1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,600 Shanaway figures appear in the night, 2 00:00:03,700 --> 00:00:06,440 terrifying all who encounter them. 3 00:00:06,540 --> 00:00:09,380 I don't even know how to describe that level of fear, 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,780 because it was this big, hulking, black mask. 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:14,820 They paralyzed their prey. 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,760 It was like being chained to the bottom of the ocean. 7 00:00:18,860 --> 00:00:19,820 You can't move. 8 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,360 You can't breathe. 9 00:00:21,460 --> 00:00:25,360 And according to some, they are not only frightening, 10 00:00:25,460 --> 00:00:26,900 but deadly. 11 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:33,940 They explained it as these shadow entities were killing them. 12 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:37,480 Could dark entities known as the shadow people 13 00:00:37,580 --> 00:00:41,180 be more than just a product of the imagination? 14 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,520 Are their beings coming to Earth from other worlds 15 00:00:44,620 --> 00:00:47,820 or other dimensions with malicious intentions 16 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,820 or the human race? 17 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:51,300 It seems menacing. 18 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,160 It seems from another place. 19 00:00:54,180 --> 00:00:56,160 It's a mystery, but it's a mystery 20 00:00:56,260 --> 00:00:58,360 that a lot of people are encountering. 21 00:01:01,660 --> 00:01:06,240 There is a doorway in the universe. 22 00:01:06,340 --> 00:01:10,500 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 23 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,380 It demands we question everything 24 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,780 we have ever been taught. 25 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:19,180 The evidence is all around us. 26 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,560 The future is right before our eyes. 27 00:01:24,180 --> 00:01:26,860 We are not alone. 28 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:29,220 We have never been alone. 29 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:44,680 Vientiane Laus, December 2, 1975. 30 00:01:44,780 --> 00:01:48,280 In the wake of the Vietnam War, the Hmong people, 31 00:01:48,380 --> 00:01:50,920 a group of indigenous Laotians, are 32 00:01:51,020 --> 00:01:54,060 forced to flee their country as the Communist Party 33 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,660 seizes political control. 34 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:58,860 Thousands of displaced Hmong people 35 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,100 immigrate to the United States. 36 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,260 But as they become settled in their new communities, 37 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:09,540 they face an unexpected and much more mysterious threat. 38 00:02:09,640 --> 00:02:14,840 There was a very strange rash of deaths of Hmong men 39 00:02:14,940 --> 00:02:17,340 who suddenly died in their sleep. 40 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,720 And medical technicians could find no reason 41 00:02:20,820 --> 00:02:23,720 for these strange deaths. 42 00:02:23,780 --> 00:02:27,180 If you look at the statistics, suddenly, 43 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,380 when the Hmong people arrived in the United States, 44 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,180 their death rates skyed. 45 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:33,620 Why? 46 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,320 Nobody knows why, because they didn't have any symptoms. 47 00:02:36,420 --> 00:02:38,260 They just died. 48 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,200 After numerous inconclusive autopsies, 49 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:45,260 mystified doctors were unable to find a cause of death, 50 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:49,340 but gave the phenomenon a name, sudden, unexpected, 51 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,140 nocturnal death syndrome. 52 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,640 All but one of the 117 men who died were in good health, 53 00:02:56,740 --> 00:02:59,940 with a median age of 33. 54 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,380 So while some doctors now speculate 55 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,340 that the deaths might be explained 56 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,620 by an obscure genetic cardiac arrhythmia, 57 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:12,160 the Hmong believe there is another explanation. 58 00:03:12,260 --> 00:03:16,560 Modern medical science could not explain these deaths. 59 00:03:16,660 --> 00:03:18,160 But among the Hmong, they knew it 60 00:03:18,260 --> 00:03:19,600 was because they couldn't practice 61 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:21,960 their original religion. 62 00:03:21,980 --> 00:03:25,160 In Laos, there is a belief that there are night spirits 63 00:03:25,260 --> 00:03:26,460 that are dangerous. 64 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,260 But if you have done your rituals, your prayers, 65 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,120 your ceremonies, and have your ceremonial objects near your bed, 66 00:03:31,220 --> 00:03:32,160 you're fine. 67 00:03:32,260 --> 00:03:34,560 It's all under control when you're in Laos. 68 00:03:34,660 --> 00:03:36,360 But when you're brought to another country 69 00:03:36,460 --> 00:03:38,160 and you're working odd shifts and things, 70 00:03:38,260 --> 00:03:40,240 maybe your rituals get a little off. 71 00:03:40,340 --> 00:03:41,540 So you're in trouble. 72 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,900 And the night spirits get you and you die, 73 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,040 which is just so strange. 74 00:03:45,140 --> 00:03:46,640 I mean, these are night spirits. 75 00:03:46,740 --> 00:03:48,040 They're that superstition. 76 00:03:48,140 --> 00:03:48,740 But they die. 77 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,280 The deaths are real. 78 00:03:51,340 --> 00:03:54,640 These shadowy night spirits are known by the Hmong people 79 00:03:54,740 --> 00:03:59,440 as Cho Chua and are often described as pressure demons. 80 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:02,380 That is, demons that exert pressure 81 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,580 by sitting on their victims' chests 82 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,280 until they can no longer breathe. 83 00:04:07,380 --> 00:04:09,860 The Hmong people talked about some of the symptoms 84 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,560 they experienced, not just nightmares, 85 00:04:12,660 --> 00:04:18,600 but visions and a terrible pressure on their bodies 86 00:04:18,660 --> 00:04:22,120 because their ancestral spirits were no longer protecting them. 87 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:27,860 Among themselves explained it as these shadow entities 88 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:32,200 were killing and punishing them for not having done 89 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:34,800 their rituals correctly. 90 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:36,740 The reason why we know that they believe 91 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:40,040 they were dying from this is because medical experts, 92 00:04:40,140 --> 00:04:42,080 researchers, talked with the family members, 93 00:04:42,180 --> 00:04:44,580 and that's what they said. 94 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,420 The Hmong people's description of their interaction 95 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,420 with the pressure demons known as Cho Chua 96 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,720 bears a striking resemblance to what ancient astronaut theorists 97 00:04:53,820 --> 00:04:58,480 describe as mysterious entities called shadow people. 98 00:04:58,580 --> 00:05:01,220 An extraordinary experience has been reported by thousands 99 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,620 of people worldwide. 100 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:04,620 They're asleep. 101 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,160 Suddenly, they wake up, and there's 102 00:05:06,260 --> 00:05:09,760 this dark, humanoid figure that's opaque. 103 00:05:09,860 --> 00:05:12,460 It appears to be made of some ethereal substance 104 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,700 that reflects no light. 105 00:05:15,780 --> 00:05:19,440 Shadow entities can be a lot of different things, 106 00:05:19,540 --> 00:05:22,800 but in general, what we see with these shadow entities 107 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:26,540 are some common traits, such as no facial features. 108 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,640 Everything is black and dark in nature. 109 00:05:28,740 --> 00:05:29,820 Some may be very solid. 110 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,180 Some may be very translucent, but we're not 111 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:34,420 getting any detail. 