Who Are Shadow People? 10 Identifying Signs and How To Get Rid Of Them

Halloween is almost here, and in the spirit of Halloween, let’s talk about shadow people. Wikipedia defines shadow people as “Supernatural shadow-like humanoid figures that, according to believers, are seen flickering on walls and ceilings in the viewer’s peripheral vision.”

A shadow person (also known as shadow figures, shadow beings, or black mass) is the perception of a patch of shadow as a living, humanoid figure. This concept is particularly interpreted by believers in the paranormal or supernatural as the presence of a spirit or other entity.

Throughout history, millions of human witnesses have reported accounts of Shadow people appearing before them. An increase in reported sightings over the last decade has brought these mysterious occurrences to mainstream consciousness.

Related: Shadow Self: How to Embrace Your Inner Darkness

Who Are Shadow People? 

Both children and adults observe these beings as dark, fast-moving human-shaped silhouettes in their peripheral vision. While some have seen them from a distance, others have had face-to-face encounters. 

Usually, they are seen as males but they generally lack any other specific characteristics of gender. In several cases, witnesses describe the sense of being watched and once these entities realize they are being watched, chances are that they will flee.

They are even seen to sometimes travel through walls or closed doors and bushes. Sometimes they simply seem to appear and fade in the periphery of the night’s darkness.

It is believed that they are some sort of other-dimensional beings whose dimension of origin occasionally overlaps with ours, which explains their ethereal appearances and fleeting nature.

10 Signs Of Shadow People

  1. Many of them wear hats.
  2. They might wear an old-fashioned cloak.
  3. They are aware of us and react to us noticing them.
  4. Generally possess a male figure, though gender is not always specific.
  5. They can pass through opaque objects like walls, furniture, etc.
  6. They never try to vocally communicate with us.
  7. Mostly very tall, but can be short too.
  8. Have no visible eyes (although occasionally red eyes have been reported).
  9. Their form has a depth, mass, and 3-D shape.
  10. Move with lightning speed.

The appearance of these entities is often accompanied by a misty or foggy view. The black mass gradually begins to take the shape of a person or animal form but without any specific details of facial features. If the manifestation continues, they may become a see-through apparition.

Types of Shadow People

They come in different forms and shapes and there are several different types of them. Here are the 3 types:

1. Lingering Shadow People

Mostly found lurking in homes, especially bedrooms. These shadow people will watch human beings from a distance but never directly encounter them. They do not try to communicate; they appear to just be observing us.

Once someone detects them, they will often hastily flee, going through a wall or disappearing around a corner. They usually have a human figure, covering themselves with a cloak or hat.

These types seem to give us a creepy feeling or feelings of dread. The feeling might be because of their sudden appearance in the middle of the night. They are known to get attached to other humans and keep staying with them when they move.

Related: 16 Signs You Are Being Visited By a Spirit or Ghost

2. Visiting Shadow People

These are the ones who have their special agendas and are least interested in our lives. They typically go from one place to another and do not seem to care even if we see them.

These are the least understood of the types, as they do not appear to want to communicate with us or understand us.

3. Haunting Shadow People

This type seems to be tied to a place or location. Oftentimes they come in a group and try to claim that particular place. It is generally believed that they have a strong emotional tie to the location they are found in. We often see them lurking around in this place.

Shadow people are very mysterious beings and they are very difficult to understand. They are a myriad of beings that exist in our surrounding dimensions, but which ones are the ones that have crossed over from another dimension or the ones that are earthbound souls?

How To Get Rid Of Shadow People

  • Prayers often help.
  • Emotional harmony: positivity, grounding, changing your emotional state.
  • Spiritual cleansing.
  • Detoxify your mental state.
  • Leave the lights on, as this appears to disrupt their energy.

Often times we are afraid of these types of experiences because we do not have any concrete explanations as to why these happen. Some, on the other hand, are enthralled by such experiences because they get to encounter the bridge in the dimensions. Either way, it is nothing to be scared of.

