THE HAT MAN -PEOPLE WITNESS AND STORIES

You are wrong there is no god. There is only grossmann he has killed all humans being and he will get everyone else. He will be the last mann standing

I too had an experience with this evil entity just recently. I have been looking into alien info as of late and stumbled across the documentary called “the nightmare” that deals strongly with the hatman. I recommend it if your looking for more info on this. well that was at least four months ago when i saw it, and three nights ago I experienced it first hand. I never thought anything like that would really happen, but I tell you; it felt so real it couldn’t just be my mind playing tricks on me. I recently moved into a new dwelling with my friend and we have been having a couple issues getting along lately. It was a particularly rough night for us so i went to bed early. ive also been stressing about some other things i dont feel good about. So im having trouble sleeping lately and its early in the am. probably three im guessing, and there’s a knock on the bedroom door. Im startled and say “who is it” or “come in” when the door slowly opens and a man with a hat and black face steps through. I can tell by his nature that he is trying to frighten me and he says “hi” and then my name, as he stands at the foot of the bed. At this point im kinda freaking out. he starts walking closer to the side of my bed and i can tell he is enjoying my fear, he looks like he has something in his hand is going to assault me when i say “who the F are you man?” I kind of sit up to grab at him when he disappears and I awake from this is sleep spell. It felt as though I was awake but I was in some kind of light sleep. Its the scariest thing to ever happen to me and I’m trying to figure out how to pray or be positive so this doesn’t happen again. I’m afraid to sleep now, and have to find a way to beat this. ?

it’s funny because ive seen him while i was at my grandparents house on the computer. (i was 6) and i seen him in between the bathroom and laundry room doors. my aunty even seen him in the middle of her and her parents room. we were both wide awake. he doesn’t only come when your sleeping. and apparently he is a warning sign that something bad will happen to you or a loved one

This is exactly what happened to me. The Hat Man was a recurring nightmare I had as a kid, and I would be woken up at the top of the stairs by my mum because I was screaming trying to alert her, just like I was in my dream. I had this “dream” over and over until eventually when I was 10, I turned and walked towards it instead of running away. And I went through it and it was gone. And I never had the “dream” again. I honestly thought this was individual to me. I called him the detective because of his trench coat and hat. Cannot believe others have had this too.

@Witness
Halos aren’t actually in The Bible. They were only used for artistic representation, to make it easier for medieval artists to clearly show which character in an artwork was an angel, so they wouldn’t get mixed up with the regular people. This is extremely common knowledge.
Even if angels did have halos, then a fallen angel would have no halo at all, as it would have been taken from them. Furthermore, halos in traditional art were not metal rings, but rather orbs of light surrounding an angel’s head, which looks nothing like a hat, and if their light was taken from them, would be taken away by default, as halos are nothing but light.

I’m sorry, but your logic is very poor, and does not check out in any way, shape, or form. Please go back to Bible school.

My daughter experienced the “Hat Man” when she was about 11. Several times she ran out of her room screaming because she woke up with him staring at her while she was in bed. Our house was haunted but not by anything sinister, that I knew of. But this scared me. We finally went into her room and told whatever it was to leave, this was our house and it needed to go. She never saw him again. To see so many people experience the same thing really gives you pause.

@Melissa Much of the language of the bible is misinterpreted. Halos are real, but not as illustrated artistically. Halos are also called auras and indicated the subtle energy field moving around living beings. Many people can actually see the energy field. Some can see colors in the energy. 

I had a latent memory of a shadow figure all my life. I have questioned who he is, thinking it a demon. Several members of our family are aware of him. My son named him Helper. He would only leave temporarily and this puzzled me because I made clear commands to leave with no harm and not to come back. He even harmed my sisters. Definitely came with anger and there were anger issues in my family. I finally understand this figure now and we are sending him love and thanking him for the lessons we were able to learn from him. We release him of karma for his actions and are bringing him back, a soul retrieval, into the light. Since I have learned this, he has been calm. The darkness is lifting.

He is the law on this earth he will do anything he wishes. He made the stars he moves stars he’s made of matter.

The first time I saw the Hat Man I was the 7 years old I have seen him off and on for 19 years all he dose is point at me and tip his hat I still don’t know y he follows me and what he wants but the hat man is real.

ive been seeing this m an throughtout my entire life im really frightend that this thing can hurt me I haven’t tiold my family about this expireience but im pretty sure its ging to hurt me sooner or later im really scared because it keeps getting closer and closer every single day I don’t konow what to do I need help……someone please help me…..

I have a meeting with this thing in early oct. I have been wondering why i have been chosen for this and with my lifes history ,it has made me an angry oldman, and i have alot of pent up adrenulin waiting to come out. My nephew has had several runnins with this man and he has now beens seen with a dog. Ted eyes shaped like a rotwieler with a spear shaped tail.

The hatman is at my house now been here I kno couple months. He green in most cases. I just read that someone else thinks he could be a fallen angel. Halo is disguised by his hat. He makes idols of his self all around the house to jump on from room to room to room and so forth and so on till he covered the globe. Ther us always an eye watching u. Ancients called him Horace or Cirrus, Uncle of Ra. Check out history. Think about it. And he wears a hat. Ouroboros like entity as well.. All present with the hat man. Serpentine in nature

They say when the Hat Man visits you,there is aggression in a house hold and that some thing bad is going to happen. When this happened to me aged 9 ,my dad was hurting my mum and abusing my sister.I had night mares every day for 9 years.When we moved house, they stopped.I did not know other growing up that other people had seen the same thing.I know now that it was real.He stood in my bedroom door way.H had a trench coat and a hat with a rim around it.I could not see his face and in was gone in a split second.Iuse to wake my sister up and get in to her bed.I was a little girl and i told my sister about.I cant beleave that other people see it to.WEIRD.

This is just crazy. I had no idea until today that anyone else has had this experience. I saw his when I was 14 or 15 years old (’86 or ’87). I was asleep in the family room on the couch in the middle of the night. I was aroused from sleep because I thought I heard someone say my name. I was really tired and thought it was someone in the family so I ignored it and went back to sleep. A few seconds (minutes?) Later I heard my name again. Irritated, I opened my eyes and looked across the room. There were two chairs sitting along the opposite wall and two dark shadow-type people sitting in them. I remember thinking that the reason I couldn’t see them clearly was because I must have “sleep” in my eyes. I kept rubbing my eyes to get them to focus. I wasn’t scared at this point because I though it was my parents or something. At this point, the 2 figures stood up and started walking slowly toward me. (I am still rubbing my eyes and actually holding my eyelids open, because I thought maybe my eyes were semi-closed and I was seeing my eyelashes or something). One of them was a tall man who wore a trench coat and what I called a top hat. The other was short and round, and seemed to be a woman. Just as the tall man made a move to reach down toward my face, I realized this was not what I thought it was and I was struck with fear. I pulled the blanket over my face, every muscle in my body tightened. I tried to call out for my mom, but my voice was so shakey, I could barely get about a whisper. I stayed like that for hours until the sun peeked through the basement window and I mustered up the courage to run up the stairs to my mother’s room. My whole body was sore for a week after that. I consider myself agnostic, and am very scientifically minded, but this experience has always given me conflict. I know I heard/saw what I did. I was awake and moving. Not until I watched the nightmare documentary today on Netflix did I ever think anyone else had seen this. I did a Google search, and here I am. Creeper the heck out.

I too have seen this entity, I first saw him 9 years ago standing in the doorway I woke my husband up and asked to check the house everything was locked! I’ve seen him over the years it’s been a while since I’ve seen him! I wonder about ppl like us why do we see him are we damned, or were being marked, or what….. This entity is real trust me!

Leina (21) girl 
I’m not sure if anyone is still posting to this blog…. 
But I’ve seen the hat man while I was just standing in the mirror in my room about to kill myself by taking a large amount of pills. I looked in the mirror , looked at the pills , looked back into the mirror and saw the hat man in my door way watching me . I turned around quickly and he disappeared right in front of my eyes. 
I’m 21 now, this happened when I was 14 (very depressed very suicidal) and I only seen him once that one time but I never did any research about it until I was about 18/19 and found a picture on google of the exact same man I saw. 
I remember it so vividly . 
He was standing there behind me watching me . In broad daylight , and he was a black shadow hat man in my door way. 
No one was home when this happened …. I was alone. 
But I am Christian , and I think the reason why he never visited me again was that I ended up getting help for my depression and stopped feeling suicidal and I prayed all the time and built a relationship with God.

Insane. One of my earliest memories are of seeing a strikingly similar figure in the corner of my bedroom as I tried to sleep. He would just stand there watching me with red eyes, and smoking. I could see the cherry, smoke and all.

OMG! I thought I may not have seen the same being until I read your comment.the first time I saw him I was around 9 or 10 years old. It was in the corridor at my school one morning. He appeared as if from out of a portal that was swirling clock wise. He didn’t appear all at once rather piece (of clothing) by piece, starting with his black leather shining shoes. Then his pants and gloves, in one he held a lit cigarette, in the other a walking stick. The glove holding the cigarette moved to where the mouth had not yet appeared and smoke was exhaled as though someone were smoking. His coat and then finally his hat. It wasn’t as though I was terrified like so many other people’s accounts but more curious and amazed. I walked around the portal which was almost 2 dimensional because it was flat when seen from the side although it looked 3 dimensional from the front. I could see through it to the clothing appearing from thin air? It was almost as if the portal was not a portal at all? Yet there was this figure becoming right before my eyes. It was silent. It had flecks of purple through its swirls. When I looked from behind I saw his coat tails. Like they wore to great balls. Once he was fully formed, I don’t know how long it took but it seemed like a fair amount of time, his appearance was not immediate. I stood before this man and looked at him with a clear head. He seemed almost as perplexed as I was. I suspect on account of my lack of fear. He opened his mouth and spoke although I could not understand his words. His voice was deeper than any I’ve ever heard still to this day. I did not run instead I walked away from him. Through to my classroom and then outside to the courtyard. I figured I’d be safer outdoors. He followed me but didn’t chase after menor did he come outside. When I went back on he and the portal were gone and didn’t return.

I was shock to see many ppl encounter this demon from hell! He is a demon! He is not your friend, or an angel, or a loved one when you see him pray! My first encounter was 9 years ago. It’s been a while since I seen him! This is a spirit not to be played with I myself USE TO BE scared of it now I rebuke that sucker right out of our home! I also notice the stronger I grew in Christ the less I see him! I also believe he feed off fear and he is a death demon! It seems like he only comes at night! I myself never seen him in the day! My suggestion to all pray and read the bible and be fearless …..

He has been a part of my life ever since the fourth grade, arriving right after a traumatic experience. He always came to me in my dreams, appearing as we all know him. This is how I know he is real, I first saw him in 1988…long before he became an urban legend. 

I have figured out the shadows feed on the energy that comes from our sadness…our fear. They evoke the feeling with their presence, he often did so by giving me nightmares, and then they feed while we linger on the emotion. 

My encounters with him changed my life… and not always for the better.

Gwen, the nightmares are the constant for me. You are right, traumatic experiences and the emotions involved draw the shadows to us.

Reading all of these different stories have helped me understand this thing. I myself havent had any exsperinces yet with the hatman. But both my nephew and my youngest son told me last night of his experiences. As i said before i have a standing appt.with this thing. It is supposed to be coming for my nephew. It dont matter how i know this,what matters is that i am eady when the day comes. I have always stood up for my family,no matter who or what messed with them, i put a stop to it very quickly. These different stories tell me that since i fight for whats nine,then this thing dont want to meet me. I not afraid of anything,especially dying for whats mine
If fear is its energy, then i feel sorry for him already. Cause he will starve around me. I just cant wait till that day. 

My friend is experiencing this now and does not know what to do.The Batman follows her everywhere and now I am seeing him. What do you do?

Straight lined shadow (smudged),no hat,but tall ears like batman’s mask with the pointed ears.
He was standing over a member of my family’s bed.
I was not tired! .
I turned on light and see him move fast behind door.
I don’t believe in anything funky,but I admit,this is a little strange,but I’m sure there is a logical explanation.

My encounter with hatman was different, I didn’t remember the encounter until today it has been a long time I still don’t remember how old I was, I am 13,now almost 14 all I remember is I was a baby we lived with my Mamaw and Papaw, I was the type of baby that slept during the day and stayed up all night, my dad was asleep next to my crib and didn’t wake up while hatman was there, I saw him standing next to my crib with his cane smoking a cigarette, when I saw his red eyes I got scared, but what really scared me was when he started to reach into my crib, when he did I started crying and he vanished as my dad woke up, I haven’t seen him since, now that I remember I’m afraid that he’ll come back to finish what he started, I’m also afraid that the Rake will come after me as well as hatmans minions the shadow people.

Shrek I have a pussy, but I’m not one, I was a little baby when it happened, and I’ve recently seen it, so piss off and go to hell with hatman where you belong

Shrek you’re a fucking pussy, I was a little kid, I’m 14 now, I’m Christian I have fears just like everyone else

I’ve seen him before too. When I was about 8 I had the ability to see ghosts and when I saw this (we were at a hotel) I thought “oh it’s just another one.” When I first saw it at the hotel my family was fighting, anyways the next time I saw him I was at my grandmas with my cousin and we got into an argument then it appeared and made a come here motion with it’s hand, I ran. When my parents were going through there divorce I saw it pretty much every day then after that I didn’t see it until I had a fight with my friend. I have yet to see it since.

what a fag

Shrek has issues. Son, you need a shrink. Go ahead. Call me a pussy. call me whatever. But, have the courtesy to use your real name. Mine is Geogring Joyce. I live in Cressona, PA. Come see me anytime you have something to say. No more afraid of the likes of you tan I am of that dam hatman

Hello Everyone, It is Annyor Again, 

Furthermore, I have a short deal more to type, creating more reason to how we all can be nearly “attacked” by this force, 

Simply put, as I state again, We are Out of Balance with our selves, and Our Connection to the Spirit Godhead, God, Universe, Great Holy Spirit, Spirit Goddess Mother, Jehovah, WHATEVER You Want to CALL the Mask, It is the Same Spirit You NEGLECT. 

Within The Entire Mass of A Mathematical Equation, We Have a Dark Side and A Light Side, A 2+3=5… 

What is Happening, is We Peoples, Have Stuck Our Heads in the Sand, and Neglected “this Other side” not other as in Evil, but as In Our Self, 
We’ve put all our attention to Light And Love, Light And Love, Light And Love, 

and have thus created a TRUE EVIL DARKNESS that is NOTHING more than the SHADOW SIDE of a Wild And Dark, Wild And Dark, Wild And Dark. 

Like the Way Bats and Owls are Noctural, or How Mushrooms Grow in only Dark Moist Circumstances, OR going as Far as to Say that BABIES, FLESH-Temple-Forms, GESTATE IN A MOIST DARK WOMB, 

we are Neglecting the Dark Wild Feminine Side of Our Experience!

Light is Masculaine, which is Why We always called God a MALE!
But the Source-Head is Intangible, and Indistinguishable from Gender, so with that being said, 
Dark is Feminine, 

I can not understand how Female Flesh-Incarnate beings of Earth are Experiencing This Man, You OF ALL of US show us what it is like to truly be feminine, open, wild, free, explorative of our sensitive emotions… 

BUT it MUST BE BECAUSE you too have Lost the Way to yourself as a True Female, 
Dark, Moist, Wet, Gestating, Internal Creativity, 
Crafting Life from the Very Darkness that Birthed Every Man, and other Woman!

It’s TIME TO TAKE BACK YOUR BALANCE PEOPLES!

Stop FEARING your Dark Side, FACE YOUR SHADOW HEAD ON, STUBBORN, and ASSERTIVE, WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT!

“YOU SAY, HEY BOOGYMAN, YOU ARE ME, and I AM YOU, and I LOVE YOU, BY THE POWER OF “God” – for the bibles “Ali” – for the Karans, or “Buddha” for the Buddhists, 
CALL YOUR GODHEAD and ASK FOR FIRM, STANDING, of CONVICTION OF SPIRITUAL POWER AND BALANCE, 

and CLAIM BACK YOUR LOST SIDE OF THE SELF…

and you will never Fear, Nor See Evil Shadow Dark side again! 

I mean Seriously… 

Watch the Movie the Babadook.

It’s Theme is Tremendously Liberating of how Neglecting something that is LEFT GESTATING in the dark, creates, TRUE EVIL, and MAD DARKNESS, waiting to “EAT YOU UP” 

🙂 

Love Ya All. Wish this Helps. 

-Annyor

fucking idiot

To anyone who can help!!! I have lost my hat, i think he took it. If anyone sees the hat man can you see if he has a large yellow hat on? It was my favourite hat and it was in the stable with the horses. Also my horses have gone. come to think of it, i may of been robbed.

Hello, well i haven’t experienced hatman but my friend has she said that she couldn’t realize if it was reality, she told me that he was out side her house just staring at her, i showed her a list of people similar to the hatman once i showed her the hatman she said that was him, she didn’t really get into it really she got kinda scared, well more scared since she woke up scared.

I saw the same thing. but for some weird reason I wasn’t scared. I just stared at him and somehow I knew he was staring at me even though I couldn’t make out the face. he was just there, just standing there watching me.

The first time I saw the hat man was age 5. I woke up and he was standing in my doorway. I was frozen all I could do was close my eyes, but he took up my whole door and he looked like black TV static. I fell back asleep but woke up a giant but I was downstairs on our couch in our TV room with a blanket. He was again in the door way watching me. I immediately turned on the TV and then he was gone.

So I’ve decided to share this… I live in Connecticut and I’m not narrowing it down further due to reasons… Anyways about a year ago I happened to wake up in the middle of the night not sure what time (I wondered if it was around 3 because tahts the Devils hourrrrr but I’m not gonna lie I have no clue as to the time.) so I saw a transparent yet solid floating man in a top hat and trench coat he seemed like a 1800’s Victorian man but he had no other feature not even a face and he seemed to be transparent… He was standing in my doorway behind my poor cat I was terrified and your probably thinking ” probably sleep paralysis” nope I moved very easily so easily I rushed under my coveres (like that’s any protection) but it felt save I was so scared I literally passed out I woke up in the morning still scared. I told my mom and she said tahts so strange because when my brother was younger he saw the same EXACT figure but he was hovering over my then baby brother he was also scared and ran into my parents room… Thinking he was an intruder they rushed into my brothers room… He was gone… He seems to vanish fast .. Any one else have similar experience??

I’m 54 now and telling it now. When I was 8-12 hard to say how old. Well I’m asleep and something made me wake up. And at the end of the bed there was a man standing he was wearing a trench coat and top hat, you could not see his face. I was looking at him but wondering if he knew I was watching him. I was so scared hand clenched to my throat with the covers wraped up holding on to protection. I just closed my eyes and went to sleep. The next day was okay. I have never had him visit me again. and never want him back either. I’m a christian and believe in God.

He came to me with a cane with a diamond top handle and always said don’t be afraid for we are watching but sometimes his eyes would be red or gold so is there two or many and I wasnt afraid so y would he say tht it’s just weird he only appeared three yes I have a longer comment about the experience towards the middle of the page called i deemed him three times or something like that it’s not like he couldn’t do anything he just didn’t like waiting for an answer or something but i never spoke to him he just said don’t be afraid we are watching than I’d wake up moments later never really felt nothing like his presence before his creepy smile didn’t help either

then he appeared again killed the devil and was coming toward me but peacefully and he took the devils power from my dream and said now not even the light of the son/sun can stop me now

since they usually dont talk so much and dont like to be seen why is it that it likes me maybe i may not be human and it senses something well i have seen the whole power of creation and beyond come out of my ring in a dream once so maybe i am God incognito or maybe i am his father or something because my mind i think is closing to submitting to his demands and who knows what will happen if the hat man or hooded man who ever he is has that access to power since he seems to not fear other he is cautious with me at first gains my trust by awakening the power with in me then kills the devil for loyalty like a servant then strengthen my mind and subconsious with fear only to have a white light banish him or atleast get rid of him for now from my dreams he seems to be helping me and i helping him as well he has a massive moredarkness around him from only shape of hat man too assasin with tornado around him to complet widespreading darkness around him so i guess he or she knows something big about me 

This is so cool and scary. I just read a book that has a Man in the hat character. It was called The Darkest Tool. He is a guardian demon and narrates in the first person. Interesting.

I have seen someone running, it was a man in red running by.

don’t know what you all think but I know why I saw him. He’s one of my guardians.

I have posted on here before, I’ve had a recent encounter with the hat man, and the shadow people, they’ve been appearing in different places, as this has happened there have been tragedies such as both of my grandparents falling ill, they’ve been in aand out of the hospital recently do to heart problems. What worries me most is that we are all seeing the same things, loved ones who are now dead then they warp into a completely different shaped type of shadow, then they appear as the hatman. As I’ve been walking around I see these children with pitch black eyes which isn’t abnormal to me, my eyes get like that when somebody gravely upsets me, or in other words pisses me off. But these children have something odd about them….

I was a teen awake I’ve seen single ones in past growing up from 4 what’s it mean when you see multiple hat men when I was a teen I seen ten or more they were running up my stairs and out my windows I’ve been plagued by ghost since I was 4 far as I can remember haven’t had an experience in a few yrs though since I returned from Iraq in fall of 2010 but would like some light on this

I actually have a very terrifying experience with the hat man, he would always come out of my closet and walk around my room,but one night he actually was at my be side. I thought it was my dad at first but then it reached out its hand and touched my throat.His eyes were as black as black could get, and they were glistening. I was very scared , so I started talking to him saying that I was a very kind person and if he wanted my life then he could have it.I felt his had come off of my neck and watched him walk back into my closet. I haven’t seen him sense.