112 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,520 Due to their shadowy nature, experiencers 113 00:05:37,620 --> 00:05:42,660 have difficulty making sense of just what these entities are. 114 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:46,160 But for most, the encounters are terrifyingly real. 115 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:56,860 Los Angeles, California, February 2011. 116 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,960 On a quiet night, journalist Paul Christensen 117 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:04,000 is asleep in bed, when suddenly he's jolted awake 118 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:07,840 by a jarring physical sensation. 119 00:06:07,940 --> 00:06:11,740 It was like being chained to the bottom of the ocean. 120 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:12,700 You can't move. 121 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,440 You can't breathe. 122 00:06:14,540 --> 00:06:17,240 You open your eyes, and there is a presence in the room 123 00:06:17,340 --> 00:06:18,700 with you. 124 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,100 You can't make out who it is, what it is. 125 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:27,780 It looks like just a dark entity. 126 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,320 The air behind them, I don't know how to describe this. 127 00:06:30,420 --> 00:06:31,880 It's kind of fuzzy. 128 00:06:31,980 --> 00:06:34,920 It's kind of moving. 129 00:06:35,020 --> 00:06:39,760 And then I was just trying to make something move or come out 130 00:06:39,860 --> 00:06:40,860 of me. 131 00:06:40,980 --> 00:06:43,660 And it ended in just the most blood-curdling scream 132 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,120 that I could get out of my mouth. 133 00:06:47,220 --> 00:06:49,660 And as soon as I screamed, my girlfriend that was laying next 134 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,660 to me woke up, and I turned the light on. 135 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,440 And it was on. 136 00:06:56,540 --> 00:06:59,880 Paul is uncertain how long the encounter lasted, 137 00:06:59,980 --> 00:07:02,040 but it was only the first of several 138 00:07:02,140 --> 00:07:05,880 that would take place over the next five years. 139 00:07:05,980 --> 00:07:10,120 Each left him paralyzed with fear. 140 00:07:10,180 --> 00:07:11,440 At the time these were happening, 141 00:07:11,540 --> 00:07:14,520 I was frightened for my life. 142 00:07:14,620 --> 00:07:18,020 Part of me feels like there is some kind of demonic presence 143 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:19,420 around them. 144 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,460 I've never felt that they were there for good intentions. 145 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:28,060 It's always come with a heavy feeling of darkness, 146 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,040 that they were there for something 147 00:07:30,140 --> 00:07:33,040 other than anything good. 148 00:07:33,140 --> 00:07:35,840 While Paul's encounters with shadowy beings 149 00:07:35,940 --> 00:07:38,840 have left him frightened and desperate for answers, 150 00:07:38,860 --> 00:07:42,140 his experience is not unique. 151 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:47,100 In 2001, author Heidi Hollis released the secret war 152 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,340 in which she shared her own startling experiences 153 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,740 with entities she called shadow people. 154 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,180 I don't even know how to describe that level of fear 155 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:02,180 because it was absolutely hulking over me. 156 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,160 And this started my whole journey 157 00:08:04,260 --> 00:08:06,460 into the topic of shadow people. 158 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,420 I'm a person that's not afraid to say, 159 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,120 I've experienced something. 160 00:08:11,220 --> 00:08:12,520 I'm like, bring it out into the light 161 00:08:12,620 --> 00:08:15,120 and let's talk about it. 162 00:08:15,220 --> 00:08:18,360 From the start, when I finally got the book published 163 00:08:18,460 --> 00:08:22,900 in 2001, thousands of people from around the world, 164 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,940 from priests to school teachers, have written me seeking help. 165 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:29,740 So my goal is to try to help people 166 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,740 and to understand that you can keep these things at bay. 167 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,960 According to Heidi's research, collecting and studying 168 00:08:37,060 --> 00:08:39,800 people's encounters, these dark entities 169 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:43,500 can appear as various shapes and figures. 170 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:48,840 The experiences that I receive often involve a person waking up. 171 00:08:48,940 --> 00:08:52,240 They feel a presence in the room. 172 00:08:52,340 --> 00:08:56,780 And if they spot it, the thing comes even closer 173 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:01,020 and pins them down, and they're paralyzed. 174 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,620 They often come at nighttime because your guard is down. 175 00:09:03,620 --> 00:09:05,620 So they're taking advantage of you 176 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,000 when you're not at your best. 177 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:10,700 So they're sneaky, they're deceptive, 178 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:16,540 and they evoke a lot of horrific things into people's lives. 179 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,540 The dark humanoid appearance of shadow beings 180 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:24,180 has caused some to identify them as apparitions or ghosts. 181 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,280 But many researchers believe the shadow people 182 00:09:27,380 --> 00:09:30,980 are a much different type of entity. 183 00:09:30,980 --> 00:09:34,580 A ghost is a human spirit that is taking 184 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:36,880 some sort of caporial form. 185 00:09:36,980 --> 00:09:40,280 With a ghost, we get a lot of detail in the apparition. 186 00:09:40,380 --> 00:09:41,780 We can see facial features. 187 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:42,880 We can see clothing. 188 00:09:42,980 --> 00:09:46,720 We can see details in the hair, where with shadow entities, 189 00:09:46,820 --> 00:09:49,760 we get almost nothing. 190 00:09:49,860 --> 00:09:52,060 While many psychologists continue 191 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,600 to dismiss the phenomenon as a symptom of sleep paralysis, 192 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:00,300 researchers point out that people have reported encounters 193 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,200 that happened when they were wide awake. 194 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:05,960 In my own personal experience with the shadow people, 195 00:10:06,060 --> 00:10:08,800 I was getting ready to go to sleep, sitting up in bed. 196 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:12,100 And all of a sudden, this black humanoid figure 197 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,280 enters into the room, walks across the room, 198 00:10:15,380 --> 00:10:18,380 I follow it and watch it, and it just vanishes. 199 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,480 I didn't experience any fear. 200 00:10:20,580 --> 00:10:23,620 I was totally perplexed by what I've seen and thought, wow, 201 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,580 what was that? 202 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:29,020 Believe it or not, the first shadow people experience 203 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,280 that I had was witnessing it following 204 00:10:31,380 --> 00:10:33,320 another friend of mine in broad daylight. 205 00:10:33,420 --> 00:10:37,520 And I saw this entity, this big, hulking, black mass. 206 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:40,120 It kind of looks like a man with its head directly connected 207 00:10:40,220 --> 00:10:44,020 to its shoulders, going tree to tree and bush to bush 208 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,100 as we're walking along. 209 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,260 And I was just beside myself. 210 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,040 The whole way that we go, we see this thing. 