Shadow people

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Shadow people (also known as shadow figures, shadow beings, shadow men, or shadow folk) are supernatural shadow-like figures of both modern folklore and paranormal popular culture that believers claim appear as dark humanoid forms or evasive specters seen mostly in peripheral vision.^[1] Authors such as Rosemary Ellen Guiley,^{[2][non-primary source needed]} Jason Offutt and Heidi Hollis have helped popularize the concept through books, articles and appearances on radio talk shows devoted to paranormal subjects such as Coast to Coast AM.^{[citation needed]}

Popular culture

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Non-fiction

• Eyewitness accounts of shadow people are depicted on the Discovery Channel’s docudrama series A Haunting.^{[3][not in citation given]}
• Alleged shadow people are shown to be captured on video on the Travel Channel’s reality series Ghost Adventures.^[4]
• Shadow people are listed in the glossary of Discovery Channel’s paranormal-investigation reality program Ghost Lab.^[5] Also, on one episode, a photo of an alleged shadow person was taken from a cemetary in Tombstone, Arizona.^[6] Moreover, an entire episode features shadow people.^[7]

Fiction

• Keith Parker's Shadow People, an independent suspense/horror feature from Tornspace Films features shadow people as the villain.^[8]
• "The Shadow People" was the title of a 1953 episode of Hall of Fantasy, an American horror old time radio program that dealt with beings very similar to modern shadow people.^[9]
• Wes Craven's They explores the concept of shadow people; first as a psychological phenomenon, then as a paranormal event.^{[citation needed]}
• Charles Bryan's Shadow Beings explores the concept of shadow beings as a phenomenon of beings trapped in-between the parallel worlds that make up our multiverse. They cannot exist in our world physically, thus they appear as shadows.^{[citation needed]}
• In the novel Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, the protagonist of the same name sees malevolent, insubstantial shadowy entities that feed on the suffering of the dead and dying.^{[citation needed]}
• In the 2001 Japanese film Kairo, and the subsequent American remake Pulse, majority of the "ghosts" that infiltrate the human realm appear as distorted shadows.^{[citation needed]}
• In the movie The Eye with Jessica Alba, the "escorts" resemble Shadow People. They would escort the ghosts of the dead and were shadowy in nature with a horrible feel to them.^{[citation needed]}
• In the 2007 film The Deaths of Ian Stone, the "Harvesters" appear as shadowy beings, unseen by the public.^{[citation needed]}
• The movie Ghost depicts these things as agents of Hell who take evil souls to Hell.^{[citation needed]}
• In David Wong's novel John Dies at the End, malevolent extra-dimensional "shadow people" are slowly taking over the planet and re-shaping it to fit their own purposes.^{[citation needed]}
• Peter Hammond's Sapphire and Steel TV series uses regular appearances of shadow people interchangeably as an extra-dimensional crossing of a character either into or out of our dimension, also using "darkness" as a focal point—a sinister gestalt malevolence.^{[citation needed]}
• The book Convergence: When the Living Clash with the Dead features a man who says he encountered numerous shadow people accompanied by a bizarre sound near an abandoned slaughterhouse in Marlboro, New Jersey.^{[citation needed]}
• The Japanese videogames Okage: Shadow King (2001) and Final Fantasy VIII (1999) contain characters that resemble shadow people. FFVIII has a monster called Creeps.^{[citation needed]}
• In Bryan Davis' Oracles of Fire series depicts a race of Shadow people as being the ghosts and spirits of morally-lacking people, they are described as being murderous and have a deadly aversion to light.

See also

• Apparitional experience
• Hypnagogia
• Shade (mythology)
• Wraith

References

In fiction

• Heidi Hollis (2001), "The Secret War: The Heavens Speak of the Battle," Writers Club Press, ISBN 0-595-20331-0

External links

• Paranormal Phenomena: Shadow People About.com October 2006