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Here is a fairly good article on the “Shadow person” phenomena.
Sorry to a certain someone who said the last article scared her!
Knowledge is power!
Anyone have any experiences?
Enjoy!
Some of these Shadow People wander through the periphery of our lives; others stay for years.
People can rarely make out features of these darker-than-night, human shaped entities other than an occasional set of blazing red eyes.
Shadow People often appear dressed as a Medieval monk, wearing a fedora, or bald and sexless.
These entities may simply trek through our bedroom at night never to be seen again, while others may lurk in doorways, just watching, day after day.
Still others attack with energy-draining fear.
What are they?
I’ve studied the Shadow People phenomena for the past decade, and have come to the conclusion the term “Shadow People” is a catchall for entities that exhibit certain characteristics – but their origins can be wildly different.
Through research and personal experience, I’ve categorized these creatures by behavior.
Benign Shadows: Shadow People that seem to travel briefly through a person’s life.
I saw these entities as a child.
They appeared to walk with purpose through my room, never acknowledging me, and never straying from their path.
I never felt an unholy fear, just the fear of watching a dark human-shaped trespasser walk past my bed.
Negative Shadows: Although these Shadow People tend to simply lurk, they are associated with a feeling of unnatural terror.
Red-Eyed Shadows: These entities are always negative, but stare at experiencers with blazing red eyes.
Victims often say they feel this creature feed from their fear.
Hooded Shadows: Dressed as an ancient monk, people who encounter these Shadow People feel a deep rage bubbling behind the black cowl.
The Hat Man: This entity is the most curious.
Dressed in a fedora, and sometimes appearing to wear an old-time business suit, the Hat Man appears to people in cultures across the planet.
Shadow People may be demonic entities, ghosts, inter-dimensional travelers, or other denizens of the dark realm we call the Unknown.
Regardless of their label, Shadow People could very well be more than just one type of being.
Brad Steiger, author of “Shadow World,” has studied the paranormal for more than 50 years and agrees – there are many possible explanations for Shadow People. “I would say that experiencers are seeing all of the above and giving them/it the name of Shadow People.”
Whatever these entities are, they’re shocking to those who see them.
A gray sheet of clouds stretched across the sky as 12-year-old Doug ran to the corner store.
“It was overcast but not raining, and in the middle of the afternoon,” Doug said. The day was shadowless, and decades later he still doesn’t know what he saw on his way home from the store, arms laden with food.
At first, he thought it was a friend. “As I approached the corner to turn onto my street, I saw something black sticking beyond the bushes in the front of my house,” Doug said. “I yelled, ‘Andre,’ and started running toward my driveway where the bushes are.”
The dark figure wasn’t his friend Andre.
A black, man-shaped Shadow grew from behind the bushes in this quiet afternoon and began running toward Doug’s house.
“After a few steps I saw the Shadow running down my driveway toward the back yard,” he said. “I ran up the driveway to the gate that leads to my back yard. I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
Doug stood at the gate as the black Shadow in the shape of a man ran across his yard and disappeared through a fence. “I was shocked,” he said. “I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
This thing; what could it be?
Why was it black when most stereotypical stories said that ghosts were white?
Could this be demonic?
Could it be like me, just a person?”
What did Doug see?
A ghost?
A demon?
A dimensional traveler?
Or was it all in his mind?
Most of the Shadow People encounters I’ve collected over the years are readily explainable.
The experiencer wakes to find a black, human figure standing in the doorway of their bedroom, or leaning over their bed, just watching.
A tightness grips their chest like the weight of a person is upon them.
They can’t breathe.
Suddenly the choking eases, and the Shadow being is gone.
This type of encounter is common, and psychology has a name for it – sleep paralysis.
April Haberyan, a psychology professor at Northwest Missouri State University, said most Shadow People encounters are probably the product of dreams.
When people sleep and enter the REM phase, “it’s very common for them to seethings,” Haberyan said.
The fear, the paralysis, and the entities are normal.
“There are hormones in REM sleep that paralyze the major muscle groups and it’s called paradoxical sleep,” she said. “(Although) this happens during REM, these people don’t stay asleep and the hormones are still in their bodies. It can last up to eight minutes and they feel pressure on their chest and can see people.”
When the experiencer becomes fully awake, the Shadow Person encounter is over – all that’s left is the fear.
Other Shadow People encounters – as well as those of ghosts/UFOs/Bigfoot for that matter – can be attributed to the same trick of light and shadow that allows us to see faces in clouds and carpets.
These sightings can also be from electrical stimulation to certain parts of the brain, or drugs.
Chemist Rick Toomey said anything that throws off the chemical balance of the brain causes all sorts of problems.
“All sensation is in the nervous system and it’s all chemistry,” he said. “If every neurotransmitter is chemistry, you can wreak havoc with that.”
However, many encounter Shadow People in full consciousness and full daylight, removing the logical, scientific answers, and leaving something terrible.
Although most reported Shadow People encounters involve an entity simply appearing and disappearing, many aren’t that innocent.
Negative Shadows, Red-Eyed Shadows, and Hooded Shadows, all bring a feeling of horror when they step into someone’s life.
These creatures are known by different names, demons, jinn, dark shadows, sgili, but their nature is the same.
Bishop James Long, pastor of St. Christopher Old Catholic Church in Louisville, Kentucky, has studied demonology for years and knows Shadow People well – to him they are something evil.
“Shadow People must be taken seriously and they can be quite dangerous,” he said. “When a human spirit tries to manifest itself, its form is black, or otherwise known as Shadow. It is energy trying to manifest itself so that it can appear to have the physical characteristics it had when living on earth.”
These entities can move, communicate, and attack, drawing energy from their human victim.
“Certainly Shadows that attack are demonic in nature and should be avoided at all times,” Long said. “I would strongly encourage anyone who witnesses a dark Shadow to be careful.”
Cody Lilly’s family has encountered this type of Shadow for years, a black, human-shaped figure, featureless except for a wide-brimmed hat.
“We called him the Cowboy because he kind of looked like the Marlboro man,” Lilly said.
The Cowboy stepped into Lilly’s life his sophomore year of high school in Clarinda, Iowa, and visited almost nightly for two years, pacing about his room, waiting for something.
The entity, with fiery red eyes, never spoke, and never approached him, but Lilly knew why it was there – it hungered.
“It was feeding,” Lilly said, convinced the Cowboy was absorbing energy from his terror. “The first time I saw it I was completely incapacitated by how scared I was of it.”
Lilly soon went to college thirty miles south and the visits stopped until after graduation in 2011 when he moved to Nebraska.
“My girlfriend that is now my fiancée is in Kansas City and I’m in Omaha. I was crashing with friends here,” he said. “My car started acting up, I’m in the process of looking for a job, finding an apartment, buying an engagement ring. I had a lot of stuff on my plate, which might have brought on what happened.”
What happened was the Cowboy. “I’m sitting in my car on the phone with my mom. I don’t know much about cars, but my mom does.”
As Lilly described the car’s behavior to his mother, he noticed a movement in the corner of his right eye.
Lilly turned toward the passenger side window and saw it – the Shadow Man that once tormented him in the night.
The Cowboy. “It was full on. A Shadow Person in an old fedora,” Lilly said. “It was standing there. It leaned over like it’s bending to look at me.”
As Lilly stared in horror at this red-eyed Shadow Man in full daylight, the Cowboy reached out it’s arm and knocked on the car window.
“It knocked two times,” Lilly said. “After it knocked it dissolved in my vision. It just showed up, knocked on my window and was gone.”
Lilly wonders if the Cowboy wanted to let him know it was still around.
“It’s been quite some time that I saw him,” he said. “I’m just kind of thinking he just showed up. I was feeling stressed out and I think he showed up just to feed on that.”
In Islam, the supernatural Jinn can be a companion, or a dark, Shadowy predator.
“Jinns are invisible entities believed in by most all Muslims and Middle Eastern folklore,” said religion expert, Dashti Namaste. “Jinns get in and out of human spheres regularly, and it is believed that any human is able to make contact with a Jinn.”
Although Jinn can be benevolent, some Jinn are wicked, appearing as dark figures that lurk in ruins and cemeteries, waiting for an unsuspecting human soul to stumble by.
The wicked Jinn, much like the demons of Christianity, are deceivers and may present themselves as the ghost of a loved one to insert themselves into a human’s life.
Wahde, a Cherokee, said the nature of Shadow beings in the American Indian tradition are just as dark.
“They’re humanoid shaped, but not proportionate to a normal person,” Wahde said. “Their appearance is more monstrous in nature.”
These Shadow beings are the product of medicine men that have strayed from the path of healing.
“There seem to be a classification of spiritual beings that are Shadow for the most part. These things can be manipulated by bad medicine or bad magic,” Wahde said. “They either take that form to attack other people, or they use some other spiritual being as a spiritual attack.”
In the Cherokee language, these dark medicine people are sgili, or witch.
“They’re still alive to some degree, but they’re not necessarily considered human.”
A family sees a black figure come down the stairs at the same time at night, turn into the kitchen and disappear.
A dark man in an out-of-date suit walks through a child’s bedroom and down the hallway.
