Shadow Man

Growing up I have had several experiences seeing a shadowy figure at our house on Renville, usually in a hallway or in a doorway, both at night and during the day. The one experience that stands out the most because I wasn’t the only one to see it was when James and I shared the front bedroom on the first floor. I was around 7, I was sleeping on the bottom bunk of our bunk bed. I remember waking up and looking down the hall and seeing a “shadow man” standing in the hall just past the bathroom door. I remember hearing James screaming and running down the hall to the room at the other end where mom was sleeping. As James ran down the hall the shadow didn't disappear, James just ran right through it. It wasn’t until David came into the hall that the figure disappeared. James's account and mine differ a little James remembers the hall light being off but I remember the light being on. David says he turned the hall light on and it may have been I just remember the hall being very bright and the figure standing the the hall being very dark.

Later that night mom had me sleep on the couch in the living room. I think she was sitting with me for a while but I remember looking up and into the hall and seeing the shadow man standing in the doorway. This time I know the hall light was off but the bathroom light was on. I just pulled the covers over my head and remember repeating “go away, go away, go away...”