tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post8586289979136722770..comments2023-11-05T05:45:45.277-06:00Comments on From the Shadows: Encounters With The Hat ManJason Offutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03536260451364743010noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-63575744304116297632015-10-07T17:01:00.252-05:002015-10-07T17:01:00.252-05:00okay wow... this was weird to read about this.. si...okay wow... this was weird to read about this.. since when i was around 23 I was on my bed fully awake. I felt somebody grapping my shoulder and turning me with force. I faced the room where he was standing there. long coat and that hat covering his face all in black. just standing and staring at me. I looked him for a good while since I didnt want to take my eyes off him or more i couldn´t. After a while I stood up from my bed and he was gone.<br /><br />Next thing I did i went to my friend next door and said "im not going to go my apartment today. Im gonna sleep in your sofa. So my neighbour´s lady described that hat man to me how he looked and asked if I saw him. I was like "omg... that was him allright..." <br /><br />After that experience i have heard (in these 3 years) crying and laughing and some words whisperings. They are so silent that I cant hear what they say but I still can hear them.<br /><br />Also I have experienced somebody grapping my shoulder 2 more times. one time was when i went to army and was exhausted and fell asleep in the forest. I was woken up by that left shoulder shaking. Also one extra time was which saved me from getting hit by a car. Really strong touch so you can really feel somebody touching you.<br /><br />Thanks all for sharing your experiences enjoyed it a lot!AstraaliSuihkuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619193821038984868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-58564466126040574582015-03-13T22:19:25.669-05:002015-03-13T22:19:25.669-05:00I'm Daniel Valdez me a friend who's dog se...I'm Daniel Valdez me a friend who's dog seen the hatman in the 80s in Edcouch ,TexasAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17470915381929161350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-32895017119285201112015-01-21T06:03:42.925-06:002015-01-21T06:03:42.925-06:00I was in my early 20's when the hat man visite...I was in my early 20's when the hat man visited me. I awoke in the middle of the night because it felt like my night stand was shaking. When I looked up I saw him standing at the foot of my bed staring at me. He was tall and made of a dark fog and was wearing an extra-tall Abraham Lincoln looking hat. My body froze up with every hair on my body standing straight up. By the time I blinked he was gone. I have tried to tell myself that maybe it was all a dream all these years. I'm almost 40 now and find it pretty scary that so many others have been visited by this ghost or whatever it is. What does it mean and what does he want? Looking back I realize my life really took a turn for the worse after I saw him.Starlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17748847985170512029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-57841414841264833492014-10-06T11:45:00.790-05:002014-10-06T11:45:00.790-05:00Until tonight I thought it was just me and one oth...Until tonight I thought it was just me and one other person that had seen him/...it. <br /><br />Every story I've read so far makes him out to be creepy. To be honest besides the pins and needles that wash over me whenever I see him I also feel a sense of calm...I feel safe.<br /><br />I haven't seen him in 5 years but I can feel him him as I write this. <br />I've had four encounters with him but my first was my most memorable. I was 6 years old and with my mum. I saw a man or what seemed like a man in front of me. I saw black boots, a long dark trench coat and a hat. I couldn't see his face but felt him watching me. I asked my mum who the man was that was standing between us and if he was a friend. She replied, "What man?" I still remember his image, my mum's face and the setting of the kitchen around me.<br /><br />The second time was many years later near the end of primary school. It was a different house and I was playing cricket with my brother. When we finished I packed and followed my brother into the house. As I stepped on the porch I felt the pins and needles on my back side to the left. I looked over my left shoulder and saw the dark man standing at the end of my driveway. He stared at me and I at him for a few moments before I smiled back and walked into the house.<br /><br />My third encounter I was about 20 years old. I had moved out of home and recently moved into a share house. I got the front left room of the house and had spent the entire moving all my belongings into the house. After finishing the unpacking I struck up a conversation with my new room mate with in the front door way arch. As we spoke I the pins and needles started and I noticed black boots on the door mat and traced them up to a dark man with a hat standing in front of me. I still couldn't see his face. I asked my new room mate if the house was haunted, and he replied only my room. I loved that room.