Some Shadow People encounters – benign ones like these – could very well be disembodied spirits wandering the earth.
D.H. Parsons, president of The Bliss-Parsons Institute of Metaphysics in Columbia, Missouri, has encountered many Shadow People while investigating a haunting.
Although many fellow investigators consider Shadow People demonic, Parsons doesn’t necessarily agree.
“My feeling is that a Shadow Person is another representation of a residual memory of a person who had such a strong personality in life, that a bit of their energy remained here in this dimension after their spirit crossed over,” Parsons said. “Most of the time the spirit beings are either friendly to us, or confused by us, or curious as to why we are there. But they have never done us any harm, not even the Shadows.”
Not so for eighteen-year-old Dave Stanfield.
Stanfield didn’t expect something to be waiting for him in his room when he woke.
Something was – something dark.
A strange feeling pulled Stanfield from a deep sleep.
As he lay in the gray room, staring at his bedroom wall, he saw it. “I woke for no reason, had no weird dreams, and I wasn’t groggy or half asleep,” he said. “My room was dark other than some stray beams coming through the blinds, and I could see a man, darker than the night like a void.”
The figure stood at the end of the bed. “I could only make out the silhouette of his head and shoulders. The rest of him just went straight to the floor,” Stanfield said. “There were no legs or feet. No red eyes, no facial features whatsoever.”
Terrified, Stanfield slid low in bed, pulling the covers slowly over his face, watching the black, man-shaped figure standing over him until his blankets hid the horror from his view and Stanfield fell back to sleep.
Stanfield is now 29, and although he doesn’t know what this Shadow Being was, he knows he saw it – and it haunts him still.
“Only in the past couple of years have I been able to find anything on the subject matter,” Stanfield said. “It’s almost like re-victimization when reading stories from other people that describe experiences like mine. I never knew it could be so widespread and am still dealing with the shock.”
But, as with Parsons’ encounters, this being didn’t harm Stanfield.
At least not physically.
Most Shadow People encounters are benign, a dark figure lingering in the corners of your life, watching.
Could these entities simply be watching us from a realm barely removed from our own?
Marie Jones, author of books exploring science and the paranormal, thinks other dimensions could be homes of Shadow People.
“In my research into quantum and theoretical physics, I came across … concepts that really opened up the possibilities to me that entities from somewhere else could be coming here” Jones said.
One of these concepts is wrapped around different dimensions.
“Theoretically, if these infinite other universes exist, we really should not physically be able to access them,” Jones said. “Yet even theoretical physicists entertain the thought that perhaps the laws of physics on the other side allow for some crossover.”
Clark Kent’s grandfather died in 1977 and his grandmother moved to a small apartment leaving her old house empty.
Shortly after, ten-year-old Kent’s family moved in.
“My first friend in the new neighborhood was my next-door neighbor, Jim,” Kent said. “We are good friends to this day.”
On a day in 1979, Kent invited Jim to his house to play Ping Pong – and it’s haunted him since.
That day after school, Kent and Jim had about two hours before Kent’s parents came home from work, which meant Ping Pong in the basement between peeks at the forbidden stash of Playboys in a dusty alcove.
It was there Kent saw something he didn’t expect. “During our game, I was facing the alcove,” Kent said. “At a certain point, something caught my attention.” Standing in the alcove was the shadow of a man wearing a fedora.
“It was creepy, and I had to pause,” Kent said. “I could not figure out how any combination of the boxes could cast such a shadow. Then it moved.”
Kent stood at the Ping Pong table, staring at dark figure watching him from the alcove.
He then quickly looked at Jim who was looking at him. “He realized I had seem something,” Kent said. “I was struck by the realization that no
man was casting a shadow on the wall, the Shadow was solid and was not attached to any object. I turned and scrambled up the stairs with Jim right behind me.”
At the top of the stairs, their breath coming fast and heavy, Kent slammed and latched the basement door, then “looked at Jim with wide eyes.”
Jim denied seeing the Shadow man that day and for nearly thirty years after.
As the two met for a long needed reunion, Kent mentioned the Shadow Man in his basement. “Jim sunk into his chair and spoke in a whisper, ‘I’ll never forget that hat.’ I was stunned,” Kent said.
Then he asked the same question he’d asked three decades ago, did you see it?
“Yes, I did,” Jim told him. “I was scared.”
But did this entity, this watcher, step into Kent’s life from a parallel universe?
Although some physicists entertain the idea of these multiple universes, physicist David Richardson isn’t eager to join them.
“I hate to bring this up in this context, but if there were extra dimensions … (Shadow People) might actually be people,” he said. “I’m skeptical of that, but it’s possible. We’re just starting to figure out that sort of stuff.”
Ghost?
Demon?
Jinn?
Sgili?
Traveler?
Regardless of the nature of these entities, regardless of their intentions, the advice for each encounter is the same – proceed with caution.
Sorry to a certain someone who said the last article scared her!
Knowledge is power!
Anyone have any experiences?
Enjoy!
The Lurking Shadow People
“This scares me and I don’t know what it is.
I have been seeing them since I was a little girl.
Always outta the corner of my eye a tall black shadow.
I always feel like something or someone is by me.
Last night I went down to my bedroom.
There it was.
Standing next to my dresser.
I ran upstairs crying to my mom.
She went down and looked saying it was only ’cause I was overtired.
But I KNOW what I saw.
It was so scary.
I don’t know what it is.
I need all the help I can get!”
– Jessica’s cry for help, 10, January 2010.
Tales of walking Shadows come from across the world. “This scares me and I don’t know what it is.
I have been seeing them since I was a little girl.
Always outta the corner of my eye a tall black shadow.
I always feel like something or someone is by me.
Last night I went down to my bedroom.
There it was.
Standing next to my dresser.
I ran upstairs crying to my mom.
She went down and looked saying it was only ’cause I was overtired.
But I KNOW what I saw.
It was so scary.
I don’t know what it is.
I need all the help I can get!”
– Jessica’s cry for help, 10, January 2010.
Some of these Shadow People wander through the periphery of our lives; others stay for years.
People can rarely make out features of these darker-than-night, human shaped entities other than an occasional set of blazing red eyes.
Shadow People often appear dressed as a Medieval monk, wearing a fedora, or bald and sexless.
These entities may simply trek through our bedroom at night never to be seen again, while others may lurk in doorways, just watching, day after day.
Still others attack with energy-draining fear.
What are they?
I’ve studied the Shadow People phenomena for the past decade, and have come to the conclusion the term “Shadow People” is a catchall for entities that exhibit certain characteristics – but their origins can be wildly different.
Through research and personal experience, I’ve categorized these creatures by behavior.
Benign Shadows: Shadow People that seem to travel briefly through a person’s life.
I saw these entities as a child.
They appeared to walk with purpose through my room, never acknowledging me, and never straying from their path.
I never felt an unholy fear, just the fear of watching a dark human-shaped trespasser walk past my bed.
Negative Shadows: Although these Shadow People tend to simply lurk, they are associated with a feeling of unnatural terror.
Red-Eyed Shadows: These entities are always negative, but stare at experiencers with blazing red eyes.
Victims often say they feel this creature feed from their fear.
Hooded Shadows: Dressed as an ancient monk, people who encounter these Shadow People feel a deep rage bubbling behind the black cowl.
The Hat Man: This entity is the most curious.
Dressed in a fedora, and sometimes appearing to wear an old-time business suit, the Hat Man appears to people in cultures across the planet.
Shadow People may be demonic entities, ghosts, inter-dimensional travelers, or other denizens of the dark realm we call the Unknown.
Regardless of their label, Shadow People could very well be more than just one type of being.
Brad Steiger, author of “Shadow World,” has studied the paranormal for more than 50 years and agrees – there are many possible explanations for Shadow People. “I would say that experiencers are seeing all of the above and giving them/it the name of Shadow People.”
Whatever these entities are, they’re shocking to those who see them.
A gray sheet of clouds stretched across the sky as 12-year-old Doug ran to the corner store.
“It was overcast but not raining, and in the middle of the afternoon,” Doug said. The day was shadowless, and decades later he still doesn’t know what he saw on his way home from the store, arms laden with food.
At first, he thought it was a friend. “As I approached the corner to turn onto my street, I saw something black sticking beyond the bushes in the front of my house,” Doug said. “I yelled, ‘Andre,’ and started running toward my driveway where the bushes are.”
The dark figure wasn’t his friend Andre.
A black, man-shaped Shadow grew from behind the bushes in this quiet afternoon and began running toward Doug’s house.
“After a few steps I saw the Shadow running down my driveway toward the back yard,” he said. “I ran up the driveway to the gate that leads to my back yard. I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
Doug stood at the gate as the black Shadow in the shape of a man ran across his yard and disappeared through a fence. “I was shocked,” he said. “I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
This thing; what could it be?
Why was it black when most stereotypical stories said that ghosts were white?
Could this be demonic?
Could it be like me, just a person?”
What did Doug see?
A ghost?
A demon?
A dimensional traveler?
Or was it all in his mind?
Science
“I’ve been visited by what I presume to be the same Shadow three times in my life, and the memories have haunted me ever since.
