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(NOTE: While the following 3 adventures made fascinating reading, they required too much editing to be posted on a Tales page...read and see what you think of them. Although they have a humorous tone, the experience itself is chilling...)

"The Shadow, a Punch, and Ozzy Osbourne"

Hello, I'm from the Philippines I don't know if someone will believe me in my story especially the last one but here it goes: 5 years ago I was walking in our village street at around 11 pm, I was going to my friend & watch videos w/ him, along that street (zalamea St..) there are tall light posts, while walking you can see your own shadow in front of the street your walking on if the light post is behind you. a couple of light posts later I just noticed another shadow beside my own, at a very instant I thought there was just another person walking almost near me & the shadow would be cast from the light post behind us, curiously I wanted to look behind me to see who he was (because in our village, the neighbors here knew each other all the time) but when I did, nobody was there, but when I check the shadow beside me, it was clearly still right there. so I did some checking if its a double shadow of my own (coz sometimes the light post on the left side of the road is so bright & could cast another shadow at you besides the light post on the right side of the street). unfortunately, I checked the other shadow if it would originate on my own legs, but the shadow leg has its own origin & not mine! I also checked if the rhythmic walking of the other shadow would be similar to mine, but when I stopped walking to see, the other shadow kept on walking. I quickly turned my head to see if someone is playing a joke at me, but there was no one there! when I felt a cold air at the back of my head! I got scared & ran! I ran as fast as I could until I reached my friend's house. I told him about it but he didn't seem to believe me, so I just let it go & spent the night at their house.

Sometime a year after that I had another experience, I was already asleep in my dark bedroom, I thought I was having this dream of someone lightly punching at the side of my right upper thigh. when I woke up because of the weird dream I'm having, I can still feel the light punch at my thigh, I opened my eyes (but could not see anything because if you turn off the lights inside my room its a full pitch black & even there is no light to be cast from outside my window) & concentrated fully if its just my reflex muscles making these vibrations since I was very exhausted in hiking that day in our hills. But I swear its not my muscles making those reflex vibrations, I can really feel a cold skin while making contact on my thigh, & it felt like a fist! I quickly jumped out of my bed, screaming I even got tripped as I ran out to my room. my sister went out her room to see what was that all about, I told her the story but it seemed she doesn't believe me, so I just went inside her room & spent the night sleeping at her bedroom floor.

Now this is the funny part to read I'm telling you about in the beginning, but I assure you its all true. 2 years ago I was taking a shower, when I was done, I went to my room to get some clothes to wear, so I have to open my walk-in closet. But when I did, instantly there was a man facing behind me, in a split second when he heard the closet doors open he turned his head at me and demanded in an angry screaming voice "putangina sarado mo ang pinto!!!" (it means "shut the f****ng door!!!" if translated in English) I was so shocked I fell down at my back, still seeing him standing there angry faced, looking at me. I quickly rose up and ran out of my room & stayed in our front porch until my parents returned from work (I was alone in our house the whole time). Imagine I was so scared I stayed outside our house sitting in a chair wearing nothing but a towel around my waist & waited for 3 hours until my parents arrive. constantly looking through our window to see if there was just a man may be a robber or thief went inside our house while I was in the shower. but there was no one came out my door! he cant even escaped through my bedroom window because he will definitely will not fit in our fixed window grills. while I was outside I was trying to imagine who would that be, it was so real that I even felt his spit as he screamed right at my face! thinking hard, the person was bald, around almost 50 years of age, looked pale & even looked like ozzy osbourne!!! yes the rocker! I know who ozzy osbourne is but I don't even listen to his music. rock & roll is not my thing. when my parents finally arrived they asked me why I was outside the house almost naked, I told them my story but they just laughed & didn't believe me. I just let it go. who was that man? I said to myself, we had this house even before I was born! I'm sure our house is not haunted coz this is the only house we own, we're not living there on rent. so maybe the grounds where our house is sitting is haunted. I don't know, how about you?

-Sonny.

(NOTE): Here's an interesting email I received concerning the topic of Shadow People... WHAT did he SEE?)

