The Shadow Man (true)
So, I have told a few people this story, and I have always wanted to share it with people who may or may not have shared the same experience so Ill just start off when the activity started. sometime in 2020.
At the time I was living with my mom and girlfriend, and I was towards the end of my senior year of highschool. It was the COVID year so my school year was cut short, therefore the specifics are kinda blurred, we were all massive pot smokers as well, at least my pals, and I.
My grandma was super into ghosts, and had always claimed that a "shadow man" lived in her house, and would tell me stories of how it helped my blind grandpa find his chew, and shit like that. My uncle who stayed there after his house burned had a totally different outlook on shadow man however, and described hearing what sounded like childrens footsteps running up, and down the halls, something I would later get a little taste of myself. As well as stories of it talking, and he even claimed to have some stuff recorded, at the time of hearing this stuff I was super young, and very skeptical.
Back to the main narrative, its sometime in 2020, my grandma was going in for open heart surgery several doctors had rejected it, because she had a 80 percent chance of survival, it was pretty intense. A couple surgeons in St Louis took on the task however, and she was on her way. Her and my grandpa were in St Louis for quite some time, and my brother was left to take care of their house, and dogs. My brother which we will call Z for this story, was already living with them so that was super easy, and worked out convenient for everyone.
A friend of mine we will call D, and I set out to see my brother in this period. We brought him a 12 pack of diet coke, and some weed. We sit in the backroom and smoked up, and enjoyed ourselves.
It should be noted my grandma lived in BFE, there was nothing in her town if you could even call it a town, she had neighbors but they where far off in different houses.
The conversation has been so long ago I dont quite remember the topics at hand, however the important part is what we heard coming from the other end of the house. Sometime while D, Z, and I were chatting it up, we started hearing this muffled yelling coming from across the house, not a large house mind you, maybe about 1500 Sq Ft. The yelling was so other worldly, its one of the main things I wish someone else has maybe experienced or could give me context on. It was a garbled mess of distressed words, inaudible but loud, almost sounded like a different langauge. I do also remember after that we started talking about shadow man, and I had reasoned with myself thinking the noise had come from outside, but I was freaked out.
D, and I visited and left, and I did not think much of it after that. Until I got home that night. While laying in bed with my girlfriend I heard the same exact noise again in my own house about 45 minutes from my grandmas, it was very late, and it freaked us both out a shit load.
After that my life got juicy for a few years.
It started off pretty light, knocks at the door at 2 3 in the morning with no one there, always three knocks universally, which I think is an odd detail.
A couple specific instances that happened in that house that stand out are.
One night me and two friends we will call C, and W were playing Clone Hero in my bedroom, and we heard a knock at the door.
I had told C that shadow man had been causing mischief, and convinced it was some BS said "nah dude thats gotta be D messing with you or something" and ran and checked the door, and of course there was no one there. He still talks about that to this day.
Another good story is, of course there was the typical "hey" and "hellos" in your ear, but more importantly, occasionally I could hear the game room TV flip on, and run, and after a few minutes it would shut off. (im getting massive shivers just writing this) I never investigated if it was the TV or some other electronic, and once again even while trying to listen in, I could never hear exactly what was being said, so who knows if it was the TV or if the ghost was just making noise, but it sounded like a TV and it was in the game room.
There was also a time when D saw my lady walking through on my webcam, and she was at work, and I know she was at work cause I had just went through her line and got back with my food when he told me that.
Also the most petrifying thing in that house was this one time, I was sitting in the game room with the door open, the floors in the bedrooms (including the game room) where carpeted however the rest of the floors where stained concrete.
Anyways im sitting on the mic with W playing some CSGO, home alone mind you, and all of a sudden I hear coming up behind me all the way from the other side of this apartment what sounded like socks sliding across the floor really fast, so fast in fact I would consider it the steps of a child. When it got to my doorway it either stopped or I could not hear it on the carpet however there was a pause in the noise once it got to my room, silence and then a human finger snapping, clear as day. This was also the first time I broke out shaking, I couldnt even tell W what had just happened I was so shaken by it, that story will live rent free in my head forever, and so will a couple more in this little story,
From there it began snapping pretty regularly, that kinda became its calling card, knocks and snaps.
