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the hat man i saw him the hat man once

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when i was around five years old

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1970 i was spending the night at my

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grandparents

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this is the first time my story is going

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public i'm 53 years old now

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okay i always slept with my grandma in

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her room

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my grandpa was in the next room all of a

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sudden i see a tall man with a cowboy

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hat on like in westerns

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it was really dark in the room put the

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person was darker than the night

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it was a tall figure remember i was

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around five

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it stood next to the bed where my

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grandma was at i thought it was my

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grandpa

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these are my exact words i spoke that

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night grandpa

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i see you i see your head my grandpa

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wore a cowboy hat and he was tall

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but this man said nothing he just stood

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there

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then my grandma said who are you talking

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to i said

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grandpa he's right there by you she said

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there's no one there

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i said yes there is it's papa

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so she reaches under the bed and grabs

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the flashlight and turns it on

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it's not there anymore she could not see

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it as soon as she turned flashlight off

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there it was

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now i'm scared i grabbed the flashlight

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and pointed it at the man

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it was gone my grandma took flashlight

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away from me and said

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go to sleep and there he was again she

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could not see it

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it then slowly i mean very slowly

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started moving

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not walking but moving without taking

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steps going around the bed to my side

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which was where our heads were not my

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feet the foot of the bed was against the

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wall

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at least 10 or 20 minutes had passed i

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couldn't tell the time then

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but now that's what i figured and i put

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my head under the covers

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i was saying grandma turned the light on

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it's coming over to my side

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all i could do was put the blanket over

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my head i don't know how long i stayed

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awake that night but i did fall asleep

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and when i woke up it was almost

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daylight still dark

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but light enough to see the wallpaper on

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the wall i turned to look at grandma

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she's not in the bed she was cooking

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breakfast for my grandpa and making his

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lunch

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i was alone and terrified the door to

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the kitchen was closed and then you

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won't believe what happened

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our

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in my dorm it's funny how time works i

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saw something strange 20 years ago which

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i didn't even know was strange until

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recently

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i was listening to a podcast which

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rekindled a long forgotten memory

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the particular episode was about shadow

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people mysterious dark figures which

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sometimes show up in and around people's

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homes

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i vaguely remember reading something

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about them a couple of years ago but

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they themselves didn't spark any

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memories for me

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however it was one type of shadow person

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in particular

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had man which caused me to do a double

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take while listening dot rewinding to

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the spring of 1997.

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i was a freshman at rutgers university

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in new brunswick

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my dorm room was located on the third

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floor of the rather troubleking

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it was early with the faint blue light

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of morning just beginning to seep

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through the crack between the window and

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the curtain

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it might have been the weekend because i

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recall my roommate had gone home and was

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not there that morning

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i opened my eyes and the first thing i

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noticed was a figure sitting next to my

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bed no more than three or four feet away

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the beds in the dorms were set lower to

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the ground than a typical bed would have

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so i had a clear line of sight and it's

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a sight i'll now never forget

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the figure was sitting on the floor with

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his back up against the bed

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his feet were flat on the floor with his

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knees pointing straight up

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his arms were resting on his knees

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casually and he appeared to be looking

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slightly down

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i couldn't make out the details of any

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clothing all i saw was a deep black body

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but the feature that was most dominant

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and why i'm referring to the figure as a

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could not make out a face

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mostly because the brim of the hat was

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obscuring it from the side

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i had to blink hard a couple of times to

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ensure that my eyes were clear but when

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it was still there

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my next cogent thought was that a drunk

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person had stumbled into the wrong room

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and passed out

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after all this was college the problem

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with that however

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was i always lock my door at night hello

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i sat in an aggressive tone trying to

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convey that i was clearly unhappy with a

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stranger intruding in my room

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after a second or two but what felt like

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a minute or two the figure slowly faded

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the spot where he was sitting visibly

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lightning as he did

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at the time it was weird because before

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that i had never had a groggy dream like

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vision which i knew some people had when

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they woke up in the morning or in the

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middle of the night

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20 years later and i still have not had

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any drowsy visions

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that morning was the only time i have

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ever experienced anything like that

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even though it was a one-time occurrence

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it was obvious to me that for whatever

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reason

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my brain had indeed conjured up an early

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morning foggy illusion and i didn't

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think about it nearly at all for the

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next two decades

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but just recently more or less exactly

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20 years after that morning

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i learned about the ghostly entity known

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as hatman upon hearing the first

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description while listening to that

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podcast

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i immediately thought of the shadow-like

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figure i had seen that morning in my

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dorm room truckers

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the parallels with dozens of accounts

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were there the figure i had seen had

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that large brimmed hat was darker than

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the darkest black

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and was spotted near my bed what's the

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probability that my subconscious decided

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to create such an image 20 years before

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i even knew an almost identical being

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existed in the paranormal world

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that memory which is basically laying

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dormant for the past 20 years

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has now taken on a whole new level of

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airiness for me

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i assume that this was jeepers creepers

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but it's hatman

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i just recently started doing my

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research on this individual called

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the hat man i'm 29 i encountered this

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individual when

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i was 7 years old 2004 one hot summer

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night in palmdale california

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to be completely honest with you over

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the years even was such a traumatic

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experience at the time the memory of

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what happened has become faint

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especially at this age

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at the time a movie came out by the name

