by Tony Harrington
In the world of the paranormal, there is seldom anything new to write home about. Ghosts are ghosts after all, the tried and true staple of an investigator’s diet.
Rarely do we see an emergence of a new phenomenon. We might see an older type of entity experience resurgence in popularity due to a high-profile expose on shows like “Ghost Hunters” or “Destination Truth”, but that is not the same as a true emergence of a previously undocumented event.
That theory was flipped on its ear in 2009 when website http://www.Listverse.com featured “Black Stick Men” as one of their top 10 most bizarre modern paranormal phenomena.
The list; which included Black Eyed Kids, Dog-Head Man, and other cryptids immediately caught fire due to the inclusion of the Black Stick Men. As it turns out, there was something to be said of the recent phenomenon.
The black stick men are just that…walking stick figures, the kind you would draw as a child, or as an adult if you lacked any ability to draw whatsoever. The male gender is usually attached to the figures, though to be honest, they seem rather gender-neutral.
The figures have been described as unusually tall, black in appearance, lacking any facial or bodily features and very lean. Their appearances have been documented on message forums and websites since 2008 and unlike shadow people as a whole, do not coincide with a mention on Ghost Hunters or other paranormal program. Accounts of encountering the figures just started creeping up.
Could they be part of a viral marketing campaign, in similar fashion to an alien being caught on a game camera in Louisiana turned out to be viral marketing for the film Super-8 or could they be some part of a collective of urban legends?
The complete lack of photographic or video evidence quickly discounts the fact that these stories are part of a marketing campaign of any sort. They also do not appear to be centralized to one location such as the mysterious www.thisman.org website which seemed to be more of a performance art piece rather than a fully-realized otherworldly phenomenon.
Also, there is no “A friend of a friend” accounts to tie these encounters to an urban legend. The details involved in the accounts are scant at best, mostly fleeting glimpses. So, unlike true urban legends, there is no moral or sense of irony.
The details, of what little there are, about these creatures/apparitions seem to be consistent from story to story. The appearance usually takes place along a deserted road, or in an alley way, away from bright lights and prying eyes. The person encountering the stick men more times than not report being tired. The figures move smoothly as if gliding, they do not make any sound although the air around them is reportedly charged with static.
The actual stick men themselves seem indifferent to us unless provoked or if they realize they have been spotted. Then they will flee quickly or in some rare instances will approach quickly in a frightening display of aggravation. However, there have been no reported incidents of anyone being touched or harmed by the mysterious beings.
The only indications of their intent have been reports of vague feelings of malevolence, though some feel this has to do with the disturbances in the atmospheric/barometric pressures that often accompany a sighting.
Are they paranormal? Who is to say? Most of the accounts are not associated with a known haunted spot and most sightings are not tied to any other ghostly phenomenon. They are simply things that exist outside of our realm of the normal. So in that sense, yes, they are paranormal…but not necessarily ghosts of any type.
The Black Stick Man phenomenon is fairly new, not enough research/evidence has been conducted on just what or who they are and why they are visiting us. They could be ghosts, yet they could be alien as well if you are inclined to believe that we are not alone in this world.
Either way, to those who have seen these things, they are very real and are among us. As to where they go and what they do once out of our line of sight can only be speculated.
Have you encountered one of these mysterious beings? If so, please share your story with us in the comments below.
S.P.I.R.I.T 
When I was about 12 my brother and his friend were forced to take me with them to a movie. On the way back it was dark and something was coming across thwarting road. My brother had to stop the car so we wouldn’t hit it. It was a stickman and it looked right at us as it crossed the road. It wasn’t black. It was actual wood, about 1 by 2 inches. Not branches, like sawed wood that you would build something with. I’ve been telling this story ever since. Of course people don’t believe me. They believe I say something. I know what I saw. I wasn’t the only one who saw it. Also we were talking about it about 12 yrs. later and my oldest brother movie
People tend to find things they can not comprehend suspect. Because they can not imagine such a thing existing, then obviously what you experienced did not happen or it was just your imagination. That is the mentality we deal with day in and day out. It is good to hear from someone who had a legitimate experience with a stick-man.
If I had seen it, that would have been the exact moment I cried like a school-girl!
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I saw one of these crawling down the fire exit stairs. OMG. I thought it was my imagination but after a few days, one of my classmates saw it too and again it’s crawling down the stairs. So creepy.
People find it suspect because these stories are never backed up by anything other than “I’m serious…I saw it”. It’s always seen by one or two people and there are never recordings or images which aren’t doctored or easily explained.
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I agree. I like to have proof as well. As I have said over an over, I have never seen or experienced any of these “stick figures”. While I would love to see proof to belive it 100%, i do believe that people sharing their stories, for the most part, saw something.
Whatever they encountered is very real to them, so I am not one to call them liars or make demands of them beyond them sharing their story.
I don’t require contributors to provide proof, because I am not scientifically documenting the existence of the Black Stick Men phenomenon. I am simply collecting personal experiences.
Would I love proof? Absolutely. Do I believe everyone’s encounters are true or truly paranormal/supernatural? Nope.
Remember that virtually all scientific studies and conclusions are anecdotal. the existence of Mongolia is also anecdotal. there is no evidence you can provide which i can’t cast doubt on or discount. almost everything we know is anecdotal. at the end of the day, we are evaluating stories. we rarely have absolute proof. I am 100% sure that this Stickman exists even if I haven’t seen it. My intuition says they are telling the truth. There is a chance for wrong identification but those can be weeded out on a situational basis. There aren’t any other known creatures it can be mistaken for either. Most people generally don’t lie about such things either plus there is a wide geography and time period for encounters. Most people live in ignorance and denial about things going on around them. Now we are left to figure out what they are.
The existence of black-eye children has already been established also. They are another weird phenomenon.
I believe people are seeing something. The reports are wide and varied in these comments alone, as well as other documented cases all across the internet.
I am not sure that every person reporting a sighting is genuine, but for the most part my gut tells me that most are.
I am naturally a skeptic when it comes to claims of paranormal/supernatural occurrences simply because I want to rule out natural phenomenon. If there is a natural explanation for occurrences I would be more apt to lean toward the more logical explanation.
But, in the case of this and the similar Black Eyed Kids, perhaps there is no other logical explanation. Not having encountered either personally, I can only assume.
Thank you for stopping by and for commenting. It is definitely appreciated.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The Spirit Seekers Blog
Hi, I’m here because I’m trying to find an answer to something I’ve seen since I was a little girl.. (not so much now because I blocked everything out) but when I was younger.. I used to see a very long limbed, black in colour, shaped like a person thing.. no facial features.. it used to only stay on the ceiling (where the wall meets the ceiling) and watch.. it never came down onto the walls.. just crawled around on the outskirts of the ceiling.. sometimes it would elongate its neck to get a closer look.. it sounds surreal and something out of a story but to a 8 year old girl.. it was very real and I saw it for many years.. now I’m seeking an answer and I came across this article and I can honestly say I believe because I’ve seen. I’ve never known what it was and my family didn’t/don’t believe me… just a making of a child’s imagination..
Hi Kim:
Unfortunately, to most people, brushes with the paranormal and supernatural are too out there for others to accept as possible. That doesn’t mean your encounters are invalid or imagination.
We here believe you. As you can see there are hundreds of others so far who have shared their very similar encounters.
By sharing your encounter you are paying it forward, making it possible for others to feel comfortable in sharing their own personal stories.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The Spirit Seekers Blog
Kim, i believe you. I wrote here that i had seen a black figure behind me through the reflection on my tv. It was about 6 feet tall and walking in a tiptoeing manner. This was about 10am. It was really skinny and solid black with no facial features. I also found this website wanting answers. I’m 53 years old and i was a police officer about 10 years ago and i own my own business, i would not make up a story like this. But to be honest with you, i never felt threatened, maybe alittle startled, if it was going to harm me it would have done it a long tome ago.
I saw at least 20 walking stick people the moon was so bright in the distance shadows kept catching eyes and I seen what looked to be 8-11 feet last night in the whitetank mountains which led me to looking the up I’ve never heard of them idk what is went only that moving stick figures were out there
Was it near body of water?
I can’t believe i’m not the only one who saw this. Last night I was trying to get some sleep in my room and I heard someone knocking on my window. I fearfully looked up and decided to open my door. That’s when I first saw these so called “stick mans” The ones I saw were tall and incredibly lanky. They walked slowly and they all had medium length tin strands of hair. First I thought I was just tired but when I got up out of fear to open my door I could feel this powerful feeling of pressure. I swear on my life it was one of the most terrifying/paranormal feelings I’ve ever encountered. I’m so happy I’m not crazy. thanks for sharing your story!
i seen a black stick man go passed the windowe and it moved its head side to side
then went dowen stairs but there was no dowen stairs
It’s happening when I wake up but it’s tall and stands in the corner of my room the moment my eyes focus it’s gone but I know it’s there
That’s exatly what I saw too. The entity I saw looked as if it was made out of newly sawed bright and clean wood. Head and hands were just black spheres. It looked exactly as if it was made of gaint match sticks with every feature and color. The entity I saw was wearing some sort of hat by the way which is very wierd in my opinion.
Mokujin has joined the match
LOL! Nice.
I have seen one. April 16th 2014. My daughter is 3, shes special needs and doesnt talk that well. She starts screaming and crying and I go in there. She keeps saying I saw someone, I saw someone she DOES NOT SAY ANYTHING like that. She barely has 10 words that she even says. She draws on her etch a sketch and says here mommy. Again, special needs, cant draw that well. I have the pic and can send to anyone just leave their cell number, otherwise I cant upload or dont know how. SHE DREW A PIC of what SHE SAW, PERIOD. I am not lying, I am NOT playing with anyone at all I am telling the truth. She drew it. Next night, I see the same stick figure like thing trying to go RIGHT out my window, I am so terrified, and yet I have seen a LOT in my life, I am 26, so I have seen a LOT of spirits etc. This stick like figure was hanging over her bed, like it was going to take her, before I came in the room. It is now April 24th, I havent slept at night since then. I go to bed at 7 am. in the daylight, when my kids go to school I cant sleep at night anymore. If anyone can help me with this that wuold be great. I will give my cell number or heres my email cassiesimpson33@yahoo.com just put subject title Stick Figure thanks
We were at a camp site in Hawaii, just a few feet away was a little cove beach,my bf came to the tent as I was just waking,he said he found a dead eel,he seemed excited about it so I went,we Sat for about 30 seconds looking at the eel and we both see something shuffling in the sand about 20 ft from my left,we look and we see a small black stick figure jumping up and running into the ocean,we both look at each other and say at the same time did you see that..now,I warned him before that if you see something strange just don’t say anything and leave,there are some Hawaiian legends you don’t speak of until your in safety. After the sighting my bf started picking little fights,being bossy,just an all around negativity. For example I recently stopped smoking and he kept saying well this is a night place,maybe you should smoke here. Even my sister heard it. I later confronted him about it and he doesn’t remember being like that or saying those things. I also asked him about what we saw that day afew weeks later,he doesn’t remember that either,he doesn’t remember that morning all the way to that evening. It was like it was a negative feed to h since we saw that thing and his memory was off…it wasn’t until we landed back I’m California was he becoming is old self.
Sorry for the delay in approving your contributions, but thank you so much for sharing! These are great additions to the collection of encounters.
I saw something in my younger childhood similar to this. This is the only thing that comes close to a legitimate description. I was 10 or 11 at the time (now 30). Not a day goes by where it doesn’t cross my mind. I lived in the mountains throughout my childhood up until I was a teenager. The encounter happened while I was getting out of the shower. I heard some shuffling coming from outside the window, but we had a holographic, plastic, adhesive covering over the window so I wasn’t able to see anything. Once I peeled the plastic back from the window a little bit, I could see a long, black, slender creature laying down next to the swing set. The weird thing was, was that I wasn’t really scared. More in shock than anything, so I called my sister into the bathroom to come see it, but it was already gone. Little did we know, it was going to make another appearance. The next day in the late evening, we invited a friend to come stay the night with us and we were all sitting in front of the massive window (no curtain) in our living room on the couch. We were just hanging out talking when my sister (brought to our attention) an extremely tall (9-10 ft), dark, skinny figure with gold glowing eyes watching us from a couple hundred feet from the window outside. We freaked out and bolted to the bedroom where we looked out the window again to see that it had disappeared exactly as it did the night before. I don’t know what we saw, why or how we saw it. Dunno what it wanted. For the longest time, I thought it was an alien or something, but by the description (from everyone), this sounds the closest. I’ve told a couple people about it, but they act like I’m crazy. Good to know I’m not alone.
Ty finally I’m not feeling like a nut
This looks exactly like the thing that was grabbing and pulling my boyfriend’s legs and feet and my legs and feet one night. it woke us both up and were shocked we had the same experience. He didn’t see the “thing” but I got a good look at it. Very frightening and confusing. Don’t know what the hell it is. This is only one example of many incidents around this house.
Christina:
that sounds absolutely terrifying and i thank you for sharing this encounter. For the most part, from what I can gather, not having experienced an encounter personally, the BSMs don’t seem to intend to hurt anyone. They seem to be curious about us. In your encounter, though scary, did you get the feeling that you were in danger or that they meant you harm?
It was this year (2015) when I had the experience of seeing a black stick figure. It was Easter, April 5, and my husband and I were driving north on a highway to our daughter’s house at 9:30 in the morning. It was pouring rain, unusual in Northern CA, since we’ve had mainly drought conditions. All of a sudden I saw dimly through the rain-battered windshield a thin, black figure about 12 feet tall, sprinting across the roadway, from left to right (east to west), several car lengths in front of us, seeming to dodge the cars, yet lifting up off the road. It disappeared down an embankment and I didn’t see it after that. Very strange. My husband did not see it, since he was concentrating on driving. Now, this was in broad daylight, not in the dark shadows down a lonesome road. Therefore, it did not strike me as “spooky” or ominous. The impression I had was that this was a reflection or embodiment of nature and energy. As it moved so quickly, it seemed to have some purpose or destination, or just an intent of getting out of the way of traffic.
Susan:
thank you for sharing your experience. It is always interesting to get an experience that differs from the other contributions.
I am not sure how I would have interpreted seeing a 12 foot stick figure bound across the highway and down an embankment in the middle of the day. I would hope that i would handle it with the poise and dignity that you did, and not scream and flail my arms erratically! Which is my knee-jerk reaction to almost anything I don’t understand. Sadly.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your personal experience!
-Tony Harrington
Thanks, Tony, for your response. I’m remembering I was more startled than afraid at what I saw, even though it was fleeting and subtle. Since I was in a moving car, there was no reason for fear, yet I still have questions. Someone I know who is a native healer may have some input on stick men, so I’ll post what I find out from her. -Susan
Tony, I wrote my experience about seeing a black stick man sprint across the road in NorCal last year, and since then I’ve not seen anything similar. However, a few months ago after dropping off my car to be serviced, and getting a lift back home by their office employee, I saw in the corner of my eye a figure like a huge black jaguar or panther standing in the middle of a grassy field as we drove by. This was about a mile from my house. I’m not prone to visions like these, and I felt uncomfortable asking the driver to turn around and go back to make sure the figure was actually there. So I didn’t tell her what I saw. I know what I saw was real, but it was like an animal, not a stick or 2 dimensional figure like I saw last Easter. So I’m wondering if others have seen animals like that. I am aware that spirit animals can appear physically to people, as well as shape-shifters (or cupachabras). So this may not surprise people, but when you actually experience something like this, it is a surprise and can be unsettling.
Susan,
I approved the comment so it is now visible to other readers. we shall see if anyone else has experienced these “animal-like” apparitions.
Thank you, as always, for your feedback!
I think my brother might have had a similar experience to this, I was at our father’s apartment so I can’t confirm anything, but my brother and I tend to be serious with each other when it comes to supernatural things. He encountered what I now believe to be a stick man on Aug. 22, 2015, he went home (form our dad’s apartment) early to work on a school project, he told me that sometime between 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. he had heard something outside our left window, he went to investigate but couldn’t get the best look because we have a slab of wall material in front of that window so he had to look through a crack between the window and slab, from what he could see he describe a tall, black figure crawling up the side of our house onto our roof. The only thing about his story inconsistent with other”Stickmen” sightings is that the creature made scratching noises on our roof until it left at 5:00 a.m. (according to him.
Whoa that is the experience my friend had when she met the black and the white stick figures in her home as a teen. The white stick figure did that to her legs until she yelled for them to leave and not come back. Trippy.
Omfg I’m not the only one…..one night I was walking home I was 19 yrs old I’m now 25 I often walk at night anyways it was foggy but not so thick couldn’t see a distance I passed my friends house and I decided turn back too see if he was up when I turned around I seen a big stick like figure it wasn’t black but brown even seemed kinda shiney there is no chance it could be human anyway it’s strides were huge it walked across the street about 100 ft away I was not scared which was odd this thing crossed the street too my amazement I heard someone say something after it was out of view asking if I in fact seen a stick like figure I at first couldn’t answer I thought maybe my eyes played trickon me deep down I know they hadn’t it was 7 to 8 foot tall I will NVR forget this I thought I was only one ppl don’t have believe but if anyone knew me they know I don’t make up stories this been in my head for yrs I too this day NVR encountered this creature again I even went too nearby wooded area too search no dice idk wat it was but was stick thin and absolutely couldn’t have been a human I custom….I offer have bizzare dreams about this thing but in my dreams it’s presence is aggressive by nature…I can’t believe others have seen this omg.
i’ve seen them in my dreams too…they’re always aggressive, they chase me down, every night for a week or two, every couple years in my dreams, i usually wake up in a cold sweat
That is so creepy I had similar encounter and wasn’t only see either around 3:00 am it wasn’t black like some reports indicate it was brown 7 to 8 feet tall I wasn’t scared but your encounter gave me goosebumps it’s been yrs since was 19 now I’m 25 this will be with me forever I nvr knew others seen this as well omg
Hey Jeremy. I just approved both of your comments but realized that you posted similar things twice because you thought the first one didn’t go through. If you want me to delete one, let me know.
Thank you for sharing your encounter. One of our users is documenting encounters with a virtual push pin map, so if you don’t mind sharing the location of your encounter (city, state/province, country) that would be awesome.
Your encounter with a stick man is very similar to what others have experienced and by adding your encounter you are helping others come forward who may feel they are the only ones.
Thanks again for sharing!
Tony Harrington
Spirit Seekers Blog
Editor
i saw one that looked like it was made of ice… it was misting like liquid nitrogen and i felt a wave of cool static filled air buffet me … i too was in a car and the fact that there was wind in my car freaked the fuck out of me the ac was OFF and it was the middle of June it just sorta waved to me and then it tune to water and flowed down the sewer leaving nothing but frost on the what once was hot road … i never see shit like that i never see ghosts and hear strange things at night this was the first and only time
this was June 28th 2016 Hamilton Canada about 11:30pm
i remember it because i was in a state of shock it was the day my world changed forever
oh ya then there was the time i saw one in a suit .. he told me to call him slenderman
I no this is an old post but I saw a video of one of these on a show called fact or faked. It was a home security video and the show tried to replicate what was on the video and could not. It literally looked like 2x4s or like sawed wood a,d it walked across their front yard. It was very strange. U might try to find the show online and watch it.
OMG! Thank God I’m not crazy! Last night around 10:30 pm, I went outside to see catch a glimpse of the full moon, I looked to my left and saw the same thing glide across the road very quickly! Needless to sat I ran in the house and slept with all my outside lights on!
Approx 3 -5 years ago I was very I’ll with the When I was very ill with the flu. I saw a black stickman out of the corner of my eye in the passageway. Interestingly some days later I asked a clairvoyant if she knew anything about black stickman and she told me she had a friend ring her in the last few days and said look out for the black stick man. She was wondering what it was all about. I can’t recall whether she saw the figure. The figure I saw was very tall much taller than a human I guess approx 8-10 feet. It moved very fast in a gliding motion. I felt it was a good energy. Maybe a nature spirit. I did wonder if it had anything to do with Aboriginal Stick figures.
I have been thinking through time frame and it was more like 5-7 years ago not 3-5.
I have personally never seen one of these figures, and I am glad I haven’t. They sound downright creepy. I wish there was more information on them. they seem to be a relatively modern phenomenon which makes me wonder…are they truly new and why show up now or have they been around a long time and are just now showing themselves. Ah, sweet mysteries of the paranormal world. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
i think they are not new at all.. it is possible those cave paintings from ancient times are depictions of these figures… just a thought
That is actually a very good thought. Cave paintings do depict tall, slender figures, sometimes interacting with “regular” sized people. Perhaps these things have been around a lot longer than we think.
Thank you for stopping by and contributing to our discussion!
Their not that scary. get a prism and a halogen flash light, shine the light through the prism at the creature and it will Dissapate. if you gotta deal with a bunch of them, don’t! That static field they discharge gets really powerful when they are in groups.
I cant believe I actually found sites about stickmen! My daughter who is 8 swears on her life that she sees stickmen and have been saying this for years now and ive been just a bit skeptical cause i didnt know really what to think because ive had my own paranormal experiences where i thought i was crazy. So i never really said anything to her, but when i finally looked it up i couldnt believe there are other ppl who have seen them! Then something clicked, this must be the same thing she was seeing when she was 1-3 years old, she could barely talk but she would be looking down the hallway or in a room and hug me with fright and say “Man, dark Man!”
Thank you for reading our blog and sharing your story.
One of the reasons we open comments up from our readers is so that people can share their experiences so that they don’t feel alone. It is a way for those who have experienced something unexplainable to reach out to others who have shared this experience.
While I personally have not seen a stick man, the number of people who have continues to grow. It is a relatively new phenomenon in the grand picture of the paranormal field, so the entities are either new or have just started showing themselves more frequently.
Hopefully other people who have experienced these manifestations are able to read your experiences and take some comfort in knowing that they are not alone.
Thank you again for sharing your story.
The Spirit Seekers
I saw a stick man a few days ago, I was walking down the street and a car was driving past and as it did I saw this long tall figure that looked like…I don’t know…a really weird drawing, and I was like ‘It looks like some sort of stick man’ and the second it seemed to notice me it was gone, it was weird.
My child who at the time was about 7 or 8 told me he seen them but they never bothered him. The he said ” you don’t believe me do you?” I could see he wasn’t lieing. He said they were black stick figures and they would just hang out in the corner of the bedroom near the window.
I saw a really unnaturally skinny solid black figure through the reflection of my tv one Sunday morning. It was tippy toeing like a person would do in an exaggerated manner. I would consider that a stick man. I called my daughter and my wife up on the second floor to see if any of them had been down stairs and they said they had not. I wasn’t scared at the time and it did no harm to me but once in awhile when my wife goes out of state to visit her family and I stay home alone I still think about that and it scares the heck out of me. I am 59 years old and I’ve been a police officer and I am of sound mind and what I tell you here is the truth and I believe this child who says he sees stick figures.
I’ve see stick men in the last year after a difficult move to another town. They come when something is going to happen to me that makes my life extremely difficult, like a fall and a long healing process, costly damage to apartment, robbery, stressful human interactions, etc. They are absolutely unforgettable and I am glad I am finding web sites about them. They come when you are very tired, worried and fretful and when it’s dark. Or when you are overconfident, like at dawn. I’ve always just woken up and am standing. They run up to you and tell you bad things are coming with no sympathy or hug – they just say it – but those things DO happen and in a way I am thankful for their frank warnings although I do not want to see them ever again. I call mine pipe cleaner men. They are just like any moving stick figures a child would draw but mine are a little fuzzy everywhere like black pipe cleaners, and their faces are oval with no hint of playfulness or friendliness. They seem to be fast moving harbingers of bad news but they are helpful. Mine have features but they are not exactly features like ours but they do have a mouth and piercing eyes with some color maybe, they seem to be male, no hair or ears, and their emotions seem strung out and a bit stressed and they move like they are in a hurry, quickly addressing you face to face and disappearing. I think they are creatures that are very upset about certain things and they know about the future and they must tell you. They do not stick around long, thank goodness. They do not sit down or stand at the end of the bed or just show up night after night, thank goodness. Each time I’ve seen them (3 times) it had been less than 10 seconds. I thought at first I was dreaming. My counselor says they are consistent with the stress I am under but I’ve been under lots of stress before and have never had such visitors. A friend of mine says they may be sent by loved ones who are very concerned about us.
I really hope I’m not stepping into a nice, storytelling goo of terrific imagination: simplicity with curiosity. But in any case, I wanted to express the need for characteristic information.. people need to add their specific environments, what kind of home is it, what kind of geography surrounds them (mountains, plains, city, etc), and even more specifically what kind of Governing system surrounds them (Southern States, Industrial areas, Commercial districts, nearby Military/Intelligence installations, etc.). These characteristics are absolutely essential at developing a database that puts these phenomenon into definable trends. Until this is met I can only continuing reading for the sake of personal enjoyment as these are mind-bobblingly terrific stories.. I prefer non-fiction as it is more exciting because of the truth behind it.. so I can see why, with fiction, it would be terrific to add the artificial aspect of reality. But even without individual credibility, if individuals report characteristics we can start gathering data. We are an information society now, we know how to manage this stuff. “Investigation” requires data… and data comes from source. If the sources are unreliable then the lack of data should not be trusted.
P.S. has anyone ever watched the movie: Ink (2009) ?
Ben:
I am aware you wrote this almost 3 months ago, and I apologize for just now seeing it. Our blog gets hundreds of readers a day and in filtering out the ridiculous amount of spam I get in addition to real responses, I somehow overlooked approving your comment.
I am truly sorry for this as your reply is truly sound and the call for more information is truly needed, lest we are just left with speculation.
Could there be similarities that we are overlooking? Perhaps, and it is imperative that we do our due diligence when reporting phenomenon. That is a truly valid point.
As for “INK”, I have not yet seen it, it is on Netflix streaming and I pass it over every time Netflix suggests it. If it is worth it, I will check it out.
Thank you for contributing to the blog and again I apologize for the long delay in approving your comment.
Sincerely,
Tony Harrington
Editor/Contributor of The Spirit Seekers blog
You should read my entry below, for one.
Time: August 3, 2015, 9:30 PM.
Location: On the beach, North end of Folly Beach, SC.
Weather: storm fronts coming and going, high 70’s at night (see meteorological records)
Description: 10 ft. tall, elongated arms, black with light-colored waist and upper legs (as if wearing board shorts), seemed to float along beach, arms waving like tree branches in wind; did not acknowledge my presence.
The most frightened I’ve ever been in my life.
EXACTLY WHAT I SAW, SANS THE SHIRTS, IN THE MID 1960’S IN HAWTHORNE NY…I SWEAR YOU COULD SEE THE WAVES OF AIR MOVE AS THIS THING WALKED AND SWUNG ITS ARMS…STILL VIVID IN MY MIND
Plz contact me josh_lau@aol.com. I’m looking for others serious about collecting data on this. My experience was in Peru at a location known as “a portal to other dimentions” by the local shamans.
All the comments about stick men having actual wood limbs and stuff are fake, people that troll and havent ever experienced anything let alone properly read this page and the part explaining that it’s a stick figure that you’d see drawn by a kid, not a literal stick figure.
It was 1996, I was about 12. Picton, Ont, Canada. (Sleepy rural island)
We lived in a big, old heritage home, just outside of a very small town on quiet street, no other paranormal experiences in that house that I know of.
It was the middle of the night when I got up (most likely to use the washroom), all family members were sleeping, lights off except for a night light and some illumination from the street-side window behind me. My room was in the front, far from the other rooms and the giant staircase. As I exit my room there is a railing that curves around then goes straight to the end of hall where the stairs leading downstairs start. I had just turned to make my way to the other end of the second floor, when I saw this black stickman figure just standing there halfway down the corridor. All black, very very skinny, exactly like a stickman drawing with bold lines although a very slight haze surrounding him, about 6ft tall. I can’t remember what exactly the ‘head’ looked like other than just a plain oval with no features. There really wasn’t any detail in the appearance other than dark black stick straight lines about 2 inches width uniform in entirety in the shape of an exact stickman drawing, what stands out is the way it moved. The whole encounter lasted only seconds. As soon as I noticed it, it noticed me. It rapidly made it’s way down the hall then it ‘hopped’ or more like quickly floated over the railing skipping the top 5 or so stairs and ‘glided’ down the stairs with it’s limbs moving slower than it’s pace. It’s limbs were moving oddly, like during the ‘hop/float’ over the railing it was in a ‘hurdle-like’ position, and descending the stairs the arms and legs were kinda flailing about, but it’s ‘feet’ or arms never appeared to make contact with the floor, banister or stairs. The legs were making a walking motion but it descending the stairs faster than they were moving, and about 5 inches above the stairs. Even though it was hovering/gliding, the movements of the limbs gave it’s presence a jerky, almost spasmodic vibe by their awkward movements.
For years since my experience I’ve been trying to convince myself I somehow didn’t see what I thought I did, but to me that’s a stretch, I’ve never hallucinated before or since, nor have I ever made up stories for attention (I’ve barely told a soul besides my family).
The memory is still vivid 23 years later and brings tears of fear to my eyes.
I am so glad to have discovered there are others with sightings just like mine.
My family teased me afterwards and for years. I’m bringing them this evidence in hopes to validate my experience. I know I wasn’t dreaming. The memory is real. The fear I feel when I think about it is very real. What did I and countless others see??
What you saw was real. You are the only person on here that had described what I also saw in Peru to the T. Everyone else had seen little variations but this one was eactly my same experience beside in broad daylight on top a mountain near a lake in Peru. Being vivid bright daylight, I know what I saw squiggle away from me as soon as it realized I had saw it. Anyone wanting to help collect thoughts and information please email me, ru1ber@aol.com
As soon as I heard about these stickmen, I instantly thought about that short story by Shaun Tan called ‘Stick Figures’ about strange wooden stick figures who are constantly found around a town and how the locals interact with them, in the book Tales From Outer Suburbia (by Shaun Tan, obviously). Ironic, huh?
I was 5 or so, you ever open your eyes after you’ve been asleep and the room is so dark, that it’s oppresive, and not like dark at all?
That’s when I saw the Stickmen, (or that’s the only way I can describe them) and it scared me up big time,
They were not black, as I wouldn’t have been able to see. They were 2 dimensional, I recall seeing 4 or 6 in the room, but it wasn’t like I was looking in the room, my room was never that dark. Hovering they were, not touching the ground, glowing, but not bright, like a very dark red,
Maybe it was just my mind adding visions and depth where none existed, or some kind of manifestation of illness.
I think that the reason I was scared was because as a five year old little tough guy, I new that this was not a natural thing. This did not fit into my understanding of the world, I got out of bed, shut my eyes as I could not see, and blindly ran for the door, with this awful sick feeling in my stomach.
Of course I had to have the door ajar with the light on after that.
Even now, nearly 40 years later I still remember it very vividly, and I have no appetite to ever see anything like it again.
I was searching for something about stickmen because my 14 yr old nephew was just telling my husband that he had seen one of these at his mother’s funeral at the cemetery. He said it had a white face with eyes and red lips. The arms were long like tentacles. He showed my husband a picture on his phone. I’m assuming one he found online. My sister died from her battle with cancer over a year ago. I know that my nephew had also seen and spoken to the spirit of his older sister. My sister had a mis carriage about 2 yrs. Before she had my nephew.He said the stickman made him feel uncomfortable.
My little sister keeps waking up screaming and pointing to nothing. She describes them as lanky black stick figures that scream in agony as if they were dying or dead. I believe her as I’ve heard the screams as well, but have not been able to see them. She says that after they scream for around 12 seconds, they speak normally in a deep voice. Most recently she says that one of them asked her to “End the pain and bring him to life” It’s odd because nobody believes her or say that it’s a dream. She’s seen a hypnotist who’s “looked into her mind” and saw them as well, he told us that it wasn’t a dream and that she had seen them for real. Our family see’s things like this quite often, my brother spotted a horse headed man, I have seen and communicated with multiple ghosts, thinking they were real people I talked to them, later to learn they were either dead or just not there. Does it mean anything to be able to see these things?
Thank you for visiting our blog and for commenting on the article.
You asked whether seeing things that don’t exist for others means anything specific.
Here at SPIRIT Seekers, we believe in psychic phenomenon, the evidence, though not specifically scientific, does point to the possibility that certain people are more in tune with the environment around them.
Let’s face it, NOBODY can prove the existence of ghosts and other paranormal creatures, but they cannot disprove it either.
With that said, if your family has a long history of communicating with the dead, then it is very real for you, but more importantly, it shouldn’t be your job to prove that ability to people. If you encounter people who do not believe that you can do what you say you can do, nothing you do can convince them.
Overall, being able to see and communicate with spirit beings simply means that your mind is not closed off to the things that we cannot see, and because your mind is open, sometimes, things unseen to others will present themselves to you. This can be scary for those just beginning to realize their abilities and at times it may seem difficult to rationalize what you are encountering.
If you feel a presence means you harm, sever communication with it, close your mind to it. If you feel they are benevolent, then communicate with them and perhaps help them move on or achieve whatever objective holds them here.
I hope that helps, let me know if you have any questions.
When I was around 6 or 7 years of age 1969 I had my Nan come visit us from England to Australia . I was sleeping in the spare room with my nan on the opposite side of the room , it was dark it was night time . Opposite me there was a single window , a very old and heavy window that worked on a heavy cord to lift it ,and then 2 stick figures i would say men lifted the window from the outside and crept into the bedroom making no sound at all ! I mean they lifted the window but there was no sound ! W ell i was terrified ! I could see that these figures were not human but resembled 2 very tall stick figure men ! They stood there for a few seconds and seemed to be talking to each other though they made no noise , my nan was fast asleep and she was snoring loudly , I called out to her Nan ! Nan! but she kept snoring , then the 2 stick men walked over to her slowly and peered over her ! Looking at her and talking to each other but making no sound ! I was so frightened I couldnt move and was praying they would not see me or hurt me , I was staring at them and then they walked past my nan then past me then opened that window again without making any noise and slowly climbed out the window one at a time and closed the window on the way out ! I would describe them as very tall between 6 and 7 feet , they were black , blacker than the room and night as there was no light , they both had black hats on . like a rounded shape , they had no faces , they made no noise , they moved slowly and strangly ! Till this day no one has believed me but now i have found this site I will show it to everyone ! I did not feel that they were evil or trying to hurt someone , more just like curious travellers that decided to climb into that room at night and have a look around ! This is the truth and I remember the experience as if it were yesterday . Nicola .
Nicola:
Thank you for sharing your story with us. This particular entry has garnered a lot of attention and a lot of comments.
It is continually in the top results for internet searches on the topic.
For the most part, as you can see, people who have encountered these entities all experienced similar things. And they have clearly been around a lot longer than we initially thought if your encounter dates back to the late sixties.
I imagine the experience was horrifying and unsettling to have stayed with you so long. I know it isn’t easy to talk about without thinking people are judging you, so that makes me appreciate you sharing the story all the more.
Thank you for stopping by and feel free to look around the site at some of the other blog entries.
Oh man, the entity I saw was wearing a hat too. I am getting chills down my spine. I was doubting myself for all these years and now I see that I am not the only one that saw this thing.
