Saturday, 14 April 2012

The old hag and the Shadow man/Demon

Have you ever found that you awoke one from a deep sleep but couldn’t move your body? No matter how hard you struggled you could not move at all? Wondering if you were actually not awake but then realizing that you are completely lucid? This is known as Sleep Paralysis and it is a common occurrence worldwide. Sleep Paralysis in of itself is not remarkable as it is medically recognized. According to Merriam-Webster, an encyclopedia Britannica group, Sleep Paralysis is a complete temporary paralysis occurring in connection with sleep and especially upon waking. Now let’s kick this up a notch.   

Have you ever found yourself experiencing these symptoms but this time you have this strange pressure that you feel bearing down on your body? Feeling a huge amount of weight pressing on your chest? Feeling like someone is in the room that shouldn’t be there? Looking around in a panic as only your eyes can move, you see in the corner of the room what looks to be either an old woman who looks like a witch with long white hair and black clothing? If not her, how about the large figure of the menacing man or demonic presence who appears to be nothing more than shadow but clearly defined?

If you haven’t been told already, you are not alone in this.  The event of the hag and the shadow man/demon has happened so frequently and across so many different parts of the world that it is literally a phenomenon.  The big question on this is; is this an actual paranormal event that so many people are experiencing? Or is it some type of mass hysteria or paranoia that has people imagining the same thing?

It is obvious that the skeptics would agree with the latter. That this phenomenon is all brought on by a mass hysteria from exposure to the story that has plagued the histories. These skeptics would likely claim that the subject who had the experience has at some point even on a subconscious level been exposed to the story and so this has brought on the occurrence. With no explanation on why the timing of the occurrence was what it was.

I run a small group page in which a number of people out of my group have experienced this same phenomenon. These members don’t know how or why, but they all shared the same scenario.  Many of the ones who experienced it have told me that they have never heard anything of this story or knew anything about it. Being that this was just a small group of people just around 540 members, there was nothing to gain by lying. I very much believe that they knew nothing about it.

 I myself have experienced it as well.  I remember the sensation of fear and feeling like I couldn’t move. I remember the confusion and wondering if I was maybe dreaming, until realizing that I assuredly was awake. Most of all I remember the feeling of someone being in the room, I couldn’t see them well because I could only move my eyes. It seemed like I could feel them in there as one would if an actual person was in the room, though I knew it was not. In my experience my breathing was not laboured but more that I was unable to take a full breath due to the pressure. All I could see through the corner of my eye was movement of a full sized person. I couldn’t look at them directly, but I could see them. I struggled and struggled until finally I was able to move again. I shot up and looked around to see who was there, but there was nothing. I was alone. The odd thing is that this has occurred again a number of times with a difference, I felt ready. I felt that I would be able to challenge whoever it was that was causing this. I felt confident. The reason I make mention of this fact is because with this confidence I noticed that I was able to break the effect of the paralysis much faster. It was almost like the fear of what could be out there was weakening me. However, when I took away the weapon of fear of whatever they were using against me I took away a big part of their power.

Where does this story originate and how is it that so many people around the world share this experience? Through a lot of research I have found that this spans time back to the very inception of mankind and Lilith the first wife of Adam and mother of all demons.  The story then finds its way forward through the centuries. Ultimately if there is a true origin of this story, as it is rooted in so many cultures around the world I have no idea how to find it. Which raises the question, if this is just a medical problem with no paranormal link, how is it possible that it is a part of so many cultures around the world? Also how is it possible that with this phenomenon spanning across the globe, how is the story the same everywhere with such specific details?

Let me know what you think about it? Is there an old hag or shadow man/demon? Is this all explained through modern medicine? If you believe in the paranormal answer, what do you think they want?