Related: When Spirits Come Knocking – 3 Things You Can Do

Have you ever had any experience of seeing shadow people? Share your story in the comment below, if you have.

Love and Light.


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SAM DAN

I am a designer, blogger and author specializing in spirituality, astrology, abuse & lifestyle. I love adventure sports and going on peaceful walks, in that order.

Disclaimer: The informational content on The Minds Journal have been created and reviewed by qualified mental health professionals. They are intended solely for educational and self-awareness purposes and should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you are experiencing emotional distress or have concerns about your mental health, please seek help from a licensed mental health professional or healthcare provider.

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  1. Carl Atkins

    I have had several experiences with spirits and perhaps demons but only three times have I experience these shadow people. The first time I ever seen one was n an old TV that had been set on fire n a trash pile. It was late at night I was working on a friend’s truck n his yard. Very minimal lights. And I was looking around his yard for some mislaid parts when I seen it n an old tv IT SCARED THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME!!!! .// The second one I’d just gotten out of my bed and walked out of my bed room to my front room. I decided to watch TV as I had trouble sleeping n just before i turned the tv on. I TURNED MY HEAD TOWARDS THE COUCH MY MOTHER N LAW HAD BEEN SLEEPING ON. AND AS MY EYES STARTED TO ADJUST TO WHAT I WAS SEEING. THAT BLACK MASS WITH NO DISTINCTIVE FIG OTHER THAT A PORTION OF ITS UPPER BODY KINDA GIVING ME THE IDEA THAT IT WAS LOOKING DIRECTLY AT ME. FOR JUST A FLEETING MOMENT. THAT FELT LIKE A LOT LONGER.THEN IT SHOT UP THE WALL AND OUT THE CRACK BETWEEN THE FRONT DOOR N THE FRONT DOOR CASING. This one had startled me but I was mad because I never invited people I didn’t know into my home. So I felt like my mother n law had to of invited it with out first having me tell her that her friend wasn’t welcome n our home // N the third one I’d seen was when my dog had passed I was really beside myself with grief. So my friend Jackie beaver had come to visit n he was pulling into My yard nseen it standing under my plumb tree. Then it’d spent the next ten hours swinging on my gate.

  2. Sara

    What you describe is exactly my experience. My ex was extremely anxious, suffered from ocd, depression and our release very strained and awkward. In the middle of the night I awoke and remembered I’d forgotten to take my BP med so I got up, walked toward the bedroom door and in the doorway within a split second, out of my peripheral vision, I saw one leaning over my sleeping husband, notice I’d seen it (him) and it came toward me and passed me, leaving out the doorway. It happened so fast!! Tall, black, brimmed hat. I wondered if my husband’s mental state attracted it in some way. I was alert and saw what I saw.

  3. Jen

    I believe they are a life form but that exist in a different light spectrum to us. Like if you swat at a fly, it see’s your hand moving slower than we do which is why you miss them. Well that is a different light spectrum. I think they are made up of hundreds of little tiny ones and they move through some sort of perpetual motion or loco motion, by creating an energy through they own deliberate movement. They can be seen easily on the new phone cameras of today. And because of the nasty, ugly, demonic look they have, one can easily assume they must therefore be bad. This is because they just look bad, most other things that look bad are bad. So I think these are too.
    I first discovered them in 2015, I thought I was the only one that had them. I stayed home for 6 weeks, I tried to tell my boss, he thought I had gone nuts and they tricked me into going to the hospital where I was man-handled into a mental health ward. I would cry myself to sleep every night and I wouldnt take medication so 5 of them (hospital staff) would rush into my room, hold me down 1 limb each, and inject anti-pshyce drugs into me that would zonk me for 5 days.
    In the end I just pretended that I had come right and that the things I see arent really there and they let me out as an out-patient with me being legally required to turn up once a month and get this physchotic drug injected into me (which zonked my head for 5 days) but thank god the physciatrist who I had to see after 3 months put a stop to it all as I had no history of mental illness in my family, I worked, turned up on time, and I absolutely hated the stuff and begged him to make them stop giving it to me, which he did.
    Now I have photographic evidence, I have them captured in a jar and I move them along from my home with frquency tunes off you tube and certain oils burnt. (Ti tree for example) I tell no one about them, people always ask me why I look younger than my age. I say nothing, but its keeping these leeches away from myself. I like it when I stop thinking about them but sometimes I can have spells when I worry about where they are and what they are doing, and I video them to prove to myself that its not me that is nuts, its most that are ignorant but better to be ignorant I think, and I waste too much time on them.
    Well glad I got that out. Don’t worry Im not a danger to myself or anyone else. But Yes – I do know that these things are here. Here but not from this mthr fn earth. The end

