Note: Will it bring men in white coats knocking on my door if I say that I “saw” such creatures when I was a very young child? That doesn’t mean I believe in their existence. Seeing things that aren’t there and can’t be there may be a part of tuning the human mind. But it’s interesting to read that others have seen them. Mr Blake describes one in his Blood of Alexandria. SIG
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1662/881/NL/Shadow_People:_Attacks_On_Humans_Increasing.html
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Legendary radio host Art Bell’s intrigued by them, neurologists dismiss them, psychologists laugh about them. But now grim researchers are investigating startling cases of the mysterious, faceless entities called Shadow People that are relentlessly attacking unwary humans.
Horror-stricken Australian Anne Williams claims a shadow person attempted to rape her.
Photo of alleged Shadow People next to a tree
The appalling incident started years ago with glimpses of something dark hiding behind trees, darting around corners, or fleeing a room as she entered.
The sightings escalated gradually until they became a daily event and her brief glimpses transformed into full views of nightmarish things.
Then her paranormal experiences began to escalate until they reached a crescendo of screaming fear.
The night the shadow attacked
Imagine cowering helpless in your bed, paralyzed with fear, fully awake, helplessly watching something dark and silent creeping inexorably towards you. That’s what Williams claims she encountered.
Some have dismissed her nocturnal attack as nothing but sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming, but she insists the bizarre attack left her bruised, scratched and emotionally shaken. She swears she didn’t imagine the sinister thing fondling her, tearing back the bed covers, and roughly groping her.
Even as it happened she knew she was being sexually molested and while the experience terrorized her then, it completely sickens her now.
Shadow People often appear when least expected
According to researcher Jason Offutt Williams testifies that “One early morning I felt so strongly that there was a presence standing next to my left as my bed was right in the corner of the wall. I felt as though I was blocked, like something was standing over me or wanted to scare me.”
This is a classic encounter with an entity that appears in the middle of the night.
“As I opened my eyes to see what the hell it was, there stood on my left side of the bed a black cloaked hooded figure.”
The ghastly thing leaned over her, pinned her to the bed and grabbed her neck when she attempted to scream. When she tried to push it away it savagely pinned her to the bed and then began groping her and hurting her.
“I felt that it shoved its arm down [on] my neck and was choking me as nothing came out of my mouth,” she explained. “Like no noise. I could not even hear myself scream, but I was.”
Finally, after what seemed an interminable struggle, the being left. After the attack, Williams felt enraged, soiled, and frightened. Upon learning the details of the incident, Williams’ mother speculated that the entity may have been the evil ghost of a dead rapist.
But the being Anne Williams encountered in her bedroom was no ghostly entity; it was a shadow person.
Photo of a shadow person standing in doorway
Other witnesses encountering Shadow People also describe physical attacks leaving them with scratches, bruises, even burns.
Attacks by Shadow People on human victims can range from being stalked and chased to being attacked with weapons.
On rare occasions Shadow People stalking a victim have been witnessed by friends and family.
Not all Shadow People are the same
Paranormal researcher, Rosemary Ellen Guiley says of the phenomenon, “There are different types of Shadow People. The core, dominant experience is the nighttime bedroom visitor: a tall silhouette of a man, often dressed in a coat or cape, and a brimmed hat. The figure is blacker than black and 3D, obstructing light and blocking the view of objects. There are no facial features or eyes (sometimes red eyes are reported), but the experiencer knows he is being observed with great intensity. The figures do not communicate, but often radiate a malevolent, trickster, or evil intent.”
What are Shadow People?
The perception of Shadow People differs depending on the researchers and their specialties.
Some experts believe that the sightings have little to do with reality, but are simply people’s minds playing tricks. Others think seeing a shadow person is evidence of a neurological anomaly in the region of the brain that governs sight.
Imagination may play a role in some Shadow People experiences, argue other experts, while those with strong religious beliefs assert that the appearance of these things are nothing less than manifestations from the dimension called Hell: demonic creatures sent by Satan to torment and terrorize humans.
Victims often report that calling on God or Jesus to help them wards off an attack.
Although experts disagree over exactly what Shadow People are, where they come from, and how they manifest themselves, strangely witnesses from every culture and throughout history tend to describe something similar. Certain traits repeat themselves.
The most ubiquitous feature present in many of the reports of Shadow People encounters describe a tall, mannish-looking entity that, curiously, wears a wide-brimmed hat.
A faceless entity that wears a hat is high strangeness indeed.
Famed paranormal researcher Heidi Hollis says she created the name “Hatman” to differentiate sightings of dark, featureless entities seen wearing hats. She says those beings are often described as wearing long dusters or trenchcoats and 1940s style, or Hispanic gaucho type hats.
If the beings actually exist, and witnesses swear they do, then the likely source of their origin is a nearby universe or parallel dimension.




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Assuming your site wasn’t hacked, I wonder if such posts are best suited to a libertarian website as they may undermine the credibility of other well written and reasonably argued posts?
Because you already know such things can’t exist.
@ Mr Ecks “Because you already know such things can’t exist”
No, because I am not required to disprove an unlikely (or any) proposition. Logic 101.
We haven’t been hacked so far as I can tell. We try on this blog to address a wide range of concerns.
The fundamental question must be: how would a libertarian polity deal with attacks on life and property by shadow people, moth men, etc? I can’t think of any easy or clear-cut answer to this, and that frightens me.
The answer is that libertarian arguments are based on the assumption of a mechanical universe that operates according to certain basic and invariable and knowable laws. Once you introduce a race of invisible and immensely powerful beings, some of them malevolent, and all of them willing and able to intervene in our affairs – why, libertarianism becomes a dream. Our philosophy was only accepted in the ancient world by the Epicureans, who didn’t believe in Platonic ghosts. It only became important in the modern world after an Epicurean revival had destroyed belief in a universe of powerful essences.