I don't remember my exact age at the time, but I think I was 6-8. I lived in St. Joseph Michigan 2 blocks from Lake Michigan near a wooded area. My bedroom was on the second story of a home my father had build which I always thought was creepy. The window to the room faced east, while the front of the house looked out towards the lake. My bed faced west with the moonlight from the window projecting on the wall.

One night I awoke from my sleep when I looked at the wall. I saw it as vivid as anything else I have ever seen. It was a shadow of a man with a hat, almost like a short cowboy hat and vest (opened); I could see the outline clearly as it wasn't a fuzzy projection, but a sharp image. I can remember staring at the figure thinking 'what the hell is that?'. It would look my way, then turn its head to the right, then look at me again. It repeated to do this a few times. Then, it took its arms and appeared to have been pulling something towards him, leaving a 1 foot gap between his hands. This happened about 2 or three times, while its head was looking at me, and looking to the right the same time.

I didn't know what to do, so I just pulled the covers over my head and never told anyone. I know it wasn 't a dream because it is one of the most vivid experiences of my childhood. Now I find out people have had similar experiences with the 'hat man' which really freaks me out. My figure didn't have red eyes or a cloak, I could see arms and legs clearly.
What's going on??

(This email was received last January...on a paranormal topic I find especially fascinating - Skinwalkers.)

After reading your story, I thought I would share with you a little story of my experience. Living as a student at Northern Arizona University, I would travel to see my friends on the Navajo Reservation. I would leave after the night clubs closed. Traveling North-East, through the community of Leupp, I would continue to drive the road towards Delcon. I was born with a "lead" foot, therefore I would be traveling at speeds of well over 85-95 MPH. Traveling late at night I would encounter a "creature of the night." It would start on the passenger side of my car. I would ask my passenger to bring the window down, as I have always travel with a firearm. Countless times I have fired multiple magazines of ammunition upon the creature.

It (the creature) would slow it's speed down and move to my side of the car, running beside me (on the driver's side). Once again, I would unload on it, and it would run off the road and vanish into the darkness. Every time I have encountered this animal it has run off to the North. I have never stopped to investigate what it's motives were. I would top out my speed to approx. 120 MPH, wanting to get to the nearest police station. Once there at the police station, I would run into the building as fast as I can. Once inside, bursting to catch my breath, the dispatcher would inform me that it (the creature of the night) is nothing new. Many people have reported the "Skin walker."

I have also encountered these beings else where in my travels across the Navajo Nation. -Derek.

(NOTE: Here's another email on the topic of weird animals)

1. Large Crypto Bird or Mothman
2. Axel S.
3. August,1998
4. Near Brainard, Minnesota
5. I was in my car driving along to our cabin on the Pequot Lakes near Brainard MN when out of my window I noticed a large black, brown shape. I looked again and gave out a little yelp when I realized that it was a very large birdlike creature. It looked alot like Mothman exept that his red eyes where on a vuture like head and neck and he seamed wider than Mothman.

I was overcome with an incredible fear and had trouble getting to sleep that night.The Creture was pearched in a large tree about 17 ft. off the ground and was over 4 ft. wide and 6 ft. tall (wings tucked in). The red eyes weren't as prominent as those of Mothman.

Thanks, -Axel.

(I thought this email would have more impact if I posted it as it was sent, errors and all...)

My encounter happened last night. July 20th..I was staying up late and everyone in my house was asleep, it was about 11:59. I was sitting on my bed reading and I look up at my cat and she is crouched low, like shes scare and looking at something that appears to be right next tome.I turn around and I see nothing.Normally this wouldnt scare me but I believe cats can see supernatural things, anyway i continued to read when I heard something drop off of myshelf. There was no apparent reason because there was no wind or anything.But my shelf was by my tv and i looked into the blank tv screen and i saw a figure sitting on my bed with me, for a clearer picture i glanced over at a mirror and it was still there but i turned around to look at it and it was gone.

(This particular tale was submitted for posting. It doesn't follow the submission requirements and could not be posted in any of the Tales sections, but I decided to include it here because it does make for interesting reading...)

