I can’t remember how old I was, 10 or younger for sure. I’m 30 now. Was sleeping in my childhood room. The foot of my bed faced the door to the hallway on the 2nd floor. The door was open. My room light was off, hallway light was on. Woke up in the middle of the night . In the doorway was an outline of a man, massive, filled pretty much the entire door frame. Most notable feature that I remember was that he was wearing a fedora / cowboy type hat. Although what I saw was no dark shadow, I saw the exact opposite, only a bright, almost luminescent but opaque white outline. I remember that the object didn’t move, I felt threatened as I stared back trying to make sense of what I was seeing (can still remember my heart racing). Even though threatened that didn’t stop me from getting out of bed and running to my parents room. I specifically remember running from my bed and when I reached the doorway to my bedroom where the man was I jumped over the threshold and through the hatman outline. This has been something which I always thought could have been a real occurrence but I had always presumed that it was a dream / imagined event. Just came across this website after a Google search for “man with hat in doorway” as this is something which I end up thinking about from time to time but never thought to look up. I would’t say that I am a believer of pseudoscience. I consider myself a man of science for sure. Always try to look towards logic and reason and critically examine events but this one event I don’t know if I will ever to be able to explain.
By Roger Montgomery