211 00:10:51,140 --> 00:10:53,000 I really thought, you know, I just 212 00:10:53,100 --> 00:10:56,100 witnessed one crazy thing, and that was it. 213 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,820 I trust myself, and I know what it is I experienced, 214 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,460 and I know what was going on. 215 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:04,600 If the so-called shadow people are not merely 216 00:11:04,700 --> 00:11:09,600 a trick of the mind, but very real and possibly dangerous 217 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:13,080 entities, what exactly are they? 218 00:11:13,180 --> 00:11:15,180 Perhaps further clues can be found 219 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,940 by examining similar accounts that were recorded 220 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:20,680 thousands of years ago. 221 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,600 Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma. 222 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:32,100 This nearly 7 million acre territory 223 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,540 is home to native people who have occupied North America 224 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,800 for more than 4,000 years. 225 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:42,180 The Choctaw continue to carry on the centuries-old traditions 226 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,780 of their ancestors to this day. 227 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,920 And one story that continues to loom large 228 00:11:49,020 --> 00:11:53,520 is that of the Nalusa Chito, which the Choctaw described 229 00:11:53,540 --> 00:11:56,180 as a shadow being. 230 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:02,280 This Nalusa Chito is a demonic entity. 231 00:12:02,380 --> 00:12:06,820 And the Choctaw believe that if you're having bad thoughts, 232 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:11,220 that this will attract the Nalusa Chito to you. 233 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,160 The Nalusa Chito would get you by creeping inside you 234 00:12:15,260 --> 00:12:17,460 and eating your soul. 235 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:20,540 The Choctaw were so afraid of this creature, 236 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,400 they would not say the name. 237 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,860 And many people would move along and abandon huts and things 238 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:32,460 because of the fear of this shadow figure. 239 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:35,940 We see the shadow people in the stories 240 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:41,240 of other Native American people on Native American reservations, 241 00:12:41,340 --> 00:12:44,440 particularly the Hickory Apache Reservation in Dulce, New 242 00:12:44,540 --> 00:12:45,740 Mexico. 243 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,020 They talk about the shadow people 244 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,080 as if they are their regular companions. 245 00:12:51,140 --> 00:12:53,640 The legend is this. 246 00:12:53,740 --> 00:12:58,440 If a shadow person who's really a spirit sees you 247 00:12:58,540 --> 00:13:01,940 and that shadow people attaches itself to you, 248 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:06,380 it will be with you for the rest of your life. 249 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,920 The traditions of these Native American tribes 250 00:13:09,020 --> 00:13:11,780 originated centuries ago. 251 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,560 And as ancient astronaut theorists point out, 252 00:13:14,660 --> 00:13:17,860 accounts of shadowy entities can be found in the legends 253 00:13:17,940 --> 00:13:21,240 of ancient cultures all around the world. 254 00:13:21,340 --> 00:13:24,980 While there are stories of shadow people in modern times, 255 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,980 what I find interesting is there are also references 256 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:33,780 to what seem to be shadow people in ancient texts. 257 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,780 And frankly, they're very strange accounts. 258 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,220 Shadow beings go far back into antiquity all the way back 259 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:43,420 to the time of ancient Sumer, where in that culture, 260 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:48,320 you see accounts of Alu, which is a type of Udug, 261 00:13:48,420 --> 00:13:51,320 which in their culture was the type of demon. 262 00:13:51,420 --> 00:13:54,320 Now, Alu, in the way that he would appear to people, 263 00:13:54,420 --> 00:13:56,820 it was very much like our shadow entities of today, 264 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:58,860 where he was very dark in nature. 265 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,500 He had no facial features, no eyes, no nose, no mouth. 266 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,200 And he would hover over people at night. 267 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:08,440 Of course, there are many accounts of demons 268 00:14:08,540 --> 00:14:11,840 in the scriptures, the Christian Bible, Natalmud. 269 00:14:11,860 --> 00:14:14,760 In Jewish lore, there is the shadow of death, 270 00:14:14,860 --> 00:14:16,340 or the death shadow. 271 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,740 There is this idea that there are malevolent spirits 272 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:21,940 that could harm you. 273 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,340 Commonly compared with the shadow people 274 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:30,280 is an entity known in Islam as the jinn, supernatural creatures 275 00:14:30,380 --> 00:14:34,320 that are often invisible and have the ability to shape shift. 276 00:14:34,420 --> 00:14:39,960 The derivation of jinn comes from an Arabic root, JNN, 277 00:14:40,020 --> 00:14:44,460 which literally means to hide or to conceal. 278 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,260 The jinn are created of smokeless fire. 279 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,560 Our English word, genie, you know, 280 00:14:50,660 --> 00:14:53,060 the mythical spirit that lives inside of a lamp 281 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:55,900 comes from the word jinn. 282 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,940 The jinn are considered more trickster in nature. 283 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,040 They have some interesting abilities, 284 00:15:01,140 --> 00:15:05,280 such as they can instantly transport from one place 285 00:15:05,380 --> 00:15:06,680 to another. 286 00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:10,800 They also seem to appear very dark and shadowy in nature. 287 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:13,880 They were these big looming type of characters 288 00:15:13,980 --> 00:15:16,340 when they enter the room. 289 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:20,480 As a Muslim, I believe the jinn to be real. 290 00:15:20,580 --> 00:15:22,920 Jinn can be angelic. 291 00:15:23,020 --> 00:15:25,420 They can be demonic. 292 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,120 And so this idea is that you have to be careful with them, 293 00:15:29,220 --> 00:15:31,360 because they are these powerful figures. 294 00:15:31,460 --> 00:15:34,460 They are these literally supernatural figures. 295 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,720 And so across the Muslim world in the present day, 296 00:15:37,820 --> 00:15:39,820 particularly in places like North Africa, 297 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,320 you may wear an amulet. 298 00:15:41,420 --> 00:15:43,820 You may have things to ward off the jinn. 299 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,160 You may have, you know, certain things that you do 300 00:15:46,260 --> 00:15:50,360 to protect you from the jinn, because the idea is that the jinn, 301 00:15:50,460 --> 00:15:53,400 when they're in their demonic capacity, 302 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:56,600 will do things that can be harmful or tormenting 303 00:15:56,700 --> 00:15:57,940 to human beings. 304 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,540 What I find fascinating is that you have a myriad of cultures 305 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,640 from all over the world that have very, very similar beliefs 306 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:05,860 about these shadow entities. 307 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,700 Now, they may call it something different, 308 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:12,040 but you see in Turkey, the caribbean, the dark presser, 309 00:16:12,140 --> 00:16:16,680 as a very, very similar entity as to the canna 310 00:16:16,780 --> 00:16:21,120 de voro in Fiji, as to the pisadira in Brazil. 311 00:16:21,220 --> 00:16:24,320 They're all talking about the same type of being, 312 00:16:24,420 --> 00:16:25,780 the same type of entity. 313 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,820 And it calls into question, how are these beings visiting 314 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,360 all of these different cultures from all over the world 315 00:16:32,380 --> 00:16:36,080 since they did not have any contact with each other? 316 00:16:36,180 --> 00:16:38,660 Historically, since the beginning of time, 317 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:43,200 we have had creature stories of strange beings, 318 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:45,500 shadows of the boogeyman. 