From: Lisa S
To: The Official Shadow People Archives
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 8:34:47 PM
Subject: Shadow person/entity story
Hello,
Please feel free to share this on your website! This is a story of something that happened to me...but I wasn't awake to witness it. My best friend was the witness and this is what happened:
Every year, my best friend and I would take a trip to Salem, Massachussetts. We'd spend the week of Halloween there and leave November 1st. One year we only had a room booked at a bed & breakfast for 4 days. We had to find a place to spend our last night. As anyone who's ventured to Salem around Halloween time knows, this would be near impossible. Luckily, we found this bed & breakfast right in town that had a room available. We took it immediately. We were lead to our room, which happened to be all the way up in the attic. It was a decent room, but had that creepy feeling about it. Figuring it was just the ambiance of the place and being in Salem, we made jokes. As we started to settle in for the night, we both started hearing noises; walking up the stairs, banging, creaking. Although we both knew it was probably just the state our minds were in, we still got a little freaked out. We decided to sleep in shifts that night...not only from the activity we thought we were experiencing, but the caretakers of the bed & breakfast made us uneasy.
As I was sleeping, my best friend watched tv and anxiously waited for her turn to catch some shut-eye. All of a sudden, she saw something out of the corner of her eye. She looked over at me and saw a HUGE black mass hovering over me. She said I was lying very still, arms at my sides, legs straight. She tried waking me up, shaking me, yelling at me, shoving me practically off of the bed. I wouldn't budge. She got this overwhelming feeling of fear and a "we have to get out of here now" urgency. Again she tried waking me. She checked to make sure I was breathing (which obviously I was), but could not get me to wake up. The black mass was still over me. She was starting to feel like something was going to happen...it kept building up and building up. She turned to get some of her stuff together and when she turned back, I was sitting up...like nothing happened. I looked over at her and was like "What? What's wrong?" She said that she thought she heard something, that was all. It wasn't until a couple of years later, that she told me this story.
As I became more and more into paranormal investigating, I realized this could have been some form of a shadow person. I heard a couple of other people tell their stories of being "paralyzed" with a black mass over them, the overwhelming feeling of something bad was about to happen and then it just goes away. Although I didn't actually experience this while awake, it still scares me. I don't scare easily and I'm pretty fearless when it comes to investigating. But knowing that something took control of me like that when I couldn't do anything to stop it,that really frightens me.
That was our last trip to Salem and we're planning to go back in 2011. I had a couple of other experiences there, but nothing extraordinary like that. I guess the moral of this story...if you get a feeling about a place, don't ignore it!