Thank you for your reply . Yes it is an experience I will never forget , I would also like to add that the home this happened in was quite isolated . We were living on Bulli Pass Thirroul a small suburb near Wollongong in N.S.W . It was very old and run down home , im guessing around 100yrs old, and the homes around us were also very old,the surrounding towns all very run down,not what it is today is now very established . Yes remote and rundown certainly not a lot of people lived there . Also the history of the area were coalminers . I dont no if this has any revelance but it gives you a picture of the surroundings of where this event happened .I would also like to add how strangely these Stick Men moved . They moved in a very slow fashion like slow motion and made not one sound ! Till this day i cannot fathom how they opened that window and closed it without any noise ! Very eerie ! Thanks again Nicola .
In 2006, on the day I moved into a new apartment in an inner-city suburb of an Australian city, I saw a black stick figure. He was 7 to 8 feet tall, and as soon as I entered the loungeroom and saw him, he looked across the room at me, seemed startled, ran around quickly and then ran out of the room, After that encounter, I saw him 6 or 7 times and sometimes I would encounter him walking quickly in the opposite direction in the corridor of my apartment. The sightings occurred either at night or the late afternoon/early evening and I was never under the influence of any substance (being a non-drinker and non-drug taker). He instantly seemed male to me though I cannot say why. I did not sense that he was malevolent, on the contrary he seemed a bit frightened to see me. He had no facial features, was black, had an oval for a head and thick-ish sticks for limbs. My partner, with whom I lived at the time, never saw the stick man. I was 40 years old when I saw him and those sightings were the only inexplicable experiences I have had. Those experiences changed the way in which I see the world. Today, I know that the universe is much stranger than I could ever imagine. Thank you everyone for your posts. While I have no doubt that what I saw was real, it’s so great to discover that others have also seen stick men.
Lauren, thank you for sharing your experience with us. This article is quickly becoming our most commented upon proving that this fairly recent type of paranormal encounter is far more common than expected.
I saw a stickman only once. It was as you stated late afternoon/early evening. It was in the hallway of my apartment. I saw it through the hole on the door. Its body looked as if it was made of large matchsticks, head and hands were black spheres with no features and weirdest of all was that it was wearing some sort of old fashioned hat.
I should add they the stick man was two-dimensional.
My senior year of high school, I went for a run at around 5:00. Of course everything was dark and there wasnt much people up at the time. As I was running past my old elementary school I saw this black figure walking on the street across from me. It was this tall creature, moved kind of slow, lanky, but it also looked as if it had horns on its head and it was walking on all fours (so it wasn’t really a black stickman, but it was similar to one). I slowed down to a stop and just stared at it. It was just walking, until I saw it stop and its head slowly turn towards me like it was contemplating on coming to me. I got scared and just sprinted away. Have never seen it since. Even to this day, I have no idea what it was. I’ve mentioned it to other people, and nobody else has ever encountered something like it before.
Sammy,
Thank you for visiting our site and for sharing your story. Your experience validates what many people encounter with regard to the black stick man phenomenon.
While I have never personally seen one of these creatures, the rate at which people report experiencing their presence seems to steadily increase as this modern paranormal phenomenon becomes more widely accepted.
Thank you again for sharing your story, hopefully others will come forward and share their experiences as well.
Omg. I seen on of these black Stick men when I was ut 28 18 so 11 yrs ago I was driving in the car with my mom and it was walking in and out if trees and through an empty parking lot it looked just like described here. It frighten me . My mother wanted to follow it I didnt ..how weird i
I am on this webpage because I just had this experience not more than 45 minutes ago, and I came here while researching “black figure sightings” at the urging of my dad and brother who listen to coast to coast radio with George Nory. I live in a small town in northern Minnesota, and I was just out walking my dog Wilson at about 9:15pm. Our normal walking route is right on the edge of town and we normally walk over Long’s bridge over the river, then turn around and head back toward home. To get to the bridge we take a right turn at a “T” intersection with rural mailboxes on the far side of the road, and some street lights behind us. Anyway, as we were approaching the intersection a tall figure walked very quickly across the intersection that appeared to be dressed entirely in black and wearing what looked in silhouette like a cowboy type duster coat. With the street lights behind me I should have been able to make out some details on the person’s face, but it was like he was in silhouette and there was absolutely no detail at all. He (I say “he” because the figure seemed to be male) seemed to have an easy stride, but was moving unnaturally quickly as he made his way toward the bridge. At this point Wilson seemed to take no notice of the figure at all…until we crossed the street to the mailboxes where he habitually stops to pee. Suddenly Wilson started to get very agitated and clingy. And as I looked up the figure had reached the bridge and it seemed to turn and “look” at us, but I can’t be entirely sure. I was only aware at how incredibly fast the figure had actually reached the bridge, and that it had stopped on the bridge. The figure was dimly silhouetted from the house lights and few street lights on the far side of the river. I was also now keenly aware that it was “aware” of us, and furthermore that it had made absolutely NO SOUND! As we had approached the intersection we were perhaps no more than 30 feet from the figure at the closest point. Being that it is a relatively quiet night (with an unseasonably late, light snow flurries falling) and that this is a quiet area I should have heard footsteps at least on the wet pavement. I would also mention that until the figure reached the bridge it never turned to look in our direction. In rural Minnesota people greet or at least acknowledge each other on the street when they encounter each other walking. At this point I was telling myself that this was all just my imagination, yet as I was trying to walk toward the bridge and the figure now standing still in the middle of it all I had were alarm bells going off in my head! Now I need to mention that I am a college instructor and I teach defensive tactics (fighting techniques) to criminal justice students and that I have been training in martial arts for the past 36 years. I don’t consider myself a coward or overly superstitious, however my training has taught me that if something “feels” wrong it IS. So trusting my alarm bells I heeled Wilson and turned 180 degrees and started walking the other direction. I swear I could feel the weight of the this figure’s stare on my back as we walked away so intensely that I couldn’t help but look over my should 7 or 8 times making sure that this fast moving figure wasn’t moving up behind us quickly and quietly! However it did not follow us, and the last couple times I looked over my shoulder I could no longer make out anything on the bridge at all. I have to admit that I am still a bit uneasy about this situation, and I’m not really certain what I just saw and encountered….but I do NOT like it. I thought I’d share this experience after reading a few of the others above.
John,
Thank you for sharing your story with us here. The rate at which this article has grown in comments leads me to believe that sightings of this type are reaching pandemic levels.
Stick Men are being reported all over the United States, and as previous comments indicate, the phenomenon has been experienced globally.
Your story confirms many of the details others report including the manner and speed at which these things move, their featureless faces, their uncanny speed and long gait.
Did you get any sense from this thing that it may have been ghostly or alien?
Thank you again for replying and of course for stopping by our blog.
I really didn’t feel that this was a ghost, it sure seemed real enough. As for it feeling “alien”, well not in the traditional Hollywood “little green men” sense of the word. It did however feel other worldly. Having had a couple days now to process this situation, it seems like it initially ignored me until it realized that I had seen it- almost as if it was used to being unseen moving through the world. I would add that once it did become aware of me, it was definitely malevolent and I did not like it’s attention focused on me! I had a flashlight in my jacket pocket at the time, and in hindsight I really wish I would have had the presence of mind to shine a light on this being.
Thank you for the follow up and the additional details. My apologies for taking do long to reply, work has been busy and the last thing I gave been doing is working on the blog.
I wonder how similar your experience is to others who gave experienced the stick man phenomenon.
I have had a very close encounter with what you call a stick man, it was on a deserted road, but it was in my passenger seat of my car, it put it’s hand on my arm it is cold and feels like petrified wood,it hurts but I don’t think it is intentional, there were several things that happened before this, and it did not want to leave me alone, the sence I get it it is alien or interdimensional, almost lost. Please contact me on artatafrica@gmail.com, this is not the only entity I have seen, there is also another one that disturbs me, i cannot see it but it feels like a spider and it hurts me around my lower back…..please help PS I live in cape town
This is Taryn again, I have looked into what everyone else calls a stick man and what I saw was very different, firstly it wasn’t wearing clothes, was pitch black and not as thin as the pictures I have seen of the stick man, rather slender humanoid and very tall, what could this be?
Hey Taryn:
I have not had a lot of time to look at the blog or the responses in the past few weeks, I am just now getting around to reviewing the responses.
Your addition to the comments is intriguing, and I am not quite sure what it is you have experienced/encountered. It seems to share a similar design to what others are calling the Stick Man, but your encounter varies. Is it possible more than one type exists? I suppose anything is possible, or perhaps you are simply encountering something that completely different and not yet documented.
Because this may very well be the case, I will be happy to leave your encounter listed here so that others can stumble across it and add their experiences if they indeed have a similar encounter. It is always nice to know that we are not alone in our experiences no matter what they be.
I know this post is old – I moved to a little town called Altamonte Springs, FL in 2007. From my bedroom, on the 3rd floor, was a bay window I could look out of, past the parking lot and into the street. One day, simply looking out the window I see an incredibly tall solid black flat figure walking along the street. Other passerbyers didn’t seem to notice them. They had an odd walk, kinda laid back, but just kept walking. I stared at it, surely I was just not seeing clearly, I grabbed my binoculars – I didn’t know what to think – in the binoculars I saw the same thing – a very very tall flat black creature just walking along, no features, just flat black. I watched him until he was passed out of my view. I can’t explain what it was.
Dania611:
Thank you for stopping by. Yes, the post is old, but it still remains the most popular post on the entire site.
I never imagined how many people would have experiences to share when I wrote it. Considering that I have only heard of the phenomenon but never experienced it myself.
I am glad that I have not encountered one of these things, they sound terrifying to witness, though they seem rather benevolent, or not interested in us at the very least.
Thank you for sharing your encounter, I still have no idea what these things could be, they seem to be a fairly modern phenomenon. Maybe one day we will be able to figure out why they are here, but more importantly, just what they are.
Dania, This was around the same time I saw a black stick man in my home in Osteen Fl just outside of Sanford. He (it ?) was standing in the doorway of my kitchen where the light was on but behind him (it ?) was my “unlit” dining room. I saw him from another room in my home as I was sitting and talking with my husband and an old friend from Ohio. I stopped mid sentence as we were talking to go and investigate and as I got up the figure disappeared. I went to where the figure was and of course, there was nothing. Very weird ! My husband and friend did not see it as they had their backs to the site where it appeared. They thought I was seeing things when I explained why I had gotten up and gone into the other room. The figure was about 5-6 ft tall and was black with no facial features at all. I felt it was surprised that I saw it. I have never seen one since but have had an uneasy feeling from time to time in my home here out in the country. I live on ten acres off of a dirt road in a private community with security gates and everything including a dog who never even barked or acted strangely that night but has acted strangely every once in a while since the sighting like she sees something behind me that I can’t see. This occurs day or night. I am so curious about what we are all seeing.
Please contact me josh_lau@aol.com
Hi, im from Germany and i came accross this website while beeing boored at work and finding strange youtube videos (as ususal) and there was a reply of one single person in the comment section that immediately reminded me on my childhood experience with this, indeed quite astonishing paranormal phenomenon called “The Black Stick Men”. The video i was watching was about random “paranormal” creatues, and the comment post mentionened a part in the video where 3 pictures have been taken at night on a regular street where a very tall stickman like creature was walking along the street and immediately climbing up a 9 floors high building.
And now i came accross this website and i want to share my experience with the Black Stickman:
I can still remember really precicely, while i was a child probbably about 7 years old (and im 24 now) about my first and so far only sighting of this strange creature at where i as living with my family years ago:
Me and my family, we lived in an old military home complex from the US-Army wich back then and now has ben transformed into normal homes with appartmends for rent. So there where quite a lot of other familys and kids back in the day and a loot of traffic from people walking around with there kids and stuff.
One day, i was outside playing with some kids on the block, but it was at DAYTIME. We played hide and seek and random stuff. After we sort of seperated and stopped to play i went inside. Shortly after i was going outside again and i felt like i wanted to go to the big deep-level garage where the people can park there cars from the block we where living at. The garage was relly long probably about 500m more or less as i remember and even at daytime pretty dark.
So i was running at the garage entrance where the cars usually drive in and out. The garage had about 4 entrances about the same size and at the far end, only an exit for pedestrians. (there is a small metal door, it leeds into the garage with a few steps). When i entered the entrance for the cars (wich was number 3, so about in the center of the garage complex) i looked arround, but even there i was feeling kind of frightened and bad beeing there for myself. When i was seeing that nobody was nearby, i started to shout into the garage for fun, hearing my own echo, echoing along the garage walls -> All of a sudden, as i was looking to the right of me, THERE i saw it:
I immediately felt a chilling and cold air sorrounding me, the fear was building up immense in me as i stared at the black stickman on the far end of the garage. The metal door was opened before, you coud see the sunlight shining in, but the stickman was, without making ANY SOUND at ALL! Walking slowly down the few stairs and for some reason, it immediately stopped! And looked at me! I felt like it was staring at me the whole time! I coud feel the presence immense and the feelings in me where telling me to leave this place, NOW!
While i was frozen in place because of the immense fear i felt, i coud see it was completely BLACK with NO Facial details. It just looked like a Black Stickman without any clothes on, really slim in shape with long arms and legs, standing in place looking at me while holding the stairway grasp with its left arm. Arround it the air seemed like moving arround, the same effekt you have when the sun is really burning the ground and you can see the air kind of moving, the same effekt sorrounded the Black Stickman.
THEN all of a sudden, the Stickman turned arround, and ran out of the door incredibly fast as if it was literally trying to flee from me! As if i wasnt supposed to see him there…. i was running out the same way i came and tried to look at the end of the garage to see it somwhere runing away….but there was nothing there…nothing as if it just completely disapeared after it left the garage thru the door that leads outside…i was so afraid of it that i was running back at home.
I did not came back outside this day and i was afraid of telling my family or any one because i thought no one woud believe my story.
All in all an interesting, but really frightening experience with this phenomenon..i had never seen it again since then but i can remember it that well because it feared me so much!!
Thank you for stopping by and for sharing your story with us. It goes to show that this type of phenomena is occurring globally.
I am sure the experience was indeed very frightening! Having never personally experienced seeing one of these things, I rely on readers just like you to share their stories.
Sorry that it took a few days to get this approved, I have been very busy with work. Thank you again for sharing your encounter with the Black Stick Man!
I have encountered this entity when I was a kid.
The incident took place when I was about the age of 8 or 9 (I am 28 now). It was a nice and sunny afternoon and I was at home with my mom. She was in the livingroom watching TV and I was in my study room playing games on my PC (I can even remember the game I was playing. It was Robocop 3 for DOS if anyone wonders). I thought I should call my friend from school and tell him to come over so we can play some two player games together. He was living just on the next street and said he will be coming shortly. I resumed playing the game and after a while I noticed that he was late than usual but I didn’t worry much about it at that moment. After a while I heard the apartment door being opened and then closed. I thought that should be my friend and got to the door to check. I looked through the door hole and I still can’t explain what I saw infront of our neighbour’s door. I know this is going to sound very wierd but there was a stick figure man standing there in the apartment’s hallway. Very humanlike in general features expect it looked like it was made of very large matchsticks. The color and texture were also the same with a matchstick. There were pitch black big spheres where the hands and head supposed to be. Those looked like the tip of a matchstick too. The figure was wearing a hat which I believe was yellowish but I can’t really remember the exact color. I remember seeing some sort of black stripe across the hat’s top half. And there was a black net hanging from all sides of the hat that covered the figure’s spherical head. The position of the joints were like you would expect to see in a person and for a very brief moment I saw it moving its arms to a different position. Another wierd thing was that the apartment’s lights were switched on which at that time there were no motion sensors that turns the lights on. So someone must have switched them. By that time I was more than freaked out and rushed to the living room shouting that there’s something in front of our neighbour’s door. We opened the door and checked the apartment but there was nothing there and my mom said that I might have imagened things or just got blurry vision while looking through the lens in the door hole. I don’t have further memory of that particular day and I don’t even remember whether my friend evetually came or not which is wierd in my opinion. So that’s about it.
TheodenN,
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your story with us. It is yet another entry in a long line of responses that provides some validity to the existence of these creatures.
The responses to this article have fascinated me in how similar everyone’s experiences are. For random people spread across the globe to search something like this only to find our site and see that their experiences are mirrored by those sometimes countries apart is intriguing.
Perhaps a bigger study is in order, there has to be some logical explanation for the sightings.
Thank you again for sharing your amazing story regarding your encounter with one of these “things”. And thank you for stopping by our site!
I want to give some more details about the place I saw the stick figure.
I am from the western coast of Turkey and I am living in the city of Izmir. It’s just across the Greece and the city is at the shores of the Aegian sea. The region we were living is a quite peaceful and nice place, where mostly good people are living. It’s very close to the sea shore (about 3-5 minutes of walk). I believe I saw the figure at about 4’o clock in the afternoon and the sun was starting to come down but it was still pretty light outside. The weather was clear, warm and sunny (as it usually is in Aegian shores) and I believe it was spring (possibly April). We were living in an apartment flat on the second floor. The apartment itself was not very new but I can’t say it was an old building. I saw the stick figure standing in the hallway of the apartment in front of our neighbours door. As I stated before I was about 8 or 9 years old, I am not really sure about my exact age but I was going to elementary school. There are no millitary/goverment buildings around our building or around our region. That’s all the details I can think of at the moment.
I am also really suprised by the similarities of these encounters around the world.
From what I have read, the sightings seem to concentrate at late afternoons and nights, mostly kids around the ages of 6-10 see them and these figures are mostly seen indoors. I don’t think this is a new phenomenon, it’s just that the people aren’t talking about it. My encounter took place almost 10 years ago. I think the reason we didn’t hear many stickman reports is the fact that the phenomenon itself sounds absurdly unreal and ridicilous even to the person who witnessed it (even I can’t believe what I saw was real). So people like me prefer to keep these bizzare sounding stories to themselves and try to discard them as if it never happened. For long years the only people I talked about my encounter was my family. I have an open-minded family and they believe that I really saw something. My elder brother is also curious about these paranormal entities but he never witnessed anything paranormal to this day.
I am really very curious about what lies beyond our perception of reality that surrounds us. I feel like there’s MUCH more to the universe than we know. Simply mind boggling.
Thanks for making this blog about this phenomenon!
You are most welcome. I am glad people are comfortable enough to share their experiences with us.
Thank you again for your very detailed encounter. I appreciate your time and candor.
“My encounter took place almost 10 years ago. ”
That’s was a wrong statement it should have been 20 years ago. I am 28 years old now.
Hello, My names is Sandyi, I too have experienced the Black Stick man…
April 2012 In Charleston SC, living on 4 ac. woods are on both sides of property right on the river.
It was around 1;00 a.m. I was sitting on my porch with my dog , I was looking out the door into the yard . all of a sudden I saw movement in the yard and my dog even saw something , he made a light bark he was just as confused as I was, he made only one little noise then was just a mesmerized as I was. In front of us were three tall black stick figures gliding steadily across the yard I watched them and wanted so go out side but I was just frozen with amazement . saying
” am I really seeing this”, I watched them glide across yard and it lasted at least a good 15 seconds, then they just vanished into the tree line and night they were Tall my husband is 6’3 and they were at least another foot and a half taller then him, My dog and I sat there and I could tell he was puzzled like I was he just sat there was not agitated , I grabbed a flash light and went out side just to the first step, I was a little nervous but had to know what I saw. These tall Black stick figures were darker then the night there was no light on in the yard or house where I was sitting. I could see them no face just black stick figures long skinny arms and fingers and odd shaped heads. they looked all the same height and all same build exactly alike and glided so effortlessly across yard. I have mentioned to other people what I saw just a few others and no one else had encountered them. Well Yesterday in broad day light I was out on my porch oh! it was June 25 th 2013 time was 11;30 am I was on porch this is in Florida now .I am on my computer and when I shut off my computer, you know how the screen turns black? well over might right shoulder I saw One black stick figure it was maybe 2 seconds I made a light gasp sound and it was gone. that is when I decided I need to see what this is . Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would come upon a web site that others have had the same experience. .. it was the same exact black stick man but it was only one this time that I could tell, it was standing behind me right shoulder.
I never did feel threatened or scared just amazed that I was seeing what I was seeing. I am in my 40’s a good head on my shoulders educated. enough said I know what I saw as well as all of you have expressed what you saw. so now I am on a mission to find out what it was. I have been doing some research into history and it seems that they have been in and out of history, Are they exactly the same that we saw? unsure, but there is something stirring out there , and what ever it is they are watching , I really felt like the one I encountered yesterday was just observing me. The ones last year I saw I really don’t think they were aware that I saw them. Thank you all of you for sharing your stories, I for one will continue researching…….. Sandyi
There we go Sandyi.
My apologies, your story got captured by the spam filters for some reason.
About your encounter, you sure handled it a lot better than I would have! I have never personally experienced an encounter with these “things”, but from what everyone is saying, the sensation, while scary, is more of confusion, as if you almost can’t believe what is happening.
There needs to be a lot of research done to determine just what it is people all over the world, you included, are experiencing? Are they alien? Are they ghosts of some sort?
One constant is that they have yet to cause harm and do seem to be curious about us up until the moment we return the curiosity, it is then that they flee.
Thank you for sharing your story and adding to our long list of replies of shared experiences. My sincere apologies for it taking almost a week to approve.
-Tony Harrington
The Spirit Seekers
Thank you Tony , I agree I think any fear from these particular beings are just that confusion .i have grown up in a family of mediums , so with that said I am familiar to the unusual ,
Even though it still til this day can startle me at times . I try not to let that over come me . Yes much more research needs to be done and the more stories you gather the more Information we will have to try and understand what the beings purpose is . When I saw the one behind me . I do feel like I surprised it .I did take notice that I was not aware of it being behind me , but yet I a medium and aware when spirits are around especially right next to me . The curiosity continues …..
Thank you again .
Sandy, I saw one of these on the North end of Folly Beach, on the beach at 9:30 PM in August, 2015. Being from Charleston, you must know where I’m talking about. I found the experience horrifying, but no harm came of it. But I wonder if there’s any connection regarding the Charleston metro area.
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I’m so thankful I came across this blog! It is pretty common for me to have supernatural-like dreams and I’ve had several encounters in my life. I’ve seen my grandpa after he’s passed away; heard my very spiritual grandma’s voice while she was meditating 4 rooms away; felt “things” in people’s houses; and have dreams that my boyfriend says is disturbing but I know are harmless. I grew up in California but when i lived in Hawaii my strange dreams got very strong. I don’t talk about these things to really anyone. My dreams tend to be very detailed of buildings, rooms, sometimes clothes, often violent, several reoccurring, but rarely scary. But I have never been scared like I was last night. And before finding this post, I had never heard of these black stick figures.
I was having another strange dream last night, when suddenly I was in my childhood bedroom but with the placement of the bed where mine currently is. It was night and in the doorway I saw a very lanky, elongated black but almost opaque figure. Immediately he ran/floated at me, his arms and legs moving strange and jerking-like but still smooth. It felt very bad. No face, no distinguishable marks, just dark. He came at me fast and in a frightening way. Right up to my face then disappeared. He was back at the doorway and began coming at me again. I am able to make myself scream to wake myself up, so it took me a few tries but I was able to yell before he got to my face again. I woke panting and shaking and it took awhile for me to calm down. I was really scared. I’ve never had anything like this happen before. It felt very bad. And I’m concerned what it may be.
I’m concerned at the way the figure came at me, arms and legs flailing unnaturally. Fast and violently, head first, right to my face. I’m not sure what to do. I have a nightly mantra i try to say to only allow positive energy as at times i tend to feel a lot of negative things around. I’m questioning whether I interpreted it incorrectly. But I’ve never had something come at me like that.
But it does give me some relief knowing this is something others have encountered. Thank you for letting me share.
And thank you for sharing, Dana! That sounds most disconcerting and horrifying, let us know if you encounter this strange phenomenon again.
Thank you for stopping by our humble site! This article seems to have spoken to quite a few people. It is my sincere hope, that over time, we can analyze these stories to figure out just what it is people all over the world are seeing.
Oh I see I am still awaiting moderation approval. Mmmm. Not sure what that is about I shared my story a week ago . Have had no reply .
I found it! It was in the spam folder for some reason. I am approving it now.
Grrrr. That darn spam ! Hee hee thank you !
It has been posted and I replied. Thank you again for contributing such an amazing experience! Sorry for the spam filter, I don’t know why it grabbed your post, but at least I found it. I should check the folder to see if any other unfortunate soul has had a story gobbled up into the abyss of WordPress.
I left my story about my experience recently about the black stick man , I was Hoping to at least have a little feedback with the computer incident . . You did ask to share our stories .
Sandy I, apologize if your story was overlooked. I will look through the replies to the story and see if yours was overlooked.
I have approved all replies I have received, so if yours has not been posted, then it did not make it to my inbox for some reason. Either a glitch on my end or yours, or somewhere in between.
No worries ! I saw my story posted . And like I said . I was just Hoping for a little feedback .
I would think everyone’s story plays an important part . Thank you for responding .
I am so excited to have discovered this site! Although, I was initially searching for a different subject, I stumbled upon the stick men article and wanted to share a story because I wonder if this has happened to others. I suffer from sleep paralysis and when I was younger (about 8 or 9) I would sometimes have a hard time determining whether I was really seeing something or if I was actually “dreaming”. When it first started I had a “dream” about such figures, I saw them standing in my room when the lights of a passing car shone threw my window. I couldn’t move and could barely muster a moan because the pressure in the air was so thick. One turned towards me, but there was no face although I heard it shriek. I don’t recall it looking as though it was made of wood texture wise, but I would say it resembled slightly blurry black branches. It would make sense to be wood as we lived off the highway with a thick forest behind our house. They disappeared with the passing of the cars, although I’m not sure how they left. I’ve always thought this dream was odd as I usually would have these dreams about normal things I already thought existed that terrified me. Having read this, I wonder if these figures were not a dream, but something I actually saw.
Thanks for sharing that story Sami
I think sometimes we all want to dismiss things we experience at night as a dream . I for one believe you experienced it . When we are in dream state our conscious is opened for unusual activity even astral travel .
However it was experienced being awake or dream honor it . Again thank you for sharing . i experienced thenlack stick men but was wide a wake my story is on this website also .
sandyi
Very excellent response Sandyi. You covered everything I was going to address.
Sami, thank you so much for sharing your story and visiting the site.
Tony,
I am very sorry I did not mean to jump in there , I got so excited to see another brave soul add there story .
I love this site and a big Hug to you for having it . I had made a posting a few weeks ago about an Incident that has occurred to me several times re spiders .I did not hear back anything . Just wondered if it got gobbled up by spam .
Would be so kind to check ?
No need to apologize! We are a community here, it was awesome to see someone respond. I was very happy to see your response.
Thy is why you and this community are awesome ! it is nice to share incidents that happen to a community of open minded people ! Bravo !!! 😄
Sandyi, I don’t see the spider post at all. I am on my phone browser though at the moment. I will check this evening when I get back to my hotel. I am away on business this week.
Thank you Tony !
Oh! And don’t work to hard ! Hee hee
Thank you Tony!
Don’t work too hard ! Hee hee
Be safe on your travels . 😄
Thank you for this! When I was growing up I had a best friend who lived down the street. We lived in a quiet, small town where her dad was always working. I would walk to her house everyday after school and we would often take walks, walk to the liquor store to buy candy etc. I would often see a stick man following us, peeking out from behind her coach etc. He was all black and changed sizes. Sometimes the size of a small cat, other times taller than a normal size man. I felt very scared of him and felt he was mischievous at best, perhaps evil, I finally got the courage up to tell my best friend and she admitted to seeing him too. I always got the feeling he was the same one, not different stick figures. One time he appeared in the shape of a stick figure horse (like a bad child’s drawing.) I always believed him to be somehow following me and watching me. Until, when my best friend passed away suddenly our senior year of high school. She had a genetic heart condition that nobody (including herself) had known about. I’ve never seen what we called “stick man” ever since. I believe now perhaps he was some form of grim reaper awaiting his time to take my friend.
That is a very interesting theory, and for your specific circumstances, your friend’s rather, that may very well be the case.
Thank you for sharing your story with us. It is another entry in a long list of people who have encountered these…things.
I agree with Tony, that is an I interesting theory about the connection maybe being to friends death “grim reaper” it is hard to say . All we can do is continue to keep our eyes and mind open to the events that occur and maybe one day we will find an answer . The world is filled with amazement .
good grief, I had no idea this was a phenomenon. I was actually haunted for years by one who seemed to wear a red fez.
Hello Mary:
I think this takes the prize for the most unique instance of a BSM encounter.
As you can see though, based upon our comments section, the types of experiences with the Black Stick Men are wide and varied.
Thank you for adding your experience to the growing list of personal experiences, and for stopping by our blog.
I had a dream last night about me and my dad going to some place out in the woods with a few houses and one main building. My dad said he had to go the main building for some sort of meeting. That building was the only one with its lights on. I wandered around a bit when I came across this house. I put down some textbooks on the front porch(I have exams coming up so I’m guessing that’s why they turned up in my dream). There was a hedge to my left and I remember seeing a tall black stick creature. It stared at me for a few seconds and I stared back, before it ran away. Then I woke up.
Thanks for sharing . It seems the lack
Black stick men show up in an awaken state and dream state . Now if we could just figure out what there purpose is ……
When I searched for a “stickman ghost” I really didn’t expect to find anything. Glad to know l’m not alone!
Yesterday my mother told me that she saw a matchstick man in her room. She was sitting on her bed an said it was standing at the end of her bed and moved very quickly around toward her. She immediately screamed and pulled the covers over her head. She said it was very black and about the height of an average man.
I’d like to give a brief history on our house. We live in Southern Michigan. Our house was built in the 40’s We have lived there about 14 years. Shortly after moving in we realized we were not alone there. We have had a variety of activity in this time but never a visual sighting…until the day before the stickman showed itself.
Again my mother was in her room and saw a dark haired women in a white uniform. Again she went right under the covers.
My husband discussed the sightings with a friend who had one theory. He asked if anyone had passed away recently. My mother lost her sister, who had been a nurse, earlier this year. He thinks she may be the woman who appeared to my mother and speculates that if a new spirit has moved in, it could be conflicting with the original one?
Has this stickman always been there and is only showing itself now because of a new presence????
I would love to hear any thoughts you may have. Mine are all over the place!
Hello.I just thought I would share my experience with the black man. I was around the age of nineteen and lived with my grandmother. I had a makeshift room in the basement with a lace curtain as my door. I woke up one night and looked toward my door. As I do this I see a” stick figure” tip toeing across my door way. It was black and very thin but the oddest thing was it looked like he was being very dramatic about it. Lifting his legs very high while staying on his tip toes. I wasn’t frightened and I didn’t think it meant harm. I am now thirty eight and have told my story a few times but haven’t thought much of it till I stumbled across this article. It actually blew my mind! To know that I am not crazy and that other people have experienced the same thing is very comforting. I hope my story can provide the same comfort to someone else.
I for one thank everyone that shares there story . Not only does it bring me comfort to know so many others have experienced the stick man , the stories also give me inspiration to continue to research , to question and to maybe one day find the reason the stick men are here .or maybe they have been here as long as we have …..
My 7 year old saw this just the other day. Said they are grey no face and he was running towards my couch and vanished! Makes me wonder😁I’ve been burning sage blessed be❤️
Thank you for sharing your story, Sylvia. It actually ties in with an entry I am writing about how kids seem more in tune with the spirit world than we are as adults.
But, I don’t know what these stick figures are. Are they ghost, aliens, demons, or what?
As more and more people respond to this post it only seems to add to the mystery.
Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment on our blog.
so i was going to my kitchen to get some tea. so i get my tea and the i go the hallway in my house then there is a tallk black figure with a white face with dreadlocks and it asked me to come with him then i awake in my bed
I was driving out the loop one night and saw two black figures crossing over the two lanes on my side and then going across the median and crossing over the two lanes on the other side. I leaned forward to see if I could figure out what was crossing the highway and then they disappeared into space or into a wooded area. I covered the side of my face with my hand so I couldn’t see if they came back and went home and to bed with my clothes on and covered my head.
Approximately 6 years ago I saw a black tall stick man ( or figure) in my home standing in a doorway between my kitchen and dining room. I was sitting at a table in our family room off of the kitchen and was the only one of three of us facing the doorway when it appeared. As soon as it realized I saw it it vanished. I wasn’t frightened. I got up and went into our dining room from another room to investigate but of course nothing was there. It was NOT three dimensional, rather exactly the same as a child’s drawing of a stick man. It was NOT wearing any article of clothing and had no facial features at all. Just looked like a drawing that had come to life. ???? My friend from Ohio was visiting and I had just stated to her that it was too bad our deceased fathers hadn’t gotten to really know each other in their lifetime. As soon as I said that I looked up and there was the stick man. He (IT ?) was approximately 6-7 Ft in height and was approximately 20 feet away from me. No sightings by me since.
Last night I had a dream I was walking in the woods with my mom and brother. As we got deeper into the woods so did the dark. Shawdows moved all around us. Suddenly I saw in front of me maybe 300 feet a very tall, very skinny, black, featureless stick man. As I spotted it, it started running back into the woods very fast. It was hard to see because it looked just like a skinny stick and it was black. The tall, black stick thing ran off with the sound of crunching leaves and sticks. I woke up and now I’m writing it……..
Hello there, been doing a lot of research about this so called tall skinny black figure. It was about a few months ago when my daughter and I were in the living room around 1-4pm playing with a puzzle/ learning game. When I noticed something poked their body around the corner. It was at least 6.5-7 ft tall and very skinny. The hands/fingers were at least 10in long. What made me even notice more about this figure was that it almost like a hologram. The eyes were not glowing or red or orange, but the eyes were translucent – they eyes were the only translucent thing on the body.. I could def. see that there was some type of eyes. No other facial features , just eyes…. once I noticed the figure, it stopped looking at my daughter and (turning its head) then looked directly at me as if it forgot that I could see it and then disappeared. Have been doing research and cant find a thing on it….Any suggestions????
My brother my friend and i have seen this thing for the past couple of days. Frequently i’ll be walking and see it in the corner of my eye. My BFF had been having dreams and seeing the creature often. Though my brother has come eye to eye with it in school and at our house. The figure tries to run after him and when he turns around and then looks back its gone. I don’t know if this is the creature but in our description its tall, black and fast.
this happened to me and a friend this weekend I only found this page while looking up what I saw. we were traveling in the mountains threw Idaho on a dirt road. we were pulling in to a gas station when my friend said “what the fuck” then “nevermind” when I pulled up to the pump and got out I took one step out of the car to the pump. and something made a very loud and scary noise from behind the pump like a sort of clicking sound and I saw the trees shake I jumped into my car and took off as fast as I could. later down the road I saw it move quickly at my car from the edge of the road. I just kept driving I didn’t swerve or anything and I kept silent about it tell about 1 hour later I told my friend what I thought I saw and then he explained to me he saw the same thing standing at the pump and it ran off when we were pulling in he assumed it was his eyes playing tricks on him. the weird thing was it killed my cellphone battery messed with my car stereo and made the lights on the pump grow very bright when it was near. when I described to him that what I saw looked like a picture drawn on a whiteboard he teared up cuz that was exactly what he saw.
Thank you for sharing your story. When I originally wrote this article I never suspected how many people would respond to it and share their experience.