When I was six, I saw it at my dad’s new house, towering over my bed.
I couldn’t move, and I don’t remember what happened next.
All I remember is trying to scream, but there was this horrible weight on my chest.”
– Luke Purdy
“I’ve been visited by what I presume to be the same Shadow three times in my life, and the memories have haunted me ever since.
When I was six, I saw it at my dad’s new house, towering over my bed.
I couldn’t move, and I don’t remember what happened next.
All I remember is trying to scream, but there was this horrible weight on my chest.”
– Luke Purdy
Most of the Shadow People encounters I’ve collected over the years are readily explainable.
The experiencer wakes to find a black, human figure standing in the doorway of their bedroom, or leaning over their bed, just watching.
A tightness grips their chest like the weight of a person is upon them.
They can’t breathe.
Suddenly the choking eases, and the Shadow being is gone.
This type of encounter is common, and psychology has a name for it – sleep paralysis.
April Haberyan, a psychology professor at Northwest Missouri State University, said most Shadow People encounters are probably the product of dreams.
When people sleep and enter the REM phase, “it’s very common for them to seethings,” Haberyan said.
The fear, the paralysis, and the entities are normal.
“There are hormones in REM sleep that paralyze the major muscle groups and it’s called paradoxical sleep,” she said. “(Although) this happens during REM, these people don’t stay asleep and the hormones are still in their bodies. It can last up to eight minutes and they feel pressure on their chest and can see people.”
When the experiencer becomes fully awake, the Shadow Person encounter is over – all that’s left is the fear.
Other Shadow People encounters – as well as those of ghosts/UFOs/Bigfoot for that matter – can be attributed to the same trick of light and shadow that allows us to see faces in clouds and carpets.
These sightings can also be from electrical stimulation to certain parts of the brain, or drugs.
Chemist Rick Toomey said anything that throws off the chemical balance of the brain causes all sorts of problems.
“All sensation is in the nervous system and it’s all chemistry,” he said. “If every neurotransmitter is chemistry, you can wreak havoc with that.”
However, many encounter Shadow People in full consciousness and full daylight, removing the logical, scientific answers, and leaving something terrible.
The Religious World
“My best friend, when he was a boy he was laying on his bed with the lights on.
A shadowy figure emerged from his closet and moved towards his bedside.
The Shadow being reached out a finger and touched my buddy’s leg.
He screamed and the figure vanished, and his folks were there in moments.
My friend’s father noticed that the closet door was open, and his parents knew he NEVER slept without it closed.
The black spot on his leg remained visible for several years, but the Shadow being never returned.
To this day my friend has no idea what happened, but he does know one thing – it was real.”
– Paul Sycros
“My best friend, when he was a boy he was laying on his bed with the lights on.
A shadowy figure emerged from his closet and moved towards his bedside.
The Shadow being reached out a finger and touched my buddy’s leg.
He screamed and the figure vanished, and his folks were there in moments.
My friend’s father noticed that the closet door was open, and his parents knew he NEVER slept without it closed.
The black spot on his leg remained visible for several years, but the Shadow being never returned.
To this day my friend has no idea what happened, but he does know one thing – it was real.”
– Paul Sycros
Although most reported Shadow People encounters involve an entity simply appearing and disappearing, many aren’t that innocent.
Negative Shadows, Red-Eyed Shadows, and Hooded Shadows, all bring a feeling of horror when they step into someone’s life.
These creatures are known by different names, demons, jinn, dark shadows, sgili, but their nature is the same.
Bishop James Long, pastor of St. Christopher Old Catholic Church in Louisville, Kentucky, has studied demonology for years and knows Shadow People well – to him they are something evil.
“Shadow People must be taken seriously and they can be quite dangerous,” he said. “When a human spirit tries to manifest itself, its form is black, or otherwise known as Shadow. It is energy trying to manifest itself so that it can appear to have the physical characteristics it had when living on earth.”
These entities can move, communicate, and attack, drawing energy from their human victim.
“Certainly Shadows that attack are demonic in nature and should be avoided at all times,” Long said. “I would strongly encourage anyone who witnesses a dark Shadow to be careful.”
Cody Lilly’s family has encountered this type of Shadow for years, a black, human-shaped figure, featureless except for a wide-brimmed hat.
“We called him the Cowboy because he kind of looked like the Marlboro man,” Lilly said.
The Cowboy stepped into Lilly’s life his sophomore year of high school in Clarinda, Iowa, and visited almost nightly for two years, pacing about his room, waiting for something.
The entity, with fiery red eyes, never spoke, and never approached him, but Lilly knew why it was there – it hungered.
“It was feeding,” Lilly said, convinced the Cowboy was absorbing energy from his terror. “The first time I saw it I was completely incapacitated by how scared I was of it.”
Lilly soon went to college thirty miles south and the visits stopped until after graduation in 2011 when he moved to Nebraska.
“My girlfriend that is now my fiancée is in Kansas City and I’m in Omaha. I was crashing with friends here,” he said. “My car started acting up, I’m in the process of looking for a job, finding an apartment, buying an engagement ring. I had a lot of stuff on my plate, which might have brought on what happened.”
What happened was the Cowboy. “I’m sitting in my car on the phone with my mom. I don’t know much about cars, but my mom does.”
As Lilly described the car’s behavior to his mother, he noticed a movement in the corner of his right eye.
Lilly turned toward the passenger side window and saw it – the Shadow Man that once tormented him in the night.
The Cowboy. “It was full on. A Shadow Person in an old fedora,” Lilly said. “It was standing there. It leaned over like it’s bending to look at me.”
As Lilly stared in horror at this red-eyed Shadow Man in full daylight, the Cowboy reached out it’s arm and knocked on the car window.
“It knocked two times,” Lilly said. “After it knocked it dissolved in my vision. It just showed up, knocked on my window and was gone.”
Lilly wonders if the Cowboy wanted to let him know it was still around.
“It’s been quite some time that I saw him,” he said. “I’m just kind of thinking he just showed up. I was feeling stressed out and I think he showed up just to feed on that.”
In Islam, the supernatural Jinn can be a companion, or a dark, Shadowy predator.
“Jinns are invisible entities believed in by most all Muslims and Middle Eastern folklore,” said religion expert, Dashti Namaste. “Jinns get in and out of human spheres regularly, and it is believed that any human is able to make contact with a Jinn.”
Although Jinn can be benevolent, some Jinn are wicked, appearing as dark figures that lurk in ruins and cemeteries, waiting for an unsuspecting human soul to stumble by.
The wicked Jinn, much like the demons of Christianity, are deceivers and may present themselves as the ghost of a loved one to insert themselves into a human’s life.
Wahde, a Cherokee, said the nature of Shadow beings in the American Indian tradition are just as dark.
“They’re humanoid shaped, but not proportionate to a normal person,” Wahde said. “Their appearance is more monstrous in nature.”
These Shadow beings are the product of medicine men that have strayed from the path of healing.
“There seem to be a classification of spiritual beings that are Shadow for the most part. These things can be manipulated by bad medicine or bad magic,” Wahde said. “They either take that form to attack other people, or they use some other spiritual being as a spiritual attack.”
In the Cherokee language, these dark medicine people are sgili, or witch.
“They’re still alive to some degree, but they’re not necessarily considered human.”
Ghosts
“I have a young boy shadow/spirit in my home.
He appears as a solid black cutout-like figure.
He is a prankster, too, but he’s NOT mean, or evil.
He let’s us know he’s here at times by playing with the animals.
Kittens, dogs, puppies, etc. PLAY, not mean.
The dogs and puppies are wagging their tails.
He moves my Barbies if he really wants my attention.
And the other day he didn’t want the door to his room closed, so he opened it.
He’s a good kid.”
– Kim Tamsor
He appears as a solid black cutout-like figure.
He is a prankster, too, but he’s NOT mean, or evil.
He let’s us know he’s here at times by playing with the animals.
Kittens, dogs, puppies, etc. PLAY, not mean.
The dogs and puppies are wagging their tails.
He moves my Barbies if he really wants my attention.
And the other day he didn’t want the door to his room closed, so he opened it.
He’s a good kid.”
– Kim Tamsor
A family sees a black figure come down the stairs at the same time at night, turn into the kitchen and disappear.
A dark man in an out-of-date suit walks through a child’s bedroom and down the hallway.
Some Shadow People encounters – benign ones like these – could very well be disembodied spirits wandering the earth.
D.H. Parsons, president of The Bliss-Parsons Institute of Metaphysics in Columbia, Missouri, has encountered many Shadow People while investigating a haunting.
Although many fellow investigators consider Shadow People demonic, Parsons doesn’t necessarily agree.
“My feeling is that a Shadow Person is another representation of a residual memory of a person who had such a strong personality in life, that a bit of their energy remained here in this dimension after their spirit crossed over,” Parsons said. “Most of the time the spirit beings are either friendly to us, or confused by us, or curious as to why we are there. But they have never done us any harm, not even the Shadows.”
Not so for eighteen-year-old Dave Stanfield.
Stanfield didn’t expect something to be waiting for him in his room when he woke.
