I have always been able to feel spirits when I am around them. My dad is a retired pastor and we often lived in houses that were near church cemeteries. During my ages of 5-9 we lived in a house where lights would turn on and off and things would be out of place on a constant basis.
When I was in college I commuted for a couple of years. During these two years, my parents lived way out in the country on a gravel road. At the end of the road was the church, the church cemetery, and the house my parents lived in. At the time I was dating my wife to be, she lived on campus. I kept a lot of late nights, typically not getting home until 1:00 or 2:00 AM. After about three weeks of living there I started to notice that when I got home there was a shadow in the driveway. Because there were a lot of deer out there I just brushed it off as that. Well, one weekend I got home extremely late and when I pulled into the driveway there was a man standing next to my dad's Bronco. He was wearing a black suit and had a bowler on his head. He was standing there with his arms crossed in front of his chest like he was angry. I sat in my car for a minute, pretty stunned, trying to decide how to react. When I opened my truck door, he was gone. Freaked me out. However, from that day on he was always in that same spot on nights when I would get home late. I always felt like he was watching over me.
Is this an isolated experience/story for you, or are you aware of the larger and general phenomenon of "shadow people"?
Some people call it bunk, others call it imagination playing tricks, others call it regular ghost encounters, while some recognize them as distinct and different from ghosts, perhaps even inter-dimensional beings (like Matthew McConaughey in
Interstellar).
Usually they're just apparitions/visitors passing through or stopping by to hang out. Sometimes you get a bad egg, and you simply ask them to leave. These experiences are pretty well documented, and previous posts in this thread fall along the same lines in terms of "feeling" entities.
They aren't ghosts, because they won't stick around and haunt. They're elusive, but interactive if you have a legit gift for noticing them, or if you are *lucky* enough to have a solid encounter. If they're chillin' you can tell them they're welcome to pass through or stay; if you get bad vibes, you can ask them to move along, which they usually always do.
I would have never believed this was a legit phenomenon, but I had an experience when I was younger in my grandparents house, and my grandma still corroborates my story today (leading me to believe there is a certain sensitivity that can be hereditary or something), and I have read similar experiences from various sources over the past few years:
When I was young, my mom and I lived with my grandparents. One night, while my mom was out, I woke up and started walking to her room to see if she was home yet. I was walking through the hallway, and saw a shadow on the wall near my grandparents' room that didn't belong. It started moving, and I got freaked out, so I jogged in to wake my grandma up and to tell her that we needed to GTFO. The shadow PRECEDED me into my grandparents room, but before I could decided this was bad news and start screaming, I felt reassured that I could walk in behind the shadow on the wall and everything would be okay. The shadow disappeared within the other shadows of the dark room, so I woke my grandma up and told her what I saw.
I'll never forget what she said, "Oh I call him Hank. He likes to hang out in the basement when I do laundry. He's nice. I've never seen him up here before, though. He must be bored."
And I don't know why that was satisfactory to my young, impressionable mind, but it made total sense, and I felt at ease. I left her room, watched the shadow flicker down the hallway towards the kitchen (where the basement door was), and that was that. Something so ridiculous, and probably totally unbelievable to anybody reading this story, felt totally natural. Not only did my grandma reassure me that it was okay in probably the only way that would have worked, but the presence FELT like it was perfectly normal and fine to be in the house. Whenever I recall the experience, there's a feeling that I can't quite grasp that I felt at the end of the episode, and I want to say it was almost like the thing was embarrassed at the situation.
Anywho, suddenly, "shadow people" are pretty widely accepted as an unexplainable thing that can happen. Hearing your story only reinforces my belief, because one of the most common appearances of "shadow people" is a masculine figure wearing a dark suit and a hat. I didn't catch any details like that in my experience, more so just "feelings" that were strong enough to override what should have been my fear.
I never saw him again, and haven't had a true sighting in a while, but I get the feeling in the middle of the night sometimes that something is hanging around... usually the feeling is indifferent, but every now and again I feel uneasy, so in my head I'll say "it's time to move on, bro," and then it's all good... back to sleep peacefully.