<br /><br />The fourth encounter wasn't mine as such. I was eating dinner with a friend's family when I felt that familiar prickle feeling. It was at that moment my friends mum screamed and ran out of the house. When we calmed her down she told us she had seen a dark man wearing a black trench coat and a hat standing behind my left shoulder at the the dinner table. I smiled as she confirmed I never just imagined him. When I asked her to describe his face she could only tell he had black skin, and that was all.<br /><br />It's been a while since I've seen him. I miss him to be honest and look forward to our next encounter. He's not as bad as you all have described. He's just the dark man in the dark hat, and that is all.Bapedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07261269914998658798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-12837701533838049692013-12-22T01:33:05.186-06:002013-12-22T01:33:05.186-06:00I had seen the shadow man with the sombrero hat an...I had seen the shadow man with the sombrero hat and trench coat three times.Each time i woke up knowing he was staring at me.he had no face as if it was covered with a black cloth one time he was right in my face looking side to side like he was studying me.Id first seen him when i met my husband and my husband saw him too we moved the next day.Saw him twice after that i thought it was the angel of death as I had gotten very sick and ended up having a liver transplant.but before my transplant i had maybe two weeks to live and was good with god and at peace and the hat man never showed up so it wasnt the angel of death.And since my transplant ive never seen him again and i pray to god i never see him againbobbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01062305899375953003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-85852161685170548882013-10-07T10:03:02.168-05:002013-10-07T10:03:02.168-05:00I have had this "hat man" come to me in ...I have had this "hat man" come to me in my sleep. i would wake up partially and i was paralyzed and i couldnt move or speak. this man was standing at my doorway but i could not see his face even though i tried really hard to. He was about the size of the door and he had on a trench coat. He was also wearing a hat which gives me the chills becuase he is being described here. when i saw him i lunged toward him but it wasnt my body i was paralyzed! maybe my spririt? i cant explain that but he overpowered me. Now my daughter is seeing dark figures around the house and she says they speak to her. this is not a bs story i wouldnt lie. im from El Paso TexasAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16526561757831503428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-71990743638442555922013-08-31T16:52:23.284-05:002013-08-31T16:52:23.284-05:00Funny I didn't know the name for the type of h...Funny I didn't know the name for the type of hat that I saw the hat man wearing. A fedora. This confirms what I saw was super real. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-57510747017086267412013-08-31T00:24:14.518-05:002013-08-31T00:24:14.518-05:00When I was pregnant, I had a dream that I was talk...When I was pregnant, I had a dream that I was talking with my Mother and Grandmother about the "Bad man with the hat". I told my Mum about it the next day, and she went white and said that when I was little, I talked about the Bad man with the hat all the time. I also talked of the Shadow People and how the would come out of no where and give me a fright. I still see Shadow People today but have not seen the Bad man with the hat again. I was shocked to find this and find that a lot of different people have had similar experiences to what I had when I was a very young girl.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13936428314487671154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-30879524095044353742013-08-09T09:01:35.034-05:002013-08-09T09:01:35.034-05:00I saw him when I was about 5 or 6. I woke up on th...I saw him when I was about 5 or 6. I woke up on the top of my bunk-bed and had this urge to use the bathroom, when I looked to my left he was there. Not even 5 feet away. He had a greyish face with a creepy smile I will never forget. I screamed and my father came running down to my side of the trailer. As my father was running the "Hat Man" slowly pulled out what I saw was a nice then looked at the hall light that just turned on do to my father and right before my father turned on my light he looked at me and smiled. I will never forget that smile. I've been searching for him ever since. I have encounter many "Creatures/Ghosts" But never this frightning. I will continue to search no matter what.Ian Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15306315112600728412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-22237126762005712062013-07-24T11:13:24.751-05:002013-07-24T11:13:24.751-05:00I saw him too, two times, once during sleep paraly...I saw him too, two times, once during sleep paralysis, another time in a dream. I googled his description to see if anyone else saw him too....well....Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10856600175661487980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-29362409016081661932013-06-26T02:17:20.859-05:002013-06-26T02:17:20.859-05:00I have seen many different types of entities growi...I have seen many different types of entities growing up. One being the "Hat Man" many times. I never recalled anyone dying after I seen him and usually never felt he was anything other than an observer. Though there were a few times he felt ominous, one time like pure evil. He would always appear in the same place and as time went on he got more bold. (but the pattern and visual was always the same) He was a tall/large man in a hat and trench coat that was a darkness so black it seemed to suck in light and was darker than the shadows that it was in. He started out just peeking around the corner but eventually would stand on the landing to the turning point of the stairs (for the second story of our house which you could see from the living room. old style house with open room/living style)I never said anything thinking it was just my imagination and i was seeing things until he stepped out one day and i seen him more directly outside of the shadows from the walls of the stair. Thats when i asked my brother if he's ever seen anything about the stairs and he said YES. He then described the same thing i seen and told me he had the same behavior! He then got more bold from there. Now he would start out on the stairs sometimes walking down but he never went past the 3rd step. Sometimes he'd stop, other times he'd disappear as he'd step on it. I seen him in an abandoned shed one day walking home at night from a friends house. He stepped out from the shadow and into the "light" and felt very ominous. Then one day i seen him and he walked all the way down the stairs. I could tell that he was being direct and WANTED to be noticed this time so I turned and looked directly at him. He had to have stood there for 2-3 solid minutes. I dont recall seeing him since then. Accept possibly a dream where a shadow man tried killing me. (he felt similar but i dont recall him wearing a hat) EVERY time i seen him (sometimes during the day) I was fully awake. So it wasnt a dream.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04544190024907127884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-46695170619302668332013-06-26T02:01:29.580-05:002013-06-26T02:01:29.580-05:00Ever since I was a kid I've seen various "...Ever since I was a kid I've seen various "paranormal entities". The most reoccurring one probably being the Hat Man. <br /><br />He was always in the same place. It was an old house with an open space set up. So from our living room you could see directly into the dining room and "stair" room. (empty room which leads to front porch and the upstairs stairwell) And the stairs are an L shape and he would hang out at the halfway landing. A tall all black man in a trench coat and a hat. Not just black but a pitch black that was much deeper black in color than the shadows around it. Sometimes he would just peek around the corner or stand there. But when I'd look directly he'd disappear. I thought it was just my imagination running wild and always dismissed it. Until he started walking down the stairs. That is when I asked my brother if he's ever seen anything on the stairs and he told me he seen the same guy! (without me saying anything about him he described him AND his behavior which matched my own) He didn't see him as often as I did. He would walk down to the third step, stop, stare, and disappear. One time (and possibly the last) he walked ALL THE WAY DOWN the stairs. I could tell he was being direct so i looked directly at him for at least 2 min solid. I can't recall ever feeling pure evil but sometimes he did feel ominous. Usually just felt he observed. He was not a shadow but an solid being usually. I was a teenager at the time and havent seen him since then. I remember no deaths that happened around that time. Still have no idea what he wanted.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04544190024907127884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-72931668606191842172013-02-24T00:06:51.941-06:002013-02-24T00:06:51.941-06:00A bloke at work recently was recounting an inciden...A bloke at work recently was recounting an incident about one of his golfing partners who was watching tv. When this 8ft tall apparition wearing a trenchcoat and top hat went straight though his tv and up the staircase. He was frozen with fear for about 5mins before he was capable of moving. Apparently there was a lot of strange stuff going on leading up to this. Lights being tuned on, unexplained banging sounds. This interested me so i did some reasearch on this "Hatman" and have since realised that this ....thing is a common occurence.