Hi, I’m producing a documentary on this hat man. Would I’ve to see the photo. Email me: hatmandocumentary@outlook.com // how many times have you seen him?

hi my brother was little one time and saw the hat man CRAWLING ON THE CEILING yes you heard me crawling on the ceiling he was like three or four now he is twenty he said he will never forget it and how he knows it is the hat man is because he remembered the image of hat man clearly and saw it online.the thing is that ghosts follow my family its like they want us to do something…….

Bella, would you and your brother be interested in an interview for my film? I’m producing a documentary on this hat man,

I have seen this figure before but he didn’t have a hat and I have been trying to figure out what I saw… He was by my door i didn’t move in my bed I just stared at him and he didn’t move either… He was tall and all black couldn’t see is face at all…I told my stepdad about it and he searched it up and there was a movie about it but I don’t remember what it was… I think it’s so weird but I only seen him once… But I see a lot of other figures to.

I had the Hat Man visit me in my sleep, Iremember he wad standing at the foot of my bed on the rights side of me and just looking at me. He knew I could see him even though my eyes were shut, not sure how long he was there but I wasnt scared at all

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Think what you will, but the guy I saw standing in my bedroom doorway had something like a top hat and a cape or cloak. I can’t help what he was wearing, but that’s what I saw and I find comfort in realizing that I’m definitely not alone in having such an experience.

This is rather creepy, I experienced the silhouette of a man watching me at the foot of my bed in my teens. This was in the 80’s, well before we had the internet to spread urban legends and creepy YouTube stories to ferd into our collective subconscious. 
I’m shocked at how similar all these stories are to mine.
My apparition had an identical silhouette to the illustration at the top of the page, even to the unusually shaped hat.
It just stared until I hid under the covers, although you couldn’t tell it was staring by looking as it was so black that it appeared two dimensional. 
I can remember when I came to leave home to live in my own house I was petrified as I was so scared I couldn’t sleep in the house with my family nearby, how would I cope completely alone.
I didn’t tell anyone as I was ashamed of being scared of unreal things at age 21.
Luckily I never felt fear or struggled to sleep in my new home.
I’m an aetheist with little patience for unscientific explanations, but soon after I left my mum visited a fortune teller.
The woman asked her if there was a forbidding presence in her home and then said she’d guided the spirit of a drowned little boy into the light.
The atmosphere of the house was some much less oppressive afterwards when I visited.
My parents home is a farm from the 1700’s with no pond so I thought it was a silly story, while enjoying the better atmosphere there.
We then got old of an old map from an amateur historian which showed the area un the mid 1800s – there was a pond shown on the farm….
I must confess my blood did run a little cold.
I don’t know if the hat man was related to the atmosphere in the house and the drowned boy but it was all very strange, even to a sceptic like myself.

I have only very recently discovered this “hat man” and the fact that people from all walks of life, all over the world have reported seeing him.

I too had an experience of seeing a dark shadowy shape of a man standing in my bedroom. He was wearing a hat, and what I can only describe as a suit from a very long time ago. The feelings I sensed from him were terrifying. He emanated what I can only describe as purely sinister.

I had no idea that anyone else had experienced this too, until coming across a post about it in a Facebook group that I belong to.

I began looking this phenomena up and that is when I came across your blog.

You can read about my encounter here; http://fatheadandher.blogspot.ca/2013/07/the-man-with-hat.html

I had a similar experience. When I was about eight, I saw the Hat-Man in my doorway. He paused for a bit, facing me, then tipped his hat at me. He then preceded to almost “glide” across my bedroom floor around my bed, and into the wall.

Hello juan, that’s really odd as I started dreaming about him after my friends played with a Ouija board in a cemetery at night. Seems to be a cemetery connection?

Okay so in short, this is going to be a semi-lengthy description of when I myself saw this “man.” First of all, I should probably say how I came across this blog and why. My friend, her fiancee, his family, and I were first watching Mark Plier’s reviews of Five Nights at Freddy’s on youtube since I happen to have the game and play it. After that, we started digging deeper into his horror game reviews and it wasn’t until we watched him play “The Hat Man” that I started to freak out a little. This is all coming from someone who has seen ghosts and experienced spiritual phenomena before, mind you. Basically why I started to get worried is because there is only one account in my life where I was almost “possessed,” or at least I thought I was being possessed because of how close the moment was in how people were “possessed” in the HBO series True Blood. 

Now before I proceed with the actual story-telling, I want to make some points known that relate to what has been mentioned in this blog post that ultimately confirm my suspicion that this was indeed the “Hat Man” that I saw and not someone else, and it terrifies me just thinking back on it. One of the most important points I want to make is that my family happened to be going through a rough time during the time that this phenomena occurred, and it especially involved a spiritual discretion (my Mother fell heavily to believing in the Illuminati). At the time, I was nearing the end of my Junior year of High school and under some serious stress, so it does not surprise me that this “man” came to me and on top of that, I had been experiencing a sort of haunting by a shadow man that would appear to me at night when I was the only one up on the computer (around 2-3am in the morning, again this is NOT unusual considering that 3am is considered a demonic time) and would only appear to me in “shadow-form.” By this I mean that I could only catch him if I looked at the wall in front of me, but adjacent to the computer and behind it. If I looked behind me, however, “he” either wasn’t there or had disappeared at the speed of light or something. Then I would turn back around and continue with whatever work I was doing on the computer, not making much of it and trying to convince myself that I had been “seeing things.” Unfortunately, this could not have been so because the air around me would get stuffy and I could always hear “him” approaching (I am using a male pronoun for the spirit because he liked to take the form of a familiar fictional male character to me from what I could tell by the shadow on the wall whenever I looked at it when he was approaching instead of looking behind me) from behind, and he would leave too quick for me to see him whenever I turned back around. He would not stop this game until I actually went to bed. The spirit did not always stay in my house, though, for he had followed me to the career center I attended once and messed around in the tool-box crib where we kept our tool boxes (I took a machinery course). Other than that, the house was all-in-all somewhat haunted and accepting of demonic spirits, and the place terrified me in general. Thank the Lord we no longer live there, and I also would like to thank Him again for saving me the night that the Hat Man came to me, because it was because of my will to live and prayer to Him during that moment that alone saved me, and of that I am positive.

The only way to survive a spirit like that is usually by sheer will alone, and that will power has to be strong and focused on in order for it to work.

Anyways, time to finally share my story details (I apologize for the long prequel, but I simply had to mention all of those factors before I actually detailed on the story):

It was late at night when I had finally gone to bed and I don’t quite remember the exact date nor day of the week, but it was sometime in the school week and not the weekend. I do not remember if there was anything special about the night other than the fact that I did not dream, which is EXTREMELY rare for me. Instead, I had been abruptly awaken in a sweat and had some kind of adrenaline-spike, breathing hard and scared for some reason. The most horrifying part was that I could NOT move, which absolutely terrified me just as much as the fact that I could see a tall man, dressed in a black trench coat and sharp-rimmed hat just like how everyone has been describing him. Unfortunately, my vision is terrible and I require my glasses if I want to see any facial features from that distance, but of course I had been sleeping so I did not have my glasses to aid me and even if I had, I was completely paralyzed at the time, unable to do anything but think. Not even scream. 

Anyways, so the man’s features were unknown to me and it was pretty blurry, kind of shadowy like people have been saying. However, I could have sworn that he he had long-ish, kind of wet hair that was almost shoulder-length. Here’s where the True Blood possession momen

How do you blow you have gifts? I feel like I could have extra intuition than others do but I’m not sure.

The day I saw the hatman was the day I went to the onocologist with my Mother. The onocologist told my Mother she had stage 4 breast cancer and would likely die. I was distressed while visiting my friends that night I started to have a mini stroke as I was blacking out I was praying to God that I would not faint in front of my friends this is when is when I saw the hatman as I prayed he disappeared.

I was amazed coming across this blog,i have been telling my story for years,i was on my way to church one day like any other sunday. And i crossed a small bridge then looked in the side mirror and that’s when i seen him standing there at the bridge,he actually was leaning on the siderail of bridge and when he turned to look my way i seen the bottom of his trench coat move like blowing in the wind,he was just standing there and as i stared at him in my car mirrors i wasnt scared but amazed,i drive that way every day and have never seen hhim again.

Emotional trauma and a troubled environment certainly seem to attract this phenomenon. Mine was after my parents separation and before that, when there was domestic problems between them

Yes, I started seeing the hat man around the time that I had a near death experience. I had bled out in recovery after a hysterectomy and it was a miracle that I survived. I really shouldn’t have. I had felt like he was here for a reason but nobody else has ever mentioned this before. Why do you think this?

I felt so terrified of ‘the hooded man’ who seemed to follow and appear at random, i feared to even think of him as i felt he knew somehow..and the very act of allowing of him to enter my thoughts would bring him back. I was always paralysed, as he stood towering over me by my bed. Never did i get the impression of face, arms, legs .. he just seemed to ‘float/hover’. 
Then, every now and then, i would also see ‘the man with the broad brimmed hat’ (as i call him). He too would strike terror into my veins. And the same types of things, paralysis, & the feeling i would die, completely encompassed me. The difference .. he also entered my dreams.
I soon came to realise they were one and the same person/being. I felt the broad brimmed hat was a disguise. 
I never felt i could speak of him to anyone, or it would bring him to them too. So i stayed very silent.
Then, one day, my baby cousin spoke to me about him visiting her at night. I was terrified for her! She was maybe 4 or 5 yrs old. 
I soon found out another cousin and aunt had also seen ‘the hooded man’. Been paralysed, terror stricken.
I still refused to mention him much as i still felt he would find me. I especially refused to ever mention him by name. So sat on the memories…for years…wondering.
Some 12 yrs later, i met a man who had him tattooed on his arm, & that fear tumbled over at the very sight of him. I looked at this guy shocked and asked him about the tattoo. He described the exact same guy ! I couldn’t believe he had had the same experiences and now wore him on his arm! When i asked why, his answer, “so i never forget who he is”. 
We kind of fell into a heavy silence when i decided to broach the hat… i said “be careful, do you know he also appears in another form?” His reply “yes. He disguises himself in a broad brimmed hat.” His next statement blew my mind as he said ” that’s when he can enter your dreams”.
He is the only person i have met who has experienced, & knows the same thing i do. 
Now for some context people, i am from an era before the internet, before any stories of him ever did the rounds. 
My first encounters were almost 40 years ago now.
And no, they are not just stories, he is very real.
How do so many people, so many countries, from such a huge time span, that we are aware of only since information and wealth of experience could be shared like this, all see the same man?? It is not fiction. It is not a dream, or trick of the mind. It is not a sleep paralysis symptom. He is real.
My dog waking me by growling, staring at this man hackles raised, whilst i lay paralysed, attests to that.
My little dog who never barked, whom i had ‘never’ heard growl saw him too.
So there is my experience. Take it or leave it. I don’t care. I know what i know. 
A word of advice on the paralysis, you ‘can’ still move, just not your physical body. In your panic try to remember that. And if you scoff at that idea, think, you have seen this guy, you know he is not of this world/realm/whatever, so what makes it such a hard stretch to realise we can still move ourselves without the restriction of body.
It works.
Take care people.

I have seen the hat man one time. I am just now finding out that this is a common entity people have been seeing. About a year ago my boyfriend and a buddy of mine were at my house. My buddy left around 11 or so. The side door next to my room is hard to shut just right. Basically only myself and my family know how to close this door properly. My mom woke me up in the middle of the night screaming that the door was wide open. She was very angry closed the door and went back in her room. I drifted back off to sleep. I woke up shortly after terrified. I felt something was not right. I tried to nudge my boyfriend without making sudden movements but he would not wake up. At the foot of my bed was the hat man. He just stood there staring at me. I stared back at him unable to move or even blink. He may of stood there for a few minutes. He smiled at me and disappeared… but I could not see his face he was only a silhouette. Somehow I knew he smiled at me and I could see it. Kind of hard to explain. After he left my room I had this feeling that he took something from me. I don’t know what it was but the feeling was extremely over whelming. Not physically but he definitely took something from me. I think that the door being open in the middle of the night may have invited him in. I have not seen him since that night.

There was a ton of turmoil in my household. It was due to my older brother being an average teenager, and my parents fighting about it. I remember during my high schools years when home alone during the evenings, I would watch my TV in my room. My door would be open. Sometimes, I’d think I would see shadows at the corner of my eye. Lights would dim for about 2 seconds and go back to normal……sometimes dishes in the dish rack would just shift. I would just try to explain it to myself. “Someone may have grabbed something from the dish rack earlier. Dad installed those dimmers…maybe it wasn’t a good install….maybe the shadows I thought I saw were just the lights dimming from the possibly bad wiring.” I remember one evening, we were all home…..the glass shower door in the restroom just shattered…..the oddest thing. So all these odd little things just happened for a few years. 

It was approx 1993-4…..I was 16 or 17. I was sleeping on my back. For whatever reason, I woke up at around 2am. Right when I opened my eyes, I saw “The Hat Man” standing at the foot of my bed…..the Gaucho Hat with the wide brim, the long black coat and the glowing red eyes. He stood tall and he had his head tipped with his brim shadowing his face. I did see that his face was a skull……although I did not see his full face, I did see the left side of his jaw bone. I had immediately felt a huge weight on my chest when I opened my eyes…..it felt like all the air was taken out of lungs. As this was so unexpected, it was suffocating. I was literally paralyzed. I remember clearly trying to move……..nothing. It didn’t allow me to blink. I remember clearly trying desperately trying kick or just bring my arms up, and there was this weight just pinning me down. At this point, this is all within approx 5 seconds. We were staring directly at each other the entire time. As I start to comprehend what’s going on and begin to realize I was honestly awake and coherent, I start to try to scream, ‘Dad!’……my voice sounded like I was getting chocked. I didn’t feel hands or pressure around my throat…..just the greatest pressure on my chest. As me trying to scream and the inability to bang on my wall (my parent’s room was next to mine), I thought I was beginning to die. This was a type of fear I can’t even describe. It’s as if he uses your eyes as the doorway or window into your soul….and once he locks eyes with you, it paralyzes you. What he never paralyzed was my brain. I was thinking for myself the entire time. As I was already 10 seconds in without a single breath, I began to say “The Our Father” prayer. Immediately, the pressure came off. I remember the air just filling back into my lungs very fast……as this was happening, I had the power to close my eyes and move again. As I very quickly placed the the blanket over my head, the coldest chill…..like a jolt….when right up my spine….like the epitome of “spine-tingling”. I was so frightened. I was massively cold-sweating and shaking. The shaking was from fear that the being was still at the foot of my bed and the sense that there was a drop in temperature in the room. My shirt was covered in sweat. I prayed The Our Father and Hail Mary repeatedly for about an hour….under my blanket. My mind might been playing tricks, but my worst fear was that it was still standing beside me….this time closer. It’s almost like i still felt the bad energy around me, but was protected with prayer. I had decided to take a peek to see if it was there….it was gone. I’ve never seen it again. However, I still feel like that bad energy still follows me to this day. However, I’m very protected in prayer. I don’t think it would be able to surface again. And to this day, I’m still scared to sleep on my back.

I had a visit from the hat man less than a year ago. I woke up suddenly from sleep, as did my dog who was sleeping at the foot of the bed, and we both automatically looked at the bedroom door, which was ajar. The hat man was leaning around the door, peeking in at me and I had an immediate sense of him saying to me, without speaking out loud, that he was just checking to see if I was okay. Then, he left. I felt no fear at all and didn’t sense anything negative from him. I just said back to him mentally, Oh, okay, and then I went back to sleep. My dog did the same thing. So, I don’t understand all the stories about fear and negative emotions and death. My life has actually taken a positive turn since then and, knock on wood, no one in my life, including me, obviously, has died. Anyone else out there had a positive experience?

I’ve been having dreams of the hat man ever since I tried to commit suicide back when I was 19. I am 26 years old now, and I still have dreams with him in it from time to time. The creepy thing is, I always see his face, the blue eyes, but he never wears the fedora top hat. I’m just assuming that he’s the hat man from everyone else’s description of him. He usually wears all black with a tie. He almost always looks like an old man in my dreams with a creepy half smile on his face and he usually never says anything.

I saw two dark shadows recently and one being tall like a woman with spikes in her hair like a Japanese woman wears sticks to hold her hair up. The other was a thin man with a hat on with both hands on his hips confronting the other image and the other image was confronting him with a hand going towards his face like sign language, as if she was an Indian using her one hand towards his chin like she was compromising with him. They were like the blackest silhouettes I’ve ever seen. He would look at my room and back with her constantly. I assumed the other was a woman because of the robe like figure but this figure was taller then the man and seemed to be calm and not peering at me. The man with the hat was standing with both hands on his hips and leaning in far to the other dark silhouette as if he was angry not wanting to compromise. They were not moving lips but more of body language. He looked as if he was wearing a three piece suit but all black standing facing her with his side view to me but it was like a complete black figure which would turn his head to my bedroom peering in but not directly to my eyes. I never in my life looked on a computer for ghosts or black shadows or anything of that nature. I was having signs for three days prior up to my my great niece being killed in a car accident. I was feeling as if my room was cold and the air heavy. I actually felt as if there was a strong being a burst of energy and that this energy was lifting and spinning me until I was drained on the very first night. I had a hand come up beside me in the bed and wiggled its fingers saying la la la la on another night. I’ve tried moving and speaking but couldn’t. I tried so hard to speak that I could hear myself growling, slurring and paralyzed. The following day I had placed some boxes in a plastic storage bag under our stairwell along with Christmas lights. As I placed this bag back on top of the computer box, I heard some childlike voices saying Merry Christmas at least three times. My dog was with me and started barking and scratching at the bag. I emptied the contents and nothing was in the storage bag to make these sounds. The next day I got a call from my Mother that my sisters granddaughter whom was eighteen was killed in a car accident. That night of her death I saw nothing, then the following day is when I saw the shadows. I calked my Mom and she said to get a priest to come and bless the house. I told her that the images were in complete black like we had cut out of construction paper to make silhouettes. I told my Mother that this was something I’ve never encountered and said that I would look on the internet for black shadow people and a man wearing a hat and as soon as I found one I called my Mother and told her that several persons have seen this. A week later I attended the funeral and my niece was buried in her pink scarf that she was wearing during the accident. The following day I headed up towards a bridge and a big crane almost hit my car and I braked to watch it land across the highway. I continued up a bridge and saw a pink scarf in the middle of the road and had a chill come over my body. The same evening I was vacuuming and heard a Big Bang sound and my dogs were barking. I stopped the vacuum just assuming that perhaps something fell upstairs and as I approached the sunroom the duct vent from that floor was up and leaning up against the wall which seemed to be impossible to do. The heater was turned off twenty minutes before I started cleaning. My husband hadn’t seen anything but has heard walking upstairs and our children are grown and moved away. I even got my husband to drive this highway looking for the scarf and we found it against a guardrail. I’ve seen people before whom are dead relatives of mine during childhood and adulthood. That night in bed with the energy being taken felt as if you’re being raped and violated. Been scared ever since. If my husband leaves for work before dark I get up and go downstairs with my dogs. It’s been going on for over two weeks now. Please help and advise. Tina

I saw the man at a young age and the last night I saw him they were on a bridge with different color hats and coats. After that I never saw them again

When i was a child the hat man stood in my closet every night he would terrize me and i would have nightmeres of things so grafic that a child my age should have never known about

At the age of 18, my parents had split and I remained with my father in the family home. One weekend, dad had gone away to stay at a girlfriend’s house and me and my dog Tramp had the house to ourselves. 
Bored, I decided to swap rooms with my dad and spent all Friday evening moving furniture. I slept in my new room to be woken by I don’t know what. I looked at the clock – 3:38am.
The following night I went to bed and was woken, again. The clock displayed 3:38am.
Sunday night I kept Tramp in the room. Again, I awoke and heard the dog growling. I knew what time the clock would say, as I turned. Sure enough: 3:38. I rolled onto my back and saw the blackest shadow at the foot of the bed. It was a man in a trench coat and a wide brimmed hat. His right hand slowly reached towards me, as I pulled the covers over my head. I don’t know how long I stayed there, before peeping over my blankets to see an empty room.

I have been really down when I seen a Man walk through my kitchen area a week ago I didn’t think nothing of it because I thought I was dreaming. Just last night I sleep with my room door opened and I opened my right eye and there he was a vision in my kitchen of a window and a man with a trench coat standing there tilting his hat. I was awake at the time I was not asleep. This morning I advised my niece of what happened & drew a picture of the man I scribbled half of his coat to show her what he looked like and it spelled out Bad Man This has really creep me out. I hope he stays far away from me. I have a lot going on & I really don’t need his vibes

This is not a thing to be messed with. It has been following me since I was three years old. The first time I saw it, I saw it in the mirror in the bathroom. I screamed and cried. My Mother seemed to think it was funny and held the doorknob so I couldn’t get out. It continues to follow and bother me. BTW I can not ever be innthe bathroom with the door closed. EVER. It’s kinda weird when you go to someone’s house and you can’t close the door. The thing that follows me gave the name Baul ( ball). Not something you want to mess with. And to the person that said God can’t help you. God can and does help and protect you. It follows you because you have something important to do for God. That’s my story. I really don’t like to talk about it to much because it gives it more power and also there are alot of non believers.

