Hi! I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. I've always had an interest in the supernatural, mainly from what I saw when I was 3 and my parents can back me up on. I haven't seen allot, but there are two vivid accounts that I'll try to describe. I feel that they're solid enough to discuss, so here it goes. Please tell me what you guys think, I'm positive about what it was I saw at the age of 14 but not sure of the nature of what it was when I was 3...although I have my suspicions.


When I was 3 I saw what looked like the shadow of a man run across the wall. The bottom of his feet would start several feet from the ground, his form in the lower/middle part of the wall and he'd sprint across. I saw this quite a few times and it went on for around a year or so. I can remember the image and the feeling but not how long this was going on. I was a verbal kid and had already starting talking before 3 years old. Every time I saw this I would get very excited, point at the wall and say "there goes guy running!!" or "look guy running!!" This spooked the hell out of my parents and happened very randomly. For example we'd all be at the dinner table, they would be in mid conversation and I would suddenly point to some spot on the wall and yell "guy running!!". I ask about it now and they say I startled them quite a few times. They didn't really know what to do but were glad I wasn't afraid of whatever it was. Does anybody reading this ever get watery eyes when you see or think about something that's not right, or brings up strong feelings of excitement or emotion? I got the watery eyes and an adrenaline rush when seeing it, although I was too little to know what it was at the time, but I remember the feeling (that's why I'd startle them, my voice was loud and excited). I get the same thing whenever I talk about specific supernatural stuff that strikes a nerve with me. One last thing that's worth mentioning (I think) is that I vaguely remember a pale yellow ring attached to something like a shade (almost like a shade pull and window shade, only on a huge scale). The yellow ring would slowly descend across the area the shadow would run right before I'd see the shadow. It's vague though and I don't know how to describe it any better, that part was very strange and I felt fixated on it knowing guy running would follow after it had come down as far as it was going to go.


The other thing I've seen was what I'm positive was a demon. I'm 23 now and was 14 or 15 when I saw this. Just to make something clear, I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS TO BE A GHOST. I don't really believe people linger when they die and that most of the wierd things people see are demonic in nature..BUT I am open minded and believe ghosts possibly exist or something similar that we just don't understand fully and maybe never will. I will say without a doubt I believe in demons and angels, that's my belief but I'm not going to get into a debate over it. At the time this happened I was living in Colorado Springs, now I'm back in CA. It was around 3am (yeah yeah, I know..the witching hour, I'll get back to that lol) and being a night owl I was very much awake at this time. Also, I wasn't spooked or edgy before seeing this, it caught me totally off guard. When I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth I caught something in the mirror over my right shoulder (with the strong feeling someone was behind me and watching me). It was a dark mass, looked like thick, blackish smoke that came just past my shoulder height. Startled I turned to my right to look (turned to look over the shoulder it was behind, but turned completely to face behind me). To my surprise what I caught in the mirror was still there, which leads me to believe it wasn't a trick of the eyes...it was there a few seconds too long and I was wide awake and lucid. As I mentioned it was just above shoulder height and it had the rough shape of a head and shoulders. It looked like living smoke and somewhat of a face swept across it's form (where the head was) and for lack of a better word it "winced" at me and I heard a type of hiss that I couldn't tell if it was audible or in my head (hard to describe the sound, it was just wrong/off). As soon as I processed the wince and hiss it disappeared. When this was happening I felt like my spine got zapped with electricty and mildly nautious afterward. There are feelings that are very personal I believe are the reasons for seeing this, but I'll try to describe it. I've had a very happy family life my whole life and haven't had any drug, alcohol, or emotional issues. I'm a Christian although I rarely go to church and never had it force fed to me. At the time when I was a mid teen I became fascinated with supernatural stuff, I couldn't help it and my curiosity just kept growing. I didn't tamper with things or try to conjure anything, didn't pursue anything except that I was VERY interested and would dwell on my thoughts. I just felt heavy, a bit edgy and was never content and often solem...I was not in a good mental/spiritual state, that's the best I can describe it. Most of this was naturally teenage hormones, but when you're that age you're sorta searching out who you are and can be a vulnerable to things of all sorts. Well, all the dwelling and I see that at the least expected time (wide awake and not spooked), afterward I lightened up seeing the nature of what I was dwelling on. I'm still curious about this stuff, read up on it sometimes and watch horror movies etc..but I have a different perspective after seeing that and back off if I feel too emersed. If you seriously mess with this stuff it's more than happy to mess back, whether it's your state of mind or you're looking for it. As for the 3am thing, I didn't even know about that time being significant in paranormal activity until tonight watching a movie ( we didn't have a computer when I was 14, and I didn't read up on this stuff til years later feeling like I had a safer perspective). When I heard it (on the movie) my eyes watered up and I went to the computer to look into it, maybe there is something to that time..because I vividly remember it being 3am something, not sure if it was 3:08, 3:20 etc, but it was 3am or just past it. Also should note that my dad had a similar experience years ago that happened at 3amish, he knew about the 3am thing..but never told me until tonight (well today, 6am) after I found out for myself. He said he didn't want to freak me out but remembers me telling him what time it happened...like I said, at the time it happened I knew nothing about the 3am thing. Nothing like that has happened since and I'd rather it didn't, I'll always be curious but as far as demons go it's not something to mess with...I'm glad I felt it was totally gone after seeing it and didn't feel bad in that house either. I don't think it's tied to the house but may have been drawn to me at the time.