Single snaps, and 3 knocks every time, this is also about the time it began keeping me up at night, I remember always blaring the TV where I could not hear it snapping or knocking, it horrified me. My mom would experience it too but she would say things like "well we have to live with it so I just ignore it" One specific time I was so scared, and she told me minutes before someone on the couch who was not there said "hello" and she let it roll off her shoulder and ignored it. My mom is a much tougher person than I am, because I ran out of that house more than once.
So anyway it began finding joy in my pain, and for several months I lived with it at that house until rent went to 900 dollars, and we decided to move.
We got a really shitty house trailer for 6 grand, and my mom had some property up near my grandmas house from her late husband so we sit it down, and had it hooked up, and in no time we where there for our first night.
Well on that first night, another unbelievably insane thing happened, just as L (my girlfriend then and still today, I will refer to as L going forward so i do not accidently type her name} and I where getting settled in the house, my brother Z was with us, and my mom was at my grandmas with her and my grandpa. L and I where walking by the front door of this old 93 single wide, I was hopeful we had left some of that bad stuff behind us, but nope. THE FRONT AND BACK DOOR SWUNG OPEN SIMULTANEOUSLY AS ALL THE BREAKERS FLIPPED. plus there was this horrific moaning sound.
not much more to that story just a good opener for the demon to make my life hell, I called my mom, and told her what happened, and I dont remember the specifics of the conversation, but Im sure she told me to flip the breakers on and ignore it, god love my mom there was not much she could do for it, and honestly her advice to ignore it is probably some of the best you can give.
Well in this house this guy got busy. The ole shadow man was on a mission and he made it clear. New behaviors began to form like, it would drop something all night repetitively it sounded like a marble hitting the floor in the back of the trailer, I never found the object but it would make a sound that would be a series of thuds on the floor that sped up and then stopped, sounded just like someone dropping a marble from a couple feet off the floor, over and over and over again all night.
It also began talking more, would say all sorts of stuff, mostly greeting words, always in whispers, always right in my ear, I also stopped sleeping great because of it, I think that was intentional on the shadow lads part!
It was horrible, there are more details, like I would get woken up at 4:30 every morning, and im sure that had some sort of significance, at this time I was also searching for help, I contacted multiple churches, but never received any relief.
Lot of odd stuff at this time as well, it threw some things at D, and he quit coming over, he would sleep in his car when he did, and gave me some accounts of stuff flying across the room at him, in the house, and in the shop building also on the property.
It enjoyed knocking on my window by my PC as well.
I know there is more at that house, cause I vividly remember it was the worst at this time. I just cant remember Im so glad im finally writing this down so I do not forget anymore of this crazy stuff!
And the last uber insane thing that happened was, several years after the surgery forementioned, my grandma did tragically pass in the hospital. My mom wanted to go home that night, she had been staying with my grandma, and I offered to stay with Z and my grandpa at their house that night.
So I remember Z and I were coming in from smoking a few bowls in the "backhouse" as they called it, it was a large single room building with a porch in the backyard. We made it to the kitchen and stopped for a drink, while standing there in the kitchen of this house, there where knocks that happened simultaneously on every wall ceiling and surface in that house, Im talking it sounded like 30 people or more knocked at the same time, all three knocks, that made me cry LOL! it was horrific! there was some more activity after this, nothing just crazy, and it kinda fizzeled out over the next couple years. Now its been like 3 years since anything has happened, and my girlfriend, and I are living at a new place, and nothings happened here, and hopefully nothing ever happens again. But hopefully my little story was enjoyable for you, and I want to clarify one more time, THIS IS TRUE! Thanks for your audience, if you have ever experienced anything similar or could give me insight into what I experienced please do, this whole thing has sparked a curiousity in me I think I will have forever!