I was around 7. Back then I was living with my grandma and mother in the same house, it was around 10PM already so mom told me to go to sleep because tomorrow I have school. I went to my room and locked it, as I usually do, then looked at my bed and sighed heavily while going towards it, got myself comfortable in it and just stared at the darkness that was in my room until my eyes got used to it, in the end I decided to take some sleep. I woke up suddenly after some hours all sweatty with my heart beating extremely fast, I didn’t know what was going on so I took a look around me, everything seemed fine, the door was still closed, the window was closed, the art books on my shelf were at their place, even the curtains didn’t move an inch. I came up to the conclusion that it was just a dream, so I calmed down and decided to go back to sleep. While turning my head to the left of my room I saw it, a tall shadow in the corner of my room which seemed like wearing a hat and simply staring at me, I didn’t feel fear at first because I didn’t realize what was going on and in the next second when I blinked the shadow was gone and only then I realized. My eyes were open wide, my body was shaking and my ears sensitivity was extremely high, I could hear every single little noise around me, yet after one hour I calmed down. I am 17 now, after 10 years I haven’t seen the shadow anymore. I never thought of it again, until now, when I see that thousands of people have also seen it, not only me.

By Alexandru Constantinescu