There is your easy answer. Show me a witch who can stop my hens from laying, and I’ll show you a terrified mob and an all-powerful church and state.
LOL. I thought this was a serious libertarian website, this article reads as being written by the likes of David Icke’s and Cathy O’brien.
I don’t see that that follows. After all, there are plenty of human actors with varying degrees of power from nannying brothers to the POTUS who wish to meddle in our affairs and we don’t just give up and go home.
I don’t see why a putative shadow person should be any different.
I think it does follow. The power and malevolence of other human beings magnifies the case for libertarianism. However, once you admit the existence of supernatural beings of great power and malevolence, who can be persuaded to intervene in human affairs, some kind of totalitarian control follows as a matter of course.
At the moment, if I sacrifice a goat to Satan, I may get a visit from the animal welfare bureaucrats, but no one else will think much of it. Few with authority believe in Satan as an active being. Hardly any of them believe he can be persuaded by offerings of blood to give me the power to destroy my enemies. But, let it be granted that Satan does exist, and can be brought into human affairs, and witch hunting becomes a necessary defence of the whole community. You cannot let ordinary people carry on in ways that might be dangerous to the lives and property of others.
To give a personal example, an old Gypsy woman came into my office when I was a young man to beg for money. I told her to get out. When she placed a terrible curse on my head, I laughed and threw her into the street – this was before the pigs would have come running to her defence. She told me I’d be dead in fourteen days. I felt one or two twinges as the time approached. But I never thought of gathering a posse of friends and colleagues to go after the old woman and torture a retraction of the curse out of her. Suppose I’d believed in the efficacy of cursing, though…?
The difference between us and our ancestors who burned witches and heretics isn’t that they were stupid or evil, but that we no longer believe certain facts that they thought were obviously true. As I said last night, libertarianism can only flourish in a world from which belief in the supernatural has been banished. This is not to denounce mainstream religion – the churches have contributed much to this state of affairs by accepting God as a First Cause and the laws of nature as secondary causes.
The article about shadow people is evidence of the continuing decline of rationalism in our civilisation. Apart from that, I have an interest in bizarre superstitions.
As the inhabitant of an unruly brain, I am a skeptic. Unruly? I suffer migraines, which sometimes induce strange mental states. As a scientific sort of chap, I know that the correct thing to do is to recognise that I’m not quite myself and sit still for a few hours until they go away. I don’t suffer hallucinations (other than the stereotypical auras, which are technically hallucinations but clearly just a visual cortex malfunction), but my perception of the world changes. It is almost impossible to describe the feeling. It is just different to how I normally feel. My sense and reason remain, but I am deeply aware that the functioning of my brain as a mechanical system is awry.
It is scary at the time (I develop a deep sense of “anxiousness”) but the experience makes me very aware of how unreliable an organ I am (for “I” am my brain; the rest of me is just a life support system for it). I have no doubt that such experiences would be easily explained by less scientific types in the past as the influence of supernatural forces. I wonder how much shamanism and the like developed as a result of brain malfunctions. I have no doubt that different brain malfunctions could and do cause all kinds of strange experiences that appear to be real to the brain’s inhabitant. “Hearing voices” for instance, is easily explicable as an auditory cortex malfunction; the brain has to be able to stimulate that cortex to recall sounds, and “flag” them as internally generated memories rather than actual sounds being heard. It is easy to speculate how a small malfunction could damage the flagging mechanism and make them thus appear real.
Our scientific understanding of the actual brain mechanism is terribly primitive. As someone who has always been fascinated by it, it makes me sad that I live in a time in which it is so poorly understood.
Sean,
You seem to believe in an all or nothing type scenario about various supernatural powers to which you ascribe various labels and then argue that the existence of such conjured-up (no pun intended) forces equals death to liberty.
All I am saying is that there may be (I believe there is ) more going on than there seems to be and a mind set that says “No–nothing to see here” is not helpful.
I thought the article pertinent to the libertarian viewpoint.It can be read as the ‘enemy at the gate’ scenario. So long as people interpret things they cannot understand as something to be feared and beyond their control they will always look to others to protect them from imaginary horrors.In the past it was the church which filled this role. Now it’s politicians who protect us from our naivety; the ‘Hun’-the ‘commies’ ”w.m.d.’s’. The price is our liberty.
There may well be things going on than there seems to be. But I don’t know of any one fitted up by a ghost,or sacrificed themselves in war at the call of a shadow person.
Whether these things exist or not, people believe they exist and therefore (as with religion in any flavour) they colour people’s perceptions. So whether they are real or imaginary, there is an influence on people’s minds there.
I have to admit at this point that the wide-brimmed hat does sound all very Freddy Krueger, and would be interested to know if wide-hat-wearers were seen before the Friday 13th films came out.
As Daisy says, the presence of real or imagined fears leads people to look for protection. The claim that calling upon their particular god makes the things vanish might mean that the things are real and that there is a God. Equally it might mean that imaginary fears are effectively banished by imaginary protectors. It doesn’t matter which is true because there’s not much anyone can do about it either way.
Things like this do need to be seriously considered by any social group because they can be used by the nefarious to control individuals. Look at how the ‘war on terror’ is used now. If those who see these shadows believe that a shaman can protect them then they will convince others of the shaman’s powers and the shaman’s influence grows.
If you gain influence over enough individuals within a group, you control the group. As I understand it, that is what libertarianism is trying to avoid.
Whoops. It was Nightmare on Elm Street, not Friday 13th. I always get that whole genre mixed up because they all appeared at much the same time with much the same storyline and made me wonder if there were any teenagers left alive in America.
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