319 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,000 And they somehow echo some of the reports 320 00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:51,340 that we're hearing today that are somewhat similar. 321 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,180 I don't think they've ever gone away. 322 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,380 They're still here on the planet. 323 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,520 Have separate cultures around the world and throughout history 324 00:17:00,580 --> 00:17:03,980 been haunted by the same dark figures? 325 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:08,580 And if so, just what kind of entities are they? 326 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,620 Perhaps further clues can be found 327 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,660 by examining eyewitness accounts of strange energy 328 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,600 when face to face with shadow people. 329 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,100 Virginia City, Nevada. 330 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,240 October 28, 2016. 331 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:32,860 Researcher Michelle LaBaron and a group of colleagues 332 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,140 are investigating reports of a shadow-like entity 333 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:40,340 at a historic saloon called the Washoe Club. 334 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,420 She and another woman ventured into one particular room. 335 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:50,520 And between her and her friend, this large shadow looned up. 336 00:17:50,620 --> 00:17:55,420 She described it as about 6'5", 6'6", in height. 337 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:57,860 But again, very, very dark in nature. 338 00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:59,880 So there was no detail. 339 00:17:59,980 --> 00:18:03,220 At one point, she thought it had completely engulfed 340 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:04,620 her friend. 341 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,900 And they ended up screaming and running out of the room. 342 00:18:10,660 --> 00:18:13,560 Now, this woman, a few minutes later, 343 00:18:13,660 --> 00:18:16,940 after they collected themselves, walked back over to the hall. 344 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:21,340 And there stood, again, this very tall, dark shadow. 345 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:23,780 But it started doing something very unusual. 346 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,440 There was this pulsating energy that 347 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:29,560 was emanating forth from it, like a whoop, whoop, whoop. 348 00:18:29,660 --> 00:18:33,600 And she could hear it as well as feel it. 349 00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:38,980 In many cases, people feel a certain energy projecting out 350 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:40,840 from these beings. 351 00:18:40,940 --> 00:18:43,380 And in this particular woman's case, 352 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:46,220 it was this pulsating type energy. 353 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,520 With other people, it may be more constant. 354 00:18:49,620 --> 00:18:52,120 So people are experiencing different types of energy 355 00:18:52,220 --> 00:18:55,920 from these beings, but with each of them, energy nonetheless. 356 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:00,880 I have interviewed people who have encountered shadow beings, 357 00:19:00,980 --> 00:19:05,280 and they've heard what sounded like electricity buzzing. 358 00:19:05,380 --> 00:19:08,220 And the sound would disappear when the shadow people left 359 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:09,620 the room. 360 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,320 There was another woman I interviewed 361 00:19:11,420 --> 00:19:14,200 who saw a flash of light out in her hallway. 362 00:19:14,300 --> 00:19:17,600 And all of a sudden, this shadow man ran into her room, 363 00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:21,800 jumped on top of her, and pressed her down into the bed. 364 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:23,540 And the shadow man jumped back off, 365 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:25,460 ran back out into the hallway, and she 366 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,560 saw another flash of light. 367 00:19:27,660 --> 00:19:29,540 The next morning when she woke up, 368 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,240 she noticed that all the electronics in that room 369 00:19:33,340 --> 00:19:34,940 had been absolutely fried. 370 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,080 And she had to call the fire department for them 371 00:19:37,180 --> 00:19:40,620 to come and inspect everything. 372 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,260 In addition to hearing and feeling surges of energy, 373 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:47,260 witnesses often report another curious detail 374 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:51,960 about the shadow people, the appearance of glowing eyes. 375 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:57,060 A lot of the shadow people have no facial features whatsoever, 376 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:58,320 just blackness. 377 00:19:58,420 --> 00:20:00,520 But some do have glowing eyes. 378 00:20:00,620 --> 00:20:04,000 And in particular, it's the one with the red glowing eyes 379 00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:06,340 that appear to be the most malevolent. 380 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,440 When it comes to shadow beings with eyes, especially 381 00:20:10,540 --> 00:20:15,040 blazing red eyes, people also experience 382 00:20:15,140 --> 00:20:17,880 a fear that is deeper than just, 383 00:20:17,980 --> 00:20:19,420 there's an entity in my room. 384 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,880 And they feel that these entities are up to nefarious means. 385 00:20:23,980 --> 00:20:26,280 So many reports of shadow encounters 386 00:20:26,380 --> 00:20:30,120 are associated with pulsating energy, glowing eyes, 387 00:20:30,220 --> 00:20:33,820 and electronic disturbances that researchers wonder 388 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,620 if some shadow entities might actually be 389 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,000 misunderstood technology. 390 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:43,540 It's often discussed that powerful alien technology can 391 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,500 influence human electronics and technology. 392 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:47,900 And this is definitely something that 393 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,960 is reported with the shadow people experiences. 394 00:20:52,060 --> 00:20:55,360 There's also an interesting idea in which these extraterrestrials 395 00:20:55,460 --> 00:20:58,540 may be using some sort of cloaking device 396 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,700 to hide themselves from our view. 397 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,340 But since they may not quite understand 398 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:08,080 the physiology of our eyes, it comes off more of like a shadow. 399 00:21:08,180 --> 00:21:10,980 So what we may be seeing is an imperfect type 400 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,380 of alien technology. 401 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,920 I've interviewed two different people who 402 00:21:16,380 --> 00:21:19,020 have described to me what sounds like it could be 403 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:21,420 some sort of cloaking technology. 404 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:27,620 One person in particular said that he saw a cloak open 405 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,460 and saw beyond the disguise. 406 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:35,000 And what he saw, he said, was reptilian scales. 407 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:38,600 I spoke with someone else who saw something similar 408 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:41,300 but described the skin as more like slick, 409 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,300 like a frogs but gray. 410 00:21:44,300 --> 00:21:48,460 Could it be that we're not talking about shadow people 411 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:53,660 but some type of a technology that appeared like a shadow? 412 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:57,140 And it may be, you know, sometime a technology did not work. 413 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,700 It would reveal that person underneath the cloak 414 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,240 or underneath the device. 415 00:22:01,340 --> 00:22:05,480 And so they would be seen for maybe a fraction of a second. 416 00:22:05,580 --> 00:22:08,380 For ancient astronaut theorists, the notion 417 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,520 that the shadow people might be some form 418 00:22:10,580 --> 00:22:14,920 of misunderstood technology is an intriguing possibility. 