While I personly have never seen one, I do not doubt for one second, based upon all the comments I have read, that these things exist. Just what they are remains a mystery.
Thank you Cody, your contribution is appreciated and will help others validate what they have seen.
Well what did you see?
After seeing this video taken in Russia, of a stick-like creature swiftly crawling along a building, I became intrigued because I had a weird feeling about it that I can’t explain. After doing some research I saw many people dismiss the video as a fake, however there’s been loads of sightings (as shown on this page) and with no evidence against/ for the video, it remains a mystery.
I really wish to know more about this phenomenon and when I came across this page, I thought I should share it with you. (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=beX2aMws_qw)
Personally I’ve never experienced seeing one of these creatures, but I’ve heard many stories.
(Even if the video is fake, it doesn’t take away the fact that loads of people have witnessed these beings, which leaves me very curious.)
I am not sure of the validity of the video, but I thank you for sharing it. At this point in history, with the advent of always-on cameras and the ability to upload footage instantly, there will always be naysayers. Just as there will always be people perpetrating hoaxes.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your find.
I actually saw the same video and had the exact same feeling! I looked up some more videos of it though most of them seemed fake. Then I looked up “black stick men” on Google and found this lovely website. I’ve been reading the comments since this morning and I’m intrigued. I don’t know why but there’s something about BSM that seems or feels familiar to me.
Jade:
Sorry for the delay in approving your comments. I tend to get backlogged with a full time job and working on several writing projects.
Thank you for stopping by and for complementing our site. We do our best to keep it updated with new content, though as a one man operation, it does get difficult.
Please think about what is familar about the BSM and let us know if you remember any encounters as we strive to build a library of encounters from all over the world.
Thank you again for stopping by. I am about to approve your other comments!
when I was cleaning my house I turned around and all of a sudden I saw this long dark stick man!I turned around because I felt like somebody was watching me!and when I saw it it just disappeared.this left me a little bit confused.
I had a dream last night, after doing a deep 936 hz pineal gland activation meditation, about a black stick “alien”-like being. limbs literally looked as scrawny as frosty the snowman’s, but just black and was clearly not wood, it almost had a slight shine to it. my dream is a bit fuzzy now, but it felt so real and i remember i asked “him” a question and from his torso he “magically” pulled out a cord-like object, looked similar to an electrical cord but the tip was radiating with a bright type of light, but it was a unique kind of light. He looked a bit creepy but i didnt feel threatened. I have never seen or read about anything like this before, which is why i find this whole experience interesting.
I came to this page because I’m trying to find answers to something I saw last night.
Four people were with me.
Three others confirm the exact thing I saw.
We were in my local park which is very rich in history. There were a few cemeteries and many apartments uprooted from the park in the 1800s.
It was about 1 am. One of my friends said they saw something tall, thin, and black walking through the trees. It took a few minutes of staring off into the trees, but finally we all saw it. We all described it the same. Tall, black, and very skinny. That is all.
If you compare your experience with what others have encountered, you may have just had a first hand experience with the black stick man.
That’s what I’m realizing. All four of us described the same thing and all these stories, that’s what gets me. It was real. It happened. And I’m having a hard time believing it. And the area we were in, it has such an overwhelming amount of history of anger and resentment and sadness. The person who first noticed it is someone who isn’t easily shaken. It was the first time I’ve ever seen him truly scared in the four years I’ve known him.
And the moment my eyes fixed on it, I got the most intense feeling of fear I’ve ever felt.
Even though I wrote the article, I have never experienced the phenomenon of seeing one.
The has never been a documented case of these things harming someone.
Would you say these things are alien, ghost, ir something altogether different?
I’d say it could be some type of spirit that has become something else. From unsolved anger or just from being there so long, maybe it could be a type of creature that absorbs smaller weaker spirits and morphs them into some kind of disfunctional more powerful entity?
It seemed to just disappear after we all saw it which tells me it’s an energy rather than a physical being.
Thank you so much for the information and for sharing your story.
i was staying in my brothers room with him his only a year older than me but has really bad paranoia now, i was just sleeping next to him cause we were watching a movie then fell asleep…i had woken up to a male voice come from the corner of the room talking about love or some thing like “You never loved him” or something like that Then i saw a 8 foot tall REALLY thin man standing next to my brother i started freaking out and woke him up, i told him everything i had seen\heard he told me i was seeing and hearing things but i don’t think i was….i kept see this man around him since that day…
Last year in late April or early May 2013 I was stepping out my studio door, my studio sits behind my house about 50-60 ft., when I noticed movement. It was dark out and the only lights on came from my back porch to my left and the neighbors backyard. The neighbors light is on a pole behind my building and another building in their yard about 50 ft away. Somewhat back light but not enough to cast a shadow with two buildings in the way. I saw a solid shadow, no features, very tall, along side my husbands 16 ft. tall barn/workshop. It was very thin, about 12-13 ft tall. It moved fast, I could see it’s outline and I noticed an elongated head and very long stick thin arms and fingers. At this time I was facing it as it moved from right to left and kept going across my yard and in between our house and our neighbors. It was taking large steps but was fast, a run even. I was so stunned, I’ve never seen a shadow figure but this is more solid than I thought one would be. There were no facial features that I could see. I processed this thing so fast, like in short hand, what I noticed; this was not a shadow thrown onto the barn, it was upright, moving fast. I felt it was old and alien. This last thought was something I had to reject, it is just too far out of my frame of reference. I’m not frightened easily…but I think twice before I go outside at night now. Since my encounter I have contacted many people. No one seems know anything about what I saw.
Thank you for sharing your story. As you can see by the amount of replies to this article, you are not alone.
Just what these figures are remain a mystery.
When I was thirteen, my parents sent me to an agricultural school in south africa, and I loved it, I loved the freedom of having a massive game reserve as my playground, every weekend, I would go onto the farm by myself and hunt, fish, braai, and just have fun. This was my life for my first seven months there, it was bliss. Then one day, one day that I will never forget, I went down to the bottom of the farm with some friends and swam in the river, it was a nsormal saturday, eventually we noticed that some clouds were rolling in, so we began the two hoir walk back to hostel. We were about half way back and very tired when we all agreed that we felt as if we were being watched, so we turned around, nothing there, so we carried on walking, a few minutes later (now drizzling) we got the feeling again, this time we looked hard at the forrest behind us, we stood there for about a minute, just as we were about to carry oj walking a tall, black, featureless creatire crossed the road about twenty metres behind us, it was like nothing I had ever seen before, the way it walked, itnwas as if it was gliding, and it was extremely fast! None of us spoke, for a second none of us moved, then the fear set in, we ran most of the way back, as we got back to school the sun came out, the next day me and my friends spoke aboug what had happened, we had all seen the same thing, nothing like this has ever happened to me since then
Bob,
Thank you for adding your encounter to our most popular article on our blog.
Your contribution helps others who have encountered one of these entities know that they are not losing it, that they didn’t imagine it, and that it has happened to quite a handful of people.
Thank you for the time you took in writing your encounter. We appreciate you and everyone else who commented.
I see them or him all the time at night right beside me usually i don’t feel frightened they dissipate as soon as you spot them but they leave some messages (as crazy as it sounds! I know!)
What kind of messages would they leave?
I saw one in broad day light it was so creepy and scary! I thought it was a manican at first then it moved
I was approx. 10 years old residing in lower ny (west cty).. my friend and I were walking near a location called strongs woods.a wooded area between two streets. it was twilight, summer ..the year was 1964…”we” saw a figure walking; long legs and arms; thin, and as it walked , quickly, you could actually see waves of air around the body and limbs as it moved…now 60 and I still see it in my mind..i know what I saw
Art,
Thank you for sharing your story. I had assumed in my initial writing that this type of “creature” was a new paranormal manifestation of some sort. Several responses have indicated that they indeed go back quite a few decades.
Very curious indeed, I imagine encountering one of these things was a very frightening experience.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your story with us.
i saw these wonderful disk shaped clouds majestically hovering on the very edge of the east side of grey mountain , near cameron arizona. ( near grand canyon). i deicided to take pictures and pulled over beside the road. it was a very bright afternoon. as i was attempting to get the picture, the cloud would not show up in my camera. the cloud was still there… i can see it, but my camera cant. i take pictures anyway. i forget about the pics. a few days pass by and i decide to clean out old photos. i came across the photos i wanted to take of the cloud disk. i examine the photos, strange that, the clouds did not get in the picture…but then i see about 3 stick figures that are seeming walking around right under where the cloud disk would have been. excited i wanted to show my co workers., a whole section of my photo albums were gone as i tried to show my co workers. i have no prevoius knowlege of stick people or anything such. i just decided to look it up.. n found you guys.
Chris,
Thank you for sharing your story with us. Sorry it took so long to approve your comment, I have been super busy with work and putting the final touches on a novel I have been writing.
As you can tell, this article has been very popular and people from all over the world are leaving comments, some dating as far back as the 1960’s which tells me that whatever these things are, they are not as nearly new of a phenomenon as I had originally suspected.
Thank you so much for stopping by and for sharing your story with us and adding to the ever-growing catalog of experiences with these creatures/things…whatever they truly are.
Okay here goes … Today I saw a ‘stick man’.
I was walking in the park with a co-worker and we were about 20 feet from the street walking parallel to it. I saw a ‘stick man’ run across the street from our side, across in front of cars. The whole thing took 2 maybe 3 seconds. I turned to my friend and said “did you see that” and she said “what?” and between saying it and her reply my mind tried very hard to put what I saw into context. After she said “what?” I said “I think I saw a deer … but it wasn’t a deer, I saw a stick man” she looked at me like WTF and I said “not like you draw a stick figure but like a man made from tree branches (?) kind of like a walking stick bug but not and he was running like pumping his arms and legs to get across the street.” In retrospect, it went from a tree area in the park to a tree area at a midrise building. This is a very urban area in northern Virginia and I think the only reason I saw it was because it was in the road where there were no trees. None of the cars or rather drivers reacted to it being there (not that that’s a stretch) and it did happen really fast. There is no way it could have been a costume because a person could never have fit into the shape I saw. Extremely slender not smooth but irregular and branch like, the color of dark tree bark.
Thank you so much for sharing your story with us and the ever-growing list of people who have repotred seeing these odd entities.
My apologies for taking so long to approve your post, I was out of town on business and am just now going through the replies.
Your experience, like most, sounds unnerving and seems as if it leaves you second-guessing yourself.
I personally have not seen a black stick man, but I do appreciate everyone who has sharing their stories and experiences. Thank you for the time you took in writing your experience out and sharing it with us here at the Spirit Seekers Blog.
My friend and I seen one when we were 14 yrs old. We are 37 now. And I have never forgotten it. From a distance, it looked to be very tall and wide. About 8 feet tall and 4 feet wide. Solid black. No features. Glided when moved. And moved extremely quickly. Was standing in front of someone’s house, on their front door step. We stopped and I said, “do you see what I see?” She said yes and I asked her to describe it. (To be sure). And we then ran to our destination and it was there, standing in front of a window. In front of a building. We froze. It glided to the corner of the building and turned the corner and I have never seen anything like it since. It was very late at night (we snuck out), in the middle of winter. I used to reside in an isolated town. I was afraid of it but it never appeared “evil”. Just shocking. Anyone else experience this?
Karen:
Sorry for the delay in approving your comment. I was in Alaska on business the past two weeks and I am just getting around to approving entries.
Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving your story about the time you encountered one of these strange beings. I am not sure just what they are, but the rate at which people continue to find this particular entry and respond to it, leads me to believe that they are real, they exist, and they are here.
Thank you again for your response and for contributing to the discussion!
I too have seen these black stick men figures however in my dreams and I sometimes see them, but they seem to be scary, and don’t do anything, but look creepily however when I saw them in the street one time they’re not really there, so I wondered too what they meant.
Thank you for your response. Not having personally encountered a “Stick Man”, I am not one to say whether or not they are dreams or hallucinations, or if they are indeed reality.
The number of responses this article has received in the positive, seems to indicate that they are real, or at least very real to those who have encountered them.
Thank you again for stopping by and sharing your experiences with us here at The Spirit Seekers Blog.
I saw a stick person while I was in my car we rode right past him I’m suprised no one seen him but me and my brother.
Hi, my name is Don. many years ago my father took me and my best friend , who was staying over for the weekend, to visit my Grandmother who was having a mental rest in a facility located in Brisbane Australia. I have never forgotten what I saw on this night. i saw a very tall very skinny thing come from the bush and run a distance of about 200 meters in roughly 4- 5 seconds. It was very dark whatever it was and it was light on its feet if it had any, there was very little noise from it running, I remember thinking that it was only a shadow accept for the arm and leg movement that is the same as a human running, it moved so quick and the darkness of it it stood out in an area of shadows. i have never said anything about it as what i saw seemed too strange as my friend and I , Well we thought we had a pretty good knowledge at that time about ghosts & Bigfoot and everything else supernatural..and what I saw isn’t anything we knew about.
over the years I have asked around if anyone knew anything about a story/legend about such a being – no one knew anything. I saw no facial features, there didn’t seem to even be a head as what above the arms was the same thickness as below them.i have also asked my friend i was with at the time if he remembered anything about it. even he kind of give me a strange look , he has never denied what happened on this night but he has never agreed with my story either, rather saying that he was freaked out enough to not return to that place for a long time.
My reason for telling this now is my son who is 12 and likes the supernatural stuff much the same way i did(and quietly still do)asks me a lot of questions about are they real. my response to him is that that there are things in this world we stiill know nothing about.
Don,
Thank you for taking the time to share your story with us. The rate at which people are sharing their stories about these creatures and their interactions with them, amazes me.
I personally have not encountered one, I am not sure how I would react if I ever do.
Your experience is very similar to what others have shared, which leads me to believe that these stick men are real and they have been around a little bit longer than initially thought.
I saw one for the first time about 4 years ago but have seen him, or them, frequently in the past year. The first time I was driving at night and went under a bridge and immediately slammed on my brakes because there was suddenly a man in the road. I was terrified and I thought I killed him, but there was no impact. However, driving out from under the bridge and back into the street lights, there was a crack across my whole windshield. I didn’t see him again until 2013. It was about 6 months after buying a house with my then-boyfriend. He was standing in the stairway looking at me. Extremely tall, about 8 feet, dark, long black cloak. Sometimes he has a face and sometimes he is headless. He seems so sad. He just stares at me and when I look at him he turns around and slowly walks or glides away. I’ve seen him at work, in my rearview mirror, at my parents’ house, up north at their cottage, everywhere. Sometimes it’s when I’m in a bad frame of mind and sometimes it’s when I’m on top of the world. He doesn’t seem evil or malevolent; he honestly seems like he needs help passing on or SOMETHING from me. One time it wouldn’t stop, I’d see him multiple times a day for weeks. I pitied him and wanted to help (mind you I had never heard or spoken to anyone about this) but he would not do anything, he’d just keep showing up and I started losing sleep and getting irritated. I mean it was like he was showing up so frequently that it was annoying. I’d have a beer on my back porch and he’d watch me through the kitchen window. I’d have a conversation with someone and he’d stand in the corner. WHAT could he want from me? Then I woke one night instantly awake and fearful. My dog was by the door wimpering, and it looked like a clearish-blue imp, like 2.5 – 3 feet tall with long scraggly hair RUN, I mean JOLT by the doorway and into the spare bedroom. The curtains were moving from how fast it was, and there were no windows open. I could hear his clammy and speedy little footsteps. My dogs would not go in that room after that, and that’s where we kept them when we left for work. I started yelling out of frustration (assuming it was tied in with the tall sad man) WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?! STOP! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!! I was losing my peace of mind, though the tall man was never frightening, but that imp creature sure was. Nothing happened for a long time after I freaked out like that. I’m posting now because I’m finally researching this because he’s been showing up again this week.
I can’t believe what I’m reading, my kids were walking on a riverbank near our home in ohio with their stepmother, they came home swearing they saw a very tall stick figure near the water, I thought they were just letting their imagination get the best of them, maybe I was wrong.
Crissy,
I am sure you are not alone in assuming seeing one of these things was just in the imagination of the beholder. I would have thought the same thing, never having experienced seeing one myself.
Thank you for stopping by and for reading our blog…but more importantly, thank you for taking the time to respond and sharing your story.
I have seen something like this. It was a black slender stick figure and I couldn’t see facial features. The head seemed alien shaped like In the picture, not really human looking. I woke up one night and seen this figure standing beside my bed side with its hand over my chest. Not touching me but hovering its hand over me, at this point I am very scared and I try to move and scream but I was paralyzed and could not move and I could see my boy friend laying beside me and with the screaming he still didn’t wake up. I felt helpless…then all of a sudden once it knew I was awake I felt the release from being paralyzed and the figure disappeared out of no where. I’m not sure what this thing was but from the shape of the head and how slender and tall it was I feel like it was a type of alien.
I have a 54 year-old woman, and I just saw this figure last night in my house. I was on the internet trying to describe what I saw. I live in the country, in an area that is near a river and was housed for 10,000 years by Pamunkey Indian tribe. A Civil War battle was also fought near us, and tobacco slavery was evident. I’ve seen/heard multiple things in my home, and have photographic proof of drawings in our driveway (which are apparently sacred geometry? At least that’s what one woman told me), wings on my BMW windshield which I sent to a scientist friend at Uconn who couldn’t disprove them, and a water mark on my door that appeared after I went back into the house and consisted of water (all of this in the last 3 months).
Anyway, I woke up early this morning because my husband was already awake and in the kitchen. I saw, near our bed, a black “stick figure” character – probably 6.5 or 7 feet tall, bending at its waist. The bending caused a sharp angle. I didn’t see any features, but noticed something that looked like knobs on its skull? It was looking at our dog, his face was just inches away from the dog who was on our bed. The dog didn’t react.
The closet light was on, and it was approximately 6:30 a.m. I shut my eyes for a minute or so, and when i reopened he was gone. I did notice that he was blocking some of the closet light when he was bending over. He was not transparent. I’ve seen a few things at the house, but this one felt weird. Let me know if you have any additional info for me. I’d be happy to share my pictures with you of the other stuff. I’m just looking for answers. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your story Donna. I don’t doubt it was a creepy thing to experience. As it stands, we are still unsure just what this type of manifestation is.
It does not appear to be a ghost, perhaps some other type of paranormal event altogether.
We will continue to allow others to share their stories here so that we can review all the evidence and try to determine just what these creatures/things/people are.
Let’s just put my crazy full on the table: I’m not sure of the time, but I sat bolt upright just as the sky was getting light. I looked out my window, which has no curtains, cos that’s how I roll. The window looks out to basically, woods. Aside from around the house, I live on 34 acres of untouched land. I often look out that window. Anyways, I sit upright, and see one tree, a tree I’m particularly drawn to staring at in my waking hours, and see a black stick figure. It is scrambling up the tree. I remember one of my first fleeting thoughts was: Wow, is that my cat, Free? Free is a plump black feral that I have taken care of since he was a kitten, but I realize quick enough that there is no roundness to the shape. Eventually, actually, all this takes place quite quickly, this stick figure I see, stops. Almost disappears, I guess. The shape that I saw could, If you will, quickly blend into a barren tree. I remember being…..like, huh?? Not scared, but perplexed. I laid back down and guess drifted off to semi-sleep, cos naturally, on my own, I’d wake up shortly. There ya have it. Make fun if you must, but I’ve seen enough in my lifetime, to not throw up the mental blocks, or assumptions that what I saw wasn’t just what it was.
Thank you for stopping by and for sharing your story.
I can assure you, as a paranormal investigator who has experienced some weird things, I do not think you are crazy, and I am sure the many others who have shared a very similar story here wouldn’t find you crazy either.
This particular entry is consistently the most popular on our blog and has received the most comments. You are not alone in your experience.
I just wish we could determine what these black stick figures are, where they come from, and why now they are suddenly appearing with alarming frequency.
Thank you again for stopping by and for sharing your experience.
I was driving home tonight, December 21, 2015, and it was really foggy. I was on the usual road i take home, all dark outside. a tall, thin character, possibly 12 feet high, ran across the road, through my lights, ignoring me. it seemed as if it was etherial, as my brights went right through it.
Correction, i mean December 2014. i am tired, it seems.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. It is very similar to the many experiences gathered on this article.
I wish I could tell you what you saw, but just like all the other people encountering these strange creatures, I am at a loss.
Hopefully we can figure it out. I may reach out to others in the near future to try and meet with as many people as possible who have witnessed a black stick figure creature and see if we can’t find one.
In the meantime, we simply have to rely on the stories from people like you.
Thank you again for the time you took in reading the article and providing your voice to the mix.
About 2-3 years ago me and my friend decided to go for a run up the lane in our village, and on either side of the lane are fields. While we were running we saw a shadow at the top of one field. At first we thought it was just someone messing about but it looked to tall and slender to be human and it started to mimic us but it over-reacted our actions and seemed to move in slow motion. Being normal people, we got scared and started to run back down the lane, but the figure started to run with us taking quick, long strides. Also the same friend recently saw a similar figure but near the village hall at about 11:45pm and she said that it dropped to the floor and disappeared but when she started to walk away the village hall door flung open and a light flashed on then back off again.
Alex:
Sorry for the delay in approving your post. Holidays and all that kept me away from the site.
Thank you though for sharing your story, it sounds like a pretty harrowing experience. I am constantly surprised at the number of responses this article has generated, it seems that there is indeed something or somethings out there resembling tall stick figures.
I will eventually spend a greater amount of time researching and documenting the phenomenon and perhaps writing a book about it, so I appreciate not only your response and you sharing your encounter, but the responses of everyone who has contributed their personal experiences so far.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
SpiritSeekers Blog
I knew a kid years ago that saw one at night. He told me he saw one walking down the street and into the woods at night. Creepy. The kid was psychic and he saw a lot of creepy things in his life. I never had seen a black stick figure in my life. I seen shadow people to black eye adults. People I knew seen ogres, shadow people and the grim reaper. Creepy.
its crazy because I’ve seen one and when I saw it, it was sooo out there I didn’t believe my eyes. Until i read these accounts tonight I finally believe what I had seen. It was very late at night (2a.m.) I was probably 21 or 22 at the time, I stayed up pretty late with a couple of friends drinking.. I didn’t drink enough to where I was stumbling, I got a heavy buzz then drank water because I had to drive home. . I was hanging out in front of a friends house when I looked down the street and saw a pole next to the street light.. it was black and it moved, when it moved i realized the black pole I was looking at was connected to a body, it was a LEG THIS THING WAS AT LEAST 20 – 27 ft tall as I looked up i saw a stick body and it proceeded to walk on the roof of the house it was next to and disappeared because of the angle I was seeing it I only saw it for about 6 – 7 seconds, it made no sound it was just floating along like it had something to do. IDK how to describe it but it looked like it had intent… if that makes any sense… Like it was doing something…. it blew my mind, I literally thought I was hallucinating but after reading this I’m sure of what I saw… Its really weird I haven’t read and Giant stick man accounts… cuz this thing was massive… it was walking on top of the neighborhood houses… I’m getting goosebumps thinking about it, this experience changed my life… Glad to read I’m not the only one that has seen it. I live In Phoenix, Arizona.
A guy I work with a good christian man swears that he has seen this on 3 occaions here in western nc.
I saw one of these a few months ago. I just finished working four double shifts (16 hour days) in a row, so it’s safe to say I was tired. I walked in the front door, took off my watch and saw something out of the corner of my eye. It was down the hallway in my bedroom, it was black, about six to six and a half feet tall, and extremely thin. It almost looked like sticks from a tree, it had no facial features, and appeared to glide to the right when I saw it. I immediately drew my weapon (I am a police officer) and shouted ” Get the f@$k on the ground” multiple times. I cleared every room in the hallway between my location and my bedroom and when I got to my bedroom there was nothing there. It was about 12:30 or so at night. I know what I saw, as a police officer I am trained to be an expert witness. It made no noise at all and seemed to glide more than walk. I didn’t tell anyone for a while until I researched this topic online. I am glad to see other people have seen this as well, I thought I was going nuts. I have not seen it since, thank God. Very few things scare me, but this thing scared he crap out of me.
trust me; i know they are real and i know what i saw when i was young..i have been a police officer for 35 years and still active…your description is spot on…i also saw waves of what i call air around this being when it walked; its arms also moved….can still see it in my mind to this day and i am now 61
It just happened to me. I just made multiple multi hour contacts with this so called stick men. This is the honest to god truth and I have a witness who lives with me who didn’t see it but saw all and every reaction of mine. My better half can vouch. We both are normal people.
Saw a very strange creature run across our path late at night that looked just like the picture in your article. The strange part is I think it ran across our path on purpose because we where the only ones on the road. It could have waited or ran across after we drove past. No one but us was on the road. Very freaky and both me n my girlfried both seen the same thing. Weirdest part was it was stick thin and glided more that ran and moved across the road very fast but it like bent in the middle and we never saw it moves its legs or arms. It was like a kangaroo but it didnt bounce it moved in a straight line. It was like a walking stick in sect but was tan in color and moved like nothing we have ever seen. So crazy
I was sharing my experiences with this so-called stick figure with my mom and thought I should look it up.
I cannot remember when exactly I first saw it but I’ve seen it twice! First time it, it was at my dad’s house; it was coupled with sleep paralysis so you can imagine how terrified I was. It was dancing in front of me, provoking me as if to say “you can’t do anything to me” and the freakiest part is that it was wearing my sleepwear that I usually wear, but wasn’t wearing that particular night.
The second time it happened was at my mom’s house, where I live.I was in bed (seems like it only appears in my sleep) and when I turned, this demonic looking stick figure was in a sqautting position, on top of the continental which was next to me, as if it was about to jump on me.
I haven’t seen it since then, I pray (Psalm 91) almost every night trusting that God will protect me from such unpleasant visitors. It is comforting to know I’m not alone or ‘crazy’.
I saw a black stickman while my cousin and i were out in the woods, I’m going to tell the moments leading up to the event first. My Cousin and I decided to go outside of his house where some woods are and explore a little, we waited til it was dark before we went. When we went out there we kept having this feeling of dread and decided to back we repeated the process with 3 attempts. Our third and last time out was when things got interesting. First our flaslight kept turning off by itself, then we would hear sounds. On our way back to the house we saw something go behind a woodshed, thinking it was my cousins dog (we brought our dogs along) I told him we need to go get his dog, I turn over to my cousin an instant later and see his dog with him, yhats when I really started to freak out we ran a couple yards back to the house when suddenly I saw a tall black thing limping-ish to the far side of the rode down the street, as soon as it realized we saw it, it swiftly ran off. Afterward when we were back in the house my cousin looked out the eindow and shined his flashlight out the window, we heard the dog growl and the flashlight turned of by itself.
Hi my name is Melissa and I moved to south souix last year I have one of these tall figures in my house it’s been here since I was pregnant with my son I have more then this one tall black figure in my house but when I see it I feel I big load of weight on top of my cheat its pure black tall skinny looks like a person but with no features of a human bit I also see ghost and figures like these since I was a little girl.
I found this story after searching for tall black figure. Earlier this evening my 16 year old son was driving home from work. I was in the passenger seat. I got a message on my phone and looked down for just a minute to see who it was from. When we get to bottom of hill we were driving down he says “did you see that?” I ask what as I hadn’t seen anything. He tells me a very tall (9 to 10 foot tall) very skinny black figure jumped over the guardrail and floated/glided very quickly across the road and up the hillside on the other side. He said it took him a minute to even say anything to me because he was scared speechless. He says it was too tall and skinny to be a real person. We turned around at my insistence and drove back through but saw nothing. We live in southwestern Pennsylvania in a fairly rural area. Where we saw him was a cow pasture on one side and a row of houses on the other. He ran up the hill towards the houses according to my son. We do believe in the supernatural and watch lots of ghost hunter shows but have never heard of anything like this.
Thank you for sharing your story with us. Sorry for the delay in getting it posted. Hopefully your story, like the others listed here, will help others come forward who have experienced this phenomenon.
My nephew got pushed by one of these figures in the forest and it ran away fast you wouldnt believe that until you saw the look on his face . Explain that
Gillian:
Thank you for contributing your story. I am not sure I can explain him being pushed by one of these things, I don’t even know what they are, I am sure most people have their own theories. Until I encounter one personally I can only continue to live vicariously through those who have experienced an encounter, no matter how scary it was.
Thank you for sharing!
I believe this May be what my daughter saw. People are saying that because she is young it was just a nightmare but the terror in her screams suggest to me otherwise. She insists it was real also. It was a very eerie incident.
Sarah:
I know that must have been horrifying for a young child, and equally terrifying for you to have to hear the screams of your child. Hopefully, aside from being scary, these things are not malicious. Most of the encounters described here, save for one or two, imply that the stick people are curious at best, but not malicious or mean any ill intent.
Thank you for contributing.
My friends and I went to the baseball by his house. When we got there they told me about a memorial in the woods that was half buried. We walk through and crossed a really old bridge, when we got there a friend of mine picked up a rock near the memorial, I thought it wasn’t a big deal. So I took them to place that I knew down a path and ended in a campsite sorta. When we got there we stayed for a little bit. I turned around and saw a tall black figure with long arms and no head. I told them that we need to go that I saw something and they you’re crazy and I thought they were right the next day I was riding my skate board and behind my mom’s car I saw it again I went by the car and it was gone.
Dylan:
Thank you for sharing your story with us. I am not sure if what you encountered was connected tot he burial site or just a coincidence. No one here at Spirit Seekers has encountered one of these entities so we rely on information shared by others, like yourself.
Your description seems similar to other encounters documented here, with the exception of the one you witnessed not having a head. That is a different twist.
I wish I had answers for you, until we can further determine just what it is people are seeing at a more frequent rate as of late, we will just have to rely on eyewitness accounts and do our best to determine what they are and what they want…and how long they have been here.
Thank you for sharing!
Actually, I saw a very similar black figure that had no head too.
But it wasn’t abnormally tall or skinny. It had the proportions of a adult male human. It was pure black without any features, absolutely motionless and had no head.
I saw a wood colored stickman also which I have already written in detail here in previous post.
But I think the second figure I saw was more like a shadow person without a head. It was motionless but the stick figure I saw made some rapid arm movements. And both of them made no sound.
TheodenN, thank you. I have not encountered any stick men before so all i have to go on are the experiences that people like you and our other contributors provide.
I am not sure how I would react to anything that didn’t have a head, so I will just say that you probably handled it better than I would have.
Ever since I saw a video of a BSM climbing down a building on youtube, I was intrigued. I decided to look it up and found this page. I’ve read through almost all the comments and experiences, and thought perhaps this is a real thing, instead of some fake make believe thing to scare people.
The strange thing is, these things you call Black Stick Men remind me of an Aboriginal legend in Australia. The Aborigines called them Mimis, people of the rock, and they were described as being tall, incredibly thin, and having elongated bodies. “Human-like stick people”. They say that because they were so thin, it was dangerous for them to be exposed to strong wind, and so they spent most of their time in rock crevices (or alleyways perhaps?). It was said that they taught the Aborigines to hunt, cook and how to use fire, as well as teaching them how to paint. They usually came out of their crevices around or before dawn, to get the land ready for the new day. They weren’t evil but rather mischievous, playful, curious and shy. They do not mean to do harm, however, they can be dangerous when approached the wrong way.
I feel that Black Stick Men and the Aboriginal Mimis are either connected, or practically the same.
I have to admit, I’ve never actually saw one myself (honestly, I don’t think I want to). But I am very curious about these creatures.
I hope someone will post a new experience soon as I’d like to know more.
Jade:
thank you so much for sharing your story about the Aboriginal Mimis. I had not heard of them before and perhaps there is indeed some connection. I appreciate the time you took to look over the site and share this information with us.
Check back often, this is one of the most popular stories on the site and it generates feedback several times a month.
Thanks again!
I hope they are not dangerous, but they always scare me because its when im in bed that they come. I posted my story below.
I don’t know for sure if they’re dangerous or not. All of what I’ve tried to read up on them are mostly speculations, but there doesn’t seem to be any incident of them hurting anyone. I think it’s best just to not bother them.
The first time I saw them was several years ago in my sisters bedroom, she had also seen something similar. There were 2 of them, one tall one and one shorter one. I looked about 3 different times trying to make sure I was awake and seeing what I was seeing. Then the little one, as if gliding went across the floor in front of the bed and disappeared into the wall. When I looked back the big one did the same thing. The second time I saw one was about 2 months ago in our house. I was sleeping,my Fiance Tim next to me, it was standing right next to the bed on my side, again I looked several times making sure I wasn’t seeing shit. No it was there, frightened me so much that I grabbed Tim’s arm. When I looked back it was gone. The last time I saw one was after that and getting closer! It was on the bed, appeared to be on all fours on tims side coming up kinda over me. That one freaked me out! It disappeared quicker.
That is definitely freaky (especially if it seems to come closer to you with each sighting!)
I have lived in the same home all my life, and my family has been the only ones to live in the home since it was built in 1954 in Oklahoma. Ever since I can remember I have known that something else has lived in that house with me. Mainly the shadow man. Everyone who has lived in that house has seen the same thing. And it’s almost like he’s apart of the family with us as in no one will freak out or even sometimes state that we just seen him. Every time I have seen him hes either going back and forth from rooms in the hallway or he’s peaking his head in the door. And every time it seems someone looks over at him he moves really fast like he’s spying or trying to hide. My daughters father recently moved into the house and after a few months he started saying how he thinks the house is haunted cause he sees black things looking in the room at him. And of course he described the tall, Linky man with no face and doesn’t like being noticed. All I could say was I told you so. Usually when I tell someone they are skeptical about it but the ones that have actually stayed there for a period of time have began to notice him. He doesn’t show himself to everyone but if your the only one in a room you can see his tall figure leaning in the door frame with his narrow head then when you look he’s gone. What he wants I don’t know. I’ve never heard him speak but you know when he’s there. You can feel him next to you but when you start to acknowledge him he’s already gone.
This is interesting. Has he done anything to anyone in your home?
I mean, what I’m trying to ask is if he ever seemed threatening or dangerous?
Just before I was on the phone w a close friend of mine and as I sat in my living on the phone at the corner of my right eye I saw a tall stick figure like a wooden stick figure hovering over about 4 feet away only with the corner of my eye did I see it as I looked to it nothing appeared. However once I looked away and stared in front of me it appeared! I didn’t freak out bc I strange that I saw it as opposed to what I saw. What is the meaning behind it? Any ideas?????
just befor as I was sitting chatting with my friend on the phone in my living room I saw on the corner of my eye a tall wooden like stick figure when I looked to see it wasn’t there but when I looked str8 in front of me it was there again only at the corner of my eye and it was tall maybe 5 feet I find it kind of strange that I saw it as opposed to wat it looked like… Any idea on what it means?????
yes and no i was hiking in the mountains with my best friend when we noticed 3 of them following us we got this weird feeling and turned around and that is when we seen them .there was no foot sound but they moved fast from behind us to beside in about 10 to 20 of my steps still kinda keeping there distance but on the approach . i was scared shitliss so i picked up this massive stick ( more like a small tree LOL) and smashed on the ground and threatened if they came and closer i would knock them out . we then took off and that is the last i seen of that but they fit the description perfectly. i dont know what they wanted but i was not willing to find out i might have wondered and more open to what they wanted if it was not dusk the sun was just starting to set . it was still full light ought so there was no mistaking it . im glad i had some one with me because it was some scary stuff how fast they caught up to us . there were 3 of them and …..? we thought they were aliens or something they were tall like taller than me and im foot i did not get any closer than 15 20 feet but i could not make out any face on them and no sound for moving so fast and that in not normal for the mountains in the fall . this blog is a little late i just found it . this happened to me about a year ago. do the aliens or spirits pick people out because this is not my only paranormal thing that has happened to me just the only one with them in it.
i looked up the you tube so called black stick man, jade said up above . i thought it was stupid i would never believe that . the 3 i seen look nothing like that and i dont remember them walking ( there was no up and down moment with them that i can remember )but they do move very fast (they also made no sound when moving and there is a lot of sticks bushes and stuff in the mountains) . they were behind me like a good way behind me to pretty close to the side like diagonally in front of me . they were not traveling but coming at me and my buddy they passed us and turned around and starting approaching us again before i even noticed they moved from behind us .
sorry to post so much but i wont forget this and it gives me mad chills thinking about this .