  4. Joetta

    Interesting to hear other people’s experiences seeing the black shadows,my daughter and my myself seen the black shadows man,no hat,no features,he looked he was wearing a black bodysuit,but strangely it was in a dream, firstly my daughter dreamt him,and was frightening he grabbed my daughters ,both ankles and spun her round in her bed,then disappeared,my daughter was frightened,she had a double bed,had to sleep next to her,so she could sleep, nothing happened for a week then I had the same dream it was so real,so I thought did it happen and I was half asleep, luckily nothing else has happened,it’s all strange,shadow man is from another planet,he,s bad,all black,no light ,when anybody see,s him pray for protection, ask for angel Michael,s protection to soround you with light and ask for light to soround your house,then you safe,and if he still gets in tell him go away,stay safe,end

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Halloween is almost here, and in the spirit of Halloween, let’s talk about shadow people. Wikipedia defines shadow people as “Supernatural shadow-like humanoid figures that, according to believers, are seen flickering on walls and ceilings in the viewer’s peripheral vision.”

A shadow person (also known as shadow figures, shadow beings, or black mass) is the perception of a patch of shadow as a living, humanoid figure. This concept is particularly interpreted by believers in the paranormal or supernatural as the presence of a spirit or other entity.

Throughout history, millions of human witnesses have reported accounts of Shadow people appearing before them. An increase in reported sightings over the last decade has brought these mysterious occurrences to mainstream consciousness.

Related: Shadow Self: How to Embrace Your Inner Darkness

Who Are Shadow People? 

Both children and adults observe these beings as dark, fast-moving human-shaped silhouettes in their peripheral vision. While some have seen them from a distance, others have had face-to-face encounters. 

Usually, they are seen as males but they generally lack any other specific characteristics of gender. In several cases, witnesses describe the sense of being watched and once these entities realize they are being watched, chances are that they will flee.

They are even seen to sometimes travel through walls or closed doors and bushes. Sometimes they simply seem to appear and fade in the periphery of the night’s darkness.

It is believed that they are some sort of other-dimensional beings whose dimension of origin occasionally overlaps with ours, which explains their ethereal appearances and fleeting nature.

10 Signs Of Shadow People

  1. Many of them wear hats.
  2. They might wear an old-fashioned cloak.
  3. They are aware of us and react to us noticing them.
  4. Generally possess a male figure, though gender is not always specific.
  5. They can pass through opaque objects like walls, furniture, etc.
  6. They never try to vocally communicate with us.
  7. Mostly very tall, but can be short too.
  8. Have no visible eyes (although occasionally red eyes have been reported).
  9. Their form has a depth, mass, and 3-D shape.
  10. Move with lightning speed.

The appearance of these entities is often accompanied by a misty or foggy view. The black mass gradually begins to take the shape of a person or animal form but without any specific details of facial features. If the manifestation continues, they may become a see-through apparition.

Types of Shadow People

They come in different forms and shapes and there are several different types of them. Here are the 3 types:

1. Lingering Shadow People

Mostly found lurking in homes, especially bedrooms. These shadow people will watch human beings from a distance but never directly encounter them. They do not try to communicate; they appear to just be observing us.