419 00:22:15,020 --> 00:22:18,280 But what many consider an absolute certainty 420 00:22:18,380 --> 00:22:22,320 is their connection to extraterrestrials. 421 00:22:22,420 --> 00:22:25,420 As evidence, they point to the many accounts 422 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:31,400 linking the shadow people phenomenon and alien abduction. 423 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:33,400 There are a lot of common denominators 424 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:36,400 with people who experience shadow figures 425 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:38,900 and those who are abducted. 426 00:22:39,220 --> 00:22:41,060 You wake up in the middle of the night. 427 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:42,860 You are taken by surprise. 428 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,760 You are paralyzed. 429 00:22:44,860 --> 00:22:45,900 You cannot move. 430 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,360 You cannot speak. 431 00:22:47,460 --> 00:22:49,260 You are helpless. 432 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:53,300 You feel that this entity has taken over you. 433 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,500 It is projecting some sort of energy 434 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,340 that you cannot control. 435 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,940 In my professional experience as an investigative reporter, 436 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,180 talking with maybe about 3,000 people in the abduction 437 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,000 syndrome over about four decades, 438 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:15,440 one of the common experiences that you will hear from abductees 439 00:23:15,540 --> 00:23:19,720 is that they feel paralyzed in the presence of something 440 00:23:19,820 --> 00:23:23,680 in their room, usually an entity. 441 00:23:23,780 --> 00:23:27,380 A few call them shadow people. 442 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:33,260 In March of 1991, in my mail, I received an envelope 443 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:36,700 that contained illustrations and an audio cassette 444 00:23:36,820 --> 00:23:41,420 and a letter from a woman who lived in Porterville, California. 445 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,560 And part of the story was her encounter with shadow people. 446 00:23:45,660 --> 00:23:48,860 And I would like to read a little bit about what she wrote. 447 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,020 I was in bed asleep when something woke me up. 448 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:57,600 The room was filled this time with an orange glow, 449 00:23:57,700 --> 00:24:01,020 and at the center of the room was a hole out of which 450 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:04,920 two well-formed, seemingly three-dimensional, 451 00:24:04,940 --> 00:24:07,540 solid shadow people were stepping. 452 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:12,140 The two shadow men grabbed me and pulled me toward the hole. 453 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,580 That is the last I remember. 454 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,280 And later, I realized that the little guy, the gray guy 455 00:24:18,380 --> 00:24:22,040 that I call the creep, was standing off to the right, 456 00:24:22,140 --> 00:24:24,780 watching my reaction to the whole thing. 457 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:28,040 He also seemed to be in charge of what was happening. 458 00:24:28,660 --> 00:24:34,400 Could the accounts of alleged alien abductees 459 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:36,500 reveal that reports of shadow people 460 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:41,000 are, in fact, extraterrestrial encounters? 461 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:43,540 Perhaps further clues can be found 462 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:48,000 by examining a shadowy being often encountered by UFO 463 00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:52,200 witnesses, an entity known as the Hat Man. 464 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,200 Shadow people witnesses often describe the entities they 465 00:24:56,300 --> 00:24:59,860 encounter as appearing vaguely humanoid with no discernible 466 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:01,160 features. 467 00:25:01,260 --> 00:25:06,200 But in some accounts, they take a curiously recognizable form. 468 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:09,200 One of the most mysterious types of shadow entities 469 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:13,200 is what people refer to as the Hat Man. 470 00:25:13,300 --> 00:25:16,900 This type of entity may be wearing a fedora type hat 471 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,200 with a black hat. 472 00:25:18,260 --> 00:25:21,600 This type of entity may be wearing a fedora type hat 473 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:23,800 with an accompanying trench coat. 474 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:26,200 It may be a top hat with or without the cape. 475 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:29,300 And we don't see a lot of detail with the Hat Man. 476 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,600 We see that vague outline. 477 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:36,600 The Hat Man appears just like any other shadow being. 478 00:25:36,700 --> 00:25:37,600 There's no definition. 479 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:42,000 You can't see a nose, a chin, the eyes. 480 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:44,400 You see the outline of a fedora. 481 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:47,600 Many times, people report these hat wearing entities 482 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,900 coming into their bedrooms at night, 483 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,300 sometimes flanked by two humanoid type of shadow entities. 484 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:59,200 And they strike fear into the person they're lying in bed. 485 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:03,600 And like an energy vampire, feed off of that fear. 486 00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:07,000 There's confusion out there between different entities, 487 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:10,200 something I once called Hat Man Shadow. 488 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:12,400 He is not a shadow person. 489 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:15,400 He can take on different forms, yes, 490 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,600 as far as being able to blend into a shadow. 491 00:26:18,700 --> 00:26:21,200 But he could step out and he could be very solid. 492 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:24,400 So he's a very different type of entity. 493 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:28,100 But people think he directs the shadow people. 494 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:33,500 So shadow people are essentially minions to Hat Man. 495 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,300 Could reports of the so-called Hat Man shed new light 496 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,900 on the shadow people phenomenon? 497 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,100 Perhaps further clues can be found 498 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:45,600 by examining one of the very first reported encounters 499 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:47,400 with these dark entities. 500 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:55,600 Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1953. 501 00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:59,900 Albert K. Bender, the nation's top UFO investigator, 502 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,200 receives a threatening visit that will bring his research 503 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:06,800 to an abrupt and premature halt. 504 00:27:06,900 --> 00:27:09,400 Albert K. Bender founded the International Flying Saucer 505 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:10,500 Bureau. 506 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:13,400 It was during the big UFO flap of 1952 507 00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:16,100 when flying saucers were witnessed over Washington, D.C. 508 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,300 and many other areas around the world. 509 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:23,300 And this organization blew up big within that first year. 510 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,800 However, just a year later, 511 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:29,400 he suddenly ended the International Flying Saucer Bureau 512 00:27:29,500 --> 00:27:31,800 and people wondered why. 513 00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:35,000 And what happened was that he came home one night, 514 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:38,400 went into his bedroom, and suddenly these three dark, 515 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,300 shadowy figures materialized through his wall 516 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:43,500 into his bedroom. 