Lana, Im so sorry you had to go through that. My heart aches for you. Im so glad its intentions back fired and you have utilized your experience in a constructive, Godly way. From the way you speak, i can tell you are a sensitive soul with gifts and desires to heal the world. That is something we have in common, and i believe that is why certain children and people are targeted. I know it is an attempt to decrease our abilities to heal and love. Im so glad you have realized that too. I have only seen him once, at the age of 8. But the strange thing is, i did not fear him, at all, despite my phobia of things like that as a child, i simply ackowledged his presence and turned my head away from him and fell asleep. I wasnt so much scared as i was annoyed. I do not know why i was annoyed to this day. It was as if i knew him and he seemed to almost love me and exude a caring heartache as though i was his daughter and he missed me?. I still find it so amazing that i gathered all that i formation at the age of 8. Im not sure if we are talking about the same hat man, but the reason i asked you is to get an understanding of its true intention. Also, the entity that visited me was a 2 story tall grey old man with a blurry sad frowning face in a trenchcoat and top hat. I felt sorry for him. Have you ever witnessed a specifically grey entity in a top hat and trench coat? Thank you for responding. 

Sue

I was in my room and the time on my clock turned to 3:07 and I tried to go back to sleep but I kept on seeing these black shadows all around my room I tried to go to sleep in my moms room but they kept on flashing around my moms room too so I went and used the bathroom and then I seen this hat on my shower pole anyway the next day I went to my friends for the night and I seen her dog barking at the hallway I thought that she was just barking at the rain or something but then I seen this guy he looked so tall and he tipped a hat at me anyway I went screaming only to find my friend choked but still alive the next year or so I never seen anything again but to this day it still scares me

So I’ve come to this blog knowing my children have seen this hat man when they too were very young… however it is not the reasoning behind me reaching out,telling my story and seeing if anyone has had an expierence with the thing that haunted me when i was four years of age. Also i may want to add that on my mothers side of the family my grandmother,grandfather, and three uncles all have seen this being if you will. I do also want to point out that my mother doesnt remember seeing him or interacting with him nor has my aunt seen him.So at the age of 4 i was visiting my mum who lived with my grandparents.i remember as if it were yesterday. the pj’s i had on the home the diff rooms all so vivid. i awoke to get something to eat . walked into kitchen pull jiffy peanut butter out of cabnet and laid ontable . looked ahead were the door lead to the outside. now this was the only door on the house and it was two steps dwn from kitchen to go out of it and on either side was a wall. from one of these walls out came a being that floated towards me. i was naturally scared could not scream though. i circled around the kitchen table as it followed and then i stopped. this being i can only describe as looking simular to a grim reaper. he was wearing a long black tattered cloak and his hair was long and thin barley there but white as snow. his skin old,wrinkley and appeared as though it were translucent because i could make out what appeared to be a skeletal frame in his hands. he spoke and asked me to take him to my mother . i cried running into the next room where she was asleep in bed and shook her telling her that i was scared and he wanted to talk to her. she opened her eyes and i will never forget how she gasped in horror at the site of him and pick me up and put me behind her on the bed. he then spoke. i remember a sound that came from him and her reply was no…. then i woke up the next day , too terrified to speak of the event i went on as if nothing happened. I still have no idea who or what it is. it has appeared to my gma and gpa and to uncles though to them only as a hand under the garage door when they were younger and tried to pull them under the door and as a golden snake and went up into a ball of smoke. my mother was diagnoised w Schizophrenia about a yr prior to this. im not sure if that is why she doesnt remember. one of my uncles tells a story of when she was pregnant with me that she was living on the haunted side of town and while he and my mother and father were playing cards one night she was lifted up against the wall by something and a rug was levetated and they saw a large black shadow with red eyes. its kinda talked about in the family about the grim reaper thing being a haunting just associated with us but again im not sure. Ive come here to this blog to [pass along my story and see if any can help.

I believe I had an encounter with the Hat Man several years ago (end of summer 2011). I was living in a very hostile environment, and had turned to meditation to bring in the good, and let out the bad (so to speak). A few weeks before I saw the Hat Man, I was meditating in front of the slide & glass door (my normal spot bc it was warm & inviting), and a series of birds slammed into the door, several minutes apart from each other. I felt terrible! I went outside to see if they were ok. Thankfully I didn’t find any bird bodies, but it really shook me up. But I continued meditating, thinking it was just a crazy thing that happened.
After that, was when I saw him. I was sleeping, facing the wall. I remember rolling over and seeing him. He was very tall with a hat, standing maybe 5 feet from where I was lying. I remember him as more of a solid figure, in that I couldn’t see part my dresser that was behind him. I don’t know how I did it, but told myself I was dreaming and rolled back over, facing the wall, and went back to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, I jolted up remembering everything that happened. I knew & still know it wasn’t a dream. 

I’ve never told anyone about this. I’m sure they will think it was all in my head or really was just a dream. I can tell you I haven’t meditated again since. I guess I’ve always been afraid that it was because of me opening myself up like that, that he came. Regardless, its just nice to know I’m not the only one.

Am I the only person who had a positive experience with this being?

A short description of my experience: I was sleeping alone around this time last year, because my husband had a night job, and I woke up suddenly at about 2:00 a.m. My dog woke up, too and both of us looked straight at the bedroom door, which was about halfway open. A shadow man, in a fedora and trench coat, was leaning around the door, looking at me. I felt no fear and I sensed him saying, “Just checking to see if you’re okay.” Then, he disappeared. I simply lay down and went back to sleep. I don’t know why I didn’t freak out. Maybe because I felt nothing bad from him, but actually felt that he was a friend of some kind and that I was grateful that he checked in on me. I have no idea why I would think that. He’s not the first shadow person I’ve seen. I’ve been seeing them since I was a small child, but I have never felt threatened by them. I would like to hear from others who have had a good experience.

No, I would also describe my experience with (what I believe to be) the being as a positive one. Or, well maybe not positive, but more not bad? I think I’m just gonna tell the story to save you the confusion.

It started like with most people, waking up in the middle of the night, opening my eyes and voilà! A man in a dark suit with a hat on his head stared down at me. At first I was startled stiff and all I could do was to stare right back at him. Somehow it all changed as I got a feeling of sadness from him, I don’t remember his face clearly but I do remember thinking about how sad his eyes looked- as if he had to leave and was unsure if he would be able to come back. It was as if he was saying sorry for not being there or something. I wanted to say something “Who are you?” I believe it was but he disappeared before I had the chance. It was all so peculiar. I was ten at the time (nine years ago) and my mother died in cancer (in our home) not long after the encounter. I always thought he was some kind of guardian angel that had to leave me or maybe just a figment of my imagination. There has been times when I have believed that it was all just a dream but after coming across this ‘hat man’ my hope got a new spark to cling to at the same time as a spark of fear has been born inside of me. When so few seem to have had a “positive” experience when confronted with these shadow people I cannot help but wonder over why the ones who have them do. As a child I remember seeing these black blurrs quite often before my meeting with the one I believe to be the hat man. After my meeting with him however I did not see them as often. I remember thinking that they were just a figment of my imagination – even as a child. 

Since then I have told people about my experience with the man at my bedside and believe it or not both my mother and grandmother experienced roughly the same thing. My grandmother with a man she described as most people describe the hat man, trench coat, hat, all black, menacing. She was around 20 at the time she first encountered him and he visited her a few times before suddenly stopping.

My mother on the other hand was visited by a chubby lady dancing into her bedroom one night, which if I remember correctly was not long before my grandfather died.

Now I worry about the fact that the number of shadows suddenly appearing in my field of vision has increased. You see, my grandmother has become sick and with her old age she may not have a long time left to live. If these shadow people come before us (at least both me and my mother) to mark a time of major suffering and hurt I fear for the life of my grandmother.

By the way, I am sorry for any grammatical mistakes or the like. I am writing this late at night and English isn’t my mother tongue.

Hi Gina, your comment resonated with me and I would like to ask you about this further because I too felt a similar feeling. May I ask you a few questions? 

Thanks,
Sue

Very Very positive experience….too long to write about….The man in the Black Cape and Hat, no face was walking next to me when I looked into a store window that I was passing by….but I heard no footsteps….when I turned around, no one was within 500 feet of me….It was very positive though….changed my life….

I’ve got to say that when the hat man appeared to me when I was between 24 and 26 (in the 1980’s), all I felt was a sense of calmness and well-being.

My mom and her cousin saw a ghost car. She lived in the country and she and her cousin were walking from her cousins house to hers. There was a rarely used thin road that had trees on both sides. They saw a car drive through it and when they reached the actual road it went down, the spider webs were all still attached across the road from tree to tree.

I have seen him my whole life I still wonder why he comes not only have I seen him but the father of my kids and his brother and now my children see him they say he only comes to children but that is not true last time I saw him was just last yr in 2014 I was so scared my bf at the time had to calm me down my heart would stop thumping and I was bawling my eyes out in 27 yrs old and I just want to know the truth about him and why he keeps coming last time there was two the hat man and a shadow person never before has that happened shortly after my bf at the time started to see him at his house and he has never experienced anything supernatural before nor did he believe in it I just want to know the truth and y he comes it’s not an omen of death or a breakdown in the family or anything like that next time he comes I think I may get the balls to finally ask I pray he doesn’t but if he does I think I might try

This man terrorized me my whole life. Before the Internet was even remotely close to being in our homes. Your last sentence made me think of a time he dragged my mother out of the bed by her legs. I remember the screams I heard from downstairs and my dad running upstairs. I first saw him when I was 7 or 8 years old. Saw him till I moved out, had followed me around the U.S. In all the places I have been. Things this guy has done to me has scarred me for life.

I implore anyone reading this to take some simple steps in protecting yourself from this dark imposter. Get a bag, any breathable bag will do – do not use a sealed plastic one. Get a handful of white sage, sweetgrass, and a little bit of your own hair – place it in the bag, and then place this bag close to your person when you sleep whether it’s under your pillow, over your bedpost, or resting on a table beside your bed. Some people go out and purchase a leather medicine bag; but this is just for aesthetic purposes and is not necessary.

These entities are bad

So, you’ve had positive experiences, too? I’ve only read a few other posters on other sites who’ve had positive experiences. I think maybe the fear I’m reading about originates from the person, not the Hat Man. And everyone seems to jump to “demon” immediately. Why is everything always a demon on these sites?

It’s best not to make any assumptions.

About 8yrs ago i dreamt a tall man dressed in black with a hat stood at foot of bed,i remember the feeling of pure evil and i was terrified ,couldnt move or scream,i was able to breathe out small breath of air which came out as white light then he disappeared.i met young guy soon after who had seen him when awake and he also had friend with same experience also awake.They thaught it was test to see how much you wanted to live. I doubt that,but at time it felt like i was fighting for my life.have no idea why we see him but it was hands down scariest thing ever,and i really cant imagine how terrible iit would be to see him awake.im now 57,i dont remember what was going on then but ive had alot of trauma in my life.i watched shadow people movie yesterday and decided to have a look online,up until now had no idea so many had this happen.wow

When I was with my ex, and our relationship was coming to an end, I woke up to the hat man just standing in my bedroom doorway. I can remember asking myself if I was dreaming, but I was wide awake. I just looked at him back in disbelief as to what I was seeing. A minute or so passed and he disappeared. I have not seen him since. It makes since though that he appears during times of high stress or trauma. Perhaps praying more often now alleviates any negative energy in my home.

I posted a comment earlier about my encounter with the hat man and that I said that I rather not speak about my second encounter. It really hurts me to post this, but I feel like I should let it out. Mostly because people who I told them about this thought it as BS. Well I am not providing details but that night I was raped by the hatman. Scarest experience ever in my life, I can still hear his laughter in my mind. I really don’t care if you don’t believe me but please don’t post any troll comments.

I’ve been seeing shadow people my entire life, including the Hat Man, and I’ve never had a negative experience. Mostly neutral, some positive. So, I don’t agree that they’re all evil. Maybe they’re like the human race, some good, some bad.

And to also note. Plenty of people have seen the hat man; some from a very young age – and not had any bad experiences, until they have that bad experience. Then they see the real side of it. For you to suggest that your experiences are good, positive – does not account for the vast majority of people that have already had negative ones. Remember, most people only go looking for answers when something bad occurs. For most people that have these experiences without anything negative, they are brushing them off as imagination, a trick of the eyes, or part of a dream – and they are not looking for answers because they really don’t believe in the paranormal. Then you have psychologists and non believing doctors coming forward and giving their opinions about the whole occurrence, supporting the suggestion that it’s all in the mind, dream or fantasy induced. Most that do have occurrences with the hat man , do not come forward – and do not tell anyone in fear of being looked at as crazy.

I believe you 100% he tried that crap with my mother. I’m sorry you had to go through it.

We can definitely agree to disagree. If you do not want to look at all the experiences objectively, and instead want to base those experiences to similarity of your own (subjectively) then that’s your prerogative. I do hope that you never have to go through what many more, including myself, have had to go through. Maybe they like you – its up to you to decide if that’s really a good or bad thing. 

The hat man, and shadow people are different. This is coming from someone that has investigated the paranormal for over 25 years. But don’t take my word for it – this can also be verified with most paranormal investigators who have been in the field for a good deal of time. I will agree with you, to know specifically what they are is impossible – but if there is even a 10:1 ratio , where the experiences are negative over the positive ; the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor – that this is not a positive being, and people reflecting such a being as positive, when many others have been attacked, terrified, raped, hunted, tormented, or violated – is actually subjectively twisted in itself. 

I felt that way from your reply to my original response back to “SS” – commending them for their bravery in sharing the rape experience. You haven’t had any negative experiences, great for you – did you feel that you are going to convince me or “SS” of something otherwise or was that an attempt to diffuse the severity of their experience with your opinions, perhaps to call them wrong or untrue?

I wonder if these shadow people including the hat man have any association with astral projection ???

Having experienced this myself and having previously commented and read other comments; I believe that the following applies: the quantum realm I believed to exist just beyond our perception. Therein, exist other lifeforms, which co exist with us, but because they exist on a different frequency, we neither see or hear them. Humans vibrate and perceive frequencies above 20 cycles per second. Animals have a broader range and therefore detect other things we do not. It has been proven that if a frequency of 17 cycles per second is transmitted to a group of people, they feel, edgy, nervous, sad, a pressure on their chest and begin to see strange shadows etc. External occurances such as weather, pylons, air conditioning, tv signals etc can change the frequency around us. Therefore, increasing our openness to see and feel strange things and open our eyes and ears to whatever exists in the quantum realm. Look it up. I’m currently putting the final touches to my book, hat man of Cooper St and strongly believe that the above is a viable reason for this phenomenon

Margaret, this certainly falls within the theory that you may be perceiving the quantum realm. This is supposedly a waiting room, where spirits wait to travel over to the other side. There may be numerous reasons why you get glimpses and it could be anything from radio waves, pylons or even a new fridge emitting low frequencies.

Colin, thank you for offering an explanation. My mother in law beleived in life after death. Perhaps she has facilitated this link.
I will further my reading in respect of the ‘Quantum Realm’

Hi Micah,
Having seen and heard several phenomenon, including a spate of hat man, this subject has intrigued me for over 30 years. I cannot say that my theories are correct, but that they satisfy my curiosity.
I am an author; copy writer and employed in law enforcement. My background has been in engineering and therefore my thoughts do combine pseudo science, from my thinking and my research.
It all seems to fit with the thinking that there are 4 realms: physical, quantum, astral and ethereal. After reading the definitions of the first 2, I felt that this may be part way to a theory. I have also looked into infrasound, (sounds lower than 20Hz). Which do lead to aspects of weaponry etc.
I may be completely wrong, but in the absence of any other reasoning, this stands as feasible as anything else. Moreover, it satisfies my concerns an answers the question as to why I was kept awake 3 nights running and always saw shadows in a particular room. There must be more to this and whether the shadows are sentient, free thinking beings with a purpose, may never be known. 
A I said, it satisfies me to a degree; it is fascinating and provides a great basis for my series of short stories. 
The following was of interest and made complete sense when put into context with what I had perceived all those years ago and the 4 realms:

Infrasonic 17 Hz tone experiment[edit]
On 31 May 2003, a group of UK researchers held a mass experiment where they exposed some 700 people to music laced with soft 17 Hz sine wavesplayed at a level described as “near the edge of hearing”, produced by an extra-long-stroke subwoofer mounted two-thirds of the way from the end of a seven-meter-long plastic sewer pipe. The experimental concert (entitled Infrasonic) took place in the Purcell Room over the course of two performances, each consisting of four musical pieces. Two of the pieces in each concert had 17 Hz tones played underneath. In the second concert, the pieces that were to carry a 17 Hz undertone were swapped so that test results would not focus on any specific musical piece. The participants were not told which pieces included the low-level 17 Hz near-infrasonic tone. The presence of the tone resulted in a significant number (22%) of respondents reporting anxiety, uneasiness, extreme sorrow, nervous feelings of revulsion or fear, chills down the spine, and feelings of pressure on the chest.[34][35] In presenting the evidence to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Richard Wiseman said, “These results suggest that low frequency sound can cause people to have unusual experiences even though they cannot consciously detect infrasound. Some scientists have suggested that this level of sound may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute to a ghost—our findings support these ideas.” 

Keep up the good work.

Regards, Colin

My name is Jessika and i have been seeing the Hat Man since my teen years in the 90’s, when it wasnt even thought of. for some reason my account seems to be a bit different than most, yes he is a shadow man top hat, long coat, red eyes and sucks the life right out of you. i have been told by my tribe that the hat man, this one is specific likes our blood. I believe he is waiting for something from me. i am known to be suicidal and have tried quite a few time, slashing my wrist with brand new razors just to wake up with my wound closed, still hurting and not healed, just closed. This thing has been watching me my entire life. i cant remember a time when i have not seen him. he does not talk to me, just stares at me. from out side of the house and my boyfriend said that he once woke to find him standing over me just watching me sleep. like something about me was curious. i was told that he is a reaper of sorts and he does change shape… odd to the lore i know, but when it goes from a dog to a cat and then a man its just wrong……. at night as a child i would watch a set of glowing red eyes watching me from the doorway, i lived in an abusive household… either he wanted to scare the hell out of me or he was protecting me. i can recall one account when he woke me up just in time to find that someone was out side my window trying to break in. as soon as i called for my dad the hat man was gone. its confusing and my account doesnt seem to match up to some of what others are saying. yes he terrifies me to death with just being there. sucks the life right out of me. but at the same time he just seems to have grown fond of me and my misery. i dont understand why he would wake me up when the intruder could have killed me and the hat man would have had the soul that he so wishes to have.

My encounter with Hat Man is burned into my memory. The creepy part is I don’t even remember what happened exactly. 

When I was 11, We lived way out of the city, only a couple houses on our street. Very rural area. I woke up at 2-3am during a thunderstorm, was lying on my back facing my bedroom door. The oven light in the kitchen was on as always, and there he was backlit by it, standing there in the doorway. All I remember is pure darkness, no features at all. Just… blackness. and the fedora, and trenchcoat. It/he was completely still and silent too, just standing there. 

I remember almost immediately pulling my blanket over my head and screaming for my parents who were down the hall, but they never came. The thing is, I don’t remember what happened after that. Next thing I remember is waking up in the morning and explaining this to my parents, being told it was just a bad dream. That’s kind of unnerving.

Years later I googled it and found that tons of people had seen the same thing. Pretty relieving in a way, but still none of us have answers to what this thing is or what it does. Doubt we ever will, either.

About a year ago, my friends (we’ll call them Josh and Danielle) told me about their encounter with this “Hatman.” We had been watching paranormal TV shows and talking about our own experiences with ghosts, shadow people, etc… Well, Danielle turned to me and asked if I want to hear about something extremely creepy, so naturally I said hell yeah! But I had no idea how disturbing and bone chilling her story was actually going to be…

It was about two years ago. Josh was resting in bed before getting up to go to work and Danielle was doing laundry. Normally, Josh was up and about, either helping Danielle around the house or spending time with their three kids before he went to work, but that day he wasn’t feeling well, so he decided to take a nap. Danielle was a little worried, but just shrugged it off, grabbed the laundry basket, and headed for the patio where their washer and dryer was located. She walked down the hall and barely passed the archway leading to the living room when out of the corner of her eye, she saw a tall, dark figure standing in the corner between the hall and their kitchen. She said she didn’t scream, but gasped and dropped the laundry basket from being startled. The figure seemed to stare at her, she said, not disappearing like you would think an apparition would. She closed her eyes for a few seconds, then opened them. The figure was still there. Closed her eyes again, opened them, and the figure was STILL there, but this time, leaned in toward her, looming over her. She closed her eyes one more time, opened them, and it was gone. She described the figure being very tall, almost to the ceiling, wearing what looked like a long black coat, and a brimmed hat. 

Now if that isn’t creepy enough, what happened next will send chills down your spine like it did mine…

After the figure disappeared, Danielle became worried about Josh all of a sudden and went to go check on him. When she got to the room, he was seizing… She called an ambulance and had Josh rushed to the hospital. That day, they got the worst news any couple could ever receive: the doctors found a rapid-growing, inoperable tumor in the center of Josh’s brain. He was told he might have anywhere from a few years to a few months to live, depending on the effectiveness of treatment and the rate at which the tumor grew.