Something was – something dark.
A strange feeling pulled Stanfield from a deep sleep.
As he lay in the gray room, staring at his bedroom wall, he saw it. “I woke for no reason, had no weird dreams, and I wasn’t groggy or half asleep,” he said. “My room was dark other than some stray beams coming through the blinds, and I could see a man, darker than the night like a void.”
The figure stood at the end of the bed. “I could only make out the silhouette of his head and shoulders. The rest of him just went straight to the floor,” Stanfield said. “There were no legs or feet. No red eyes, no facial features whatsoever.”
Terrified, Stanfield slid low in bed, pulling the covers slowly over his face, watching the black, man-shaped figure standing over him until his blankets hid the horror from his view and Stanfield fell back to sleep.
Stanfield is now 29, and although he doesn’t know what this Shadow Being was, he knows he saw it – and it haunts him still.
“Only in the past couple of years have I been able to find anything on the subject matter,” Stanfield said. “It’s almost like re-victimization when reading stories from other people that describe experiences like mine. I never knew it could be so widespread and am still dealing with the shock.”
But, as with Parsons’ encounters, this being didn’t harm Stanfield.
At least not physically.
Interdimensional travelers
“Harmless. Just a watcher is all.”
– Don Hall
“Harmless. Just a watcher is all.”
– Don Hall
Most Shadow People encounters are benign, a dark figure lingering in the corners of your life, watching.
Could these entities simply be watching us from a realm barely removed from our own?
Marie Jones, author of books exploring science and the paranormal, thinks other dimensions could be homes of Shadow People.
“In my research into quantum and theoretical physics, I came across … concepts that really opened up the possibilities to me that entities from somewhere else could be coming here” Jones said.
One of these concepts is wrapped around different dimensions.
“Theoretically, if these infinite other universes exist, we really should not physically be able to access them,” Jones said. “Yet even theoretical physicists entertain the thought that perhaps the laws of physics on the other side allow for some crossover.”
Clark Kent’s grandfather died in 1977 and his grandmother moved to a small apartment leaving her old house empty.
Shortly after, ten-year-old Kent’s family moved in.
“My first friend in the new neighborhood was my next-door neighbor, Jim,” Kent said. “We are good friends to this day.”
On a day in 1979, Kent invited Jim to his house to play Ping Pong – and it’s haunted him since.
That day after school, Kent and Jim had about two hours before Kent’s parents came home from work, which meant Ping Pong in the basement between peeks at the forbidden stash of Playboys in a dusty alcove.
It was there Kent saw something he didn’t expect. “During our game, I was facing the alcove,” Kent said. “At a certain point, something caught my attention.” Standing in the alcove was the shadow of a man wearing a fedora.
“It was creepy, and I had to pause,” Kent said. “I could not figure out how any combination of the boxes could cast such a shadow. Then it moved.”
Kent stood at the Ping Pong table, staring at dark figure watching him from the alcove.
He then quickly looked at Jim who was looking at him. “He realized I had seem something,” Kent said. “I was struck by the realization that no
man was casting a shadow on the wall, the Shadow was solid and was not attached to any object. I turned and scrambled up the stairs with Jim right behind me.”
At the top of the stairs, their breath coming fast and heavy, Kent slammed and latched the basement door, then “looked at Jim with wide eyes.”
Jim denied seeing the Shadow man that day and for nearly thirty years after.
As the two met for a long needed reunion, Kent mentioned the Shadow Man in his basement. “Jim sunk into his chair and spoke in a whisper, ‘I’ll never forget that hat.’ I was stunned,” Kent said.
Then he asked the same question he’d asked three decades ago, did you see it?
“Yes, I did,” Jim told him. “I was scared.”
But did this entity, this watcher, step into Kent’s life from a parallel universe?
Although some physicists entertain the idea of these multiple universes, physicist David Richardson isn’t eager to join them.
“I hate to bring this up in this context, but if there were extra dimensions … (Shadow People) might actually be people,” he said. “I’m skeptical of that, but it’s possible. We’re just starting to figure out that sort of stuff.”
Ghost?
Demon?
Jinn?
Sgili?
Traveler?
Regardless of the nature of these entities, regardless of their intentions, the advice for each encounter is the same – proceed with caution.
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It’s very promising!
They just released a synthetic similar in the form of a nasal spray to be administered by a trained MD in office.
Unfortunately it’s insanely expensive - even more than the so-called Ketamine Clinics!
It’s going to be somewhere around $3000 a treatment where an infusion is usually $800-$2000 depending on where you go and whatnot.
It certainly is not anywhere near accessible for most of those who would benefit the most - those suffering to the point of debilitation or disability - as they are also usually monetarily confined as well.
I would love to see this available to all those that really are suffering and in pain and see no ray of hope whatsoever.
This is potentially life-saving to someone who is suicidal...but the drug companies don’t care so long as they make huge profits.
All they did was repackage an old drug into a nasal spray...basically ZERO R&D monies from them.
I will keep my fingers crossed for the future but will still continue to advocate for the safe use of more readily available substances.
Buying such types of drugs like Ketamine on the street is dangerous and is likely to be cut with god knows what...meth...norfentanyl...etc.
Thanks for the video!!
Cool to hear her experiences!
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Been flaring up pretty bad lately here.
Sorry if I’m not keeping up with conversations very well.
Please know it’s not personal if I don’t get back to you or miss a post.
Feeling like I want to sleep for 3 days nonstop...but that hurts too much, lol.
Much love all!
Be back to “normal” soon!
Sorry if I’m not keeping up with conversations very well.
Please know it’s not personal if I don’t get back to you or miss a post.
Feeling like I want to sleep for 3 days nonstop...but that hurts too much, lol.
Much love all!
Be back to “normal” soon!
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Evidence for a Human Geomagnetic Sense
March 18, 2019
Scientists develop a robust experiment that shows human brain waves respond to changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields.
Many humans are able to unconsciously detect changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields, according to scientists at Caltech and the University of Tokyo.
The study, led by geoscientist Joseph Kirschvink (BS, MS '75) and neuroscientist Shin Shimojo at Caltech as well as neuroengineer Ayu Matani at the University of Tokyo, offers experimental evidence that human brain waves respond to controlled changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields. Kirschvink and Shimojo say this is the first concrete evidence of a new human sense: magnetoreception. Their findings were published by the journal eNeuro on March 18.
"Many animals have magnetoreception, so why not us?" asks Connie Wang, Caltech graduate student and lead author of the eNeuro study. For example, honeybees, salmon, turtles, birds, whales, and bats use the geomagnetic field to help them navigate, and dogs can be trained to locate buried magnets. It has long been theorized that humans may share a similar ability. However, despite a flurry of research attempting to test for it in the '80s, it has never been conclusively demonstrated.
"Aristotle described the five basic senses as including vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch," says Kirschvink, co-corresponding author of the eNeuro study and Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology. "However, he did not consider gravity, temperature, pain, balance, and several other internal stimuli that we now know are part of the human nervous system. Our animal ancestry argues that geomagnetic field sensors should also be there representing not the sixth sense but perhaps the 10th or 11th human sense to be discovered."
To try to determine whether humans do sense magnetic fields, Kirschvink and Shimojo built an isolated radiofrequency-shielded chamber and had participants sit in silence and utter darkness for an hour. During that time, they shifted the magnetic field silently around the chamber and measured participants' brain waves via electrodes positioned at 64 locations on their heads.
The test was performed with 34 human participants from a wide age range and a variety of ethnicities. During a given session, the participants consciously experienced nothing more interesting than sitting alone in the dark. However, among many participants, changes in their brain waves correlated with changes in the magnetic field around them. Specifically, the researchers tracked the alpha rhythm in the brain, which occurs at between 8 and 13 Hertz and is a measure of whether the brain is being engaged or is in a resting or "autopilot" mode. When a human brain is unengaged, the alpha power is high. When something catches its attention, consciously or unconsciously, its alpha power drops. Several other sensory stimuli like vision, hearing, and touch are known to cause abrupt drops in the amplitude of alpha waves in the first few seconds after the stimulus.
The experiments showed that, in some participants, alpha power began to drop from baseline levels immediately after magnetic stimulation, decreasing by as much as 60 percent over several hundred milliseconds, then recovering to baseline a few seconds after the stimulus. "This is a classic, well-studied brain wave response to a sensory input, termed event-related desynchronization, or alpha-ERD," says Shimojo, Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology and affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech.
The tests further revealed that the brain appears to be actively processing magnetic information and rejecting signals that are not "natural." For example, when the vertical component of the magnetic field pointed steadily upward during the experiments, there were no corresponding changes in brain waves. Because the magnetic field normally points down in the Northern Hemisphere, it seems that the brain is ignoring signals that are obviously “wrong.” This component of the study could be verified by replicating the experiment in the Southern Hemisphere, Kirschvink suggests, where the opposite pattern should hold.
"Alpha-ERD is a strong neural signature of sensory detection and the resulting attention shift. The fact that we see it in response to simple magnetic rotations like we experience when turning or shaking our head is powerful evidence for human magnetoreception. The large individual differences we found are also intriguing with regard to human evolution and the influences of modern life," says Shimojo. "As for the next step, we ought to try bringing this into conscious awareness."