517 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,200 They were wearing the hats and the overcoats. 518 00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:50,600 They had glowing eyes, and they smelled like sulfur. 519 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:54,500 According to Bender, the three entities communicated with him 520 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,000 through telepathy, warning him to discontinue his UFO research 521 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:02,100 and stop publishing his influential magazine, 522 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:03,700 The Space Review. 523 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:08,100 Afterwards, he became ill and didn't eat for three days. 524 00:28:08,100 --> 00:28:11,000 After this experience, Bender was repeatedly visited. 525 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:12,400 He said they gave him headaches. 526 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:14,400 They controlled him telepathically. 527 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:17,000 And he ultimately gave up his UFO researches 528 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:19,000 and stopped publishing The Space Review, 529 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:24,700 in which he documented UFO sightings throughout the world. 530 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,300 He told the people that had been subscribers 531 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,900 and he was working with. 532 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:35,700 They told me we come from a very, very far distant place 533 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,000 in this universe. 534 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,800 And we have been coming and going from your planet 535 00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:46,800 for some time, and we cannot allow you or anyone to interfere. 536 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:52,100 And in fact, we have taken many humans from this planet 537 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,300 to cover up our operations until we are done. 538 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,100 This is a very influential point in our history, 539 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,900 especially in the ufology community, 540 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,400 in which shadow entities interfered 541 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,500 and thwarted somebody's research 542 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,000 and possibly set the field back a number of years. 543 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:12,500 The visitors Albert Bender encountered 544 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,500 match descriptions of what is today known as the Hatman. 545 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:21,000 But he called them by another name, the Men in Black. 546 00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:24,700 While the Men in Black are often portrayed in pop culture 547 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,600 as government agents, many who claim to have encountered them 548 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:31,200 believe they are something other than human. 549 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,700 The Men in Black are mysterious and nefarious entities. 550 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,000 They're shadowy. 551 00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:37,500 They wear black clothing. 552 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,300 Many people believe that they're either extraterrestrials 553 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,100 or somehow they're working for extraterrestrials 554 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,100 to prevent humans from learning the truth 555 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:46,900 about extraterrestrials on Earth. 556 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,300 They talk to UFO witnesses. 557 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,100 Some people have reported they seem to not know things 558 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,800 that are common, like, you know, which end of a pin to use 559 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,700 or if they're offered something to eat or drink, 560 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,200 they don't know how to eat or drink it. 561 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:07,600 Both the Hatman and the Men in Black 562 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:09,600 are known for wearing a hat. 563 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:12,600 They both influence people telepathically. 564 00:30:12,700 --> 00:30:15,200 They both appear to be sometimes malevolent, 565 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:18,400 and they could, in fact, be the same type of a being. 566 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:21,600 There's a theory that the Hatman and the Men in Black 567 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:24,600 are actually the ringleaders of the shadow people, 568 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:27,200 and that, in fact, they direct the shadow people 569 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,600 to influence humans in particular 570 00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:34,600 to keep them from investigating UFO experiences. 571 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:38,000 There's no question that the stories of shadow people, 572 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,600 Men in Black, and other visitations 573 00:30:40,700 --> 00:30:42,600 are all mixed in together. 574 00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:44,900 Are they the same? Possibly. 575 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,600 But what I think what is really happening on this planet 576 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:50,400 is mass hysteria of real events 577 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:52,600 that are happening to real people, 578 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:55,600 and they can't understand what's going on. 579 00:30:56,100 --> 00:30:58,300 Who knows what's happening? 580 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,100 For ancient astronaut theorists, 581 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,300 the wide variety of reported shadow people encounters 582 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,100 makes finding an explanation for the phenomenon 583 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,300 all the more difficult. 584 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,700 But some researchers suggest 585 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,000 that we may come closer to the answer 586 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:16,000 by asking the question, 587 00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:18,500 where do they come from? 588 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:25,000 One of the most common 589 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,200 and most curious observations reported 590 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:29,400 by shadow people experiencers 591 00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:32,900 is that these entities are able to make physical contact 592 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,800 with them, but then often disappear 593 00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:38,900 as though they are merely holograms. 594 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,900 Generally, the shadow people will leave the room. 595 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,900 Either they will dissolve in a puff of smoke 596 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,400 or they will walk through a door, 597 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:51,900 and they may or may not be material, 598 00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:54,800 have mass, have structural form. 599 00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:56,800 And there's been talk about 600 00:31:56,900 --> 00:31:59,800 maybe they come from some other dimension. 601 00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:01,300 We take for granted 602 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,300 that we live in a three-dimensional universe. 603 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,800 The quantum theory makes higher dimensions possible. 604 00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:12,800 Think of fish living in a pond, for example. 605 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:14,800 The pond is two-dimensional. 606 00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:18,300 The fish are stuck in a two-dimensional world. 607 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,800 They cannot visualize a third dimension. 