Josh is still alive and doing as well as someone with a brain tumor could be doing. He makes the most of every moment and lives his life to the fullest with his family and loved ones. But he looks back on that day and thinks about his wife’s story and still feels uneasy…

I was 14 years old when I first saw him. I remember it like it was yesterday, the scene still lingers in my memory. It was dark, about 8, and I went to the upstairs bathroom. I looked into my grandma’s bedroom and there was this tall figure there, standing in the middle of the room. He was dressed in a black trench coat, no face, and wearing a fedora. I stared at him for a couple of heart beats, blinked and then he disappeared. I remember the terror I felt when this happened, but I sold it off as it was just dark. It was the second time, when I no longer could. I was getting ready for school, it was 7 am. My sister was in the dinning room brushing her hair, and I was standing in the doorway about to enter the room to get my stuff together. He then appeared again. Looking exactly the same, looking at me. What caused the most fear was where he was standing. Next to my little sister. He looked solid, but at the same time, he was not. Thoughts went through my head, worry for my little sister, wonder for what he was, why was I seeing him again, and what would I do. He disappeared, and the fear was gone. Was he absorbing my fear? I got to school and told my friend about him. She said it sounded like the shadow people, and I asked he what they were. She told me that is what they sounding like and I did some research at my dad’s. My parent’s were going through a divorce at the time. The picture I saw matched the figure perfect and it matched told me all that I experienced. It was strange.

Rere waz here 🙂 (i dident write the story)

on April the 12th 2005 my husband and I were in a terrible car accident my husband almost lost his life. 2 weeks prior to that is the first time I saw this man he was standing on the side of the rode and it look almost like my husband was going to hit him. A few nights later I saw him again well this time I asked my husband if he had seen him because I screamed out and didn’t want my husband to think I was crazy this went on like this for another week until the night before the car accident my husband and I both seen him but this time he was in the middle of the road my husband slammed the breaks and it had felt like we hit something so flipping out we looked all around my blazer there was no damage nothing. I will never forget what he was wearing all black brim hat long trench coat and he didn’t have a face or eyes. But I got a very nervous feeling everytime. Well in the exact same place as the night before an elder lady hit a deer my husband and I were trying to do a good deed we decided to help her we told her to leave we had it under control we were almost done and a drunk driver came out of nowhere hit my car both my husband and I were outside of
The vehicle but the vehicle hit both of us. We almost died that night.i just didn’t know if that figure was warning us or what but I haven’t seen him since

My girlfriend has shared with me a few times seeing this man with no face, wearing a hat and trench coat. She has been seeing him since she was a child and usually bad things follow. She also sees a young girl with brunette hair right before encountering the man in the hat. The little girl always informs my girlfriend to stay away from the “digger man” because he only means harm. I personally think this girl was harmed by him but has stayed behind to try to warn others. My girlfriend told me the last time she saw the digger man he actually spoke to her and told her that he was going to take her brother. About two weeks later her brother informed her that he has a tumor that is inoperable. he has been taking some sort of injection for the past few months but refuses to really talk about his progress. 

I believe in this sort of paranoal stuff, have my own stories of seeing this hat man / shadow people, and am trying to find an answer to keep them away, especially for my girlfriend’s sake. The only thing I have found that works as a short term answer for me is asking for the “white light” to help. I either try to picture myself being surrounded by this white light, or even using my imagination to create something out of white light to push/fight them away (usually a weapon of sorts). If anyone else has any other knowledge please share on how to either get rid of them or stop them from feeding off of our fear.

Personally, I have only seen the Hat Man one time for certain. My wife grew up with him.

Her first encounter was at the age of 9 when she played a mind game called Doors and Windows (a variant of Doors to the Mind), where the player goes under hypnotic suggestion and explores various rooms they see in their mind. Near the end room, she saw the Hat Man live and in color, looking like a black-garbed Dick Tracy with flesh and skin. She snapped out of it screaming because the Hat Man had killed one of her friends in the trance and her friend’s “ghost” was walking around without a body.
She saw a shadowy Hat Man follow her in waking life for years to come. 

When we had our first child, she went back to work after 6 weeks or so. I had the day off, and it was my first day by myself with the newborn. I was prepared, though, with everything in its place. After a few hours, my newborn started screaming his head off. I’d fed him, burped him, changed him, consoled him, yet he was screaming so hard that his face and chest were turning red. He began chucking like he could barely breathe, yet his screaming didn’t diminish in the least. 
At that point, I realized he was staring at a very specific spot on the wall near the door. I pivoted my hips while holding him, and he actually turned his head as far as it would go in order to maintain his line of sight. He was obviously looking at something, but all I saw was a blank wall.

I know a lot of folks call on White Lights and general happiness and all of that, but as somebody who’s survived NDE’s that went way south, I know the real score. There is one Name above every name, and that is a name I swore to serve. I called on it, speaking mentally in my mind: “Lord, give me my son’s eyes. Show me what he sees.”

In that moment, the blank section of white wall turned black as if a shadow was cast on it–a silhouette in the form of a man with a hat and coat down to his knees. Then, and I swear to God I was clean as a whistle (I drink socially at special events, never had a hit of even marijuana, much less any mind-altering drug), I saw the shadow step off of the wall and turn into a fully-formed 3-D apparition. It was no longer shadow; it was like a hole in the world. . 

I won’t go into childhood experiences, but suffice it to say that I maintain a general awareness of consciousnesses around me, and it was almost as if this Hat Man did not have a standard one. He was no “ghost,” and not like any demonic entity I had encountered in the way of his boldness. Most demons will flee when caught with their pants down. Still, I was unafraid.

I clutched my son tightly to me and turned sideways so he could no longer look regardless of how he cranked his head. I looked that fiend straight where his face was supposed to be and glared at him. In my mind, I said with all my being, I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME, AND YOU KNOW WHO I SERVE. I WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY ONCE, AND YOU WILL OBEY BECAUSE I COMMAND IT IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. Not wanting to upset my newborn any further, I followed that up with a single audible word: “Go.”

It was said in the faintest of whispers, but the Hat Man was carried away as if by gale force winds. I whispered to my baby boy, “Don’t worry, son. The bad man can’t get you now.”

He stopped crying that instant, going from hyperventilating red-in-the-face to calm and peaceful in less than 2 seconds. He breathed deeply for a moment while his lungs calmed down and was asleep on my shoulder before I could cross the room to sit down and rock him. 

I talked to my wife about it when she came home from work an hour or two later. She told me about the last time she had seen the Hat Man. It was a dream where he appeared in the flesh as he had the first time, though this time he was armed with a sword. She had a sword that appeared from nowhere, and fended off his attacks. The battle began in a house and eventually moved outside into a field of flowers. After a long fight, she knocked him to his knees and beheaded him Highlander-style. That had been 9 or 10 years before that day.

At first, my wife was concerned that “he’s back,” but the holy power that removed him from my apartment was so all-consuming that it had filled my son and I with peace. I encouraged my wife to trust in Him, and neither my wife nor myself have seen the Hat Man since. My son is now of a speaking age and still sees people that the rest of us don’t, but he has yet to mention one with a hat.

God is powerful and he is good. May he continue to protect you and your family.

im really scared I saw this thing in my room and well I don’t know what to do this thing keeps getting closer and closer to me someone please help me I cant take it any more………I cant live like this any more…….HELP ME>>>>>>>>>>

What you are seeing are Demons! This is demonic! I had similar experiences. One night, I was sleeping and woke up and could not move. I was paralyzed, and I called on Jesus. Then the hat man left as if something pulled it away. When I had my encounter with the Hat Man, I was Maturing/developing spirtually. This is ancient and had been going on for centuries. They are falling Angels! Jesus Christ casted these Demonic Spirits out while he was on earth many times and so did his disciples! THERE IS POWER IN THE NAME Of JESUS. In fact. JESUS Chist sent his out disciples to cast out demonic spirits in his name. In addition, Paul, the apostle, cast out demons as well. We are in a spiritual battle! Tell them to leave in Jesus name! Also, start your spiritual Growth- -give you life to God. It is easy. Tell God that you believe that his son Jesus died for your sins and rose from the died to justify you. And start reading the Bible- you will get a better understanding of these matters and find a church home. I would like to help you and whoever wants help! God gives all of us purpose and this is one task that he has given me. If you still need help, respond to this message. REMEMBER, GOD WITH YOU! BLESSINGS!

Pray and call out the name of Jesus!!

Everyone keeps saying that hes evil, I’ve seen him a few times, and one time I saw three shadow figures who weren’t him holding hands. Anyways, he doesn’t seem to be malicious at all, he just watched me floated above me and stared into my eyes. and another time sat to the left of my bed as I layed there, I saw him in my mirror and as I turned he swirled up and away into nothing. It’s definitely scary but I’ve seen him over years of time, he never seems like he wants to hurt me, he just watches. It is scary while it happens but after the moment passes he doesn’t seem like he wishes any harm at all. anyways that’s just my opinion everyones going on about fear and being strangled and charging him and what not and I just don’t see it that way at all it doesn’t feel like he wants to hurt you, just watch.

Same here. As a matter of fact, he has always followed me and my mom and has protected me before from another shadow. He is very tall and wears a top hat. When I was little my mom used to hold me and I would be looking behind her and laughing and at my grandmas house as a baby I would sit in the hallway and talk to somebody how a baby talks. Also up until I was six and started talking more about my encounters to my mom every night before when I got in bed and my mom turned out the lights and left my door all the way open to the hallway I would go into sleep paralysis kind of. All I could do was blink. When I blinked he would appear to walk down the hall towards my brothers room. Then I would blink again and some kind of dingo like creature that stood up on two feet with a long snout would stand at my door and stare at me. Later after a while all of a sudden a shadow gorilla would walk down the hall after the dingo like creature. One night long before I was born my mom had a dream where she saw top hat man and she found out his name is Thomas so that’s what we call him. Anyways I had a dream that there were hundreds of shadow gorillas chasing me and surrounding me with red eyes and Thomas appeared and scared them off with a sword and protected me from them. I’ve had many more encounters with him since.

Ok, I’ve never responded to a blog before so here goes….

I’m 43 years old and have never experienced anything like this before…3 years ago i 
was involved in a car accident and hospitalized for a period of 2 months (i flat lined at least 1 time during this period)…during my stay i experienced what i now know is the Hat man….some of the descriptions i’ve read throughout this blog r spot on with my own…he wears an old Top Hat and for me what appeared to be a long cape/jacket….my experience with the “Hat” was horrific, and left an impression that will never be forgotten.
-The hat was accompanied by what i viewed and small shadowy creatures. These creatures removed me from wherever i was (can’t quite recall where i was when they showed) and placed me on what i remember being a spinning globe with tall buildings, ships, piers, and what appeared to be a Ferris Wheel all of which were burning. these small “shadows” preceded to shoot small needles at me as i rotated on the Globe while the Hat watched and laughed…
I’m not sure how this ended but i remember waking in my hospital bed and finding out that i had been sedated since i arrived and this was the first time i had opened my eyes and spoke clearly. 
-I have told this story to everyone who has asked about my accident, while telling a close friend of mines the story he interrupted me during the Black Hat portion and told me his mom had a very similar experience when she was in the hospital, only in her experience the Hat just stood by here and watched her.

Well that’s it…if anyone can help me better understand what happened here i would greatly appreciate it…thx!

Dark energy hates nature and running water, it’s why many in the East put river rocks and running water (fountains) in their houses and yards (and keep them ordered).

I first saw the Hatman in 1993 when my mom had just died..I was in the shower at my aunt’s house looking out the window about to get out and there he stood..I couldn’t scream but I cried and ran..my aunt believed me and covered the window with news paper..but I never saw him again until 1996 I pulled up in my driveway and he stood there while my lights were in just standing and staring I turned my head lights off then on and he was gone I went into my house and began praying and didn’t see him for a while..I saw him in a window at my friends house while standing in her kitchen running a glass looking out the Window ..I told my friend about him and surprisingly she said she had saw him too…I never told any of my children about him fast forward years later 3 of my five children described seeing him one in his home looking out the window and the other was in his car seeing him in his back seat and another time while he was looking out the window…my middle son says he sees him and he tells him to do bad things his whole life and without actually speaking because he had no face.. the doctors diagnosed him as being schizophrenic..i don’t buy that because I know what we’ve seen..last year my grand daughter who was 3 at the time was coming thru my side door as she usually did beating her mom into the house…I could hear her running and crying when i asked her what was wrong she says the man in the basemen with the hat on scared her standing at the bottom of the stairs…She cried for an hour..it seems that he comes around when there is anger and fighting depression or great stress around but when I go thru my house and pray I don’t see him around for a while unless something bad happens or there is death in my family…glad I found this site..I’ll be sharing it with my sons..we know he exist but I feel like I know how to make him go away..

I never told anyone about my bed shaking. It happened every night, for a year. Thanks, i don’t feel so bad anymore.

I have seen the hatman. We just stared at each other. I thought i was seeing things. But it was him. That same night i seen the stars gather together.

He’s real we need god help

I started seeing him when I was very young. Now I’m a teen, but I still see him. But throughout the years he advanced. When I see him now he has a gun and a knife. My mom keeps saying it’s “just my imagination”. One time I awoke to him PULLING me out of my bed. Another time I awoke to him pointing the gun at my head.

The first I was driving near the beach in an old catalytic or something tht had 2 seats then he just popped up next to me in the passenger and said don’t be afraid we are watching but I felt erey not fear but wonder and concern than the next time I was in a dream by the way I’m the type of person tht can control their dreams to the point of waking up and going back to them the next night or wen I sleep from were it left off but this was different I was hanging out outside smoking with some friends all the sudden we turn around and there’s this place but then my freinds turned around then everything froze like I wasn’t in control which was weird for me then while approaching this palace mansion whatever it wasade of white and gold stones then as everything froze around me I was in awe know wat to think all the sudden a black hole looking thing pops up in front of me with wat looked liked stars inside from a distance like wen you see space at night I btw was still fully functional not frozen but stopped and stared as he walked out but he was not a shadow but a skin and bone looking grey man with black and gold red dot in the center eyes but his mouth was mainly chin as his. chin was pointy he never moved his lips but I heared we are watching do not be afraid so I wasnt then he held out a briefcase with a cane witch he had in his hands wen he came thru the portal with a top hat not like Abe Lincoln but same style not as tall he kind of smiled too it was weird like he had no bad intentions look on his face but than right as he. said we are watching don’t be afraid I woke up the third time I barely remember it was a pitch black room and I couldn’t see a thing then all the sudden he comes near me and says again do not be afraid which I was trying hard not to at tht point but came to senses and made myself numb so I wasnt he then tried to hand me the briefcase and I don’t remember after the I think I woke up but I didn’t have enough time to think so I don’t think i took the briefcase and his presence was a feeling like no other like how could he of stopped my dream in the first place and I always woke up after he said don’t be afraid we are watching anyone else have similar experiences 

This hat man is real
I have been attacked by this demon
Choked jumped on my body
These r demonic 
Spirits evil angels
I never knew this has happened to any one else
I remember the hat
Creepy
I called out name of Jesus
Ask he was choking me
Only way to get rid of them
I have been attacked by a cobra spirit 
Yes i saw it at night in a partially dark room
I covered my head n it pounced on me n choked me
This is real not made up
Scary

It seems everyone has only seen him. Did he ever talk? His voice is very raspy, much like he was gargling rusty nails. I’m thirteen and see him often. His trench coat is not black, but navy blue. He often likes to mess with my mind, make me see things I’d rater not specify, but he is a nightmare. Some thing hes an angel, but he couldnt be farther. I doubt Satan himself could do a better job at torturing a girl. His hands are clammy, scabbed, wrinkly, and his head rolls off easily. He is old, wrinkled like a raisin, with peircing black pits for eyes. His gnarled hands often hold an aluminum baseball bat, or a revolver pistol. He likes fear, but runs on pain. Emotional pain, physical pain, he doesn’t care. He favors his left foot, but dont think for a moment he isn’t fast. His scent is the most notable thing though. The coppery smell of blood and the sharp distint scent of mountain sage. If you smell that, run. Not out of fear, but out of caution. Sometimes he goes away, but some, like me, aren’t that lucky. He’s no run-of-the-mill ghost, he’s a specter that never leaves. Value everything you’ve been given, lucky escapees. For some are not that fortunate.

Read the comments find he came 3 times

I saw “the man in the hat” as I called him in the 1970’s, when I was 5-10 years old. I saw him several times at various times of the day. I couldn’t believe it when I found out that so many others have had similar experiences. I was always afraid when I would see him, never felt he was anything other than bad.

I am so happy I found this website. I too saw the hat man from 1967 to 1972 (started when I was five). I saw him about five times and each time I saw him I would begin to scream in shear terror. The first time I was five and I woke up to a solid black figure with a fedora and trench coat. My mother would always come running thinking I was being kidnapped. He always disappeared as soon as I began screaming, only once did he stay there until my mom got to the door. I have never been as afraid as I was of this being. There was something so wrong about him but I have never been able to explain why he was so evil. 
I did have one other experience (please post if you have also experienced this, I can’t find anyone else who has written about it) When I was five a man that was completely blue (electrical blue, he lit up the room) came to me and sat at the kitchen table with me for a long time. I felt such love and peace coming from him and I didn’t want him to leave. The only thing I can remember him telling me (as I was going back to bed) was to be a good person, that was most important. I can still see this as clearly as if it was yesterday.

When I was around 6 years old, I was home alone with my brother and grandmother. My grandmother went to sleep early and my brother and I ended up watching tv until late. He fell asleep and I was the only one awake in the house. I still clearly remember it being around 12 at night when it happened. I felt somebody watching me and I turned my head to the right to see a shadowy figure standing at the doorway of the bedroom. It had no face, just pure blackness and it had on a fedora type of hat and a trench coat. For a few seconds, it kept staring at me and I stared back but for some reason I didn’t feel scared. As soon I blinked though, it disappeared. Up until this day, I had thought it was my grandfather who had died recently before I had seen the shadowy figure. Today, I saw a youtube video where a girl described a similar experience and called it the hat man. I was shocked to learn that what I had seen that night was not my grandfather but some other spirit, or possibly a demon.

I think there is a common and over influenced opinion on here that shadow people and the hat man are the same entity. Unfortunately those that have only encountered the hat man, or a shadow figure would be biased in that direction but it would be wise to look into the experience and determine if this entity is wearing a fedora looking hat or not. Many accurate reports have also identified that he/it is also wearing what appears to be a trench coat or cape of some sort.

Shadow people are not necessarily the “Hat Man” ; if you are looking at a spirit in the dark – or dimly lit room it will appear as a shadow. I have never experienced a spirit that emits a glow that would brighten up their silhouette – although I have heard some stories which suggest they do exist. The majority of spirits will either be seen as mists or shadows depending on their ability to come into form and mass. The greater the mass, the less light will be seen through them. The less mass the more wispy or misty they will appear. I have seen and experienced spirits of varied form and density – and almost always, the darker they appear – the better ability they have to take shape.

The MO for the hat man , is and always will be a fedora looking hat. This is a constant – which is why he/it is called “the hat man”

Those that have experienced the hat man know it was the hat man – fear and dread accompany the experience. So honestly, with all due respect to other’s opinions out there – if you have had a “good” or “positive” experience, you have not had an experience with the same presence that everyone else has had which is a negative and tormenting one. Its honestly a bash, and really boils down to trolling – when everyone is coming on here seeking answers to the terrible or horrific experiences, and all you “good vibes” blowers are telling us how he rubbed you in a good way with butterflies and rainbows and all that crap. Its disgraceful and disrespectful – and equates to about the same as smearing your shit in the face of a family that was victimized by murder or rape. I know, you just want to have your childish moment of scribbling your opinions – but they’re offensive to those that have had terrible and very screwed up experiences with this being.

Bully? Ha.. What I am saying is that listening to people such as yourself talking about singing kumbaya around the campfire with a nasty entity whilst choking down a few more magic mushrooms gets real old. Majority rules in the case of the hat man, and it’s people like you that have no problem spitting in the face of the majority which equates to about as much sense as you suggesting you can have a positive experience with a murderer or a rapist. It’s not me that needs to sit down or take my “experiences” elsewhere, its you. I guessed as much that you would rush into a reply defending your view, after all you have already made fun of someone that shared a rape story. I’m not over-analyzing you, I think you’ve made yourself quite clear amongst those that have gotten terrorized by this being.

you are a jerk. I don’t understand how people can stand you. What we people here are experiencing are things from the other side. The world is not made from black and white. Shades of grey are mixed in all throughout this world in which we are in. People like you make me livid.

You can do a search for “shadow dog red eyes” on the web; there have been lots of reports of shadow people being accompanied by a dog with red eyes. It has gotten the nick name “devil dog” or “hellhound” because they always appear ferocious, non friendly, or in an attack stance. I have seen a devil dog before, it was about the size of a car one moment – then altered it’s form into about the size of a doberman the next. It also had red eyes – and stared at me briefly then disappeared all together. I thought I was seeing things, until someone else asked me if I saw what they saw.

It appears your case, as with the majority of others – the entity was bent on destroying your family and quite clearly focused on ruining your opportunity to have a normal life. Its still around you I’m sure – just not making itself known. Those that have experienced this entity can go many years, without any experiences and then all of a sudden – it’s back, because it never left.

Oasis Founder:
You are an ugly bully and also a liar. I will tell my story as it happened and you can kiss my ass. I hope other posters here see what an ass you truly are and refuse to let you bully them. You are a coward who cannot tolerate other viewpoints and so you try to shut them down with your nastiness. I hope the Hat Man you so fear pays you a visit soon and scares the hell out of you, since it seems to be what you relish.

Thanks, I appreciate the support.

you’re welcome.

she is a sick one, and I agree karma will catch up to her. dont even bother with her, shes not worth it.