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03832308052884511139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-91400756769104918242013-02-15T10:52:30.723-06:002013-02-15T10:52:30.723-06:00I have just about the same story when I was 4 I we...I have just about the same story when I was 4 I went up into my room and I seen the man and my dad heard me talkin and As doin As my dad came in the man dissapeared and I was mad at my dad for coming in cause I was talkin to him for about Ten minutes and I told my dad that he made him run my dad said who did I make run then I said the maybe with no face then about 6 years later the same exact thing happend to my sister and we got scared so now I'm 14 and icw been reaearching it cause I can still see the picture of him with His black hat and long trench coat Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03197989991508325552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-29965224279644186022013-01-08T13:01:38.087-06:002013-01-08T13:01:38.087-06:00I'm not sure how old this blog is... and the o...I'm not sure how old this blog is... and the only reason i'm on this site is because this is the first time i've actually googled an experience i had when i was 8 years old. I typed in shadow man derby hat, because I had never heard the term "hat man" before. But after reading through these comments, several of them seemed to share the exact same experience as me. <br />What happened to me was this, I was 8 years old and sleeping on the bottom bunk, and my brother on the top bunk. I awoke in the middle of the night, (not sure what time it was) The bedroom was small, the beds were pushed up against the wall at the left, and top sides of the bed, leaving the foot, and right side of the bed open to the room, to my right was our doorway. When I awoke in the middle of the night, standing in the doorway was what looked to be a black silhouette of a man, roughly 6ft tall. (The image of this "person" is burned into my mind so i vividly remember what it looked like) What i could make out was that he was wearing a derby hat, and trenchcoat. Being young, and maybe a little too naive, I assumed that it was my dad. So after about 5 seconds of looking and processing what i was looking at, I said, "Dad?" and rolled out of bed and started approaching it with an outstretched hand. I did this in such a quick manner, that the "person" appeared to jump in shock, and it turned away and walked very fast in to my sisters' room a few feet away, i followed it and turned on the light, only to see that no one was in there. My sisters were spending the night with my grandma at the time. At that point I became terrified, and ran into my parents bedroom screaming and crying, only to find that my brother had already beaten me in there. He had awoken at the same time i had, had seen the "person" and witnessed from the top bunk me trying to talk/touch this thing. I tell this story periodically to friends/acquaintances and had never heard anyone that had experienced anything similar, until stumbling upon this site. Whatever the "hat man" is, it didn't cause me to feel fear, until it vanished. Looking back I almost felt like it was a guardian angel or something of the sort. Anyway that's what i have to contribute to the conversation.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06474268714468819018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-4970302548908726052012-12-12T01:40:44.933-06:002012-12-12T01:40:44.933-06:00Hello my name is cheyenne and ive experenced the &...Hello my name is cheyenne and ive experenced the 'hatman' over 50 times almost everyday sence I was maby 6 years old and im 18 now. He manufests as a tall man in a trench coat with a what I would call a "zorro" hat. (A long billed top hat) with no face. Normally semi-transparent but all black. Ive talked to other people about him and they with out me saying anything described him as being next to me. In all of my pictures hes thair as an odd shadowAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073228715268734338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-5011911212253860262012-06-02T17:36:56.953-05:002012-06-02T17:36:56.953-05:00Personally I have never seen him, but every who ha...Personally I have never seen him, but every who has ever lived in my apt. has. Mostly in the room I currently have. Most of us had forgotten abt the previous occurrences until early this morning. My mom wakes up around 3:30am for work lets my dog out to do her business and roam around. around 4am my dog starts going crazy barking super loud. My mom runs to the front door, opens it and sees a man in a long black trench coat with a hat walking in our complex and says she could not move because she realized this was the man she has seen in our apartment and in her dreams. My brother was also woken up from my dog and mom and also saw him as he walked through the complex staring them both down. He continued to walk out the complex and into the ally behind the complex still staring at them. Its really scary and