608 00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:24,800 But you could lift one of these fishes 609 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:27,800 into the third dimension and they'd be shocked. 610 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:30,300 Shocked to realize there's a whole universe 611 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,800 in the third dimension beyond their pond. 612 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:36,800 Well, we physicists, some of us, believe that 613 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:38,300 we are the fish. 614 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,800 We've spent all our life in a three-dimensional pond 615 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:43,800 thinking that that's all there is. 616 00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:47,800 But right above us, there could be higher dimensions, 617 00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:51,800 hyperspatial dimensions, up to 11. 618 00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:54,800 Theoretically, we have up to 11 dimensions. 619 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:57,800 There may be other entities and other life forms 620 00:32:57,900 --> 00:32:59,800 living within these dimensions. 621 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:01,800 Now, how would they look to us 622 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:04,800 if they crossed over those dimensions 623 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:06,800 and entered into our world? 624 00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:09,800 Well, maybe a shadow entity 625 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:11,800 is one of these interdimensional beings 626 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:14,800 that has crossed over from some other place 627 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:16,800 in space-time into our world. 628 00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:19,800 And we're seeing them as a shadow 629 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,700 because their energy and their personal resonance 630 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,700 doesn't quite adhere to the energy 631 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,700 and the resonance of our planet. 632 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,700 If shadow people exist and it's very possible that they do, 633 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,700 I think they're coming from other dimensions 634 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,700 within our universe. 635 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,700 I think there are entities that somehow leak through 636 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,700 because some of them even look disoriented. 637 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,700 Like, they don't know where they are. 638 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:51,600 Somehow, they're coming through another dimension 639 00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:55,600 in two hours and we're stuck with them. 640 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:58,600 Could it be that shadow people experiences 641 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:01,600 are witnessing entities that are capable of traveling 642 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:03,600 between dimensions? 643 00:34:03,700 --> 00:34:06,600 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 644 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:09,600 there is evidence that certain places on Earth 645 00:34:09,700 --> 00:34:11,600 act as interdimensional portals. 646 00:34:11,700 --> 00:34:15,600 We see shadow entities in these certain locations 647 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,500 around the world and which they seem to appear more often. 648 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,500 There are locations around our planet 649 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,500 where there's more of that Earth energy 650 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,500 that is rising out of the ground. 651 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,500 You know, Stonehenge, the pyramids, 652 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,500 Karnak places with that ancient energy 653 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,500 that's rising from the ground. 654 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,500 Now, an interdimensional being may be using those locations 655 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,500 to enter into our domain. 656 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,500 Some researchers believe it is also possible 657 00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:48,400 that shadow people can alter the human mind 658 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:51,400 to see into other dimensions. 659 00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:54,400 Ancient peoples believe that shadow people 660 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:58,400 have the ability to enter a person's mind 661 00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:01,400 and change that person's perception 662 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:04,400 so the person can see the spirit. 663 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:08,400 They've entered from their world into our world. 664 00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:11,400 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 665 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,400 the notion that the human mind 666 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,300 can be altered to access other dimensions 667 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,300 is supported by experiments with a powerful hallucinogen 668 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,300 called dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, 669 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:27,300 the active ingredient in ayahuasca. 670 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,300 This South American drug is traditionally used 671 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,300 throughout the Amazon to produce intense visions. 672 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,300 Between 1990 and 1995, 673 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,300 scientists at the University of New Mexico 674 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:44,200 administered DMT to 60 volunteers 675 00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:47,200 and were surprised to find that many of them 676 00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:49,200 had very similar visions, 677 00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:53,200 including encounters with strange beings. 678 00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:55,200 One of the greatest scholars 679 00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:58,200 about the effect of DMT and human beings 680 00:35:58,300 --> 00:36:00,200 and what we see in the other world 681 00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:02,200 is Terence McKenna. 682 00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:05,200 Terence McKenna explained 683 00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:08,200 that the strangest thing to him 684 00:36:08,300 --> 00:36:10,200 was those who take an ayahuasca 685 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,100 generally saw the same thing. 686 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,100 What did they see? 687 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,100 Little green people. 688 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,100 People like Terence McKenna are saying 689 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:22,100 that's the entrance to another world, another dimension. 690 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,100 And we know, he says, 691 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,100 that it has a separate existence from us 692 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:32,100 because people from all different walks of life 693 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,100 see the same thing. 694 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:38,100 These beings appear to be coming from higher or lower realms 695 00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:40,000 and entering into our physical realm, 696 00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:42,000 perhaps to demonstrate that we too 697 00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:44,000 can cross over into these realms. 698 00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:46,000 It's very important that we understand 699 00:36:46,100 --> 00:36:49,000 the nature and origins of these beings 700 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:51,000 because it could be that they are going to lead us 701 00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:53,000 to innumerable different species 702 00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:55,000 that exist in our universe, 703 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:57,000 as well as how we too can cross over 704 00:36:57,100 --> 00:36:59,000 into these other realms. 