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Who Or What Are The Shadow People? 
By: Jeffry R. Palmer
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Shadow People, also known as
Shadow Folk, or Shadow Beings, are usually attracted to one person or
location for unknown reasons. Often they are
seen as dark silhouettes of human-shape, generally male, that prefer to
watch someone unseen and flee the moment
they are noticed. Still this doesn't always fit the experience. While
some people distinctly see a shadowy human
form others have described shapeless wispy black blobs and swirling
columns of dark smoke.

The personalities or
characteristics of shadow people range greatly from shy and skittish to
downright nasty and malevolent, with a few
witnesses describing them as the ultimate essence of pure evil.
Accounts of shadow people have been reported all
over the world. There has been an increase of reported sightings of
these creatures within the last five to ten
years, though there is anecdotal evidence of these creatures appearing
before human witnesses through out our
history.

Reports of shadow people are in many
respects different from accounts of ghosts.
Ghosts are said to be the disembodied spirits of deceased people and
are usually said to take on the appearance and
characteristics of human beings. Orbs of light, ectoplasm and glowing
mists have also been associated with ghost
sightings. None of which is common he occurrence of shadow people.
Although many accounts describe shadow beings as
having human-like form, they are generally not described as resembling
actual individuals , living or deceased. It
is unheard of in my experience that shadow people ever communicate
verbally with witnesses. Feelings of dread,
intense fear or panic and paralysis have been ascribed to the
experience of witnessing a shadow person.

The more consistent accounts of shadow
people typically describe a feeling of dread
associated with the presence of this phenomena, and animals are said to
react to the phenomena with fear and
hostility. Shadow Beings are said to move extremely fast and travel
through solid matter. They typically are said
to have no discernible features such as mouths, noses, or eyes. Their
forms are usually described as somewhat thin
or smoke-like

Direct visual contact is rarely reported
by most eye witnesses of shadow people; they
are said to usually disappear before they can be seen clearly, and are
seen "in the corner of one's eye. These
beings are said to often appear in mirrors.

There are many proposed explanations of
this phenomena. Some of these explanations
are outlined below,

One of the more creative theories is
that shadow beings are manifest thought forms,
meaning that they are collections of negative psychic energy from areas
where traumatic events have taken place and
evil people frequent. The negative psychic energy begins to manifest
and takes on form and motive, thriving on fear
and negative emotions for sustenance.

Shadow beings have also been described
as forms of ghosts, demons, inter-dimensional
beings.The most popular explanation seems to be that they are some sort
of other-dimensional beings whose dimension
of origin occasionally overlaps with ours, which is said to explain
their ethereal appearance and fleeting
nature.

As with most supernatural phenomena
there is usually a proposed logical,
scientifically valid explanation for credible experiences that neither
vilify eyewitnesses, nor require violation
of generally accepted scientific principles. Several probable rational
explanations for illusions resulting in the
believed perception of shadow beings are outlined below.
There
is a condition known as hypnoagagia (waking sleep) which amounts to a
state of semi-consciousness in which a person can be thinking clearly
and yet perceiving images that are being dreamed. This state is
probably responsible for most so-called supernatural experiences by
honest, rational people.

It has also been proven recently that
areas with erratic or powerful electromagnetic
fields can interfere with the electrical impulses or firing synapses of
the human mind, thus influencing people
subjected to such environments over time to believe that they are
hearing or seeing ghosts, aliens, or perhaps
shadow beings. Such environments include old buildings with substandard
wiring, power plants, and areas with
naturally occurring strong magnetic fields.

Perhaps the only aspect of alleged eye
witness accounts of shadow people that remains
difficult to explain in _object_ive scientific terms is the similarity of
the beings being seen in these alleged
accounts, especially the tall man with a hat that is reported as often
by 4 year old children as with
adults.
However, this could simply be a result
of common archetypes (note similarities
between many shadow people reports and the grim reaper) shared in the
subconscious of all people, just as people
all over the world report dreams of flying and falling.
Jeffry
R. Palmer © 2006

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Shadow People Stories
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Part Two
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Part Three
Shadow People Stories
Part Four
Shadow People Stories Part Five
Sleep Paralysis and
Shadow People
Shadow People Images
Type of Shadow People
Shadow People Theories


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