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Shadow People Encounters - True Stories

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Are these shadowy figures ghosts? Interdimensional beings? Time travelers? Something darker and more evil? Whatever they are, they seem to be sighted with increasing frequency. Here are true stories of sightings and encounters with these entities.

Battle with Something Dark

When Blair was 20 years old, something black came in to her room and moved all over her bed.

Black Hand

This reader heard a voice whisper her name, and her sister saw its black hand holding a door.

Black Mass at the Irish Abbey

At a 17th century abbey in Ireland, Von sees a huge shadow mass rushing toward him.

Church Shadow Man

Amanda and her brother were exploring an old church when they saw a shadow figure growing out of the floor.

Clumsy Shadow Person

Tabby saw a shadow thing leaping around her boyfriend's room; it even knocked over a lamp.

The Conjured Spirit

Julius's father was an espiritista: one who conjures up the spirits of the dead. What he may have conjured was something not of this world.

Faceless Predator

At first Dawnelle hears a jingling sound and thought it was a dog with a collar, but when she got a better look at it, it was no dog!

God-Fearing Shadow Person Stalker

Shunt, who is now in his 20s, has been seeing the same shadow person since he was 5.

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