From: Andrea
Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020 1:07 AM
To: The Official Shadow People Archives
Subject: It still gives me the heebie jeebies
Hello, I am Andrea. I am 44 years old and I saw a shadow person when I was around 11 or 12. This happened in Colorado USA.
I was lying in my bed asleep and woke up suddenly with a bad feeling only to look up towards my window and see a man (there was no way to know it was male but that was my perception immediately) who was pitch black and had only whites for eyes with no other discernable human features like a nose or ears. Just a pitch black silhouette of a human shaped head and shoulders, staring at me. What I could see was really only a bust of a man as if he were standing outside my window but that was impossible.
Our house was a split level and my bedroom was on the second floor. I'd say my window was at least 25 feet from the ground and without a ladder, no human being could have been standing there.
I was immediately terrified. I still get goose bumps all over if the thought of it comes to mind or if I see an image that resembles it.
At first I was too scared to do anything. I thought of asking it what it wanted but then thought I did not want to know. I could not break eye contact with it. Finally, I decided that I needed to quit acknowledging its presence and with every ounce of will I could muster, I turned my back to it which terrified me more than looking at it because it made me more vulnerable. I laid there, backed turned, for what felt like an eternity but could not have been more than a minute or two and finally worked up the courage to turn back and see if it was gone. It was.
I sat up and looked out my window immediately trying to find someone climbing down a ladder or running away from the house because it had not been long enough that someone should be able to get away without me seeing them run off. As I said, my window was at least 25 feet above ground and we had no neighbors behind us, just a wide open field home to lots of prairie dogs. There was no one anywhere in sight. No ladder, no nothing.
When I tell people about it, they always say "it was a nightmare/dream". It was not a dream. I was wide awake, startled out of sleep by a very bad feeling. My heart was beating so fast and hard you’d think I'd been pushing boulders up a hill. The only nightmare I can recall ever having was of a giant spider sitting on my face. That was it, I dreamed of the spider and I woke up. My dad let me watch the Shining when I was 7 and I grew up on horror flicks, I don’t have nightmares.
To this day I do not like to sleep with my bed by a window, but I have. When I have, I will not look out the window at night from my bed.