In truth, I did not trash her. She jumped into the fray after I posted a defense argument towards seeing people post positive things about a being that, in the majority of those that have encountered or experienced it has been a negative and traumatic experience. If you scroll up higher in the discussion, there was a poster named “SS” who shared a rape experience – I commended his/her bravery; and she posted in the same said discussion that she didn’t agree with the negativity. Despite her intentions, it was blatantly vile and cruel. My critical post regarding people sharing positive experiences towards a being that has shown acts such as violence, intimidation, destruction and rape – did not have her name attached to it. If this does not answer for my intent being non-malicious, I do not know what would.

I agree. It is important to gather all information first, only then can the unrelated information become obvious and thus disregarded. If only similar information is gathered then things are missed. I personally would look to psychological, neurological and scientific studies,quantum or otherwise, along with paranormal investigations for explanations. This I have not researched much and cannot give my opinion on, I have however looked into sleep paralysis as I lived with someone who experienced it regularly and know that there is neurological studies being done into it and that there is information which gives possible explanations for its cause which makes me wonder if there is any connection with this phenomenon. Just my thoughts.

I have seen the hat man twice but during both times I was experiencing sleep paralysis so I could not move to only stare at him in what I would call sheer panic and fear. The first time he was in the doorway, the second time he was closer to my bed. I had no idea until tonight while watching a documentary on sleep paralysis that other people had seen the same thing. I am so scared and freaked out right now. It has probably been 6 or 7 years since this happened and I was in my late twenties

I have had encounters with the hat man mainly in my dreams..very violent ones and it caused me to have severe severe insomnia my entire life I used to keep a dream book. My encounters with the hat man still haunt me till this day. He would Always walk right into my front door. For some reason in my dreams whenever he came my entire family would be sleeping in our living room on cots. He would walk in and stare at me with this haunting look then he would pull a large butcher knife out of his trench coat and proceed to brutality stab each one of my family members..one at a time slowly. And I would always be last. Sometimes i would wake up before he started killing sometimes as he was about to stab me I would wake up.this dream was reoccuring my whole life. Always the same scene. It has caused me to fear going to sleep at night. This started when I was about 7-8 im not 32. They are not as frequent now. But when I was 21 my sister was telling me about a dream she always has of the same man and he’d always be chasing ME in her dreams. I showed her my dream book where I had the same dreams of the same man. Now my daughter dreams of him. It’s really really messed up and I wish I knew how to stop it. Why is this man haunting my family?

I couldn’t believe that few years ago i found on internet people had seen the same thing as me.

I was 7 years old in the kitchen when I went to walk out and the very tall dark solid figure but no face was starring straight at me the weirdest thing is i don’t remember what happened after that,,, it’s almost as if I’ve blocked it out. The other time i saw it was when i was in my dining room and i saw some very tall black figured man walk past the door and my dog noticed as well me and my sister searched the whole house for a robber, no one was there.

I Been seeing this man for so long any one there can help me pleas call me 267/471/6085. I am not crazy

I wish I could tell you what this thing is but I just don’t know. This “hatman” has haunted my dreams since I was a kid he would come into my home and stab my entire family in front of me and then before stabbing me I would always wake up. It’s a gruesome dream. Then I found out my little sister would have dreams of him chasing me and stabbing me. Now my daughter dreams of him. It’s horryfing. You can email me if you’d like to talk more. It’s a really scary thing I never thought to look it up online till now when my daughter started telling me about him. I suffered insomnia my entire life because of him afraid to go to sleep at night. I’m 32 now. But my daughter is 13 and maybe you guys can compare story’s and we can figure out some more info on this thing. Only if you feel comfortable to email me if not we can communicate on here. Or you can look me up on facebook. “Nicky Marie”
My email is Smashingbeauty19@gmail.com

I am 32 going on 33 this October. I first saw him when I was only 10 years old, that was back in 1992. During the conception of the internet before it was known to the public. So obviously I never saw it on Google since it wasn’t around back then. I have never heard the stories of the hat man or even known of his existence in any shape or form before that night. I was staying the night at my grandma’s house that night and I was sleeping in my uncle’s room by myself. My little brother stayed in my grandma’s room which was in the next room. I just woke up in the middle of the night and I noticed something in the corner of the room next to my grandma’s door. It was pitch black in the room so I couldn’t see my own hand in front of me, but this thing was far darker than the darkest black you could imagine because I could see him clearly. The first thing I noticed was the trench coat and the hat. I will never forget that hat. He was just standing there rocking slowly back and forth what seemed like hours. I couldn’t move or make a sound. It was in the corner furthest from me, not directly in front so I wasn’t sure if he was looking at me or forward. Now, I’m sure he was. I never saw a face. It looked like he had long hair too. The best way to describe him was like if you were looking at the Undertaker in the dark. Nearly the same height almost 7 feet tall. Finally at 5 in the morning my grandma’s light turned on in her room because she worked in a middle school cafeteria as a lunch lady. When I saw the light I figured if he passes the light and that light didn’t get blocked them I was just seeing things. Unfortunately I wasn’t because he blocked it like when a person passes by. Now I was really scared. Finally, the door opened and it disappeared immediately and I flew to her room and told her. Of course she didn’t believe me. 5 years later when I turned 15 I stayed at my aunt’s house and that same night it appeared again at my grandma’s house, only I wasn’t there. My mom told me my grandma felt it when she went to bed, but she swung at it and told it to go away. When my mom told me I knew it was looking for me. My gut just told me that. My parent’s didn’t seem to think that, even though my dad is more like me and open minded about the paranormal. The next night when I went home everything was normal and it was no longer in my mind. By the way, we were living in my grandma’s house and she moved to the new house that was fixed in the back. My room was the exact same room that I stayed when I was 10. This time I had a strange dream and I could feel his presence in my dream. I couldn’t tell, but my aunt was in it and she told me to not be afraid and don’t show it that I was afraid. I tried to yell with no sound. The third time I was able to get a low grunt and finally woke up. It was night and I was facing the window looking outside scared. When I woke up I went straight for the bathroom to lol in the mirror. There was a giant hand print large enough to wrap around my entire neck. That would be like me using both hands. You can see it was only one hand with very long fingers. You can see the index and other fingers wrapping and touching the thumb. I showed my dad and said, “Now do you believe me! ” My mom was still in denial and said I was probably choking myself. She knew the hand was too big to be mine though. The last time I felt it was when I was 18 and a senior in high school. I was listening to Metallica on my headphones, falling asleep on my stomach when all of a sudden both my arms went numb instantly without the tingly feeling. I felt his presence again, only this time I felt stronger than before. It never affected my legs which I still had control over and used my legs to swing my body over and in an upright sitting position and jumped towards the light switch and swung my lifeless arms to try and get the switch to on to turn on the lights. Somehow I took control of my hand and got it to turn on the light. As soon as the light turned on I had complete control of both arms again as if nothing happened. I’m talking about from shoulders to fingers. After that I haven’t seen or felt him ever again. I have felt things afterward. It may have been him, but feels much weaker than before. It could be that my spirit has gotten much stronger since then and my faith in God and his Angels sent to protect us. This is all true and it was only a few days ago that I actually Googled Hat Man for the first time ever. That’s how I know him by now.

These are just general questions looking for commonalities.
1# Do you see the numbers 111 or 222 – 333 etc, or any other combination of numbers repeatedly throughout your day? 2# Have you had a history of sleepwalking? 3# Have you in your life ever come across an animal mutilation or heard of one in your area? 4# Have you ever come across the remains of half a cat? 5# Do you suffer from allergies? 6# Have you or do you live near high voltage power lines? 7# Have you ever seen anything in the sky that you could not identify that seemed strange to you? 8# Do you have nightmares where you find yourself in a large grassy field? 9# Do you live near a large open field? 10# Do you frequently wake up coughing? 11# Do you have vision problems or do you wear glasses? 12# Do you have any marks or scars on your body that you don’t remember how you got them? 13# Do you snore? 14# Do you have asthma? 15# When you’ve had an experience with the hatman has there always been someone else sleeping in the house? 16# Do you think it’s possible that the hatman might be caused by another sleeper? 17# has anyone ever tried sleeping with a magnetic anomaly detector, vibration alarm or motion sensor in their room? 18# Do you sleep with a large mirror in your room? 19# Have you ever had the air quality tested in your house for toxins like mold or naturally occurring radon gas? 20# Have you confided with a medical professional or sleep specialist? 21# Do your family and friends also experience this phenomenon?

Hi Kirsten. I read your experience and it sounds to me like you’ve had a pretty terrible time of it over the last little while. I wish I had an instant answer for you and others to put your mind at ease but I don’t. All I can say to you is that my experience really happened and like yourself I am looking for answers. It doesn’t escape me that there may be more than one experience happening to people here and more than one possible cause. Whether some people are experiencing a real paranormal manifestation or being tricked by the greatest trickster of them all our own minds doesn’t really matter. No matter what is causing this terrifying phenomenon the terror and suffering is real. That to my mind means there will be more young children and people in the future suffering this unwelcome and terrifying intrusion into their lives. For me finding those answers would be a worthy endeavor if it brings peace to suffering. I think when your dealing with any unknown or seemingly impossible problem, one of the best places to start is by asking a lot of questions. Perhaps if a lot of people honestly participate it will show us some commonalities or synchronicities that could lead us to answers and truths. Maybe we will uncover something that was right in front of us that we may have missed. And by all means if you think of some questions you would like to add to the list please do. Thanks for answering the questions Kirsten. I will do the same. Oh, and one other thing. On the first question you answered you said, ” no, I haven’t noticed any repeating number combos.” I find it curious that your comment in answer to my questions was the 222 comment on this page. 
1# In the days of my experience I would frequently see the numbers 333. Now I see the combinations 111 222 333 444 555 1111 1212. 
2# Once when I was a kid. It consisted of walking back and forth in a hallway and I apparently said I was just going for a walk. That was the only time. 
3# Yes. I found a cat in a field when walking my dogs. It was the front half and it was cleanly cut in half. I reported it to the authorities at the time. 
4# Yes.
5# No I didn’t at the time of my experience but I do now. 
6# Yes.
7# Yes. Twice when I was young.
8# Except in the dream I talked about in my experience, no. I don’t suffer nightmares. 
9# Yes.
10# No.
11# At the time of my experience no. 
12# No.
13# Sometimes. I don’t suffer from sleep apnea. 
14# No.
15# The one time I did yes.
16# I don’t Know.
17# Yes. I made a magnetic anomaly detector when I was a kid. I didn’t at the time of my dream or do I now. 
18# No.
19# No.
20# No.
21# No.

In the future I will explain my thinking behind my questions in a little better detail.

1# Do you see the numbers 111 or 222 – 333 etc, or any other combination of numbers repeatedly throughout your day?

Definitely. For some reason, I also like 1112, or 1212.

2# Have you had a history of sleepwalking?

I’ve never sleepwalked, as far as I know. I don’t talk in my sleep either.

3# Have you in your life ever come across an animal mutilation or heard of one in your area?

No. I hope I never do.

4# Have you ever come across the remains of half a cat?

What? No.

5# Do you suffer from allergies?

No.

6# Have you or do you live near high voltage power lines?

There are some right behind my current house, but not before this one and not when I had my experience.

7# Have you ever seen anything in the sky that you could not identify that seemed strange to you?

Just once. When we were kids, my brother, sister and I saw a round object dancing around and hovering near a communications tower. The incident turned up in the papers the next day. Apparently a lot of people saw it. 

8# Do you have nightmares where you find yourself in a large grassy field

No. I don’t have nightmares.

9# Do you live near a large open field?

There’s one right behind my house, but this is the first house I’ve lived in where that is the case.

10# Do you frequently wake up coughing?

Sometimes, as I’ve gotten older. Not to be gross, but the phlem gets a little thicker as you get older. But not when I was a child.

11# Do you have vision problems or do you wear glasses?

I do now, but not at the time I had my experience, when I was 16. This was 40 years ago.

12# Do you have any marks or scars on your body that you don’t remember how you got them?

No. I think I remember them all.

13# Do you snore?

As I’ve gotten older, yes. When I was younger, no.

14# Do you have asthma?

Mildly, yes. But they’ve never medicated me for it. It doesn’t seem to bother me. It was more of a problem when I was an infant. My mother smoked throughout her pregnancy. In those days, they didn’t tell you not to do that.

15# When you’ve had an experience with the hatman has there always been someone else sleeping in the house?

Yes, at first I thought it was my Dad, but it turned out not to be.

16# Do you think it’s possible that the hatman might be caused by another sleeper?

Another sleeper? Do you mean like a sleepwalker? Not in my family. Or some sort of mental projection? Uh, I guess, but for me that would have to be proven possible by science.

17# has anyone ever tried sleeping with a magnetic anomaly detector, vibration alarm or motion sensor in their room?

No.

18# Do you sleep with a large mirror in your room?

There was one on the back of the door when the incident happened to me, but the door was open, so I wouldn’t have been able to see into it at the time.

19# Have you ever had the air quality tested in your house for toxins like mold or naturally occurring radon gas?

No.

20# Have you confided with a medical professional or sleep specialist?

Had a sleep study recently, but that’s just in the past few months.

21# Do your family and friends also experience this phenomenon?

No. I only experienced it once, 40 years ago. I know that it wasn’t a dream, because I was awake and talking to it, although it didn’t answer me. I also stared at it for several minutes while it stared at me, before it finally turned and walked towards my sister’s room.

I watched the door for quite a long time, expecting it to walk back again, but it never did. (My sister was 10 at the time). I finally fell back to sleep a few hours later.

Your #4 question is very interesting. I have seen a back half of a cat run across the livingroom at my cousins house. This was about 38 years ago.

Apriljean
I have never seen an actual dead half a cat either. The back half that I saw was like a black shadowy and it appeared out of nowhere, ran for about 10 ft’, then disappeared. I remember jumping as it scared me. I was about 12 or 13 years old.

I had this figure tell me to wake up and watch last night at 2.55am. I felt terrified at there being something I had no explanation for. However this was just the start . I walked to bathroom and my dog was on the stairs to scared to come up. I went to get a drink downstairs in kitchen and went back to bed. My girlfriend was semi awake and asked what time it was. Then she said she got a bad feeling about a plane/airport. We gave up trying to sleep after this and went downstairs to watch television and see if there was anything about this bad feeling. We seen that some of her friends had been hearing planes aswel. Then I see that my cousin who going on her honeymoon airport been closed all night due to a bomb scare. Thankfully that was all it was a scare but why have this ‘man’ visited me? Help would be appreciated.

I saw him once. He was standing next to my bed looking down at me. I spoke to him, thinking it was my sister messing around. He turned and walked out the room. I followed but he was gone. Never felt fear then. Then many years later I saw a hooded figure who came at me one night when I walked to the kitchen in the dark. I was terrified and couldn’t get the light on quick enough. I managed to turn it on just as it reached me but the figure was gone.

Yes my friend and I saw the hat man, he was tall, glowing green, transparent. Prolonged apparation… So here is the story…I was always curious about ghost’s, if real or not. It was a hot summer night, my friend and I were having an ice cream at Friendlys, when we ran into a group of Gothic chicks. So… I said to one of them, my friend and I want to see some real shit for once…. So she told me to go to the tennis courts in Hawthorne, NJ…. So off we went. We parked the car, got out… We sat on a giant rock, closed our eyes and stilled our minds…. meditating basically… When we opened our eyes appeared the hat man glowing green, it was faint…but glowing just enough to be certain… He walked down the hill of the quarry above the tennis courts, but there was also a black shadow figure simultaneously walking by the apartments, that could have been a deer but the way it approached us slowly and cautiously was very… creepy… Now the hat man like a straw hat… He was maybe 50 yards away and the shadow figure which could have been a deer was maybe 25 yards away.. we left… But my experience was like Barry’s experience. The quarry now has newer condos built over the site which the hat man apparition occurred perhaps 10 to 15 years ago. But yes, The Hat Man Apparition is the real deal…No bullshit, I wouldn’t have wasted my time writing all this. Anyone else see the hat man as Green and glowing??

i just found out that the whole world has experienced this “hat man” phenom. Ive had the same experience my senior year in high school 6 years ago. i remember it vividly. i was dating a girl that at the time i realy thought i loved. her famly balived in buddhism a nontheistic religion, my famly balives in christ. I never let religious baliefs get in the way of my relationships i would just keep a open mind about how other people balive and worship a person with a philosophy “buhda” instead of god. This is my experience. One late night around 12:30 am i was waitng for the season finale off “fresh prince of bell air” to come on, the show starts at 12:35 early in the morning on b.e.t i think the chanel was. Once it came on i was super tired at that point, i was trying to fight my sleep to stay up in between commercial breaks, to see how the season fanale was gonna end. during the 3rd commercial break i started to doze off, but my conscious was telling me stay up to finish the show. I then fell in a deep sleep, like my body was alseep and my mind was awake, i could not move, i could not speak, but i can still here the tv. Every time will smith said a joke “punch line” i could here the studieo audience laughing. I was petrified, i felt like i was paralyzed. I tried with all my mite to move my foot to kick my little brother who was next to me sleeping, to wake him up to try and wake me up. I couldent move it hard enuff to nudge him. It felt like i could barley open my eye lids, just enuff to peak, but not fully open my eye’s. I could bareley move my neck, i went to turn my head towards my tv, wich was on my left side, and the that’s when i seen this “hat man” just a dark silhouette crouched over by my bed side looking up at me, like he was nealing or somthing, but as soon as i seen that, i just closed my eye’s and said a prayer and called out to jesus, when i said jesus name in my prayer, the figure fleed fast, and all of a sudden im fully awake and i could move again, i jumped out of bed & turned on the lights and looked under my bed, and opend the closet. Nothing was there. And the “fresh prince of bell air” finale was still on, not evan close to being over. I felt like that experience was lasting for hours. But it was just minutes. I felt like i was forgeting to communicate with god, i was starting to grow apart from him, and more close to the girl i was dating that, he allowed these fallen angels to mess with me , but i learned to always put god first. And these fallen angels are weak compared to the power of god. They cant harm you if your mind is rite and you truley balive in god. Never had another experence since then. They only come around people who have faith in god. Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowels around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. God bless you all. & pray every day to keep god in your presence.

My faith is strong but so is he 🎩 😞

THE MAN THAT I SAW WAS DISTENCT AND TOUCHED ME AND WHERE HE TOUCHED ME YRS LATER WA SA TUMOR
……………………………………………………………………..QUINCIDENCE OR NO???????????????/

I have not seen this man. I hope I never do. However, my boyfriend often tells his story when we are on the subject. Years before we met, he was living in Louisville Ky, and he saw a figure in his apartment. Tall man, trench coat, fedora. He had just recently started dating this woman, she moved in, and weird negative things started to happen. They broke up, and everything went back to normal. We think she might have brought these negative this with her. Anyway… It is September 11,2015. I literally just heard about the hat man on a podcast. I looked him up. Sure enough, the exact description my bf has been telling me. I told him about it, he didn’t believe me at first untill I read to him: the description and the circumstances on why he might appear. Weird.

I have seen him but with a crow on his shoulder this was when I was2 I’m now 33. I wake up every night at 320am and feel a presseance I know it’s him. The past few years I have been getting angry and mad at things I would never be mad about. This year I woke up being choked and had marks on my neck. I feel like I’m losing myself and want to die .

I’m impressed by the number of people who had shared the same experience. It was very late at night when I heard weird noises coming from the kitchen, of someone turning the door knob frantically, which was impossible, for the passage to the kitchen is severely locked. Hearing it, you can presume that I was absolutely scared, I think I was 13, I runned to my parent’s room to sleep between them. Then I saw, while I was laid on the bed, a dark figure, darker than the darkness of the room, staring at me and my parents, who slept peacefully. While the figure was standing at the end of the bed, its shadow on the wall moved and advanced. It was distinctly the shape of a tall man wearing a hat, and it was no vision, product of dreams, for I kept staring at it to certificate myself. I tried to touch such mysterious figure to see what would happen, because firstly I thought that it could be some sort of robber who had invaded the house, but, of course, it wasn’t. I tried to move, but it was impossible, my father was sleeping near me, I could have touched him by just moving a single finger, but it was absolutely impossible. I tried to scream many times but no sound came from my throat. I tried to organize my thoughts and conceive the nature of that being, but fast as the bullet of a gun, some sort of external thought reached me, warning that it was no benevolent being. As the figure’s shadow advanced on the wall I panicked and in a ignorant move, I closed my eyes and tried to sleep again. And it worked, and in the morning everything was normal as if never had happened.

I’ve seen this figure, and I had no idea it was something that others had experienced until coming across this page *just now*. 

I have never forgotten it, and I think of it often even though it happened nearly 30 years ago. I was about 4 years old and I was sleeping in bed with my parents. It was early in the morning and they were still asleep, and I sat up in bed and saw him in the window across the room. The man was standing there, looking in at me from outside––a black shadow of a man with a wide brimmed hat. Then he walked away. I remember thinking that it was my uncle coming over for a visit, so I woke up my parents to show them and they dismissed it. Then, I became terrified when I realized that a stranger had been watching me. I’ve since brought it up to my mom and she doesn’t remember it at all.

Seeing this black figure in a wide brimmed hat has aways been one of my most vivid childhood memories. The fact that other people have experienced this too is crazy.

Hello Kim,

If you profess and plead the blood of Jesus then this thing will flee. Jesus will deliver you everytime. 

God bless you,
Kelly

I saw the Hat Man in my childhood, from 3 to 9 years old. Mostly in my dreams or when I was about to fall asleep. I was more curious about him than affraid. He didn’t do anything. Later, I could not see him, but I could sense him in my dreams, it was a presence and I knew it was him. I saw him in my dreams just before nine eleven, he was in one of the buildings just before the explosion. 
One of the explanations i found of his identity is that he is Odin who, after Ragnarok, managed to escape and he walks incognito in a interdimension trying to find a way to regain Asgard, 
One thing i am almost sure of, is that he is not a grim reaper.