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  1. I have had this experience in my lifetime on numerous occassions. Both alone and with another person in bed with me. I have felt the sensation of pressure, been tormented with sexual advances, and been called vulgar names. I heard a man's voice. I was scared to death the first time, but managed to finally move from bed. I have had many unusual events occur in my life experiences. I forgot to mention I also heard what I have always called a freight train type noise. Always. After the first time this happened I always demanded the demon or presence leave me. It did. After I learned how to deal with this occurance it seemed that the "demon" would then go to other people around me at the time. My dad, son, sister, friends. Always when I was there. Needless to say they were very frightened. I always thought I was crazy or blessed. I also see ghosts, apparitions, and otherwordly beings. I started seeing these things at a very early age. My mom could also see things. Even though she would never admit it.

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  2. i just had this happen to me about a hout agobut this time i fought against it and mumbled u dont scare me and some lady appear as a clear looking shadow holding me down i fought her long as i could til finally i
    gave up and prayed but i havent seen the shadow guy in awhile

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  3. I have too have had this experience. I was totally unable to move - except for my eyes. I was totally conscious of my surroundings and used all of my strength to move my arms. The scariest part was seeing this demon-like figure at the foot of my bed. It was dressed in a long cloak and was black with no human features. I could actually "feel" the fear run through me and I was certainly afraid for my safety. As I was terrified I repeated the Lord's Prayer in my mind until I was suddenly able to move the spell was broken. As I was straining so hard to move my arm that when I was finally able to move my arm flung across my body with full force and hit the night table beside me. Truly a terrifying experience. The only time that I both saw and felt utter terror. I have great difficulty in believing the so-called medical theory of sleep paralysis as this theory in no way explains how so many million of people could have experienced the exact same demon-like creature. If we were hallucinating you would think there would be much more variety in what was seen. The fact that there is so much similarity in experience strongly supports a paranormal explanation. This experience happened over 20 years ago and it still haunts and frightens me to this day. As a matter of fact I was unable to even tell anyone about it for at least 10 years as I had never heard of it and thought I was alone with this experience. I don't wish it on anyone.

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    1. I had this happen, but the figure was young with long black hair. She had a dirty bedraggled appearance. She was crouched, arms around knees on my chest, looking directly into my eyes. I tried so hard to force myself to wake up.

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  4. I had the "hag experience" as i have now learned it is sometimes called. I awoke not being able to move then a, what i can only descrobe as a troll type figure, jumped onto my chest it held me down and was trying to strangle me. It had pale skin like a sallow yellow. It looked a little similar to gollom from lord of the rings. I had all the feelings of a nightmare to begin with, but then I fought back I started to pinch its arm really hard. I wasnt afraid at this point, it then jumped off and was gone. I was then unfrozen immeadiatly. I think these things come along at times of feeling upset or voulnerable in your life perhaps. As the whole experience is about being completly voulnerable. Remember you can call upon your spirit guides and angels for protection and help and you dont have to be afraid you can fight back. It gets its strenghth from your voulnerability. X

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  5. I had this happen to me a few times. In both instances, however, I wasn't paralyzed. As soon as I awoke I'd see the fucking bastard floating above me and get really angry when I realized I couldn't breathe. Then I'd feel a surge of power go into my right hand, which would sort of go into a clawed shape. I'd swing into the thing, causing it to disperse instantly. I personally think it is a low level demon which feeds on depression and sadness. I found this to be the case, as in all instances of this I was going through some sort of emotional problem. I found that all you have to do is want it bad enough and you can overpower the hag, maybe even hurt it. When it first happened to me I just got really mad and through my clawed hand through its body. I had it the other night too, but this time I wasn't paralyzed. I told it to fuck itself and it left me alone.

