Shadow Critters

[PPI Brian]

Heike Ott, without mentioning any names, relates a few short tales from people who claim to have experienced small shadow creatures darting about. Are shadow "critters" the ghosts of small animals, symptoms of vision problems, or something else?

http://www.ghostsamongus.net/v2/Content/pid=55.html

[PPI Tracy]

Are shadow "critters" the ghosts of small animals, symptoms of vision problems, or something else?

Yeah, they're called "Sleepies"

[PPI Tim]

Sleepies have vitamins
Sleepies are good for you.
So you'll love some sleepies too.

Oh, I'm sorry.
I was singing the freakies cereal song.

[PPI Tracy]

Sleepies have vitamins
Sleepies are good for you.
So you'll love some sleepies too.

Oh, I'm sorry.
I was singing the freakies cereal song.

Dude, what IS freaky....is that you REMEMBER the freakies cereal song!!!!

[PPI Tim]

What can I say,
I liked that cereal.

[PPI Karl]

Don't laugh, but I agree completely with the writer of this article.  I've experienced shadow creatures for years in my apartment over on Georgia St., and in some instances both Max and I and the birds saw them dart across the room, usually along the base of a wall, the way that a mouse would move.  Some mornings, I awakened out of really horrible, life-like dreams in which one was chewing on my toes (no, not "nibbling" but actually eating my feet), and then saw it dart away.   I mentioned this to Max one time and his eyes bugged out with recognition:  he had exactly the same experience on another occasion.  Because I've had emergency laser surgery on both of my retinas in separate incidents, I'm hyper-aware of the vision anomalies that can occur; I've been able to identify all of the vision issues the writer of this article mentions, and on investigations I have to account for these and compare anything I see out of the ordinary to one of these anomalies.  However, shadow critters are different--definitely different.  Not only do they not "float" the way that peripheral vision oddities often do, they seem to exist in a different kind of darkness than the darkness of the room.  I realize that makes no sense on the surface of it, but whenever I've experienced anything "paranormal" in the dark, the dark around it is also "alive" in some weird way, with a kind of tesselated kaleidoscopic effect.  Anyone remember those old Fruitopia commercials?  Think of them in one color only:  black.  It's like you're looking through the lens of a fly's eye and the dark is burgeoning in a kaleidoscopically unfolding movement.  Whenever I experience that, there is usually something I have to pay attention to in the dark. (I won't lie:  some of my intuition about fourth-dimensional space comes from this experience, because kaleidoscopes are a very good representation of how it works.)  I know this, too, could be a trick of my vision, but the coincidence of it with something paranormal occurring is too frequent to dismiss.

Having said this, now, I realize that people are going to annihilate me.  Those of you who know me well know I don't commit to saying things like this unless I've put myself through the crucible of skepticism.  Those who don't, I completely understand you if you think I just need to schedule an appointment with my eye-doctor or my psychiatrist.  But I'm willing to admit that I have had experiences consistent with the phenomenon described by this writer, and that the phenomenon seems to come with its own environmental conditions--albeit conditions of darkness.  (Perhaps it makes sense that a shadow creature's natural habitat would be a rarefied form of darkness?  I dunno.)  I would love to know if anyone else has had this experience, particularly with that "curtain of darkness" that has the tesselated kaleidoscopic effect.

[PPI Tim]

The only thing I can relate to a sleepie is our late cat Charcoal.
We had to put her down in 2004. My family and I at the time would still see her around the house.
It would only last a half a second and then it would be gone.
We figured it was Charcoal.

[johnny]

The only thing I can relate to a sleepie is our late cat Charcoal.
We had to put her down in 2004. My family and I at the time would still see her around the house.
It would only last a half a second and then it would be gone.
We figured it was Charcoal.

Interesting story, I've interviewed someone in my area who has a similar story with their cat.  They swear they still see the shadow of their cat around sometimes and it seems to be doing cat like things.

[bellalaghoste]

I heard of cats shadows too.  That strange why cats.  Some say they are the gaurdians of the underworld.