My grandmother’s father told her stories of the tall man in the top hat. my dad saw it about twenty years ago late at night when he went for a cigarette, in the forest behind the house he saw a tall man in a black long coat, a top hat, and burning eyes staring directly at him. He always thought he was seeing things until he got a computer and found out that he wasn’t alone

Yes it is. And this is one of those times where I’d be very happy to be wrong.

Just as I mentioned to you that this blog has became more active recently, a major world event happens! Paris yesterday! This is crazy..

Hi Micah Ackerman. I hope all is well with you. I would like to ask you a question about the time stamps assigned to the comments on your blog. The comment made by Chris above,” It’s quite active now?” Was made just before midnight on 11/12/2015 and now it’s 11/13/2015 05:57:51 My comment in response was made on 11/13/2015 00:00:50 When I look at both comments on a different device the time stamps are different again. Could you explain this to me? 
Thanks for your time. Take care.

My dad told me this story and he tells it the same constantly saying he’d never forget the experience about 16 years ago. 
Late at night he went outside to have a smoke, and he noticed in the forest behind the house where he was was, he has seen a tall black figure, with a black long cloak, a long top hat and he said it looked right at him with red eyes. He said he couldn’t see his face but it was so frightening to him he had trouble moving and he finally had the ability to run back inside. After my dad told the story, my grandmother couldn’t believe it, and freaked out! my grandmother’s father (has been dead for a while now) used to tell her the story of the same man in the exact same description, and to warn her of him when she was a little girl. Apparently the apparition was commonly seen outside of someone’s window or driving at night by the woods.

After reading more than 200 posts about this I decided to post my experience so I don’t really remember how long ago it was recent like a few years ago bit it occurred during sleep paralysis I woke to see a shadow in my doorway fear erased through me as I watched it approach it then disappeared and left never too be seen again

I am here to reply again with some significance to the multiple situations involving the man in the hat. 

YOU ALL; Must become Very Honest with yourselves, to the Core of Possibility as You CAN. 
You must dig deep into yourself, upon the feelings you have of the Dark… And I do not mean Evil Dark, darkness in it’s shadow state— as that shadow of darkness is where these beings LIVE-if you will, RESIDE, they are Filiments of The Shadow Dark side and ARE NOT TRULY ALIGNED TO ANY ORGANIC LIGHT OR DARK PATH; 
they are the ANTI-MATTER Artificial Energy of Universal Experience; truly I do understand their purpose of existence, other than they are here to REMIND US, of what it takes to CLAIM yourself, ALIGNED AS A CHILD OF GOD, to full Organic Balance of Your Masculinity (light, and Femininity (dark) to IGNORE either side would be foolish; and WILL CAST A SHADOW OF FEAR onto EITHER THE LIGHT OR DARK within yourselves, and then you create Evil Dark Vampires (as in the Hat Man) for neglecting your dark
OR ZANY SELF-RIGHTEOUS LIGHT ZEALOUS personality (like an over-devoted Bible Puppet) for neglecting your light

AND these SHADOW versions of the Original Organic Sources, 
will BUILD AND BUILD and COME AT YOU in FULL FEARED MANIFESTED REALITIES, 
until you FACE YOUR SELF- Honestly, and Consider what part of yourself, you are Neglecting Ignorantly (literally ignoring a piece of yourself) 

ARE YOU TOO RIGID, UNFLEXIBLE, AND ASSERTIVE? (someone who accepts their Light more than Their Dark– and neglects their dark wild side) This case accepts their Masculinity naturally, but neglects their female side of their body, creating Imbalance! 

OR; 

ARE YOU TOO OVERLY EMOTIONAL, UNWILLING TO TAKE COMMAND OF YOUR ACTIONS AND LIFE, FEELING OVERTHROWN by YOUR WORLD AROUND? 
(someone who neglects their Light Side, and embraces their female side) 

OR ARE YOU BALANCED OF THE TWO? 

Light- SOMEONE WHO TAKES COMMAND, REALIZES THEIR LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZES EVERYONE INTO A COOPERATIVE TEAM, Flowing, and In Charge of Creating Abundance? 

Dark- SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS THEIR EMOTIONAL WILL, CAN EMPATHIZE DEEPLY WITH OTHERS, and SHARE EMOTIONAL STRENGTH TO CREATE A BOUNTY OF SECURITY FOR SAFE HAVEN FEELING within their OWN BEING, ABLE TO LEAP INTO LIFE with full trust in their hearts guidance? 

IF YOU DO NOT FEEL examples like the above text for balance female and male energy, 

THEN YOU ARE STUCK.
YOU FEEL LOST.
you are creating Evil Shadow Versions of Light or Dark beings, 

(in everyones’ case here, they are stuck in the dark side acceptance, and creating shadowy dark evil to creep into their lives at day and night) AND i recommend YOU now RESPOND to this, with FULL HONESTY in YOURSELF, 

to MOVE beyond BEING ABUSED, and FRIGHTENED BY THIS EVIL VAMPIRIC BEING. 

they will never stop coming until you Feel Balanced, Commanding, and Honest with your Emotions… 

UNTIL then, Be Prepared to Continue being Haunted. 

with Love, 

-Annyor

Hello all!

I’ve always remembered my experience with the Hat Man and it was actually a positive one. Though I was afraid, I wasn’t really afraid of him. I was mostly afraid because I was under sleep paralysis. I watched him come through my wall, walk next to my bed, then he bent down and kissed the top of my head. The cold shock of it brought me out of my paralysis and when I touched my head, it was still cold. Hat Man was gone. That happened when I was about 10 or 11 (I am 31 now). Though I have experienced other paranormal events, I have never seen the Hat Man again.

I was surprised to learn so many others have experienced this type of figure. I was also surprised to learn that my mother and her sister both witnessed the Hat Man when they were children.

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“I watched him come through my wall, walk next to my bed, then he bent down and kissed the top of my head. The cold shock of it brought me out of my paralysis and when I touched my head, it was still cold. Hat Man was gone.” 
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That is so frigging cool. I get so annoyed with people saying nonsense like, “they’re demons, call out for geezus” or, “they feed on fear”, I partly pity them but I also get quite angry because such silliness does nothing to further our understanding of what these fascinating entities are, where they come from and what their purpose is.

I saw the hat man about 7 years ago. I was 36 years old at the time. He was standing at the foot of my bed. He wasn’t alone there were 2 other shadow men with him, one on each side of him. He was extremely tall. I wasn’t afraid of him. I do remember that I had had almost no sleep for at least 4 or 5 days prior to this. My husband was in bed beside me half asleep and I told him that there were shadow men at the foot of the bed but he just thought I was crazy I suppose. He didn’t see anything. I just remember thinking wow who are these shadow men in the room and even chuckled about it. They seem to stay there for a little while, maybe 10 minutes or so and then dissapated. I had never seen them before, or since. I also had no idea that anyone else had had similar experiences. I would love to one day know exactly what the hat man is or why we see him, but im guessing like a lot of questions that will only be answered when we die.

hi sandra, yes you are right, 
the hat man is not evil in any way; 

these beings are the projections of the people’s fears, broadcasted outwardly (usually created from the unconscious level of their brain, unrecognized by the experiencer that it is THEMSELF who Create these beings) 

in your case, it Seems you Have Delt with the “light and dark” sides of life, to where you perfectly understand what a perfect union of harmony is, meaning that you understand the dual nature of gender, 

you see that light is male, is inspiration and joy, 
you see that dark is female, is potent, and raw, 

anything outside of these truths are Shadows of truth, thus people experience shadow versions to where 

light now becomes a Self Force of Domination (male unbalanced) 
and Dark becomes a manipulative emotional evil (female unbalance)

YOU feel Comfort, because you KNOW your Female Energy within, AND YOU have Wisdom to share your Comfort, because YOU KNOW of your Male Energy within, 

AND OVERALL, you are Perfectly Balanced with Wisdom of the Universe. 

enough to see through the fear, illusion, and deceit. 

LOVE YA LOTS! take care,

-Annyor

Hi! 
First I warning you, because my English is very very bad.. Hope so you understand something! (I come from Finland)
I have to write to you about my experience with hat man. I met him three times… First time when I saw hat man I was five years old. I was in the kindergarten and waited that my mother comes get me and we go to home. I played with my one friend. It was evening. Then I saw something strange. I saw dark human shape with big black hat on the roof. Shape was only dark, he didn’t had face.. He was only black shape. He walked back and forth. Then he stopped and waved to me. My friend saw him too. We ran up to our nannies and told what we saw. Then all of us looked to roof and hat man was disappearing. I remember that day like it was yesterday.
Second time when I saw hat man I was 13 years old. I was jogging with my dog. My dog stopped because she wanted made what she had to. Then I of course waited my dog and looked around. I saw hat man on the old fire station’s roof. It just standing there, about ten seconds and then disappearing. 
Third time when I saw hat man I was 15 years old. Me and my family moved to new house and first time when I had to be alone at home at evening I saw hat man. I watched tv at the living room. Then I feeling very strange and heard some strange voice and my dog goes to kitchen and barked. I go to kitchen too and I saw him. It just standing in front of fridge and looked me. I was very scared… Then it was disappearing. 
Year or two later I started thinking that hat man more and more. I made a google search and found something horrible. I found pictures of hat man and some interpretations of hat man. Hat man forecast death. Death to person how saw hat man or to person’s family. Then I thought and realized that after one year when I saw hat man first time, my grandfather and grandmother’s mother both of died at the same week. After one year when I saw hat man second time, my very good friend died. And after third time when I saw hat man, my grandmother’s mother and my grandmother’s brother both of died at the same month… 
Actually I saw very often some paranormal and strange things… Maybe I am just crazy?

Woooooow that’s scary as hell. Would love to do an interview , I’m producing a full documentary on this entity. Email me : hatmandocumentary@outlook.com

When I was about 10 or 11 years old I was sent to church summer camp. Over all it was a pretty fun week up untill the last night i was there. I was in a cabin with about 8 or 9 other boys and my camp counseler anound just before dawn. We had two doors a screen door and a regular door which we kept closed at night. All of a sudden i felt an overwhelming fear like some one was choking me i couldnt move or scream out for help all i could do was look at the thing standing out side the screen door. It was a dark figure with a wide brim hat and coat all black. He had a white collar like a priest or it could have been a ribbon. His eyes were black as night and had a thin goatie that pionted down. He stared at me with the most sinaster smile, and i felt hopeless. All i could think of is close my eyes and prey, then i counted to ten and opened them. The entity was no longer there but the door was left open. I had blocked this memory for years before i told any one. I told my cousin about this preist looking creature, and she said she has seen him too during the day at a secluded tourest camp you had to fly into by plane wich only came once a week. Well her story is pretty creepy as well because there was no one else besides her husband and the tourists within 100 km from the camp. what ever this thing is its not afraid of showing its face.

I was 6 when I saw the hat man. My cousin, younger brother (5) and myself were playing in our backyard bouncing a ball. He appeared behind my little brother, and my cousin and I ran into the house. We kept yelling for my brother to run that “it” was behind him. He turned around and when he looked that the hat man, it disappeared. To this day, my cousin refuses to speak of it, because it scared him so much. Since we were kids, we called him the “Hamburgler” from the Mc Donald’s commercials.Three years later we moved 150 miles away my baby brother was born. When he was six, he and his friend ran screaming through the house to the kitchen where my mom was. She said they were terrified. They told her a man in a hat was in the corner staring at them and then he disappeared. Twenty years later, my baby brother was pulling up the linoleum in my parents’ house. When he did, on the plywood was a child-like drawing of the “Hamburgler”It scared the crap out of him. Back then, before cellphone cameras, we had a Polaroid camera. It took 8 photos before one was come out correctly. The first seven pictures all looked like cloud of dark gray smoke with an evil face on it.

On top of my gramatical mistakes, I just realized that I typed a lot of words wrong, I’m sorry.

I was about 4-6 years old when I seen the hat man. All I can remember was the dark figure wide brim hat and dark cloak. I was sitting at the top of our stairs and he kept motioning me to come down to him. My parents bedroom was at the bottom of the stairs, my dad must of heard me talking to him cuz he came out and asked who I was talking too. I told my dad he was standing right there. Of course my dad didn’t see him and I went back to bed. I don’t recall being terrified or afraid. But I knew I didn’t want to go to him. I don’t know if the hat man or dark shadow has anything to do with this, but I would have out of body experiences as a child. I remember flying above the house and tall trees next to the house. I can see all of these experiences in my mind as if it just happened. I wish someone could explain it.

for many many years my father has seen this man, he says, he’s been able to see it since he was a child, but according to dad, the hat man has never hurt him or anyone he knows, is just right there always following. He says that this man is just so dark he can see it in the darkest night. And in some twisted way he just lives with it, like my dad dosen’t even care about him

THIS IS CRAZY! I experienced this when I was about 8/9 (I’m 22 now) in an previous house me and my mum lived in, I was in mums bedroom playing video games when I looked over to the corner of the room and it was standing there, 8/9″ft tall, wearing a black, low brimmed hat that covered half his face, and a long black /dark brown 18th century style trench coat to his feet – almost exactly as everyone describes…

However, under the shadow of his hat I could see his face, larger than human, glowing yellow snake like eyes (with a slit) and a menacing grin with sharp, yellow glowing needle like teeth.

I only seen him for a brief second, I screamed for my mum and it disappeared as quickly as it appeared, to this day the image is as clear in my mind and it still scares me. From what I remember it was extremely evil and malevolant in nature.

As well as seeing him, the following tenants in the house also approached us and described the exact same man, they also reported their children being lifted high from their bed and dropped on the floor

Lots of strange things happened in that house, unexplained rattling noises at night, doors opening, clothes piles being scattered. I’d also dream of him all the time, me and my mum both sleep walked (we never did in previous or following houses) one night I even slept walked and jumped / was pushed down the stairs. The energy in the house was draining as soon as you walked through the door.
A clear memory I have of the time was that I was too afraid to sleep in my own room so I slept in my mums, and every night she’d do her usual nighttime ritual of bolting all the bolts on the door, and moving cabinets and heavy furniture to block the door, she was obviously scared living there too. 

I always assumed it was a ghost / demon / entity trapped in that particular house / area and was the remaining spirit of a Quaker (because of his clothing style and they are common in the areas history)

I’ve never been able to find information on the internet of anyone else seeing this same demon like figure until I found this blog when a friend mentioned that it could of been a ‘shadow man’, this is mind blowing.

I will keep updated with this blog, 

*Note – I live in Northern Ireland.

When i was around eight or nine in 1970/71, i came in one early evening from roller skating on the balcony in my block, this was in London, England; we had a stairway to the immediate right as it was a maisonette, at the top of the stairs was a man dressed in 1940’s clothes, trench coat, (although it was light brown, not black), and a hat. The figure was staring at me in the semi darkness, horrible, horrible eyes, i will never forget.

I rushed into the living room and shouted to my parents that there was a strange figure upstairs, my dad looked but they both dismissed it as imagination, and years later so did i, as a lot of American gangster films were shown on British TV in the early 70’s. But now i hear of these sightings, and i saw mine well before the internet and long before i even knew of this phenomenon. 

Also i obviously was not in bed, quite awake and alert, having just come home from hard physical play for most of the late afternoon.

It was darkish outside so it must have been winter because at that age i would have been nearly bedtime had it been full summer.

Chris he had large bluey/grey eyes, they were human eyes but the expression in them was terrible to see, staring, and as mentioned by me further up the page, psychotic. 

The Mac was brown like yours, not even sure if it was a trench coat, but it was long, and a suit, 1940’s style; now, here’s the curious part, even though i could only see his hat, eyes and shape clearly, nothing else was that visible, but i KNEW he was wearing that style of clothing immediately. 

I used to get hit as a child, not all the time, and not just one swipe either, but if i was late coming home from playing or answering back, it went in cycles, so it may have been then. Although i will say this was considered normal when i was growing up.

Also the coat was brown when I seen it too

John that made me laugh for some reason, i imagined him saying it in a firm Austrian accent, ‘Smoking, smoking’, lol!

Thanks for a light hearted moment in an otherwise disturbing thread!

My father in law dieing of cancer and has seen a man with a hat, a cowboy hat and he was not afriad, however his youngest son is very negative and is getting more mean by the day oddly enough saying really cruel things to his mom and dad of whom like i said is dieing. who’s this hat man?

Amen!! Thank you

I saw the hat man several times when I was a girl probably 5 to seven or eight. I would be sleeping on my side with my back to the door, but through my mind’s eye, I could see a sillouette of a tall thin man wearing a trench coat and I fedora. He would come towards me and I would be paralyzed with fear. I could see in my mind his gloved hand reaching to me. I world physically feel him tap my shoulder and all of a sudden I wake up, look behind me and no one was there. It was awful. I thought maybe it was the ghost of my grampa, because I saw he used to dress that way in pictures. It never made sense to me why I was so scared though if it was him. I recently watched the documentary about sleep paralysis and the “hat man” looked exactly like what I “saw.” 

I feel so shocked! I read all of these posts and realize it wa’s something or someone many people have seen. ..freaking creepy!

scarecrow

Wooooow. That’s heavy duty. Would you be interested in an interview ?im producing a feature length documentary on this hat man. Email me; hatmandocumentary@outlook.com , there’s more to this than you know

I saw the hat man about 8 years ago. I was going through a very stressful time following a divorce.
The hat man came to me three times when I was sleeping in my bed.
The first time he just stood next to the door and as if watched me. I got scared, but didn’the feel threatened.
The second time he came close to me. I was in really bad emotional state and felt that he almost came near to calm me down. He didn’the touch me, but has shaken my bed a bit to make me aware of him. I didn’the feel threatened. I felt that he was trying to help me get over the terrible emotional state I was in.
The last time I saw him was after I moved to a new home. Again he came and stood by the door when I was sleeping.
My life filled up with positive things very quickly and I never saw him again.

I was shocked to see that many people see this when I tried to Google ‘man with hat and cape standing at the door’.

I saw “hat man” before ever hearing anything about him. I saw him on three different occasions, at three different apartments over a period of three or four years. We live in the eastern part of Quebec in Canada. Hat man was a tallish guy, maybe a lil over 6ft, wearing a fedora, trench coat and for some reason I feel strongly that he was wearing gloves. 

I know we were having a hard time when I saw him (financially) but I grew up in an abusive household and had never seen him in my childhood so I don’t know if he really feeds off of negativity. 

Every time I saw him, he was standing at one of our windows staring in at me for several min. The first time I slowly called out to my then boyfriend (we had shared balcony and I thought it was a lurker), but by the time my boyfriend arrived, hat man had gone. 

In all cases, after a time of staring in, he would somewhat turn sideways while still staring in and “walk” off, but it seemed more like he zipped. One min there, the next gone making you doubt if you had really seen it. But while he was staring it was quite long. At one point after seeing him I was able to finish typing something on the computer (while not looking away from him), get up slowly from the computer, stand staring back for about two min, then walking towards him perhaps about five steps or more before he would leave. Another time I saw him in the kitchen window while I was playing with my baby on the living room floor, perhaps about 11 feet away. I was able to walk almost right up to the door beside the window he was looking into before he left. 

In all cases he left in the direction of the balcony that didn’t have any exit (to the left in our first and second apartments, to the right in our last). 

Each of those three apartments had “activity” of some sort, which is something I at first attributed to seeing him. When we moved into our current place the activity continued for several years, but Hat man has never been by. Thank goodness, I’d move if I saw him again. He fills me with fear and for a long time I was angry because no one else saw him. The last time he appeared I called for my former boyfriend/now husband and he finally was able to catch a quick glimpse so I know its not in my head. 

I saw this shadow in Memphis Tennessee he was touching my shoulder till my cousin called me he then disappeared

I saw the hat man when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I am 32 now. I am generally skeptical of alleged paranormal experiences when described by others, but I also accept that i certainly don’t know everything there is to know about the world. 

My sighting occurred, like I said earlier, when I was 5 or 6. I was in my bedroom at night, either trying to go to sleep or waking from a sleep, when I saw the shadow of a man in a fedora and what appeared to be a trench coat (of course, I did not know what a fedora or trench coat were at the time, but I’ve always remembered what I saw). The big difference from my sighting and others I’ve read about is that when I saw him, the hat man was carrying a pistol; he was holding it up in one hand, pointing out ahead of himself. Another difference is that I only ever saw what I believed to be his shadow on the wall. As I lay in my bed, his shadow appeared on the wall to the left of me, and I perceived that the actual man was to the right of me (but I never turned to look at first; it’s hard to describe why, but from what I remember, I was basically dumbstruck as I observed him). I saw his side profile moving slowly from left to right across my wall (only moving the distance of a few feet maybe, a step or two), holding the pistol out in front of himself. Then, he stopped, remained motionless for a second, and then it appeared that he turned so that the gun would now be pointing in my direction. At this point, I screamed very loudly and my mother came in my room to wee what was wrong. Like I said, when I first saw him, I wasn’t exactly terrified, but maybe more dumbstruck, and it wasn’t until he turned that I felt terror. I don’t remember exactly when/how he vanished, nor do I remember if I turned to my right to try to actually see him (and not just his shadow) when I saw him turn, or if I just started screaming and never turned to look at him, but during the time I began screaming until my mother entered the room and turned on the light, he vanished. 

