When I was about 4 years old we were living in an old house. I have very few memories of the house, but one memory has stuck with me vividly for 30 years. I was laying in bed and looking out the window across the street. All of the sudden a black shadow that looked like a man appeared and said in a very malevolent, dark, deep voice “do you believe in ghosts little girl?”. I started screaming and my mother came into the room and dismissed it as a bad dream. I insisted that it was a shadow talking to me and she tried to explain that the lights from the business across the street probably shot a shadow of a man into my room, which never made any sense to me because I was on the second floor. We moved not too long after the incident and I always remember as a child driving past the house and saying “Look, there’s our old haunted house”. My parents finally accepted that I had seen something and years later my father told me that he believed me but was afraid as a child I couldn’t deal with the reality of it.
I’ve never doubted or second guessed the experience, never written it off to a dream or a random impossible shadow from across the street. Recently my friend was deployed to Afghanistan and he sent me numerous pictures from the field. I was looking at them when one stopped me in my tracks. There is obviously a shadow of someone or something to the right of the helicopter. I emailed him about it and he had no idea what I was talking about. The next day he called me and was speechless and shocked.
I guess always assumed what I saw as a child was a ghost, and after seeing ANOTHER example of what I experienced as a child show up in a random picture from overseas I had to look into it more on the internet.
Now to see so many other people here talking, I wonder if it wasn’t the hat man I saw as a child? Has anyone else experienced him talking or communicating with you?
Thanks in advance.
— Ang