One of the challenges in early attempts to test human magnetoreception was the difficulty of making sure that those changes in brain waves were, indeed, correlated to the magnetic field and not to some other confounding effect. For example, if the coils generating the magnetic field around the chamber created an audible hum, that might be enough to trigger a change in alpha power in participants.
To address those issues, the chamber used in this study was not only pitch black and isolated, the copper wires for altering the magnetic field were wrapped and cemented in place in duplicate: each coil has a pair of wires rather than a single strand. When current is directed through these wire pairs in the same direction, the magnetic field in the chamber is altered. However, running the current in opposite directions through the wires in the pairs cancels their magnetic fields, while yielding the same electrical heating and mechanical artifacts. Computers completely controlled the experiments and recorded the data. Results were processed automatically with turn-key computer scripts and no subjective steps. In this fashion, the team was able to show that the human brains did, indeed, respond to the magnetic field as opposed to just the energizing of the coils themselves.
"Our results rule out electrical induction and the 'quantum compass' hypotheses for the magnetic sense," says Kirschvink, naming two possibilities that have been proposed for explaining the mechanism behind magnetoreception. Kirschvink suggests instead that the results implicate biological magnetite as the sensory agent for human magnetoreception. In 1962, Heinz A. Lowenstam, a Caltech professor from 1954 until his death in 1993, discovered that magnetite, a naturally magnetic mineral, occurs in mollusk teeth. Since then, biological magnetite has been found to exist in organisms from bacteria to humans and has been linked to the geomagnetic sense in many of them.
By developing and demonstrating a robust methodology for testing humans for magnetoreception, Kirschvink says he hopes this study can act as a roadmap for other researchers who are interested in attempting to replicate and extend this research. "Given the known presence of highly evolved geomagnetic navigation systems in species across the animal kingdom, it is perhaps not surprising that we might retain at least some functioning neural components, especially given the nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle of our not-too-distant ancestors. The full extent of this inheritance remains to be discovered," he says.
Evidence for a Human Geomagnetic Sense
March 18, 2019
Scientists develop a robust experiment that shows human brain waves respond to changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields.
Many humans are able to unconsciously detect changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields, according to scientists at Caltech and the University of Tokyo.
The study, led by geoscientist Joseph Kirschvink (BS, MS '75) and neuroscientist Shin Shimojo at Caltech as well as neuroengineer Ayu Matani at the University of Tokyo, offers experimental evidence that human brain waves respond to controlled changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields. Kirschvink and Shimojo say this is the first concrete evidence of a new human sense: magnetoreception. Their findings were published by the journal eNeuro on March 18.
"Many animals have magnetoreception, so why not us?" asks Connie Wang, Caltech graduate student and lead author of the eNeuro study. For example, honeybees, salmon, turtles, birds, whales, and bats use the geomagnetic field to help them navigate, and dogs can be trained to locate buried magnets. It has long been theorized that humans may share a similar ability. However, despite a flurry of research attempting to test for it in the '80s, it has never been conclusively demonstrated.
"Aristotle described the five basic senses as including vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch," says Kirschvink, co-corresponding author of the eNeuro study and Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology. "However, he did not consider gravity, temperature, pain, balance, and several other internal stimuli that we now know are part of the human nervous system. Our animal ancestry argues that geomagnetic field sensors should also be there representing not the sixth sense but perhaps the 10th or 11th human sense to be discovered."
To try to determine whether humans do sense magnetic fields, Kirschvink and Shimojo built an isolated radiofrequency-shielded chamber and had participants sit in silence and utter darkness for an hour. During that time, they shifted the magnetic field silently around the chamber and measured participants' brain waves via electrodes positioned at 64 locations on their heads.
The test was performed with 34 human participants from a wide age range and a variety of ethnicities. During a given session, the participants consciously experienced nothing more interesting than sitting alone in the dark. However, among many participants, changes in their brain waves correlated with changes in the magnetic field around them. Specifically, the researchers tracked the alpha rhythm in the brain, which occurs at between 8 and 13 Hertz and is a measure of whether the brain is being engaged or is in a resting or "autopilot" mode. When a human brain is unengaged, the alpha power is high. When something catches its attention, consciously or unconsciously, its alpha power drops. Several other sensory stimuli like vision, hearing, and touch are known to cause abrupt drops in the amplitude of alpha waves in the first few seconds after the stimulus.
The experiments showed that, in some participants, alpha power began to drop from baseline levels immediately after magnetic stimulation, decreasing by as much as 60 percent over several hundred milliseconds, then recovering to baseline a few seconds after the stimulus. "This is a classic, well-studied brain wave response to a sensory input, termed event-related desynchronization, or alpha-ERD," says Shimojo, Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology and affiliated faculty member of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech.
The tests further revealed that the brain appears to be actively processing magnetic information and rejecting signals that are not "natural." For example, when the vertical component of the magnetic field pointed steadily upward during the experiments, there were no corresponding changes in brain waves. Because the magnetic field normally points down in the Northern Hemisphere, it seems that the brain is ignoring signals that are obviously “wrong.” This component of the study could be verified by replicating the experiment in the Southern Hemisphere, Kirschvink suggests, where the opposite pattern should hold.
"Alpha-ERD is a strong neural signature of sensory detection and the resulting attention shift. The fact that we see it in response to simple magnetic rotations like we experience when turning or shaking our head is powerful evidence for human magnetoreception. The large individual differences we found are also intriguing with regard to human evolution and the influences of modern life," says Shimojo. "As for the next step, we ought to try bringing this into conscious awareness."
One of the challenges in early attempts to test human magnetoreception was the difficulty of making sure that those changes in brain waves were, indeed, correlated to the magnetic field and not to some other confounding effect. For example, if the coils generating the magnetic field around the chamber created an audible hum, that might be enough to trigger a change in alpha power in participants.
To address those issues, the chamber used in this study was not only pitch black and isolated, the copper wires for altering the magnetic field were wrapped and cemented in place in duplicate: each coil has a pair of wires rather than a single strand. When current is directed through these wire pairs in the same direction, the magnetic field in the chamber is altered. However, running the current in opposite directions through the wires in the pairs cancels their magnetic fields, while yielding the same electrical heating and mechanical artifacts. Computers completely controlled the experiments and recorded the data. Results were processed automatically with turn-key computer scripts and no subjective steps. In this fashion, the team was able to show that the human brains did, indeed, respond to the magnetic field as opposed to just the energizing of the coils themselves.
"Our results rule out electrical induction and the 'quantum compass' hypotheses for the magnetic sense," says Kirschvink, naming two possibilities that have been proposed for explaining the mechanism behind magnetoreception. Kirschvink suggests instead that the results implicate biological magnetite as the sensory agent for human magnetoreception. In 1962, Heinz A. Lowenstam, a Caltech professor from 1954 until his death in 1993, discovered that magnetite, a naturally magnetic mineral, occurs in mollusk teeth. Since then, biological magnetite has been found to exist in organisms from bacteria to humans and has been linked to the geomagnetic sense in many of them.
By developing and demonstrating a robust methodology for testing humans for magnetoreception, Kirschvink says he hopes this study can act as a roadmap for other researchers who are interested in attempting to replicate and extend this research. "Given the known presence of highly evolved geomagnetic navigation systems in species across the animal kingdom, it is perhaps not surprising that we might retain at least some functioning neural components, especially given the nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle of our not-too-distant ancestors. The full extent of this inheritance remains to be discovered," he says.
Just popping in to leave this here as it randomly popped up for me.
I had no clue that the enneagram had such an interesting and spiritual history.
Slowly working my way through the videos...
This is an incredibly long talk.
Be back later...
Enjoy!
I had no clue that the enneagram had such an interesting and spiritual history.
Slowly working my way through the videos...
This is an incredibly long talk.
Be back later...
Enjoy!
Thank you @SkarekrowJust popping in to leave this here as it randomly popped up for me.
I had no clue that the enneagram had such an interesting and spiritual history.
Slowly working my way through the videos...
This is an incredibly long talk.
Be back later...
Enjoy!
I copied the links so I can spend more time watching these.
I streamed through the first one and chuckled at my "obvious" 2 being referred to always being "on the make in seduction"
too phunny.Being a 2w1, 2w3 and 8w9 ... imma need to take some notes. I'll stop back with my dissertation plea, lol.
TY again for sharing ♡
“Often they teach that we can approach closer to Oneness by increasing our Awareness or by practicing being Present.
And then off we go on another merry-go-round of inadequacy and searching.
If I gave advice, I’d say “Forget all that and relax.”
“Becoming totally present in the hear and now” is a phrase which is time-bound and space-bound.
It has nothing to do with the seeing of non-duality.
It encourages people to think that they can be more present by making an effort.
Indeed, some people can, but it usually doesn’t last more than a few minutes.
Seeing Oneness has nothing to do with making an effort or being totally present or anything else that a person can do.
No amount of effort will reveal presence.
There is only This, only presence, which is either seen or not seen.”