Once someone detects them, they will often hastily flee, going through a wall or disappearing around a corner. They usually have a human figure, covering themselves with a cloak or hat.

These types seem to give us a creepy feeling or feelings of dread. The feeling might be because of their sudden appearance in the middle of the night. They are known to get attached to other humans and keep staying with them when they move.

Related: 16 Signs You Are Being Visited By a Spirit or Ghost

2. Visiting Shadow People

These are the ones who have their special agendas and are least interested in our lives. They typically go from one place to another and do not seem to care even if we see them.

These are the least understood of the types, as they do not appear to want to communicate with us or understand us.

3. Haunting Shadow People

This type seems to be tied to a place or location. Oftentimes they come in a group and try to claim that particular place. It is generally believed that they have a strong emotional tie to the location they are found in. We often see them lurking around in this place.

Shadow people are very mysterious beings and they are very difficult to understand. They are a myriad of beings that exist in our surrounding dimensions, but which ones are the ones that have crossed over from another dimension or the ones that are earthbound souls?

How To Get Rid Of Shadow People

  • Prayers often help.
  • Emotional harmony: positivity, grounding, changing your emotional state.
  • Spiritual cleansing.
  • Detoxify your mental state.
  • Leave the lights on, as this appears to disrupt their energy.

Often times we are afraid of these types of experiences because we do not have any concrete explanations as to why these happen. Some, on the other hand, are enthralled by such experiences because they get to encounter the bridge in the dimensions. Either way, it is nothing to be scared of.

Related: When Spirits Come Knocking – 3 Things You Can Do

Have you ever had any experience of seeing shadow people? Share your story in the comment below, if you have.

Love and Light.


What You Should Know About Shadow People
Shadow People What Should Know About Dark Figures Pin
Shadow People pin

Published On:

Last updated on:

SAM DAN

I am a designer, blogger and author specializing in spirituality, astrology, abuse & lifestyle. I love adventure sports and going on peaceful walks, in that order.

Responses

  1. Carl Atkins

    I have had several experiences with spirits and perhaps demons but only three times have I experience these shadow people. The first time I ever seen one was n an old TV that had been set on fire n a trash pile. It was late at night I was working on a friend’s truck n his yard. Very minimal lights. And I was looking around his yard for some mislaid parts when I seen it n an old tv IT SCARED THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME!!!! .// The second one I’d just gotten out of my bed and walked out of my bed room to my front room. I decided to watch TV as I had trouble sleeping n just before i turned the tv on. I TURNED MY HEAD TOWARDS THE COUCH MY MOTHER N LAW HAD BEEN SLEEPING ON. AND AS MY EYES STARTED TO ADJUST TO WHAT I WAS SEEING. THAT BLACK MASS WITH NO DISTINCTIVE FIG OTHER THAT A PORTION OF ITS UPPER BODY KINDA GIVING ME THE IDEA THAT IT WAS LOOKING DIRECTLY AT ME. FOR JUST A FLEETING MOMENT. THAT FELT LIKE A LOT LONGER.THEN IT SHOT UP THE WALL AND OUT THE CRACK BETWEEN THE FRONT DOOR N THE FRONT DOOR CASING. This one had startled me but I was mad because I never invited people I didn’t know into my home. So I felt like my mother n law had to of invited it with out first having me tell her that her friend wasn’t welcome n our home // N the third one I’d seen was when my dog had passed I was really beside myself with grief. So my friend Jackie beaver had come to visit n he was pulling into My yard nseen it standing under my plumb tree. Then it’d spent the next ten hours swinging on my gate.

  2. Sara

    What you describe is exactly my experience. My ex was extremely anxious, suffered from ocd, depression and our release very strained and awkward. In the middle of the night I awoke and remembered I’d forgotten to take my BP med so I got up, walked toward the bedroom door and in the doorway within a split second, out of my peripheral vision, I saw one leaning over my sleeping husband, notice I’d seen it (him) and it came toward me and passed me, leaving out the doorway. It happened so fast!! Tall, black, brimmed hat. I wondered if my husband’s mental state attracted it in some way. I was alert and saw what I saw.