No need to apologize.
I am not sure that anyone has actually caught these things on video. There ARE videos out there, but most look like they were created with computer software as an after-effect in a video.
Your description seems on par with what most people report. Especially the eerie silence that accompanies their movements.
if there is any expert i can talk to to learn more on this matter i would love to talk to them not about the one i just posted but about others this one was just weird . but there are some others that are just …… to much . i have had a lot of them some scare the hell out of me and other are well dont bother or even make me think much about it because they are cool or did not mess with me .
Tony,
I am not sure if there is an expert in the field of the Stick men phenomenon. It is a relatively new, or I should say, newly documented phenomenon. The actual stick-creatures may have been around a lot longer.
It seems that people are just now talking about them.
The general consensus is that they do not intend to harm, they have been around for a long time, and though frightening to encounter (I can’t imagine) there isn’t really a recorded history of them causing anyone physical harm.
If I can find any resources with whom you could speak I will pass that information on to you.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your experiences with us!
In reply to your question if anyone can help …… Is it reguardjng encounters
Are you referring to other alien encounters or spirits ?
As Tony mentioned there does not seem to be any hard evidence about the black stick men , in doing my own research they seem to have been around for a long time but it seems that over the past 10 years or so they have become quite popular . If it is spirits you are referring to I would be happy to talk with you I have been studying and communicating with the spirt world ,for well over 30 years professionally
It is a part of my life and famalies .
Send me am email If you wish .
This of course is not a sales pitch
I give free services to help people understand The spirit world .
Frangimoon@yahoo.com
Sandyi
Thank you for offering your help Sandyi!
I think im experiencing a stick man right this very moment walking in my halway i saw it in my window refction as i played video games i looked at it for around 10-15 before i hid my hed under the covers. I have felt a precesence for quite some time and cold spots in my apertment but not enough to call it a haunting in my opinion. It has now past 20 mins since i saw this stick man and its still really cold i havent had the courage to look up from my covers yet. Scared shitless. 15 since i saw manage gain courage to look up again and realises it was a shadow of a tree…… still it doesnt the cold spots that comes and go but i still feel stupid
No need to feel foolish. No one on this site will judge you. Take a look at all the other people who have shared their experiences.
Though terrifying, you can rest assured that there has never been a case of one of these things being malicious or causing anyone harm.
I wish I had answers for you. There is just no real resource out there to which I can point you. I would be very interested in hearing more though about your experience.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your encounter with us. It is helping build a database of encounters that others can learn from.
I live in the Forest of Dean in the UK and was walking my dog through the woods the other day, a remote place which is full of ancient iron working caves called Devils Chapel. it was raining and quite heavy atmosphere. We had just reached a part where the path narrows and suddenly I saw this figure standing in the path by a tree, it was solid black, like a silhouette, it’s arms were as if hands were resting on hips, could also see shape of top hat. It looked just like a Lowry figure, or a chunky child’s drawing. It felt like a warning not to go any further (we didn’t, opting for running very fast back the way we had come!). I would have put it down to imagination had my dog not gone running up to it with her tail wagging and head up looking towards where it’s face should have been but it had disappeared and then she was sniffing around the tree where it had been stood. There have been many stories from neighbours in my street about similar sightings in their homes, we all seem to have individual stories but they all link up with the descriptions. I lived in this street around thirty years ago (the houses are Victorian but the whole area around here is steeped in history, Romans and pre-Roman), and there were strange things happening at the house I lived in then, a malevolent atmosphere and apparently things kicked off when my ex partner had new girlfriend with young daughter moved in, they ended up having the place exorcised. All was forgotten until I moved back to the street seven years ago. I happened to be chatting to neighbour a while back and she talked about the ‘visitor’ and on asking other neighbours, each one had a story to tell! All their descriptions were the same as the figure I saw in the woods the other day. glad I’ve just sold my house… Oh, and just to add, a friend told me about an article that was in the Mirror newspaper about a recent rash of these sightings in Staffordshire I think….
I absolutely love it when we get stories from outside of the US. It validates that these things are truly everywhere.
When I wrote this article several years ago, I never imagined how many people it would reach and I am so grateful that people keep coming here and sharing their stories.
One day I would love to reach out to everyone who contributed and actually write a book about the phenomenon. Should that day come I hope I have the opportunity to reach out to you so you can expand upon your encounter.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing!
You’re welcome! Thanks for providing the facility for us to be able to share our stories!
There is so much in this world that we don’t understand, we know of three dimensions, well, time is another one, but whose to say that there aren’t many more out there… I’m sure there are.
There are so many fascinating possibilities out there. From the scientific to the metaphysical…it is hard to wrap one’s mind around everything that encompasses our world, both the seen and the unseen.
I wish we had answers for everything, but it sure is fun to speculate and search!
I was just laying on the floor in my motherinlaws house and noticed a tall black skinny being. As soon as I noticed it,it ran quickly into the other room. I’m very frightened and so is my wife!!! Please help us… Thank you ❤
Derrick:
I wish I could offer you some help, unfortunately, I am not sure what to tell you.
As you can read here, there are lots of individuals who have encountered the very thing you did. Whatever these things are, they are definitely frightening, but as far as I can tell, they do not seem to cause any harm to the people who see them.
If this is the first time you experienced it, there is the possibility that you won’t encounter it again. The general consensus is that these things are just passing through.
Ask your mother-in-law if she has ever seen anything odd in her house. See if she has witnessed something like this.
If this is something you end up seeing again, try reaching out to a local paranormal investigation team. If you are not sure whom you should contact, let me know what city and state you are in and I will see what local groups are in your area who can research.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor in Chief-Spirit Seekers Blog
My mom lives out in a country area, and about a year ago, me (16) my cousin (21) and my brother (19) decided to go for a walk around midnight. We knew that there were cyotes in the area so we didn’t want to go to far up any roads cause we didn’t want to have the woods adjacent to the road so we stopped at a Y in the road that was kinda near a house. The house was giving of enough light to barely see up the beginning of the left path. And for a good 2 or 3 seconds I was looking at the left path and I saw 4 or 5 long black legs walking across the beginning of the path. The legs alone were 7 or 8 feet tall and that was all I could see of them. At first I figured my eyes were just playing tricks on me because I was feeling kinda tired, but when we got back to the house I said something to my cousin about and he was like “wait, you saw that too?”
Joshua:
Thank you for sharing your encounter with us. As you can tell, from the many responses on this entry, you are not alone.
As more and more people provide feedback, we are better able to understand what happens during an encounter and also let people know they are not alone.
Thank you for contributing.
I’ve never seen one while conscious….I had actually never heard anyone else mention these things before. To my knowledge, I’m the only individual I personally know that has had any ‘experience’ with them.
I’m in my mid-twenties and for about 8 years, I’ve had dreams about these ‘stick men.’ It’s very strange, the dreams happen sporadically, a few days at a time, then they subside for weeks, months, sometimes close to a year. They’re not spurred by scary movies or any external stimuli as far as I can tell, and not every dream is the same. They don’t mirror any situations I remember experiencing. However, in some rare instances (which I’ll explain below) the location is wherever I fell asleep. For example, the dream’s setting would be at my parents house, or my girlfriend’s. The only recurring characteristic about the dreams are the presence of these ‘stick men.’
These are the only dreams that consistently wake me. I usually wake up yelling. Sometimes I’m screaming words, sometimes it’s just a yell….and it’s always been just one of these ‘stick man’ things. Up until almost 3 weeks ago, I had a dream with two of them in it.
In a large portion of my dreams, I don’t know where I am, I’m wandering for a bit and somehow, it locates and approaches me. (I’m rarely with anyone else in the dreams, only a hand full of times in the almost decade I’ve been experiencing this) I feel frozen by it’s eyeless gaze, unable to speak or move, and upon its approach I try to call out for help but nothing comes out…that yell for help would manifest audibly as I came to consciousness. Only in dreams within the last year have I been able to break the frightening stillness that overtakes my body and escape its presence. (also, I didn’t get away in every dream, but I put up more of a struggle and gained more confidence each time) After a few dreams of evading the ‘stick man’ I think it could sense my resiliency, I’ve even considered confronting it. The point which I felt most bold-a few weeks ago-the ‘stick men’ hit me with a curve ball. There were two of them and I was stunned. They caught me, I woke up yelling.
I always wake up when I’m taken. As I said, I’m usually pretty audible at the time of my capture. I don’t know what their intent is, but I definitely feel like they’re ill intentioned creatures.
The dreams where I’m not the primary target, which have been very few, I always walk up on it. In my dream state, I wake from where I am, (parent’s house, girlfriend’s, my apartment etc.) and I’m drawn to a particular location on premises. I ALWAYS find it rummaging through stuff. Mundane things, like cabinets with pots and pans, random drawers, entertainment centers. Whatever can be rummaged through, but the instant it realizes I’ve walked up on it, it would either approach me or leave, and end of dream.
I have yet to have a dream where I’ve found it rummaging and have been able to move after I’m discovered; simply because I haven’t had one like that since I’ve broken the spell of fear that used to leave me paralyzed.
The dreams haven’t really been disruptive to my conscious life, I can usually get back to sleep pretty quickly. I’m not afraid to sleep, but I am a little concerned due to the fact the I’ve been able to confront it recently, and the ‘stick men’ have responded by sending more. It makes me think it’s something other than just ‘in my head.’ The ‘stick men’ intelligently responded my retaliation so I’ve finally decided it was time to see if anyone else had experience with this and if so, do they know what’s the deal with these things?
Hi Paul:
Thank you for sharing your experiences. I am not sure how a dream encounter differs from real world encounters.
In your subconscious encounters it would apppear these manifestations are malicious and intend harm, this is a turn from what others who have encountered them in the conscious realm report.
Actually, your encounters are very reminiscent of sleep paralysis. I wrote an article about the phenomenon for this blog. You can search for “Old hag Syndrome” and it should bring you to the article.
Thank you for stopping by and for sharing with everyone your experience with these black stick figures.
I have, although there was no road. It was my room. I was very restless, don’t know why. I had kept looking at my curtains in my room and then this black 8-9 foot tall figured appeared.I couldn’t move, I was scared. I tried to speak to wake my dogs up but I couldn’t. It had massive long hands which were kind of waving over me. I stared into a faceless black being, then went into a transe. I don’t know for how long I was in it. But when I came out it I ran for my light switch. This was no dream. This was no ghost. I have had encounters with ghost this is not the same. Then like a flashback came to me, I saw myself screaming in pain but I don’t remember goi g thro pain. I do not have proof of this but I am dead serious. It was real.
That sounds absolutely horrifying and I am sorry you had such an encounter.
I am honored that you stopped by and shared your encounter with us.
There is almost no explanation for these encounters, and there is even less information out there about this phenomenon.
Most people confuse it with the fictional “Slender Man” or write it off as fiction.
I am no expert on the subject, I have never personally encountered one, but because of people like you who are willing to share your experiences, we are learning more about these things.
Thank you again for stopping by and adding to our database of recorded encounters.
I can’t recall what year it was, but it had to have been at least 10 years ago… This wasn’t a waking life, conscious sighting, either. I had to have been dreaming. What I saw was this solid black, featureless “stick man” perched in a tree in the back yard, except there was no tree like that in our back yard. The hands and feet of this thing had blade-like shapes. There were no phalanges at all, just flat wedges. After reading the stories here, it seems to coincide with the recurring theme of these things “gliding” across the ground rather than walking. I never thought I would actually come across a page dedicated to such a creature, because I was sure that this was just a weird dream. Perhaps I was on an astral plane? I do have a lot of strange dreams with strange creatures and otherworldly humanoids, and I’ve also dreamt of being on spaceships and other planets. I have them since I was a kid, and I’m 34 today, still having them. It’s fascinating.
River:
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your personal encounter with one of these Black Stick Men.
I am glad that you were able to find our blog, specifically this post and that you were kind enough to contribute to our ever-growing list of personal encounters.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The Spirit Seekers Blog
I was hanging out with my buddy past midnight. He’s a graveyard shift security guard. He says to see them 2-3 times a week. We have two working theories. First, they are very aware of smart phones. So they may be in our realm and monitoring us. He recent sightings could be something to do with all the wireless radiation nowadays is causing their cloaking device to glitch making them visible to us. Secondly, like CB radios, you can get bleed from other channels. For some reason our two realms are passing so close we can see each other. Who knows. We are researching the phenomenon. They don’t like dogs or cameras and don’t become visible around either.
Very strong theory, and very possible. Thank you for contributing, we will keep this in mind as we research further claims.
I am a late night person (also a smoker) and tend to go outside to have a smoke every hour or so. We have some green shurbbery planted close to the windows as you exit the house. My dad and I have noticed some sort of footprints in the shrubs not knowing where they came from. Around 3 weeks ago, I was having one of my late night smokes and saw a grey alien with big black eyes standing in the shrubs. It looked at me for a second or two, and then it made a strange sound and vanished. Well either a couple of days later or a week went by when I saw one of these black stick figures inside our home. I was walking down the stairs and saw it glide across the floor towards the bathroom. It was around 7-8 feet tall and completely black. I did not follow it into the bathroom because I have no idea if they are good or bad. I prayed to God before I went to sleep that if these beings are evil, to send them away and if not, let them do whatever it is they are doing. Needless to say, I haven’t seen anything since.
John:
Thank you for sharing your story. The more people share their encounters, the more questions I end up with.
Could the stick figure entity be related to a grey man visit? Are they aliens or ghosts? Are they dangerous or just moving about?
Having never experienced this phenomenon myself, I leave it up to those who share their stories to fill in the blanks.
Thank you fro stopping by and for sharing your encounter with us.
Omg this is so crazy.. I can say I honestly had my doubt’s about this but now I can say I might actually be a believer. My boyfriend told me a couple days ago that he saw a black stick figure while driving home from work last week and I didn’t believe him 100% because I’d never heard anything about like the creature or being he described but after reading through this article and everyone’s comments I actually believe he saw something that night and that it was one of these stick figure beings.
Shania:
thank you for contributing to our collective of personal encounters with these figures. As one who has never seen a figure, I rely solely on what everyone here shares.
I never imagined, when writing this article, that it would generate such a huge response. I honesty thought it was a hoax, or perhaps had some logical explanation such as fatigue or tricks of light.
The more stories I hear, the less certain I am that this phenomenon can be easily explained away.
So, like you, I am a skeptic who feels that there might be some validity to what people are experiencing related to the “Black Stick Man” phenomenon.
Dear Moderator (I may have already posted this account right after it happened last weekend, I can’t recall if I actually sent it, I was still so shaken by the experience; in any event, if I did, could you disregard that one and the one I sent earlier this evening and include this edited version below). Thanks so much!
Hi there:
I definitely saw one on Sunday September 20, 2015 between 1:30 and 1:45 am. I live in an old school that has been converted into condos. The school itself has quite a history of being haunted. In the early 20th century a train crashed on the tracks that sit above the school and apparently a number of injured passengers were brought into the school and there were a few deaths. People for years have given accounts of a black-eyed girl. Also, a janitor in the 90s apparently made a deal with his coworkers that whoever died first would come back and haunt the school. People have also reported sightings of him along with doors shutting, lights turning on and off, footsteps, typical ghost activity. I have lived in the school for a year now. I have experienced two incidents now where doors have shut and lights have turned off and I have not been able to determine a logical explanation. It’s not to say there isn’t one, but I haven’t found one. I preface the stickman encounter below with this information because it may or may not be related. The building is also surrounded by thick and very old forest. There now runs a long driveway to the right of the building that is lit dimly at night. I often sit at night on the old front stone steps at street level and smoke. The are situated about 20 feet to the left of the driveway and the forest. So on Sunday morning, while doing that, movement caught my peripheral vision on the right side, along the dimly lit long driveway. I turned my head slightly in time to see an enormously tall black stick figure with long arms, legs and torso and a round head, move very quickly forward along the edging of the driveway, as if on a conveyor belt. The atmosphere took on a sort of dead-weight feel to it. I don’t think it knew I was there and it seemed to be moving with a purpose, I could feel such a strong presence from it. And it was definitely 2-dimensional. It seemed larger than life and moved on such a strange time-continuum, like nothing I have ever experienced before. I might add that I am a pretty normal person, do not believe in paranormal activity and have never experienced it before that I am aware of. It just moved forward so quickly and once it was out of the light, it was gone. I was really scared and sat silently for a few moments, then backed up the few stone steps and quietly slipped into the building. I had never even heard of such a thing and was so surprised when I went online and found so many similar descriptions. My best guess is that it is from another dimension or it is an alien (although I am so skeptical of all of these ideas). With that said though, I have been considering a lot what Stephen Hawking said recently about how it is more than likely that we are not the only beings hanging about in the galaxy…
I really hope that the doors and lights stay put around here and that was my first and last experience with the giant black stickman / person…
Kris:
Thank you for sharing your story with everyone. By contributing you are helping build a database of accounts that others, just as you did, may discover and read to help them come to terms with what they encountered.
I personally have not encountered any of these “things” but the experiences, aside from a scant few, are almost nearly identical and my curiosity is piqued.
The best accounts, in my opinion, come from those who are your everyday people who just happened to experience something otherworldly.
The sincerity of your account adds validity to your encounter.
I wish I had answers as to what people are experiencing. Until we can figure it out, I am glad that we have people so willing to share their encounters.
Thank you Kris, and thank you to everyone who has shared their encounters so far.
For those just stumbling across this entry who have experienced an encounter with a “Black Stick Man” and are feeling confused or alone, please share your experiences with us. As you can see, you are not alone.
Thanks so much for your reply to my encounter. I also wanted to add that the old school and the sighting took place in Canada.
I was riding my 2013 honda ranger around my house and i saw something black looking at me it was crouching i though it was in my head when i drove around and looked back it was running away my dad dint even belive me
I mean they been around forever honestly …try talking to them yes they whisper but you can still understand they been here since the beginning they were drawn on walls by our ancestors for people to know they exsist they won’t help but they admire our way of life and despise it at almost the same time ..truelly y’all shouldn’t be afraid nor should you be interested but admire them as they do us because remember at the beginning they helped us develop civilizations just saying ……. If u really want truth look me up and I will show you the way to comprehendtion because barely few people are awarded with their understanding
I’m sorry. But, I don’t personally understand how you can say people shouldn’t be interested in these things, but then turn around and say we should admire them. You have to have an interest in something to give it your admiration.
I also would not encourage anyone to reach out to you, this being the internet and all.
Lastly, I seriously doubt there is one person out there who knows the truth. You might THINK you do, and that is fine, but one person saying they have all the answers while the rest of civilization is ignorant…that is just too far of a stretch outside of logic for me.
I am not attacking or making fun of you, I just think this may not be the forum for you to reach out to people and encourage them to contact you…just s I would strongly discourage anyone from reaching out and contacting you. The world is a crazy place…and you never know what you are in for by extending or accepting such an invitation.
Thank you for stopping by!
This happened to me about 20 years ago in the mountains near the Hunter Valley north of Sydney, Australia. I’ve never told anyone about it, it was too strange. I was with a bunch of women who asked me if I would like to see an aboriginal sacred site. We were waiting for the moon to rise. I went of into the bush alone (to go to the toilet) and realised I was surrounded by tall, thin figures, far taller than human beings, with round heads. I wasn’t embarrassed, i didn’t feel threatened, they were just there. I went back to the group. When the moon was well up, the leader of the group took us to the sacred site, which was an ancient carving done in a huge, flat rock. It was of a tall, thin figure with a round head. I wanted to say, “But I just saw lots of those,” but I couldn’t. I came across your site because I just watched a video on YouTube of similar figures, filmed in California, and was trying to find out more. Please note, I was awake, I hadn’t had any alcohol to drink, nor had I been smoking anything.
Jennie:
Thank you for sharing your story. Sorry it took so long to approve, I have been out of my home state for a few weeks with limited internet access.
I am getting caught up now and wanted to thank you for sharing your encounter with the “Black Stick Men”. It is folks like you and the rest of the rest of the commenters who make it possible for others to find this site and discover that they are not alone in their encounters.
He will not leave, stuck in a series of doorways, like a corner. Three individuals have seen him, and he is either demon or alien. Opens doors, moves heavy objects, and has whispered into my ear. I will not enter my home without my cross around my neck. I don’t know what to do
Hi guys. I am a Christian and I believe in Jesus Christ. I have also experienced this recently. I was wondering if anyone could explain to me what is going on. I saw it twice last month. The first time I saw it, it was just standing there staring at me as if it was observing me. The second time I saw it was two nights after the first night but this time it was pacing between my brothers bed and mine. I began screaming my parents came to see what had happen I was a bit shaken up. I told my parents what really occurred the next day. My brother over heard me talking to them and said I should just ignore it and it would go away I said how can I ignore it when this man keeps watching me incase he wants to harm me. When I said that my brother looked at me shocked I asked him what happen he said was it a tall man so tall that you can only see his legs and not his face. I got a terrible shiver down my spine because I realised I wasnt crazy, I had never describe the figure to anyone. He told me he saw it on many occasions before but he usually ignores it.
Hi guys I was wondering if anyone can help me. I too have experienced something similar to what you have mentioned. Was about a month or so back. I woke up screaming to find a man at the foot of my bed staring at me it seemed as if he was observing me. At first I thought nothing of it but then two days later it happen again but this time he was not just staring but pacing back and forth between my brother’s and my bed. I must admit I was quiet scared and I screamed for my parents when they put the lights on it was gone. the next morning I explained to my parents my experiences my brother is younger than me so I spoke to them when he went to bath. As he walked into the room he said i should not worry cos i was probably dreaming i told him i know what i saw and i would not ignore it cos this man looks like he wants to harm me. My brother looked at me shocked he said was it a tall man so tall that you can only see his legs and not his face. My jaw dropped because I realized i was not craze he said saw it before but he just ignores it. I am a christian and I believe in Jesus but I also know there are other things that exist that are evil. What does it want from me? Help someone
Mitchell:
Sorry for the long delay in approving your responses to this blog entry. I was under the weather, battling a nasty sinus infection.
I am not 100% sure what these beings are or why some people encounter them while others don’t.
There has not been a documented case of any of these things harming someone, as far as I can tell. So whatever they are, while scary to encounter, don’t seem to be interested in harming us.
Please be careful when asking people on the comments sections to help you, unfortunately, paranormal blogs seem to attract people of questionable ethics.
I am not saying that everyone who has replied thus far is disingenuous, but there are a few (small though they be) out there who leave a lot to be desired.
Do not provide any personal information to any individual who may contact you.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your story with us.
First , Tony I am sorry you have been feeling bad , I hope you are getting better !
I agree with Tony as far as be careful putting information out , some people are not here to help but to cause chaos . Always be cautious ,
This site , Tony’s is very informative and I have not ever had s bad experience with anyone but being cautious is always good .
I have not heard of anyone being harmed by these particular beings they seem to be just observing . I have experienced then as well several times over the years , it can be scary , but don’t let fear overcome you . When I do see them they seem to leave immediately . If I could suggest write down all you can remember , documentation will maybe help us all one day figure out who they are and what they want . Have a blessed day Sandyi
Hi Sandyi!
I am on the mend. Been battling a bad sinus infection but I think it is finally clearing up.
I agree 100% about keeping a log/journal about the encounters. The data may prove beneficial by uncovering things you didn’t initally see. Like, “are the encounters happening around the same time”, or “Are these things showing up during certain weather patterns”…
The key to any good paranormal/supernatural investigation is to document everything you can as soon as it happens while the memory is fresh.
Sandyi is right, there has not been a documented case of these things harming anyone. Their presence, I am sure, can be terrifying and unexpected. That is normal.
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
My little sister just described to me that a few days ago she was walking to school with my little brother one early morning. He was a little far behind, but my little sister decided she would cross the road. When looking bith ways before crossing she noticed a tall dark skinny figure crossing the road. She said there were no cars and it was pretty quiet. She turned and ran for my brother but the figure was gone when he looked. She also said that it had long fingers or somthing if that has anything to do with it. Weird stuff like this has been happening to us since we lived in our old house in Emit, so I tend to trust her with these things.
I hope this encounter didn’t scare her! I am not sure how I would handle running into one of the things, even though the reports from almost everyone contributing to these comments indicate that the figures are harmless.
Thank you again for stopping by and contributing to our article!
This post was on my birthday. Why does that scare me?
I’ve only ever encountered these, whatever they actually are, on one occasion, 11 years ago now. It was early morning, it hadn’t been light for very long outside, and I was getting ready in my room. I was knelt down in front of my wardrobe, and I didn’t have a door on my room at the time, just one of those bead curtains you can find. From where I was knelt, I could see the doorway to the room out of the corner of my right eye. I honestly don’t know if it had been standing there watching me for an extended period of time and I just hadn’t noticed it, but as soon as I did notice, it darted from out of my view and down the stairs which were just outside of my doorway, in just a matter of seconds. It was a completely black thin stick man, no eyes or any other facial features. I noticed it didn’t run or anything like that, it’s legs didn’t seem to actually move, I can’t really explain it. But I don’t remember feeling any disturbing feelings from it or the encounter, it just shocked me, and up until recently I’ve put it down to my imagination. But after I happened to stumble across mentions of these phenomena, I’m having second thoughts about whether it was actually my imagination or not.
Rin:
Thank you for sharing your story. It is now a part of the collective and hopefully will encourage others to come forward with their encounters.
I know it can seem weird for people to admit these things and talk about their encounters, but we appreciate you and everyone else who shared their stories.
I encountered one of these on a lonely beach in South Carolina one night in August 2015 – full moon, yet hidden by various storm fronts moving through – at around 9:30 PM. I was doing some surf fishing for Whiting at Folly Beach and for several minutes I had been watching a tall (10 ft. tall), slender waving shape about 200 yards down the beach. I thought it was some piling in the surf, but after watching for several minutes, I saw it was moving. Towards me. It took several more minutes before it was close enough to recognize as a semi-human form: long arms, unusually thin, and black. It seemed to float along the beach with its arms waving like a sapling in a song wind. I began to panic and quickly packed up my gear, but to my relief (sort of) it simply walked by. It appeared to be wearing light colored cut-off shorts, if anything, but the rest was all black. As it passed, it took on more human proportions and at that point I took my eyes off of it to continue packing. I looked back and saw a person (?) about 50 yards up the beach where the creature would have been by now – looking on the ground with a flashlight. No time to ask questions, though. I was getting the hell out of there. Funny thing is, a week prior I had a dream about a tall, thin humanoid silhouette standing near the water at a location near Charleston.
just now saw one that’s why I looked this up. it was brown very thick n fuzzy, no details just outline. it caught my attention inside my living room while cleaning at night and walked toward the door when I looked up, then just disappeared. at its disappearance there was a “jerkiness” in the environment, as if waking from a dream, but I was not asleep.
My four friends and I went to Corona Del Mar on my birthday last year and it was about 1 in the morning when we were laying down on a blanket looking out at the ocean when we saw something in the distance. It was not a person but an object black figure with very long legs and arms, also very thin and tall but had no face to it. It was dancing alongside the ocean and when we realized what we were seeing we all got so freaked out. I wispered to my friend, ” dude I’m so scared wtf is that lets get out of here! “. And she told us to wait until it was gone so we can head up the startes. We seen it go into a cave near us and we grabbed our stuff and started to go up the stairs. Then we realized it was behind us and my friend at the top of the stairs started running so we all started running and I looked back and it was right behind us. We ran faster and climbed the rocks to get I the other side of the road as we looked back we saw it near the cliff stairing back at the ocean. All four of us had seen it clearly.
Jennifer:
Thank you for adding your story to the collective, it sounds like a harrowing experience and I am glad everyone made it through the ordeal okay.
While a scary experience, there is no current documented reports of these things actually harming anyone. I know that doesn’t make what you encountered any less terrifying.
Thank you again for stopping by and sharing your experience. Each addition to our collection makes it easier for others to come forward with their encounter.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Spirit Seekers, Inc Editor-in-Chief
My x old man started doing meth ,to me and my friend across the stress said when you look in his eyes he was not there ,not the same person at all. The next few nights my friend told me there was a tall black man / silhouette that kept walking past her as she turns to look the third time my x was sitting in a chair starring out in space with a blank /black eyes to no soul ,for about 2 hours ……….
I have seen 1 up in the mountains in idaho. Earlier that night we were stopped to wait as police and a tow truck pulled a car out of the river that had somehow drivin off the cliff. 2 of the 3 people died. It was a dirt road and it was cliff and river on one side mountain on the other there was no getting around them. Anyways by the time they were done it had gotten dark and we kept driving down the road we ran into a random gas station and i was turning into the parking lot when my headlights hit it. It was just standing there not doing anything at all, its arms were so long they almost touched the ground it had no hands or feet i could see and when my light hit it it got on all fours and crawled like a spider knees bending backwards extremely fast into the trees. I was stunned, i stopped my car and just sat there i opened the door after a few seconds and started to get out when i heard a metalic buzzing noise get really loud i jumped back in my car and drove off. There was no radio signal but when i restarted my car my radio was on and making really weird noises like static and whispering that i couldnt make out. I was so scared me and my friend drove all the way back into town without getting out again.
When I was a child between the ages of 4-11, I’ve always caught at the corner at my eye of these really tall, long, lean, stick men peering over the the door frame looking at me in my room and once I notice them and look at their direction, they immediately go away. I’ve only seen them directly at night when they would walk the hallway late at night. They never did anything to me or even talked. I still remember what they look like. Very simple to draw them out, but very creepy and it always gave me chills when I was a kid. Haven’t seen them since.
I dreamed of a tall creature last night black long legs I dream I had when I was a kid in my old trailer we had.I’m starting to think if it really did happen and I didn’t Rememer till now but I was washing dishes in my kitchen and was waiting for my sister to come home well minutes later I saw what seemed to be car lights shining through my door window I had a metel door with a long upward window. From my angle u could see outside but no where cars park right hand side but thought the glass I could see the lights about 3 seconds later a black tall creature long legs must have about 12 14 feet tall he walked quickly to word my dog which was a chain he grabbed my dog and pickEd him up without any struggle he his left hand and grabbed him and he started to bite my dog or trying to eat him I don’t know if he dropped my dog and left or what happened after its a blank after thanks for listing the is a strange entity which resides on this earth if anyone else has the same experience please share I don’t know if this a calling of some sort if u see once you will see it again I hope not it’s bad I see flying objects pass through are city due to area 51 is not to far for where I live thanks again
I have woken up before seeing one of these black stick men, startled at knowing I could see it and ran, I thought it was my husband but he was fast asleep next to me when I turned over. Im not sure what to think of this..but Im a light sleeper and when I wake up even a little bit, I’m actually awake enough to know what is going on.
TB:
Thank you for sharing your encounter. If you have perused the comments you will notice that there are quite a number of people who have experienced encounters with the BSM during states of coming out of or going into somnolence.
What you experienced seems to be “normal” with regard to documented sightings.
I am not sure if these types of sightings are true experiences, or our minds playing tricks on us as we transition from asleep to awake and vice versa. It seems odd that so many people see the same thing though.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your experience with us!
my sighting was in my home early evening with lights on and husband and friend at our table where we were all talking so I was wide awake. As others have said, it seemed startled that I could see it. I got up to go get a closer look and it was just GONE !
So there really is no explanation to these humanoids? Do you have any theory to what they are?
Maybe they are beings in another dimensional plane, only visible from specific angles and magnifications? That could contribute to the idea about the ‘stick man’ in the comments who traveled downstairs in a bungalow; there could’ve been another axes to travel in that dimension even though the person who was still wasn’t aware of that as they were seeing in the fourth dimension.
Or maybe they are in a different time dimension? Their life could be so fast/slow that we are unaware of their existence until we both move in perfect synergy? Like the comments above; The person who was is the car was moving at a high velocity, maybe the speed their movements were synchronized thus allowing them to see each other.
I’m 15, don’t take any of this as gospel, I just like to question things.
Charlotte:
Asking questions is nothing to be ashamed of. Heck, if you don’t ask questions you may never get answers.
To date, there is no real understanding of what the Black Stick Men are. There are theories, but they are wide and varied.
Some think they are aliens. Others feel that they are the first incarnation of humans. Some believe they are an interdimensional species, perhaps from a different timeline, while others think they are demonic of ghosts.
It depends on the experience the individual has.
What we do know, simply from the litany of responses, is that while scary to encounter, the beings do not seem to intend to harm anyone. They are not aggressive per se, more curious about us.
There have been reports of them “charging” at people, but those reported instances are rare and possibly a misunderstanding.
Your theory is an excellent one. As with any theory, it remains just that until we are able to prove it.
Still, this is a great idea.
I have personally never encountered one, so I don’t have any input and can’t explain in concise terms what happens or what is experienced during an encounter. It is why I am glad this article has received so many responses.
Thank you for stopping by and replying!
ok; I posted this once before a couple years back.. I am now 62 yrs old and still working in law enforcement.. back in the 1960’s I was walking with a buddy near a location we called strongs woods..we lived in a town in mid Westchester cty ny. this was a small wooded lot in a residential neighborhood.. it was in the summertime and approx. 730 to 800pm. we looked down the embankment to these woods and saw a figure approx. 6′ to 7′ tall. extremely thin.. you could almost see through it.. it walked in long strides and as the arms moved, I swear you could see waves of air moving with the arms motions.. needless to say that we took off running to my friends house around the corner..our fathers came out and checked the area.. they must have seen the terror in our faces and demeanor… look, I can still see this thing in my mind
Hi Art,
Thank you for sharing your encounter with us. It is interesting that this is considered a relatively modern phenomenon, yet you encountered one during the 60’s.
I wonder how long these things have truly been around.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing with us.
I have been in touch with the paranormal since being very young, and recently been told by a medium that I also have this gift aswell and she explained that I should let it be, so I have.
But I would have never thought I would see something like this, it was different to the other things I see, I keep seeing a tall black shadow looking at me through the window, I have seen it many times but I thought it might have been my peripheral vision playing tricks.
I recently got a dog and again the tall dark shadow appeared in the day time and it confirmed for me that it is there and I was seeing something as the dog saw it too and was barking at it and on edge. I glanced at it and it really quickly ran to the side of my window. When I looked out on to my front garden there was nothing there. My husband witnessed how me and the dog reacted. This entity made me feel really scared and after getting a really good glimps of this I can not shake it off and can feel it’s presence near. The fact that it is watching me scares me the most as it’s for unexplained reasons.
