nights later, I had a dream that I was back at that place and feeling the same dreadful feeling again..this time I felt as though I were being strangled and I could make out someone with a black shape grabbing at me. It was so disturbing that I woke up..as I did so, I saw my cat, standing next to me on the bed. He was bolt upright with back arched and staring at something that seemed to be annoying him. I looked at where he was staring and saw a shadow figure at the foot of my bed. I got the impression that this was connected to that house somehow, on a subconscious level. I found myself being both pissed off and stunned at the same time that this thing seemed to have followed me to my own home! I told it to go that it was not welcome here and began to recite a prayer aloud. It moved along the bed edge til it was almost near my chest area and disappeared. Upon it leaving, that cat continued to stare where it left for some time.

I was telling my sister this story a day later when she said that she had felt that something bad might come from that house and she had used Holy water and recited prayers the past few nights as a precaution after out encounter, but still had a nightmare regarding an entity from that house.

As far as I know the home didnt sell and was taken off of the market, to this day whenever I'm in that area, I drive pass the house and look up at that second floor window of that room. It still gives me the creeps, even from the outside.

Great story, M - pretty damn creepy, too!  Did you or your sister ever have anymore nightmares about the house?

Quote from: Unknown Primate on January 16, 2012, 12:49:50 PM
Great story, M - pretty damn creepy, too!  Did you or your sister ever have anymore nightmares about the house?

Fortunately, no! But I have to say, it still gives me the creeps when I talk about it with anyone. :)

I was about 15 or 16 at home one night watching Jaws with my dad in the living room.  I knew that a slow part of the movie was coming up and decided to make a quick bathroom break.  I ran, maybe trotted, but I was not walking, to the bathroom and just as I started down the hall, which was about 15 feet after I started, I ran into someone, I thought.  My brother and sisters were in bad as well as my mom, so I thought one of them were coming the other direction and I ran into them.  I was going to apologize, then I saw that no one was there.  It was light enough that I would have seen someone, even if I knocked them to the floor.  There was nothing else in my way.  I was stopped in the middle of a run, I was knocked back a step, by nothing.  I went back to the living room, waiting until later for a bathroom break.

that is creepy, and thanks for sharing your story Zackuth  >:D
did this ever happen again?

Kind of.  Both of these happened when I was in the service. 

During boot camp, a guy and I were assigned guard duty on base, we had a section we had to make sure was secure.  One of the building in our route was no longer used and locked up, we were to make sure it stayed locked up.  We had an hour to walk our route and report in.  With each round, we both made sure the building's doors were locked and shut tight, which they were.  On our third round, we found one of the doors open.  We took a look inside, and did not find any other doors or windows open--it looked as though someone was inside and walked out.  Oh, forgot to mention, this building was at one time a boot camp barracks and a recruit supposedly hung himself one day, which is why it was no longer used.

This happened on my second ship.  I was on Sound and Security watch (which meant that I was to walk the ship and make sure everything was ok and take fluid level readings through 11 different tubes that gave an access into the tank) and taking a reading when I heard someone coming down the ladder (all stairs are called ladders in the Navy).  Now, I had walked up and down this particular ladder several times that I knew buy the sound the ladder made if someone was going up or coming down.  As I'm taking my reading, I'm watching out of the corner of my eye to see who was down there.  No one passed by me.  I checked the area I was in, which was storage for sodas and all locked up, and then looked in the compartment below, which was only one and pretty well open, which was empty.  So, someone came down the ladder and just disappeared.

Great stuff, Zackuth - glad you revived this thread!  I've been talking to some of my family about weird things that happened in the house we grew up in.  I'll post some of the stories soon.

You're welcome, Mr. Primate.  I read the thread and just had to share.

Keep'em coming!

Mark- what happened to that other thread? the one that had pages upon pages of ghost tales/ monster tales and such??