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Lurking in the Shadows
For the longest time I have experienced some strange things. The main one I
will be writing about is what I term as shadow people. I have read a story
submitted by a person named Jan on a similar topic. I don't know if there is
any similarities between the two, but I do know they exist. Below will be my
accounts of these persona as I can recollect.
1st encounter:
My first encounter happened to myself and my brother around the fall of 1986
in a small town in Prequel, Maine. We had just gone to bed and we were
goofing around when we noticed a shadow was walking up the stairs in our
house. At first, we thought it might have been our father coming to make
sure that we were indeed sleeping, but when the shadow reached the top of
the stairs it simply vanished, and my father did not appear like we had
thought. Being a little scared we stopped horsing around and watched the
hall from our bed (which by the way was opposite our door, and with it open
you have a view of the stairs leading to the hallway). Not noticing anything
else outside the room we go back to horsing around. Moments pass and my
brother stops and tells me to look at the wall in our room. Looking in the
direction of where he was pointing, there stood a shadow of a man in a
forties style hat and trench coat. It stood there for a few minutes then
vanished. My brother blurts out that the Shadow Man is in our room and
starts crying, which brings our parents upstairs only to find nothing there.
2nd encounter:
The second encounter I had happened in the same house in the winter of 1988.
It happened in the same room, only this time my brother had his own room
down the hall. I awoke in the middle of the night to find my dog growling
and snarling at the window. I crawled out of bed to see what the dog had
been barking at. To my surprise there was a outline of a person standing
outside my window. Crazy thing is my window is a good fifteen feet from the
ground. The outline was a bit ruff, but it resembled that of a child. I then
briefly turned my attention to the dog, and when I looked back it was gone.
After it had vanished, my dog simply layer back at the foot of the bed and
went to sleep as if nothing happened.
3rd encounter:
Years have gone by with other strange things happening to me, but no more
visits from these shadow people. I believe I have had glimpses of them out
of the corner of my eye, but I never see them like I did when I was younger.
I don't know if it's the fact that I have moved around so much or what. At
least I thought that until recently.
I am now a grown man and living in Tunis, Tunisia (for work reasons), and
these past couple of months I have sensed them around. Not necessarily
seeing them, but looking up from my bed or the corner of my eye and seeing
them quickly leave.
To be honest it has me a little freaked. For some reason, call it a gut
feeling, I think I will be seeing them again.
Which brings me to this. Has anyone else encountered anything like this? Has
a strange entity been following me all these years, that I thought I lost,
but some how managed to find me again? Also how do I rid myself of them?
Thanks for reading. I will add some more of my strange experiences later.
-Larry.