Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 1

Part 1

(After beginning this article, I realized it is to broad of a topic to limit to one page. So there will be many parts in order to bring you all the information that I can find. If you have had an experience you wish to share with me, theories or concerns, feel free to contact me through my web site where you can reach me directly through my page there CONTACT ME . If you would like your story to be included in one of the articles, I will do so as well as keep your name private in order to protect your identity.)

This is one of the greatest phenomena’s concerning our Paranormal perplexities. If you Google Shadow People or Beings you will find endless stories written from a personal perspective, some information highly doused with theory (since that’s all we have) and a flustered guild of those who are at their wits end.

We discover those who are fearful, those who are merely curious, those who are fascinated and those who simply want answers. What we discover may not be scientifically proven but something tells me that this is merely a minor set back. This mystery does have the scientific community interested as well as those who investigate and study the Paranormal.

So what are Shadow People, Spiders and Beings?

We all know what spirits or ghosts are so I suppose we can place them in that category except, there is no proof that these beings are dead, repetitive echoes, a haunting or formless. They appear void at times if not strangely solid. One of the most common sightings has been the figure of a man or someone in a cloak. Sometimes they are seen wearing a hat or hooded sweat shirt. Whatever they are wearing, they lack color. As if you are staring into an actual person who is nothing more than solid smoke or even slightly transparent at times. The strange thing is, you can catch outlines concerning their face or clothes. It’s hard to think that anything which appears to be solid or merely bleak can have any sort of outline about it. But people have reported that at times they can make out their features clearly as well as the smaller details of their clothes. Some reports claim they have glowing eyes, mostly red. Some reports claim that they act unaware of them, as if passing from one room to the next while others claim these beings have had their attention directly on them. Many reports claim that the energy or feeling in the room changed to something fearsome. Other reports claim that the person witnessing this act was attacked or paralyzed.

Now before we fix our minds on a notion of fear—let’s reserve that until later because I have some theories of my own.

When do these sightings happen?

I call it the Twilight but a more technical word is Hypnagogia. Basically, it is known as a sleep paralysis which has the attention of many doctors and scientists who are studying it. The easiest way to describe it is, you go to bed, close your eyes, go to sleep.  Only you do not go to sleep nor are you fully awake. You are stuck somewhere in between the state of sleep and the state of being awake. Now do not confuse this with sleep walking. That is NOT what it is. People who experience this are completely aware of everything that is going on around them. They can sit up in bed, walk through their house, pet a dog or see their wife or husband sleeping beside them. They can talk and interact even though their minds are not fully awake. So what is so different during this time that they seem to think they are partly asleep? Good question.

Even though they can interact with their normal environments, not everything is the same. It is as though they are lingering between two worlds. Their subconscious mind is in equal balance with their conscious mind. Meaning, they are open to whatever may come, eyes open beyond the veil but their conscious minds do not have the draw backs to jerk them out of it or to prevent them from seeing, experiencing and interacting with whatever may be. This is when people experience the Shadow Beings, Spiders or other types of Other Worldly phenomena. It is NOT the only time, but this is a common one as well as a wide spreading one.

Now it should be known that Science and Doctors have their own explanations of this but NOTHING is for certain simply because they are pretty much clueless as to what Hypnagogia is and what these people are really discovering during this phase. The experts are blaming it on sleeping positions, among other things, saying that if someone sleeps on their back and so on that this is what causes it.

Now it should be noted that I did say above that this phenomena is becoming widely spread. That doesn’t mean that it did not exist before. I think because of the internet and the loss of fear in speaking about these things has made it possible for others to realize that they are not alone.  It should also be mentioned that Shadow beings have been reported since Ancient times but we will get more into that later.