Well, no one likes being watched, but add to the fact that you are being watched by something not entirely human and you have an entirely good darn reason to feel scared.
I wish we knew more about what these figures are and where they come from. The amount or replies this article has gotten is mind-blowing. It continues to garner attention as more and more people come forward every day.
There is no “expert” in the field who can say for sure what these things are, but to those who encounter them, the experience is etched into their memories forever.
I know it takes a lot to come forward and talk about these things, so I appreciate you and everyone else who has done so.
Thank you for adding your encounter to the collective.
2 days ago, my daughter who is 4, mentioned she was terrified as she saw a tall dark shadowy stick figure sprinting quickly between our front door and another room. She had snuck out of bed, past bed time, to her hiding place behind the dining table- and was startled to see the sight of this stick person moving quickly back and forth. She also mentioned later on that she saw it again in her room. The nanny (live in) also mentioned she saw something in her room, accompanied by light, than seemed to speed out the window. I have no idea what is going on- I only came across this because I googled “dark stick figure”. I am now terrified to see that so many other people have seen the same thing as my daughter.
Vanessa,
Just as you have reported, so too have many others reported on their encounters with the “Black Stick Man”
I have seen your follow up post which I will approve and respond to separately.
As for what your daughter encountered, much (almost everything) about these “beings” is unknown. Where they come from, what they are, why they visit, etc…no one can say for certain.
There are some people who have responded who seem to think they have the answers, but I doubt the validity of their explanations.
As I have said repeatedly, the general consensus is that these beings are not dangerous, but that doesn’t make them any less terrifying to encounter. Not having experienced them personally, I can only go by what others have shared.
Thank you for contributing, hopefully one day we will have an answer.
-Tony Harrington
Editor-in-Chief “Spirit Seekers Blog”
I posted here because I am genuinely concerned for my 4 year old, who was terrified by one of these things this week. Has anyone else noticed that half the stories posted are written by the same person? Different user name each time, different stories, but same sentence structure, spelling errors, grammatical errors, etc… I have now read almost all the postings on this page and it is so clear to see which are written by the same person. I find that so unfair, if someone has logged on here to have some fun- as I/and others/ are here with genuine concern over real experiences and do not appreciate that
Vanessa:
I have looked at the IP addresses of the individuals who have replied to this blog entry and it does not appear to have any duplicates, aside from a few who responded to my replies to comments.
There are a few regulars as well who post frequently.
But all the posts sharing stories have unique IP addresses. That doesn’t mean they didn’t log on elsewhere and post, sadly I have no control over that.
-Tony Harrington
Editor-in-Chief “Spirit Seekers Blog”
I have been researching the Black stick phenomenon for quite a while and have been reading Tony’s posts and feedback to the many stories , I have not come accross the same person always posting a similar story . Not saying it could not be true but I tend to believe that the people in here are genuine in sharing their stories .
The accounts are very similar and the stories go back many many years . I keep a file of all of the black stick man stories since I started reading these post . A couple of years now .
I am grateful that Tony has this site for people to come to and share their bizarre yet similar experiences . Maybe one day we will have an answer .
I have just read the last post and I can guarantee that this is only the second time I have posted here… And that having kept up to date with the other posts they all seem pretty genuine to me…while it’s really frightening when it happens, and I can understand that even more so with a child, it is important to just try and relax about it! my own personal view on what I saw, what I’ve experienced since, and reports of similar sightings: I believe it to be some sort of overlapping of time or dimensions… Another time / space. I do believe that at certain times we are more susceptible to things, and I think it’s important to be aware of this…..if you feel or see something, just stay strong, tell them that they’re in the wrong place and ask them to go away nicely and they will…..
I also want to add, that as you all may have noticed, I have to approve each comment before it shows up. It helps prevent spam messages from being posted, and you would be shocked by how many advertisers or malicious posters want to leave comments here.
During the review of each post I check to make sure the replies are legit. Sometimes it takes a few days for me to approve due to work/home obligations, but I try do get validation and approval done in a timely mannner.
Everyone who posts here or on other entries on this blog, is a part of a community that I wanted to build. A place where people can talk about things that they have encountered or things that intrigue them.
A huge thanks goes out to everyone who is a part of it. I appreciate it!
Hi Vanessa,
It might seem to you that most of the posts may be “written by the same person” only because their experiences are amazingly similar indicating, I believe, that it has become a universal phenomenon. I understand your fear for your child and nanny’s experiences of the BSM’s, but I also think you have to respect that we all may feel the same way, hence the repetition of our words explaining the visitations, and our own concerns.
This blog has been helpful and informative. It gives a forum to many of us who have experiences and questions of these Stick Men. I feel it is important towards allaying the fears we have of these “creatures,” since nowhere else have people been talking about this phenomenon. (So thank you, Tony for allowing us to speak!)
-Susan E.
You are most welcome! And thank you for being a part of this community. 🙂
Tony Harrington
Editor-in-Chief “Spirit Seekers Blog”
If Black Stick Men were a form of hallucination – or even ghosts – we would have been reading about them from ancient times. The Hadron Collider seems to be the only major disturbance between dimensions that is man-made, and it started operations around the time that black stick men started being reported.
From https://thespiritseekers.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/the-black-stick-man-phenomenon/ regarding Black Stick Man phenomenon reportage:
“Their appearances have been documented on message forums and websites since 2008….”
From wikipedia entry on CERN, regarding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC):
“The initial particle beams were injected into the LHC August 2008. The first attempt to circulate a beam through the entire LHC was at 8:28 GMT on 10 September 2008, but the system failed because of a faulty magnet connection, and it was stopped for repairs on 19 September 2008.”
Interesting coincidence, perhaps, but I’m just a layman. Does someone know any more about this angle?
It’s an interesting theory, I will give you that, but some reports state that encounters took place back in the 1960s, while cave drawings exist of early people interacting with tall lanky figures.
The collider is a wild card. I don’t discount the theory, it is a very interesting one, but I think more research needs to be conducted.
This was something I had wondered about myself. Given that the particles being created in the collider act in ways that often defy the standard laws of physics and have never been found in such concentration before in recent history could we be seeing things in a “new light” that has till now been to dim for us to perceive?
ATTENTION COMMENTERS:
I’m working on a map to see if these sightings fall on magnetic lay-lines, at certain latitudes, longitudes, and anything else I can think of. Please, posters, get as specific as you can with times, dates and locations. Thanks!
Great idea, Matt. Keep us updated. please.
Mountains south east of Frances lake Canada
mine was probably around july 2014 in wayne county, mi
Thanks for sharing the location Heidi!
Mine was in Lawrenceville, NJ.
April 5, 2015 HWY 101 North Sonoma County, CA 10:00 am
Also — Oct. 2015 Santa Rosa CA 11:00 am
Frances Lake canada
September 20, 2015: Dundas, Ontario, Canada
I have posted my experience a couple of years ago but don’t think I posted exact location
experience with black stick men
1 sighting . Atlantic beach Florida
2 sighting . Hollywood South Carolina .
It would be interesting to see if and how many sightings are near each other and if near any Lei Lines .
wheew!! good to know I’m not alone on this one. I saw one last night. I was sleeping then something woke me up and I felt wide awake suddenly. then I saw it outside my room, it was dark but I saw it quite clearly (my eyes had adjusted) I thought I was imagining it I saw it walk outside the room like he was just chilling, like he was dancing to a cool song while walking, kinda reminds me of Leonardo DiCaprio strutting. it was thin and lanky and tall almost as high as the ceiling and I thought I saw fingers from his hands, his head looks small compared to his body. I was trying to comfort myself by thinking it was just my brother. after he disappeared from my view, I heard the door outside open and close but not the gate. I thought it was strange if it was my brother why would he go outside the house but not outside the gate? specially at this time of the night and it was all quiet outside so he can’t be fixing something. after a few minutes of thinking I got asleep and dreamt about it. It wasn’t scary dreams or something, but it was quite awesome, it says that those stickmans are phoenixes and they’ll do anything you want them to do and you don’t have to worry about them.. hahaha kinda wish it was true tho 😀
I Encountered something like this while I was camping in the mountains near Frances lake, in southern Canada. Very tall, Dark (absents of light) no external limbs (fingers ears …) fast moving. Paralyzing empty stare, left almost as fast as it came. Also it came the night after as well; the second time it left it walked right through a tree as if it was not even there.
I have camped there several times before and never felt or seen anything like this before,
this was in August 2014. When I think back to this my spine gets cold and eyes water.
I’m kind of freaked out now. Two nights ago, my daughter (who is 3 1/2) awoke at 4am. She was completely wide awake and came into my room, arms full of stuffed animals, ready to play. Of course I said it’s still time for sleeping and we went back to her bed. After laying there for a few minutes and chatting, she looked at the door (which was half way open), pointed and grunted. I asked “what”, not understanding her gesture. She said in a very low, quiet, scared voice “walking stick”. I looked and saw nothing. “It’s what”, I asked again (it made no sense so I thought I was misunderstanding what she was saying). “It’s the walking stick” she said again more frightened now. And now I was getting a bit uneasy because she was clearly seeing something. She asked me to close the door, which I did, but this did not put her at ease. I asked “is it like the stick insect in your book”? She answered no, and asked me to make sure the door was closed tightly. I told her I had to go to the bathroom and to just close her eyes until I get back. When I returned, she was sitting up in bed and eagerly asked, “the walking stick didn’t get you”? “No, I didn’t see anything”, I said. She gathered her stuffies around her but was missing one. “I think the walking stick got koala”, she said in a panic. I quickly located it to calm her down. After some time, we finally fell back asleep together without incident. I avoided the topic the following day because I hoped she’d forget all about it. At bedtime however, as she was trying to fall asleep, she said she hoped she didn’t see the walking stick again. I changed the direction of the conversation toward cheerful things, and that seemed to work. This morning she awoke and said she was happy she didn’t see the walking stick again. I asked her what it looked like and she said it was a stick with legs, no arms and no head. I asked her to draw it for me and she eagerly drew a rectangle, coloured it in black and added 2 legs. I tried to make light of it and we drew walking carrots and walking ice cream cones. She demonstrated how it walked, which was abrupt and slightly reclined. My dad called an hour later to tell me my grandmother passed away early this morning. My daughter has “seen” a “man with a white T-shirt” a couple times before this in the middle of the night, but this walking stick thing is more disturbing to me, especially with the timing of my grandmother’s death. I wonder if this was an omen of sorts… And I’m shocked that there seems to be others who have seen similar figures. I only expected to find that maybe there was some symbolism related to a child seeing a stick object – I didn’t think there were others who claim to have seen the same kind of figures as well. Totally freaky and not liking this at all.
You’re doing the right thing by listening to her and taking her experiences seriously. Children’s fears and visions can be dismissed so easily by grown-ups. The best thing she can get from you is assurance that she’s listened to and not in danger. I don’t think these stick men mean harm; they are curious, but they are not as strong as we are spiritually, mentally and physically, especially in our own environment.
Thanks for that – I’m trying hard not to show my own fear and discomfort, but it’s difficult. She saw it again tonight while she was washing her hands in the bathroom. She covered her stuffed animal’s eyes, and when I asked why she was doing that, she pointed behind us. When I questioned what she was pointing at, she said “walking stick” again. But that was it – she didn’t seem too upset that it was there again, so I just tried to act as normal as she was, as if it didn’t bother me at all. Nothing could be further from the truth – I do not feel comfortable at all now, day or night. It’s really unsettling…
My son encounters what is described here while walking home one night a few weeks back… He came home scared out of his brain. He was so frightened he ducked into a house looking for shelter but it followed him. He said he saw it across the opposite side of the road approx 20 meters from him it stopped stared at him he turned to walk and as he did he looked over his shoulder and it was right behind him reaching out with extremely long arms and grabbed him on the shoulder. At which point he sought shelter. It stood outside the strangers house waiting for him. He said when it touched him it spoke! Unusually deep voice almost metallic in sound it knew him by name said it was going to follow him and wanted to know where he lived. He ran from the strangers house and it followed. It was almost hit by a taxi the driver yelled out what was that screeched to a halt. My son kept running he lost it as he entered our street. He came home shaking uncontrollably recounting the story. He drew a picture … He said it was black all over no face deep voice made no sound when walking long neck and arms very thin and scary as hell
My brother and I seen a stick figure at the location lafayette, GA 30728 34.706026,-85.287833 it was a solid black stick figure, I told my grandma to go back so I could take a picture but she did’;t believe me. I wish I got a picture because I would’ve had proof to show everyone.
Thanks for sharing and mucho thanks for providing the location with grid coordinates!
I think everyone who has seen one of these things wishes they had gotten a picture.
Tony Harrington
Editor, Spirit Seekers Blog
Ahh ! Yes a picture would have been a nice piece of evidence . But most in this site do not need you to prove your worth we all have had some kind of experience and maybe it is hard for the average person to believe what you have seen . Trust me when I say that you are among friends and people who believe you , who have experienced a similar event . With our stories and experience it is hopeful that one day we will be able to make sense of this Black stick man phenomenon . And maybe even have evidence !!!!! Just know that you are not alone !
Hi, I am 53 years old. I distinctly remember seeing the stick man twice in my life. Once when I was around two years old and once a few years later. Strangely, it was never mentioned until a few years ago when I was having a reminiscent conversation with my 30 year old daughter. When I told her what I saw when I was a child she said “Oh my God Mum! I saw it too several times as a child” Bizarre! The other odd thing is that for some strange reason, Ivery been thinking about it lately and this evening saw an image that was identical to him. That’s what made me research if anyone else had ever experienced a vision of him.
My son when he was 12 was in our yard late evening putting his bike away. It was dark but lamp lit, he saw close to him two very large very long black ribbons floated down the back alley they seemed to be travelling purposfully.
He was shaken and shocked and is scared to be outside in the dark to this day. His description was so vivid I believe he saw something supernatural.
Last night I fell a sleep on my couch woke up and saw one walking through the kitchen down the hall. I just went back to sleep I only felt slightly startled bc it looked so strange. Doing research now, I’m curious. I’m guessing some kind of other dimensional thing moving through our dimension, we can’t visually comprehend anything outside of the 3rd dimension. Wasn’t ghostly at all to me.
what struck me was the mention of being tired at the time of the encounter which makes me think vampiric. Could we be seeing the physical manifestation of a psychic vampire?
I am not sure if that is the case. More likely, the Stick Man phenomenon could be a manifestation of a form of sleep paralysis, or possibly a micro dream which can occur when the brain quickly enters dream stage sleep while we are “awake”.
I would be curious to know if individuals experiencing these encounters were in serious stages of sleep deprivation, perhaps due to sickness, stress, or anything else that would have caused them to be sleepy but either trying to stay awake or being kept awake while the brain was fighting to sleep.
With my experiences which were twice ,
No it was not from sleep deprivation .
In fact with the one incident my Labrador was with me . His reaction was very odd we were on our porch around 2:30 -3:00 am and we both saw this stick man moving across our yard or gliding I should say my dog made a whimper but did not bark we were both in amazement . But we were wide awake !
Thank you Sandyi!
I can always count on you to provide answers to questions posed here.
You are the yin to my yang!
-Tony
Hi Tony ,
I wanted to just say how great this site is .
When you posted the page about Dead letters
I responded with my email to help anyone this was quite sometime ago in 2015 . I had not gotten any emails
But for the last 5 weeks I have had 4 different people reach out to me from this site . I was pleasantly pleased but yet surprised that after so much time had passed that all at once people were contacting me . I have been back and forth with each of them and have been told they are very happy for my helping them . And as I said and promised my service when coming from this site has all been free . I love helping people and if it brings a some peace then I know it is good .
Because of your time and effort with this site you have helped many people and have also given peace of mind that they are not alone in what ever
” Natural” or “Super natural ” event has occurred .
It is nice to know there is a place that people can come and have no judgement . Just open mindness and various possibilities of what the occurrence could be !!!!
Bravo Tony !!! 😊
You just made me grin ear to ear! My main goal when starting this blog was just what you described. A safe haven for people to share their stories without judgement and possibly discover answers. Be it supernatural or otherwise.
I am grateful that you have stumbled on this site and become part of the family here.
If you ever want to write articles and become one of the admins just let me know. After so many years, I have run out of steam in my writing output.
I am glad you are able to help out our readers! It is much appreciated.
-Tony
Hi Tony , I am not sure if this will get to you .with just a reply to email . I was trying to send you email more private with questions . I would love to help out with articles and administrative . I am honored that you asked me . How does it work with articles ? And administrative ? Tell me what you are looking for and I can let you know what I can do and how much time I can dedicate . Thanks again . Sandyi 😀
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Sandyi,
Feel free to message me at harri3601@gmail. com and I will send you details.
There’s no obligations really, you can just write what you want when you want.
There are simple guidelines that I will explain at greater length tomorrow.
As far as administrator duties, I will just give you access to the site and you can approve comments and contribute to articles, etc, I will show you how if you are interested.
No pressure at all.
Hi Tony
I tried to send email to the one you provided but it say “server unable to accept” so I just end to this again .
Thank you for sending me an email .
When you get the chance please send me the guidelines and what ever information I need to know .
I look forward to contributing in any way I can !
Have a great night !
I was going to sign with a yin/yang sign
Mmm no emoji for it ….. Yet ! Lol
Sandyi 😊
Maybe you can send email to me from your email .
Thanks again
I’ve got a crude map going of the posters here who reported specific locations. Does anyone know anything about magnetic ley lines, though? I get a bunch of different maps that don’t look alike when I search on Google. If you could post a link to a credible map (big!) for me to overlay on mine, I’d appreciate it.
Matt look up and study vortex math and torus’s it’s all connected to the magnetic let lines and also explains why each map never looks the same..
my wife encountered one this morning in martindale tx.she was scared to tell us at first.but I believe she saw something.tall black and she felt no fear.
Something happened tonight..
I live in an area surrounded by woods and from where I sleep there are no cars passing that can play light tricks on my eyes.
The window to the left of my bed is at a level where if someone of a normal height walked outside I would just barely see the top of their head and it would look like a large shape passing my window so I know it wasn’t a person… Or people. On to what happened.. D: it really freaked me out.
So I’m laying in bed and there are some yard lights outside. I have blinds closed on all windows but towards the bottom of the set of blinds on the window left to my bed, the blinds are slightly raised up so when I’m laying down I can see light passing through. Its about half an inch gap.
My boyfriend was laying next to me and all of the lights were off. I was wide awake and my boyfriend and I were talking randomly and I was staring at the gap of light while we were talking. Suddenly 2 stick like shadows moved very swiftly one right after the other at the same speed. My window was cracked open about 4 inches and there were no sounds at all. I jumped up immediately saying “what the f*ck was that?!” And peeked out the bottom of the blinds .. I didn’t see anyone out there and its a fenced yard, if someone were in the yard I would have heard the gate open and close especially with the window open. Also the fence is about 6 ft tall.
I was freaking out explaining to my boyfriend what I just saw and I was too scared to try and close the window and lock it so he did it for me.
We continued to peek out of the blinds around the middle of the window for a few seconds and kept seeing nothing. My boyfriend laid back down and a couple mins later I went to look one more time out of the bottom of the window that I had just looked out of the first time about 3 minutes before.. The glass was suddenly completely fogged up… I couldn’t see anything outside at all. It scared me so badly that I jumped back and hit my head on the wall, I started crying immediately, not because I hit my head, but because I was so scared.
I have never been that scared in my entire life. The glass was completely clear and the fact that when I went to look one last time and the glass was so fogged I couldn’t see out.. Was what really freaked me out the most. We hadn’t even been near the window for a couple minutes so it wasn’t our breath.
That’s when I started looking online to see what these things could have been, and this forum sounds exactly the same as what I saw tonight.
They were very swift in movement, one followed right after the other and they kept the same distance apart. They looked like poles moving in the dark, at least what I could see of them. And they had to be very tall because this window is high above the ground and usually I can only see people’s heads pass the window if I’m standing and I was laying down.
Scariest thing that has ever happened to me. I have never cried from being so scared before..
That is a very scary experience !
I don’t know if this will comfort you but so far in all the stories shared I have not heard of any harm coming from these black stick men . I have experienced it twice , The not knowing of what these Mysterious creatures are is scary and fear sets in . But they do not seem to be harmful .
Thank you for sharing your story .
I was walking my dog in November of 2014 around 8 or 9pm. My dog looks up and than I looked where she was looking, I saw a 7 to 9 foot white figure creeping behind a tree. Once it saw me look at it it took a step behind the tree as it took a step back behind the tree snapping a branch on the floor from what I assume. I hesitated at first and the dog seemed like there no problem so the dog and I walked by the area I saw it at. The dog had no interest and I called to it but nothing moved. Waited and looked up wards of the tree and down wards to see if had ran away. I was too scared to go to where I saw it standing. I promise my self I will approtch what ever it was next time. Since this event I carry a flash light and a knife when I go outside. I have not seen it since.
I want to know what it was
Dogs cannot look up this is fake
I believe I saw one recently while driving at night to work. The sight didn’t just scare me, it shook me. Just thinking about it again make me shake and shiver. The description is near spot on to the description given in this article. I could only see up just pay its knees as it walked across the road in front of me in 3 brisk paces. I spent the rest of the night after a brief investigation with my father (who thought I hit something based on my reaction) trying to convince myself it was something what. After taking to a few trusted individuals, I’m convinced of what I saw. Something, I never saw coming.
Shawn,
Thank you for sharing your encounter with us. You are in good company with the other folks who have encountered these beings.
I have not personally encountered a BSM, but I am imagine how scary it would be to encounter something that shouldn’t exist.
Feel free to stick around Andy interact with other users. We get responses from all over from all different kinds of people.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
-Tony Harrington
Editor, Spirit Seekers Blog
Ive gotten chased by one of these omg the one on the left it was chasing us out of the mountain its like it dident want us there or something it was strange it happen about 4 years ago we told people and they dident believe us but i finally found this and its true i swear
That is a little scary being chased !
Where did this happen ? State ? Town ?
Last year I saw a black and a white stick man, and I chased them up the stairs thinking they were actual intruders. They disappeared by the time I reached the top of the stairs. They ran from me, up the stairs, as if they were caught. I reckoned I was imagining them from being exhausted. I then talked to a friend about it, as it turns out she had a similar experience with these two figures as a teenager in the 1990’s. I hadn’t known of them before this, but read about them after hearing her story. However, there was a teenager using my roof to hang out at that time, and he stopped after I caught him. The window was closed so it wasn’t him, but I think the stick figures may have been attached to him, not me, because he was a teen, my friend was a teen, and every stick man story I’ve heard since have happened to teens and young adults. My paranormal activity ceased after he stopped coming around, and after I healed from injuries and exhaustion.
Hello EcoRose,
Just to let you know I have posted about stick men I have seen and I am not a teen. I’ll be 65 years old this year, and I’m NOT young, senile or even crazy. It’s possible that since most people (and here I may be over-generalizing, as you have) are younger, meaning that mid-to-older citizens are not online as much or don’t wish to record these experiences.
Thank you for sharing your experience ,
I will have to agree with the other reader this occurrence does not only happen to young adults and teens . I am way past my young adult age as well ,and I have experienced them .
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Ok I thought I saw a cops car and I jumped a wall into a freshly cut field of hay it was very dry very quiet too quiet no and then the wind start picking up real fast then I felt this un easy feeling in my gut like something really bad was about to happen to me. And heard foot steps crunch crunch crunch and I looked around and I didn’t see no one then I saw this shadow like person but it looked so weird and odd it had no face no eyes no mouth just a real thin face and longer then normal and his arms was so long down past his Nees almost touching his feet and then I felt so scared then and then one starting walking. Then running and then another one showed up right in front of him like a partal opened and bam then he starting running at me and I ran and jumped the wall was scared shit less
John:
Thank you for sharing your encounter with one of these “creatures”. I still don’t know what noun to use to identify them.
I have never encountered one personally, but I love hearing from people who have. I am not sure how I would handle encountering something so weird and unknown.
A lot of people who have shared their stories share almost identical details.
Thank you for stopping by, and I hope this experience has taught you not to run away from cops! ( Just kidding)
Wow ! This sounded like a wild night !
And scary … I have Not heard anyone being physically harmed by a stick man more just scared of not knowing .
None the less your experience was a scare .
Maybe it is safer to run toward the cops next time .😀 Lol
I am glad you were able to share your story thank you .
I have read alot of replies here and most stories are quite terrifying. I know this was open for quite a while now. But I have seen this video that was rather famous on social media. Which was about a dark figured stick men that can extend both his arms / legs to climb a building. It has been seen by a person and he shot a video of it. Not sure if it is real tho. Still can’t prove it.
Hi Mohamed:
Yes, this entry has been around for a few years now, but it is as popular as ever as more and more people seem to encounter these things.
I did see the video of which you speak a couple years ago. While creepy, it does sort of have a “faked”vibe about it.
Hopefully one of these days we will get definitive proof of the existence of the paranormal, or someone can disprove it altogether once and for all.
Until then, we are all in this grey area.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting on this topic.
Tony Harrington
Editor
The Spirits Seekers Blog
True I have read more about the video and alot of people has considered it as fake. Still not a 100% proof. Guess the only thing we can do now is wait for something big to happen… .
My wife saw one just last night although her description was a metallic black figure but none the less she described sleepless night, and uneasy feeling. I never heard of the stick man phenomena but it is fascinating. Definitely alien or other dimensional being.
My experiences seem to differ from other stories so I am not sure if my encounters were with the same creature but I have wondered about this for years. I was living in a basement apartment in Toronto when I had several encounters with a malevolent creature that was a man-shaped absence of light that looked like the figures in your picture. I saw the figure many times while I was awake, both in the dark and in a well-lit room. I could look directly at it and it did not disappear when I looked at it though it did not like to be noticed. It was a regular visitor. My first encounter occurred when I was in bed, I became overwhelmed with fear and saw the creature hovering over me. The figure was so dark as to stand out in a dark room. At first I was paralyzed with fear but it seemed to want that so I got angry and told it to go away, which worked. From then on whenever I saw the figure hovering around waiting for me to go to bed, or approaching me from across the room, I would tell it to go away; which seemed to perturb it. I understood that it was not a ghost or spirit, that it was a creature and that it entered through a doorway located in my bedroom from somewhere else. I discovered that my landlords were, in fact, aware of this creature which is why they would not sign a tenant to a long-term lease.
I seen one of these in my backyard it was caught on a deer camera it was only about 3 inches tall and I have it on video it walked out of the woods around in front of a deer and disappeared blows my mind… I have the video somewhere on my Facebook I posted it some people seen seen it and said it was an animal and some people said it was not crazy blows my mind even when I still think about it… I live in Silver Valley my son goes to Silver Valley Elementary where the school used to be it used to be an old mind so I don’t doubt that there is a lot of spirits around minors that may have got killed you just never know or what used to be on our property before our home was here history is amazing and I do believe in the afterlife..
Wow, of all encounters I have never heard of someone reporting one that was only 3″ tall.
Maybe that is the runt of the stick-man litter!
let us know if you are ever able to find the video footage, I would love to see it.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your encounter with us!
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The SPIRIT Seekers Blog
I was just driving home stound 2:30am and when I was driving I saw this thing run into the bushes as my car lights hit it, I was frightened of the thing but decided to keep driving as I was freaked out though the thing didn’t do anything as I could only seen the back of it and did not see any facial looks, it kinda seemed safe but I was still freaked out. At first I thought it was a kangaroo as I’m in Australia, but as soon as I realised it was running not hopping it couldn’t have been a kangaroo. I then thought Every thing I had seen was just my imagination but I had to tell someone. I got home and called my friend straight away I was worried that it was because I was tired and I was only just seeing things but as soon as I talked to him I went searching for explanations and now myself and my friend have found different sites with kinda the same stories, I still don’t know what to believe.
About 10 minutes ago was outside with my dog and saw one of these creatures in a tree. No trick of the light, nothing. As solid and real as possible. It looked down at me, was huge. Leant down and stare with no facial features but elongated limbs and I am not ashamed to say, I bolted inside. The feeling that came with it more than the sighting was pure terror. I’m in New Zealand and have encountered plenty of unexplained phenomenon but this is new to me.
One night, when i was living in ellabell georgia. I saw one of these, It was staring right at me through a window, also it had its arms pressed up on the glass. I fell back asleep, but i felt like something was wrong because i woke up suddenly. i had to throw up, so i ran to the bathroom. After i was done throwing up, it disappeared into the darkness of the night. This thing was possibly manipulating my dream, so it can escape without being noticed by me.
Tim:
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your encounter with us. That sounds absolutely horrifying and I know that such an encounter has to be upsetting and confusing.
By sharing your encounter with us you are adding to an ever-growing library of encounters that will help other people who experience this phenomena.
Thank for for your contribution.
Tony Harrington
Editor, SPIRIT Seekers Blog
When I was little, my sister and I would have sleepovers every night. One night we were in her room and I woke up and saw three black stick men staring at me. One was sitting on the couch, the other was standing, and the other was sitting on the arm of the chair. They stared at me and I stared back and that was it. I wasn’t scared and I wasn’t sure if I was making things up in my head.
Years have past and I brought it up to my sister and she said she’s seen the same thing in her room.
We have seen this. Me and my fiance, all the time. Mostly at night, this thing takes 3 steps and is off the road. We’ve seen it at least 3 times this week. In North Carolina, but he sees it a lot beside his truck when it’s parked. We’re trying to figure out what it is, and why it stays with us.
going through these comments sparked a memory of mine. as a child I saw lots if things, from shadow people, to ghosts of the deceased, even one time a skeleton man. I remember walking up, I had a strange buzzing noise going on in my ears, (often like you get during sleep paralysis) I woke up with my eyes shut. however I could see through my eyelids. (an experience I had quite a few times) now I was starting to get the feeling of intense fear and anxiety as the buzzing noise turned to a loud ringing, being about 6-7 years old at the time and terribly afraid of the dark there was a dim night light slightly illuminating my room. beside my night light stood a 8 – 10 foot tall dark figure that looked like the typical stickmen kids draw however it was wearing what almost looked like a bowlers hat, something you’d see a long time ago. and it just stood there staring, there were no decernable features on it. I remember rubbing my eyes in disbelief only to feel that i was touching my eyelids. my eyes were closed but i was staring at this thing, that was staring right back at me…
Two nights in a row first night witnessed by me. Without my two kids knowledge that I had seen something a shadow stick they come running to me scared with same sighting. Very quick stick figure.
OH. MY. GOD. I seriously can’t believe I just found this. I’m so happy so finally realize that I’m not actually crazy.
One night I was 11 (this happened in 2010) and I had just finished dinner with my parents. We live in an apartment, so as they kept talking in the kitchen I headed to my bedroom. We have a long hallway in a T shape, and I swear to you I saw a tall black stickman running from one side to another until dissapearing through my parents’ bedroom’s door. I ran back to the kitchen while crying and (amazingly enough) my parents believed me.
I’ve been telling this story for years now and people find it hard to believe me. The weirdest thing about it all is that I would’ve never imagine a ghost that way.
Sorry for my awful English, I’m from Argentina.
First of all, your English is GREAT, better than some native English speakers.
As for your encounter, I am so happy that we were able to shed some light on what you experienced. As you can tell, you are far from alone in what you saw.
I have never seen one myself, but I am sure it was scary to see. Thank you for sharing your story with us so that others may benefit from it.
Sincerely,
Tony Harrington
Editor, Spirit Seekers Blog
I’ve not read the comments yet, only the article, but I am interested to see if anyone has had similar experiences. Around 3:20am on 8/22/16 I was driving home from my Dad’s, and encountered the coolest little extra terrestrial I’ve ever met. It was extremely foggy on Hwy 438 in Linden, TN behind Mouse Tail Landing State Park. I had just drove 7 hours home from a Pow Wow in Indianapolis.
As I was driving I seen a “stickman” that appeared very similar to round beef jerky, moving very quickly in an almost cartwheel morphing motion from the left side of the white line into an old graveyard that is on sacred Native American lands. It was reddish brown, and would’ve stood approximately 3.5 ft tall standing upright. The sighting was 2.5 seconds long. It was long enough for it to round off, stand half way up and disappear into the fog.
I was deeply intrigued, and felt honored to have witnessed such an amazing creature! Full of curiosity I intentionally communicated telepathically with it, and this is what happened…
When asked ‘What are you?’ this is my interpretation of what it said “I am a warrior. I am not from here, I am an extraterrestrial here to assist the Elementals in waking up.” Meaning that It was here as a guardian and/or assistant to the Elemental Realm.
This was NOT a malevolent Being. This was a kind peaceful creature who was gleefully carrying out a task in assisting the greater whole. A gentle warrior for the future of all life on Terra.
A’ho!
Shaynalei33,
Your experience of this being and assessment of it is really very special and important. Thank you for posting it.
My understanding of these figures is similar: they represent energy within a physical form and are neither malevolent beings nor to be feared. My experience was similar–saw a rather tall stick figure sprint across the road while we were driving. However, it was in broad daylight and raining (Northern Ca. last year).
Your interpretation is the clearest I’ve read on this site. And from a Native American standpoint, probably the most true. Especially since you took the time to communicate with it on a telepathic level. I hope all readers of this site take your words to heart.
Susan,
Your words and support are very meaningful to me. I appreciate your input! Today I’ve been working with them and learning more, and remembering. Still in amazement I am humbled. It’s crossing my path was no accident, it refueled a fire within me, and gifted me with much. My heart is just bounding with joy because I believe in the good things coming!
Again your words are very special to me, and are quite a gift. I thank you, and may your goodness return to you tenfold!
Thank you for your blessing, shaynale.
I’ve been on this site for over a year and have been waiting for input like yours to shed clear, un-fearful light about these beings. A friend of mine who is a native healing doctor has told me her experiences and feels, as I do, these spirits are more curious and kind than evil. Please keep updating us here on your communication because you are teaching us how to deal with our reactions to these “supernatural” folks.
BTW, I don’t think these sitings are limited to human-like stick figures. Several months ago (and I posted this here) I saw a black panther-like animal in the corner of a field in my town while driving by! I don’t believe it was a dog or a deer–which there are a lot of, even in the residential areas here–and I know I’m not hallucinating.