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  6. Okay so i have had this the last few nights with the deamon guy, all black, best described goat looking legs, a mans torso and arms and the goat/bull like head of the torso star sign. I can not only see this but have the loud piercing threating piercing scream. The part that really has me worried was i was first seeing this figure n hearing it once in reality yet only when the new bf n i had a disagreement n i would txt the ex (where i first ever encountered this figure at his house) only the last few days has it showed up in my dreams or just given off a bad vibe in a room and the releationship between the bf has been happy as ever. Could anyone please help? Im used to seeing figures since when my grandpa died yet have not seen the happy glow of what i asume is him since i first seen this dark figure that is a completly opposite feeling. The ex's mother was into her witch-craft spirtal stuff as well but was told she couldnt do it right. In saying thats she never did a reading or anything to me.. That i know of. Please help me its driving me to insomnia :'(

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  7. I have been having hags for years but recently i been having then much often i have been getting over four of then back to back but thus most recent one was so much different it felt like it took me somewhere out of my body i couldn't move speak or breathe but i could see then i saw a tv it was black then it turned on ask static like and something went across the screen what should i do and what does that mean

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    1. Dude. If it takes you out your body it is extremely dangerous. You need to cleanse your space.

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  8. For those who have had this experience and in a dark or negative outcome, when did it start? Was there any type of trigger to it, or was it random when it began? Do you think there could be more too it that may cause it to be a reoccuring event? A want, a need, an invitation that was unknowingly made?

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  9. I suffered from this for over ten years repeatedly, from my teens to nearly 30. A large black presence holding me down on my bed, as another person commented the only feeling of utter and true terror i've ever felt. Only with me,and i could be wrong but have yet to hear this elsewhere, it would spin me round like a top on my bed or sometimes throw me to the floor to do so, always pressing down and just exerting pure evil! And i would spin round on my back for what seemed like an eternity as I screamed and swore but my voice lost in almost a vortex- like situation. I know it sounds ridiculous and as i type this i feel very embarassed and do doubt myself as i have a good few years buffer to reflect, but i swear i was awake. Once I was lying in bed and i thought "I wonder what would happen if I leant over the bed and something grabbed me?" Well I did and guess what ?! I was pulled down and seemed to fall for ages til I hit my floor and i remember looking up at my bedroom door from my back and the force began to press down and soin me around as i shreiked into a vortex. No-one ever heard me. Oh, I dunno what to think..and the worst thing was I ALWAYS got a feeling of utter terror just before and I knew what was gonna happen. AND it followed me to Uni hahahaha !! Thanks for that, mate !

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  10. I've had sleep paralysis for awhile and I'm usually aware when in dreaming and can control where I go and what I do. Its when the dream turns into a nightmare that I lose control. The characters of my dream become threatening and attack the moment they realize that I know I'm asleep. Its always the same feeling of dread, then the feeling of death when the nightmare creature touches me. One time I woke up during it and the thing walked up the hallway of my apt, like it came rt out of the dream, and when it bent down to talk to me its words sounded like static. It touched my arm, which felt like it was rotting. It was disguised as my friend who slept over that night but in other dreams it has been a large woman made of smoke. Shes a bitch lol

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  11. i had the hag come up to me in sleep she bolted across the room and started making this awful moaning noise and i just said hey, i cant help you and somehow i escaped through a golden spiral coming out of my chest. i now battle the waster desert spirit that saps the life out of me everyday and it does make me suicidal but i fight it this morning around 4am i felt the fear coming on and i said if i could see you right now i would fucking waste you whatever the fuck you are now fuck off im sooo sick of you i am angry like the most powerful demon in your fucking kingdom now leave me alone FFUUUCCCKKKK i got about 20 minutes of relief but here i am typing waiting daytime just drags on i am so weak from this battle i just want to die but i just keep waking up and fighting

