When I was 17, I had a trying life. My parents had just kicked me out, and I’d just found out I was pregnant. The pregnancy wasn’t a real worry, because the guy I was with was already ‘the one’ (he still is at nearly 11 years later), but the issues with my parents had stress coming out of my ears.
One night I was taking a shower, and I closed my eyes to rinse the shampoo out of my hair, and when I finally opened them, there was a man standing in the shower with me. I screamed for my husband, and he ran in, found me cowering on the floor of the shower. The man couldn’t have been there for more than a few seconds, but egads I felt so overwhelmed with fright I didn’t know what to do. I had to scroll down this page even, not to post, but so I wouldn’t have to see the guy in the logo. The image is seared into my head of this dark man and his hat and coat. My imagination has probably added details since then, as in my mind he has blond hair and fair skin, but the idea on the whole remains the same.
I’ve not seen him since, and I had never seen him before that night. My husband thought I was just tired or stressed, and never believed me until I found the description for shadow people. Who knows, maybe that’s all it was, but hopefully the recounting of it for you can add a couple of stats to your project.