my family and I don't know what to make of these occurrences.STEFFERSBBYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07333578235557805949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-87022486934998434962012-06-02T13:05:51.546-05:002012-06-02T13:05:51.546-05:00If those beings spread fear then it's obviousl...If those beings spread fear then it's obviously they feed from fear, realise that they feed on pointless ways, so laugh at their faces and invoke all the love you can, say Gods and Christs name, Those names are based on positivity, and positivity ends negativity. Instead of screaming or running away, ask to them if they want a couple of tea. I promise you they will suprised by your reaction. They are programmed to feed from fear, so, don't feal fear, instead of fear laugh like a troll in front of them. Peace........https://www.blogger.com/profile/16412307668797904521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-42066044625806122132012-01-11T01:02:40.217-06:002012-01-11T01:02:40.217-06:00My name is Larry, I live in El Paso Tx and I am 21...My name is Larry, I live in El Paso Tx and I am 21 yrs old. I had an experience with what i think was the "Hat Man". I saw the "Hat Man" when i was about ten yrs old, I remember I was doing something like playing a video game that night. Then my dad called my name and said "Hey Larry help me take this huge bag of soda cans to the back yard" I was really mad and bummed out that i had to help him with this. So anyways He walked out the front door and headed to the backyard; he went through the left side of the house. I was mad at him at the time so I decided to go through the right side of the house. So I was walking through the darkness and From a distance I see A little back figure with a round hat and what seemed like a little round flat top, on top of the hat. Well the little back figure seemed to be going through the soda cans..(Keep in mind i was really mad at my dad for making me take these stupid a** cans outside so late.) At first i thought it was a dog or something, so i got even closer to where this figure was about maybe 8 feet in-front of me and I yelled out "Hey what the F**k, Get outta here" and then It Looked RIGHT AT ME! I was in shock! I opened wide and my eyes got huge and i pulled my head back as i was in shock...I dropped the huge a** bag and yelled out DADD!!..and as soon as i did that the "Hat Man" took off running with two feet but it was tipping sideways as it was running( I also noticed it was wearing a little trench coat as big as he was)...so as it ran away from me i ran away from it but still looking at the figure so that i could see if it was chasing me...i then realized it was running away from me so i kinda stopped and then this little back figure about 3ft tall freakeshly hover jumped and landed perfectly on a wall that was about 9ft tall and leaded to the ditch. And as it jumped and landed on the wall it turned its head left and looked right at me. As soon as it did that I took off like a lightning bolt screaming and crying and still looking at the figure and as i made it to the front of the house turning left i ran right into my dad...like completely crashed into his genital area. I explained what i saw and we both went looking for this figure over the wall and into the ditch but we found nothing. I will NEVER FORGET what i saw that night. This WAS REAL! Its the only actual Real straight up paranormal thing that ever happened to me.Larry Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06648925810843837812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-43979601204535930392011-09-10T02:34:03.908-05:002011-09-10T02:34:03.908-05:00I've seen him twice. Once near Flower Mound, T...I've seen him twice. Once near Flower Mound, Texas... ...Once near Miami, Ok. The first time I was alone, the second I was in a car with 3 other people. The first instant doesn't matter as there are no witnesses, the second time we were on a no-where dirt road, he was standing just off to the side as we passed him. He had a dramitic effect on both the people in the back seat, the girl started crying almost immediately and the guy next to her started panicking wanting us to get away from the area. I wanted to go back and figure out what the hell it was (I panicked the first time and truely wanted to justify what I originally saw). The driver didn't see him. So he was willing to reverse and look. The figure was gone (at this point my resolve was rapidly fading so I joined the two in back and vied for leaving quickly). I never saw its face.