"Fading man" walking through my cottage
My family has a cottage in the middle of nowhere in West Virginia. We use it as a summer vacation house, and I’m starting to think it might be haunted.
It all started last summer when I had to go to the bathroom around 3 or 4 AM. When I turned on the stair light, I saw a faint shadow figure - about 6 feet tall, probably a man wearing a top hat - waving at me.
I rubbed my eyes, but he was still there, just waving. After about 10 seconds, he started walking in the opposite direction and slowly faded away like smoke or something.
That was the first sighting, but since then both I and other members of my family have seen him pretty often, and he always behaves the same way - just waving and disappearing. We started calling him “the Fading Man,” and honestly, we’ve kind of gotten used to him.
Could this be something malicious or a demonic activity?