705 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:02,000 Experiments with electric stimulation of the brain 706 00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:06,000 have also caused people to have unexplainable encounters. 707 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,900 There was a study done in Sweden 708 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,900 where the scientists put electric charges 709 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,900 in certain parts of the brain 710 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,900 just to see how the subject would react to them. 711 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,900 And a young undergrad was sitting there with a notebook 712 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,900 and when they increased the voltage 713 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,900 to a certain part of her brain, 714 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,900 she started pulling away from something that wasn't there. 715 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,900 And afterwards, when she was asked by the scientist 716 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,900 to describe what was going on, 717 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:36,800 she said that she saw a shadow entity behind her 718 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:39,800 and when the voltage was at its highest, 719 00:37:39,900 --> 00:37:41,800 she said it was trying to take the notebook and pin 720 00:37:41,900 --> 00:37:43,800 out of her hands and she was jerking to keep it 721 00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:45,800 from removing them. 722 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:48,800 So is it some part of our brain 723 00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:50,800 that needs an electrical charge 724 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:53,800 or some charge from ayahuasca 725 00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:55,800 to help us see what's already there? 726 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:57,800 Very possibly. 727 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:01,800 Our shadow people witnesses encountering entities 728 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,700 from other dimensions. 729 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,700 Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest 730 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,700 there is an even more profound explanation 731 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,700 that just outside the range of human perception, 732 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,700 Earth is inhabited by a great multitude 733 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,700 of other worldly beings. 734 00:38:23,700 --> 00:38:26,700 The dark hulking figure that comes in the night 735 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,700 and paralyzes its prey remains the most common 736 00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:33,600 shadow people experience. 737 00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:36,600 But reports of these entities appearing in broad daylight 738 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:40,600 as well as other types of shadow people accounts 739 00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:43,600 make it difficult for investigators to pin down 740 00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:47,600 exactly what this phenomenon is. 741 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:50,600 When it comes to the different types of shadow entities, 742 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:53,600 their behavior to me differentiates one from the other. 743 00:38:53,700 --> 00:38:56,600 The ones that don't pay any attention to people at all, 744 00:38:56,700 --> 00:38:58,600 they could be interdimensional. 745 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,500 The ones that are spying on us could be extraterrestrial. 746 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:07,500 The ones that instill fear could be demonic entities. 747 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,500 So even though they look the same, 748 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,500 generally I don't think a lot of them are. 749 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,500 The multifactorial explanation makes a lot of sense. 750 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,500 It could explain why some of them instill fear 751 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,500 and some of them don't, 752 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,500 why some of them appear during daytime 753 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,500 and some of them only appear at nighttime. 754 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:30,400 The fact is we just don't know enough about the shadow people 755 00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:33,400 and a lot more research needs to be done. 756 00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:36,400 While answers remain elusive, 757 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:39,400 one popular new theory is that the shadow people exist 758 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:43,400 outside the limits of human perception. 759 00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:46,400 Not occupying an alternate dimension, 760 00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:51,400 but vibrating at a frequency we are not normally able to perceive. 761 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:55,400 It's a scientific fact that the human eye 762 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,300 can only see certain things. 763 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,300 For example, we cannot see the infrared light spectrum. 764 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:08,300 So you have to wonder if shadow people operate in a spectrum 765 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,300 that we humans simply cannot see. 766 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,300 And perhaps there are certain people 767 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,300 whose brains operate in a different way 768 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,300 and they're able to process more of the reality 769 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:27,200 that we currently experience. 770 00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:31,200 There are other spectrums that continue on past 771 00:40:31,300 --> 00:40:34,200 our physical brain and our physical self. 772 00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:38,200 And so why is it so difficult to imagine 773 00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:42,200 that these entities could be existing? 774 00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:47,200 That these entities exist in these other spectrum 775 00:40:47,300 --> 00:40:52,200 and tap into our spectrum at will and upon command. 776 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:57,100 I think the benefit for mankind in learning about these entities 777 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,100 I think would get a better understanding of our universe 778 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:04,100 and how everything in this universe is connected. 779 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,100 You know, eye to you, us to the planet, 780 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:12,100 the planet to the sun, to the solar system, to our galaxy. 781 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,100 Everything is interconnected. 782 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,100 We're all made of stardust. 783 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,100 And I think we'll have a better understanding of our origins 784 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,100 and where we're going in the future. 785 00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:25,000 One can argue, oh, it's just a figment of their imagination. 786 00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:30,000 But some of these people have experienced this for their entire lives. 787 00:41:30,100 --> 00:41:32,000 And I think that we need to investigate 788 00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:37,000 and listen to the people who tell us these stories. 789 00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:40,000 Is it possible that humankind shares the earth 790 00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:42,000 with other intelligent beings 791 00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:46,000 that only a select few are able to perceive? 792 00:41:46,100 --> 00:41:49,000 Perhaps the next step in humankind's evolution 793 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,900 will not involve the development of space-faring technology 794 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,900 but an expansion of consciousness, 795 00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,900 allowing us to see for the first time 796 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,900 that we truly are not alone, 797 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,900 even on our own planet.