At first you may think that this account was just a dream but please read the story in it’s entirety before you reach any conclusions.
I am currently a 41 year old woman who has had many encounters with shadow beings but only one with a hat. I have had many run ins with what look like the little star wars creatures with red glowing eyes and some with human like beings without hats. For the last 1 1/2 years I have been having a cat like shadow creature show up now and again. Anyway, on with the hat guy story.
This happened when I was 22 years old and in the Army. We were camped out in the woods in Georgia and I had one other girl staying in the tent with me. We went to sleep in our cots and I immediately began to have what I thought was a dream. In said dream I large shadow man with a fedora like hat was crouched over me choking me. He looked right at me and said; “I’m going to (bleeping) kill you.” His eyes were black and I could not see through him but when I went to punch him my hands went through him. I was terrified so I screamed the most blood curdling scream of my life. That didn’t work so I screamed again thereby waking myself up. When I woke my tent mate was on the floor in her sleeping bag wiggling around and I began to laugh. The guys from the next tent had rushed over to see what the matter was and we stayed up for several hours telling ghost stories. I only told them that a ghost like figure had tried to choke me in my sleep and it was very real. When they left my tent mate asked me why I thought she had been on the floor when I woke up. What she then revealed to me is that she saw it standing over me in the tent. She said it stood about 8 feet tall and had a hat. When I screamed the first time she woke up but could not move anything but her eyes. On the second scream it disappeared and because she had been attempting to move she rolled right off her cot. She said it had looked at her and had black holes for eyes. I can remember the way this guy looked like it was yesterday.
As far as what I was going through at the time well, I was the only female in my platoon and many of the guys thought that women should not be in the Army. They did everything in their power to make my life a living hell. I would go to my room and cry myself to sleep most nights after they had badgered me all day but I never let them know that they got to me at all. That is a whole other story but it would not be inaccurate to say that they were beyond abusive. The interesting thing is that after that night, I became more accepted by most. Somehow the stories brought us closer together.
— KG