I think I told my mother that I saw the shadow of a man in a hat with a gun, and we had always chalked it up to a little boy having a vivid nightmare (on account of the fact that I insisted I was awake, not sleeping, when I saw it). I never really thought much more of it until several years back when I heard about shadow people and the hat man, and when I began hearing multiple descriptions of what he looked like, I realized, I’ve seen something exactly like that. I’ve since discussed descriptions of the hat man seen by others with my mother, and she also has to admit that my description of him that night is eerily similar to what countless others have seen.

I thank God for your salvation. Please never forget the one who delivered you.

Beware!
By taking steps which I will tell You, the shadows should disappear from Your life. Buy Yourself a King James Bible, start reading the New Testament. The Lord will open Your eyes – those shadow people/hat man are satan with his fellow fallen angels! Jesus Christ himself has cast out these vile creatures out of people. Born again Christians have the power to destroy these evil spirits aswell. They dissapear and are terrified by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible describes satan as the father of lies roaming around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may bevour. This earth is his kingdom and because he knows his end (lake of fire) he wants to take as many people with him as he can. Appearing as ufo’s, ghosts, shadow people or marian apparitions, he wants to take you out of your body, he wants your soul.
“Everyone who hears the Truth, hears my voice” please look for the truth and God will grant You everlasting life and give You peace.
J.

Hi. I experienced sleep paralysis (only time i experienced it, at least i think that is what it was) when i was about 22 years old. I seemed to wake up and found myself completely and utterly paralysed at night in my bed lying on my stomach. Straddling my back/sitting on my back was a slim man with a STRAW HAT on. I tried my best to move but could not. The only other details i could make out was that he was pale in complexion and felt malevolent in his intent. Shortly after ‘his’ visit’ my mother tried to commit suicide (overdose with pills) in the bedroom beside me. She wandered into my bedroom and collapsed on the floor. She was later saved in the ambulance from certain death.

Woooow. He is associated with suicide and depression in my research. I’m producing a documentary just on the hat man. Here’s my email: hatmandocumentary@outlook.com . Would love to hear your story and a possible interview?

I’ve seen the hat man several times since moving into the house I’ve lived in since i was 4 or 5. It’s shown no signs of hurting anyone and we are a very close family that hardly argue or anything of the sort. He mostly appears in the stair ways just looming and watching, I’ve never felt any kind of bad vibes from it or been really afraid of it. There are worse things in the world to be afraid of than it.

I used to think people were making up stories because I had never witnessed anything paranormal. And to the point where I would have dismissed something I saw 18 years ago as a figment of my imagination or confused state associated with mistaken identity, the “thing” that I saw in my hotel room became horrifyingly real after sitting down to breakfast the following morning with a coworker. Not sure how many characters I can use in this field, so I’ll just stop here. If anyone is interested in hearing more, let me know. I’ve never shared this publicly, and the only reason I do so now is because I just learned an hour ago that what I saw was something much larger and experienced by many.

Would love to hear more of your story on this hat man. Email me: hatmandocumentary@outlook.com // I’m producing it

I saw him in 2013. I was out for a walk just after sunset. There was still some light in the western sky but the street lights were on. He approached me on the street as I was walking back to my house. I stopped at my driveway and watched him walk nearer because he looked so bizarre, dressed like somebody from a Sherlock Holmes movie, moly all black. He stopped about about 60 feet from me and just stood there. That’s when I realized he had no real facial features only the shape of a head. I couldn’t see his eyes. It was too dark. I decided to get closer. I said a quick prayer, telling God that trusted him to have my back. I took about three steps toward him and he ran. He went from zero to about 30 mph in a second and disappeared past a neighbors house. I’ve never seen him again and don’t want unless I have witnesses.

I saw him when I was 15 back in 1994 , he was exactly 8 foot tall scary looking always with his hands in his coat pockets, legs folded leaning towards the right side of the door of any room in the house, he’s deadly not just dangerous, whenever he’s done with his victims they either live in fear or die ,but he’s immortal nothing can get rid of him, always gives nightmares, wounds,scars,scratches, blood marks, etc, the reason why I know all of this is because the experience I had with him was nearly deadly, it all started on a cold night the night was too quiet because usually in the city you would hear car horns but this night I didn’t hear nothing and yes poor stupid me had to go outside not only did I saw him outside in streets he chasing me my body began getting weaker and weaker that’s when he corned me his skinny body, his long black coat , and his hat I knew what was his intentions but I made it worser the more I tried to fight the more he sucking the life out of me, I woke up the next day on the street where I was attacked by “Hatman” I saw the scratches and brushes he left on me I couldn’t even walk because of how badly “Hatman” attacked I was laying there while I was rushed to the hospital, Hatman’s attack wasn’t over yet he waited for me to feel better then he came back but before he could’ve touched me I said a prayer then he disappeared he never came back to haunt me , so my advice would be this keep praying as long as you have God there’s nothing he can do.

I love horror movies and ghosts and I’m the type of person to believe none of it is real, but it is now actually happening to me and I’m currently experiencing incounters with the “Hatman”. I’m 15 years old and around 7 months ago I was waking up around 2:30 – 3:00 in the morning feeling a unexpected presence and after a couple minutes of my eyes adjusting to the darkness in my room I would notice a tall male figure wearing a big hat and coat, right behind my door, he would just stand there and look at me. I believe it happened around 5-7 times, I went to my parents and they slept in my room one night but didn’t see anything and told me that I was making it up. But a while after it stopped happening my house was broken into and the offender hurt my mother really badly. 

An I have just found this page because it has started happening again.. 
Yesterday night I was woken randomly by my broken alarm clock at 3 am and I kept tossing and turning for an hour straight because something was just bothering me and after I finally got to motivation to open my eyes, I saw him standing in the same spot and when I finally got back to sleep I had the most violent dream. 
Since this has happened I have not only been able to sleep in my room but to stay in my house. However I’m now not the only one who sees the “hatman” now. Last night I convinced my mum to sleep in my room and if he wasn’t there I said I’d come home. But of course early in the morning she was woken up and saw him standing in the middle of my room. She thought she was dreaming and was shocked at the reality of the situation. 

So I’m currently in need of help in what I should do to fix the situation? 

I feel people are mistaking this being. I would see him for around 4 years I would see him everyday. And this was a time when my family was going through a very hard time and i felt like he was protecting me. He had a very safe feel to him.I was never afraid I would wait for him in my room because he was the only safe feeling i would get all day. People aren’t dying around this man they are living. he is protecting. Convince me I’m wrong.

I saw one of them when I was 16 (so 8 years ago). I came home after school, and it was still very sunny outside. I saw him standing in the corner of my mom’s bedroom. And I was not imagining things because the curtains were open and nowhere was it dark in the room. I stood still, I was freaked out bad and couldn’t move. I could see him as a clear tall man shape with a hat. When I dropped my backpack on the floor, it turned towards me, it felt aggressive. And then it walked straight through my mom’s bed and toward the window and disappeared. I ran into the bathroom, locked myself in and kept crying till I had the courage to open the door and run outside and wait for my mother to come home. She never believed me. I do not believe in God but now I do believe that something else exist behind our reality. That experience has scarred me for life. I am scared of being alone at home because of that. – Gen

This apperition is all over longview wa right now my old landlord said he saw him once in at pud then at schucks auto supply he told the guy working counter hey get a load of that guys outfit the guy behind counter said what guy he turned around and he was gone he died a month after telling us the story then thiers a few homeless people we help out with food water money sometimes told us they saw him then right after maybe 6months or so they had died in crazy ways one drowned one hit by train other hit by hit and run driver its pretty crazy shit and i dont bealive anything or anyone but this story is crazy real!! Like coincidence maybe once but twice three times four hell no its not a coincidence anymore its crazy shit….

Woooolw you saw the hat man in 2-d form, very interesting, would you be interested in an interview? I’m producing a documentary just on this hat man . Email me : hatmandocumentary@outlook.com

This happened to me about a week ago I was sleeping and I woke up but couldn’t move and I knew I was having sleep paralysis but then I realized my fan wasn’t on. I knew it was on then I saw a shadow of a man with a hat I tried to look at it but I couldn’t move my eyes around then I fell back asleep and woke up late the next morning and my fan was back on. I didn’t know about the hat man so I decided to look it up and I’m scared I’m so to see him again.

I’m producing a documentary, only on this hat man, can you send me the hat man painting . Would love to see it and talk about your experience, email me : hatmandocumentary@outlook.com

I have never heard of this guy or that other people see him until tonight. We stayed in my house for close to six months. My step daughter(17) said she saw him and was scared of him since her, her siblings, and father moved into this home. This house was built in 1930 and when my husband and I met an do moved in a could tell it was way more than meets the eye. However, my stepdaughter never went into detail about this man. Actually never referred to him as a he only “demon” or “devil” she said he has “bright red eyes”. But I saw him one day standing in my bathroom doorway behind my husband. It was out of the corner of my eye but when I would look directly at him, he would disappear. I’d look back at my husband and he would be there. Plain as day. Mind you, this door way was less than 10 ft away from me. He stood every bit of 6′ 8″. Maybe even taller. Broad shoulders, huge wide brimmed hat. But no features. Only black. And not a transparent black. It was like incredibly thick smoke. I was startled by him at first of course. But I became used to him. He would twirl my hair while I slept. Or just laid on the bed. He would wake me up at night but at separate times, wake my husband abruptly yet my husband wouldn’t be able to move or sit up. My step daughter is still terrified of him even though he has been long gone. Yet he never made me feel uncomfortable after that first meeting. He almost felt protective of me. What does that mean? My husband and I met in October 2014 and we didn’t start dating until January 2015. His children didn’t know about me or anything and yet October if when my step daughter started having night terrors about this man and seeing him. And we only told the children about me seeing him here weeks after his first appearance because I didn’t want to startle her and I asked her to tell me what he looked like in every detail she can remember before I told her what I saw. And she simply said, “he’s really tall. Wears a big, wide hat. Like an old farmer would wear. And he’s terrifying. ” so sense k just heard that other people have seen him, what does this mean? Why was she so scared of him yet I was almost comfortable with having him around? Why did he seem protective over me? 

I know someone said he can signify death. My father in law past in Febuary this year. Connection? 

Thank you.

I’ve seen this creature when i was little i want to know if he every visit you

I want to mention … I wrote an essay down below on who these “Black Hats” that have been around for many years, who really are. They are Dead Businessmen. 

They cannot incarnate because of their ruthless and nefarious behavior(s) and the Karma they created was so negative extreme. They look for people to work with here on the earth plane while they are permanently stuck in the 4 D etheric plane. They are despicable men with no integrity, but they seem to want to be around people who are majoring in business degrees or who are already in business careers like banking, stock trades, and politics. 

If your daughter sees one, it might not be the same one or it could be because sometimes they are a dead family member of your family- not immediate family but rather someone who wants to be a nefarious mentor. Meaning they are not nice but rather evil minded and have agendas besides helping people come into great wealth. There is a price to be paid for having one of these helping you become rich and famous or just wealthy at someone else’s expense. 

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My wife and I both saw him at the end of our bed . l woke and he was standing at the bottom just watchn us. I woke my wife to see if I was imagining it. And she saw him too hr didnt scare us really. We shouted who are you and he turned and walked out room we followed to top stairs seen him go into sittimg room we rushed down but he was gone .. never saw him again.

What can you do to Keep the Black Hat Away from You?

Food Alchemy: Eat regularly: Garlic (Garlic Bread) YUM, Sautéed` Onions, Turmeric (A spice added to food via sauces), And you do not have to eat these all together but rather mixed in with something it would go with. Look for recipe’s ! 

What the Black Hats like about humans … FEAR … They like to feed off your fear or negative actions or reactions. Fear is a negative response they love. They love that energy. Try eating the above mixed into your foods on a regular basis. 

Your friend is a seer or one that can see entities in the 4th dimension. She also has lots of FEAR and that fear is what the Black Hat is feeding off of. If she can let the fear go and consume the food alchemy … he may possibly go away for good. You see right now he is enjoying his ability to vampire off her energies of FEAR. Most Dark Entities like the smell of FEAR and are energy vampires to take the life force of unsuspecting humans. 

J

The Black Hats

Well for years I knew about them. More recently I became a remote viewer and started interfacing with them in a bad way. Because I am a Spiritual Warrior, I am able to Zapp them with a Spark that literally makes them blow up into Star Dust. Because I am spiritual, I have been able to see them and know what they are up too. I seem to wake up immediately from my OBE and take care of them if they touch me. They come around if I interfere with their plans, that has something to do with business or politics.

The one thing I need to say here is when I have an “Out of Body” segment happen during dreamstate for which I am sleeping, I usually run into these kinds of “Entities” in the etheric and they try to find my human body asleep in bed. We all cord when we OBE. Meaning there is a line that leads back to where we are in the 3D – 5D realm for which we humans are physically located. 

Who are the Black Hats?? 

I believe they are dead business men bad karma who cannot incarnate ever again. They roam the 4 D abyss which is a space whereby entities are sometimes trapped. These kinds of Souls cannot incarnate because of the negative and even evil karma they had created previously as a human. The Black Hats do however work with Elitist kinds of people to do etheric business by over-soul-ing human(s) who are well aware they are actively interfering with the stock markets around the world and even banking. Some people would even say that is why they are seen with their Black Hat’s … It represents who they used to be and their importance to controlling lives in the physical world that you and I live in from the other side.

Yes there are many Black Hat’s and don’t be surprised if they were once rich and perhaps famous entrepreneur(s) who once in the past century wheeled their great prominence by being shrewd business men with ruthless tactics to take everything of wealth and material at others expense. We call this ruthless business men who created several stock market crashes when they were alive and who are known as the wealthiest men in America and elsewhere at that time in history. 

If these business men of great fortunes gather their wealth with Karmic implications of the negative kind, they were not allowed to incarnate as a human being and they will remain as a soul energetic seen wearing a Black Hat. Many times their faces are not seen or visible to recognize who they are. Maybe that’s a way for them to keep their identity a secret, but they can’t seem to hide their mean spirited behavior. They are used regularly in 3 D world business to take advantage of insider information and they seem to behave like Djinn by providing their minions whom has strategic access to big business and banking not seen by the human eye. They are insiders to hidden agendas and ideologies of the wealthiest men in the world current- right now. They provide enormous amounts of information to making millions in stock trades and other ambiguous business dealings, just to be part of this world. The return for the Black Hats is a slave in the making- A slave for the Devil, when they help Elites obtained in an evil manner or by dishonest means: ill-gotten gains. I am sure the Freemason’s totally get what I am saying here since they think they are extremely useful as an means to and end. They are not called Black Hats for nothing!

I had a experience with ” hat man” when I was around 7. I was trying to sleep in my dark room when a rock wall appeared at the end of my wall and then some people were jumping the wall and running. When everyone was gone the hat man walked through the wall very slowly and he walked up to me, I was terrified as I would look into this bottomless abiss of darkness. Then he dissapeared and then the same thing happened over and over again until it stopped around the 3rd time. That next day we heard that our nabor had just died of old age.

Black Hats … “Robber-Barons” of American History

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/richest-families-grandkids-gilded-age/405892/

I am pleased to share this information with all of you, because I accidently came upon at least 3 or 4 “Black Hat’s” in my bedroom some 5 years ago. 

The “Black Hats” shadow men definitely had blurry faces and they wore the “Bowler Hat” or otherwise called the Derby Hat. The significance of this particular hat … was that it was worn during the time of 1901 onward period.

http://www.thehathouse.net/2013/07/the-history-of-bowler-hat-or-derby-hat.html

What happened to me, is that I started to do Remote Viewing on a regular basis and I was able to remember what I was seeing in dreamstate. then once in a while, I would wake up and my room was full of people and not so pretty entities of the many kinds. But this one night these Shadow Men showed up in their Black Bowler Hats after I woke up from the Remote View Dreamstate. They were standing all around my bed. Two to right side, one to left side and at the foot of my bed. And they said nothing. So usually I have FEAR when something shows up, but this time I was like being challenged by a group of Shadow Entities that I had no fear of them being there … like they were giving me a warning by having all 5 of them show up at once. This was directly related to a Remote View I had about insider trading over in Europe that was all over the news. 

I found myself in a large building in the late hours of the night when everyone else was asleep. There was a room full of high speed trading stand alone computers on desktops and many stock traders wearing white shirts (no jackets) were busy making transactions to the whims of a very tall man (Reptilian) standing at the back of the room. Everyone had their backs being watched by this Man/Reptilian, Who was calling the shots. The building was in Monte Carlo on the top floor because when I looked out the sun was about to come up and I could see the small city state ocean water glistening in the sun in the foreground. I had gone to this small city or place in 1999 on vacation, so I knew where I was. 

Now these men working at their stations saw the Tall man as a “Man” but I saw him in his Reptilian state … His head sticking out of a suit and he was calling out all of the transactions for these stock traders to make. Now you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know what was going on here. Before I knew it he, the reptilian turned around and saw me … he saw my imprint or energy field up against the wall not far from him. That is when I made my exit and at that time back at my bed … This is the time I woke up to see the 5 “Black Hats” standing around my bed.

Spiritual Warrior is the terminology I use for myself. and it is who I have become. It’s what I had been trained to do. 

For your reading enjoyment and education …Excellent!

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Jesus is not God … rather he is an Ascended Master. 

Not all of us are Christians … because we were born free of religious slavery … but many of us believe in the creator who is the creator of all things in the universe. 

Faithful to deliver you from what? We can only save ourselves if we subscribe to saving one’s self. Not everyone is born free of sin(s) … Some people are born into a family of siner(s) … It is the wise (wo)man that can see outside of the matrix box of predefined religious beliefs and persecutions for which rules the heart and the mind until one wakes up to an obvious truth. Only YOU can save yourself. 

Fear is a Genome that every human has coded into their DNA. When the DNA is activated beyond the two-strands .. it will regenerate to it’s origins of the 12 strands integration… but until that time … FEAR remains an active ingredient of an religious slave to Elites who wish to remain in control of the populations on this planet. 

i have seen the hat man once,it was at my home in my bedroom right before going to bed just got into bed and on my wall to the right of me was a dark shadow man with a brim hat he was big shoulderd and just watch me ,i felt very afraid and started to sing jesus loves me and i just keeped singing it and closed my eyes,finally went to sleep and never had it happen again,at the time i was very depressed so not sure if the feed off that or not but seems like it.

Wow i thought i was the only 1 untill now when i seaeched it up, When i Was 13 me an my brother Was Playing in the Room an When We Walked Out We Saw Some Back Shadow Figure with red eyes an a hat Standing at the door of the other room at the end of the hallway at first we thort we were seeing things but then we looked at each other then looked back an it Was Still there So As kids We Ran away Screaming, an about a week later Or So i Was in the shower An Randomly had a weird cold feeling behind me then all of a sudden i felt this cold feeling step through me ,Was A Odd thing to happen while being under a hot water , later that night i had randomly felt sick an light headed an had the Crazyest Things going on in my head like some1 was talking to me telling me to do things with my own voice in my head, i had never told anyone this but it was like fightn with myself to Stop myself From getn up an grabn the knife an stabing my mother, til this day i never knew why or How i Had that Crazy Feeling. An About Two Years Later When I Was 15 an Locked up At a Caregivers House somthing weird happend I Woke up Half a sleep An Say My Room mate Standing At the edge of the bed an could jus see him by the light from my radio an as a turned Around i Remember Seeing Him on his bed b4 falling back to sleep, an when i asked him in the Morning Why He Was Standing Over My Bed,He ddnt believe me . What i Learned Was To never Fear Them An They Will leave You Alone. 
I Am Now 19 an had never seen Anything Since.

Who is he? How do you know? I’m producing a documentary on this hat man . Email me : hatmandocumentary@outlook.com

Have any of you noticed some strange characters in “Real Life” ???

One upon a time there was a man in the news called “Disgraced Lobbyist Jack Abramoff”. 

All photo’s seen of Jack is that of wearing a Black Fedora Hat. It’s an image he wanted everyone to see … That Hat and a Trench Coat. If you don’t believe me … go to Google and type his name in along with some other details. 

Several years ago he was working in Washington as a Lobbyist but he was also linked with murder and intrigue. I found his story fascinating because every time a Black Hat story comes up I think about him … what he will become after he passes. I mean after all he fit’s a comic book creation of a “Thug” wearing a Black Hat. 

The other part of Why we see people wear Black Hats and Trench coats enter our bedrooms or our homes and they make such a grand entrance leaving a very fearful strong impression has a lot to do with YOU. Yes people many of you carry the FEAR genome and anytime a ghost or a scary figure enters your room or life as you know it … You go into FEAR mode. 

Part of it is your fault and conditioning to respond in a negative way to something you don’t understand and you are fearful of something that walks into your life. I know that some of these beings are dreadful to deal with but perhaps not all of them are bad but rather revealing themselves to you because they have a connection to you or maybe that you out of many people who can’t see them … You do see them. 

Most importantly is that you need to understand what is taking place in the moment and even months leading up to and during the contact or exchange of your FEAR and the Black Hat feeding off of it. 

There are many of these Black Hats around … But there is also many other kinds of Entities not tied to the Black Hats who are also around doing the same thing. Inter-dimensional Beings. A person who can see them is considered a Seer … And the fact that you can see them is a Gift. You may not like the Gift … so you try to bury your head into a Cell phone or computer to turn the world off around you to climb into some kind of Cyber reality that is pretty much the same thing. 

This time in your world is moving closer to the 4D and the 5 D reality. Once you cross over to the other dimensions of inter-dimensional realities all kinds of abnormal or supernatural things seems to come out of the woodwork all around you. Instead of being in FEAR …. Try understanding what it is that is happening to you or your friends going through this unusual experience of seeing things like “Black Hats” … and Ghost … shadow People and Shadow entities. These realms or dimensions overlap the 3 D realm you live in. Your space is overlapping their space and so is your ability to see and hear them. 

