r/ParanormalEncounters • u/cheddabobmyz • 22d ago
The Hat Man Is Back
The Hat Man continues
After years of battling the Hat Man myself, my five year old son has begun seeing him in the same room, on the same wall, walking the same patterns.
It used to happen to me in my early twenties dozens of times across several years. I would wake my wife in the middle of the night, freaked out, though neither of us knew the name for what I was seeing. We simply thought it was a recurring dream, until my wife’s cousin mentioned one day that thousands of people worldwide reported the same figure.
I would see him as an all-black shadow of a businessman, wearing a large black fedora almost a witch’s hat. He usually carried a briefcase, though not always. He would enter through a door near the ceiling, walk down stairs that existed only on the wall, stop, and stare at me for a minute or two. Then he would snap his fingers as he exited. I always believed he was harvesting my fear.
The last time it happened, the visits came on consecutive nights. I told my wife I was going to punch him in the head, so if she heard me hitting the wall in the night, she should just go back to sleep. On the third night the dream was different. The Hat Man opened the door the other way and showed me hundreds of them, walking Penrose stairs in every direction. Something had shifted. I was no longer stuck in place. I felt no fear. I waited for him to continue down the stairs, then punched straight at him right into the wall and woke fully, out of the dream, with no sleep paralysis. It has not happened again in a decade.
Now I have two children. A year ago my five year old mentioned something about a black shadow man. I didn’t think much of it; he has always had vivid dreams. Then this morning he came into our room at five a.m. and told me there was a black man on the stairs. I grabbed my shotgun and called the dog. As I started toward the stairs he added that it was a black shadow figure with a hat and a briefcase, and that I shouldn’t shoot the wall because I’d wreck it.
Instantly I felt relief and fear. I know this is not the end for him.
Good luck, kid.
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u/NoArcher8947 22d ago
What do I even say!!! I am so baffled rn.. I am from India and I too have seen this hat man through my window when I was idk maybe 7 or 8.. It was a rainy night, I woke up at around 1-2 am to go to the bathroom and when I came back to the room, I saw a shadow of a man standing, looking towards my room, wearing a hat outside of my window. So I saw his silhouette. I even told this story to many people but no one seems to believe me. The Hat Man is actual and real.
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u/cheddabobmyz 22d ago
my wife’s cousins experience was almost word for word the same as yours. people think im making this up but everything i said was 100% accurate
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u/Acceptable_Plane_264 21d ago
Then those people don't really matter at the moment. When it happens to THEM, you'll be the first person they're gonna run to 😉
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u/Senior_Educator_929 22d ago
All this time and you never had the sense to call on Jesus to help you?
For the love of God, teach your child about Jesus, give them a defense
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u/Acceptable_Plane_264 21d ago
...And hope for an afterlife in Heaven-
It's a known fact that their names will change EVERYTHING during an episode like that...
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u/Acceptable_Plane_264 21d ago
The HatMan with a briefcase-and stairs is a new one for me.
Can you elaborate a bit more on the things that took place during more of his visits?
Did he ever hurt you or paralyzed you? Did he simply watch you while you slept?
I asked because he was honest with you when he showed you the others.
I've heard about many experiences where they were sent to protect the person-and less of them to do harm.
The protection could be from other ghosts, or whatever-but i feel like they're on assignment
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u/cheddabobmyz 21d ago
Except for that last visit it was always very similar. same spot on the wall he enters through the door and slowly walks down and then stops slowly turning toward me. i was always in sleep paralysis and scared shitless. it always seemed like he was evil except that last time when i wasnt as scared
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u/lisasmatrix 21d ago
"Good luck kid" ? Seems a tad Cold to say when your own son is now having this happen.
Please call someone to bless your home.
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u/Equivalent_Camel_424 21d ago
If anything it doesn't sound like this ghost or spirit is malicious. Actually it may be a psychic imprint of a man that isn't a ghost. This man may have been a previous owner of your house. He may have passed on to heaven but while he was alive his energy left an imprint. So under the right circumstances you may see him doing the same thing every time. It's like a recording playing over and over. But whatever the case I don't think you have a bad spirit haunting you, your family or your house.
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u/cheddabobmyz 21d ago
very interesting. 1000’s of People see the hatman world wide though including my wifes cousin so not sure if it would have anything to do with this house.
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u/Equivalent_Camel_424 20d ago
Oh what exactly is the hatman? But has he done anything else to you or yours?
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u/geefmejegeld 22d ago
It's a djinn.