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  12. As a 4 yr old child I saw shadow people and even spoke with one. I saw them all over and thought everyone else could too. There was only one that spoke to me though. He (if they have a gender it was definitely a he) claimed to be my friend but asked me to do bad things like carve my name into my mothers new furniture. Which I did and got into trouble for. That was when I told my Mother what happened. When my Mother learned of it she explained the shadow man was bad and I was to never speak with it again and to ignore it as if I didn't see it. That's what I did and I stopped seeing shadow people for a time..Whatever ability I had as a 4 yr old, I either blocked out or grew out of until I was ten and experienced something far more terrifying. I was in bed saying a prayer my Mother taught me. It's probably familiar to most of you who read this....Now I lay me down to sleep I pray The Lord my soul to keep...(when a deep male voice that I can only describe as demonic finished the prayer) IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE I PRAY THE LORD MY SOUL TO TAKE. needless to say I was terrified. It felt as if I was weighed down with a lead blanket. I couldn't move or shout, I was paralysed. I began to see these creatures, small scabby black and mottled gray reaching up onto my bed with their claws. When I could move I sat up and saw my floor looked like flames and these creatures were reaching up from the fire. I screamed for my mother and she came running to my room. She opened the door and to my astonishment saw what I was seeing. Without hesitation she walked into the flames, picked me up from the bed and carried me out of the room. She closed the door and immediately reopened it and all was back to normal. She told me not to be frightened that there was a family legend about an Aunt who would see a black coach when someone was going to die. She said it was a spirit or entity that was trying to scare me and created an illusion. Wether the shadow man and the demonic voice are the same entity I still don't know but it has followed me all my life. It doesn't directly challenge me anymore but seems to attack anyone I get romantically involved with. It touches them, scratches them, appears in nightmares, causes them to become angry. When the relationship ends it seems to leave them alone.

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  13. ((((CONTINUED FROM ABOVE)))))) I recently got engaged and this activity has started up again but with one new feature. My fiancée has projected out of his body and seen something that he described as "the girl from the grudge". He had never before projected and was scared by it. He described being in our apartment but moving without his body, he said everything was overcast with gray. Some rooms were completely black without any light at all. He said the only brightness in our apartment came from me. He said I was glowing with a white golden light and he followed the light back to his body in the bed next to me. Ever since then when he's at his most tired and weak this projecting happens. Never as long as the first time but now the "girl" ( and I use the term girl loosely because I believe this thing changes shape to whatever scares the individual the most) has started speaking to him in what he describes as a strange guttural language. He says she wants new life. He's also had dreams in which a man comes to him and challenges him for me, as if I belong to this thing or it feels it has some claim on me. I see transparent shapes in my bedroom (like the waves you see over black top in the summer cause by heat) but I know it's a spirit, I've seen the shadow man once again in my kitchen. Sometimes I come home to all the kitchen cabinets open when I know they were closed before I left the house. And the strangest of all was one night I stayed up later then my fiancée watching tv and when I turned it off and walked Into our bedroom I saw a hag like creature resembling Gollum from LOTR only uglier by the side of my bed watching and touching my fiancée. When I rushed forward she disappeared. A short while after that I had a similar experience to the one when I was 10. While laying in bed trying to fall asleep I felt a wave of terror and could not move. I couldn't see what was holding me down because I was laying on my stomach but as the fog in my mind lifted I began saying the St. Michael prayer, at first in my head and then when it's grip on me loosened out loud. My question is, has anyone ever heard of a haunting like this before? Are the hag/ shadow man/ demonic voice all the same creature or do I just attract spirits? Can anyone out there answer any of this? I've blessed my whole apartment with salt and holy water, ordered the presence/ entity out and things calm down for a few days only to begin again. Has anyone else experienced this?

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  14. I just spoke with my aunt of my experience and she told me about the hag demon. I couldn't move or speak fear was not a real way of explaining the terror I experienced. The figure was like a shadow floating above me. It had no features it just looked like it was wearing a cloak and it was breathing in my face and then it felt like it was sucking my soul right out of my body. I finally broke free of its hold I have been close to death and feared for my life but the terror I felt was not for my life but for my eternal soul truly terrifying

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    1. Mine did the same thing to this Last Wednesday night , it was like a black shadow wrapped around me and it was sucking my breath right out of me . I was going to my moms the next day when I got there my mom said oh thank god you made it . I told her story . she said I never worry about you coming here but I kept sitting in the window looking for you and said to myself what would happen if Lorraine ever died in the bed no one would know .