~ Richard Sylvester
And then off we go on another merry-go-round of inadequacy and searching.
If I gave advice, I’d say “Forget all that and relax.”
“Becoming totally present in the hear and now” is a phrase which is time-bound and space-bound.
It has nothing to do with the seeing of non-duality.
It encourages people to think that they can be more present by making an effort.
Indeed, some people can, but it usually doesn’t last more than a few minutes.
Seeing Oneness has nothing to do with making an effort or being totally present or anything else that a person can do.
No amount of effort will reveal presence.
There is only This, only presence, which is either seen or not seen.”
~ Richard Sylvester
A follow up to a previous article.
This is the more, well known story.
Not that it is well known.
Enjoy!
( @Daustus )
Almost everyone has heard of the Philadelphia Experiment, although the number of people who actually have any idea as to what it was all about are nowhere near as numerous.
The Experiment seems to fall into the same realm as the Kennedy Assassination; clouded by rumor and supposition, the exact truth of either incident will probably never be known.
Both events are also plagued by a mass of incorrect or inaccurate information.
Conspiracy buffs are more than happy to create wild, intricate plots involving virtually anyone and everyone on the planet (and in the case of the Philadelphia Experiment, off the planet).
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
On August 12, 1943 (or October 28, 1943 - accounts differ) the US Navy conducted a test of some sort on the USS Eldridge (DE [Destroyer Escort] 173) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
The exact nature of this test is open to speculation.
Possible tests include experiments in magnetic invisibility, radar invisibility, optical invisibility or degaussing (rendering the ship immune to magnetic mines).
The test (or tests) were conducted, only to produce undesirable results.
Afterwards, the project (supposedly called 'Project Rainbow') was canceled.
As one can easily see, the actual facts are scanty.
The Navy denies that any sort of experiment ever took place, and the ship's logs show that the USS Eldridge was nowhere near Philadelphia at the time the test was supposed to take place.
Of course, logs can be faked, and the government and military has lied before about certain events in the interests of secrecy and national security (witness the Manhattan Project).
On the other hand, research has shown no evidence of a "Project Rainbow", although there was a code name "Rainbow"; it was used to designate the Allied plans to combat the Axis in World War II and had nothing to do with any form of experimental technology.
As a final note, it should be pointed out that even some basic research (the World Wide Web is loaded with relevant sites) will show that the entire 'experiment' may in fact be a massive hoax, a modern urban legend that has grown to fantastic proportions over time.
Such sensationalistic writing has been successful in creating such similar epic myths before, with the "Bermuda Triangle" a prime example.
THE SUPPOSED 'TRUE STORY' OF
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
According to certain accounts, the actual results of the experiment involve occurrences far stranger than anyone could possibly imagine.
The tests being conducted were an attempt to render a ship invisible to enemy radar.
This was to be accomplished by wrapping an electromagnetic 'bottle' around the ship in question, absorbing or deflecting radar waves.
The bottle was created by two (or four - accounts differ) massive Tesla coils which acted as electromagnetic generators; one was mounted forward and one was mounted aft.
Other accounts state that a series of magnetic generators, called degaussers, were used.
When activated, the electromagnetic field would extend out from the ship and divert radar waves around the ship, making the Eldridge invisible to radar receivers.
U.S.S. Eldridge at sea April 25th, 1944
When the actual test was put into motion, a number of unexpected and bizarre side effects occurred.
As the electromagnetic field increased in strength, it began to extend as far as 100 yards out from the ship in all directions, forming a large sphere.
Within this field, the ship became fuzzy and indistinct, and a greenish haze formed around the vessel, obscuring it from view.
Eventually, the only visible object was the outline of the hull of the Eldridge where it entered the water.
Then, to the amazement of onlookers, the entire ship vanished from view.
It was at this point (the vanishing of the Eldridge) that the true power of the electromagnetic field that had been created was revealed.
The Eldridge had not only vanished from the view of observers in Philadelphia, it had vanished from Philadelphia all together!
The ship had been instantly transported several hundred miles - from Philadelphia to Norfolk, Virginia.
After a few minutes, the ship once again vanished, to return to Philadelphia.
To the Navy, the test had succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Not only had they rendered a ship invisible to radar, they had made it optically invisible as well, not to mention causing the vessel to teleport hundreds of miles in a matter of minutes.
For the crew, however, the trip had been a nightmare.
The test had managed to render the entire ship 'out of phase' with the surrounding universe, which is why it was able to travel from Philadelphia to Norfolk instantly.
This phasing effect had drastic effects on the crew members.
During the experiment, crew members found they could walk through solid objects, and when the field was shut off, men were found embedded in the bulkheads, decks and railings of the ship.
The results were gruesome enough that some men went mad.
Afterwards, several crew members simply vanished.
A few disappeared into thin air; one, eating dinner with his family, rose, walked through a wall and was never seen again.
Some men entered into what was called the 'Freeze’.
This is where a man faded from view; unable to move, speak or otherwise affect his surroundings.
Initially, the Freeze effect lasted only a few minutes to a few hours.
Interestingly enough, invisible crewmen were still visible to other sailors who had survived the original experiment.
After a while, the Freeze effect lasted for days or months, and became known as the 'Deep Freeze' (other terms include 'Caught in the Flow', 'Caught in the Push', 'Get Stuck', 'Go Blank', 'Hell Incorporated' or 'Stuck in Molasses').
The Deep Freeze could drive a man insane in very short order, and was only able to be counteracted if other crewmen performed a 'Laying on of Hands' technique to give the victim strength and allow him to recover from his affliction.
Unfortunately, two men burst into flames while Laying on of Hands, burning for 18 days despite all attempts to quench the fire.
Seeing the horrible after effects of the experiment, the Navy discontinued all further research into radar and optical invisibility.
The surviving crewmen were discharged as mentally unfit for duty and many were placed in insane asylums.
However, science was not quite done conducting research on electromagnetic fields or radar and its affects on the human mind.
Project Rainbow may have been disbanded, but the Phoenix Project was just getting started.
This is the more, well known story.
Not that it is well known.
Enjoy!
( @Daustus )
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
Almost everyone has heard of the Philadelphia Experiment, although the number of people who actually have any idea as to what it was all about are nowhere near as numerous.
The Experiment seems to fall into the same realm as the Kennedy Assassination; clouded by rumor and supposition, the exact truth of either incident will probably never be known.
Both events are also plagued by a mass of incorrect or inaccurate information.
Conspiracy buffs are more than happy to create wild, intricate plots involving virtually anyone and everyone on the planet (and in the case of the Philadelphia Experiment, off the planet).
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
On August 12, 1943 (or October 28, 1943 - accounts differ) the US Navy conducted a test of some sort on the USS Eldridge (DE [Destroyer Escort] 173) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
The exact nature of this test is open to speculation.
Possible tests include experiments in magnetic invisibility, radar invisibility, optical invisibility or degaussing (rendering the ship immune to magnetic mines).
The test (or tests) were conducted, only to produce undesirable results.
Afterwards, the project (supposedly called 'Project Rainbow') was canceled.
U.S.S. Eldridge at sea in 1944
As one can easily see, the actual facts are scanty.
The Navy denies that any sort of experiment ever took place, and the ship's logs show that the USS Eldridge was nowhere near Philadelphia at the time the test was supposed to take place.
Of course, logs can be faked, and the government and military has lied before about certain events in the interests of secrecy and national security (witness the Manhattan Project).
On the other hand, research has shown no evidence of a "Project Rainbow", although there was a code name "Rainbow"; it was used to designate the Allied plans to combat the Axis in World War II and had nothing to do with any form of experimental technology.
As a final note, it should be pointed out that even some basic research (the World Wide Web is loaded with relevant sites) will show that the entire 'experiment' may in fact be a massive hoax, a modern urban legend that has grown to fantastic proportions over time.
Such sensationalistic writing has been successful in creating such similar epic myths before, with the "Bermuda Triangle" a prime example.
THE SUPPOSED 'TRUE STORY' OF
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
According to certain accounts, the actual results of the experiment involve occurrences far stranger than anyone could possibly imagine.
The tests being conducted were an attempt to render a ship invisible to enemy radar.
This was to be accomplished by wrapping an electromagnetic 'bottle' around the ship in question, absorbing or deflecting radar waves.
The bottle was created by two (or four - accounts differ) massive Tesla coils which acted as electromagnetic generators; one was mounted forward and one was mounted aft.
Other accounts state that a series of magnetic generators, called degaussers, were used.
When activated, the electromagnetic field would extend out from the ship and divert radar waves around the ship, making the Eldridge invisible to radar receivers.
U.S.S. Eldridge at sea April 25th, 1944
When the actual test was put into motion, a number of unexpected and bizarre side effects occurred.
As the electromagnetic field increased in strength, it began to extend as far as 100 yards out from the ship in all directions, forming a large sphere.
Within this field, the ship became fuzzy and indistinct, and a greenish haze formed around the vessel, obscuring it from view.
Eventually, the only visible object was the outline of the hull of the Eldridge where it entered the water.
Then, to the amazement of onlookers, the entire ship vanished from view.
