Shadow People

From: E. Castellanos (jaycie23@hotmail.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Texas
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Sat Sep 22 01:55:48 2007

Like every other story on this site, I have to begin by declaring my sanity.. With that done, here's how this story began.

I was always the hard headed, have to learn it the hard way type of person so when it came to these kinds of matters I just said, untill I see it then I'll believe it. I never disbelieved someone if they had some kind of experiance, but my mind would always think logically right away going over every scenario in my head. It was subtle at first. Around 9 or 10 at night, while at home, my pregant wife was taking a shower upstairs and I was down in the living room with a puppy we had just been given. I heard him in another room and I guess I had shut him in, because he was whining to get out. As I opened the door, he stood in front of me and stared past me. He then did something he had never done before, he growled, but not at me. As he did this a gust of wind blew out of that room, past me and seemed to head for the front door. I felt a sensation that I could not explain but every hair on my back stood straight up. It wasn't fear that I felt but a feeling of disbelieve that this would have happened to me and in my home. I calmly went up stairs to check on my wife in the shower. I walk in and asked if she was fine. With a puzzled look she said yes. I didnt fill her in on what had happened that night unitll a couple of months later.

Months past and I didnt know it untill later but around that time I started to catch a sudden dark blur every now and then, though the corner of my eye. Not having 20/20 vision my logic was that my eyes were in worse shape then i had ever imagined and left it at that.

Three years later we were in another city and I was working late in the night in the kitchen on my computer, and took a break off the screen and i looked up towards the dark living room. We had just vaccumed and I had left the couch in the middle of the room. Well as i looked up I saw the silhouette of a girl peek up from behind the couch. I wasnt expecting that and immiedietly put my eyes back on my screen. I felt that weird feeling that I couldnt describe begin. Not wanting to have the doubt in my mind I forced myself to take a second look, thinking that my eyes were playing tricks on me and it couldnt happen twice.

As I forced my eyes off my screen and toward the couch, the silhouette of a woman raised again so that i could "see" her head and torso. My wife and son were in bed, but I "logiclly" thought my wife was playing a trick on me. It kinda resembled my wifes figure and hair.(well the outline of her hair) so i called out to her to quick playing. I walked up to the couch and thought I would surprize her before she could do it again. As i walked to the couch it rose up again and thinking it was my wife i asked why she was awake and that she had just freaked me out.

As i approached it i was expecting to see her face as i got closer, but the closer i got i realized that i its face was still dark like a shadow but fuller. I could not believe what i was seeing and i approached it almost touched it but as i reached for it, it vapored away into the floor in a black mist that covered the tile. I walked back the table and turned on the living room light, to talk a look around. i now knew that i had seen what i had seen and i didnt want to be scared of it so i turned the light back off. as i did it rose up from behind the couch. I simply told it then that i wasnt the blame for its current state and that it wasnt my fault and that i was not afraid of it. with that it started to fly all over the room so fast that it looked like the walls were covered in blurs. i looked in shock telling myself that i was really seeing this. I had to reasurre myself because it was something so different that it felt like a dream. like only that could happen in some kind of dream. it flew over the walls so much that i began to feel mad because i felt it was trying to scare me. but something inside told me to just look down and ignore it. as i did this it flew towards the shutters and extended itself across the window and wall, but now it was a different shape. i still had the girl image in my head and thought that it look like a it had raised its dress outwards but now that i think about it it could have been wings that it extended. well it presented itself bigger now on the window kind of belittling me.

I was fed up by now because it was going on for a while and i was about to ask it what it wanted with me. before i could say anything a voice inside said "dont address it because you dont know what your dealing with." I stared at the floor and it started flying all over the room again. i ignored it and felt a sudden calmness because it wasnt attacking me but i feel trying to itimidate me. knowing that it wasnt scaring me any longer it made a sudden dash past the kitchen and headed towards my sons room which really caught me attention. i angrily told it that he was off limits. it flew past the kitchen again but headed towards my room where my wife was sleeping. then it stopped right before the door. this time it was the shape of a lizard but with a pointed beck. ( all these shapes always looked like misty shadows but fuller, shiloutes of real things)it turned to look at me, even though it had now facial features i felt like it was smirking at me. It attempted to enter my room but stopped. for some reason i felt like it couldnt harm us so i just stared at the groud as it flew around the room for some time. I dont really know in what time lenght all this happened but, as i ignored it it the figure flying across the room seem to die away unitll i looked up and didnt see it any longer.

this was about 1 year ago, but as i told this story and pictured that night i felt chills run down my body. i havent seen any thing like that since and i dont ask to see before i believe. if anyone has any info on what i just told you, i'd like to hear it.