University Hall Ghost Tales

Providence, RI - When students venture into University Hall at Brown

But more often students seek out University Hall - particularly in October - because of its reputation, which includes "Beth," a ghost Younger blames for removing student files from a safe in the admissions.

The building at Brown is in one of a handful of buildings on the East Side of Providence that enjoy haunted reputations - and curious students. "We tried to wait in the 1st floor lobby," said student Paul Cowan, 18. "Most of the people here want to see a ghost. The place was packed this weekend. We were hoping to hear a noise or see the ghost horse, but no luck."

Brown University claims two buildings with tales of otherworldly residents, says local historian Rory Raven, who leads a popular ghost tour of Providence and holds a special tour around Halloween.

Raven says students who have walked through University Hall, built in 1770, have told of encounters with many otherworldly residents.

Mary Karlsson, a student at Brown and former intern, has heard many tales of University Hall. "One is a furniture mover" blamed for moving a massive wooden bookcase to the middle of a room that was supposedly empty, she said.

Another seems to be a man who takes student records - employees have reported returning to their offices to find dismantled files strewn about, Karlsson says. "Staff here report hearing a men cry from closed offices," often when there is no one in the office, she says.

A Brown University employee dusting a frame in the upstairs hallway said she saw a reflection in the glass of a man in period clothing. "When she whirled around, of course, there was nobody there," Karlsson said. Providence was built in the height of the New England shipping period. But by 1860, the shipping industry was running out and the city became an industrial town. Brown itself was established in 1764.

Several students and workers at the library across the street have reported seeing an apparition in the upstairs offices Karlsson said. The staff named their ghostly resident "Elizabeth," and believe her to be a student who died.

Office Assistant Marge Bender says she can't confirm any of the stories. "There are bumps in the night, but they haven't bumped me," she says. Younger, too, says she's never had a run-in with any of the characters he tells stories about.

"I don't not believe in them," she said. "I think that there are things that have happened at University Hall, particularly about the ghost horse, that are just too bizarre to discount totally. For many of the things that happened, I can attach a real reason to them."

That's not going to stop her from telling the ghost stories. "These are things that people believed happened, and who's to know?" he says.. Much of the mystery of University Hall can also be explained away, Younger says. Her only unexplainable was when she saw wisps of smoke coming down the stairway. She ran upstairs expecting to find a fire, but instead "the hall was crystal clear," she says.

She then went to his office. Then around 1 a.m., they vanished. It makes a good ghost story, but even Younger isn't sure if she believes it. "I'm sort of a nonbeliever," she says, "but there are some things you can't explain."

Secretary Melissa Bartini tells the tale of hearing a horse roaming the basement of University Hall. Students have seen a lone man leading a horse towards University Hall only to see the man and horse vanish into the building itself. University Hall was a horse stable a few hundred years ago. Bartini insists that she has heard the hoofs of a horse coming out of the basement but when she went down to the basement she finds nothing but old files.

The stories keep students like Cowan and his girlfriend, Karen Shepp, 20, both of Cranston, coming back. Both said they'll return to University Hall, and they've got several other Brown University buildings with ghostly reputations in mind for future visits, Shepp said. "We really want to see one. We've always been into this," she said.

(Here's one concerning Bloody Mary:)

"Until very early this morning, neither my husband or I had ever heard of the Legend of Bloody Mary.

Our 8 year old daughter, however, learned the story from a classmate yesterday. About 2 am she awoke, absolutely terrified about Bloody Mary coming to get her. She recounted the details as she learned them from her friend - stand in front of a mirror, in the dark, spin around three times while chanting "Bloody Mary" five times (or vice versa).

My husband and I did everything we could possibly think of to calm her down, but to no avail. So, having no other choice, my husband DID just what was supposed to summon Mary. Our daughter screamed, cried and trembled during the process, but once complete, when all was safe, and Mary did not appear, she matter-of-factly agreed that "Bloody Mary" did not exist.

Whereas she slept with a light on the remainder of the evening, she was anxious to go to school this morning to tell her friends that she had disproved the Legend.

I've gathered as much information as I could from the Internet and intend to share this with her so that she learns these are simply legends - and are NOT factual.

You asked in your website if anyone dared attempt this. We have - and we are safe."

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