It was at this point (the vanishing of the Eldridge) that the true power of the electromagnetic field that had been created was revealed.
The Eldridge had not only vanished from the view of observers in Philadelphia, it had vanished from Philadelphia all together!
The ship had been instantly transported several hundred miles - from Philadelphia to Norfolk, Virginia.
After a few minutes, the ship once again vanished, to return to Philadelphia.
To the Navy, the test had succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Not only had they rendered a ship invisible to radar, they had made it optically invisible as well, not to mention causing the vessel to teleport hundreds of miles in a matter of minutes.
For the crew, however, the trip had been a nightmare.
The test had managed to render the entire ship 'out of phase' with the surrounding universe, which is why it was able to travel from Philadelphia to Norfolk instantly.
This phasing effect had drastic effects on the crew members.
During the experiment, crew members found they could walk through solid objects, and when the field was shut off, men were found embedded in the bulkheads, decks and railings of the ship.
The results were gruesome enough that some men went mad.
Afterwards, several crew members simply vanished.
A few disappeared into thin air; one, eating dinner with his family, rose, walked through a wall and was never seen again.
Some men entered into what was called the 'Freeze’.
This is where a man faded from view; unable to move, speak or otherwise affect his surroundings.
Initially, the Freeze effect lasted only a few minutes to a few hours.
Interestingly enough, invisible crewmen were still visible to other sailors who had survived the original experiment.
After a while, the Freeze effect lasted for days or months, and became known as the 'Deep Freeze' (other terms include 'Caught in the Flow', 'Caught in the Push', 'Get Stuck', 'Go Blank', 'Hell Incorporated' or 'Stuck in Molasses').
The Deep Freeze could drive a man insane in very short order, and was only able to be counteracted if other crewmen performed a 'Laying on of Hands' technique to give the victim strength and allow him to recover from his affliction.
Unfortunately, two men burst into flames while Laying on of Hands, burning for 18 days despite all attempts to quench the fire.
Seeing the horrible after effects of the experiment, the Navy discontinued all further research into radar and optical invisibility.
The surviving crewmen were discharged as mentally unfit for duty and many were placed in insane asylums.
However, science was not quite done conducting research on electromagnetic fields or radar and its affects on the human mind.
Project Rainbow may have been disbanded, but the Phoenix Project was just getting started.
Here is a fairly good article on the “Shadow person” phenomena.
Sorry to a certain someone who said the last article scared her!
Knowledge is power!
Anyone have any experiences?
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The Lurking Shadow PeopleTales of walking Shadows come from across the world.
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“This scares me and I don’t know what it is.
I have been seeing them since I was a little girl.
Always outta the corner of my eye a tall black shadow.
I always feel like something or someone is by me.
Last night I went down to my bedroom.
There it was.
Standing next to my dresser.
I ran upstairs crying to my mom.
She went down and looked saying it was only ’cause I was overtired.
But I KNOW what I saw.
It was so scary.
I don’t know what it is.
I need all the help I can get!”
– Jessica’s cry for help, 10, January 2010.
Some of these Shadow People wander through the periphery of our lives; others stay for years.
People can rarely make out features of these darker-than-night, human shaped entities other than an occasional set of blazing red eyes.
Shadow People often appear dressed as a Medieval monk, wearing a fedora, or bald and sexless.
These entities may simply trek through our bedroom at night never to be seen again, while others may lurk in doorways, just watching, day after day.
Still others attack with energy-draining fear.
What are they?
I’ve studied the Shadow People phenomena for the past decade, and have come to the conclusion the term “Shadow People” is a catchall for entities that exhibit certain characteristics – but their origins can be wildly different.
Through research and personal experience, I’ve categorized these creatures by behavior.
Benign Shadows: Shadow People that seem to travel briefly through a person’s life.
I saw these entities as a child.
They appeared to walk with purpose through my room, never acknowledging me, and never straying from their path.
I never felt an unholy fear, just the fear of watching a dark human-shaped trespasser walk past my bed.
Negative Shadows: Although these Shadow People tend to simply lurk, they are associated with a feeling of unnatural terror.
Red-Eyed Shadows: These entities are always negative, but stare at experiencers with blazing red eyes.
Victims often say they feel this creature feed from their fear.
Hooded Shadows: Dressed as an ancient monk, people who encounter these Shadow People feel a deep rage bubbling behind the black cowl.
The Hat Man: This entity is the most curious.
Dressed in a fedora, and sometimes appearing to wear an old-time business suit, the Hat Man appears to people in cultures across the planet.
Shadow People may be demonic entities, ghosts, inter-dimensional travelers, or other denizens of the dark realm we call the Unknown.
Regardless of their label, Shadow People could very well be more than just one type of being.
Brad Steiger, author of “Shadow World,” has studied the paranormal for more than 50 years and agrees – there are many possible explanations for Shadow People. “I would say that experiencers are seeing all of the above and giving them/it the name of Shadow People.”
Whatever these entities are, they’re shocking to those who see them.
A gray sheet of clouds stretched across the sky as 12-year-old Doug ran to the corner store.
“It was overcast but not raining, and in the middle of the afternoon,” Doug said. The day was shadowless, and decades later he still doesn’t know what he saw on his way home from the store, arms laden with food.
At first, he thought it was a friend. “As I approached the corner to turn onto my street, I saw something black sticking beyond the bushes in the front of my house,” Doug said. “I yelled, ‘Andre,’ and started running toward my driveway where the bushes are.”
The dark figure wasn’t his friend Andre.
A black, man-shaped Shadow grew from behind the bushes in this quiet afternoon and began running toward Doug’s house.
“After a few steps I saw the Shadow running down my driveway toward the back yard,” he said. “I ran up the driveway to the gate that leads to my back yard. I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
Doug stood at the gate as the black Shadow in the shape of a man ran across his yard and disappeared through a fence. “I was shocked,” he said. “I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
This thing; what could it be?
Why was it black when most stereotypical stories said that ghosts were white?
Could this be demonic?
Could it be like me, just a person?”
What did Doug see?
A ghost?
A demon?
A dimensional traveler?
Or was it all in his mind?
Science
“I’ve been visited by what I presume to be the same Shadow three times in my life, and the memories have haunted me ever since.
When I was six, I saw it at my dad’s new house, towering over my bed.
I couldn’t move, and I don’t remember what happened next.
All I remember is trying to scream, but there was this horrible weight on my chest.”
– Luke Purdy
Most of the Shadow People encounters I’ve collected over the years are readily explainable.
The experiencer wakes to find a black, human figure standing in the doorway of their bedroom, or leaning over their bed, just watching.
A tightness grips their chest like the weight of a person is upon them.
They can’t breathe.
Suddenly the choking eases, and the Shadow being is gone.
This type of encounter is common, and psychology has a name for it – sleep paralysis.
April Haberyan, a psychology professor at Northwest Missouri State University, said most Shadow People encounters are probably the product of dreams.
When people sleep and enter the REM phase, “it’s very common for them to seethings,” Haberyan said.
The fear, the paralysis, and the entities are normal.
“There are hormones in REM sleep that paralyze the major muscle groups and it’s called paradoxical sleep,” she said. “(Although) this happens during REM, these people don’t stay asleep and the hormones are still in their bodies. It can last up to eight minutes and they feel pressure on their chest and can see people.”
When the experiencer becomes fully awake, the Shadow Person encounter is over – all that’s left is the fear.
Other Shadow People encounters – as well as those of ghosts/UFOs/Bigfoot for that matter – can be attributed to the same trick of light and shadow that allows us to see faces in clouds and carpets.
These sightings can also be from electrical stimulation to certain parts of the brain, or drugs.
Chemist Rick Toomey said anything that throws off the chemical balance of the brain causes all sorts of problems.
“All sensation is in the nervous system and it’s all chemistry,” he said. “If every neurotransmitter is chemistry, you can wreak havoc with that.”
However, many encounter Shadow People in full consciousness and full daylight, removing the logical, scientific answers, and leaving something terrible.
The Religious World
“My best friend, when he was a boy he was laying on his bed with the lights on.
A shadowy figure emerged from his closet and moved towards his bedside.
The Shadow being reached out a finger and touched my buddy’s leg.
He screamed and the figure vanished, and his folks were there in moments.
My friend’s father noticed that the closet door was open, and his parents knew he NEVER slept without it closed.
The black spot on his leg remained visible for several years, but the Shadow being never returned.
To this day my friend has no idea what happened, but he does know one thing – it was real.”
– Paul Sycros
Although most reported Shadow People encounters involve an entity simply appearing and disappearing, many aren’t that innocent.
Negative Shadows, Red-Eyed Shadows, and Hooded Shadows, all bring a feeling of horror when they step into someone’s life.
These creatures are known by different names, demons, jinn, dark shadows, sgili, but their nature is the same.
Bishop James Long, pastor of St. Christopher Old Catholic Church in Louisville, Kentucky, has studied demonology for years and knows Shadow People well – to him they are something evil.
“Shadow People must be taken seriously and they can be quite dangerous,” he said. “When a human spirit tries to manifest itself, its form is black, or otherwise known as Shadow. It is energy trying to manifest itself so that it can appear to have the physical characteristics it had when living on earth.”