A direct quote from Wikipedia concerning Hypnagogia:

Early references to hypnagogia are to be found in the writings of Aristotle, Iamblichus, Cardano, Simon Forman and Swedenborg.^[11] Romanticism brought a renewed interest in the subjective experience of the edges of sleep.^[12] In more recent centuries, many authors have referred to the state; Edgar Allan Poe, for example, wrote of the ‘fancies’ he experienced “only when I am on the brink of sleep, with the consciousness that I am so.

So you see it is not new by any means, only our awareness of it since we still seem to be in the Dark Ages concerning anything other than what is socially accepted. Being taught not to believe in such things or that it is against some sort of religion has really blind sided us I think.  Let it be also known that during Hypnagogia or what I call ‘Twilight’, Shadow people or beings are not the only thing experienced. Many people claim that they have got up from their beds, walked out the door to new or past worlds. Some have experienced or revisited past lives or countries. One woman I read about, reported standing by her bedroom window, waving to people who were passing by outside her home. They stood there waving at her while she waved back at them. At some point she woke up, finding herself standing there waving only the people she remembered in every detail were no longer present. Other people report having long conversations with deceased relatives who are possibly standing by their bed or sitting in the same room with them. Some people claim that they are visited by those who are not dead. They have absolutely no idea what they are, but they do know death did not bring them to their bedrooms.

Now even though Twilight is not the only time this happens, this is one of the biggest reports of the Shadow Beings that people claim to experience. Possibly because our minds are so open and we can see beyond the Veil—my theory.

Some people say that they are attacked. That this black mass or presence paralyzes them so that they can not move or even scream. Others claim that they are not attacked but wake up finding these beings standing over them, simply watching which may be how they came to be called, ‘The Watchers’. One woman I know claims to have woken up, been fully awake while a young man in a hooded sweat shirt swept through her room and went out the window. Now she did not think that he jumped but simply  leaped through his doorway, to where ever he came from. This woman has had this happen quite a few times, same boy, same details only she was not experiencing Twilight during any of those times. In fact, she told me she had never experienced Twilight.

So you see Twilight is not the only time you can experience this. Many reports say that they were standing in their kitchen (or somewhere), felt the energy or feeling of the room change, caught something in the corner of their eye, turned around quickly and the Shadow Being was standing there, watching them.

Shadow Spiders

People claim to be sleeping or rather Twilight, watching these HUGE spiders of abnormal size crawl around their beds, glide down over their heads from webs and so on. At times they see smaller ones but it is usually the bigger ones that cause them the greatest shock and fright. It is usually scary enough to snap them out of the Twilight completely, where the spiders are then gone. There hasn’t been to many people offering them any enlightenment concerning this. In fact, I was shocked that on these forums that I researched, to find that quite a few people who rattled away concerning their belief in the Shadow People in other threads, literally make fun of the people who were seeking answers concerning the spiders. Unfortunately I can not give anyone any hard crusted evidence here but I can explain a situation shared with me by a life long friend who has experienced the spiders for years as well as the Twilight. In the end, draw your own conclusions.

My friend who I will call Carry has experienced Twilight, Shadow beings and the Spiders for years. It started off with the Shadow Beings and for the past three years or so, spiders. In fact her experiences are so interesting, I thought I would save it for the part 2 of this article. That’s not to torment you…simply to give her some due since to me, she has come a long way concerning this phenomena. Now with that being said, I am also unsure of how many parts there will be concerning this article. There is a lot of information, even some concerning other Dimensions, to cover and since it seems so scattered and scarce, I thought it would be nice to put it all in one place. We still have to deal with people’s fears of being attacked, of the unknown and of the Twilight itself. Or the uncomfortable horrors of being watched and so on. I think though in closing the first article up, I will focus on Carry being the center of Part two because honestly, I think her experiences will shed light and possibly another view point concerning all of this. She has known the fear, the uncomfortable situations and has moved passed that to discover something quite different. So, until then…

Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 1

Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 2

Shadow People, Shadow Beings, Shadow Spiders & Other Worlds Part 3

Shadow People, Shadow Spiders, Shadow Beings & Other Worlds Part 4

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