Sunday August 21, last night at the time I am writing this, around 10pm I heard my boyfriend scream my name from our bedroom where he had recently gone to sleep with small dog. I ran from our living room across the hall into our unlit bedroom where he frantically told me to turn on the lights. After turning the lights on I could see the Spitz was in bed next to my boyfriend staring fixedly at our open closet. My boyfriend was wide eyed and white(I’m being literal; he is a redhead and there was no color left to his skin) with fear. He refused to get out of the bed and insisted I look in the closet. He told me that our smallest dog had woken him and had been looking at something as the foot of our bed. At first he had assumed it was me but as he looked at it it moved from the foot of our bed where it had seemed to have been watching my boyfriend and our dog to our closet across the room and disappeared into the darkest part of the room. My boyfriend told me that he would have thought he was seeing things from being tired save for the fact the dog had somehow woken him and had been watching the figure intently as it moved across the room and was looking for it still in the dark corner even after he had called out for me. I walked into the closet and looked for any sign of an intruder or anything at all out of place. I found nothing but all the hair on my body at this point was on end. I told him I could find nothing and no one was in the closet. He became adiment that he had seem a full figure, a siloet of a person walk from the foot of our bed to our closet. I asked him to describe the figure and he said it was totally black but he could clearly see a head shoulders and arms as it moved. He said it had walk past a clock on our wall so I walked over to stand by the clock and asked how tall it had been. He said it had been about a head taller than me putting it at around six foot six inches. In all honestly I was a bit scared at this point. The room had a wieghtly feeling to it and the hair on my body was still standing on end. Not wanting to alarm my already shaken boyfriend anymore I smiled and left the room to grab a few things. I came back smiling and told him it was OK and placed a bottle of holy water, a heavy silver cheese knife, some quartz crystals, and a large piece of photoluminesint fluorite on the dresser next to the bed. I did all this more to make a joke of things and put him at ease than for any real belief system. I had often used the glowing fluorite as a nightlight in the past but he had asked me to take it out if our bedroom saying it was to bright and was keeping him up at night. This seemed to put his mind at ease somewhat but I thing it was exhaustion more than anything that made him finally want to go back to sleep. I moved to the door and turned off the light but he asked that I leave the door to our bedroom open. I smiled and did as he asked but I was still rather alarmed to see that the small dog still in bed with him was staring at the closet still. Seeing that I told our large dog, a Great Pyrenees Mountain Dog, to go into the bedroom. The dog was strangely reluctant at first which truly worried me. The dogs both seemed to think something was off but had not barked or growled at any point in the whole of this event. The weightly feeling of the room had seemed to fill the house as I checked all the doors and windows. The hair on my body still standing on end at strange moments as I walked about the house I thought to check outside. I could clearly see the stars and the moon was just seen cresting the trees as they moved in a gentle breeze. It was a beautiful night but I could not shake an odd feeling that seemed to come from within my home. I looked about my yard and checked the windows and doors once more from outside and returned inside. I found our large dog was sitting outside the open bedroom door looking in at my boyfriend sleeping on the bed and the small dog was still looking fixedly at the open closet. I decided to stay up working in the living room for a time to see if anything else would happen. I was unable to shake the feeling of unease that had come over me. After about half an hour the feeling had not lessened even while I was working and doing other things about the house. As stated before I have no real system of beliefs but in my 35 years I have travelled far and collected many things I thought interesting and uplifting. I had at this point started to feel somewhat threatened in me own home and decided to see if burning incense would do anything. I walked about my home with an incense of clove and pine that did seem to clear the air but not really lift the weight that seemed to be on the house. I tried lighting candles and that seemed to help some also yet still I could not escape the feeling that had come over me. For about another hour I turned to my work hoping the feeling would pass yet still I found myself looking constantly for some movement about me that was out of place. The unease growing in me I remembered an old Tibetan singing bowl I had full of stones in the other room. Feeling a little foolish for being so put off by my feelings of discomfort I none the less emptied the bowl and found something to run along the edge. The moment the bowl started to ring the heavy feeling that had filled the house vanished. I was honestly shocked and a little alarmed. I sat for a time feeling silly but much more relaxed until I walked from my office into our living room and the feeling of dread returned in full. At that point I decided to walk about my whole home gentle sounding the bowl and to my amazement it seemed to work. I even sat outside and played with the bowl for a time feeling much better if still a little silly. Feeling more relaxed I decided to head to bed myself and try and get some sleep. I showered and got ready for bed and told our larger dog it was bedtime. He walked to the far side of the house. This once more put me on guard. I kept telling the dog to go to bed but he would just try and go to another room of the house instead. I finally had to walk him into the bedroom with one hand on his back to get him to enter our bedroom. He lay next to the bed but was looking at the closet which was still rather well lit my the glow of the stone on the dresser. I got into bed myself and our little dog climbed on my chest so he to could watch the closet door. I can’t say I slept well or at all really as every movement of the dogs or flicker of light would have me scanning the room. At some point in the night my boyfriend got up and opened the bedroom door and told our large dog to get out, which he did rather happily it seemed. I asked my boyfriend why he had made the dog leave the bedroom and he said that the clawing and the dogs head butting the door was keeping him awake. The dog had not been near the door doing anything like that the whole of the night. Every time the dogs had moved or sighed all that night I had been wide awake. No clawing or thumping noises woke me at any point last night! I was wide awake the rest of the night laying in bed till near dawn when I started to drifted off. The whine of the dog sleeping on my chest reached some part of my brain and I started to wake to the feeling that something was coming toward me from the direction of the closet. My eyes would not open and I could not move at all. My mind was coming out of a state of sleep paralysis and I was aware of this but the feeling of a presence in the room was very real. I could feel the claws of the dog on my chest and the heaviness of my unmoving limbs. I tried calling out to my boyfriend sleeping next to me 3 times before I could could make a sound loud enough for him to hear. His reply of “what” finally woke me to the point I could move and look to the closet where the feeling of being watched was coming from. I could see nothing but the dog on my chest was looking the same way. My boyfriend told me I had been yelling in my sleep and rolled over and fell right back to sleep. I could not fall asleep again till well after dawn and even then it was with an uneasy feeling. I never saw anything last night but I feel something happened. I can’t begin to understand what or who was in my home last night but I do believe there was something standing at the foot of my bed watching my boyfriend as he slept and that something lingered in some way as I myself drifted off last night.
Hi….I’ve just come across your site while looking for information on stick men. You see…..about an hour ago, I was sitting in my living room talking to a friend on the phone, when I saw a large stick person standing across the room. It felt male, although no features really specific as to what sex. This figure had a top hat on…believe it or not, and was probably 6.5 to 7 feet tall! I told my friend who I think must have thought I was losing my mind! I stared at this thing for several minutes, all the while praying it would leave. It looked at me and I actually had the sense it was producing a face of sorts! I finally said to it that I acknowledged it, and whatever it was offering, I wasn’t interested, and demanded it leave. It slowly went up to the corner of the ceiling and seemed to crawl through the ceiling and disappeared. I’m sitting here shaking my head wondering what I just saw!! Can anyone verify that they’ve seen this? Am I losing my mind!! Lol
This happened just last night, I was at a friends house, an old farmhouse outside of town on a county road. I’m sitting on the porch steps and something catches my eye, this thing is just strolling along down the road, I watch it take several strides then it stopped and looked at me. This thing didn’t want to be seen by me, it immediately turned left and moved very quickly across the road and into an open pasture where I lost sight of it. It was eight or nine feet tall, very thin, dark and featureless. I observed this creature for at least ten seconds, definitely not a ghost in my opinion, but an actual physical being
Hello,
I’ve arrived at this site after seeing ‘a black stick figure’ and googling it. A wanted to share my story.
Sat 27 August approx 10am. My son 9, daughter 6 and I went for a jog around our local reservoir. My wife was walking behind just in case my daughter stopped. We were half way into the jog and my son had gained a few 100m lead around a corner, my daughter was getting tired so I called for him to come back. When he got back to us he said he had seen a black stick man on the hill watching him. I was a little concerned so went to look. There was nothing there so we didn’t talk about it again.
Sun 28 August Approx 930am. The day after I went on the same jog by myself. As I got to the spot where my son said he saw something I looked up and saw a black figure on the hill about 300m away. At first it didn’t really register, I carried on jogging but I looked up again, it was so black; no depth, they that a hat like a cowboy hat. I thought it was someone taking a picture with the camera up to their face using both hands to hold the camera. I thought they were facing away from me. I could see through the gaps in the arms. The arms must have been large for me to see this. Sometimes you see people walking or running up there It was just strange. It wasnt normal and it was in the same place my son said he saw something. When I looked up again it had gone.
Hi Matt:
That is definitely creepy, but I am glad you felt comfortable enough to share your encounter with us.
It amazes me how this one entry in particular has resonated so strong with people and the experiences they have had. I am glad you have added your voice to the mix so that as more people encounter these things, they won’t feel so weird, or lonely, or unsettled.
Thank you for stopping by, and a big thank you to everyone who has shared their encounters so far. I try to respond to add many as possible, but sometimes life gets in the way.
Tony Harrington
Editor, Spirit Seekers Blog
i saw a solid black skinny figure through the reflexion of my big screen tv. it was tippy toeing like it was sneaking around, it was about 10 am. i thought it might have been my daughter or wife that had come down from the second floor. the funny thing is that i never felt threatened or scared just curious of what it was. i’ve had never seen it before or since. the really strange thing about this experience was that i started to tell my sister about what i saw and before i could tell her what the figure was doing my sister tells me “was he walking like this?” and she proceeds to do the tippy toeing like the figure had done. we both got chills, i said yes!, how did you know?” she told me she also had seen it in the reflexion of her tv. we thought that was really weird because my sister lives across town from me. this happened about 6 years ago.
this is a true story, i could never make up a story like that.
And friend and I was traveling recently on bulldog road out by our high school in Lyons ga and as we were approach on coming traffic a human shape figure crossed in front of us and the on coming travelers at s rate of speed that left us jaw dropped.be glad to tell you more.
Hi marquise, this is exactly what happened to us in April of 2015. Driving north on a freeway in NorCal, I saw an extremely tall stick figure sprint across the road from west to east, passing through both routes of traffic–so fast it was amazing I could see it!
I do energy healing work. My husband was on the massage table inside our home. He said that something pressed on his hip like when your mom tells you to “settle down” in church. Then he says two black stick figures (he did say “stick-aliens”) glided by him on each side of the table, and he thought there was one more behind them. He says it was the weirdest thing ever. He says he still can’t reconcile what he saw. (He doesn’t believe in aliens.) He says he also saw many orbs coming together into one and moving away from his forehead area. I did not note anything unusual from standing and working over him at the table.
Addendum: After reading this thread I asked my husband more questions about the experience. He said there were two stick figures about 5’9″ (not super tall)…they appeared taller than they were because of how thin they were (Like a 2 by 4). He calls them “matchstick.” He says they glided on each side of the table, like a smooth “scanner” with him on the scanning bed. He thought there might have been two more to the right side of him, but they were further back. He says they were neutral in feeling, and that he thought they were gathering medical information about him. He felt like the interaction with them was like an operating room (not our actual setting). He said they could gather much more information than a human could, and faster. He said their small heads were similar in ratio of a matchstick, but reminded him of the Easter Island heads, profile. You could see the squarish noses (very small notch out of the profile), and that’s how he said he could tell they had heads at the top. He said it was brief and they were very black. He said it lasted about as long as it takes a photocopy scanner to go by. He said they didn’t “look” at him, but he saw them in profile. For the person that wants time of year, that was about 1-2 weeks ago. Denver, CO.
For me, this is not my first experience with an “alien” being from another dimension. I also had a very “neutral” experience that ultimately changed my life. Again, this time was not my experience. I was there, and didn’t notice anything unusual. Just before that time, I have noticed some strange things with clients on the table, and I did not tell them (I didn’t want to scare the crap out of them), but I didn’t not see a stick figure. I saw black geometric shapes leaving their bodies and one light orb leaving someone’s head.
Hello BL,
It seems to me that when people do any type of healing work, they are in contact with extremely subtle energies which can take form, like the ones you and your husband experienced. I’ve always felt since my initial ‘siting’ of a stick-man, that these creatures represent energy which become embodied in very slight-body ways. Some of us–whether involved in healing work or not–can be sensitive enough to “see” or feel them.
Thanks Susan.
When I was 10 or maybe 12 I was with my friend and we were exploring his neighborhood he had a guy that recently pasted away and his how was abandoned so we were walking near the house and his house had a lot of trees it was dark kinda looked like a forest and me and my friend were stoped and just looking at the house when I spotted a man don’t know what it was but it was abnormally tall and looked brown stick figure type looking guy and we both were look and it started to run at us abnormally fast so me and my friend took off as fast as we could run and we looked behind us and it was back at that house and then it disappeared and by the way I’m 20 now it was the scariest thing I have ever seen and never believed in ghosts or that sorta thing till that day I will never forget what I saw many people don’t believe me but I know what I saw and it still scares me
I would like to tell you what happened to me.
i was lying in my bed with no clothes on. and I woke up and I couldnt move or speak outloud. The Only thing I could do was hear my own thoughts. I looked at the edge of my bed and there was a supernatural being there. He was a dark man. My lights were off so I couldnt see his features. But he pulled off my covers and I was so scared I started to say jesus in my mind with my eyes closed then he vanished into thin air. This really happened to me. Why do you think he came to me and why did he leave when I said jesus to myself, because I couldnt say it outloud. its like he had my mouth trapped without using hands or anything. I wanna know could he hear my thoughts too? I would really
like an answer. I have supernatural encounters all the time and I never understand them.
I do not believe in crazy stuff at all unless I see it unless im sure I dont care if you are my wife friends priest or anything not even my kids unless I see it in real life 100% I live in Adkins texas in a little neibor hood I was crossing the street at night I was looking down the street and saw a shooting star seconds later I see a tall skinny stick figure with human like limbs stopin the street and run into the woods
Hi Michael,
From a fellow Texan (Frisco), thanks for stopping by and sharing your experience. I have never seen a stick man despite having written this article. So, I live vicariously through the comments of folks just like you.
I hope the encounter wasn’t frightening!
Wow I just read these comments most are so similar to mine on tee and point the figure had a long stride when it ran I really cant believe what I saw thank you guys that are telling the truth thier id too many here to be this many liars
My first encounter with one I was 9 years old I woke up in the middle of the night and in my bed beside me was a tall, thin, black shadow once it knew I had seen it eyes and a devilish smile appeared then he vanished. Ever since then a few times a year I see the figure but each time since then no features just a tall black shadow figure. Whatever this thing is it seems to follow me. I am now 24 years old and this figure is showing itself more and more. My children wake up terrified in the middle of the night claiming to see a dark shadow in their closet. Last night my 5 year old son woke up because of a “scary dream” when I walked past his room there it was the dark figure just standing there I turned on the light and it was gone.
LC,
Thank you for sharing your history of encounters with us. As you can see, it appears to be a phenomenon that affects people from all over.
As to what they are we can only guess.
Aside from being terrifying to encounter, they really seem to be observers. There is no documented cases of anyone being harmed by one of these beings.
Your story is a little more unusual in that you have had many experiences ranging over 15 years, and now your children are experiencing something similar.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your encounter with us!
Tony Harrington
Editor-in-Chief, Spirit Seekers Blog
I had the worst … Creepiest dream I’ve ever had before … I was walking in and out of rooms who were in de offering dimensions … One of this doors leads me to a place where my family is sitting with this talk slender man talking as soon as I see him ….he stares at me and does not stop and tried to talk to me …. I don’t like his energy or him at all … And as I start praying and ignoring him … He becomes This dark long talk slender shadowy figure with no face and they so close to my face I can ignore him … I close my eyes and keep praying and picture a white light while I say out loud: this is my body , my reality , you are nothing here … And his precense is all over me like if he was hugging me … Then out of nowhere this bright light comes and he is gone …it was the most scary thing I’ve ever experienced 😦
I was driving last night (Saturday, time 11:15pm) in Valley Center, Ca. and I noticed a figure/image/something that blended incolor with this big rock, it looked as though the image was moving towards the road as if it was going to cross and once it saw my headlights from my car it quickly reverted backwards and turned and raised its neck and looked my way. I’ve never experienced anything like this and therefore im trying to conclude if it was a stick figure.
I just had what I think was similar for the most part. A little different visually though. Last night I woke up many times because my dog kept, what we call “tooth pasting me” off the bed. Pushing his way over so I had no room. So the last time I got up and pushed him over because I was tired and had enough. I looked up and saw two small dark stick looking things about three feet in front of me. I it took many moment to try and figure what was going on. There was some light in the room so I was looking around to readjust my eyes cause I thought it was the darkness just messing with my eyes. As I looked around I saw one more off to the left. One further back in the room and two more next to me be the night stand. All stopped dead in their tracks like a deer in headlights. Now the ones I saw, and I say this now with confusion and still having my brain justify what I saw. Still struggling like “no” it was not that. But the two in front of me did have eyes. Burnt orange colored and just staring at me. And they were all in the two foot to three foot tall range. My first reaction was… basically I waved my hand and said “go away” and as my hand was in motion the two in front of my went back and left of their position an went blurry and faded away. My head jerked so quickly because i couldn’t believe they moved as I followed them visually. It only took a half second for them to fade away. If that. I looked back and all the other ones were gone except one. He was standing in front of our other dogs on the floor. I thought to myself I can’t believe the dogs don’t see this thing. Then it to basically ran away and blurred and faded away. I was so confused and still am. Because this just happened a couple hours ago. Still struggling with this. After they left I laid back down… basically I didn’t know what to make of things. I didn’t feel threatened or scared. Just struggling with the whole thing.
I just had to get this written down. Not that I’m going to forget this.
Me and my family just moved into an apartment my kids always say they see shadows I thought they where just looking for attention but then my husband said I just saw something a shadow and I thought he was just trying to scare me but then I’ve seen a black thin figure twice now I’m very scared when I saw it I opened all the window blinds and turned on all the light wish this could just be all in my mind I have very scary night mares ! What can I do ??
Teresa:
I know seeing these things has to be frightening, so I am not sure if it is any consolation to know that there is no record of the black stick men hurting anyone.
However, I am not sure if you are experiencing visitations from BSM or if you have shadow figures, which are a separate entity altogether.
Regardless, you can start by simply ordering the beings to leave your home, let them know that they are not welcome in your home and instruct them to move on.
If this does not help, you might want to consider finding a group of paranormal investigators who are trained in conducting cleansing.
If you try to cleanse a home yourself, some believe it can make matters worse.
If all else fails, ask your local church if they can send a representative to conduct a blessing on your home.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The Spirit Seekers Blog
The reason I looked this up was for answers I did not see anything but I felt it I was in a Christian rehab turn to build a relationship with God I would stay up late to go to sanctuary to read bible and prey but I always felt a fear there at night . Then one night I ran in to my pastor and told him about it he said it was the devil tryn to keep me from getting to know God. There was a closet we preyed n in the sacuary. As I got closer I got more scared. When I was in closet I bowed down to prey and as I did I felt a tall figure walk up to me and stand right out side the closet the closet he got the scared I got I was the most scared have ever been new level of scared even more than when I have faced death among other things. Hope my story helps someone . I am looking for answers as well donf know if it was pure evil or fig of my imagination. I wouldn’t b look if it didn’t feel real.
Gerald,
With so many experiences already documented on this blog entry, I have no doubt that this things are real. Just what they are remains the big mystery.
Are they aliens? Ghosts? Demons? Interdimensional beings? Or is there some natural explanation, perhaps something the brain and eye conjures to make sense of something it can’t comprehend. Most of the encounters happen St night or in the dark with limited visibility.
Whatever it is people are seeing, it seems to be a legitimate phenomenon.
Aside from that, I am not sure what else to add. I wish we were able to provide more concrete answers.
Thank you for stopping by and adding your experience to the collective.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The Spirit Seekers Blog
11/16/16 is the day that my friend and I saw a stick like figure. It all started when we started to play hide and seek tag out side in the dark (7:00). My brother was the seeker first. The first time we uncounted the figure my brother was looking for us on the total opposite side of the yard. My friend was laying in a grassy area and I was under a tree. When we saw this tall black skinny figure walk up my friend, but not to close ( 35 feet away ). It did not see me or my friend. It looked from side to side but did not notice us. until my friend said ” shh be quit ” ( and again we thought it was my brother, so we were not scared ) . The figure Turned around and took a few steps then vanished. Little did we know it was going to appear again. ( my brother was the seeker again ). This time we were hiding beside tall trees,once again my friend was laying mostly on the ground and I was just a couple feet away from her. Then out from behind my pool, my friend noticed a black shadow on the ground. It was walking around and it seemed as if it was looking for something, MAYBE LIKE A PERSON (My brother gave up and went in the house). So she turned to me and started to tell me what she saw. All of a sudden we both heard something and turned back were the figure was originally, but of course it was gone. We got so scared that we ran back to my house. The next day we tried to explain to people what we saw but of course they did not believe us. What are these creatures and what do they want?
Susan E. …you are not alone on the seeing animals experience. My boyfriend and I recently moved to a rental house that backs-up to a few acres of wooded pasture with a path going through it near a creek. The land is not ours, but we enjoy taking walks back there because it’s so private and quiet. I even took the time to build a little bridge to cross the creek and picked-up a bunch of trash that neighborhood kids had littered about the creek. The first time we went to walk the path we came upon a large dark cat-like creature that bounded away ahead of us before we got a good look. My boyfriend kept calling it a dog due to it’s size, but I’ve worked with animals for many years and although it was definitely much larger than your average cat, there was nothing canine in it’s nature. I didn’t think much of it until we saw it again yesterday as we set off down the wooded path. This time it was in the field we come to before the path through the woods so I got a better look before it took off again. This was one BIG kitty. It struck me as a bit odd.. but we continued our walk. I had found a set of large overlapping circles in the grass near the path, which intrigued me as I have interest in crop circles and hadn’t noticed them until just a few days ago. I showed them to my boyfriend and we playfully walked around them. On another walk we had taken recently had noticed a few random solar yard lights that were stuck in the ground all together in a spot not far from this… and we thought it strange that we had never noticed them all the times we came that way before. So we decided to go see if those lights were still on as it was nearly dark now and I was curious how quickly they would lose power. We proceeded quietly with a cautious feeling. We got near enough to the lights that I could see that at least one of them was still on. I stopped to wait for Adam to catch-up before proceeding. As I did.. I noticed a shape (maybe 40 or 50 feet away) moving slowly across the tall grass right in the direction I was going. It appeared to stop when it got to the shadow of a tree. It was too dark to tell much.. but I knew it was not the cat thing because it was tall and human-like in shape and size. What worried me was that it made no noise.. no crunching of grass under it’s feet as it moved. It did not bound away.. it didn’t even seem to step..just glided.. and it was way taller than the 3’tall grass.. or even me. I stood very still for about 5 or ten seconds as I tried to tell Adam that someone was there. Then I bolted for the house. I have never been afraid of anything in the woods.. until now. I am very independent and daring.. but now I won’t even go in the field by myself.. and then only in daylight. I wish I could forget what I saw and go back to enjoying my walks. I have never had a sighting of anything paranormal other than UFO’s… and certainly nothing this near to me. I have never even heard of stick men or slender men until exploring this subject after my sighting. This figure was not that narrow necessarily.. so it could have been a shadow person or something else. I would be more ready to accept that it were big foot than a ghost…honestly, which is why this bothers me. You can explain big foot. This… I do not understand. I can only hope he’s friendly…
About 10 muinutes ago (1:20 am) my friend hope and I went outside to hangout, she lives across from a grave yard, we were looking at the grave yard and saw a grave that looked sorta like a normal person in a hood, I adjusted my position and saw what looked to be A slender man but it was completely black and looked to be made of concrete. I told hope to quickly go inside after taking a few short steps backwards. Just a few minutes ago we lolked it up and I came across this. Now we are hearing sounds and just a second ago the charger holding my phone fell for no reason while Im typing this. We are terriffyed.
I’ve seen two of these things. I bring the dog out to pee at night before we go to bed and just at the trees edge one night, facing the row of houses on the other side of the road, was one of these creatures. I thought it was my imagination but it was there. The following night I saw another one, similar place except this one had a hat on his head. I saw the alternating pair once a night for a week. I could feel them watching. So I now bring the dog else where at night.
This all happened last month, this year, 2016.
I am posting this the day this happened. it is 7pm and this happened about an hour and a half-two hours ago. me and two friends were exploring a part of an abandoned air force base in the middle of a field. it was dark and cloudy(normal for this time of year in the UK)but a thick fog/mist was around the area we were going. we have had previous paranormal experiences there which made us tense but we met some other people who were going there aswell and i had just got a new torch(or flashlight if you’re in the US) that is really bright so i felt safer. the other guys left so we left about 5 minutes later. we heard a hoarse, relatively quiet sort of single tone and pitch scream(i say scream but it did not sound fearful or hostile) so we got the heck out of there. we were walking up the path to get to a fence and back to the industrial site where we had gone in from. this path is roughly 200 metres long and has fields on either side. on the right side the cloud of fog/mist was completely covering the field and on the left side there was a field with a border of thick oak and pine trees on the far side. we were roughly 100 metres up the path when my friend said he saw something tall. i looked and shined my torch but saw nothing. my other friend said he saw it a few moments later and then i saw it. i could gauge its height because the bottom branches of the 30-40 foot pine tree it was next to were about six feet off the ground and this thing was double the branches height. we ran the remaining 100 metres and we calmed down when we got into the main industrial area.my friend started trying to explain what he saw but i said to not until we were in a well lit street so we wouldnt scare ourselves more. we got to a street and we all described to each other at the same time a black figure,roughly 12 feet tall with a symetricall oval shaped head that had very long legs and arms that went down to its hips. it had no visible facial or bodily features.
Will,
Thank you for sharing your encounter with the Black Stick Man.
While our blog is a US blog, we have readers from all over the world. In every country, the stories all have similarities.
What your friends saw definitely sounds like what many others on this entry have encountered.
We don’t have answers yet as to what these things are, if they are alien, supernatural, or if there is a logical explanation for their existence and appearance.
All we can do now is leave this blog entry up as a repository for other entries from people just like you.
Until we can ascertain just what these things are we can only thank you for stopping by and sharing your encounter.
Warmest Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The Spirit Seekers Blog
I am a baker so my hours are very early and just this past week around 4:15 a.m. I caught a tall black figure out of the corner of my eye looked back at what I was doing then glanced back at the figure and it was gone. My boss about a year ago encountered the same thing in a different area of the store. Then day before yesterday my relief baker see the same figure. I hadn’t told her about my encounter because I didn’t want to scare her thankfully she deems it ok n just as he did with me he just disappeared. It doesn’t seem harmful in anyway but more curious. We just call him phantom Pablo n go about our business.
I constantly seen these as a child, I do not remeber if I was afraid. I must say I am terrified of the dark and can not sleep without a light on. There were so many of them !
Please this is not a joke or a hoax something very similar to what you are describing has followed me home and is at my door right now making racket my dog is barking at it this is happening right now i am so scared I called the cops I caught it on my video surveillance outside my shop what do I do
Post the video on Youtube and post the URL here!!!
Sorry it took me so long to respond. I moved out of that place. This is the picture I took with my phone that night of the surveillance camera to send to my mom because she thought I was messing with her.https://ibb.co/j3YCPv bottom right hand corner beside my car zoom in
Katelyn
So sorry for this scare. Glad you found this site and we all can confront this
phenomenon together.
Sorry left hand corner not right
So just to update you, the cops did come, took a report watched the video and drove around for a bit but that’s about it. They took my box. If I had seen this website before this happened to me I wouldn’t have believed it. My mom actually found this website the night it was happening I was on the phone with her when it happened and I had to hang up and call the cops. I screamed when i saw the thing on the video because it is live like what do you do in that situation man. She wouldn’t even come to my place I literally begged her I was terrified and I don’t get scared easy but something told me my 9mm wasn’t going to help in this situation. I didn’t open the door until the cops arrived. Crazy stuff man I can’t believe I caught this on video. I’m lucky. Well if you can call it luck but what are the odds. The shop was in Alabaster Alabama btw that’s where this happened still can’t believe this happened like this is real what the heck was it
Ok, this happened the morning before i was baptized. I have been telling my family since 2010 and just found out others have a close story. My story was a little different. I was on my stomach and my body felt numb/tingly. My head was side was on my pillow. I am telling you now. My door was half way open and i always lock it to my bedroom. I saw more or a literally all black. Stick bug/person crawling. Not a spider, not a alien. It was just skinny arms and legs. A lottle thicker spine and normal head. Literally all black. Funny how i found out 7 years later. Some people have some what of a story. Every since it happened i have been deep into my faith Christianity and also esoteric philosophy. Anyone have anything to relate. Please let me know. It has been way to long.
In Australia, these guys are known to the Whadjuk Noongar indigenous people where I live as Tall Men, and can have different names depending on which part of the country you’re in. My kids used to see them all the time because we live near a known Tall Man home – the bedroom my kids were in has a window about 8ft off the ground, and they used to get scared at night because the Tall Man would look in their window. My son has had a couple of encounters with them too, he was up late one night and suddenly felt compelled to look out the window of our living room (I was sitting near him) – there was a Tall Man in our front yard just standing there, staring at him. And just yesterday my son went for a walk to the local supermarket and said he felt a really hot hand in the middle of his back while he was walking, but didn’t hear any footsteps or anything on the road like you would if one of your friends was pranking you. He said he suddenly felt really tired, and when he got home he went straight to bed and tried to sleep, but he said his back where he felt the hand, and his right arm, were really hot and burning all night. They’re pretty active right now because we have a lot of bush being cleared for a highway extension that nobody wants, so their homes are being disturbed.
Addendum after reading someone else’s story about the stick man wearing a hat: The Tall Men are known to have been seen wearing a hat in some areas of Australia. I don’t know why this is, and the ones my family and I have seen have never had hats, but just thought I’d add this in as it was mentioned by another reader.
Daniel, your explanation of the stick men is the clearest and most understandable I’ve ever read on this site. I posted last year that indigenous people are the ones who probably know what this phenomena is about–what their character is and what they may represent. You mentioned there’s even a known home of Tall Men!
Even though I had an experience in 2015 of seeing a stick man sprint across a road in NorCal, looking back, I remembered my husband also had an experience a few years back, sensing their presence with his eyes closed: 2 stick men ’emerged’ from chairs we had bought from a used furniture store, and then leapt through a closed window! They are living on a couple different planes of existence, it seems. It just shows that the folks on this site are sensitive enough to experience them on more than one level. That being said, I don’t think they are to be feared, they are all beings of nature as we are and don’t mean any harm.
The Noongar people have been known to tell their kids to behave or the Tall Man will come for them – Tall Men can be either good or bad, depending on the person they appear to. Their home near me is around our local water towers – I only found this out recently, but I have lived in this area for 20 years and never felt comfortable walking near the towers because I always felt like I was being watched (now I know why lol!)
Some people are afraid of the Tall Men, me not so much because I always felt like they are more curious and misunderstood than anything (and of course, people freak about things they aren’t used to seeing or that seem strange – I’ve grown up with one foot pretty much permanently in the other realms since I was about 3 years old, have always seen and interacted with these “otherworldly” things so it’s normal to me, and my kids are all fairly sensitive to these things too).
The Tall Men have always been fairly active around here, but more so lately because of all the bush that is being bulldozed for this highway (including several sacred women’s sites). Their homes are being destroyed and I feel they are angry, upset and bewildered (much like us humans who are witnessing the destruction firsthand and the speed with which our state government are pushing it through, in 2hrs the other day they cleared a huge area right in front of my house and it was devastating, I couldn’t even step out of my front door and look because it was just absolutely gut-wrenching to feel – so I can only imagine how the local entities must feel when they’ve lived here for millennia).
My cats freak out when there’s one around though – I have one cat who will hightail it back into the house looking absolutely terrified if there’s a Tall Man out there, and his brother was sitting on the back of my chair last night (big lovebug of a cat who I have had since he was a tiny kitten, and he’s 10 now and never bitten me in his life) and suddenly stopped snuggling the back of my head and bit me HARD on the crown of my head. Then he stood up on the back of the chair and was fixated on the window next to my desk, hissing and snarling at it – and for about 5 minutes after that he was walking all over my chair, the desk and the window sill, yowling (something he has NEVER done before). So I’m fairly sure there was a Tall Man outside the window, even though I couldn’t see anything – possibly because I had been talking about them last night when I originally posted (the Noongar believe you should never talk about the spirits at night because it will draw their attention to you).
Dammit, I really should have more coffee before replying to these things lol…forgot to add that most of the time the Tall Men are harmless, the only time I’ve ever heard of them being aggressive or anything is either when somebody startles one or directly approaches them (they are usually pretty timid and from what I’ve experienced, they are very curious creatures and just want to see what’s going on – hence peering into my kids window all the time lol, my kids were very high-energy so the Tall Man was probably attracted to the energy level in the house). Although lately I have sensed that with the clearing that has been happening, they are VERY unhappy and are on the move around the area making it known.
Also possibly unrelated but sorta relevant, on the same side of my yard as where the kids’ bedroom window is, when I first moved here there was a….black spot of energy, like it was so bad that when I went to put washing out on the clothes line I couldn’t turn my back on it – I had to stand facing it the whole time so I could see it, or I felt like something evil was waiting to attack me. My dog also avoided that area like the plague, and anyone who visited the house and went into the backyard always commented on it even when I hadn’t said anything, they all felt cold and like something bad was there. Found out later after I had done a lot of work to try to cleanse it (years later, it’s much better but I think it’s in the land itself because there are still traces there) that it’s highly likely someone was killed violently in that spot – there was a massacre of Aboriginal people very close to this area and there have been a lot of deaths of Indigenous people in the area also. The tract of bushland across the road from my house that has just been cleared is known to the Noongar people as a pathway for “not-so-nice” spirits (as told to me by Aunty Allison, a local Whadjuk Noongar lady), which may explain why I have seen and heard so many things over the 20 years I have been here.
If the wind is up, sometimes I hear crying coming from the direction of the field where the massacre was – and a couple of days ago when the bulldozers came to the area in front of my house, I saw a spirit man (not a Tall Man, this guy was clearly Noongar, normal human build and looked like he was covered from head to toe in some form of white paint, possibly white ochre or ashes?) The security guards had parked their car at around midnight to check the fences around the bulldozer, and their tail lights were shining on one of the few trees left outside the fences – it had a stump near the bottom where a large branch had been cut off.
This spirit man was standing in front of this tree with his right foot up on the stump, leaning on it – and the security guys were completely oblivious. I watched him for a full minute, just standing there, and then he slowly turned his head in my direction (my window is about 100 metres away from where he was standing) and looked right at me. It was one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen, because no human head moves like that – his entire body was perfectly still, and just the head rotated around – much like watching an owl turn its head. He had no face that I could see, just white paint on dark skin (although being a fair distance away from him, he may have had a face, but I wasn’t close enough to see much detail). Then I blinked, and he was gone – and right after he disappeared, the security guys got back in their car and left none the wiser.
I’ve been feeling like I need to put out some sort of food offering for the Tall Men who are being displaced and for the other entities in the area, but I don’t know what to put out – they’re pissed enough already without me offending them even more by putting out the wrong thing lol. It’s very difficult to find anything about them online, because generally Aboriginal people are highly superstitious and don’t like talking about the spirits at all because they believe it brings them bad luck by attracting the spirits’ attention.
You seem to really know a lot please contact me, please. I’m putting together a lot of data and information. ru1ber@aol.com
Also maybe an answer to your offering? I have read somewhere that they eat leather?
I saw it yesterday while driving my bike his running crossing the street and suddenly disapear in the middle of the road dont know what is that just a big black man and seems like he was naked that time didnt see his face
Maybe. The odd thing is that as a child I had always attribute the encounter as being a dream. As I have gotten older I have seriously questioned that. It was just so vivid.
I was in the woods at perhaps 7-8 years old. That would not be unusual. I spent many hours alone in the woods. I don’t remember how I got there.
I was at a stream. On the opposite side were for lack of a better word three beings. They didn’t speak but there was a sound similar to crystal clinking together but harmonic.it was beautiful. They gestured for me to sit on the boulder on my side of the stream.