  3. Jen

    I believe they are a life form but that exist in a different light spectrum to us. Like if you swat at a fly, it see’s your hand moving slower than we do which is why you miss them. Well that is a different light spectrum. I think they are made up of hundreds of little tiny ones and they move through some sort of perpetual motion or loco motion, by creating an energy through they own deliberate movement. They can be seen easily on the new phone cameras of today. And because of the nasty, ugly, demonic look they have, one can easily assume they must therefore be bad. This is because they just look bad, most other things that look bad are bad. So I think these are too.
    I first discovered them in 2015, I thought I was the only one that had them. I stayed home for 6 weeks, I tried to tell my boss, he thought I had gone nuts and they tricked me into going to the hospital where I was man-handled into a mental health ward. I would cry myself to sleep every night and I wouldnt take medication so 5 of them (hospital staff) would rush into my room, hold me down 1 limb each, and inject anti-pshyce drugs into me that would zonk me for 5 days.
    In the end I just pretended that I had come right and that the things I see arent really there and they let me out as an out-patient with me being legally required to turn up once a month and get this physchotic drug injected into me (which zonked my head for 5 days) but thank god the physciatrist who I had to see after 3 months put a stop to it all as I had no history of mental illness in my family, I worked, turned up on time, and I absolutely hated the stuff and begged him to make them stop giving it to me, which he did.
    Now I have photographic evidence, I have them captured in a jar and I move them along from my home with frquency tunes off you tube and certain oils burnt. (Ti tree for example) I tell no one about them, people always ask me why I look younger than my age. I say nothing, but its keeping these leeches away from myself. I like it when I stop thinking about them but sometimes I can have spells when I worry about where they are and what they are doing, and I video them to prove to myself that its not me that is nuts, its most that are ignorant but better to be ignorant I think, and I waste too much time on them.
    Well glad I got that out. Don’t worry Im not a danger to myself or anyone else. But Yes – I do know that these things are here. Here but not from this mthr fn earth. The end

  4. Joetta

    Interesting to hear other people’s experiences seeing the black shadows,my daughter and my myself seen the black shadows man,no hat,no features,he looked he was wearing a black bodysuit,but strangely it was in a dream, firstly my daughter dreamt him,and was frightening he grabbed my daughters ,both ankles and spun her round in her bed,then disappeared,my daughter was frightened,she had a double bed,had to sleep next to her,so she could sleep, nothing happened for a week then I had the same dream it was so real,so I thought did it happen and I was half asleep, luckily nothing else has happened,it’s all strange,shadow man is from another planet,he,s bad,all black,no light ,when anybody see,s him pray for protection, ask for angel Michael,s protection to soround you with light and ask for light to soround your house,then you safe,and if he still gets in tell him go away,stay safe,end

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    4 thoughts on “Who Are Shadow People? 10 Identifying Signs and How To Get Rid Of Them”

    1. I have had several experiences with spirits and perhaps demons but only three times have I experience these shadow people. The first time I ever seen one was n an old TV that had been set on fire n a trash pile. It was late at night I was working on a friend’s truck n his yard. Very minimal lights. And I was looking around his yard for some mislaid parts when I seen it n an old tv IT SCARED THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME!!!! .// The second one I’d just gotten out of my bed and walked out of my bed room to my front room. I decided to watch TV as I had trouble sleeping n just before i turned the tv on. I TURNED MY HEAD TOWARDS THE COUCH MY MOTHER N LAW HAD BEEN SLEEPING ON. AND AS MY EYES STARTED TO ADJUST TO WHAT I WAS SEEING. THAT BLACK MASS WITH NO DISTINCTIVE FIG OTHER THAT A PORTION OF ITS UPPER BODY KINDA GIVING ME THE IDEA THAT IT WAS LOOKING DIRECTLY AT ME. FOR JUST A FLEETING MOMENT. THAT FELT LIKE A LOT LONGER.THEN IT SHOT UP THE WALL AND OUT THE CRACK BETWEEN THE FRONT DOOR N THE FRONT DOOR CASING. This one had startled me but I was mad because I never invited people I didn’t know into my home. So I felt like my mother n law had to of invited it with out first having me tell her that her friend wasn’t welcome n our home // N the third one I’d seen was when my dog had passed I was really beside myself with grief. So my friend Jackie beaver had come to visit n he was pulling into My yard nseen it standing under my plumb tree. Then it’d spent the next ten hours swinging on my gate.