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  15. im so glad ive come across this website.....ive been having nightmares of my hair being cut for example and then as I was sleeping my whole bed moved and I could hear the wheels turning around and something was pressing against my back as I slept on my stomach.... sometimes It presses against my chest if I lay on my back...anyways I could not see it but I looked at my wall and I saw a shadow of the thing on top of me and it felt like it was riding me.

    ive heard the hag can take the form of anything...But the weird bit to this situation is that I basically started having dreams of Lilith ( please look her up) I would dream of a woman with bright red hair and the next minute she would paralyse me.

    im completely shocked..but ive been told to embrace her and welcome her into my life because the old hag ..in this case Lilith also has a beautiful side to her as well.

    I spoke to her and asked her to stop tormenting me at night I pleaded with her...hopefully she will not torment me anymore ...but yeah ive heard to embrace them....maybe the spirits are just lonely?

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    1. Tbh I would call on Jesus Christ to help. He is real and ritual sayings will never last long and honestly I'm usually still scared but He.. period is the best. The King of Kings. I will pray that He comes into your room and brings you peace that transcends understanding :).

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  16. if some1 could reply I would be greatful

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  17. That is quite the amazing experience. Has it ever been violent enough to be a concern, or has it always been something you were able to reason out . When you speak of Lilith, are you speaking of "the" Litlith? that is a bit intense indeed. I almost get the impression that you are more compassionate to your experience, than fearful. If you do not want to go into those details here you can always email me at Vijay@paranormalperspective.com as well.

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  18. yes woke up with a cloaked women above me laughing. Had many sleep paralyzed dreams only in my parents house. Also a new dream of a huge bat crature hangen over me with a face of blood and guts. Hangen over me like a leach. Also had a crature scream my name i awoke and saw a huge black smoke mass floating in the air. It looked like the jinn they genies like from disney they are low grade demonds. We have a consitration of middle easterns in my city and my boyfriend is one. Thats wear the jinn originate. They live in objects from iraq and people brong then to ower city when they moved. Solders from iraq have many stories of these jinn following the back home!!!!

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  19. I had this experience a few days ago. I had a pain in my head so I went asleep a while later I woke up unable to move or speak and at that point I was really scared..there was nothing around me only my girlfriend couldn't see anything else..the pressure that was on my chest was a heavy pressure..a few years back I got an operation on my chest and never got a pain in it once but since I experience what I think might be the old had I keeps getting a sharp pain in my chest..I'm wondering was this the old hag that visited me and is that why I'm getting pains in my chest..

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  20. I have been having this experience since 1997 but it happens when I sleep on my stomach and something is on my back trying to smother me . Like it's wrapping itself around me it doesn't happen often it sometimes happens during the day if I take a nap , My last episode was Wednesday night 8-27-2014 it was a dark shadow and it was trying to suck my breath . I could feel myself hold my breath when I woke up . then I rolled over feel right to sleep and it was back again. I sometimes see a man with a hat or it just black smoke .





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  21. They want to be ackknowledged but do it in a nasty way to get your attention ask their name. Do not fear they test you with fear

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    1. Once you have their name... then what? I'm open to trying anything, please respond to me @ MrsMiaWallace.business@gmail.com

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  22. I had a dream where i was possesed by a old hag and i could only see her when i looked in the mirror but i woke up the same morning really sick

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    1. I run a YouTube channel the paranormal perspective. Would you care to share the details of your experience is I may share with everyone? If so my email is info@paranormalperspective.com