I watched them. They were as if they were drawn like stick figures except that they were clear like glass. They had no face,in fact they seemed almost two dimensional as if their heads were a looped circle only but I could tell when they were looking at me. Far from being malevolent I felt full of peace. As if they were caring for me.
They were raising some sort of a triangular clear structure like a teepee. It was taller than they were so perhaps 12-15 ft.They said they were building me a ” home.” A safe place.
For years I’ve checked out sights to see if anyone has had any similar experience and these beings are as close as I’ve found….even this is pushing it.:). The most distinctive element had to be the beauty of the sounds. It wasn.t music. More like crystal wind chimes.
Melissa, you mentioned “they said”–was this telepathic communication?
Yes. They spoke to each other it seemed in the tones I spoke of. When they “spoke ” to me it was telepathic.
My girlfriend calles me at work scared to death to even talk on the phone just absolutely terrified she was at her uncles house discussing how sometimes she can feel her dead dog and then fromthe the discussion went on to talk about more darker things she then went into the kitchen with her uncle where he spotted a tall 7-8 foot slender all black faceless creature which stared in through the glass doors they were scared so ran back into the bedroom while the dog barked until no end out the glass doors as if he could see the creature to so they let the dog in the room her and her uncle reported feeling shortness of breath and almost a choking feeling without the pressure on their throats but then said just as they had felt the presence of dead relatives or dead animals they could feel a strong threatening presence through the wall ass if it was on the otherside the dog shook and trembled and they both said a prayer together and the feeling subsided but they walked eachother to their cars and left for the night and are planning on blessing the house with holy water tomorrow
That sounds terrifying. There have been reports of the very presence of these entities changing the barometric pressure. Perhaps that is what caused the sensation of dread and panic. Almost every case of people encountering the stick men has indicated that though terrifying, the stick men seemed more curious of us versus wanting to cause us harm.
I’m not an expert on the phenomenon so I can’t say for sure, but it could be that the sheer terror of the moment could have caused increased heart rate and anxiety resulting in shortness of breath. It’s natural to be afraid of something foreign to us.
As for blessing the house with holy water, sure. It couldn’t hurt. However, these beings seem to be physical creatures walking the earth, perhaps not demonic or paranormal. So don’t be to shocked if even after blessing the house these things still hang around.
I hope your girlfriend and her uncle are okay. That had to be quite the experience.
Also, as far as her feeling the presence of her deceased dog, we have an entry on the blog about that as well. Use the search tool and look for “good dog” to find the article.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing!
Sincerely,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The Spirit Seekers Blog
I suddenlywoke up wee hrs to a dark stick standing directly next to my bed,in front of my face,it was irritating to me in my half awake state so I hit It to the sideband I heard it break like wooden beads..best comparison sorry,,,,nothing on floor in morning but I’m positive I didn’t dream it,and I def did hear it fall
I work at a small hospital in San Jose. Friday 3/3/2017 I was walking down one of the hallways. There are no patients on this wing, nor workers. I’d gotten a call to report to ER STAT, so I was walking pretty fast down this hallway. As I turned the corner to head towards the elevator I saw a tall, thin lanky black figure. I wasn’t sure what I saw, so I looked back. Once I fully looked up to acknowledge what I saw, this figure ran quickly across the hall in front of the window and disappeared.
I tried to rule it out that it was my reflection as I was running by the window, but I couldn’t repeat what I saw. In the moment it didn’t feel malevolent. But I was tired. So maybe it was out of sleep deprivation?
I was so astounded to find your description of stick men – out of no where I dreamt about a stick man who visited me… “he” climbed out of a tree
and I talked with “him”. I told him
that I was not afraid of him – and “he” asked for help… he was not sure “he” was well… i tested him for sodium
In his system… registered normal.
Have no idea who/what this means…but “he” seemed to be made of wood… from a tree
Back in 2013 – My step daughter and I saw something very similar at my old Military school that is now shut down. Kemper Military School. We saw it at night behind some fencing that no one could get too. I thought it was a very tall person with long arms at first. I said hello to it and then we both quickly realized it may have not been human! We both have never seen any kind of ghost before but it was something we will never forget. Almost looked like “Slender Man”. Then last week I was visiting again. The fencing has been taking down and Inwas taking pictures of the old abandoned buildings and I heard a hissing coming from directly behind me. I quickly looked back thinking I would see someone and there was nothing. I realized I standing around the same place I saw the figure years ago. Very weird.
I don’t have a lot to say but I have seen one this thing appeared to me as the family pet but it he transformed into this “stick man” so I started googling about what I seen and found this I am horrified and I feel like yes it’s malevolent so strange yes I was very tired at the time in the area I seen this thing people often see bright or flashing lights that are unexplainable
A few weeks ago I went to my friends house to go coyote hunting but it rained the night I came over so we got up at around 5 and went we were in complete camouflage with leaf suits we were very hard to spot but as we went out around the house to go down the mountain I noticed something in front of the trail but couldn’t make out what it was and my friend was having trouble loading his gun so he didn’t see it at first so we got within 15 yds of this thing and by this point I thought it was a tree limb in the ground but we stopped and I told my friend to look at it and in a split second this thing started flopping some kind of arms in the air and took off sprinting down the mountain and did not make a sound we were both freaked out but still went hunting and when we came back it left 1-1/2 inch slide mark dents in the ground. To this day we still don’t know what we saw and some answers would help.
So, I was in the hills around Stanford University in Santa Clara County. Me and my friend were camping in an area where people hike all day but empty at night.
We were riding our bikes back and as we were almost there, my friend had to stop to adjust something of his. Well when I stopped beside him I was just glancing around , scanning the woods, I could see as if two maybe 10 foot tall stick figure man, walking across like chop sticks. I couldn’t believe it. I grabbed my friend, and pointed towards the direction I saw it, but it was gone as quickly as I saw it.
However, I saw 2-3 seconds of time looking at it. It was weird.
I started researchin and finding northern California has been seeing these since the Indians were here.
Apparently there’s a few wooden statues in a Reservation in NorCal.
Thanks Casey O
Vet Sgt. 1st Cav
OIF/ OEF
I observed this enigma last night and came to this website by googling Shadow Silhouette 14 feet tall. I observed IT observing my friend and her friend as it stood outside her trailer. It had no face yet I knew what it was facing. It also appeared to be wearing a hat of some form. I could distinguish when One of them walked in front or behind it. I noticed that it’s main attention mirrored my friends friend, by facing whatever way she was, when where she would be. After feeling it through awhile I think “Interstellar Dimensional Occurance” This THING was an avatar for my friends friend.
I saw one last night and found this website by googling Shadow Silhouette apparition 12 feet tall. I believe it was some form of interstellar avatar.
Hi i wanted to find out about a recent stick man sighting my family encountered. We were driving through a sort of a built up estate near our home near a shopping village. It was around 7.30pm and although its a busy area its not well lit. I was in back seat unfortunately so only my hubby and daugter saw it. I was so upset i missed it as i love anything supernatural! We were driving through a round-a-bout when suddenly they both started freaking out saying “did u see that!” I asked what they saw but they were speechless for a minute trying to grasp what it was. My hubbys hairs were up all over his body and a shiver ran throug him. I start freaking then cos they werent saying what it was. When they calmed down a bit they both describe seeing a black stickfigure with no face as such and very tall suddenly appear from nowhere and run accross the road in front of them before disappearing again into thin air. My hubby is a sceptic but hes convinced it was other wordly. My daughter has nightmares about it & so does my younger daughter who was in back with me but didnt see it. Im just upset i never saw it myself! Has anyone else encountered this in Sydney or Australia i wonder??
Hi Chantell:
So sorry for the delay in approving your comment. I use the WordPress app on my phone to moderate many of the comments and for some reason I stopped receiving push notifications from the site.
With regard to your encounter, I am so sorry that you missed it from your vantage point in the back seat.
I have never personally encountered these “things” but our ever-growing database of personal stories continues to grow. I recall others from Australia adding their encounters, but the responses are too numerous for me to track down any specific encounter.
Whatever these things are, people form all over the world have encountered them.
Thank you for sharing your personal experience with us!
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The Spirit Seekers Blog
chantell, there’s a guy named Daniel McBride who posted up above in February this year. He lives in Australia and his descriptions of the BSM there are clear and informative. Hope you can read them soon.
That’d be me lol, in Perth – I have had more encounters/sightings since I first posted, too. The latest one was during a huge thunderstorm at about 2 in the morning. I went outside to watch the lightning, and across the road from me is the fenced-off area that was being cleared. I saw at least three Tall Men (not sure if there were more, but it definitely felt like maybe a family group?) bolt across the cleared area and over the fence into the scrub that was left after the clearing – one of them didn’t disappear like the others though, it huddled next to a small tree and I could clearly see it from my front yard (about 100m away) silhouetted against the tree, when the lightning flashed. I don’t know for sure but I got the feeling that one was either sick or injured, I don’t think it could move as fast as the other two that disappeared so it tried to hide. It knew I could see it, too – it was scared and didn’t want to be seen and was giving off a very distinct “don’t look at me” vibe. The 2 others that vanished got across that clearing (about 4-500m distance where I could see them) in seconds, and hurdled the 6ft fencing like it was tiny. The way they moved was a very animal-like run, only much more fluid and way faster than your average animal. From the distance I was watching them at, they looked almost like black oil or some other sort of liquid, they had the same sort of oily sheen that made the hiding one easier to see against the tree.
I am slipping in my ability to timely approve responses! All in the name of preventing spam!
Sorry for the delay Daniel! Your reply is live now.
Tony Harrington
Editior-In-Chief, The SPIRIT Seekers Blog
I one day suddenly woke up feeling very sick I was wondering what was causing pressure but couldn’t figure out went to the bathroom …did my thing came back in my dark jet black room with no light at all , I’m feeling as if something or someone was in the room ..and boom there it was I look very Concretated at whatever I was seeing at a light distance , it was crawling and long & black moving closer to me so I hurry on back put my cover over my head and just try to at least Pray or MAKE SURE I WASNT HULLICINATING 😱😱😭😭😩.
That sounds absolutely horrifying. Thank you for sharing and adding your encounter to our ever-growing database.
While driving to church today , a blk stick figure floating across the road in front of me , I had the strangest feeling. My middle Granddaughter was with me and had turned to talk to her brother in the back seat. I said , What was that , she turned and didn’t see anything. I looked on the side of the road and didn’t see anything. It was the scariest feeling I have ever had. I have never saw anything like this and it was real , you could tell .
Hi Laura:
Sorry for the delay in approving your comment and responding.
I have to admit, the more encounters people have with the BSM, the more I want to have my own encounter. I am sure it is a horrifying thing to see and to try to wrap your mind around it only adds to the confusion.
I wish I had answers as to what these things are, but until we find out, I am glad that people feel comfortable enough to add their encounter to our collective.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your experience.
Sincerely,
Tony Harrington
Editor in Chief, The SPIRIT Seekers Blog
This is my first time ever posting anything on a paranormal website, but what I just experienced has lead me to do so. I’ve always toyed with the idea of a paranormal world and different realms, but I’ve never whole heartedly bealived any of it until tonight. My girlfriend and I were driving down a well known road, it’s usually pretty busy but seeing as it’s 11 o’clock on a Wednesday, it was mostly vacant. I’m not one to brag but I will say that I am a confident and attentive driver so not much scares me while driving. However, when I saw an extremely tall all black figure running at inhuman speeds, I froze. My headlights never hit it directly, but I know what I saw. It was at least 7 feet tall and extremely skinny. It’s arms hung down to its lower thighs. My jaw dropped my foot immediately switched from the gas to the brake but by that time we’d already passed it. My eyes were wide open and my heart started racing. My mouth became immediately dry and I started breathing hard. At first I thought it was a man, and I said to my girlfriend, I almost hit a person. But after a while of recalling what I had seen, I realized that it couldn’t have been a person. The scariest part was that I wasn’t afraid to hit it, perhaps killing it in the process, I was afraid of the actual creature. It felt as if it were charging at me. It felt as though it wanted to hurt me.
Hi Josephine:
As you can see, you are far from alone in your encounter. I am sure it was a terrifying experience, but at least you are safe. I sincerely thank you for your contribution to our ever-growing chronicle of this…entity.
For weeks i thought i had insomnia. I would always wake up at 2am and 5am. During those hours, everything seemed normal. But then one week i would go to sleep and at 2am i’d wake up. once i fell back asleep these dreams would start. it was where a lady was trying to kill me. i’d wake up at 5 on the dot (5:00AM) and up until May 14th, they were the same every night. the only difference was that this lady got closer and closer to killing me each night. anyway, on May 14th, it was weird. instead of having the dreams after 2am, they started right when i went to bed. In the middle of the dream, the lady grabbed a knife and was about to stab me in the throat and kill me. I woke up in a jolt and i was crying and sweating, only to see this huge black figure standing over me. it looked as if it was trying to choke me, and it was tall and skinny almost like the slender man. i was completely horrified and out of fear i grabbed my iphone and flashed the flashlight at what i saw. but when it did the thing was gone. i looked at the time to see it was 3:16 AM and i freaked out even more. after that night the insomnia i thought i had stopped along with the dreams. i haven’t been the same since and i’m always jumpy now i think i’ve actually developed insomnia bc i can’t sleep at night whatsoever. this really terrifies me
I think I just saw one. About 10 minutes ago. I saw a dark long/ tall figure at the top of the stairs, it’s totally dark right now… It went as quickly as it came. I instantly looked it up and found this, it described exactly what I just saw, and my laptop is fuzzing out right now. Holy shit what the actual frack is going on. I’m not one to believe in these things but I JUST SAW SOMETHING!
IT IS TRYING TO KILL YOU! GET OUT FOR GOD’S SAKE!
Still here? I was just joking, it’s not trying to kill you. Despite being terrifying there has not been a documented case of a black stick man/person hurting anyone.
I know it is scary to encounter them, but you can read about the many encounters with these things and see that for the most part, they are harmless, albeit frightening.
They seem to be watchers who are as curious bout us as we are about them.
According to other, command it to leave and it will listen. I personally have not encountered them so I can’t offer any advice that hasn’t been offered up already.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your encounter!
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor-in-Chief
The SPIRIT Seekers Blog
Is the image Alberto Giacometti? His vision and meaning of his work is very different from this post. Understandable idea, enjoy the post, but I would consider citing the image and its meaning or using a different visual.
I don’t know who it is. The place I grabbed it from didn’t have it attributed.
When I was 8 I saw what could’ve been a black stick man. I was laying on the top bunk trying to get to sleep. I was disturbed by a faint light. I opened my eyes and saw just outside my window two glowing eyes. They belonged to a lanky figure. All black with elongated arms and fingers. It was hunched over, with one arm spread across my window and the hand pressed against it. I closed my eyes as hard as I could trying to tell myself I was imagining it. Saying over and over again in my head it’s just a tree. I opened them again and it was moving slowly passed the window until it was almost out of view. It turned it’s head back toward me and stared. This is when I immediately realised this wasn’t a tree. I jumped from my bed and ran to my mums room. I frantically told her about it and she went to my room to investigate while I waited with my step dad. I have no idea what it was. I’ve been searching for answers ever since. Looking into all kinds of folklore and myths. It could have been one these black stick men but honestly I don’t know. Because there are other myths that are similar aswell. Not one is exact though. So if anyone has seen or know of someone who has seen what i just described. Please let me know. I just want answers. To hopefully ease my fear of the creature.
I came in contact with a similar creature way back in ’82 or ’83 when I was 10 or 11. My best friend and I were wandering the woods and creek below my neighborhood (as I had many times before) when the being emerged before us. It stepped from behind a tree maybe 15 yds ahead of us that was no larger than 5″ in diameter yet its shoulders were 2-3x as broad. The body was stretched thin and tall (7′?) pure black and featureless other than the outline and possible unicolored eyes? I say eyes only bcs we knew it was staring as if right into our souls. My friend and I stared back in bafflement for a moment or 2, then at one another (as absolute terror was rising in both of us), back to confirm it was really there (it was), then back again to one another, silently agreeing to run like lightning back to my house. If not the #1, definitely in the top 2 most frightening (to the depth of my being) experiences to date.
For reference- I wholeheartedly believe in our core selves living beyond life in these bodies and dont doubt the existence of beings all around us we rarely if ever see.
Hi Scott,
Thank you for stopping by and for sharing your encounter. It sounds like quite a terrifying experience. I can’t imagine what it was like to encounter something like this at such a young age.
Sincerely,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The SPIRIT Seekers Blog
Scott, you’ve expressed yourself beautifully about your experience, especially your “reference” line at the end. May I add, while we still exist in these bodies and on this plane, some of us are given the ability to see beyond the mundane physical. “Life” doesn’t only mean the concrete reality of what we see; energy takes on many forms, one of which is the “stick figure people.” Remember what Hamlet says to Horatio?: “There are more things in heaven and earth
Than are dreamt of…”
I’m not sure if this counts but…
I was asleep and woke up at 3 am. I was 50ft east from where my bed would be in the field by my house (rural area). I was laying down, perhaps still in my bed or a recliner. It was a pretty night, but the stars seems to be connected, although they could be made out individually, they were connected by their glow, looking like lines and scribbles and possibly words. I felt no fear and figured it was a dream. I hear thuds of footsteps and see something run past to left, from West to east. It was about 4-5 feet tall, dark grey or metallic black. It’s head was flat and the limbs were more bulbous at the ends, but irregular. I called out to it, “Hey twiggy man!” It stopped in its tracks. I was overwhelmed by not fear, but surprised adrenaline as the entity turned around and jumped to face me, standing about where my knees would be and leaned in incredibly close to my face. I was completely drenched in alarm. It’s face was now child-like, like one you would see on a cheap concrete yard cherub. No gender could be discerned. It stared into my eyes, seeming to be offended that I interrupted it’s journey. I swallowed my panic long enough to say, “Hi. Want to be friends?” The thing smiled and and made a kissy face, although not actually touching me. I returned the gesture. I tried to send it vibes of good will and love. My was still paralysed as it leaped off and started to run north. I tried to call “be good!”. But my breath was caught. It turned around one last time as if to hear what I said. “Be good! Don’t hurt anyone!” I felt like my message got across as it turned and kept running North. I woke up in my room, my shoulders cold and feeling like the adrenaline was receding. It was exactly 2 am. I don’t know if I just managed to intersect something as it went by my plane of existing, but I gave it Goodwill and although it was frightening I did not feel in danger.
ThT I see the funniest story I ever heard! Sounds like it would make a good horror/comedy movie a la Shaun of the dead!
Is that real or a dream because most people know this but 3am is known as the devils/witcherery hour known as when spiritual beings come out like bloody Mary I don’t know if it’s true and devil/ witcherery hour goes in till 2:33-3:33
What happens to me I saw a sick figure like a spider climbing a building I don’t know what it was if anyone knows what it is it would be good to know
Yes I have about 20 years ago in sanDiego . I was talking to a spiritual friend in my apartment at the time ,then right in front of me appeared a long thin being that look like mud really smooth all over ,It took one step then disappeared . It had no feet but could bend at the knees as it walked ,had no hands only stubs ,and a round thin head no features . What I felt was scary ,dark not good I had to leave the house as the energy felt awful even though the figure wasn’t there any more . I called a friend and stayed away from the apartment that night . When I came back the next day police were outside of the apartment. News was the lady downstairs was found dead in the bathtub , she had supposedly been dead fir a couple of days ?? Drugs involved ??!
Don’t know if related .
I found this site tonight as was trying to figure it ou as talking to my friend about all my experiences ,over the years I’ve had quite a few paranormal experiences before but nothing that felt as dark and scary as this
Any questions I’ll happily explain and discuss . After finding this site I found other areas all over the internet . I was originally looking up thin mud man folk lore etc. In hindsight I know it was not from this plane ,it’s energy felt very dark ,but at the same time I knew it was not going to hurt me more like something that was just passing through . It scared me because I have never experienced anything like it before . It was also dark brown incolour and stood up to my mid thigh approx . It was also 3 dimensional but did remindme of a child’s drawing ,absolutely no features ,stubs for hand and feet everything was smoothly rounded ,but elongated and skinny . It reminded me of burnished clay in its raw form . It was one solid colour no shadows etc on it so it,so I understand how some people thought 2d . It was however 3D . The time of night was in the eve , later on but not the early hours of the morning . I’m guessing around 12??? Because I was still on the phone to a friend ,but my ex was not back from work.
I’ve seen ghosts etc before in the past . This was different ,the energy was different ,very dark
I came across this website while researching, trying to figure out what I saw 2 weeks ago. I want to state that I am an absolute skeptic. I have never experienced anything paranormal in my life, and I’m nearly 40. Then I saw this “stick man” about 2 weeks ago. It was broad daylight, sunny, no wind. I was not tired, I don’t drink or take any medications at all. I was driving along a 2 lane state route by my home that is bordered by corn fields with thin tree lines. I saw it behind a tree and as I approached it stood up and ran toward the corn field. I would estimate it to be about 7 feet tall, extremely thin, arms longer than they should be for a person. It was completely black. It had an awkward run, bringing its knees up too far to its chest. I stopped the car, but saw nothing in the direction it ran. This still bothers me, being unable to explain to myself what I saw.
Hi Darla:
There is nothing like having your skepticism challenged. I am pretty skeptical of a lot of claims of the paranormal, then one day on a paranormal investigation, I encountered something that I simply could not explain.
I personally have never seen a stick man, but based upon the feedback of so many replies just like yours, I believe that something is out there that looks like a real life stick figure.
It sounds mind boggling and scary to see something that shouldn’t exist. I thank you for stopping by and sharing your story.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The Spirit Seekers Blog
That is exactly what me and my buddy saw last night. I keep going over it in my head, and trying to think what the hell it was. Same movements as you described, but very fast and we only saw it when the car lights made it appear out of the darkness and it quickly ran into the woods where it disappeared as fast as we saw it. I clicked a picture of it in my mind, and said aloud, ” HUH?”. My buddy sitting next to me said, “you saw it too”. i couldn’t believe he said that, and i asked him what he saw. He said i font know. When i explained what i thought i saw, he said, ” yeah , that is pretty much it”. To only see it myself i would have dismissed it, but when he confirmed he saw the same thing. i totally flipped. It has been 24 hours since i saw and i keep going over what i saw trying to rationalize it. I still can’t get it out of my head. I have never seen anything other worldly or something i could not rationalize. I certainly hope what i saw is not real and my mind was just filling in the blanks. However, unlike an animal when the car lights shown on it, it appeared black or smoky black and looked like a crazy cartoon stick figuring running all crazy across the road with abnormal movements of its appendages. Just nutty.
I had a recurring dream with a stick man just a few nights ago actually. Not recurring in the sense that I’ve had it before, but in the sense that I had the exact same dream several time in a row in the same night. I’d fallen asleep on the couch in the upstairs living room and in the dream, I would wake up from the couch exactly as I’d been sleeping and each time I would ask to somebody in the room, first: “what time is it?” and then: “when is it?” I only asked what time it was in the first, and then I used the latter wording after and in the following dreams, which to me is a strange choice of wording but that’s (maybe?) another matter I suppose. Anyways in each dream I would ask this question a little bit later on in the dream. The first time I asked it as I was still laying down, and I reached for my phone as I was asking “when is it?” but when the words left my mouth I would get this feeling like a headrush and start to black out from the dream, and then I would wake up. In the second I stood to my feet before I asked and I got a very distinct pins and needles feeling in my feet and I fell to the ground, so that I was in front of the couch but with my feet where my head had been and my head where my feet had been, and I looked up to see a 2 foot tall stick man standing there. He didn’t run away in the second dream, he just watched. But in the later dreams when I was able to stay “conscious” in the dream for longer he would run away from me, I would only make it about halfway around the coffee table chasing after him and he only ever made it as far as the top of the staircase. And he would watch me fall and stare at me until I faded out of the dream.
I did not get a good feeling from this dream and I had it at least 3 times in the same night, I don’t know what it was. I might’ve described him as a pygmy man but “stick man” just feels more accurate.
I posted on my Facebook page today 9/21/2017 this story (Not saying what i saw wasn’t my mind playing tricks on me, but i have never seen anything like what i saw the night of 9/20/2017 at around 8:45 pm.
This week has been nuts. So last night around 8:45 PM my buddy picked me up to help him install black gas pipe in the house he is building. I had just woke up from a short nap and i was a little groggy. We were driving down Meadowbrook road near my house, and as we rounded a heavily wooded corner i saw something so weird i thought it was my imagination playing tricks on me, especially since i just woke up not ten minutes earlier. I swear i saw what looked like a shadowy black stick figure run erratically across the road and swoop into the woods on the other side. It happened so fast that all i can remember seeing was long ribbon like appendages moving very fast flailing about wildly as it shot across the road and seemed to be absorbed into the woods on the other side as it disappeared. it reminded me of a cartoon stick figure running really fast with its arms and legs moving so fast it seems like a cartoon could only move like that. It was so fast and odd i shook my head and said, ” huh” aloud. Eddie who was driving then said, ” you saw it too?”. That’s when i was like, ” What?, what exactly did you see?” He couldn’t explain it, so i explained what i thought i saw in the same detail as explained above. He said, ” yeah, pretty much”, in a normal matter of fact kind of way. I was surprised by his reaction, so i asked him what the hell it was. He said he didn’t know. I said don’t you think that was odd and aren’t you kind of freaked out by what we just saw. He was like, ” No”. As someone who has never seen anything i could not explain i said, ” WHAT? How can you not be freaked out but what we just saw?” He said, ” It was probably a bird or ghost” I said, “dude you are not funny “. So anyway, i was so freaked out i called my wife. She didn’t say much other then, ” hmmmm”. I couldn’t believe the reactions i was getting to something so freaky so i called my buddy Reece who si a hunter by nature. He said it could be a flock of birds that swooped by, but what i saw sure as hell didn’t look like a flock or mass but a stick figure with defined appendages. Anyway, so this morning i told my co workers about this weird thing i saw last night. He said have you ever heard of slender man. I said,” no”. He said google it. So when i did, i saw a couple images that totally freaked me out. This image although it was dark was almost exactly like what i saw. So anyway, i am still freaking out today. As you all can tell. pretty damn scary.
update : My friend who was driving with me knows people who live where we saw the stick man. He was obviously freaked out by it too, although he didn’t seem so at the time. When he mentioned the incident to the local residents, he said they had seen it as well and believe it is a ghost. I don’t know why they believe it is a ghost, and does anyone know what ghost looks like? However, some of them said they had seen it as well. If it is common to the area, i wonder if we can put a motion camera there at night to try to capture it. It was so dark though and that part of the road is so dark, i wonder if it would be caught without lighting.
i would love to see a map of where these things have been spotted. Mine was seen in robbinsville, nj 08691
At some point, someone was attempting to log the locations with a virtual push pin map. I don’t know what became of that.
If you happen to find it please let me know. It would be interesting to see.
My husband had an encounter with one of these stickmen. My husband works as a security guard in a semi-remote area of the province. He is a former police officer as well (he injured his arm on duty and had to retire). While he was posted in the area of one of the small, tourist destinations, his company had him booked into a portable motel at a local campground. The place was very isolated this time of year as it was before the summer rush. My husband would go for walks in the evening after he was done supper and would walk the driveway into the campground area. It was just getting dark at this point. This path led him past a two-storey hotel that was empty 99% of the time, as it was on this night. While walking back down the driveway into the campground one night, he looked up at the hotel just in time to see a large, black stick-like creature walk out from behind the hotel area, coming from the row of trees behind the hotel. He said that this creature was more like 12 foot tall and like a stick. He stopped in his tracks and when the creature seen him, it turned and went back into the row of trees. My husband was very reluctant to go for walks anymore after that.
I had an encounter with something that was much like this. Around 7-8ft tall bending over because my ceiling was too big for it to stand up right completely. No facial features, no hands. The ends of the arms were pointed and it’s torso was much smaller than it’s arms or it’s legs. I had this encounter when I was in my bed one night trying to sleep. I got an eerie feeling and I looked outside my door frame. I stopped it, hunched over in front of my door in a hallway. I couldn’t get a good feel for what the legs looked like, but I did see that it was reaching out, almost as if it was trying to get a grip of my door frame. Although, shortly after I looked at it, it disappeared. Frighteningly enough, a few days ago, I had two of my friends come over just to hang out for a while, and my friend saw the exact same thing, in close to the same spot that I had seen it in weeks prior.
One day coming home from cross country practice at night I felt something watching me And I could hear electricity crackling that’s when I turned around and saw a tall black figure standing there I saw it for about 5 seconds and took a picture with my phone because I was texting my dad. I have old many people and no one believes me not even my best friend. Still today I can not explain what I saw that night.
Hi Brock:
You have come to the right place then. As you can see, there are many people who share stories VERY similar to yours, including the presence of a static charge in the air and the appearance of one of these stick figures.
Did anything show up in your photo? Is the figure visible?
I am sure encountering one of these things is terrifying, coming face to face with something that, by all accounts, should not exist.
Thank you for stopping by and sharing your encounter with us. By doing so, you add to the collective of encounters and help others come forward and share their personal story.
Sincerely,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The Spirit Seekers Blog
As a child, I dreamt these images. Almost every night. Never could understand them. I felt as if I was suffocating. As I grew, I have seen paranormal activity in almost all the homes i lived in. However one night, while standing in my back yard with my son who was 19 at the time, I saw a flash right in front of me. Couldnt explain it and it happened again a month later. My son didnt see it though. I had a xray done one year for some reason or another and they said they saw medal inside me and if i ever had a surgery. At the time, I hadnt. I have recently had the dream again so it scares me. wish I knew why.
I dream of it too
The stickmen I are beings from our closest neighboring dimension. I learned this from studying shamanism of northern Mexico and around the world. They feed on our life force and are drawn to us like moths to a flame. Don’t approach these beings without help. They will suck your personal power dry, and leave you mentally and spiritually unable to function. But if you can win at a “spiritual wrestling match” when you are in your dreaming body, that stickman will be your spiritual servant forever. This is a brief summary. Don’t engage them without some spiritual training or backup.
Thank you, Melvin, for your explanation. It is the clearest I’ve seen on this site and makes the most sense.
I would see like hundreds of these go into my closet at night when I was about 7
I saw one of these it looked like a women on a beach in Makaha Hi First I saw that then I saw what looked like something coming out of the ocean like a spacecraft with sparks coming out of the ocean I did take pictures with my phone I don’t have them of the spirit but do the other
My wife was at work when my 11 yr old called mentioning footsteps up stairs calmed him down n said cpuld be raditatiors in our old house well few minutes later 3 more calls came in n he said mom its in the kitchen now making walking noises. As she was on the phone talking to comfort him he begain mumbling mom mom mom n hystircially screaming her in a panick yelling his name he ran through the house n outside refused go back in.. he was crying telling mom a black stick figure ran at him soon he spotted it went through him n disappeared. Now we just moved in this house 2 minths ago. N recently started remodeling. Now the truth idkn my son had expirenceces woth ghost his hole life but this is the first time it wadent a human form or host as it called.. so any info on this,will be greatly helpful i need to know what im dealing with ro protect my son n family???
Hey Andrew, I’ve been meaning to reply for quite a while but have been busy every time the thought came to mind. I’m not sure exactly what to tell you to do but at least wanted to check in and let you know that someone out here thinking about you and your family situation and sending prayers and good energy your way. From what I’ve read on here, there are varying perspectives as to what these creatures are and their intentions. My experience was one of terror as an 11 ye old kid but some see them as benign and others as good. Whatever the case is, I would say your son is obviously very special and could use some spiritual training by someone you trust to give him strength and focus in the situations. It is probable that he has a gift and a purpose in the spiritual/paranormal realm, so I believe, if you all are open to it, The right people will come into his life to show him the way. You are not alone. Many blessings..Scott
I keep seeing this in my dream two times already, and it was in my backyard.
Watching a movie with my nephew. When my screen was dark we both seen a tall dark figure looking like a skeleton human walk behind our couch. We both jumped and looked but nothing was there.
Then a couple months later, alone seen the same thing. Was like it didn’t acknowledge me just walked through and when I turned away from tv screen it wasn’t there.
I saw a similar thing through the reflection of my old big screen tv on a sunday morning tip toeing behind me as if it didn’t know i could see it, it was unnaurally skinny and solid black. Sort of what happens in the movie Signs toward the end of the movie. I began to tell m sister a cople of weeks later and before i told her what it was doing she mimicked what that figure had done at my house, i said yes!! It gave me the chills to hear that because she had seen it too at her house and it confirmed what i saw. I haven’t seen it since and that has been about 7 years ago here in Yakima Wa.
I was walking home with my daughter who was twelve there was some kind of smoke in the air for about five seconds we was in between a row of houses on one side and bushes and trees on the other about 5 meters in front of me a black smoke figure about 7 foot with twig body and twiggy limbs also faceless head it strides across my path .I did not want to scare my girl so I was going to just put it down as my imagination.But she was shouting and pointing in the wooded area where i had seen it go and she said mom there is a stick man mom its slender man I just grabbed her hand and rushed home.We have mentioned it a couple of times to each other but this being changed my world completely by changing everything that I ever believed and opened my eyes to a whole new world and possibilities I love this being and I so wish to see it again but not as yet this sighting was march 2016
I work in law enforcement. My job is to remain as objective as possible. Tonight as I was driving home, the same I take every night for almost 8 months now, I saw what looked like a long dark figure running or taking really wide strides across the road about 30 ft in front of my car…my brights were on. I was shaken. My brain was searching desperately to pull together an explanation. I got nothing.
I came across this site by accident a couple days ago and quite honestly my eyes nearly popped out my head reading through everyone’s experiences with these black stick men. My younger sister saw one years ago when she was about 7yrs and I was roughly 10yrs. I’m now in my late 50’s. At the time when she described what she saw I remember thinking how bizarre it was and on no account could she have made it up.
We shared a bedroom which faced to the front. There was a street lamp not directly opposite but near enough to allow us to see slightly, having pale pink curtains also helped and we would play long after when we should have been sleeping. This particular night, we were playing with dolls or whatever on the floor – my sister started to shriek, pointing at the window saying over and over that she’d saw something and with that scrambled into bed, head under the bed clothes … followed closely by me, I hasten to add ! After hushing her ( hoping Mum&Dad hadn’t heard her squeals) I bombarded her with questions. She had been distracted by a movement at the curtained window and saw, what she called, a black matchstick man dance and jump along the curtains from right to left ! from her description I estimated it as being roughly 3 feet tall. It had points at the end of its arms and legs. I asked if it was outside the window as she could see the shadow due to the street light but she insisted it was inside the room and even more strange she said it wore some kind of hat … a cap of some sort. When it got across the curtains it turned it’s head as if looking into the bedroom then leapt off and disappeared. She also described it as being ‘flat’ which now I realize is 2 dimensional. What I also find strange is when I asked her if it was a bad, evil thing she said it definitely wasn’t and she only shrieked and hid in bed as she was surprised to see it. If I remember correctly she called it ‘funny’
To conclude, she saw this ‘matchstick’ man again about a year or so later, dancing and leaping across a rooftop and it was holding something but I can’t recall the details, I’ll check with her … wow ! is she going to be surprised when she discovers many people have seen this entity also !