      Reply
    2. What you describe is exactly my experience. My ex was extremely anxious, suffered from ocd, depression and our release very strained and awkward. In the middle of the night I awoke and remembered I’d forgotten to take my BP med so I got up, walked toward the bedroom door and in the doorway within a split second, out of my peripheral vision, I saw one leaning over my sleeping husband, notice I’d seen it (him) and it came toward me and passed me, leaving out the doorway. It happened so fast!! Tall, black, brimmed hat. I wondered if my husband’s mental state attracted it in some way. I was alert and saw what I saw.

      Reply
    3. I believe they are a life form but that exist in a different light spectrum to us. Like if you swat at a fly, it see’s your hand moving slower than we do which is why you miss them. Well that is a different light spectrum. I think they are made up of hundreds of little tiny ones and they move through some sort of perpetual motion or loco motion, by creating an energy through they own deliberate movement. They can be seen easily on the new phone cameras of today. And because of the nasty, ugly, demonic look they have, one can easily assume they must therefore be bad. This is because they just look bad, most other things that look bad are bad. So I think these are too.
      I first discovered them in 2015, I thought I was the only one that had them. I stayed home for 6 weeks, I tried to tell my boss, he thought I had gone nuts and they tricked me into going to the hospital where I was man-handled into a mental health ward. I would cry myself to sleep every night and I wouldnt take medication so 5 of them (hospital staff) would rush into my room, hold me down 1 limb each, and inject anti-pshyce drugs into me that would zonk me for 5 days.
      In the end I just pretended that I had come right and that the things I see arent really there and they let me out as an out-patient with me being legally required to turn up once a month and get this physchotic drug injected into me (which zonked my head for 5 days) but thank god the physciatrist who I had to see after 3 months put a stop to it all as I had no history of mental illness in my family, I worked, turned up on time, and I absolutely hated the stuff and begged him to make them stop giving it to me, which he did.
      Now I have photographic evidence, I have them captured in a jar and I move them along from my home with frquency tunes off you tube and certain oils burnt. (Ti tree for example) I tell no one about them, people always ask me why I look younger than my age. I say nothing, but its keeping these leeches away from myself. I like it when I stop thinking about them but sometimes I can have spells when I worry about where they are and what they are doing, and I video them to prove to myself that its not me that is nuts, its most that are ignorant but better to be ignorant I think, and I waste too much time on them.
      Well glad I got that out. Don’t worry Im not a danger to myself or anyone else. But Yes – I do know that these things are here. Here but not from this mthr fn earth. The end

      Reply
    4. Interesting to hear other people’s experiences seeing the black shadows,my daughter and my myself seen the black shadows man,no hat,no features,he looked he was wearing a black bodysuit,but strangely it was in a dream, firstly my daughter dreamt him,and was frightening he grabbed my daughters ,both ankles and spun her round in her bed,then disappeared,my daughter was frightened,she had a double bed,had to sleep next to her,so she could sleep, nothing happened for a week then I had the same dream it was so real,so I thought did it happen and I was half asleep, luckily nothing else has happened,it’s all strange,shadow man is from another planet,he,s bad,all black,no light ,when anybody see,s him pray for protection, ask for angel Michael,s protection to soround you with light and ask for light to soround your house,then you safe,and if he still gets in tell him go away,stay safe,end

      Reply

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