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  23. PLEAS READ-NEED HELP. This is so crazy to find out..ok in Dec of last year my ex had gotten me on this bad drug. iv been clean a few months now thank God. But the 3ed day into this drug I had the most vivid dream an can still remember everything that happen an that was said. I was with my sister and this guy an he took us to this stor an as we were walking out we saw this huge flam coming from these buildings so we started to walk towards it and saw people running up to it too so we started running up this hill an to the right of me I see these 2 huge beautiful angles with gold wings, they were taking souls up into the night sky. so we started running up this hill and it becomes to hard to keep going up. so I tell my sister I cant keep going an slid down it than im in these dark forest an I see the guy that was with my sister an I but she wasn't there an I ask him were she is an he shrugs and says "I don't know" an behind his shoulder a couple feet away I see this old women in a black cape thing..the hood was up but I could still see her white stringy hair an her face was turned up an slanted. I pointed to her and said "I know what you are your a demon". said this in a dream..she than glided towards me looking slanted up the same way..ugh.. I ended up back with my sister in a normal store an I pulled a bag of my drug out of my pocket an looked at it before waking up. she keept showing up in my dreams for months. theyed start out really good an just become horrifying. She always looked the same but the tresses she was under in the first dream were in a few other dreams. found out later that was a warning..so this thing would started showing up in different ways..this one day my mother was drinking an I was high talking to her.both trying to hide our addictions from each other but while im talking to my mom she stops talking and her face slants an turns up an glares at me her face had changed into this old women. It scared the hell out of me I started screaming at my mom to stop an after a few sec my mom snaps back and askes me whats wrong..she had no idea what happened. So a little while passes an I met this guy an we go to his house for the first time and it amazed me cuz his tress in front of his house look just like the ones from my dreams. well that was my first time shooting up and he told me before "okay when I do this I take your demons, ok" an I didn't get it so im like ok whatever. so the second shoot comes around later an it was way to much this time I thought I was going to die so I call my mom to come get me so I walk outside to wait on her an he follows an we see her headlights and he says lets go back in and im like ok cuz I don't want you to go to jail for me dyeing an they don't know where he lives so ill walk back after they pass. well we go in an he starts looking all over as we walk through the house than I stop in the kitchen doorway an watch him look in the living room an he finally pulls out these 2 knives swings em wround like hes done it for years an looks down and giggles and says "I didn't tell her I was going to kill her" I turned an just ran out the back door at 4 in the morning. left my shoes left everything.but I ended up seeing nothing but spirts the next 3 days straight until I couldn't stay up anymore .We both stopped using after that and became great friends but I slipped up after that once, and iv never been so horrified in my life.this last time I saw lot more demons. an when I saw her this time a car was driving by an when its lights hit the said of our truck I saw her shadow walking up the stairs to my house. it was like my dreams were telling me that's where shes going to get relisted and the next time I see her its her damn shadow walking to my front door an every time before this has mostly been in dreams.and now shes relisted but this has started out over a year of her following me and I want to know more about her and get help if anyone knows anything pleas let me know. thank you.

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  24. I have had many encounters with the old hag. But every time I have seen her I was clearly awake. She is a very old very ugly scary hag looking omg witch lady big pointy nose and always with a big from. White grey poofy hair. What's even scarier is that their.whete times when she appeared to me whistling some kind of what sounded to me a ancient melody it's always the same one and the melody sounds very demonic. It sounds ancient as though she was summoning something. Very scary. Other times she came to me in my dreams. I have also experienced shadow people and creatures some with red eyes. I don't believe in the scientific belief. I think all that scientific cral is BS. It does not explain how everybody is supposably hallucinating the same thing and seeing the same things. I believe these things are demonic in nature evil in nature and do believe they could be interdementional beings or something like that.

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  25. I wrote too much. Part 1....

    Idk if my experience would be considered sleep paralysis because 1. I have been awake for quite a few of them. Like laying down reading or relaxing and 2. I have never been what I would consider paralyzed. With the exception of my torso I have had full movement during all of my experiences, but the weight on my chest was always too much for me to be able to do much more than struggle movement wise. I have had very similar experiences So hopefully my story is ok here.

