When I was a child, I used to see something that looked like this all the time in my basement, just thinking about it now makes my head spin with fear. For the most part, my whole family stayed out of the basement, it was in really bad condition, and well, my parents were kind of lazy. The place was a wreck, it was really damp and I think there was fungus growing down there. Me and my brother went down there to play a lot, I think I must have been around 10 at the time. Well, there was one room that always gave me bad vibes, our old laundry room. The washer had been broken for a while if I recall correctly, and it wasn’t used anymore. The room was completely walled off except for one small door, inside the aura was completely different from the rest of the house. There were always a few pieces of clothing scattered across the floor, and just looking into the room struck you with a very deep set fear. Many times when looking into that room i saw a dark figure, normally stretched across the wall so I could only catch it from the corner of my eyes without moving into the room (but I was sure it was there, it wasn’t like it was just a flash, you could stare at it, even if it was just with your peripheral vision, and it was still clear as day. A shadow darker then the rest of the room, which was already quite dark. The hat wasn’t as obvious as in most of the pictures on this site, it was a lot more drooping, although it could be because I was seeing it at an angle and it was always draped across the wall. The real creepy part was when we put light into the room though, the shadow would fade away, but it would take a few seconds to do so, you could clearly see it moving differently then the rest of the shadows in the room. Me and my brother would always call him “The Shadow Man”. Creepy stuff…
— Cuyler