My name is Michael. I am 15 years old. I searched this up cause I know I am not crazy. I seen this thing more then once. But he came in different forms. Twice as a tall man. Once as a boy. But this wasn’t how it all started. It started in my sleep with dreams. i Can not handle I anymore. Every time I talk about it with someone I can not stop shaking. And there is this energy in me. Anybody else had this problem?
Hello Michael
A lot of people see these beings as very tall and more than a few have dreamt about them
I personally don’t think they are ‘evil’ entities as some seem to have a sense of humour. When you describe energy in you, I’ve read some witnesses claim there is some kind of static around them
Try not to worry, I’m sure they don’t mean you harm although I haven’t seen one I can only go with what my Sister saw and told me
I was in the downstairs living room, the only light LEDs from my little brother’s room, and I saw it behind me. It ran around the couch, towards me, and dissapeared. My arm was tingly later, where it may have touched me, but otherwise no physical sensation.
Hi, just spent some time researching this because my grampa, was telling me this story…
“ so about 10 years ago, my dad passed away and i took his dog. Old chihuahua . The dog was pampered like a baby all its life and well treated. Was Terrified of the rain. Never went in the rain. Slept in bed with me everynight. I had the dog for a few years . About a month before its passing every other night i would wake up gasping for air and for a brief moment would see 3 stick figure men standing beside my bed. It gave me the weirdest vibes. Anyways i go on a camping trip with family and the dog . Right before bed i see these 3 stick men just outside our campsite and i knew. Theyre either coming for me or the dog. At night the dog walked out into the rain. For the first time ever. didnt bark , wasnt scared , wouldnt come back, he just walked into the rain and stayed there for a while. Came back to bed with us and passed away that night… i havent seen the stick figures since”. That was his story .
I have seen “matchstick men” as I call tjem myself. I first saw them when I was 6. I was lying in bed facing my bedroom door ajar slightly, enough so that I could see partially outside. After staring at door for a while these matchstick figures appeared, 3 of them. They were peering in the door as if they were observing me. I didn’t feel scared or frightened as it was somewhat weird they were trying to all get a peek at the same time lol.. they disappeared after I sat up because I wanted to approach them. To me they seemed like celestial beings.
I’ve never heard of this phenomenon, ever,stick figures were kindergarten creations until I decided to try to open my third eye chakra, one night after many nights of just flashes of color or sometimes spinning pyramids I was treated to a black sky filled with stars really beautiful when suddenly sort of like a curtain being pulled aside,I was looking into a black and white world I was just getting ready to panic but I was able to calm myself and just observe. I saw black stick figures walking around there were black stick houses,trees,and even a stick figure riding a bike just going about there business,I just stared in amazement when the curtain was pulled back I felt a jolt and I was back trying to figure out what the hell? I’ve never been back and I’m thinking I was pulled back before they saw me that might have upset them a bit knowing one of us had just invaded their world.Its an experience I’ll remember for the rest of my life and yes I’m still working with my chakras but I do psychically shield most everyday,I’ve been told I might have astral traveled I have no idea but I’m glad someone or something was with me to pull me back it’s not a world I’d be happy in.
Guy I was never into this kind of shit, I was that guy that was just like oh yea aliens definitely exist because of how vast the universe is, but ended there. It’s fun to think about but never really cared to get deep into something that always lead no where. Finally I went to Peru with my two best friends and we went up into the Markawassi mountains and I found this dope ass huge rock island in the middle of a lake and got to it (this is all up in the mountains) I sat there trying meditate in the scorching heat and was feeling very over heated and definitely had altitude sickness and my friends came over and I got up while they were like sitting down talking. Then right across the lake I fucking saw this bitch in bright day light. As soon as I saw it, it frantically squiggled away from me to behind a boulder. I’m sure about what I saw and I’m fucking terrified by the fact that I looked up black stick man after (knowing nothing about it) and all eye witness accounts described exactly what I fucking experienced myself. This shit is real. Whether it’s some kind of psychological phenomenon (since all witnesses report being exhausted when they saw it) or an other dimensional being, I can tell you right now out of all the legends and conspiracy theories the black stick men exist
Thank you for sharing.
I personally love stories from skeptics, it lends credence to the many shared stories. I’ve never seen one personally, but the massive amounts of replies this article attracts, even years after it’s initial publication, leads me to believe that there is something happening.
Thanks for taking the time to add your personal encounter to our archive!
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, The SpiritSeekers Blog
As I’m reading through these posts, I’m noticing that many people mention a river, lake, or other body of water nearby. I’ve often wondered if my creature had hiked from the ocean. Something to ponder!
How can I become a part of you? I plan to venture back to Peru and camp in the same spot with cameras, for a while. I heard they like to eat leather somewhere..
I haven’t been back to their dimension since that first time nor have I seen any here ,I am working on my psychic ability and quite a few other things ,lately I’ve been having strange ringing in my ears which according to some places I’ve looked up my vibration is rising ,I’m very interested in what might happen next.The world really is full of magic you just have to open your eyes.Good luck in Peru I’d be really interested in what happens. Good luck
I live in southern CA in a neighborhood that is not secluded, but my house has a private entry with tall shrubs/trees. My friend and I were pulling into the driveway around 9pm, and both gasped as my headlights caught a tall figure (7-8 ft?) which froze for a sec in the lights. Facial features weren’t well defined, but body was slender, though appeRed muscular. Arms were long in proportion, as if it could run on all fours. It didn’t look like a “stick”, but I’ve found nothing close. The skin looked almost like what a manta ray feels like if that makes sense. I jumped out and ran to turn on the garage light-my friend was terrified, but I felt we surprised it, and it ran. She is very Christian and felt it was a demonic presence. I had the feeling it was afraid. We do live a few miles from the ocean via a wilderness trail system. I haven’t seen it since, though as I type this at 1am my dog just started growling which makes me wonder as my friend and I discussed not giving it “energy” by discussing it. We live in a full world!
I have been seeing a few of the stick men here and there. They’re usually from afar and only once has it walked up to me. I will say I haven’t been touch by one that I know of.
As a young child my twin bed face directly in line of my bedroom door. My door was always open and we had a long hallway straight out my door. From about age 5-7 I began seeing everything you described in this above message. Except it was several in a straight line. As they entered my room I could feel their presence but couldn’t see them well. I was so scared I couldn’t get out of my bed. I wet my bed nearly every time and I was too afraid to speak or maybe even know how to speak about what was going on. Now that I’m 37 I’m very curious to what was going on.
Hello. We have kind of a quick story, but an interesting one. We had just finished a workout and were calming down for the night, when my friend, who was alone in the kitchen seen a black, skinny figure who quickly glided and jump out in front of our driveway. This was for a split second, and it never returned. That’s how I ended up here, I’m trying to find out what it was. Chloee, my friend, explained the figure was far too fast and slim to be a human. Thanks for your information.
A few summers back in windsor va. Year was 2011. We had an outbreak of severe weather. Tornado came about a mile from our house. As it started getting late i asked my wife sister our kid if they would take a walk to see if the tornado knocked and trees down. So we started walking on a dirt path that goes into the woods about quarter of a mile back we see fog. Now this is normal in the country due to temperature of air and ground. As we kept walking an imagr of the darkest blackist stick figure man was standing infront of usfacing us. We were about 20 feet from it. We we confused as we all seen this. My wife shined her flashlight at it. The light did not reflect off this entity. Its like it absorbed light like a black hole. As we walked backwards. It started taking steps toward us. We all took off running. Got back to the house i asked everbody to draw what they seen
Everybody drew a black stick fugure. You explain to me what the hell did we all see. Stick figures shaddow ghost exist. I even think mabey it was an alien. Had no features. Mabey aliens studying storms on earth . who knows this is a true story.
In 1973, in Blair Oklahoma during early morning before sunrise. I awoke to hearing my dad walking down our wooden hall way, I noticed my bed sheets felt weird I looked left and noticed my sheets were hanging on my trophy shelf and it startled me and I jumped. After I jumped, a black stick figure popped out from under the sheet and I could see the silhouette of this stick figure in my window thru the curtains in my window. As I said it was early morning but not sunrise yet. As I sat up it appeared to be startled and moved then stopped. I call out to my dad the Stick figure then glided very quickly across the front of my dresser and disappeared in the crack in my closet door.
I New it was a really weird situation but had forgotten about it until I was telling my girlfriend the story and decided to google it and discovered there were others like me to experience this strange situation.
Please contact me with any information about your interactions with stick men. I will be going back to Peru soon to track down the stick man I saw up in the mountains, camping with cameras and such. ru1ber@aol.com
Last night (9/23/18) my daughter came home from visiting friends in NJ, and had seen something tall, black, and too thin to be human outside. It was on the path between our house and her car. It was all black w/ a pale face. She refused to go back outside, describing it as a spy or a creeper. She felt it was watching her. We live in a rural area, that’s on a highway. She had just come from visiting someone in prison. I tend to believe that whatever it is, it followed her home from there. (We live in Eastern Pennsylvania)
Well, it’s not the worst thing that could have followed her from prison. 🙂
Seriously, it sounds terrifying and I hope it didn’t scare her too much
I live in a northwest suburb of Chicago. I like to take walks at night. It can get kind of dark in our subdivision since there are few streetlights down the side streets. The streets are mainly lighted by people’s house lights.
One night, about a year ago, I was taking a walk on the sidewalks around my neighborhood. It was maybe around 11 at night. I was just finishing my walk, coming down my circle towards my home. At the bend of the circle there was a car parked along the curb on the side of the street where I was walking. As I was walking, I noticed some movement from the car. When I first saw the movement I was maybe 75 feet away from the it. It looked like someone was lying on the hood and windshield of the car. The movement that caught my eye was this person getting up from the top of the car. At first, I thought someone was looking to steal something from the car. I slowed my walking a bit so that I could see what was going to happen. However, as I watched this figure rise from the car I knew it wasn’t a ‘person’. As it moved from the car onto the street I could see that it stood about seven feet tall. It was thin, although not quite ‘stick figure’ thin and just a dark human stick figure shaped shadow. It just so happens that there is a street light about 100 feet down the street from where the car was parked. However, I could see no details or highlights from the figure. It just looked like a solid dark form.
From the car it walked across the street onto the lawn of the house that was there. It then continued to walk across the lawn towards the house. The house had a front porch light on, but even as it got closer to the light I could discern no details from the figure. Just a shadow.
When it got about five feet from the front of the house, it disappeared. I continued walking past the house and car, constantly looking behind me to see if it would reappear. It did not.
Needless to say, it freaked me out and I was glad that I was not too far from home. As I was walking toward my house I kept replaying what I had seen. I started to doubt myself. What if the movement on the car was just the light reflecting through the windows? What if everything after was just my mind playing tricks on me? Even though I was frightened, I decided that knowing in the future was worth a little trepidation now. I needed to go back around the block to see if I could recreate it.
As I came to the area where it all started I looked at the car. Nothing. So I backed up and tried again. A little to the right this time, a little to the left the next. Starting further back. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. No shadows moving on the car. No thin shadow man walking across the lawn. Nothing. I was really hoping, for my peace of mind, that something could be replicated. But, unfortunately, I’ m going to have to stick with, ‘One night, as I was walking, I saw a stick man push himself off a car, cross the street, walk across a yard and disappear about five feet in front a house’. Sadly, this is not the first time something unexplainable has happened to me.
I guess I should be comforted knowing others have also experienced similar situations. Which, in the end, is not really comforting at all.
I seen one in my girlfriends bathroom a few months back I was getting up to use the restroom when I startled him he was just standing there next to the door my girlfriends bathroom has 2 entrances and I came through the hall he climbed back in his hole or portal idk was a square hole on the door it was the coolest and creepiest thing I ever saw and my house is haunted with fairies honest to god in appalachian mountains near Knoxville Tennessee I didn’t even know these creatures existed he was very tall I’m 6’4 mb taller than me and he had cool lights circling his head he was very colorful (purple blue and green) and malevolent, very nervous and careful movements best description I could give is he was a 2d creature. Wow am amazed to this day and will be for a long time!!! Ugliest and most beautiful creature ever hands down
over the last few years I have seen shadows and figures with a faint light around their figure. About 3 years ago whilst I was pregnant with my second son. I had taken a selfie of myself, but when looking back at it. I noticed some type of demonic form right next to me, looking into my camera. It had small horns and a wrinkled type of skin, with both eyes and a type of Smerk look on its face.! And early morning this morning I felt something in my room with me. Noticing a dark shadow. that would come closer every time I took my eye last away from it. It wouldn’t leave, I then told it to go, go away repeatedly. With anger in my tone. I then felt very bad vibes throughout my body. Then looking back up there were another 3 shadows. But not as big as the first. I quickly got up and decided to go in my lounge room. As there werr a little sunlight shinning through my blinds. Yet quite dark in some areas. I then noticed 3 black shadow stick men imprinted on my floor boards. It looked as if they were moving in slow motion but didn’t seem to be moving anywhere. I was so shocked with what I was seeing I continued glancing at them for a few minutes because I couldnt believe my eyes. This was certainly more then real. Next thing there were another dark imprint next to the shadows men. And it was the exact demonic entity that was in my picture two years 3 years prior. With the exact same grin on its face. The sun then shone through my blinds and they were gone. I am finding this hard to take in, and hard to believe I witnessed something like this. As I can’t believe My very eyes. I am still quite speachless, and can not collect my feelings. For some reason I feel as if this has to do with my children. I can’t exolain why, but my intuition suggest just that. I also have the picture I can show you all. But it doesn’t allow me to.
Hmmm
OK the other night i was driving along a road when i saw at first someone running accross the road, i applied my brakes but after my initial sighting was taken a back as this definately wasnt a person . It was all black and looked as if its arms and legs were oblong in shape, it was approx 6ft plus in height and had a thin body, also oblong, im not guessing about its head ( as i mainly noticed its body and the way it was moving gliding and seeming to stop for split second then gliding, but the description above regarding its body is 100% accurate. This thing moved accross the road form right to left then accross a grass verge and went through someones fence into there garden.
I have never seen anything remotely similar to this, the closest ive ever seen is pictures of matchstick men.
Now i know we all can see or think we can briefly see something out of the corner of our eyes at times but what i have described is as accurate as i can write it, this wasnt a glimpse it was in my whole field of vision and went right infront of me and into a persons garden.
I told my daughter what id seen and she said youve seen the stickman, i thought she was winding me up but i googled it and was led here so thought id share my experience.
I have some abnormal things going on please respond so I can send you pics
Please them here. Thank you. Ru1ber@aol.com
This happened to my daughter tonight. I am trying to find out how to help her. A few weeks ago she and friend drove through a cemetery. She seen a tall, black hooded figure. She has experiences in the past of seeing ghost. However she was driving home, we live in the country. She it from the corner of her eye. Then it was beside her truck as she was driving at 45mph and it was walking but stayed at pace with her. She called me crying. She said she doesn’t know if it’s negative or not. Said she couldn’t tell. But she just felt sad.
My boyfriend and I have a home surveillance system in which the monitor we often use to view the live images is located in our bedroom. Just about 20 minutes ago I was changing into my nightclothes when I saw a glimpse of an unusually tall man just rounding the back corner of our home and just barely out of the line of sight, to both the naked eye as well as to the cameras coverage. I instantly yelled for my boyfriend and quickly explained what I had just seen and pointed out on the monitor where I believed the man to be at the time, which was on the backside of the house right outside of our bedroom window. Of course, he looked at me as if I was crazy because he had just come from outside, and from the exact area that I saw this man. He then grabbed a flashlight and quickly ran outside, and I watched on the surveillance monitor as he made his way around the side of the house to the back. Well, I thought for sure he would run into this person. But as he was coming around the back corner of the house I saw this man again appear. But this time he was over by my boyfriend’s truck which is a good 75 ft from where he should have been. Yet I never took my eyes off the monitor and I can’t explain how he got from the back of the house to the truck, without me witnessing it. . And when my boyfriend turned around after checking the back of the house and finding nothing, the man fled across the yard. So when my boyfriend came back inside, I told him what I had just seen, and where the man had gone. So, once again, he darted outside, flashlight in hand, and after a quick scan of the lawn, began again to make his way down the side of the house. Suddenly, as sure as I’m very hesitantly sharing this story, the “man” came from the rear of my boyfriend’s truck and very quickly moved up behind him. Once it got about a foot behind him it slowed to the same place as my boyfriend and simply moved along with him as if to Shadow his every step. Except this time I couldn’t help but notice the fact that this being didn’t walk, but instead kind of glided or “moved”. Also, it was extremely tall and as equally unusual in shape as it was very very thin. And it was completely absent of any facial features. Was just a silhouette or Shadow of a man. At one point as my boyfriend was coming back to the front door, he turned almost in a circle and I thought for sure he’d have also seen this thing but it moved perfectly in sync, matching his every step and staying just out of sight yet directly behind my boyfriend the entire time. When he came inside he was clearly confused and a bit annoyed I think, but was trying to be open and supportive. He knows me well and knows this isn’t something I would dare to make up for use as a joke or prank. And he told me a moment ago that he knew for sure I was serious and scared just by the look on my face and the fact that I lost all color in my face within seconds. So he sat down next to me and was looking at the monitor to, and I knew that he was waiting for me to explain to him in further detail what I had seen. so I explained to him just as I explained in the beginning of the story what I had seen and gave him a better description at what this being looked like. And as we often do, we had the same idea at the same time… Google it! So I simply typed in “tall skinny Shadow like being” in your story is what came up and gave me the opportunity to share my story. I know what I saw, and I know it was real, as reluctant as I am to admit it. But I must say, although it was scary to read in your story the exact words that I used to describe this being, and the way it moved, but at the same time its a relief to have some validity from another source to what I had seen.
12/15/2018..
At 3:47am woke up to my cat growling beside my bed, but she never comes into my room. Only to look infront if the bed and see the stick figure over me. While me and my cat look at one another then look in front of the bed only to see the the figure scatter out of the room quickly.. This figure appears often when the weather is gloomy or some one is ill. But my cat was there to protect me that night is my best guess.
My grandson, 22 years of age, at work he was picked
Up and thrown across the room by an enity 7 foot tall, yellow eyes and arms long hands hang below its knees. It followrd him home and did the same thing in the bedroom. He works on oil fields. What can he do to stop this.
Hi I’m destiny I’m 13 years old it was September 3,2018 about mid night when I saw something in my living standing really tall I have a one story house so I was asking myself where did this thing come from so then that black stick thing crawled to mine and my sisters room and it went to her side but as it was coming in I looked at it and it backed up slowly so I was scared to say something so then I pretended I was asleep that stick thing went to my sisters side then I think it was looking for something but then it came out and it was gone till this day I still don’t know what I saw.
Yes I’ve seen this figure across from my house going quickly across the street around 3am I live in Hamilton ontario. It was a rainy night and I was having a cigarette on my porch. I noticed this stick like figure running across the street not sure if it saw me. Before this back in 1998 I seen an alien like creature in my fruit tree. The tree produced gods fruit plums.
These stick or shadow beings are real, not in the physical sense we are, but are energy forms which some of us can see. They are more curious than dangerous, and more likely fearful of us.
I had already mentioned this before on your forum but I saw one on a Sunday morning through the reflection on my tv, it was tall, thin, solid black and had a funny sneaking walk. I looked back and it wasn’t there. A week later at my sisters home I mentioned it to her and before I could tell her more she says “was it walking like this?” It gave us chills! She had seen it also and she lived across town. I don’t know what it means. I didn’t feel threatened but I wonder what it was. I like to think it was a time traveler or someone from another dimension.
OK, what about something similar but burnt looking with really long fingers and super tall?? And in no way a sleep paralysis scenario which a lot of the comments above are… just want a name/type/breed etc\
I have not heard of any accounts of such a thing. If you can provide more information, maybe someone can help provide an answer.
1) Where has this been seen?
2) What time of day?
3) If witnessed by you, have others been present when you encountered this “entity”?
4) What was the disposition of the entity? Did it seem aggressive or curious?
5) Did the entity seem aware of your presence?
Any more information you can provide would be of great help in allowing others to research this phenomenon.
From what I saw, I seen the black figure just walking down a street by a field and it was at night. Me, sister, grandma, and grandpa was taking a night drive cause we like to see if we see any deer. I spotted it first but when I said what is that! I described it to my sister and my sister only seen a little of it. My grandma and grandpa didn’t see it so I don’t think they believe me. The figure was tall, stick like and black, it had long arms and legs, it moved swaying slowly, like slender man or a enderman from Minecraft if u know what that is.. a video game, I couldn’t tell If it had a head or not. It spotted us I think an was walking towards us, we didn’t stop the car we were just driving by when I spotted it. It seemed as if we were invading its privacy or something. I hope people believe me this is all true!
There is a black stick man that stays on our 3rd floor in my adult sons bedroom in our house. It is extremely tall, very thin, and when he walks by the TV the TV has static and when he walks in front of the fan it goes real slow. Sometimes it lays in my sons bed beside him, he is not scared of it.We also see white ghosts in our home, somenwe can seemtheir faces ald other just an white outline of their body, peoplenthat comento visit can feel.them.and some can seemthem, I’m not.very comfortable sharing my house with them. I called a priest to bless our house they could feel them, they blessed our house and wrote something in chalk above the door on the wood, it was not words, just letters, that didn’t work, I wishmthey would go wherever they should be
Yes, these Creatures exist, I’ve seen them. And as for the whole ‘they don’t appear to be dangerous’ thing, that simply isn’t true. They are extremely malicious and aggressive towards humans. If you see one, do not approach and any cost. Pray as hard as you can to whatever God you believe in and think about your loved ones as you run away, these beings can’t stand love.
That is your personal take on them, which is fine. Your assertion that they are malicious is in stark contrast to a majority of others who have shared their encounters.
If what you claim is true, there would be more reports of aggression from those coming forward. That hadn’t been the case, so we operate on a majority rule.
I’m sorry if your personal experience different from the majority, but that makes you the exception and your experience isn’t the benchmark by which “truth” is measured.
I agree with Spirit Seekers rebuttal here. What was the experience of Unknown’s? Fear can be a big factor in the perception that these stick men are dangerous.
I totally disagree with that notion. I felt sincerity when I encountered them. Both times.
I only looked this up because last night, I dreamed of human sized glowing white stick figures. Their heads were just rings.
They were around my bed and I was viewing them as if I were out of my body.
It was a while ago, it was me, my sister, grandma and grandpa. We were driving at night just to take a night drive I think, can’t quite remember.. we stopped to get gas for the car, in was just a gas station around and wide open space of field.. like we were no where, we got our gas an tried to find our way back home.. we were lost for awhile but on the way back, I was just looking out the window at a street.. I seen a tall black stick figure walking towards our car! I said what is that! It looks like slender man! Or a enderman from Minecraft! The figure was tall! I seen it’s legs and arms swaying as it walked, it was kinda slow.. it was black too, we didn’t stop the car either.. but it scared me so bad! I won’t forget it, u guys probably don’t believe me since I compared it to video games but it’s true I wouldn’t lie! Wish I got it on video but things like this rarely happened but they are out there, u never know when it will appear or what it is!
I’ve encountered this spirit twice now. Both times were during the day, and just as described above I felt no ill intentions. I did sense that the stick figure was on the way somewhere, like he had somewhere to be. Just as quickly as I saw him he disappeared into thin air. He was moving swiftly, yet gently. I did feel as though after I spotted him he stuck around. More so curious and possibly has a message of sorts. I didn’t know this was a thing until I saw it a few days ago.
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My dad just past away last month my mother is n the hospital now I go outside on my porch to smoke a cigg every night an I see black stick ppl running across the street an as soon as the street light comes on they’re running n circles away cuz the street light flickers on an off there’s was one night one of the stick ppl ran right towards me to my porch I threw my cigg an ran n before it got to me because I was terrified I see these black stick people every night still to this day it’s creepy and scary as hell they’re tall skinny with no face an I have photos for proof I took with my phone I have pics yes
Can you post those here? Photos are exactly what everyone is looking for!
i was 5-7 and i was outside with my dad, he was talk to our neighbor i was playing with the army men toys on our brick wall one fell and i went to pick it up and i picked it up i looked past the brick wall and there was a black stick figure stand there and it was try to get me come to it i try to get my dads attention by the time i got his attention it was gone and a car came around the corner.
I am posting a comment because I am actually in disbelief that I found this information. I was doing a Google search on stick figures because I encountered this very thing last night. The details are exactly the same. The shape, the way it moved, the color, all of it! I was sitting in my living room last night at almost 11:30. The whole back of our house are glass doors. I felt like I was being watched. When I looked at one of the doors, there it was as if it was looking in. It quickly moved away from the window and off the back porch. Immediately after seeing this, it was like a flash of lightening or something. I can’t explain it. For any skeptics reading this, I know what I saw and nothing will ever convince me otherwise.
Hi Melissa,
Thank you for sharing your encounter. It sounds horrifying but at least you know you aren’t alone. By adding your voice to the collective, you are helping someone else come forward and realize that they too are not alone.
Thank you again for trusting us with you personal experience.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, Spirit Seekers Block
My boyfriend and I were up early from a family reunion,half the family were camping on a piece of land rented in the beach front in Hawaii. We went up the beach as we were looking at a dead eel we see a black stick figure about 1 foot tall get up and run into the surf. We both at the same time asked did you see that? We didnt mention anything else after that BC I had to double check to see if it was okay to talk about…we have Hawaiian legends,some you have to speak on and some you can’t speak of if you want to avoid it’s following curse…..I thought it was just so odd BC this thing had legs….it just ran into the ocean.
I don’t know if this is an account or not but it creeped me out. I was laying in my bed and I saw a tall shadowy figure. It ran past me in my room. It creeped me out. I knew I was awake so I’m not passing it off as just a dream. Somebody please help.
Of course it’s actual account and not a dream. Many of us have seen these stick figures in broad daylight: my husband during one afternoon in 2013 in our living room, saw two of them each rise out of two chairs and disappear through a window, and I saw one in 2015 sprinting across a freeway during a light early morning rainstorm as we were driving north. (We live in Northern California.) They are frightening to us as we are not used to them. But they exist, and have always existed. Native lore around the world is filled with stories of these black and silver stick people. I think they are energy beings without much bulk (obviously) and are curious about humans. We aren’t “thinking them up”–they exist in their own right, in their own dimension for which some of us have been given the ability to see.
One night I decided I would sleep on the floor of my bedroom with my new dog I was about 11 or 12 when this happened and I woke really late I had no idea what time it was but I look and into the hall I usually have my door wide open and I see a stick man two rooms done poking it’s head out from the other rooms door at first I thought it was one of parents and I asked saying mom joe (joe my step dad) no response I looked at it for a while nothing happened and then i realize how tall it is it was almost touching the ceiling I got so scared I just tried to go back asleep soon I did and when I woke up it was morning nothing was there I asked my mom if she was in the hall late at night or if joe was and she said she nor joe was out. I’m 15 now going on to 16 and today I thought to look up what that thing might have been and this sight told me everything I needed to know I haven’t seen anything like it since though but now I don’t sleep on the floor ever since that night.
About a year ago when I was driving to work I saw one. When I saw it at first I thought it was a road sign but then I noticed it was taller and road signs don’t walk. I had to swerve so I wouldn’t hit the thing. I’m just happy I’m not the only one who has seen the thing
It gets dark about 6ish. I was sitting on my backporch looking at the fence line. I live out in the county roads. I saw something blocking the fence. But I thought I was just adjusting to darkness. When I looked at that spot again it looked closer. I ignored it again. This time I was looking at the grass closer to my porch and I could see the grass moving as if someone was walked. I said “nope” and walking into my house and locked the door.
My son was looking for me and thought I was still outside. He went out the front door to my dad’s house next door thinking I was there. I wasn’t. On his short walk back to the house he saw a skinny dark figure stand by the front porch. He called out “mom”.thinking it was me. The head of the figure started moving from one side to the other in a fast movement.
My son stood in place for a moment. He realized the figure was walking slowly towards him. My son ran to the back door and banged on the door. My husband let him inside. He saw me and was shocked that I was inside. He told us what had happen. He then went to the window near the front door and saw the figure disappear near the cars. Then my husband went outside to make sure nothing was there. He was cursing as he circled the house. Stopped at the front porch cursed at it once again. And the car made a sound as if someone was sitting on the trunk of the car and slid off but saw nothing. He came inside and now we’re all a little freaked out about the whole incident.
It gets dark about 6ish. I was sitting on my backporch looking at the fence line. I live out in the county roads. I saw something blocking the fence. But I thought I was just adjusting to darkness. When I looked at that spot again it looked closer. I ignored it again. This time I was looking at the grass closer to my porch and I could see the grass moving as if someone was walked. I said “nope” and walking into my house and locked the door.
My son was looking for me and thought I was still outside. He went out the front door to my dad’s house next door thinking I was there. I wasn’t. On his short walk back to the house he saw a skinny dark figure stand by the front porch. He called out “mom”.thinking it was me. The head of the figure started moving from one side to the other in a fast movement.
My son stood in place for a moment. He realized the figure was walking slowly towards him. My son ran to the back door and banged on the door. My husband let him inside. He saw me and was shipped that I was inside. He told us what had happen. He then went to the window near the front door and saw the figure disappear near the cars. Then my husband went outside to make sure nothing was there. He was cursing as he circled the house. Stopped at the front porch cursed at it once again. And the car made a sound as if someone was sitting on the trunk of the car and slid off but saw nothing. He can inside and now we’re all a little freaked out about the whole incident.
It touched me and made me so numb I couldn’t move
From fear or something more? Was is cold?
Shadowy Stick figures are often related to a dark force, the idea is it is something that does not want to be seen or be identifiable. It is something that does not like the light and stays away from that kind of energy and is often darker than the night. Although that idea is scary they are probably the most encountered paranormal entities so they are co existing with us and everywhere. My advice is to remain as calm as possible when experiencing this, fear is fuel for things like that and staying level headed and logical is best and if you feel afraid asking it to leave your space is good too. Having a dog or cat or both is great bc they don’t like human’s pets and pets don’t like them, often times they are spotted when they can get you alone or if you happen upon them, your pet will most definitely sense these things way before you can and will alert you. If you don’t have pets always listen to the birds when you are outside they are nature’s alarm systems, get familiar with your areas birds and their distress calls, I’ve heard birds calling out in distress and I always take that as a warning to get inside or to get away from that area.
Excellent advice. Thanks for posting.
Hi! You can just call me DJ.
I feel my experience isn’t quite as intricate as other’s before me, but here I go.
I’ll start by saying I was born and raised in West Virginia. My eyes, night alertness, and comfort in the woodlands are a reflection of my upbringing.
I just made a move to Duluth Minnesota last week, to stay at my dads. The location borders a rather large pond, and our cluster of houses are deep in the woods. By this, I mean to say that we have neighbors, and we can see their lights, but all of us are secluded together.
I moved here with my Doggo Ripley, to recollect ourselves after falling hard with 2020.
The nights have been cold and uneasy. Sleep doesnt come easy, and this last week I’ve woken up nightly drenched in sweat. I keep the thermostat to my room set to 60, so there really ain’t a reason for this.
I usually take this as a que to get some fresh air, walk Ripley, and smoke while we circle the pond.
Nights are weird to me in Minnesota. It rotates through cycles of pitch black to washed in moonlight.
Well, last night I woke up to pitch black roundabouts 4am, and went out for some air.
I stood there staring at the pond, listening for anything (we have a nearby bear), and smoking.
It took me a minute to realize that Ripleys leash wasnt moving, so I looked over to him, and saw him staring past the A-frame storage building and into the birch. He just stood there, not even shaking from the cool air, not barking, just boring holes into the darkness.
I slowly dragged my tired eyes up, just in time to glimpse it. A slender dark shape, skinnier than any of the young birch in the patch it was in, lift a long leg and stride purposely away from us.
There was no sound, it seemed to absorb all the light, and it moved elegantly I guess.
I didnt feel anything, or see anything like the electricity others mentioned. I just saw this impossibly tall, impossibly thin, and impossibly black figure make this elegant escape.
I quickly made my way inside, and couldn’t sleep until dawn. After about five hours, I woke up, and thought about it some more, and found my way here.
Hi DJ,
Thank you for sharing. You have quite a talent for writing; I could picture it as if I was there.
There’s no rulebook to follow when it comes to experiences, so your experience is just as valid as anyone else’s here.
Thank you again for stopping by and sharing your experience and adding your voice to the collective.
Sincerely,
Tony Harrington
SPIRIT Blog Editor
I can’t make sense of a situation that happened to me while I was traveling in my car one night. While I was driving at 80 km/h on the secondary road, a bright object on the left of the road 200 meters away from my vehicle caught my attention. At first I thought it was a big plastic bag glowing at night. However, as I got a little closer, I saw that he had a slender body. I’m getting goosebumps as I write this. When I pretended to cross the road quickly, I suddenly hit the brakes. But by the time I hit the brakes, he had already crossed the road. It was the fastest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. He was just like a stickman. But it was bright, not dark.
I marked where I saw it.https://goo.gl/maps/WGeJ1GCii9GuEwbc8
Hi, I am also from Turkey. I had an encounter in İzmir back in mid 90s.
I saw it through our flat’s door hole. It was a stickman that looked as if it was made of clean cut wood with black spheres for hands, feet and head. I also shared my encounter here (Search “TheodenN” on this page) but you can contact me for mode details through my email: cuneytyet@hotmail.com
I’ve seen something similar to this a few times in the corner of my eye. A tall brown boney stick looking figure. Whenever I see it it doesn’t look I’m my direction just lays still and is gone as soon as I blink. It kind of looks like it’s bent on it’s knees sometimes. If anybody has seen something similar to this please contact me atpurrplejupiter@gmail.com
In 2014 I was up at Mt Rainer with a friend & we got up early & left camp to go to Tipsoo Lake from White River campground. It was still dark as we were going to catch sunrise. A little ways down the road my friend slammed on the brakes & we both looked at each other & said did you see that?!!! We BOTH saw a black stick figure cross the road in front of us. What the heck did we see????
It definitely sounds like you encountered one of these beings. As to what they are, who can say? As scary and odd as it may have been, consider yourself luck to be one of the few to actually have seen one.
Sincerely,
Tony Harrington
editor, SPIRIT Blog
Oof. Only took me a year to realize I never approved this comment. My apologies!
It sounds like you are now a part of the collective who have seen a Black Stick Man in person. Thank you for adding your account to the growing list of people who have encountered this phenomenon. As for what they are, the theories are wide and varied, but there is no known classification for these things, nor are there any solid explanation for their existence. For now, they just seem to exist without reason.
Thank you for sharing!
Tony Harrington
Editor, SPIRIT Blog
On a very. Dark and cold morning in November I was outside my house with a torch ,just waiting for my little dog to relieve himself .We have a lot of trees at the back so he can go by himself ,I shine the torch at him all the time ,Something made me turn round my torch has a strong beam which will go to the end of the street. I saw a stick figure running out of the trees across the street, it was about 6 ft ,black ,with no shape .
Hi Patricia,
Sorry for the delay in approving your comment. I moved cross-country and sort of lost track of time. I appreicate your patience.
That encounter sounds rather scary. What part of the world are you in? It seems that encounters with these stick men are not relegated to a specific geographic location, which makes their presence all the more alarming and mystifying.
Thank you for taking the time to share your story and adding your voice to the collective of those who have shared encounters with these strange beings.
Regards,
Tony Harrington
Editor, SPIRIT Blog