I was 14 when I saw what I dubbed as the Umbrella Man. I had just gotten home from school and was the only one there. My parents were working and my sister was at a friend’s house. I decided I was going to get on the computer and get on facebook. I remember feeling like I was being watched but at the time chalked it up as being overly stimulated from school.
Shortly after I sat down my chair was forcefully pulled back. I was shocked and screamed. i thought someone had broken in. I remember I could feel a presence behind me and something press down on my chair before it was ripped back. When I turned around there was the giant of a man standing behind me at the bottom of the stairwell. He had a white tophat, white trench coat, and white umbrella. His face was dark and I coulnd’t make out any details. To me it was like someone had turned the opacity all the way down on his face and there was just darkness. I was paralyzed and couldn’t move.
It then just casually walked upstairs and disappeared. When I came out of my shock I was very shaken. I called my dad crying. I told him what had happened and i think he thought I was dreaming or dozed off. He said he would be home in a couple of hours and would check on me. I had, what started a long bout of sleep paralysis after this event. I would wake up usually around 3 AM and would see this same thing standing at the top of the stairs in my doorway for the next few days. Each time it or HE would be there standing and just watching me. On a couple of occasions, he would walk downstairs or down the hallway out of view. In one instance He just sat at the foot of my bed.
A sense of fear and dread would always come with these experiences. This was in 2009 and I had never heard of anything like this. I didn’t even watch scary movies because I was such a chicken. It eventually stopped. Jump forward to 2016 when I was 21 I started having sleep paralysis again. This time it lasted for 3-4 months straight almost every night except I started seeing a withered haggard woman. I have since taught myself to wake from these instances and haven’t had one in years. N
ow in my mid 20’s I have started searching for answers and was a little shocked to hear about so many people having very similar experiences. My brother and his fiance claimed to see a Shadow man with a top hat / wide-brimmed hat and trench coat when they stayed in my room for a couple of nights. I later learned of this when I was older. My mom has seen something similar but won’t talk about it. The only thing she has said was that she has seen a shadow man. Since I moved out my dad has moved into the room has had some weird things happen to him and it only occurs in the middle of the night.