“The Man With Red Eyes”

I haven’t seen the “hat man” since I was a child.

There were a few encounters I remember in detail, and back then I referred to him as “the man with red eyes”. My parents thought I was having nightmares and that I was seeing things triggered by television, but I know that I was very awake.

One instance I vividly remember was when I was sleeping on the ground in our den. The house was built in a way that from the den, I could see my parents in the living room through the atrium windows, and this brought me a sense of security.

However, as I was trying to sleep, I suddenly heard the blinds from the window behind me hit the glass, back and forth. I started to panic, and although I couldn’t look behind me, I could see the reflection of the window in the glass in front. In the reflection, I saw the blinds slowly lift, and behind the window there was a man with bright, glowing red eyes. I was terrified, but I had seen him before. He was dark – completely black, like a shadow – wearing a fedora hat, in a trenchcoat of some sort, and had long hair falling around his face. He did not look human, but like deep darkness in human form, which accentuated his bright red eyes.

I locked up and froze with feelings of dread. Finally, I was able to scream, and my parents ran into the room, trying to console me and tell me it was just a bad dream – my imagination.

However, I know that it was not my imagination, and I believe from what I have read online that this entity does exist, although I am not sure exactly what it is.

— Tauni