<br />About 5 years later, I had a few friends over... ...this time in Edmond, Ok, around 1 am in the morning, one of my friends (a guy I'd known for about 3 years) was standing in my living room staring out the back window. He looked rather out of sorts so I asked him what's up. He gave a start and said there's a man out-side my window... ...I looked but didn't see anything. He described the figure in detail, rapidly losing his composure as he did. He described the figure I have seen twice to a tee: A large siloette of a man easily over 6 ft apparetly in a full length trench coat with a fedora-like hat on. A pitch-black figure that seemed to terrify him for no reason. This was 14 years ago (as of 2011). I haven't seen or heard anything about the figure since... ...but I'm glad to have found this site and know I'm not alone in this experience.The Monticello Mémoirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08552646299725849982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-82030424148017868882011-07-27T17:36:04.093-05:002011-07-27T17:36:04.093-05:00I have played the ouija board but on a piece of bi...I have played the ouija board but on a piece of binder paper and it really works!!!!and ever since then I will not touch or make another one again....I had to go to church to sleep again. I had so much fear...I have also seen the dark shadow at the end of my bed... I believelilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03630136234032566509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-23285362066174093692011-06-17T13:06:35.412-05:002011-06-17T13:06:35.412-05:00I recall the hat man ... I saw him several times c...I recall the hat man ... I saw him several times coming into my room when I was a kid (8-10yrs old); he had a top hat, a large coat and he walked with a victorian-style cane. I had a dog and it would sleep in my room; when the hat man showed up, my dog would start barking. It was a strange situation but...alas, never saw him again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-7082873450695177612011-06-17T13:06:28.914-05:002011-06-17T13:06:28.914-05:00I recall the hat man ... I saw him several times c...I recall the hat man ... I saw him several times coming into my room when I was a kid (8-10yrs old); he had a top hat, a large coat and he walked with a victorian-style cane. I had a dog and it would sleep in my room; when the hat man showed up, my dog would start barking. It was a strange situation but...alas, never saw him again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-22105479515881789022011-04-20T23:48:16.710-05:002011-04-20T23:48:16.710-05:00When I was a teenager, I was going through a lot o...When I was a teenager, I was going through a lot of stuff. I was self harming, and suicide plagued my mind as well as attempting it several times. The Hat Man practically stayed with me 24/7. As I read all these posts, people say they've only seen him once. Whereas I saw him on a daily basis, for close to two years. He would just pace behind me, or stand watching me. I never felt scared or like he was out to harm me. There was no fear at all about him. I've always been in tune with the paranormal though, more so now. My friend on the other hand saw him tonight as a matter of fact and he had similar reactions as the majority of the people leaving comments. Anyways, I just find it odd that he never invoked fear into me.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04363425924165855353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33989614.post-52117997752175487282011-02-12T21:02:06.651-06:002011-02-12T21:02:06.651-06:00I have seen the Hat Man.
In the middle of the nig...I have seen the Hat Man.<br /><br />In the middle of the night, one year ago, I sat up wide awake to see him standing at the foot of my bed. He was watching me sleep in a somber and introspective mood. He seemed startled by my abrupt awakening quickly disappeared. I had also shouted and thrown a pillow at him.<br /><br />He was a silhouette, darker than the darkness of the room. He was a large man wearing a cloak and a distinctive hat. <br /><br />In a previous post it was appropriately described as a " Spy vs Spy hat”. It appears to be a wide brimmed flat topped Spanish style sombrero. These hats and cloaks were commonly worn throughout Spain, Latin America and the American Southwest by rancheros as protection from the wind, sun, rain and the dusty trail until the mid-1800’s.<br /><br />Interestingly enough, this shadow imagery is nicely portrayed in the 2006 movie "V is for Vendetta" and the 1994 movie appropriately entitled "The Shadow".<br /><br />The next morning, I drew a picture of the shade for my soon-to-be wife. She confirmed that she had seen the same specter on numerous occasions growing up as a child near El Paso Texas. He would be standing in doorways and on the tops of stairways, just watching. On one occasion he chased her sister, causing her to fall off of her bike. <br /><br />I had seen him in Los Angeles and have noticed that he is often seen in Texas and California.<br /><br />My feeling is that this is a genre of semi-malefic ancestor spirit, who follows and watches the ever increasing generations of his one-time family. He takes special interest in new additions to the family, such as children (and husbands to be). The varieties of hats reflect the differences in family back ground. This genre of specter may have originated in the 1800s as indicated by the style of dress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com