Don’t run for the hills, take the time to understand what it is your seeing and hearing. FEAR is a reaction to something you do not understand or have not taken the time to understand. 

Also people when you write a small un-engaging repertoire of mis-mash of words to describe a Black Hat … Try and write down some of the visions you have had and how they make you feel or how you make yourself feel when they are in your space at the foot of your bed. How you feel can be unintelligible when writing about the subject of the Black Hat. Write exactly what happened to you or what you think came to you … Did he come after you or was he just there staring you down. Some of you might not even know that you might be living in the home they once occupied. And the Black Hat might feel you have crossed into their territory … You know like going into an Indian Burial Ground and building a home on the property. (This kind of stuff really happens) and so strange things occur at these places or sites that were once sacred lands. 

Well that’s a lot to think about but I wanted you all to know many of you, including myself have had experiences that we need to understand on a deeper level. 

I really had to think about this … about what you wrote. Say for instance you never saw the Hat Man but all those things happened to you. Those things happen to many people who have not seen a Hat Man. I am just saying search for the truth. Why did he show up and when did he show up? Did he show up before something was going to get you? Or did he follow you so you could get someplace safely. Obviously you are safe, because you wrote here and now. 

I never saw things as a child myself. Only until I got older and spiritual did this ability to “See” things unnatural or supernatural had become common place for me. It’s like one day the “Light” Switch turned on and I was able to comprehend what was going on around me and understand what I was hearing and then eventually seeing. 

Some Entities are really bad and some are good or okay. Some actually help us get away from what is targeting us. And this is the part that is really interesting … Is getting help from an entity that refused to show me what he looked like until I understood he was benevolent and kind. The Entity was a Reptilian. Yes people, he was not a Hat Man or a Black Hat but rather not of this world. And for a long time I knew his name because I could hear him talk to me in plain English … Like the entity might be humanoid or something like that. So as the years of being a pupil of learning how to write essays and stories … T’Sca’Dn (3 syllable name pronunciation) was the Reptilians name. 

All I want to say is, … do not always think these entities are bad. Sometimes they come around to do good. Even give you a warning something is coming at you. 

Really try and understand what it was they did or didn’t do. Did he save you from being murdered or beaten by your father? Was he there to warn you … so you could get away. Or did the Hat Man do something to your father to stop him from killing you? 

You just have to think why was he there several different times of your life. You see it was about YOU and not everyone else in your family. He was protecting YOU.

It has been very interesting for me to read the replies which have come in to this thread since I posted my story on 9/7/2015 and to the stories which were posted long before mine.

One thing which has really fascinated me are the people who think that they can explain what it is and what it means. I know what I saw, but I’ve no idea what it was that I saw. I wouldn’t even try to explain it, because I have no way of testing it out and it would only be a guess.

Some people could just be messing with us. But with the number of people who have seen it, the only thing that I do feel confident about is that even if only half of the people here really experienced what they say they did, then something genuine is going on. What it is though, I’ve no idea.

I do know that I lost my best friend and my Nana shortly after I saw the ghost/Hat Man/shadow person, whatever it was, standing and watching me from my bedroom doorway. Was it connected though? I’ve no idea.

The only things I’m certain of is that we are experiencing it and that we can have no way of knowing what it is or what it wants.

It is definitely comforting though, to know that you’re not alone.

4th of July, 2015. Triangular object. Hovered above the baseball field I was at. Officials said it was a drone, but I’ve never believed them about it, not to this day.

Leslie, in 1976 when I was young I saw an object on Christmas night through my bedroom window.
It was a bright white ball of light traveling at high rate of speed from north to south. It had a diameter of around five feet across. 
It went through some high tension power lines behind our house and then over our house. 
It lit up the bedroom as it passed over the house. 
It wasn’t a meteor because it passed through the power lines and had no smoke trail. 
I don’t know if this has any relevance other than coincidence.

Hello Lana, I’m sorry for the experiences you’ve had. Maybe mine could help you. My story is below, From what I’ve gathered the “Hat Man” is a vampire spirit not a demon, which is actually worse as they use trickery and deception to conceal what they really are. It wants you to believe it is a demon because it feeds off of your fear. They are parasites and have the power to influence families, cause fights, and worse to those who are vulnerable or under any drugs alcohol etc.. They also feed on anger, sorrow, strife, and other negative feelings. They probably influenced your mother to act the way she did. Try to be as loving, happy, and positive as you can be also, seek cleansing and protection. A shaman worked for me.

Okay so I’ve had 3 experiences of this entity my whole life and I’m not even in my twenties. The first experience happened around October in 2008. I was only 4 when this happened. I was walking around saying goodnight to my family. I was walking past my room and I feel like something is watching me. I turn around and I see to glowing red I eyes. I tried not to show fear so I turned around and walked away. That night I remember I woke up because I could feel a dark presence from the entity. I ran all the way to my moms bed and slept there for about a week. The second one happened when I was in third grade. I remember I was sleeping with my dad that night because my brother was sleeping with my mom because he was sick. So my dad bunked with my since our couches are the dirtiest thing in the world. (We got rid of them.) I woke up 100% because the light turned on and it was really bright. I told my dad to turn off the light and I nudged him. He made a sound. I them realized he was asleep. I looked up and the hat man was standing in my door way. I got up and he ran and disappeared at the end of my hallway. I turned off the light and went to bed. This last one is the most recent. It happened in July of 2015. I woke up because I had to pee so I woke up and my grandma was staying and whenever my grandparents stay I sleep with them. I woke up and I focus my eyes. My recliner faces the doorway which we had closed because of my experiences. I see the hat man. I pinched myself and I felt terror flood though my body. I prayed and shut my eyes tight. I opened them when I was done praying and he was gone. I cried and one thing I noticed was my eyes were like a static tv screen. And the door was closed like before. I told some of my friends about these and they have had experiences with the hat man throwing their young kittens or puppies down stairs, the hat man walking in their room and standing over them and the hat man touching them being cold as ice. I also have a theory the hat man could be Dr.Seuss.

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Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Jacob,

I am with you … and again people who have Great FEAR … react in a negative Fearful way. FEAR is a negative energy. It creates a hostile reaction within the human to respond negatively and the results or reaction is FEAR driven. When you talk about something like this as a group … Most of the time a FEAR driven human will respond negatively even if the entity didn’t do anything to them. The entity is blamed for deaths … I throw my hands up (?) Why is this the reaction of someone who calls it a negative encounter … Someone you know dies right after or within a year of the encounter??? Really people … people die all the time for various reasons … Health … old age and here you are alive and telling your stories of your “Horror adventure” that had nothing to do with a death in your family. 

Jacob, Thanks for being honest … I can track or smell good energies in etheric entities myself … But I can also track it in humans as well. Humans and Entities of other dimensions come in good, bad or otherwise. 

I rather like a good ghost story but they are not all evil and darkness related. Many are just there connecting to a consciousness of an awakened human. These entities are just as amazed as we are in encounters. And the encounters are not all good … and they are not all bad. Understanding the encounters … Now that is the rare opportunity if you want the challenge. Taking the time to understand what really happened in your bedroom while your trying to sleep. 

Many encounters happen during dreamstate. You wake up and your part of the encounter. Is it lucky … I would say so. I have been fortunate to have many different kinds of entites show up … including Reptilians … Serpents … snakes … Archons … the list goes on. Mostly after I have gone to bed. Dreamstate is a good medium for connection. Sleeping with one eye open is part of this connection … You can read more about it on the net … 

Well Jacob,

If you really want to know …. I am a Spiritual Warrior that can Remote View … OBE … whatever you want to call it and I remember things that went on. So doing battle with the baddies is part of being a Spiritual Warrior but their are Good Entities also and you have to reserve your stance until an entity becomes aggressive and then and only then do you take it out. Well your probably wondering what that means …”Take them out?” … You make them follow you back to your bed for which your physical body lies in a deep sleep. Well that is what you want the entity(s) to think … but once they touch your body a Spark of a Zapp (Flash) goes off and it disintegrates the energetic into star dust. Is it fair … Well yes … because many of these negative entities have been feeding or humans FEAR for eons of existence of humanity. There are quite a few of us that can do this kind of etheric work. We are given assignments via a greater power than what exists here on earth. But to do battle with the baddies, It can only be done by a human that exorcises his or her rights to “Free Will” … and that is the MagiK of getting rid of the evil ones … they have to be aggressive towards you or a human first as in violation of “Free Will”. Some people … humans don’t know this is a “Free Will” planet. 

Loosing the FEAR is part of the concept of not going into action with a FEAR Reaction. You deal with every Dreamstate OBE and Remote differently … We are never the aggressor but we will defend ourselves when the moment arises. 

It’s called Chess Game in the etheric … You can jump in and out of the etheric even if your hanging off a cliff. And they will follow you home back to your bed … But in the end you can get them as soon as they hit your turf or safe place.

But I think Jacob, you know what I am talking about here … You have experienced this many times. That is the chase …

June 01, 2016 about sunset, my wife was checking grave after memorial day and near her parents grave a tall dark man carrying
a bag sttod over her. He turned and walk north, she went around 
one of the roads to my parent and family site and check their’graves
and he was walking accross the cemetery, she drove to
the enterance of the cemetery and its an arched entery, where he stood under and look directly at her, his face was pale and empty. cold and no expression. She told me the next day and my son found
this site and forwarded it to us. She discribe him perfectly. She’s very religious and I would never doubt her.This is a very large area and the ordeal was more than 20 minutes!

Gabrielle,

I can relate and I may have some advice if you want to see your apparition once again. On multiple accounts, I have had a dream that was, I guess you could say, an alternate “life”. The time before the last time I had the dream (about 4 years ago) I was left with a cliffhanger. I had tried things and nothing worked, until one night. I tried something and, when I went to sleep that night, I had the dream’s second part, or ending. What I did, here’s the advice, is actually surprisingly simple. For a few days I had remembered as many details about every little part of the dream possible, wrote them down in a story-like structure and read it before I went to bed. (Note: There were an extremely high amount of details I had remembered, so the more, the better.) So try to remember AS MANY DETAILS as possible, write/type them down, and read them from then to until you have that dream you’re looking for. NOTE: I’ll leave you with this; you have the opportunity to try my advice but I also advise you not to, keeping in mind it may not end well (from personal experience). But it also may end well.

A few years ago, I had a gal write to me online. I met her in a group of spiritual people that were talking about entities. She wrote me and asked if I could help her but she didn’t say with what … and then I said yes …

She sent me a photo of her and her mother taken before her mother had died rather suddenly a few years before the gal even contacting me. She ask, “Do you see something in the picture with me sitting with my mother in the photograph”? … I said yes I see a Grim Reaper looking in the window at the back of the room. She then wrote back that she thought that thing took her mother about a week later- Her mother had died. She said, “It was stalking my mother.” “And now it is stalking me”. She also said, “I am very afraid because I have seen it a few times looking in my windows most recently” … “Can you do something about it?” 

I said yes. After a few days … I went into dreamstate and OBEd or had an Out of Body for which I went to Oregon to this gals home and waited to see if it would show up. Now I just didn’t go there that night in particular … It was set up … The gal’s spirit guide told my spirit guide … it had showed up … so that’s where I ended up … I created mischief and the thing followed me home after I left what I call “Cosmic Bread Crumbs” … and when it got here … I took it out with a Zapp. So it didn’t end there.

A week or so later … Something showed up in my bedroom and I could see it in the corner where the entrance to my bedroom standing there watching me. I could see it … It didn’t move. It was a Reaper holding a scythe in it’s right hand … And it was like a Head Honcho Grim Reaper … He looked different from the one I took out … and he looked like he wanted to know where or what happened to the one that went missing. He didn’t dare come near me … He was there for about an hour because I could not sleep until I knew he was gone.

I am pretty sure he knew I had something to do with the Grim Reaper that went missing. Anyway I wrote the Gal that morning about … “Are things okay?” and she said, “Nothing has showed up here for about a week. I think you got him.” I never heard from her again but she knew to contact me when it first started happening to her. 

This kind of entity stuff started happening on a regular basis. I started keeping a notebook on the different entity characters showing up. 

End

I have never known of anyone else to have seen the hat man or as I’ve called him, the man in black, except for myself until stumbling upon this page 20 yrs after my encounter. I’m so grateful. He was in my home on and off for about a month. I felt a definite presence near me and passing me when I would leave or enter my bedroom. I finally saw him and it scared the shit out of me, so much so that I prayed to go unconscious, and I did. I passed out cold and had the worst nightmare that I remember to this day. I was in bed not yet asleep, my infant son in a crib near the foot of my bed. The man, who I knew was not flesh and blood, entered my room, profile to my position as I lay on my back with my vision towards the door which was directly in line with the crib. He was tall, six ft or a little more. Trench coat, wide brimmed hat. He went to the crib and stood there, still in profile to me. I was so scared. I couldn’t move, I wanted to protect my son, but I couldn’t move and I was too afraid to speak. I just KNEW that if he turned and looked at me, I would die of fright. I closed my eyes and silently begged God to let me go to sleep or pass out because my terror was more than I could even comprehend. I passed out praise the Lord and had a terrible nightmare where the same events happened, only in the dream I wasn’t paralyzed, and I ran out of the house, realizing too late that I forgot the kids. Still dreaming, I turned to go back inside when the door slammed shut, and the house with the children in it, zoomed away from me getting smaller and smaller, and it was gone. I woke up, the man was gone, but I turned on every light in the house and didn’t turn them off for at least a week. My kids and I slept in the living room for a while. I even brought the bed out there. All these yrs I thought I had seen a ghost. Now I know. Thank you!!!!!!!

From my experience he isn’t a demon he is worse. He certainly isn’t a guide, but he will pretend to be. Please be very careful parasitic spirits are very deceptive. Read my post and hopefully you might get some insight.

There are many “Keepers of Doors and Doorways” into other realms- mostly in the etheric planes and dimensional realms. And there are many … many realms. 

There are also KEYS to those various realms. They come in many forms, such as … visual symbols, and sometimes they are crystals, stones and rocks. There are other ways such as dreamstate or a near death experience for which an opportunity good or bad arises. 

You are sometimes invited to various realms by beings and or they come to you. They summon you or help you to make better choices and even worse choices. You also need to understand that your deeds, like that of good vs. bad has a lot to do with these beings from the other realms whom summon you to their realm or they come to you. 

More on this later …. 

Hello everyone! Not sure how I ended up on this website, just doing some research about an encounter I had many years ago. This is all pretty wild and there are so many different opinions and theories about the ‘Hat man’ and who or what he is. I don’t know, I didn’t even know this thing had a name until today. Not sure what I believe, I was an Atheist and actually became agnostic after my encounter with him, because as you will see my experience is living proof that this entity exists and its pretty irrefutable. To be honest I wish it wasn’t true or that I was crazy or something but denying reality just because it frightens us is delusional. 

My story is 100% real, I promise on my soul or honor and all that. Also I’m quite sane, and objective, like I said I’ve never even heard of the ‘Hat Man’ until today. I have physical evidence and eyewitness testimony to corroborate my account. I have no vested interest one way or the other. In fact I wish this wasn’t true but it is. Its not my subjective perception, or any other theoretical idea to explain away for those who don’t believe such things exist. It is a fact this thing is real. Fact. Now what it is, I don’t know.

So this is what happened. When I was 19 in 1997 I started dreaming about a man who wore a dark trench coat and a hat just like the ones in the pictures of the hat man. I dreamed about him repeatedly he had no face and yet a thousand faces seemed to flash in and out all at once and it was nauseating to look him in the face for too long. Almost like TV static and a swarm of bees. Looking back I thought it was just my subconscious processing some imagery from the movie Candyman or something. I didn’t feel an evil presence from him but nothing good either, more neutral.

When I told my recurring dream to my best friend Mike, he said right away and nonchalantly “oh it was Seth”. Asking who Seth was he said it was a spirit they encountered a few months ago. They being my other friends in our circle. As it turned out they thought it would be fun to use a ouija board in a graveyard at night, and this was the spirit they encountered. Mike said he was some kind of “keeper of Doors” and he was some knowledge keeper or guide or something. I thought he just had an overactive imagination we did play D&D occasionally, so I only half-believed. I thought it was an interesting concept though and actually drew “Seth”. I’m artist and often did art for my friends. I still have this art piece and it eerily match’s other depiction’s of the “Hat Man”.

Fast forward a few years, now this is where it gets really eerie. I had moved to Marietta, GA and just after a very bad breakup I was crying on my couch in my apartment experiencing the most painful heartache I had ever felt. I caught my fiancée cheating on me some days prior. It was late at night and a vision of Seth appeared in my imagination, not a physical apparition. I thought I was just delirious from the emotional pain I was in. Now I have never been suicidal before and to be clear this was not a suicide suggestion, please don’t misread this. However I was knowledgeable on Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and meridians. And Seth told me to visualize a psychic knife and thrust it into my heart chakra to relieve my heartache and emotional pain. Believing I was receiving some kind of higher guidance I did so and felt the energetic knife pierce my heart. I know this sounds crazy. Its about to get bizarre.

Not more then two days pass and guess who “coincidently” shows up at my apartment? Mike. Now get this I had lived there for several months and he had only come by once before. He lived in Athens, GA so it was a long way to travel. Further we hadn’t talked since then which was about 2-3 months ago. He always called before he came over, it was very unusual for him just to show up randomly, much less drive so far away to do so. 

He had no idea about my own personal visualization with “Seth”, I had told no one… when I opened the door I asked why he came over…

He pulls out a dark steel dagger and said “Seth told me to give this to you.”

I am in no way lying, this is exactly what happened and what he said. You can ask him. I have no reason to make this up. This is my story, can anyone tell me what the hell “Seth” is? I have a few ideas. Need a break though.

He was definitely a Demon. 

Now how they show you who or what they are is sort of like a Magic Trick. They can say they are around to help you … but why would they ask you to “Hurt Yourself?” … You need to be more spiritually assertive and “Don’t jump off the cliff because he asked you to!” … 

Some people are depressed because of entities that won’t leave them alone. They will even consider suicide and not know why … Just the suggestion from a Demonic entity would be enough … but if you are Strong and not weak in the mind … you can figure it all out. Maybe not that moment … but “You did figure it out” … with a little help.

We are now in the 5 D and the veil is lifted. So many of you here are able to see and hear in the mind- telepathy what they are saying to you. If it seems bad … It’s because they are Dark and Evil and you need to find a way to get rid of the entity(s). Most of them are parasites feeding off fear … but if you have no fear … their is no lunch and they will go away and leave you alone. 

Don’t Feed the Monster!

Woooooow. Very interesting story. Would love to talk more about your story. I’m producing a documentary on this entity. Email me: hatmandocumentary@outlook.com

Hey Chris, first off your not crazy for seeing what you see as there have been many sightings. If what your seeing is the same or similar to what I encountered know that it is a real spirit, and likely a parasitic spirit of some kind, although who really knows. From what I’ve researched about them however they feed on your fear. So don’t be afraid. Also don’t tell anyone who doesn’t believe such things are possible as ignorant people always think people are crazy who speak of things that contradict their beliefs rather then realize they don’t know everything. Also this entity wants them to misjudge you as crazy as it isolates you and creates even more negative emotion that it feeds on. It also gets you to doubt your own sanity which further creates even more negative emotion and rather then acknowledge the spirit is real think its all in your head, and you can’t fight what you don’t acknowledge. So you have to calm down, be happy, and positive as if its not there yet know it is. Is will hopefully dissipate like a bad dream once you stop feeding it. 

Hope that helps.

My name is rick I’m 26 now live in tx. My first experience with this thing was 15 yrs old in Odessa fl. Just sleeping man n I turned around n saw this tall man wit a hat n black cape. Couldn’t move n it lurched on top me pinning me dwn then pulling me up n bak dwn. My dog was on the bed but diddidn’t react. When I could move I ran to my parents room to find they had the experience as well. At the time my dad lost he’s job n later died of codeine overdose when I was 17. I believe this demon helped n even plagues me now. When I was 18 I moved bk to FL. My mom came to visit n we went to Korea my dad was white n met her in the military. We went to jeju where I had a shamanistic ritual performed. When they where doin the ceremony I saw terror on their faces. Flys where all over me. She knew of my father’s death even other relatives which I never told her. She dressed as the demon n said I killed ur father n ur next. She said it was a powerful demon and american. It came to me through my family’s sins. If I wanted it gone she said to put my faith in God n step away from my comp lol, she said it loved the computer n the images it gave me. After I was empty but she said she sent it sway. But would come bk soon as I did my old routines. Well I came bk n did my mom has dreams of him talking with me. Now more creepy is I think I know who he is. In that new remake of animi villa horror where the father kills he’s family. They show him. If u look up the movie they give he’s name. But a real dude they dipict him murdering native American children even molestation. Long dark haired white man with brimmed hat n coat. It’s a real guy I know from like colonial days he was the butcher of children. Jus look up animal horror the one wit dance cook r sum thin like the newest one, I couldn’t believe it when they showed him. It’s they know the occult n teased with the movie. Tht spirit is a family destroyer n life ruiner . Keep your faith in jesus Christmas and ask for repentance for your sins. Ask for protection from this man he will come for ur children n destroy them with addictions of lust praise be to our Lord God jess christ.

Ahhhhh found he’s name John ketchum. John ketchum escaped the Salem witch trials. Convicted mass murderer n sadist. Performed with black brimmed hat n coat. Feeding he’s black magic with the terror he asorbed from victims. John ketchum. John ketchum. That mother fucker why would he’s spirit b so powerful to haunt millions?