These entities can move, communicate, and attack, drawing energy from their human victim.
“Certainly Shadows that attack are demonic in nature and should be avoided at all times,” Long said. “I would strongly encourage anyone who witnesses a dark Shadow to be careful.”
Cody Lilly’s family has encountered this type of Shadow for years, a black, human-shaped figure, featureless except for a wide-brimmed hat.
“We called him the Cowboy because he kind of looked like the Marlboro man,” Lilly said.
The Cowboy stepped into Lilly’s life his sophomore year of high school in Clarinda, Iowa, and visited almost nightly for two years, pacing about his room, waiting for something.
The entity, with fiery red eyes, never spoke, and never approached him, but Lilly knew why it was there – it hungered.
“It was feeding,” Lilly said, convinced the Cowboy was absorbing energy from his terror. “The first time I saw it I was completely incapacitated by how scared I was of it.”
Lilly soon went to college thirty miles south and the visits stopped until after graduation in 2011 when he moved to Nebraska.
“My girlfriend that is now my fiancée is in Kansas City and I’m in Omaha. I was crashing with friends here,” he said. “My car started acting up, I’m in the process of looking for a job, finding an apartment, buying an engagement ring. I had a lot of stuff on my plate, which might have brought on what happened.”
What happened was the Cowboy. “I’m sitting in my car on the phone with my mom. I don’t know much about cars, but my mom does.”
As Lilly described the car’s behavior to his mother, he noticed a movement in the corner of his right eye.
Lilly turned toward the passenger side window and saw it – the Shadow Man that once tormented him in the night.
The Cowboy. “It was full on. A Shadow Person in an old fedora,” Lilly said. “It was standing there. It leaned over like it’s bending to look at me.”
As Lilly stared in horror at this red-eyed Shadow Man in full daylight, the Cowboy reached out it’s arm and knocked on the car window.
“It knocked two times,” Lilly said. “After it knocked it dissolved in my vision. It just showed up, knocked on my window and was gone.”
Lilly wonders if the Cowboy wanted to let him know it was still around.
“It’s been quite some time that I saw him,” he said. “I’m just kind of thinking he just showed up. I was feeling stressed out and I think he showed up just to feed on that.”
In Islam, the supernatural Jinn can be a companion, or a dark, Shadowy predator.
“Jinns are invisible entities believed in by most all Muslims and Middle Eastern folklore,” said religion expert, Dashti Namaste. “Jinns get in and out of human spheres regularly, and it is believed that any human is able to make contact with a Jinn.”
Although Jinn can be benevolent, some Jinn are wicked, appearing as dark figures that lurk in ruins and cemeteries, waiting for an unsuspecting human soul to stumble by.
The wicked Jinn, much like the demons of Christianity, are deceivers and may present themselves as the ghost of a loved one to insert themselves into a human’s life.
Wahde, a Cherokee, said the nature of Shadow beings in the American Indian tradition are just as dark.
“They’re humanoid shaped, but not proportionate to a normal person,” Wahde said. “Their appearance is more monstrous in nature.”
These Shadow beings are the product of medicine men that have strayed from the path of healing.
“There seem to be a classification of spiritual beings that are Shadow for the most part. These things can be manipulated by bad medicine or bad magic,” Wahde said. “They either take that form to attack other people, or they use some other spiritual being as a spiritual attack.”
In the Cherokee language, these dark medicine people are sgili, or witch.
“They’re still alive to some degree, but they’re not necessarily considered human.”
Ghosts
“I have a young boy shadow/spirit in my home.
He appears as a solid black cutout-like figure.
He is a prankster, too, but he’s NOT mean, or evil.
He let’s us know he’s here at times by playing with the animals.
Kittens, dogs, puppies, etc. PLAY, not mean.
The dogs and puppies are wagging their tails.
He moves my Barbies if he really wants my attention.
And the other day he didn’t want the door to his room closed, so he opened it.
He’s a good kid.”
– Kim Tamsor
A family sees a black figure come down the stairs at the same time at night, turn into the kitchen and disappear.
A dark man in an out-of-date suit walks through a child’s bedroom and down the hallway.
Some Shadow People encounters – benign ones like these – could very well be disembodied spirits wandering the earth.
D.H. Parsons, president of The Bliss-Parsons Institute of Metaphysics in Columbia, Missouri, has encountered many Shadow People while investigating a haunting.
Although many fellow investigators consider Shadow People demonic, Parsons doesn’t necessarily agree.
“My feeling is that a Shadow Person is another representation of a residual memory of a person who had such a strong personality in life, that a bit of their energy remained here in this dimension after their spirit crossed over,” Parsons said. “Most of the time the spirit beings are either friendly to us, or confused by us, or curious as to why we are there. But they have never done us any harm, not even the Shadows.”
Not so for eighteen-year-old Dave Stanfield.
Stanfield didn’t expect something to be waiting for him in his room when he woke.
Something was – something dark.
A strange feeling pulled Stanfield from a deep sleep.
As he lay in the gray room, staring at his bedroom wall, he saw it. “I woke for no reason, had no weird dreams, and I wasn’t groggy or half asleep,” he said. “My room was dark other than some stray beams coming through the blinds, and I could see a man, darker than the night like a void.”
The figure stood at the end of the bed. “I could only make out the silhouette of his head and shoulders. The rest of him just went straight to the floor,” Stanfield said. “There were no legs or feet. No red eyes, no facial features whatsoever.”
Terrified, Stanfield slid low in bed, pulling the covers slowly over his face, watching the black, man-shaped figure standing over him until his blankets hid the horror from his view and Stanfield fell back to sleep.
Stanfield is now 29, and although he doesn’t know what this Shadow Being was, he knows he saw it – and it haunts him still.
“Only in the past couple of years have I been able to find anything on the subject matter,” Stanfield said. “It’s almost like re-victimization when reading stories from other people that describe experiences like mine. I never knew it could be so widespread and am still dealing with the shock.”
But, as with Parsons’ encounters, this being didn’t harm Stanfield.
At least not physically.
Interdimensional travelers
“Harmless. Just a watcher is all.”
– Don Hall
Most Shadow People encounters are benign, a dark figure lingering in the corners of your life, watching.
Could these entities simply be watching us from a realm barely removed from our own?
Marie Jones, author of books exploring science and the paranormal, thinks other dimensions could be homes of Shadow People.
“In my research into quantum and theoretical physics, I came across … concepts that really opened up the possibilities to me that entities from somewhere else could be coming here” Jones said.
One of these concepts is wrapped around different dimensions.
“Theoretically, if these infinite other universes exist, we really should not physically be able to access them,” Jones said. “Yet even theoretical physicists entertain the thought that perhaps the laws of physics on the other side allow for some crossover.”
Clark Kent’s grandfather died in 1977 and his grandmother moved to a small apartment leaving her old house empty.
Shortly after, ten-year-old Kent’s family moved in.
“My first friend in the new neighborhood was my next-door neighbor, Jim,” Kent said. “We are good friends to this day.”
On a day in 1979, Kent invited Jim to his house to play Ping Pong – and it’s haunted him since.
That day after school, Kent and Jim had about two hours before Kent’s parents came home from work, which meant Ping Pong in the basement between peeks at the forbidden stash of Playboys in a dusty alcove.
It was there Kent saw something he didn’t expect. “During our game, I was facing the alcove,” Kent said. “At a certain point, something caught my attention.” Standing in the alcove was the shadow of a man wearing a fedora.
“It was creepy, and I had to pause,” Kent said. “I could not figure out how any combination of the boxes could cast such a shadow. Then it moved.”
Kent stood at the Ping Pong table, staring at dark figure watching him from the alcove.
He then quickly looked at Jim who was looking at him. “He realized I had seem something,” Kent said. “I was struck by the realization that no
man was casting a shadow on the wall, the Shadow was solid and was not attached to any object. I turned and scrambled up the stairs with Jim right behind me.”
At the top of the stairs, their breath coming fast and heavy, Kent slammed and latched the basement door, then “looked at Jim with wide eyes.”
Jim denied seeing the Shadow man that day and for nearly thirty years after.
As the two met for a long needed reunion, Kent mentioned the Shadow Man in his basement. “Jim sunk into his chair and spoke in a whisper, ‘I’ll never forget that hat.’ I was stunned,” Kent said.
Then he asked the same question he’d asked three decades ago, did you see it?
“Yes, I did,” Jim told him. “I was scared.”
But did this entity, this watcher, step into Kent’s life from a parallel universe?
Although some physicists entertain the idea of these multiple universes, physicist David Richardson isn’t eager to join them.
“I hate to bring this up in this context, but if there were extra dimensions … (Shadow People) might actually be people,” he said. “I’m skeptical of that, but it’s possible. We’re just starting to figure out that sort of stuff.”
Ghost?
Demon?
Jinn?
Sgili?
Traveler?
Regardless of the nature of these entities, regardless of their intentions, the advice for each encounter is the same – proceed with caution.
I could only get through a small portion of this before I couldn't handle it anymore. My stomach dropped and I got really sick and scared.