Anyways I hope that wasn't too long winded but I wanted to describe this stuff in the best and closest detail I could. I've never gone online about it so I'm curious what/if any responses I'll get. Thanks for reading, I'm a newbie here so please let me know what ya think!

P.S. Sorry if there's spelling errors, I'm a bit tired.

OMG I hate the shadow man on the wall! I saw him everynight when i was a kid at about 3:15 am. This shadow man had a cape and a tophat. He moved very quick and always seemed to be running down our hallway. I would scream so bad my mom would call the priest to come to the house. We were very lucky to live across from the church. I think the last time i saw him i was 18 and my little brother was sitting on his bed talking to him.

That's an amazing story. Most stories about shadow ghosts end with "I looked over my shoulder and nothing was there". Until someone gets the courage to confront/study one of these things, we may never know why they stalk people.

Do you always brush your teeth at 3 AM?

Shadow people have been explained in so many ways.....reflections in the cornea, physical shadows caused by light, ect... but what I have seen as a child scared me horribly. There was a "man behind my dresser". I used to tell my mom about "Him" when I was about 5 or 6, and he stayed there until I reached about 10-11ish. I remember one night seeing the shadow of a hand move across my bedroom floor towards my bed. Not even a night light installed after that helped. It stopped completly when I had helped rearrange my room, and moved my dresser. Then of course there is always the "I see a shape of someone out of the corner of my eye", or actually seeing a shadow of someone or something while looking directly AT it; only to have it dissapear seconds later. Damn shadows......

Lol, naw I don't always brush my teeth at 3am but I am a night owl. It's like what Jack Ripner says in the movie Red Eye "Late night movies and scrambled eggs at 3am", that's pretty much me to a T (even the scrambled eggs). The night I saw the demon thing in the bathroom I was sitting on my bed reading this Titanic film book, maybe that had something to do with it. I wasn't spooked but I was depressed from the subject matter. Lol, I was all blue then I get the crap scared out of me...that was a real fun night.

I was around 14 when that happened and 3 when I saw the guy running thing. It seems to be widely accepted that people are more open to things as young children and teenagers, so that could have something to do with it. I haven't seen anything else so far that vivid, so I'm not going to say I'm "sensitive" to this sort of stuff. I think it would be very interesting to study and there are people who study this stuff and already claim to know what they are. It's called Demonology. I think, there's some info on the TAPS sight if I'm remembering right. I'm sure you guys are familiar with the show Ghost Hunters. There's an episode where they go to this old prison, they caught a running shadow on film that you can watch on the site. They had some pretty crazy stuff happen and someone in their crew had such an intense experience he ended up quiting.

Allot of people do have the courage to study and confront it..but if they are demons which it really seems they are(my gut tells me anyway, just my opinion) they aren't something we can control to completely study. What I saw in the bathroom stayed long enough to give me a solid scare and view of it, then it dissipated. If what happened to the guy in the episode was true then it is something that can hurt you, this guy was struck in the chest then felt something pressing on his chest holding him down. It knocked him back and completely off his feet. He was in shock and when he came out of it he was sobbing for a good half hour, he said he felt an overwhelming negative/sad feeling. They caught some of it on film, if you haven't seen it I would go check it out. I'm glad it didn't touch me and hope one never does. You really have to be careful what you open yourself up to, that's where studying probably gets dangerous. I'll always be curious, but just about everybody you talk to that's had a similar thing happen wants nothing more to do with it. I don't want to see on in person again, but I'd watch one caught on film. Bottom line, even if you don't believe them to be demons..you still don't know what it is and it COULD be dangerous.

Thanks for all the replies so far guys! I gotta make mine shorter, sorry about that!

iv nerver heard of a shadow ghost to be seen so many times normally they hide from people, but i guess they can show themselves to a child, because children arnt taken as literally as older people, amazing

Since we on the subject of children somewhat....
We adults tend to not to listen to the kids- we look over their fears so easily as their imaginations, trying to get attention, bla bla bla. My grandmother gave us a homemade doll, I swear that doll tortured us kids with it's evil taunts--serious. like it enjoyed watching us getting yelled at after we ran panicking SCREAMING "that doll just threw itself across the room." We took a whoopin' too before we'd go back in that room (seems like it would tell an adult something, wouldn't it?) Anywayz, all of us kids got in trouble, not just me. It wasn't until right before my mother died that I finally confronted her about that.... and then she finally believed me.