    The first time I experienced this was when I was 9, shortly after I moved into a trailer with my dad. I have been sensitive to the paranormal since I was born (according to my mom who did not believe in ghosts or anything paranormal until after I was born). So I have always been used to seeing something not everyone else can see or having something follow me home. I’ve never been scared of any of them until that trailer. I hated that place. I hated that land. I wouldn’t go in the woods in the backyard once it started getting dark. Not even within 10 ft of the edge. This place gave me the worst vibes and I had so many experiences while living there. I 100% believe it was a shadow person and I tried so hard countless times to tell my dad I about him and about my feelings about this place but He and my step mom never believed me. The times I was awake and actually saw him he would be standing in my doorway staring at me. I was so terrified I would try to hide under a blanket or roll over and try to pretend like I didn’t see him while also hoping he didn’t notice that I saw him. The shadow man was scrawny and very tall. As tall as my door and wearing a top hat. I could never see many features but as soon as I saw him and attempted to hide I would feel the crushing weight of him on my chest, stomach, or lower back and I would struggle to breath until he left. I had these experiences numerous times and in many different laying positions until I was about 13-14, when we moved out of the trailer due to a spontaneous fire. side note: the Trailer that was there before we moved in burned down.The only other trailer on our lot burned down about 3years after we moved in. Then ours burned down a couple years later. Could be coincidence but definitely odd. I remember one time after he came I felt his weight lift off of me and I peeked out of the covers and saw a dark shadow dart back across the room into my closet and a bright light shoot through it and into my ceiling. If ever I believed in guardian angels it would have been that moment.

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    1. Part 2..

      So One day when I’m like 20 I was watching ghost adventures and they caught a shadow person in the mirror and this man was exactly the figure I saw on those nights. So I looked shadow people up online and My experiences were identical. So idk if they are a type of being that cause sleep paralysis but that’s the most reasonable explanation to me because until this article and the article on shadow people I knew nothing about these beings and I can’t believe that this many people would experience this phenomenon AND experience these beings.

      As I said before I haven’t had those experiences since I was about 13-14. I’m now 27. I’m still used to having spirits or shadows follow me home but not a single one has done more than startle me since that trailer. About 2 weeks ago, I'm sleeping and I'm becoming painfully aware that I cant breathe. I'm gasping for air and I finally wake up with that old familiar feeling of this heavy weight on my chest and I'm audibly gasping for air. as soon as I open my eyes it stops and I see this dark shadowy woman wearing a veil over her face. She’s right on top of me slowly fading upward in my ceiling above me and her veil is getting sucked into her mouth as she fades back and looks down on me making her look like she has this gaping black hole in her face where her mouth should be. kind of like a dementor I guess. I have no bad feelings for my house. It’s a new house, nice, no bad anything. I’m very happy here. Just a random visit I hope. I don’t know. It was just so nerve racking to experience that crushing weight on me paired with the not being able to breathe that I haven’t felt in so many years now. I’m so curious about her. I’m just not sure if this is the “hag” everyone else here has experienced. Has she been veiled for anyone else?

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  26. i have seen the shadow since i was very young. when i first saw it i got up to get some water and saw it in the kitchen it did not do anything or look at me just stood there i thought i was seeing things and went to bed. growing up i would see him every so often but after that first time i couldn't move anymore. it would start with me not being able to breath then my arms would be forced to cross my chest i could only tell it to leave talking in my head.then one time it rushed me and i somehow found the strength to release my tight arm and swing at it did not hit it but it backed off and vanished only saw it once since.its been a few years now but just last night i saw the hag for the first time and she was much more aggressive i could not move or breath and she was flying around me so fast then two people showed up they looked like regular people couldn't really tell who they were but they grabbed here by both arms held her against the wall and i broke free and we destroyed it, it happened so fast.

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  27. I'm 31 and I've had visits from the shadow man on and off since I can remember. The paralysis usually happens when something is chaotic in my life or when I'm not getting along with the people I live with. I thought I was possessed until I heard about a documentary on sleep paralysis and realized it's so common. I agree that when I'm feeling empowered and ready for him to come that the paralysis such shorter and not as traumatic. Just say in your head "bring it on mother f*cker" that helps me.