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of jeepers creepers and the night of was

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my first time seeing the movie

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and just like any other child at that

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age when i saw this individual because

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of the trench coat in blackburn hat

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i assumed that this was jeepers creepers

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himself note that there is a sequel to

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the movie where jeepers reveals his true

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self but in the first one

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the one that i'm talking about he had

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this trench coat on with this brimmed

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hat set up

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so me being a kid with the imagination

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that i had i explained to my parents

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that this person looked like jeepers

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creepers

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of course since i was only a child my

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mother told me to stop watching horror

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films but i honestly knew that this

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individual was certainly not jeepers

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creepers

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i knew he was something else for him to

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come at the time of night that he did

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and to have a malicious vibe about him

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black suit wearing hat man after hearing

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these stories i'm wondering if i made a

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mistake identifying an entity my

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daughter saw

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we'd moved to a new rural area our house

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was out in the woods

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nearby was walking trails having walked

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nature trails deep in the woods in our

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hometown

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my daughter six years old at the time

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and i were well acquainted with the

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as we began the hike my daughter started

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freaking out and trying to grab my

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camera to take a picture of the monster

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she said was further down the trail

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i let her take a few pictures one came

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out normally

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one was completely black but i don't

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know if she had covered the lens with a

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hand or hit the button before taking the

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cover off

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having had experiences like this before

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i quickly got her back to the car

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on the way home i asked her about what

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she had seen

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she described a man in a tall hat

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dressed all in black with black shiny

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shoes and a black cape

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i asked her if had any other colors on

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she placed her hand on her chest

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and said it was white right there she

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didn't point directly to her throat but

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to her chest in general

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she also said he was from the empire and

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lived in the classrooms that he spoke

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like my uncle

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my uncle is from scotland and hated

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children

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how all of this was communicated to her

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in the few moments we were on the trail

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is still beyond me i assumed the white

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was a priest scholar due to the

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proximity of an old mental asylum that

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was at one time a school ran by nuns and

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priests after the asylum closed

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i didn't see anything she wasn't the

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type to make these things up

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i had told her several times that just

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because i couldn't see something didn't

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mean it was there

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that was very important that she not

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make up stories because if there was

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something there i had to know

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so i could protect her again we had

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experienced situations where she would

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see things

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her father and i couldn't we've both

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explained several times how important it

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was she not make anything up

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also she wasn't familiar with the

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vocabulary she used

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she had asked me what few of the words

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said to her meant

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i had explained what i could in the

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context she told them to me

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para mom

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the hat man with an umbrella the story

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i'm about to tell you is a truly

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terrifying experience that is in scarred

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me

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when i was 14 years old 23 now

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i was having a very typical day i just

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got home from a long day at school

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and was relieved to be able to relax and

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play some video games

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i had set my backpack in the dining room

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and walked through the kitchen to the

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computer room

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at this time i was home alone with both

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parents working and sibling outed

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friends

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i sit down and begin to log in when i

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feel a sudden chill in the air

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it made my hair stand on end and so i

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look around suspiciously but find

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nothing

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after a few minutes of surfing the web i

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get on facebook when suddenly the

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computer chair i'm in is forcefully

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pulled back

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and then tilted back while i'm still in

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it at the angle i was that i should have

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toppled over

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but something was holding me there in

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place from the force my head whips back

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and i'm looking up when i see a shadow

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looking down at me

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at that very second i screamed and then

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the chair fell

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forward with my heart racing so fast i

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thought it would burst

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i look back to a doorway and see

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something i will never forget

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a tall man standing at about six four

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maybe six

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six staring at me he was wearing an

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all-white suit with a white top hat

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and white umbrella he was leaning on the

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umbrella like a cane in a swap kind of

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pose

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the worst part was that no matter how

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hard i looked i couldn't see his face

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the only feature i could see was his

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long blonde greasy hair

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and disinhuman stretched smile it

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reminded me of the grin of the monster

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on the disturbed album covers

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after what seems like hours he turns

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unfurls the umbrella giving me one final

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look and walks upstairs

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immediately i called my dad and told him

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what happened

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i know it was paranormal and not a

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robber because of the sinister feeling i

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had

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to pray and said he would head straight

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home to check on me

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after the day had passed tonight arrived

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i was still startled

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i don't remember when i fell asleep but

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i finally drifted off

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around 3 am i woke to a sudden freezing

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chill

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my room was small and my door overlooked

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the stairs which i always left open

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standing at the top of the stairs was

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the same sinister being

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staring and smiling he stood there for a

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while and just watched me as if

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harnessing my fear

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i was paralyzed by fear so i couldn't do

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anything

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eventually he turned and walked down the

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stairs with his umbrella

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i can still picture him walking and

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seeing the umbrella through the stair

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banister bobbing up and down as he went

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down

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he visited me three more times before we

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had a priest bless the house

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after that i never saw him again still

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brings tears to my eyes when i think too

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deeply about it

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i consider myself a very spiritual

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person because of other paranormal

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experiences i've had

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nothing as truly frightening as that i

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named him the umbrella man

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now i wonder if he was a hat man i would

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do

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almost anything to never see him again

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people tell similar stories of a hat man

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that sounds a lot like this thing

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i don't want anyone to ever have this

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experience i know he has visited other

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people

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