Has anyone ever experienced the "Hat Man"? A Dark Shadowy Image of a Man who Appears while you sleep?

Yes...we've all seen him...he's slender man's uncle...

I watched that again last week with my Mrs.

There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science].

Last Edited by Louis in Richmond on 03/06/2020 10:24 AM

Ahh damn homie my mind playing tricks on me

- Geto Boys

Yes, when I was a kid. He would walk by my window, stop as if to briefly show he knew I was in there and keep walking by. Not sure if it was a derby or fedora hat but he had it and a trench coat.

It's Tom Landry.

I had one of the shadow man experiences when I took too much cough syrup with Dextromethorphan... I woke up to the walls melting and the shadow man standing over me.

My daughter has..I remember her telling me about him. I will have to have her check out this thread.

Were you sleeping, awake, or somewhere in between?

When my wife and I were first married, she swears she saw a 'black figure standing over our bed looking down on us'. He was wearing a ball-cap, though, not a fedora or a top hat-not sure it makes any difference. This was back in the early '90's and she still talks about it and I don't doubt what she saw.

When I was 53 years old, I was in the Kitchen Talking to my wife, Staring out into the back yard, A Larger Man Figure was walking through my garden, Blacker then Black and darker then Dark, I couldnt believe what I was seeing so I closed my eyes and shook my head and looked again, he was still there but gained ground where he was walking with large steps.. I walked away from my wife without talking and sat down shaking, She asked whats wrong and it took me a little bit and I said You wont believe what I just seen... I later called a Priest in to bless the house and the yard... This was 5 years ago and I havnt seen him again, But I did see something as crazy last summer..

I saw a dark figure of a man once with glowing eyes.

I was only 16 at the time and was sleeping with my boyfriends house at the time. I woke to something scratching my feet, I was half asleep when I tried to kick my feet and the scratch got harder. I jumped up in bed wide awake after about 10 minutes of this. A dark black figure, really tall and muscular build but no feature just black. I scanned his body as he just stood there at the end of the bed. As I scanned from bottom up I noticed he had white huge oval shaped glowing eyes. I jumped back under the duvet and punched my boyfriend at the time. He woke up startled and told him to look. We both peered over the blanket to find him still stood there staring at me.
I looked right into the white glow of his eyes and he was communicating with me telepathically, saying to be calm and that he was no threat. I was to be activated. My whole body was shaking but I knew I was safe. We jumped back under the duvet and he disappeared. My ex boyfriend refused to sleep in there again and refused to talk about it.

I did. In broad daylight, on a busy street. It was blacker than black, I only saw an outline. At least 7 foot tall. It walked like a man. I knew I was seeing something I shouldn't see, so I went into "witness mode" trying to notice all details. Lasted 2 - 3 seconds... long enough. Went behind a truck, didn't emerge on the other side.

Full blown Hatman on a sunny day. Tall grass, shorty pine rows. Look up to the end of the pines about 20 ft away and there he is. Wide brimmed black hat, his long black cape billowing in the wind. No facial features even in full sunlight. I was so startled I backed up and tripped and tumbled onto my backside. When I looked up a second later there was a big black cow looking back at me.

I see his brother posting on GLP every damn day.

You know him as "Asshat Man"

Goddamnit! This comment shouldn't have made me laugh, but for some reason....it did. Is that what you guys call the GLP Effect?

I have not, but my wife told me she saw this character in a dream exactly discribed as your hatman...which freaks me out

The "Hat man" as you call him, also referred to as the gray man or tall man. He is usually accompanied by the "old hag" during sleep paralysis or other similar events. He is usually motionless along the wall, or tends to teleport to other spots around your room when you take your gaze off of him. He is a watcher that tends to the near astral plane. This middle plane is where the old hag and him tend to observe people prior to OBE's. Ive never had them touch me, only observe.

O' Live A we refer to him as the Observer:

yes, as a child in the mid 70s. woke up in the middle of the night n saw him standing in the living room, just a solid black figure of a man wearing a hat,pretty much identical to the man in the video, was almost paralyzed with fear,too afraid too scream,pulled the cover up over my head n eventually went back to sleep, never mentioned it to anyone until I was in my teens n no one believed me

Ok that's crazy man and coming from a solid, honest Joe like you I have to take that as legit.

Have you experienced these entities in different locations, or just your particular house as they pertain to you?

The year was 1973, I was ten years old. I had a babysitter this night and she sent me to bed early at around 8:30 and I did not want to go to bed yet as it was still light out and it was not even dark in my room yet.

I got into bed and had just closed my eyes for just a second and when I reopened them there he was in great detail not shadowy just as though a real person standing at the end of my bed just staring straight at me.

I quickly blinked my eyes a couple of times but he was still there and it was then that I started screaming hysterically. As I was screaming he slowly dissipated right before my eyes. The babysitter came running in and she did not believe me as I was a rambunctious boy and was well prone to throwing antics so as to not have to go to bed early. I told her and then argued with her and then pleaded with her to no avail to let me sleep somewhere else but she would have none of it, she did not believe me and she made me stay in the room. I was absolutely terrified !

The man I saw was wearing a black wide brimmed flat topped cowboy type hat and his coat was a black rain slicker western style coat. He looked like he just walked off the set of some cowboy western movie. He also looked as though he had been in the rain for a bit. I saw his face, he had a very stern look with black piercing eyes and a close cut black beard.

There was absolutely no sleep paralysis involved. I was wide awake and totally cognizant. The whole ordeal from the time I got into bed and seeing him dissipating before my eyes was less than a minute.

I have experienced just about every paranormal type of experience one could possibly have and many of them have included witnesses, including - Sleep paralysis with a mantis creature. UFO's, Close encounters. Men in black, Angels, Demons etc.

I know what I saw.

Why do you think he was there? you feel like somebody important in the future?

It's only just recently that I have considered the possibility that who I was seeing was actually myself now that I am older and have grown a beard I kind of resemble the man that I saw, although I do not wear western garb. Maybe I was just visiting myself from some other lifetime ?

Share your experience from last summer please!

Yes ! I was house sitting this unit, and whilst there, every night, I was paralyzed with fear and would see a dark shadow at the end of my bed. I ended up sleeping in the living room and couldn't wait to get out of that place.

Lumberg, every place I have lived is the most haunted place one can imagine. Some of us are beacons and the light within draws them to us. That isn't a statement that I am better than anyone, it is simply the world some of us live in. We are visible to the dead, the never human, and they come to us and we interact with them.

Sometimes it frightens even us what we can see.

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