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  28. Im not sure if this is the same thing because it didn't seem like it lasted very long,and ive heard they last for awhile, but a few weeks ago I was sleeping on my back (one arm up and one arm down) and in my dream I wasn't doing anything. I was just laying in my bed looking at the ceiling. I was questing if I was even awake. So I try to adjust my position and I couldn't move anything. When I tried to move my arms, they would be squeezed by pressure. The harder I tried, the harder they were squeezed. I was scared and confused. Then I noticed a man in the corner of my room.(Tall and slim, looked like he was in his 30's) I wondered what would happen if he came to me, and he did. I quickly realized what was happening, because my dad would tell me about his sleep paralysis. A little time passed of me trying and trying to move, later I could finally move my arms. I've had a few more, but the more you have them the less scary they get.They can actually be pretty fun, and you can do stuff like flying and other pleasures.

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  29. ^^^ Im the same person who wrote the comment above but i have a question... the second lucid dream i had was me looking at me alarm clock then wanting to turn off my alarm, but i couldn't get up, i couldn't move. After trying and trying to move i finally start moving my arms and accidentally pushed the alarm clock off my nightstand, after watching it fall to the ground i couldn't move again. My question is, has anyone else stopped moving then was able to move then stopped again?

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  30. I had a visit idk but what or whom I can't describe him other than I know it was a him was humanoid shaped red eyes and I could feel intently he wanted to hurt me.im still terrified and this happend over 16 years ago.i woke up I knew something was wrong I was paralyzed I couldn't move,I couldn't talk and than he appeard from out of no where.right in front of my face I still couldn't make out any details but the eyes.red as the devil's flame.u can just feel his intentions by his gaze.being a young boy I screamed for my father.but as I went to scream this shadowy figure brought himself even closer and idk how or what happend but he opened his mouth and blew my scream away with his breath.i can't even draw my eyes from his gaze.i finally am able to look to the ceiling and when I do the breath that tore my scream away was gone.i look back and so was he.

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  31. Who is the Little Girl who stands behind and slightly to the side of the Old Woman made of malice...ive experienced many "shadows"....many different ways...only once the old woman with the little girl who stayed behind her who seemed genuinely concerned that I might lose myself to that "Hag"...I did not...the other darkness you speak of as demon/red eyes ....i know it as "RAGE"......another story for another time perhaps...Know that You CANNOT DEFEAT RAGE WITH ANGER NOR SADNESS WITH SADNESS.....no matter how well you have turned such into advantage...Blessings and Selflessness upon all of you and yours....in the trenches both sides go all the way...yet only our side will give it all for Love ;keeping nothing for ourselves.Believe

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    1. This is the entity known as wrath. God revealed its identity to me. It tried to kill me. Twice breaks, it the breaks in my old car suddenly stopped working, at the most inopportune and dangerous of circumstances. This old hag appeared to me in nightmares as a child, as well as to my mother in law, before I became a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.

      His is the most powerful Name under Heaven. Since I have professed faith in Christ, this entity has ceased harassing me.

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  32. I had dreams of an old witch trying to entice me with candy as a young child. I never thought much of them. As a young adult, searching for meaning and God, I dreamed of Jesus. He came to me in my parents' bedroom, and blew into the very center of my being. A tingling sensation overcame my entire body and he said "you were in danger of dying, but you will be ok now". He held me close, and I have never felt so safe and secure. I believe that is when I was saved.

    That night, my mother in law, who was a new Christian, and who had been witnessing to me about Jesus, had a horrible nightmare. She dreamt that an old hag was trying to choke her. She told me about this in the morning, under great distress. I believe this was the enemy writhing over the loss of my soul.

    The LORD preserved me. These entities have absolutely NO power over those who have been sealed by the Holy Spirit. We have complete authority over such menacing beings. If we profess faith in Christ, they have no jurisdiction over us.

    There is power on the name of Jesus. When you are approached by such a being, call on Him, and the demon's hold on you will evaporate like mist.

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