#“The Man in Black”

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split marsh
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I’m sure as kids we’ve all had our fair share of paranormal occurrences. Kids say and see spooky things all the time, but this experience will always take the cake for me and I’m actually interested to hear if anyone else has any stories of “The Man in Black”.

My little brother is two years younger than me and around the age of 6-8 and even later he would start having episodes over a figure he would see. Often times he would just freeze up and give off a thousand yard stare before screaming and crying about a “Man in Black”. He always describes him the same way, a tall shadowy all black figure appearing to wear an all black top hat and a black suit/trench coat. No actual specific features (like facial features) for him were ever made out although it was certain it was a person. “The Man in Black” would only ever stand and stare but was concerning enough to make my brother cry for upwards of an hour sometimes.

I’ve only ever had one incident with what I could assume to be this entity during a sleep paralysis I had as I got older. I laid in bed unable to move and just stared at this shadow person wearing a top hat staring back at me from the corner.

My senior year of high school is when I met my girlfriend and at one point I exchanged this story with her and she told me she experienced the same exact thing as a kid. I don’t know exact specifics but she would see this entity in her doorway at night and even said she called him the EXACT same thing as my brother did. “The Man in Black”. She would also become hysterical over these sightings and would seek her parents.

Recently she came to stay with me at college and her, my roommate, and my roommate’s girlfriend were watching Mr. Ballen and exchanging scary stories when this got brought up again. My roommate also said that he saw this exact same man growing up.

Is this a universal experience? If so does anyone else have any stories of The Man in Black?

solemn thistle
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Ive had a similar experience to the one you had where I was having sleep paralysis and I saw something in the corner of my room staring at me, not sure If it was the same thing because I couldn't really get a good look at it

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Have you ever had any other experience like this? Or was it just once that happened because I find that im often having sleep paralyzes

split marsh
solemn thistle
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Im not sure what it is causing mine

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do you remember what it felt like during your paralysis?

split marsh
woven wren
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I’ve heard the same about sleeping on your side and trying to get solid hours of sleep so you don’t get overly tired! I’ve never had sleep paralysis but I’ve had the same horrible dream several times while staying at a family members house! It was always the same nightmare and depicted the road and people, houses, surrounding things so it made it so real! I’ve never forgotten that nightmare and was beyond terrified of having it so after it occurred 4 or 5 separate times I stopped wanting to stay over which was very hurtful to the family member since we was so close

solemn thistle
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like could you feel the presence

split marsh
solemn thistle
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yes I can feel a shift in the room, I can barely see the thing out of the corner of my eye, but I can just feel the thing looking at me and I just can feel it there

split marsh
solemn thistle
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no I can tell when I dream and when im awake there is a distinct feeling of it for me

split marsh
solemn thistle
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yeah im definitely awake

ornate smelt
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This is not the same thing but i want to share it. Ever since I could remember I have had this reoccurring dream but it is always in a different perspective. I'm either looking through my own eyes or watching myself. This dark entity emerges from nothing and watches me. He is very tall. Long nails. Very skinny to the point his spine and ribes are very visible. Always hunched over. It was only until a few years ago that he wasn't just in my dreams anymore I could see him everywhere. I'm going to tell a few stories of me seeing him.

One morning I stayed home from school because I was sick. My mom's room was right across from mine and she always left the door open. I opened my door to go get something to eat and it was standing over her. Holding her face while she slept. It looked over really fast and took off heading towards me and vanished right when it got to my face. I almost peed myself. I ran back into my room and closed the door. As you can imagine I kept glancing all around the room out of fear. A few minutes went by and my heart started to calm down. Then, I heard in my mothers voice with an angry depth to it calling my name from the kitchen on the other side ov our home. It was so distorted I was so freaked out. I cracked my door open and yelled out "yes mom" and she never replied. I opened the door all the way and she was still sleeping.

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I had moved into my now fiance home when I was 16 right after the first occurrence happened with that thing. I slept in his sister's bedroom with my own bed. I have insomnia so most nights I would lay in bed in the dark until my body would finally let me sleep. I followed the same ritual I always do that night. I laid in bed staring at the ceiling. A car headlight went through the window and I saw it in the corner staring at me. It's back hunched from being so tall with its head against the ceiling, letting its arms almost drag along the floor. At this point I was so used to seeing it that I ignored it. I fell asleep. Sometime during the night I stopped breathing. I had woken up to it with its large hands around my kneck. It was staring directly in my eyes. I finally got a scream out for help. I was bawling my eyes out too. My scream woke my fiance sister up but it left before she could turn the light on.

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I am still living with my fiance and I just had gotten back from running away from a kidnapper. I decided the only way I could get away from my problems for a minute was by smoking some Mary. My body took a negative effect to the Mary and I could barely move. My entire body kept twitching and was very stiff. We did not want his mom finding out so he left me in an ally way in his car while him and his friend ran inside to get stuff for me. The ally was dark there was only one light at the very end. I started sobering up from the Marijuana at this point and my muscles started to relax. I could finally lift my head up. When I lifted my head up I looked out the windshield. He was standing behind the light pole looking directly at me. Only this time was he MUCH taller. He was almost the size of the pole. He began moving very fast towards the car. I closed my eyes and stared crying. I would have gotten out of the car but I couldn't walk without someone assisting me. I finally opened my eyes and he was right in front of the car smiling. I said out loud you are not welcomed around me. And my fiance and his friends came back. My fiance asked why u was crying but I was so out of it I could not explain until the next day. Nobody believes me when I tell them these stories. They think I'm psychotic.

I have not seen him as often as I was before. When I do see him he is only lurking far away.

light tide
ornate smelt
distant flame
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I used to see this "man in black " several times when I was a child. But strangely it was never when I was alone, and only when I was around a bunch of other kids. Like, at a sleepover, at camp or on school trips. There was always at least one other kid that saw it too... It was like it only appeared when there was a group of children without any adults present. Now I believe we were just scaring each other...But I do find it odd that to this day children still mention seeing this man in black.

heavy gale
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I did a ouija years ago out of curiosity to see if it would work, the only strange thing to happen was the tv turning on by itself. That same night when I went sleep I woke up about 3am to see a shadow figure stood at the bottom of my bed so I tried to shout for help but within seconds it grabbed my ankle and dragged me out the room as I was grabbing onto anything I could to escape it dragged me down the stairs and out the back door all I could think in that moment was it’s over for me this is it and I closed my eyes in complete fear and suddenly woke back up to a pain in the same place I was grabbed. Fast forward to 2020 in a new place I seen it again but this time it was at the bottom of my stairs staring up at me so I threw stuff at it and eventually woke up again, both times I shrugged it off as nightmares even tho it felt surreal I had to. Last time I seen it was about a week ago from today but this time I wasn’t dreaming I was wide awake my right eye kept going pitch black at night but I could still see the illumination of the moon through the window out my left eye and this happened a couple of nights in a row, it was bugging me one night, so I stood up to try see out the right eye moving my head around the room lifting my eyelids as wide as possible still seeing pure black and as I went to turn head round to the right of me I seen a shadow figure about 7ft tall vanish just as quick as I seen it, the vision in my right eye instantly came back and since then it’s happened again once or twice but I don’t show it fear I believe that’s what it feeds off.

split marsh
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