When I was 8 years old, I was alone in my dad’s house in Mexico. It was daytime, and I was playing upstairs in the house by myself looking for toys. I have to say that people have always claimed that it was haunted to begin with. I have had other supernatural experiences there, along with other people. This time, however, was different.
I vividly remember leaving my room to go find toys in the main hallway. I was feeling uneasy, and when I suddenly looked to my right he was there! The Hat Man was close to my face, overshadowing me. It was looking right at me, sort of hunched over on top of me almost. From what I remember, he almost looked like a detective with big red eyes, a fedora hat, and a trench coat. I immediately got scared and began to pray, and when I opened my eyes again he was gone.
Just to be clear, this happened during the day and I was definitely not sleeping beforehand. Besides, a cousin of mine has claimed to have seen him in the same place I saw it when he was a child too (he said this to my mom way before I even knew). My uncle has also claimed to have seen it in childhood (the early 1980s I think), awakening in the middle of the night paralyzed with fear, more than once.